So I have a new chapter for this story... Though for some reason V.P. kept coming out almost stalkerish in my head when I read this over after my muse spat it out... Oh well...
Has anyone else noticed that there isn't a Vector Prime tag in the character lists? So not fair...
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Chapter 2: 4, 5, 6
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Carnelian was feeling rather flustered and irritated. Could see it in the femme as her doorwings twitched in agitation, the rest of her frame tense as she glared over the data that was scrolling across her screen. She couldn't keep her mind set in one direction or the other.
She had received an order from her creators. They had found a suitor for her, and were pressuring her to return to Praxus. Her sense of duty to her family weighed heavily on her processor, conflicting with the minor part of her processor that wanted nothing more than to say no... But her apprenticeship here was nothing more than that... She was expected to return to the Recording Master for the Lord of Praxus, her time here was drawing to a close... But her spark wanted nothing more than to stay here, in the vibrant and noble city-state of Iacon... It wasn't nearly as beautiful as Praxus... But the rigid formality of Praxus didn't completely have it's hold on her here...
The feeling of being watched ran down her spinal strut. Flicking her wings she scanned the area and found with mild annoyance that every mech was paying attention only to their own business. It was the fifth time that metacycle. She cycled an intake before retraining her processor on her workload.
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"Ya feelin' okay Carny?"
"... I think I've got a glitch in my sensor panels.. " she sighed as she sipped from her cube. "I swear it's like someone's watching me all the time but my panels turn up nothing.."
"Maybeh ya shoul' go see a medic."
"My family won't allow me the credits to do so... Not since I ignored their request to return. As it is I'm worried they'll send my brother to come find me..." Then feeling of being watched was back. Carnelian glanced up in time to see a fading reflection in the dull metal of a familiar shape... her doorwings arched back sharply as she turned to glance behind her.
"Carnelian?"
"It's nothing..." she said quietly.
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Vector grit his denta as he stared over the cosmos, trying his hardest not to look back at that reality. He was finding it hard because every time he did he always found himself watching her. Not the surrounding events, not the causalities that would ensure both Unicron's and the Fallen's victory to dominate the planet... Worse yet she seemed to be spending more and more time with Orion Pax and his future mate Ariel. He just forced himself to look away once more...
The little femme was currently dinning with Orion and his friend Jazz... Who was currently trying to use his enigmatic charisma on the praxian with little to no luck... It actually warmed his spark when she had turned down the visored minibot. It was something foreign to him... it actually startled him out of his somewhat sorta stalking and back to his duty...
But even with his optics peering into the kaleidoscope of reality, his mind was elsewhere...
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Alpha Trion was smirking when the rift opened in the middle of his office. "Hello Brother."
Vector narrowed his optics at his brother's desk, there were two cubes of high grade setting out, one for each of them. "Brother."
"What ails you brother?"
"You tell me." Vector said taking seat across form his fellow prime.
"Hm... You seem distracted. Trouble among the cosmos? Or has another Cybertron perished?"
Vector sighed. "What does the Covenant say brother?"
Alpha Trion smiled his brother. "I am not sure if you want to know what it says."
"You realize I did warn you that I would take it the next time I returned here." Vector said as he sipped idly from the cube. "So just save me the time and tell me what it says."
"Two halves of one whole brother. You know full well when our father created us he made sure that there was a sparkmate for every spark."
Vector Prime stared at his brother for the longest time before draining his cube and standing. "I will return for the covenant at a later date. Until then brother."
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Carnelian sighed as she flexed her doorwings, her optics wondering skyward. For some reason she couldn't recharge... She vented a sigh as she turned away from the window, and once more prepared to cycle down for the night... the sensors in her doorwings tingled briefly once more earning an irritated growl as she spun around.. only to stare at the reflection in the window, nothing there as per the usual..
A weak smile at the possibility of her slowly losing her processors.. this was the last thing she needed right now... "If someone is watching me then please just show yourself... Before I completely believe I've lost my processors..." she muttered into the darkness of her room. She stood there for several breems before sighing once more and made her way to her berth.
