When All Lights Go Out I (TFP)

Chapter 59

Azura hummed as she continued working on her picture. She was carefully colouring into a sketch she had drawn of an imagination of what she'd look like as a celestial dragon. She knew she already painted an image, but she had wanted to work on another picture. Jack was also sketching something. With some help from her, Jack quickly became good at art. He was actually currently sketching a picture of a bald eagle. He had chosen this as his art project for school too, and Azura was liking what he was drawing. Raf was not drawing, but he was sitting nearby finishing up some homework.

"You have one more year of school after this year, don't you, Jack?" Azura asked curiously, looking up from her canvas over at the boy with a curious expression. "Are you feeling kind of nervous now that you are getting closer to the last year of high school? And looming need to go to college?"

Jack seemed surprised by the question, though he did stop to think on it. "Yeah...I guess it will be my last year. But I haven't really thought much of it, since meeting the autobots has kind of distracted me with what I might want for the future...though I might do something with the military..." The boy seemed a bit uncertain about the future, and that was understandable. "But I really don't know yet. I guess I have to wait and see how things progress."

"That's fair. I wish I got to finish it. But I guess I can probably try and help you. I still remember a lot of the lessons taught from the short time I was there, you will probably benefit from it." Jack seemed to be a little suspicious by that. "It isn't cheating, since I'm not going to school anymore, Jack."

"True..." Jack smiled and shrugged as he knee that he was worried for nothing. "I guess you're right...I'm worried about nothing. I would definitely appreciate the help. Just like the help you have given me for art and help me get a higher grade for art class." He looked over at Raf who was staring at his homework with a frown. "Hey Raf, maybe you should have Azura help you with getting better at art too."

"Nah, sorry. But I actually don't think I will need it. I don't do art class, so I'm good." The boy looked at Azura with an apologetic expression. "I hope you don't mind, Azura. I do enjoy art for fun, but I prefer to be building someone or working on a code on the computer, if I am honest."

"I don't mind at all. And we won't bother you with your homework too much either." Azura looked at Jack's picture, smiling as she saw he was working on the feathers. "You have a really good talent for art, Jack. You only needed a small amount of help from me, and you could easily be a pro now as well."

Jack chuckled softly and shrugged. "Well, I learned from the best." He grinned at her and she rolled her optics at him. "At least I don't need to hand this in until the end of the week. So I don't need to finish the whole thing today. But at least, unlike Miko, I am ahead on my homework."

"I am not sure we should really be talking mean about her while she's not here, Jack," Rafael said softly with a slightly guilty expression. "I know Miko is lazy on her homework, and she's distracted with the autobots. But we shouldn't talk bad about her. Besides, Miko had a history report, and it's not exactly everyone's favorite subject. So I understand why she didn't do it like she's supposed to."

"Even so, not liking a subject is not a good enough reason to slack off," Azura responded to the boy. "I honestly hated science, believe it or not, it is my least favorite subject. It still is, if I am honest. Especially physics. I don't mine biology and oceanography, because that's a subject about natural things. But physics and chemistry...nope."

Jack chuckled softly as he listened to her. "I hope Ratchet does not find that out. He will be upset that you don't like the subject. I imagine that the Cybertronian physics are much harder than human physics."

Azura nodded in agreement. She knew that Ratchet already warned her that Cybertronian math and science would be harder to learn than what she's learned so far. And she honestly was not really looking forward to that. She at least likely had a few hundred years before she would officially start Cybertronian school. Though she did wonder if they had a kindergarten for sparklings too, though she wasn't sure.