Drive to freedom.

Author's Note: Movie Three spoilers are within this chapter.

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Chapter Three. 

They walked into the local restaurant and got a booth for two in the corner. After they ordered their drinks, they started to talk. Lennox made mention of his truck that was lost to him to a traitor.

"A traitor?" asked Teri.

"Yes, we thought he was one of us, but he killed many of my men before defecting to the other side and it took a combined effort to defeat him." Lennox replied. "Ironhide was by far the toughest of the vehicles we had and he blew him up, hoping to kill me at the same time. My best friend was that truck, he and I went everywhere together. He was like family to me."

"I know how it feels to be betrayed by someone you thought was your friend and ally and they turn around and backstab you in the back without letting you defend yourself from them. I lost a friend to someone like that," Teri replied.

They stopped when the waiter came with their meal. They talked while they ate. The topic of family came up and Lennox's right hand went to the bare spot on his left hand.

"Was she one of the soldiers who died in the battle with the traitor?" Teri asked.

"No, you remember that terrorist bomb attack at Mission City Mall several years back?" Lennox asked, as he took a bite of the taco.

"Yeah, I had left the mall about an hour before," Teri stated, as she picked up her taco and was about to take a bite out of it.

"My wife and two year old daughter were in that mall when it blew up. They were killed instantly," Lennox said, as he bit into his taco.

Teri dropped her taco to her plate. "I'm sorry, I didn't know."

Lennox waved his free hand as he finished off the food in his mouth. "Not many people knew she was there, not even me till it was too late."

"I'm sorry for your loss, it is hard to lose someone you love so much," Teri whispered.

Lennox glanced up just as she lowered her head to take a bite of food. Did he see a tear come from her? He reached over and raised her head to see the streak of tears running down her cheeks. "What happened?"

"My younger brother had a one car accident trying to swerve away from hitting a kid in the middle of the street, he was not wearing his seat beat and he broke his neck when he hit the steering column and then the headrest. It was instant death, no last words, no chance to say farewell, one minute he was alive, the next dead," Teri stated, as she wiped her tears from her face with the napkin. "Sadly, that was not the last death in our family. My older brother in agony over losing his younger brother took a handgun to the temple, he said that he couldn't handle being without him as they always did things together and he went to join his younger brother."

"I'm so sorry for your loss, it might be why your mother is so possessive of you,"

"That she doesn't want to lose me like she did her two boys, she lavished attention on them both more than she did me. I would have to do 200 times more to even get a thank you from her or even recognition about what I did. Dad knows how much I try to get her approval but now, I do not care if I do or not. All she does is bitch and complain why I cannot be like my brothers,"

"She wants you to be dead like they are?" Lennox asked shocked.

Teri shrugged. "Don't know, neither of them held a steady job and now that I have a vehicle and a job, she thinks I'll be jumping from that job to another one in another month but I have no intentions on copying what my brothers did in life,"

"Good for you," Lennox replied, as they both finished off their tacos and ordered another round of tacos.

They spent the rest of the evening chatting and eating tacos till closing time. They both were chuckling as they walked out of the restaurant and towards the semi that waited for them. Lennox watched the road as two strange black vehicles drove past them. He almost broke his own promise and asks Optimus if he saw the two vehicles but he bit his tongue and hoped that they were not Dreadknots.

Teri drove back home and pulled Optimus to the third garage where Lennox's jeep was at. "So will I be seeing you again?"

"Maybe next week, Teri," Lennox replied, as he shook her hand and headed for his jeep.

Teri watched as he drove away before she drove Optimus back to his parking spot by the barn and retired for the night.

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Lennox sneaked back onto the property by the woods and looked at Optimus. "Optimus, open up. I'm coming in."

Optimus opened his driver's door and allowed Lennox to climb within.

What they spoke about was unknown but it had made Optimus move a bit out of place.

TBC....