Race Against Time

Miles blinked as he looked around him. Darkness had fallen not long after they had left the Autobot base. And now they were racing along the dirt road that lead to Lennox's home and farm. Miles peered in through the window at Will and Annabell. Will was quiet and despite the bumpy rid Annabell lay asleep in her car seat. Miles offered the older man a shaky smile when he caught his eyes in the rear view mirror. The back window slid open and Will turned to look at him.

"Hey Miles. Can I ask you something?"

Miles tilted his head to the side and shrugged. "Sure man what do you want to know?"

"Why doesn't Sam want Mikaela to know about this?" Miles laughed. "Because he'd being paranoid. He thinks that if she knows about what we really are then she'll leave. You gotta understand Will that we're like wolves while human in a few ways. Ya see we mate for life."

Will raised an eyebrow. "So Sam thinks this will hurt his chances with Mikaela." "In a way. We have this thing Will. I'm not quite sure what it is but it lets us know when we find someone compatible. And well Sam's found Kaela. He's been kinda nervous about her lately anyways."

"Whys that?"

Miles sighed before he answered Wills question. "Well when we find someone we wanna be with and they wanna be with us just as much as we wanna be with them we imprint." "What's imprinting?" Miles scratched the back of his head. How to explain this.

"It's like spark bonding isn't it?" Both Will and Miles jumped at Ironhide's voice. They hadn't been aware that he'd been listening in. "That's a good way to put it I guess. But you see what has Sam so worried is the fact that it hasn't happened. Both sides have to be willing before imprinting can happen. And while Sam would be more than happy to spend the rest of his life with Kaela..."

"She's not." Will finished for him.

"We'll it's not so much that as the fact that it means Mikaea might not love him as much as she seems to."

"Perhaps he's just over reacting Miles. They are both still younglings. There's plenty of time for such things." Miles sighed and shook his head. They didn't seem to understand that the situation between his best friend and his beast friend's girlfriend wasn't that simple.

"Most couples imprint by the first full moon or new moon after they start dating. Every once in awhile it takes two or three months but Sam and Mikaela have been dating since last April and it's November now. It's been almost seven months. If it doesn't happen soon then it's not gonna happen."

"Maybe he's not meant to be with Mikaela. Did you guys ever think of that Miles?" Will asked as he turned to look back toward the road. He could see the house lights now. Sarah would be waiting for them just inside the door way. Shaking his head a bit to clear his thoughts Will looked back at Miles and wondered how the boy wasn't cold. He was sitting in Ironhide's bed in a pair of shorts and nothing else. Though the boy didn't seem cold he had to wander.

Miles eye's were sharp and alert like he was looking for something that couldn't be seen. He had to wander where Sam was. He'd said he'd be following them but he had yet to see hide nor hair of him since they'd left the base. "He's about fifty yards or so back. He's being caseous. If you look close enough after Hide stop's you might be able to see him in the tall grass."

Will nodded and fought the mad urge to look behind him and see if he could see Sam. It almost shamed him to think about how scared he'd been at first when Miles had saved his and Anna's life and that fear had lasted for quite some time. He could remember when he was younger and he and his friends would watch scary movies. He could also remember the long talks he'd had with Epps and Johnson about wither or not they thought things such as werewolves and vampires were real. He'd always been the one in the middle thinking that it was posable but not really beleavrng in it. But now he'd fallen out of a science fiction movie and into a horror story.

For a second he felt ashamed that he been worried about wither or not they were safe but now he knew better. They were friends turned guardians in a new fight and he'd help in any way posable. Ironhide came to a smooth stop as he reached the Lennox household. He'd had to cut quite a bit of speed to keep from jarring his passengers when he'd was out of the truck before Ironhide had managed to open both doors. His feet pounded up the porch steps as he ran. Sarah had opened the door and stood looking uncertain when Will stepped up to her.

"Will what is it? Are we under attack?" Will swallowed before answering. "I'll explain once we get back to the base Sarah. Right now we have to get moving." Sarah nodded and moved out of the doorway so that her husband could help her carry their bags. If Sarah was shocked to see Miles in Ironhide's truck bed she hid it very well though she did send Will a strange look. Will himself had praticaly thrown their bags in the back with Miles before making his way toward the drivers side door.

He stopped for a moment though when he saw movement at the edge of the lawn where the cut grass ended and the long began. A large shadowy figure was moving back and forth. It took him a moment to realize that the beast he was seeing ,though smaller than Miles had been, was Sam. Greenish brown eyes stared into his own for a moment before he was out of sight again. Shaking his head in order to clear it Will began moving again. Seconds later his door shut with a noise far to quite for a slamming door to make. A few more seconds later and they were moving down the road again.

