Waking up with a dull ache in the back of his head, and a sharp ache in his left knee, it took him only a few seconds to recall what had happened to him and Cassie when the pair of them had ended up being forced to confront that Yeerk-enslaved cop that had come out to harass her at home. He'd tried to settle the matter as diplomatically as he could, attempting to get both himself and Cassie away from the man without raising the Yeerk's suspicions. Still, given the fact that he'd been shot in the left knee and then clearly knocked unconscious, Tommy knew that he'd failed.
Now, all that remained was for the pair of them to get through this as well as they could.
Glaring at the cop, as the Yeerk-enslaved man forced him and Cassie out of the car – kicking Tommy in his wounded leg when the pair of them apparently didn't move quickly enough for him – he wrapped his left arm around Cassie as the pair of them were steadily forced in the direction of the school, of all places. He hadn't even suspected that something like this could have happened in a place he'd thought was so normal, or at least far enough removed from everything else that was going on that he didn't have to worry about those kinds of things.
(Tommy; don't freak out, or try not to react at all, if you can, but Jake wants you to know that the rest of us are here. We're going to be coming for you guys, so don't worry.)
Straightening up slightly, Tommy gave Cassie a light squeeze around her shoulders; even if she didn't know what it was for, and he wondered if Tobias had just contacted him for some reason or other, she would at least know that things were going a bit better.
