Right when the plain landed, Tobin grabbed Alex's hand and rushed her out of there.
"Tobin whats going on with you?" Alex asked.
Tobin didn't answer. Instead, she looked for Servando to leave the plane.
"Who are you looking for?" Alex asked.
Tobin frowned when the flight attendants and pilots got off.
She didn't watch Servando leave the plane, therefore he could be anywhere.
"Tobin" Alex said, shaking Tobin's shoulders.
Tobin just stared blankly into Alex's eyes, imagining the worst if Servando found them again.
"Tobin you're scaring me" Alex backed up.
Seeing Alex fear Tobin made Tobin shake her head and put words into sentences.
"Alex. Servando was on that plane" Tobin said.
"Tobin" Groaned Alex. "I told you I didn't want to hear his name"
"Im dead serious. Even ask Hope and Carli" Tobin said, and Alex rolled her eyes and walked to where Hope and Carli where whispering to each other.
Alex came back pale.
"He's here" Alex whispered under her breath, just barely so Tobin could hear.
Tobin nodded, and grabbed her hand.
"Lets get out of here" Tobin said, and Alex nodded vigorously.
"I don't want to stay here with that creep lurking around" Alex said as Tobin dragged her through another twenty questions with security and then to the team bus.
"Hey you two okay?" Chen asked.
"Not now. I'll tell you later" Tobin said, putting Alex into a seat.
Alex could hardly do anything herself. She kept muttering. "He found me. He found me"
"Okay. I'll make sure you do. Because I really want to hear this story" Chen said, worried, sitting down.
Tobin took a deep breath and sat next to Alex.
Tobin legit thought Alex was going crazy by how many times she was muttering the same thing over and over again.
"Alex. Snap out of it. He didn't find us" Tobin said, waving a hand in front of Alex's face.
"He didn't find me?" Alex asked.
"No. No he didn't" Tobin said.
Alex sighed. "Safe. I'm safe. Safe for now. Safe forever? No. Safe for now? Yes"
"Can you please stop muttering to yourself? You sound like a crazy woman" Tobin said, clamping a hand over Alex's mouth.
"I'll try" Alex said, in a muffled voice from Tobin's hand.
"Thank you" Tobin said.
The rest of the ride was silent, to Tobin's advantage, she could think of a way to keep Alex sane.
It was simple too.
Just don't mention Servando or anything about the plane ride.
After getting a room with Alex, Tobin dragged Alex into the room.
"Are you okay?" Tobin asked.
"Tobin. The man whom I hate for very good reasons is back, and he's here in the same city as us" Alex said. "How can I be okay?"
"But he's not going to hurt us, I don't think" Tobin said.
"You don't know that" Alex said.
"But you don't know he will hurt us. Besides, he doesn't even know where we are"
"That man is crazy. He has a mental illness for God sakes! He will do despicable things" Alex said, as if recalling some sad memory, a painfully sad memory.
"I don't get what he did to you, but I can see its not good, by the way you look at the wall" Tobin said softly.
"It wasn't good at all" Alex said bitterly.
"Want to talk about it?" Tobin asked, but Alex shook her head no.
"Not yet" Alex said, getting on the bed.
"Okay" Tobin said impatiently. She really wanted to know what he did to her that made her so mad at him. But I guess it wasn't the right time.
They got into bed, and Alex was so close to Tobin, she was almost pushing her off the bed.
But Tobin didn't want to move Alex, if anything, she wished the room was smaller, so there was only space for a the two of them, so they could be close together and feel safe.
Tobin didn't feel safe with that creep running around the city. Alex thought at every moment Servando was going to bust through the door and gun them down.
Neither of them could sleep.
"Hey Tobin?" Alex croaked.
"Yeah Lex?" Tobin turned, facing her, only inches from her nose.
"I want to get this game over with and get out of this city, and fast. I hate knowing Servando is around" Alex said, in a voice just above a whisper.
"Me too, but there are dangers at home too. Theres Machine at home, and Servando everywhere else" Tobin said, gritting her teeth when she said Machine's name.
"I know, but I just want to be back in our home" Alex said, before drifting to sleep.
Tobin was worried that night.
What if she couldn't provide the protection Alex needed? What if Machine got Tobin back for making him jump out the window? Or what if Servando finds them? That would put Hope and Carli in danger for lying to that criminal.
"I love you" Was the last words Tobin spoke before drifting off into a deep, dark, dreamless sleep.
