AN: This is a meme I picked up from somewhere. I decided to do it, and started, then realised my music collection is really embarrassing! Commentary is at Jalaperilo(DOT)livejournal(DOT)com. You should really bookmark that, I now update with all sorts of weird happenings and writing related nonsense. I also update delays in writing and am always up for a chat. Everyone who has me on author alert is gonna hate me now.
Warnings: Hints of Slash in later instalments.
The rules:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!
4. Do ten of these, then post them
Sideswipe is the focus of mine. Many different relationship dynamics exist in my head for him.
1. "True Faith" – New Order
Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were enlisted. They fought the Autobot cause. Their life was set to be regulations and orders and duty. It may have seemed to many that they had traded one life of no choice for another one.
To Sideswipe, he had never been so free. Surviving in the roughest places of Cybertron, living hand to mouth. That was slavery. He was free because they had been given a choice. They would always have a choice. He loved fighting, he loved the battles. It made the energon in his lines sing. But instead of the fighting being a necessity to survive, it was his choice. His choice to go out and slag Decepticons. He followed the rules, mostly, and endured the punishment he received when caught.
It was his choice, and his choice was to follow what he believed in, and he believed in his own power. That was his freedom.