Silent Lucidity

LXIX

Y'all, this is the reason I've been impatient and uploading daily... Hope you enjoy!

[Halt & Catch Fire]

Spencer, Iowa

A pickup truck with the license plate SEMPERFI drove on a road. A girl and boy were in the truck.

"You sure you're okay to drive?" Janet asked.

"Not really," Billy admitted. "But it's nothing a little grease can't fix. " He spoke to his cell phone mounted in the truck. "Trini, find me the nearest Taco Town."

"Searching..." Trini said in an electronic voice.

"Ooh, I'm going to get a quesarito and a chi-chi melt," Janet decided.

"Turn right in 50 feet."

"Um, Billy, I don't think this is the way to Taco Town."

"What do you know? Your phone's 3g. Trini doesn't make mistakes," Billy retorted.

"Continue for .3 miles, then turn left."

"It's freezing. Can you please turn off the air?" Janet asked.

"It's not on," Billy said as the truck reaches a road block and they stop. "What the hell?"

"Trini doesn't make mistakes, huh?"

"Trini, find a different route."

"Proceed ahead."

"Go screw yourself."

"You go screw yourself. Janet, get out of the truck."

"Um, how does she know my name?" Janet wondered.

Trini yelled, "Janet, get out of the truck, now!

Janet was frightened and opened the passenger door and got out. "Oh my god."

Billy tried to open the driver's door. It locked and he couldn't unlock it. He tried to get out the passenger door, but it closed and locked. The truck began to drive on its own. "No wait! Stop!"

Janet screamed. "Aah! Billy!"

Billy was slamming on the brakes and trying to stop the truck as it crashed through the barricade. "No! No!" The truck continued speeding ahead as he tried to steer and stop. "No! Help!"

"Billy!"

"Stop!"

"Destination dead ahead."

Janet screamed as the truck crashed through another barricade and drove off the bridge.

BUNKER - WAR ROOM

Dean was heading upstairs eating as Sam and Kennedy were heading downstairs.

"Hey," Sam greeted, noticing what Dean was eating. "What in the world?"

"A croissookie," Dean replied as they continued walking toward the library.

"A croissookie?" Sam and Kennedy repeated.

"Mmhmm. Yeah, they're the new cronuts."

"Okay. So, what? Half cookie, half–" Sam was cut off.

"Who gives a crap? They're freakin' awesome." Dean put the croissookie down on a table. "What did Cas say?"

"Uh, good news, bad news." Sam took his cellphone out of his backpack and put the backpack on the table. "Bad news – he discovered riverboat gambling. Good news – he thinks he might be closing in on Cain."