All Is Fair In Love And War.

For disclaimer, warnings, pairings, summary and legend, please refer to Chapter 1.

Chapter 2: Invisible Meteors

When my work day finally finished, I made my way towards my car and got into it, before feeling my phone vibrate in my pocket. I pulled it out and saw that I had a message from Robbie. A small smile made its way onto my face at the sight of his name and I quickly opened the message. My smile turned grin got even wider as I read the text and put my phone in my bag and headed towards my apartment. As soon as I got there, I noticed Robbie's beat up old banger on the side of the road and parked my car in the residents' parking lot, before hurrying up to my door, chuckling a little as I saw a note attached to it. Pulling the note off of the door, I opened it and made my way inside, hearing the shower on. I felt a huge smile stretch across my face as I dropped my bag and closed my door, taking my jacket off and beginning to unbutton my blouse, walking towards the bathroom. Taking my blouse off and unzipping my skirt and slipping my shoes off, I dropped my skirt and walked into my bathroom, unclasping my bra and dropping my panties, before climbing into the shower with Robbie.

"Hmmm... Hello there, beautiful." He said.

I giggled a little as he turned around and wrapped his arms around me, I did the same and leaned up to kiss him.

"Hello handsome. Taking showers in other people's apartments now are we?" I asked.

Robbie chuckled and kissed me again.

"I wanted to spend some time with you, that's all baby." He replied.

I pulled away from him and looked into his brown eyes, chuckling a little.

"You're going to be spending all week with me the week after next." I stated.

He gave me a look, raising an eyebrow.

"Have you asked your boss yet?" He questioned.

I shook my head.

"I didn't have time today Rob, we were all rushed off our feet and after lunch, we were all rushed off our feet again." I answered.

This made Robbie chuckle, he knew all about my job and what it really entailed and he often liked to make fun of the fact that I didn't really do much except sit at a computer and type almost all day.

"Rushed off your feet, sitting on a computer and typing?" He inquired.

I gave him a look and lightheartedly slapped his chest.

"You know what I mean" I chuckled.

Robbie nodded and kissed me again.

"I know what your boss is like. Has he told you who's going to replace him after he retires yet?" He asked.

I shook my head and leaned against him.

"No, but hopefully, whoever it is, will be much better than him." I said.

I felt Robbie chuckle and then he turned us around so that my back was against the warm spray of the water. I leaned my head back and Robbie began to wet my hair down, before reaching around me to grab something. I heard the lid of a bottle open and something squirt onto something else and then the bottle was closed. Then I felt Robbie's hands in my hair as he massaged the shampoo into my locks, I closed my eyes and reveled in the feeling of his fingers on my scalp.

"You're so tense." He said.

I felt him turn me around and then using my shampoo, he began to massage my shoulders. I felt the tension slowly melt away under his expert fingers. I leaned back against his body, closing my eyes again.

"I think you missed your calling, Robbie." I said.

Robbie chuckled and then I felt him reach around me to turn the shower off, instead putting the taps on and sitting down, motioning for me to sit between his legs, which I did and he continued to massage my shoulders, before his hands went back up to my head and hair. I heard a groan slip from my mouth, which made Robbie chuckle again and which made my brows furrow.

"Stop laughing, your job isn't as stressful as mine." I whined.

I felt Robbie reach off to the side and come back, filling something up and tipping it over my head, making sure to put his hand on front of my eyes so that I wouldn't get soapy water in them, before he filled the jug up again.

"Babe, your job isn't as stressful as mine. You just have a man yelling at you if you do something wrong, one man. If I do something wrong, I have the customer andmy boss yelling at me, putting me under more pressure to get everything right." he said.

When I thought about it, Robbie was right, he was under more pressure than what I was and his job wasmore stressful than what mine was and he wasn't all that stressed out about it. But then again, he had always been levelheaded, that was why I fell in love with him. Well, it was oneof the reasons I fell in love with him.

~AIFILAW~

After the shower turned bath, we both got out and I wrapped a towel around my body and my head, before heading towards the kitchen and opening the fridge, pulling out a carton of grape juice and pouring some into a glass. Bringing the glass up to my lips and taking a sip and opening one of the top cupboards and pulling out a packet of pills, I popped one out of the foil and swallowed it with some grape juice. I then felt a pair of lips on my neck and arms go around my waist. I chuckled and tilted my head towards the side, before turning around and pushing him away.

"I need to dry my hair." I whispered.

Robbie nodded, but pressed his lips to mine anyway.

"We can dry your hair later." he said.

He hoisted me up onto the counter and started kissing me with more passion. His hips found their way in between my legs as his arms went all around me and our kisses deepened with a bursting passion. An occasional moan escaped his soft lips as his hand went under my knee, bringing it up to his hip. I grinned beneath the kisses, but then I heard my phone ring. And it wasn't any ring, it was my boss's ringtone. Robbie stopped kissing me and I groaned. He looked up at me and went to kiss me again, but I pushed him off.