Miles eyes roamed the road in front of him. He was praying that nothing would happen. Praying and hoping that Sam's paranoia would be just that paranoia but he had a feeling that Sam had been right. For a moment he wished that he could talk to Sam. While Sam could hear his thoughts when Miles was a wolf he couldn't hear Sam's. An alpha wolves thoughts were private when he changed alone. The trip back to the base would take twenty minutes at most. And five had already passed with out trouble.

But as most things go trouble hit not four minutes later. Miles knew there was trouble the moment Ironhide stopped. He could smell the wolf in front of them before he saw it. He knew it wasn't Sam both because of the smell and because Sam was there seconds later ramming into the wolf in the road. Forcing it to move out of the way. It would have worked too had it not been for the two wolves that replaced it seconds after it was out of the way. Miles banged on the window and looked though at Will. The window slid open and before Will could even get a word out Miles was talking.

"Once we get them out of the way go." Will made to reply but Miles didn't give him the time. Seconds later he was jumping over the Ironhide's cab and hitting the ground as a wolf. sarah screamed from Ironhide's interior and Miles was aware of Annabell's startled crying but it didn't matter at the moment. Miles ran toward one of the wolves in front of him. This one's fur was a dark reddish brown and it's eyes were a yellowish green color.

"Miles." The thought was a greeting from the opponent in front of him.

"Ronnie." A deep snarl from a few feet away alerted Miles to Sam's own starting fight.

"I've been waiting for this day to come for a long time." Miles snarled as he reached his opponent fangs tearing into fur but not flesh as Ronnie pushed his body backwards.

"Your kind of pathetic. You know that. I wouldn't wait to hunt for five years let alone fight dude. " Miles stated as he and Ronnie began circling each other.

Sam growled deep in his throat as he looked at the two opponents in front of him. Ashley's fur glowed silver and her eyes yellow under the moon light. While Hectors mahogany colored fur seemed to be absorbing the color and hiding it away. His light brown eyes had an almost confused look to them. It was almost as if he wasn't quite sure what to do. Sam would have laughed. How stupid was his cousin sending Hector to fight with Ronnie and Ashley. The pup would be more of a hinderence than a help.

"Ashley. How wonderful to see you again you bitch." By the tone of Sam's thoughts one would have thought that he was mearly greeting an old friend. The furious growl that tore out from between Ashley's fangs however proved other wise.

"Better than you I'm sure. At least I have a mate. You know I bet that your little girlfriend would leave you in a heartbeat if she knew the truth."This time it was Sam's turn to growl deep in his own throat. It however wasn't Sam who made the first move but Ashley. The large female charged forward with her fangs bared only to have Sam move under her at the last moment and through her up into the air.

Sam almost yelped in shock when Hector snapped at him. For half a moment Sam had to wonder why he'd done it. Hector himself was usually quite a peaceful little pup. Hector whimpered as Hector pulled back and Sam hoped that that would be enough to cause the pup to run away. He had no such luck because seconds later Hector was trying to bite him again and failing quite miserably.

"What are you doing Hector? Why are you even here right now?" Sam thought as he knocked the smaller dog to the ground and almost winched at the sound of his pained yelp.

"I'm sorry Sam but Kale said I have to stay and fight. I can't leave unless the others leave." Sam shook his head in grim understanding. If the alpha commanded it then you couldn't not listen. it was imposable to green eyes slid over to Miles fight with Ronnie and then to Ironhide and the Lennox's waiting for them to get out of the road. Using what force he could with a short run Sam knocked Hector into the tall grass along the side of the road.

"Miles get him out of the road." Miles sent him a silent affirmative and seconds later the soft rustling of grass told Sam that the only ones left in the way were him and Ashley. If Sam could have paled he would have. He momentarily forgotten about the psycho bitch queen and was rewarded with a sharp pain in his right back leg. It was with half a pained cry that he turned and dug his fangs into the skin above her left back leg.

"You son of a bitch!"Ashley snarled as she let go of Sam's leg and proceeded to try getting at his throat only to be knocked forward by Ronnie's airborne form. Sam turned and looked at Ironhide nodding as he did so before looking at Miles and offering him a wolfy grin before both of them lunged into the tall grass to continue their fight. Ironhide lurched forward the moment that the road was clear and in no time at all was flying down the road at close to top speeds. Sarah and Will sat in silence for the moment at least. It took a minute for the two of them to gather their wits.

"William Lennox what in Gods Name is going on here?"

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