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Great, so after a fairly upsetting trip to the clinic, Anders had found out from Tori last night that Angela seemed to be missing. Then he'd stopped by the library after Spy Tech this morning to find out that Bridge hadn't made it in for his shift, which really wasn't like him. All of this was adding up to a big old ball of worrisome things, and now Anders was beyond waiting for the other shoe to fall; he was waiting for the entire shoe rack to cave in on his head.

But he still didn't have any clue where to start as far as figuring things out, and he was angry, frustrated, and scared. Not to mention feeling really gross from smoking his way through two packs of cigarettes last night.

So once he got back from the library he went up to his room to put on the leather riding gear, then headed down to the garage, where he climbed on his Glider, fired up the engines, and took off on a tense, breakneck-speed ride around the island several times, until he felt calm enough to think.

Which was exactly what he did -- while sitting cross-legged on his Glider outside the garage, making inroads on a new pack of cigarettes.

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Luke had been wandering campus and stopped when he heard the sound of an unfamiliar engine.

Being a Skywalker, he had to see what it was. He walked closer to the garage, put on a friendly smile and said "Hi!"

Not the most original opening ever, but it got the point across.

"Hey," Anders said, looking up and smiling back. "You're . . . Luke, right?"

"That's me," Luke said, nodding. "What were you flying?"

Important things first, you see.

"Oh, this?" Anders patted the hull of his little jet-propelled hovercraft. "Bridge built it for me. Won't fly in vacuum, but it's a pretty fun ride anyway. Great for when you've got some tension to work off, too. Like now."

He sighed. "Have you seen Bridge? He's kind of AWOL this morning."

Luke wrinkled up his nose. "We tend to stay out of each other's way," he said. "Maybe he's off with Z? I haven't seen her today either."

"Oh, great. Don't even tell me she's missing too," Anders said. Anxiety just ratcheted up a notch or five. "Especially since they had that weird run-in with the kid in the park the other night."

Luke picked up immediately on Anders' anxiety. "Weird run-in?" he repeated.

"Yeah." Anders wasn't sure how much he should divulge about what exactly had happened, but it was probably pretty obvious that whatever had happened was bothering him a lot. "This little girl was in the park, looking for them. By name, apparently."

"Z doesn't have family," Luke said, frowning. "Does Bridge have a little sister?"

"Not that he's ever told me about. I'm pretty sure it's just him. And he said she was kind of creepy, which is probably not a good sign either."

Luke was about to open his mouth and say something about how little kids couldn't be creepy, but he remembered his lessons from Yoda. "Judge not by size," he muttered to himself. "I have a bad feeling about this," he said to Anders in a more normal tone.

"So do I," Anders agreed. There was something else Bridge had told him yesterday that was key, but at the moment he couldn't figure out exactly what it was. But it definitely contributed to the bad-feeling-having, that was for sure. "We should ask around, see if anybody's seen them, or heard from them, or whatever."

Luke nodded. "I can do that. If you hear anything, call me?" He reached into his belt pouch for a piece of paper and scrawled his number down on it, then handed it over.

"I will," Anders promised. He wrote his number down on a corner of the piece of paper, then tore that off and gave it to Luke. "Just in case. Thanks, man."

Luke gave him a small smile. "Hopefully we're just blowing this whole thing completely out of proportion. I'll talk to you soon."

He trotted off across the lawn, heading into town.

School Grounds/Outside the Garage, Wednesday 3rd Period - After Lunch

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