The Specialist and I: Book 2

Chapter 12

This is sort of an idea by nightmare-crew. Her idea starts at the end of the chapter and continues into the next.

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I woke up, tired and exhausted. Last night, my mom, dad, and sister had all gone shopping for my parent's anniversary party that is happening in the next week. While they were gone, Ironhide and I took the opportunity to do couples stuff. Let's just say, I'm sore.

I got out of bed and noticed that Ironhide was gone. Confused as he didn't have plans, I grabbed my phone to call and figure out where he was. A soft hum came from my phone as I went to pick it up. 

Husband: Not sure if you're up yet but John called and said both houses are finished. I am at the base as I have to talk with Ratchet for a bit but will be home in the next hour or so to pick you up so we can have a look at the houses. Love you.

I grinned and shook my head. He knows me so well, it's scary sometimes. The other night, we had gone out on a date. I had told him I was going to be late as I had a meeting with Moreshower but promised to be there no later than 5 minutes. When the meeting was over, Optimus had volunteered to drop me off at the resturaunt. I had agreed. After Optimus dropped me off and I found Ironhide, I had noticed a waiter walking over with a tray. On the tray sat two plates. The food was dropped off at our table as well as the drink Ironhide had ordered for me. 

He knew exactly what I wanted before I even got there and somehow managed to order exactly 5 minutes before I arrived. Ironhide had given me a bouquet of my favorite tulips - I never told him what my favorite flower was. I know we're bonded, but the fact that he knows me better than I do is kinda freaky.

I rolled my eyes at myself and got dressed into a nice black blouse and navy blue jeans. I slipped on a pair of socks and headed downstairs when all of a sudden, an angry sounding knock came from our front door. Cautiously, I opened it.

"Are you Sarah Lennox?", the man asked.

"Lori Edih, I'm her daughter.", I stated.

"Mrs. Edih, I'm from The Bank of America. I'm here to take possession of your parent's house. They are months behind on their mortgage and haven't paid their utility bills in over 3 months.", the man stated.

"That's impossible. They've been using my bank account to pay for it.", I stated.

"No, Mrs. Edih, they haven't. You haven't had any bank activity in almost a year. Had you not made the purchase at Walmart the other day, we would have closed the account.", the man stated and handed me a bunch of papers, proving his statements, "Your parents have until the end of the week to move out."

I frowned as the man left and stared at the papers. I didn't even notice when Ironhide pulled into the driveway with Mom, Dad, and Annabel as his passengers.

"Lori, you alright?", I looked up at my parents, an angry expression on my face.

"Ironhide, take Anna up to her room, please?", I asked.

He nodded and took Annabel upstairs. I turned back to my parents.

"What the hell is this?!", I asked, shoving the papers into my dad's chest.

"What are you talking about?", mom asked as dad grabbed the papers.

"You lied to me! I told you to use my bank account to pay for the house. Instead, you chose not to and got further and further behind on the bills. 3 months is a long time. Not to mention, when I asked about it after returning home, you fucking lied to my damn face! You told me that you had caught up on the bills. My fucking account hasn't been active in almost a damn year! I ALMOST LOST MY SAVINGS!", I yelled angrily.

"Honey, you're our daughter. You earned that money. We can't use it.", dad stated calmly.

"We were going to use it but the bank said we didn't have access to it.", mom stated.

"Ask Ironhide! He's my fucking husband! He has access to all my accounts. He could have gotten the account opened to you!", I growled.

"We tried to ask but -", I cut mom off.

"Bullshit!", I yelled, "If you had asked him, he would have found the time! If he couldn't, he would have fucking called me to talk to the bank!"

"Lori, that is enough!", dad yelled, "There is no need to talk to us like that!"

"Bull! You promised me you'd use my account and instead of telling me the truth when I got back, you made me believe a fucking lie! I have every fucking right to be pissed at you right now!", I yelled.

I felt someone's arms go around my waist and pull me toward them. 

"Come on, Lori. Let's go for a drive.", Ironhide said from behind me.

I slipped my shoes on and pushed past my parents angrily. We ended up going to our new house. It was amazing. The house had a nice, big bathroom, a good size master bedroom, several good size rooms for kids, a nice kitchen, a good size living room with a window, a big laundry room, and an amazing view on the second floor balcony.

"This is amazing.", I smiled.

"That's not all he did.", Ironhide said and brought me to the backyard.

Dozens of bags full of grass seeds were leaned against the house and a large playground sat in the backyard as well as an in-ground pool and a hot tub. I laughed as I walked around the park.

"John said that the bags of seed could cover about 2-3 acres.", Ironhide said.

"Where's the garage?", I asked.

He took me to the other side of the house where a rather large garage was built unattached. Inside the garage was huge. There was enough room for up to 10 Autobot vehicles or 4 semis. On the back wall sat two doors. One of the rooms had enough space on the walls for all my guns and there was enough space on the floor to put boxes of bullets along the wall.

The second room had a desk with at least 15 drawers. No joke. There were also chests along the wall.

"What's this room for?", I asked as I opened a drawer on the desk.

"Your inventions. We can't really move the sheds so I asked John to build rooms for your weapons and inventions. I had brought your tools over and they made space for each one.", Ironhide explained.

"I can see that.", I said as I pulled my socket wrench out of an indentation, "Now I won't have to go digging for my tools."

I jumped when an alarm sounded in the house.

"All Autobots, report to the main hanger! We have a pod incoming!", Optimus' voice echoed through the garage.

"What was that?", I asked.

"Since I'm living here rather than on the base, Optimus seemed it necessary to have an alarm as well as the base's intercom installed in the house should their be any emergencies.", Ironhide stated as he put his jacket on.

"Lovely.", I stated, rolling my eyes.

We both left the garage and got in Ironhide's alt mode. When we got to the base, a pod sat opened in the main hanger. The pod was a bit larger than the one Ironhide came in. Six Autobots stood in front of the pod, facing my star struck brother and the other bots.

I got out of Ironhide's alt mode and he transformed. After picking me up, Ironhide and I joined my brother and the others. Ironhide looked shocked and angry when he saw the new bots.

"Ironhide!"

"Hidey!"