"I have to take this, he's liable to fire me if I don't take this call." I said.

Robbie furrowed his brow but stepped back anyway as I made my way over to my phone, picking it up and answering it as I headed towards my bedroom to get dressed. I started to gather my clothing, when I saw Robbie come into the room, he looked concerned, though I just continued to talk with my boss, eventually putting the phone down and slipping my jeans on.

"What was that about?" He asked.

I looked up at him as I found myself an old plaid blouse to put on.

"Apparently, there are some meteors entering our atmosphere and the boss wants me to go and check it out, get some pictures before any other paper can." I explained.

I looked up at Robbie as I did up my blouse, he didn't look impressed.

"You shouldn't be going out with wet hair Sal, you could catch something." He said.

I chuckled a little and reached up to kiss him.

"I'll be back in a bit babe, make yourself comfortable and for the love of god, please don't unblock that channel again." I said.

Robbie pressed his lips to my forehead and chuckled, nodding.

"I won't." He said.

As I was driving towards the destination my boss said the meteors would presumably land, I noticed five meteors with a fire trail behind them being pulled by the invisible force of gravity. But only one meteor landed in my vicinity and I felt excitement surge through my body. I've never seen a meteor crash before. But the force of the impact somehow turned off my car. I was still driving and although the engine stopped running, I waited for the car to stop rolling before I tried starting it up again. No use, the car was dead. Shit, now I had to have Robbie repair it and he already has more work on his hands than needed and I still needed to take pictures of that damned meteor.

As I got out of my car, I heard a sound of an engine rumbling speedily and I caught a glimpse of yellow on the car that sped right next to me, too close for comfort. I cursed mentally at the two young idiots that were driving it. I walked hurriedly towards the clearing, a rather large meadow with a bunch of hills on it and as I climbed up one hill, I managed to see a crater surrounded by fire. This must be where the meteor landed. It was a good thing I left the car with my camera, otherwise I would have had to go back to get it.

"It's over here!" A voice yelled.

I didn't know who the voice belonged to, so I ducked on the hill, careful not to step on a singed branch that would crack easily under my weight.

"No, it crashed in the tree-" Another voice rang.

I looked around, trying to find the source of the voices, but I couldn't see anyone.

"See Mikaela, I told you it was there!" The first voice called.

Once again I looked around, trying to find the source of the voices. I could hear footsteps coming close to me and I hid myself further, almost trying to will the ground to open up under me and swallow me.

"Okay Sam, fine." The second voice said.

They stepped into the clearing and looked down at the crater and I could see that it was a young man and a young woman. They just stood there, looking down at the crater, before I heard a sudden horn honk and the two teenagers whipped their heads back towards the source of the sound.

"That's him, we gotta go." The boy said.

I waited for the sounds to die out and only when I was completely sure that they were gone, I stood up from the ground, cleaning my clothes and taking out my camera. The fire from the crater was still here and as I turned on the camera, I thought I saw something move in the trees, but shook my head, thinking that the excitement of the moment was making me see things that weren't there. Once I was sure the camera was set, I lifted it up to my eye and took a picture, pulling the device away and looking at it, but all I could see were orange blobs which I figured were the fire. With a sigh, I played around with the camera a little and managed to put the flash on, before taking another picture and looking at that one...only to see that it wasn't very good at all. I sighed again.

"I guess I'll have to come back here tomorrow and get a decent picture." I muttered.

I turned around and trudged back to my dead car, throwing the camera into the front seat and pulling my phone out of my pocket, dialing the number I knew by heart.

"Robbie..."

~AIFILAW~

When morning came, I hurried out towards my car, which had been fixed by Robbie last night, and made my way onto the interstate, heading towards the clearing that the meteor had landed in to try and take some better quality pictures and please my boss. However, as I drove along the road, I had to quickly slam my foot on the brake pedal as I watched what appeared to be a giant robot, slice a bus in two with just its body. I put my hands in front of my mouth and unclipped my seat belt, getting out of my car and hurrying over to the flaming halves of the bus to see if anybody had survived. But there was no one that I could see. I turned sharply towards the interstate, to see another robot...transform from a Peterbilt truck. I felt my jaw hang open and hurried back over to my car, getting my camera and my phone, dialing 911 and looking around. After I'd finished the call I started to take photos of the scene for later. Hopefully this would be better than any meteor landing, although I felt sorry for the people in the bus, if there were any, because the flames made it hard to see.

