Camellia's POV:

Dinner had passed by without any further hassles and apart from the order mix up we had, I suppose I couldn't really complain about the rest of the evening.

Having put the girls to bed I had curled up on the couch with a mug of hot chocolate to watch some random movie that was on TV. I could hear Mark in the office talking to Holly about their plans to move to New York. Admittedly I wasn't pleased about them being so far away, though, I didn't really have a say in the matter. I knew that the city was a harsh place to raise a child… another one of my many mistakes, the ones I had learnt from.

"Okay baby, I'll talk to you tomorrow. Good night, I love you," Mark said, his hushed tones still echoing through my small house. I heard him step out from the office and make his way towards me.

From a glance I could see he wore a smug smirk as though the world was at his command… he stopped. "You haven't done that since before he disappeared."

Silence rang in my ears.

"You seriously can't be feeling something for him after what he put you through?" the tone he spoke with was almost accusing, "The arsehole left you! After that day I vowed I would never let him set foot near you ever again."

I tore my eyes away from the television screen as they began to burn with fury, "Yeah? Well what a great job you did. Whether you realise it or not he just accomplished that, without so much as a damn spiteful word outta your mouth!" I growled, "Look Mark I know you're my big brother and all though I'm not 2 years old anymore. I had to grow up a long time ago and whether or not you accept it, Rosalina is part Benjamin's too. He knows. He brought it up for crying out loud! What is it that you think he'll do Mark? Demand full custody and take my baby away? That's not like Benjamin."

Mark's anger flared, "How do you know what the man's like? He dropped off the face of the freaking planet for five years then out of the blue almost hits you in his car! Cam don't be naïve, people change."

I pinched the bridge of my nose out of habit as I calmed myself, "I do not wish to fight you. Mark, you are the only support I have. I need you, but not while you're acting like this. I'm going to bed… maybe you should too."

With that I stood and hurried out of the lounge room and up the stairs leaving Mark to himself and my worries of today as yesterdays.


Sam's POV

"Today's the big day, Mr Sam Save-the-day moves in!" Wheelie announced rolling through the now empty hallway of my old apartment we had lived in for the past month since I finished College.

I turned, a warning look plastered on my face, "Get in the box."

He grumbled away for a little while before making his way to the last box remaining which sat at the door, "I can't believe Bee ditched me the one time I needed him to give me a hand."

"We ain't at your beck and call you glitch head," Brains growled almost.

I rolled my eyes, "Whatever. Where is he anyway, what's he doing?" Both the midget bots shrugged.

"I said it once, I said it a million times," Wheelie stated, "No one tells us nothing."

Just my luck I get stuck with two midget pains in the arse. Flying down the flight of steps and out the main entrance I worked on stacking the last box into the back seat of my new car.

"What a piece of crap…" Wheelie commented.

I growled defensively, "It was a collector's item." The two Autobots shared a look as I pulled onto the road.

Bee's POV

The highway stretched out before me, shrinking into the west the line guiding me away from Tranquility. The moon shone brightly in the sky above me as I sped across the countryside . The little girl, her eyes a glorious blue colour darker than my own though still held light to her link to me. Her dark brown curls with honey blonde highlights, her angelic face and a smile that replicated her mother's.

I pushed myself to go faster, harder, as a distraction from the situation I had now stumbled upon.

:Optimus to Bumblebee we're about an hour behind you and closing. Is the energon signal getting stronger?: Optimus' voice filled my head.

:Yeah. Its growing, the energon signal is growing: I replied.

:You okay Bee?: Ironhide interrupted.

:Huh? Yeah, why?: I wondered.

The twins sniggered with laughter :He's losing it.:

It took me a minute to realise what they had said :WHAT? I'm concentrating!:

Optimus silenced everyone. :Stay alert. There are decepticons nearby!:

The sound of shifting metal drew my processor out of its haze.

"Autoscum detected," Soundwave's monotonous voice called.

I transformed. My body instinctively landed in a defensive position.

Soundwave smirked evilly, "I never came to hunt you bug, as much as I would like to. Just thought I'd give you a heads up, that little rodent of yours, you better watch out. Megatron's preparing for a marvellous game of… what do the fleshlings call it, hide and seek?"

My engine rumbled defensively, "Leave them alone."

Soundwave smirked, "Don't tell me. I'm just the messenger." With that he shifted back to his alternate mode and sped off into the distance.