Midnight

26 - Patrolling

Blake promised Jim that she would keep an eye on Toby and Claire. As she saw Jim getting ready for the touch-a-truck-athon, she looked back and saw Toby and Claire getting prepared to start their delivery.

Blake went around the corner and leaned against the wall to eavesdrop into their conversation, but didn't engage.

"Okay, so right after the fourth period, we go straight to the post office," Claire says.

"Got the package?"

"In my backpack, check,"

"And I have the address, che--," Toby was going to reach into his pocket for the piece of paper with the address, "uh, oh, no,"

"You lost the address?!"

"What? No! Of course not! You don't happen to remember it, do ya?"

"Mm!" Claire growls.

"It's gotta be somewhere. Look everywhere," Claire commands as she looks around on the ground while Toby was looking through his locker, "I promised Jim! He gave us the easiest mission and we already screwed up?" Claire cries.

As Toby was looking all over for the address, he ended up looking in the box. Blake gasps and looks over the corner and saw Toby's surprised face. Claire looked at Toby and asked if he opened it but Toby, being the one in denial, refused that he did. However, Claire was curious what Toby had seen in the box.

"Nothin'. Just a whoosh," Toby describes as he tried to replicate the sound.

"What do you mean, 'whoosh'," Claire questions.

"The box was totally empty, but before I could close it, it was like," Toby inhales deeply, "whoosh," he recites the sound in slow motion.

"That sounds really bad,"

Blake just stood there and watched, Toby began to act weird like he was having a seizure. He then pulls out the piece of paper with the address. He smiles awkwardly when he realized that it was in his back pocket the whole time. Claire decided to keep her hand on it till after class. Speaking of class, Blake had to go to her class and catch up on any missed assignments or notes.

'I wonder what Claire and Toby are doing right now?' Blake wonders as she reads her book and takes down some notes. Blake was in a different class, at a higher level for her age.

The class ended and Blake went looking around for Toby and Claire. No sign of them anywhere. Blake growls and exits the school and went running around town to find them. She couldn't lose sight of them, she needs to see if there wasn't any dead bodies anywhere or loud arguing.

"Don't lose me like you lost the stone!"

"I'm trying! And shut up!" Blake could hear those voices and she knew exactly who they were. To go faster, she summons her armor and jumps on top of a building and looked around to find Toby... floating?

Blake jumps from another building to another to get closer. She drops into an alleyway and took her armor away.

"Hey, I think - I think it's wearing off!" Toby was slowly descending to the ground on his feet, he was glad that was over but he suddenly felt heavy in his body.

Blake looked over the corner and saw Toby laying on the ground with a slight crack in the road, "what's happening to me?!"

"Toby, what's wrong?"

"Can't move,"

"The whoosh! It's making you switch between super light and super heavy without warning!" Claire says. Blake squints and raises an eyebrow. She wanted to help them, but Toby and Claire needed to bond together. It's like that red and blue paladin on Voltron, Blake forgot their names - she was never good at names and faces.