The Savior: Origins

Chapter Thirty-Five

When I came to, I was laying on a couch in a strange smelling apartment. I sat up quickly and saw an exhausted looking Ty sitting on a chair, and Florida napping on the rug with her bird nestled on top of her hair.

How did that bird just keep ending up here?

"Where am I?" I asked, looking over. I saw that Ty and the teenager, Data were sitting across from each other.

Where they talking?

"Good morning honey." He greeted. I scoffed slightly at his cheesiness. "We are at Data's apartment." I looked around, the walls were lined with computers and the kitchen was torn out and replaced with several computers.

"How can we trust you." I asked, eyeballing the new person. I didn't trust anyone. Excpecially some teenager with a house full of computers.

"Data caused my parents a lot of shit back in the day." Ty pointed out, "We spoke a little on the internet before he became wanted and went off grid."

I looked between the two teenagers and narrowed my eyes.

"So, you trust him." Ty nodded at me and smiled. God, his smile, why was my life becoming so lame and cliché. "If you trust him, then I'll let us stay. But the moment I find a reason to not trust you."

"We are gone." Ty finished my sentence. I looked over at him, he tried to comfort me, I wanted to trust him fully but putting my trust in people has been failing lately. I looked over at the new boy, I started to watch him carefully.

He had dark shaggy hair that fell over his framed blue eyes. He was on the skinny side, no muscles at all. He did seem kind of nervous. That kid was on the run from the government?

"What exactly did you do?" I asked him.

"I used to steal from corrupt businesses. But, I got bored and went digging into government files."

"I was, dabbling in government networks and I think I saw something I shouldn't have."

"What do you mean you were dabbling in government networks Julie!"

I zoned out from what he was talking about and lived in my little memory for just a moment. Thinking of her before this chaos, before everything.

Something about a memory, of her before this happened made me a little happier.

"What can we do to find Julie and Simon?" I looked up at him curiously. "You must be some kind of tech genius right? How do we find them?"

"I really want to help you as fast as I can, but it isn't that easy. I have a facial scan running for your friends, but considering Simon could possibly not even be in country." He sighed, running a pale hand through his darker hair. "There isn't a lot I can do."

I tried to think, think of anything that I could. We needed to find them, our stakes were just raised exponentially. They were ducks in water, and the crocodile just swam in. We needed to find them, now.

I found myself staring at my arms, frost built up on my arms leading up to my dark numbered tattoo. I stared at it for a moment, blocking out the thoughts from how I got that marking. The shocks, the pain, the needles and the injections.

Injections.

"Simon has tiny robots in his body." I attempted to explain to him how they got there. About Burnham using them to control me. "Could you track him with those?" He looked at them for a moment.

"And you have them in your body?" I nodded. "If they used to give off a frequency to be picked up by a hand held device, it means they may still be giving off dead air." Me and Ty looked dumbfounded at his words. I had no idea what he was talking about. Yet, he didn't really feel the need to explain it.