Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, Hasbro does.
A/N: I'm part of a writing group on Facebook and the prompt last week was to write 5 one sentence stories. I couldn't stop, and by the end of the week I had 40 stories about Bee and Sam interacting . (If any one's interested in joining, let me know!) They were just too easy to write! POV switched from one sentence to the other, but hopefully it isn't too confusing as to who is narrating which sentence.
The title comes from the element with the atomic number of 40. Also, did you know that -40 is the same on both the Fahrenheit and Celsius scale?
Zirconium
By Uniasus
1. He was so tiny, so small his arm could not even wrap around his entire leg, but whenever Sam tried and that warmth wrapped around him somewhere, he felt like he was in the strongest fortress ever built.
2. The bruises that circled Sam's ribs were a match to his handprint and burned in his processor, a constant reminder that humans were fragile and that he had hurt his charge.
3. Sam had to build a wooden mousetrap for school and since there was a robot alien living in his garage he got an A.
4. The world had stopped spinning as soon as he stopped breathing.
5. There was just something about going really, really fast in a sleek hot rod.
6. Sam was his inferior in everyway but joy; the teen just could not stop smiling and his spirits could not help but be light.
7. He had not gotten a decent recharge since he had found Sam; first it was enemies he was guarding against, now it was nightmares.
8. He did not dream, but sometimes when Sam talked about his most recent one involving them sharing a surfboard, he wished he did.
9. There were times he felt like an ordinary car, that Sam did not think of him as anything special, but then came one of those nights where the human chose to sleep on his back seat and before drifting off he would always say "You're the best Bee" and snuggle into the seat.
10. They did not have the same tastes in music, but they both enjoyed driving Mikaela crazy by playing Celtic jigs and reels on the way to school.
11. It always surprised him how many layers of cloth Sam put on when the temperature dropped and it always amused him to no end to blow hot air at his charge while he wore them.
12. There were few he trusted to see him without his armor or to get access to his more delicate systems; Sam was the only one he trusted with both.
13. The thing about laptops was that the screen was so small; Bee's windshield was a lot better to watch movies on.
14. When Sam needed motivation for this daily run, he got chased by a Camaro with tinted windows.
15. He did not understand Sam's reluctance to use his father's path; green life was not something Cybertron had and as such was something he did not think the human should carelessly damage.
16. Humans had constructed wonderful ways to pass the time, they finally allowed him to defeat Ironhide and give him the visual of the weapons specialist as a dwarf.
17. He spent most of his time in the classroom looking out the window and down into the parking lot.
18. He could not spend as much time as he wanted to with Sam, to do so would be to prevent the human from interacting with any one else.
19. Sam was not the best shower singer, nor the quietest since he could be heard from the garage, or did he just turn his microphones up to better hear his human?
20. Mikaela liked to scold him about being too protective of his charge, but Sam never said a word about it.
21. Sometimes it scared him how easily Sam could be hurt; those were the good days, there were others where he had to force himself to unlock the doors so Sam could go to school.
22. He had always relied on statistical analysis and solid facts until Sam taught him hope and faith.
23. Prime had a law that all sentient beings had the right to choose, but there was no way Sam was going to pick what car wash to go to – it had to be by hand.
24. Nothing felt right in his life until a tiny, flesh extremity cleared the grime from the Autobot symbol on his steering wheel.
25. Whoever conned the phrase 'mystic bond between a man and machine' would have been speechless if he met an Autobot.
26. Sam may have been limited in the amount of things to tower over, but he did a good job at being a solid pillar of his life.
27. Sometimes he hated this planet because everyone on it would leave him as soon as he flickered his optics.
28. He never looked up to the stars to look for home anymore, he looked up at Sam's window instead.
29. He always wondered why Sam never looked at car magazines like his friend Miles until the human said there was no point because he surpassed them all.
30. Water was not a new thing for him, but sponges and suds were and oh did he enjoy them.
31. Bumblebee had this crazy need to have explanations for everything, but he just could not think of one for his mom's obsession with bling.
32. Sam should have scanners; it would prevent him from jumping at shadows.
33. He had just assumed Bee would take a liking to techno music due to familiarity, but his taste leaned more towards classical piano and violin because Cybertron did not have string instruments.
34. It always surprised Sam that such rational beings not only had a religion, but were devote followers.
35. He did not like to think about the fact that Bee was older than his entire race; how does one relate to that other than "I'm older than the Sony Playstation"?
36. If given a chance between ending the war or leaving the Autobots to say with Sam, even when the human was just calcium formations, he was not too sure what he would choose.
37. Bee did not have to stay with him, it had been years since a 'Con had shown up, but the Camaro never took the opening to leave and the slight hesitation before answering 'no' each time made him wonder if Bee was staying for the reasons he thought he was.
38. Snow always put humans in a good mood; he wished he had bottled up an entire season's worth so he could cheer erase Sam's frown.
39. Light shone off Bee so brightly, made the Camaro so sparkly, that Sam was sometimes left wondering how no one realized his car was an alien yet.
40. Colors attracted Bee, from the bright yellow of his hood to the green leaves on the tree and when he asked why, the Autobot said it was such a welcoming sight after having nothing but the gray of a ship and the black of space to look at for vorns.