MTMTE: sick day

"Ratchet is she ok, oh Primus please tell me she doesn't have a horrible sickness!?" Tailgate franticly asked Ratchet.

"Will you calm down, Maria just has a cold. It's not fatal she's just gonna be sluggish and tired, she's gonna have a bad headache for a bit but I gave her medicine for that. Give her orange juice and plenty of water, she needs to keep her fluids up and no junk food. Rewind is coming down here with Chromedome to help you." Said Ratchet pulling his thermometer out of Maria's mouth, shaking the saliva off it.

"Wow that's nice of them, I didn't think they'd want to help." Said Tailgate with surprise.

"Well it's more for Maria, she's grown on them quite a bit. Not just them but half of the base has fallen for this little ankle biter." Said Ratchet standing up.

"Now if you'll excuse me I got three sparklings to attend to who are also out with colds."

"But I thought you only had two sparklings, Mei and Drake."

"Yes well in age they're sparklings but I got one huge sparkling who helped create the smaller ones." Said Ratchet pulling out a vial.

"Tron?" Asked Tailgate

"He hates taking his medicine worse then our kids, but I love him the overgrown hatchling." Said Ratchet with a smile.

Tailgate watched him leave and turned to Maria who curled up in her bed, her cheeks all red from her fever. Walking over gently put his hand on her forehead, the cooling touch helped relax the young girl and relieve the uncomfortable heat brewing in her head. She let out a relaxed sigh making Tailgate smile.

"You wait here Maria I'm gonna get something to drink." Said Tailgate standing up and rushing out.

Maria sat up, her blur eyes drooping a bit from the lack of sleep she had gotten last night due to her headache. She coughed and rubbed her throat, she sniffles in hopes of clearing her sinuses of mucus clogging them. Resting her head against her pillow she stared at her door waiting for Tailgate, she coughed from time to time. She blinked a few times and played with her red buttons on her pajamas all decorated with prints of cherries, her short wheat blonde hair was slightly messed up from tossing and turing in bed. She looked up hearing her door open, hoping to be Tailgate turned out to be Whirl.

"Well looks like someone is still in bed." Said Whirl in his usual tone.

Maria was always a bit skittish of Whirl mostly of his personality, one moment he could be your friend next be a ruthless worrier. She also avoided him due to her other care takers attitude towards him, Cyclonus. Whirl and Cyclonus don't get along together so she tends to try and keep them apart as much as possible, Maria was much like Tailgate. Innocent, sweet and somewhat naive but in a good way.

"So whatcha doing still in bed, gonna tell me or does the cyber-feline still have your tongue." Said Whirl kneeling down to the little girl.

Maria was a very, very quiet child. Tailgate adopted her when he found her in the streets of a city, she was alone and very pale. Tailgate of course being an Autobot didn't want to leave her alone so brought her to the ship the lost light. Ultra Magnus of course didn't like the idea but Rodimus sorta fell for the little angel so allowed Tailgate custody of the child. No one knows why she doesn't talk but Rung believes it to be something in her past.

"You just pretending to be sick to skip out on your appointment with Rung?" Whirl teased. Maria shrink'd into her bed hiding her face from Whirl, of course Whirl pulled the blanket away.

"Come on tell me how you managed to trick the doc into thinking your sick it'll give me a great excuse to get out some of these training-"

"What do you think your doing in here?" Whirl turned around to see Cyclonus standing at Maria's door, Whirl got up.

"I wanted to see if our quiet half-pint was faking being sick, I wanted to know how she did it so I can-"

"So you can skip out on things I know the trick and she isn't faking, First Aid and Ratchet already looked her over and both agreed she was sick. Now get out or else." Said Cyclonus venomously. Whirl raising his hands in defense left.

Maria looked up at her secular savior as he stared down at her, much like Whirl she was skittish of him. Shy an would only go up to him if Tailgate wasn't around, of course he didn't mind she was quiet and didn't bug him for things. Though there was that part about him that tugged at his spark and that was, believe it or not her lack of talking. He couldn't help worry about her lack of words, she could speak its just she didn't want to apparently. She was silent since the day she arrived, she would simply write down what she wanted but never vocally say anything that she wanted or desired.

"You can't keep you mouth shut forever child say something soon or it'll be the death of you."

Cyclonus was always a bit cold in his approach to things, but to him saying something cold to the child might get her to speak. But she just looked at him and a sad look came to her eyes, no doubt recalling her life before. So his plan failed into coaxing the child to speak.

"I'm back Maria and I brought some soup and a friend!" Said Tailgate, Cyclonus sat back against the wall as Tailgate entered with Diana Wolfbane. In Diana's arms was a small cream and coco colored cat named Miso, Diana smiled as the little girls eyes widened seeing the cat.

"Hi Maria, Tailgate told me you weren't feeling good and I know how that feels to be cooped up in here so I brought you a friend to keep you company. This is Miso my kitty, she's been my kitty for years and when ever I got sick she'd be right by my side. So I thought you deserve some company, be a good girl Miso and look after her." Said Diana, Miso meowed and curled up next to Maria.

Maria snuggled with the cat as Tailgate placed the soup down for her to eat, happily the child began to eat the warm soup. At that time three bots arrived, Chromedome, Rewind and Swerve.

"Hey there she is the lady of the hour, we heard you were sick so we moved movie night to your room!" Shouted Swerve.

"Yeah...only if she's feeling up for it." Said Chromedome nudging Swerve to keep his voice down.

"How you feeling Maria?" Asked Rewind kneeling down to the tiny child. She motioned she was getting better but still felt a little...woozy from the fever.

"Yeah I can see your cheeks are still red, well like Swerve said since your sick we figured we'd move movie night to your room if you feel like it."

Maria's eyes grew big and nodded, Rewind sat down an adjusted the camera on his helm. Diana smiled and left as the bots all gathered to watch a film together, First Aid joined in. The film was a educational film based on the history of Primes that had existed in the past and what they had done, Swerve brought some energon and Enex from his bar. Tailgate sat down next to Maria's bed both to comfort her and to keep an eye on her condition, Chromedome sat with legs crossed to give Rewind a comfortable place to sit.

"Ok coming up here Maria is the Ark 1 this was built a long time ago, about 4 to 6 million years ago. Nova prime is gonna read out a Roster and show who is going on the ship." Said Rewind. Maria's eyes widened watching the film before her, she stared as the Ark 1 came into view.

"Cool isn't it shorty?" Asked Swerve as he shoved a handful of energon treats into his mouth.

"I think that answer is obvious." Said Chromedome looking at Maria's expression.

The film was about two hours long, about half way Maria fell asleep resting her head against Tailgates arm. He smiled behind his mask and gently tucked her back into her bed, First Aid took this time to see how she was doing. He checked her temperature by running a thermometer across her forehead, checking it he saw her fever had gone down quiet a bit.

"So is our shorty gonna live?" Joked Swerve.

"Oh shut up will you?" Said Chromedome.

"Her fever has gone down, I'd say when she wakes up she'll be feeling better. But to be sure we'll give her a little more medicine when she wakes up and see how she feels after that." Said First Aid putting his supplies away.

"Good, sleep tight Maria...you little spark breaker." Said Tailgate as he gently maneuvered the little child back into a comfortable poisson, leaning forward he gave the tiny child a kiss before leaving her to rest.

End