Odette Parker: My True Self

Chapter 9: This is the only way

My alarm goes off and I jerk awake. I guess I was more tired than I thought. Jarvis must have shut the music off when I dozed off. I sit up in bed and re-do my sleep bun. At 1:00AM on the dot I hear a knock at the door. I open it and Steve walks inside.

"What is so important you ask me to meet you in the middle of the night?"

I place a finger over my lips telling him to be quiet for a moment, I look up at the ceiling cause it seems right.

"Jarvis?"

"Yes Odette?"

"Can you please deactivate any security software for my room?"

"You do not have clearance for that request, I am sorry."

"Jarvis we both know that I am smart, I have already figured out where your hub is in my bedroom, I can deactivate you totally. Please, I just need a few minutes of privacy to talk to my friend."

"I apologize but I am unable to do that."

"Fuckin Stark, fine." I walk into my closet and change in lounge gear then walk back into my room. "You said you have a place in the city? Is it far? Can we walk?"

"We can't walk, but I do know where Stark keeps the cars he send out"

"Lead the way Loner. Jarvis, think you could not tell Tin Man we left until we have actually left?"

"I will only inform Mr. Stark if he asks for your whereabouts."

"I can live with that." 

I grab my phone, my purse, and my emergency make up kit. Steve and I make our way to the elevator, down to the 30th floor, then over to the elevator that reaches the ground.

"There is a fire code violation in there somewhere, I mean what would happen to the people who cant fly out of here in a tech suit if a fire started."

Steve just looks at me like I am asking a crazy question and we descend to the B2 Level.

He grabs a set of keys from a control panel box and walks over to a normal sedan. He clicks the keys so the door opens and gets into the driver side and closes the door. I open the door after him and hit the button for the hood. The hood pops open and I use my phone flash light to take a look. He has to have a tracker in this car some where. I cant find one near the engine, so I close the hood and walk back to the driver side.

"Get out for a second I need to check something."

Steve nods and gets out from behind the wheel. I crouch down and use my flashlight to take a look under the driving panel. I see a small black box near the steering column and give it a tug. No wires connect it so it must be hooked up to whatever technology Stark has uploaded into this car. I didn't see a computer panel anywhere and this had no wires, so I am hoping its just a GPS tracker.

"OK, you can get back in." I show him the small cube "GPS transponder, we will drop it on the way out, maybe the garage entrance?"

"I never would have thought of that."

"Of course not, you grew up in an era with no technology"

I actively shiver like that is a fate worse than death and Steve chuckles.

"It was not that bad, life was simpler back then."

"No thank you, I love being able to listen to my music anywhere, be able to make a phone call when I get lost, have a camera on me at all times."

Steve just shakes his head as we both get into the car. We pull up to the garage door and wait for it to open. Once it opens we drive out and I toss the GPS behind us through my window. We drive in relative silence, I fiddle with the radio for a bit before giving up because I cant settle on a station. We reach an apartment building in Brooklyn. I look over at him and shake my head, of course he would live here, its only standing because of him. We walk into his old apartment and get settled inside.