I had promised myself that I wouldn't post this before I finished "From High School to War".... But I just had to T.T I couldn't help myself. (sigh)

Rating might change. I don't know.

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Prologue

Four jours. It had only happened four jours ago and Ratchet already felt like his spark would forever fade if that mech didn't get well enough for them to just LEAVE.

He had finished running some more precaution tests and putting the mech into stasis once again. Walking towards his quarters in short stressful steps, the medic planned on having a very long recharge before he would commence with the countless repairs he had to do on the mech. The medic sighed tiredly.

Since he had woken up two jours ago from stasis lock, Wheeljack had stuck to him like super glue, never taking his optics off him and never ever leaving him alone in the same room as the other mech. Ratchet had bitched about it and thrown a ton of wrenches at him but the engineer, with a little help, had put his foot down hard. The medic would just have to put up with it.

Thanks to the rather sudden appearance of the bot, the same bot who's memory he had thought to be buried and locked up tight, key thrown away, deep inside his memory chips, had made him loose his cool. After his mini breakdown in front of his young apprentices, First Aid and Swoop, Wheeljack, the twins and Jazz, the mech had acted violently towards him. Nobot had been pleased. At all.

What worried Ratchet was that Jazz had been there, and as head of OPs, with his ability to assimilate information faster then anybot online, the saboteur had seen past all that which others saw, and somehow knew. The medic didn't know how, but the saboteur had found out about his relation to the other mech, much to his displeasure. He had hoped his past would never catch up with him. But it did. And now, he'd be forced to face it.

Since then, the ever so cheerful mech had been looking at him with concerned optics and when ever he looked at the other mech, his optics would flare red and pure rage would take over them for an instance. It had been unnerving to see such a reaction from him, but it was that that had cleared it for the medic that Jazz knew.

What was worse was, that if Jazz knew, then the second in command knew because a) he was second in command and had to know and b) because the saboteur discussed everything with Prowl. Any fragger would see immediately, that the third in command was helplessly in love with the the tactician, who in turn, was so damn oblivious to it.

And what was even worse then that, was that if Prowl knew, Optimus knew. It was the most catastrophic form of chain reaction in the universe. But it had happened. The white mech had played oblivious to all because he refused to believe that his leader and the two lieutenants had any kind of knowledge about that.

What puzzled Ratchet the most were the twin's reactions. They had been... clingy to him since he woke up and instead of any pranks or smart aft comments, the twins had been quiet, silently watching him with serious and troubled faceplates. They had tried to pry information out of him but the medic had just waved them off.

Lost in his musings, Ratchet didn't notice the two forms running towards him from behind.

"Ratchet!" Sunstreaker called, running alongside his twin brother down the metallic halls of the Ark to try and catch up with the medic.

Said medic turned quickly, looking as if he had been caught red handed doing something he shouldn't have. There was fear in his optics, his body as tense as a bow string.

"What do you want?" He snapped, after a brief glance at his surroundings told him that that mech wasn't around, fear vanishing as he regained his composure. The twins frowned as they came to a stop in front of him. There was something very wrong with the med bot and they wanted to know what or who' had caused their medic to act in such a way. The twins knew that Prime was in on what was wrong. And that was because Jazz and Prowl had found out the reason and Wheeljack had confirmed what ever it was. Yet they had left every other bot in the dark. That in it's self worried them a lot. Why keep something hidden if it wasn't seriously important?

"What's wrong Ratchet? And don't you dare say nothing or so help me I will punch you!" Snarled a very fragged off Sunstreaker, optics too bright.

Ratchet was taken aback by the sudden outburst. He looked at Sideswipe with a raised optic ridge sending a silent inquiry, yet the red twin simply stared back at him with the same expression as his brother, arms crossed over his chassis.

"What do you mean?"

"You know damn well what we mean!" Shot Sideswipe, optics narrowing as he walked closer to the mech.

"I'm afraid I do not, Sideswipe. Now if you'll excuse me, I would like to get some recharge before I have to get back on shift." Ratchet replied in the same tone whilst turning to head towards his quarters.

He did not need this right now. He had enough problems as it was.

Trying to ignore the two bots, the medic failed to hear the furious vicious animal like growl until he felt himself being grabbed and slammed into the Ark's metal wall. Grunting at the sudden pain in his back, he looked up to glare at the yellow twin, who had his whole weight on the poor medic leaving Ratchet trapped between him and the wall, but before he could start shouting the twin's audios off, Sunstreaker was in his face seething with anger.

"Do not treat us as idiots Ratchet. Ever since that mech came here you haven't been your self! You seem frightened and rather tame around him, two characteristics that do not resemble you at all. What. Is. Wrong?" He hissed into the medic's audio receptors.

Ratchet kept silence. "No way in the pit am I telling them that. Why can't they just leave me alone?." He thought dryly. Yup... It had all started those four jours ago.

Oh dear, I wonder what could have happened to our very beloved Hatch- I- I mean Ratchet. XD

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