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A/N – This is a spin-off to my fifty word sentence prompts. I was asked to do a few one-shots based off a few of the words. This is the first one, and hopefully there will be more as inspiration strikes.
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Tame
From the personal datatracks of Sideswipe – Autobot Frontliner
Prowl and Jazz are two opposing forces of nature. If you look at them, they're exact opposites. Jazz is wild, unpredictable, and unstoppable. Prowl is cool, calm, and collected. But Prowl has managed something no other mech alive has even tried or thought to do. He's tamed one of the most dangerous Autobots – the Head of Special Ops himself.
To say this wasn't an easy union for the two of them was the absolute understatement of the vorn. To begin with, Prowl and Jazz absolutely could not stand each other's diodes. It made for some pretty interesting conversations in the rec room, let me tell you. Prowl is very rule oriented, and Jazz pretty much believes that rules were meant to be broken. Then stomped into oblivion. Anyway, the first few vorns with them working together were tense.
But as they worked together, they began to develop a friendship. Now any mech with working optics could see that the two would eventually wind up together. But I don't think anyone could have anticipated Prowl actually managing to tame our resident saboteur. And it wasn't easy, from what I've heard Blue say. Jazz was a source of several major processor aches for our lovable SIC. Almost makes me wish I was there to see that, but I digress. Anyway, Jazz has always been something of a wild card. I grew up with the mech, I should know. But as Prowl and Jazz became friends, Jazz took a few – ahem, liberties.
Now, if you ask any mech on this base about Prowl's eating habits, they'll snicker and ask what you're talking about. Prowl doesn't have any. At all. He gets so caught up in what he's doing that he just completely forgets to refuel. I've lost count of how many times Ratchet's had to chase Prowl out of his office just to recharge, let alone refuel. But once Jazz found out that Prowl wasn't refueling, or recharging, he took matters into his own hands. I remember this one time that Jazz actually dragged Prowl, desk chair and all, into the rec room just to get him to refuel. But anyway, Jazz came up with some fairly creative ways to get Prowl to actually come into the rec room of his own volition and get some energon. Not that they worked. Prowl's amazingly dense sometimes. So Jazz took it upon himself to get Prowl's energon for him. Not that Prowl appreciated it. He saw it as an interruption of his work, and therefore, a total waste of his, and Jazz's, time. But Jazz didn't quit. He did spend quite a bit of time in the brig, though. Prowl doesn't appreciate being interrupted. But as time went on, Jazz spent less time in the brig, and more time with Prowl, whether he wanted it or not.
I think the reason the relationship started the way it did, is because when Jazz has his sights set on a mech, nothing on this planet, or Cybertron, for that matter, will change his focus. It took Prowl ages to realize that Jazz was actually trying to flirt with him. Trying being key word. Like I said earlier, Prowl's a bit dense. I'm not saying he's not smart, because he is, but when it comes to personal relationships, and how to start them, he's clueless. I think that by the time that Prowl realized that Jazz was flirting with him, he was ready to transfer to a different base. I can't tell if that would have been hysterical, or just downright depressing. Probably a little of both, if I'm honest.
But now, if you watch the two, Prowl has Jazz so completely wrapped around his finger, it's actually kind of funny. We all know Jazz has a penchant for throwing some pretty wild parties. Well, every now and then Prowl will show up, glare at one and all, and then settle into some small corner of the room and watch. And Jazz will materialize not two seconds later with a cube of mid-grade. It's kinda strange, seeing Jazz wrapped so completely around Prowl's finger. It 's gotten to the point where Prowl doesn't have to say or do anything, Jazz will do it for him happily. Unless we're talking about paperwork, and then Jazz is harder to find than Mirage with his Electro-Disrupter on.
Though, I have heard rumors that Prowl has managed to get Jazz to do his paperwork. Once.
Anyway, the point is, these two forces of nature, so radically different, complement each other. It's kind of frightening, but it works. And I'm happy for them.
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