Once I was done with that, I ran back to my car and headed into Mission City to deliver the photos to my boss. However, as I got into Mission City, it was like a bomb had gone off. Buildings were falling apart, people were running around as if fearing for their lives and I noticed that there were many vehicles around as well as leviathan robots. I felt my brows furrow in confusion, what in the name of God was happening here? Robots destroying the city, it had to be some publicity stunt or something. I stopped my car, watching as two different vehicles transformed and said something to the other humans, who then ran. But then the two robots were fired upon and one of them lost its legs. Out of sheer curiosity, even though my stomach was telling me to stay in the car, I unbuckled my seatbelt and opened my car door, stepping out with my camera in hand and closing the door. But it wasn't until then that I felt dust landing on my shoulders and a little bit going into my eyes. I put the camera around my neck and rubbed my eyes, before looking up, to see a large piece of building about to fall on me.

I screamed and froze up, just staring up at the wall that was falling and then I closed my eyes and put my arms over my head, waiting for the impact. An impact that never came. Slowly I uncovered my head and looked up to see the robot from the interstate holding the wall up. I looked up into its eyes, they were magnificently blue and glowing and I couldn't help but get lost in them, even just for a moment. The robot then pushed the wall back up and it fell the other way and then the robot was gone and my eyes fell forward, shocked and shaking in fear. I looked around, vaguely remembering that Robbie's garage was around here somewhere. I turned and ran away from my car, hiding around the corner, not seeing Robbie running down the road, obviously having heard the ruckus and coming out from the garage he worked at to see what was going on. I heard him call to me and just as I turned around, a giant black robot with red eyes landed on him with his foot, crushing him.

"NO!" I yelled.

In the back of my mind, I realized how picturesque I looked with my hand held out in front of me as if trying to reach out to Robbie and then I felt the tears running down my face. I felt myself falling and was minutely aware of the pain that sprang up from my knees as I landed on them and I wrapped my arms around myself, as if trying to hold myself together. The pain in my chest was unbearable, almost like I couldn't breathe, or I was trapped under the water and unable to surface for air.

"Robbie…" I whispered.

We were going to go on holiday the week after next, he was going to take me skiing, but now... now Robbie wasn't going to take me skiing, because he was dead. I kept telling myself that this wasn't real, that I would wake up in a minute and it would all just be a bad dream, but something in the back of my mind told me that this wasn't a bad dream and that it all was indeed real. I looked down to the ground as tears blurred my vision and then dropped to the floor, wetting the dust that had settled there, one drop after another fell off of my nose and onto the damp floor, before the tears stopped altogether and the sorrow and anguish turned to anger and I looked up at the red eyed robots with a hate so strong. Never had I hated anyone or anything before, let alone at the strength this hate was assaulting me. I reached out almost absentmindedly and upon taking little notice of the yellow and red robot that was about to be crushed by another big black robot with red eyes, I stood up and threw what was in my hand with a loud yell. The rock I'd thrown, satisfyingly striking the red eyed robot, right in one of its large...red...eyes, making it pull back with a pained yelp.

The sound of the yelp made me feel somewhat better and something inside me came to a startling conclusion. The red eyes robots wanted to destroy this place, but the blue eyed robots seemed to be protecting the humans around them. So without further ado, I grabbed as many rocks as I could and in my angry and sorrow stricken state, I began to throw the rocks at the one red eyed robot, feeling a little better with each clang the rocks made against the metal. Once I was out of rocks, the robot looked at me and I felt, more than heard, its angry growl and I just stood there, before running and finding a good place to hide. I ran over to a tight little alley and moved myself so that I was behind a dumpster, crouching down behind it and covering my head with my arms, trying to make myself as small as possible so that hopefully, I wouldn't get seen. As I crouched there, I let the tears run freely, trying to stifle my sobs as I did, but small hiccups kept escaping me.

~AIFILAW~

After the battle had finished, I found myself creeping out of my hiding place and looking around at the destruction that had been caused. The blue eyed robots were gathered and the one that had saved my life, was holding two halves of what appeared to be another robot and it was talking to the people in front of it. Then once the large robot had finished talking, the yellow and red one spoke.

"Optimus, the human female over there saved my life." It said.

The large red and blue robot turned its blue eyes towards me and I couldn't meet its eyes, the pain of having lost Robbie coming back tenfold. I vaguely heard it thank me, before the pain in my chest became too much and I fell to my knees on the side of the street and started sobbing loudly.

~AIFILAW~

A/N: Apologies for not updating sooner, there was so much going on and everything. I'm off on holiday in a few weeks so...I was busy trying to get everything ready for then and totally lost track of time. Again...my sincerest apologies. On a lighter note though, the second chapter is up and ready for your hungry eyes to feed upon. Big thanks to Ninnasims3 for all her help with this chapter, I got stuck a couple of times and she pointed me in the right direction, so again...HUGE thankees to her. I would also like to thank...

Bee4ever

For being my first reviewer. I hope you enjoy reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Thank you anyway and please enjoy.

Ratchet'sApprentice