Song to listen to: Renka-Don't cry.
It comes one morning, a knock at her door early.
-" Lauren, open up, Lauren!" She's still drowsy , not yet awake when Cade stumbles into the small apartment she now calls home. His presence is like a dream, she'd not seen him for so long and she needs a moment to blink and see if it's really him.
But it is Cade allright. He is still the same, though he is acompannied by a woman she doesn't know. He breathes hard, face worried.
- " Lauren, we need your help. Optimus..Optimus is in trouble."
His name is enough to make her heart stutter. A year it had been, a year since she declared her love for the autobotleader and he'd left earth to find his creators.
One long year in which her feelings for the autobot grew ever stronger. One long year wherein she noticed she missed him. His gentle voice, his eyes, his gentle character and soul, his strength and his undying belief in good, just Optimus in every facet.
Lauren never understood how someone could be lovesick when they fell in love. She never understood that kind of connection. Sh never understood the kind of strong and undying love beween Cade and his dead wife, how he still loves her, will always love her.
She never understood how Tessa was willing to give her life for someone she fell in love with.
But now she understands. The blonde has never felt much love for her past boyfriends, but for Optimus, she feels it, strong, undying, pure love and in moments when all falls uqiet and the stars are bright she misses him so much it feels like a punch to the stomach.
-" What do you mean, you need my help?" The young woman whispers, rubbing her eyes with the sleeve of her t-shirt. Cade turns to the woman beside him, at a loss for words. She's really pretty.
-" Oh my god, I'm so sorry i didn't notice you. My name is Lauren. What's your name?" Lauren blabs and holds out her hand to shake hands with the other woman. - " My name is Viviane Wembly. I am Cade's..associate." Cade grins, eyes rooving over the female beside him.
The blonde wiggles her eyebrows. - " Associate huh? Come on in." She opens the door and lets them in. After they have explained everything, Lauren starts packing a bag.
-" Give me 20 minutes to shower and we're leaving." Just as she is standing in her bathroom, a large eye appears before her window.
-" Aaaaah!" Lauren screams, throwing her brush at the blue eyes poking into her small bathroomwindow.
- " Little lady..! Oh..wrong room." The autobot- she realises it's an autobot - she tells herself, blinks and then Cade throws open the door, arms raised into fists.
" Lauren, are you okay?! I heard you scream!...Wha-HOTROD! GET OUT!" He yells and then covers Lauren with his hands to preserve her modesty- -though she's still fully clothed.
-" What the hell are you doing peeping into my daughter's bathroom?! Get out, you pervert!" Hotrod blinks. - " You have a second daughter?" Cade blinks back.
-" Surrogate daughter...It doesn't matter! Get the hell out before I shoot you apar into pieces!" He snarls, eyes shooting daggers at the black and orange alien standing still in fron t of her window.
-" Yes, yes. sorry, little miss, I was looking for.. Ah Viviane, there you are!" The autobot replies in his French accent, happy to see said woman. Viviane, to her credit, smiles patiently, as if it's not one big crazy mess.
- " Hotrod, can you, ... turn around while Lauren washes herself?" Hotrod blinks again and then shrugs. -" Of course..Humans and their silly shyness."
Lauren is by now laughing, tears forming at the corners of her eyes. When she can breathe again, she ushers both adults out of her bathroom.
She's got her love to rescue.
