Meme: Book Reading
Universe: G1, pre-Earth
Warnings: Very short, drabble sized even, but sweet enough to induce cavities. Read at your own risk.
Summer: In which Elita demonstrates the vital skill of multi-tasking that all leaders must have.
Most people (well, most species actually) wouldn't be able to comprehend how a war could last for 5,000,000+ years none stop at an almost stalemate. Then again, most species, once they took an actual look at the history of the war, wouldn't have categorized it as one long war, so much as a series of smaller battles. The Great War was characterized by a long stretch of quiet tie for about half a vorn, tops, followed by maybe another half vorn of frenti fighting, followed by another relatively quiet time while both sides licked their woulds and MEgatron came up with his next Big Plan. This was probably the biggest reason for the longevity for the war, really.
This is not to say either side was idle during this time. The lull periods were a time when espionage and preparations were at their peak as everyone readied for the next battle.
Of course, all the intelligence gathering, preparations, supply runs/thefts, and weapon developments made for lots of reports that were absolutely vital for the command staff to be updated on…or so Elita inferred from the daunting tower of data pads on the desk, nearly all marked "URGENT!"
Of course they were all urgent. If they weren't, somone lower on the chain would have taken care of it by now.
Elita covered her optics with one hand, counted to five, wished very very hard, and open her optics again. Nope, the reports were all still there, and if anything the pile looked a little bit bigger.
"I swear that thing is alive. It's the only way it can keep growing every time I turn around," she muttered. With a sign, Elita picked a datapad at random and returned to her berth, where her pillow and a cube of mid-grade energon were waiting for her. If she was going to be stuck for the next few joors reading these things, then she was going to be comfortable for it.
Settling into her comfy place, Elita scanned over her chosen reading material. To her joy, she had picked up something from Jazz, probably about his most recent mission. While he tended to wander a bit in his writings and almost seemed to be writing as he was thinking (leading to the most unusual tangents in the middle of his briefings), at least his reports weren't as dry as Prowl or as meticulously, mind-numbingly detailed as Red Alerts. Though to be fair, both of their reports were probably going to be a lot shorter; Jazz's mission had lasted for nearly three orns and had been unexpectedly fruitful. The data pad had enough data to fill a small book file, really.
It probably would have become a best seller too, Elita noted, already getting drawn into Jazz's colorful and occasionally bizarre adventure. She had a good laugh now and then.
Snuggling a bit deeper into her nice warm pillow, she scrolled down to the next page.
"Go back a little, I wasn't done reading." Her pillow protested.
"I wasn't aware you were such a slow reader," she teased.
"I'm not slow, just careful," her pillow insisted. "I like to absorb what I'm reading, not just try to get through as fast as I can, thank you very much."
Elita rolled her optics in fake exasperation, but complied and went back a little so Optimus could finish reading over her shoulder.
Currently, the Prime had his back to the wall, and Elita's back against his chest, with his arms around her waist and the femme sitting between his legs, reading the data pad she held high in her hands over her head. True, he could have gotten his own data pad, but that wouldn't have been nearly as nice, and what with how busy they've both been recently, they were dead set on squeezing in some time together outside of war meetings.
Multi-tasking was a vital skill for all leaders, even if it was something as simple as squeezing in reading reports and the all important cuddle time.
AN: The idea came to be after I saw a certain picture on deviantart, done by Ty-chou (check it out at http:// ty-chou. deviantart. com /art /TF- Multitasking - 112823293, and be sure to remove the spaces when you copy and paste the address).
And don't forget, dear, readers, I need femmes! :)
