AN: The final chapter! \^o^/

A Drone Named Jeffrey

Chapter Twenty Eight

West

"To whomever shall inhabit my house." Rile paused, her primitive pen hovering over her primitive data-pad. I tilted my head down at her and patiently waited. "I leave you this note to warn you—"

"That sounds a little threatening."

"Good. I leave this note to warn you of the terrible things that will befall you least you heed this warning."

"Ooh! Taking a cryptic route, huh? Interesting."

"Shut up. You're making me forget my warnings." Riley poked out her lips and tapped the pen against her bottom lip. "My warning is thus: to the poor soul who inhabits the far left room on the second floor, you must leave a daily offering of Rainbow Rocks flavored sherbet on the windowsill. If this is not done, the spirits from the Paiute burial ground outside of town will sneak in at night and kidnap you."

"Ah. The Paiute spirits. I heard they kidnapped little Timmy over the fence."

"You know his name is Logan, and I wish they had taken you instead."

"You know you love me."

"Furthermore." I snickered when Riley slammed her pen onto the paper. "If you do not store enough things in the attic, our resident troll will sneak down to the bottom floors at night and steal mis—how do you spell miscellaneous?"

"M-I-S-C-E-L-L-"

"Slow down!"

"A-N-E-O-U-S." I reached down to poke the paper, leaving a tiny pinprick hole behind. "You mixed up the e and o."

"Close enough! He will steal miscellaneous items from the house. Note that these items may include teeth, finger and toenails, and on occasion whole limbs."

"This is getting gruesome." I hunkered down closer to the table to read Riley's terrible handwriting. "I like it."

"Finally, the bottom step on the stairs squeaks. So, watch for that, or the Bumpersnatch living in the closet will eat you for disturbing his sleep."

"What's a Bumpersnatch?"

"I have no idea. Sincerely, the former inhabitant who died in the upstairs bedroom on the right side. P.S. I still haunt my room and only accept roomies who do not snore and leave interesting things on the floor for me to throw across the room when I please." Riley finished with a wild flourish and stood back from the table. "Done!"

"They'll totally thank you for the heads up."

"Just doing my good deed for the month." Riley carefully tore the page from the data-pad and folded it into a smaller square. "Got all your things ready?"

I nodded and tapped my chest. "Everything's subspaced and Energon levels are decent. Good enough for a little road trip."

"Good. I'll go see if my dad's ready and put this note up." Riley turned towards the garage's side door, but she paused short of opening it. "Are you going with us because you want to?"

"Yeah. Why would you ask?"

Riley shrugged. "Just making sure. You don't have to leave if you don't want to. I could leave the garage open."

"And pretend I ran away? I doubt your dad would buy that story." I chuckled but stopped when Riley glared at me. "Oh, you're being serious."

Riley stomped her foot. "Of course I am! You're a full grown robot who's been forced to live in a tiny garage, watch soaps, and turn into a cat lady for the past year. Why wouldn't you want to leave the moment you could?"

"Because I don't want to?" I vented when Riley continued to glare at me, but her slumped shoulders and pouting lips told me it wasn't an angry glare. "Seriously. I've…thought about it before. But I don't wanna leave. I like it here. I like being friends with you. So, if you're breaking up with me, I'm gonna turn bad robot and kidnap you."

Riley smiled and jogged back towards me to smack my leg armor. "Aw! Do you have a crush on me, Jeffy?"

"I knew you were saving that for the right moment."

She winked up at me with a grin and skipped back towards the door. "I'll be back in a bit. Probably have to reassure dad a few more times that I can drive the whole trip behind the moving truck, but that shouldn't take long."

"Well, I'll be right here." I glanced around the empty garage before voicing a noise that made Riley pause at the door. "I don't think I've asked before, but where exactly are we going?"

Riley shrugged. "Somewhere on the west border of the state. I think dad said it was a town called Jasper or something."

I nodded, tapping my fingers against the floor as Riley left. Jasper…that name sounded familiar…

A low meow caught my attention, and Furball slinked in through the cracked door to swat at my fingers. I let it have a little fun before quickly trapping it between cupped hands. "Finally caught you! Now Furball, don't growl like that. We need to get you ready to go."

Furball hissed, and I carefully picked it up before transforming, throwing the cat's tiny body into my cab. Big mistake. "Ow! No, bad kitty! Stop scratching the upholstery. This is for your own good. And don't you dare pee inside me."

AN: As it has been all month, it's been super fun to write the continuation of Jeff and Ry's adventures. Thanks to all of you guys who have been reading, faving/following, and reviewing through the month (and sorry I didn't have enough time to always respond to you guys ^^;). I'm hoping to be able to jump straight into the next story of Jeffrey the Drone, so be on the look out for that!

Until then, I hope you guys all enjoyed :D