"Human."

Chapter 2

"Adjusting to the situation."

#June's POV:

For a minute, I just stood there and watched him.

I never imagined what the Autobot leader would look like as a human, but if I did, this was probably what I would dream up.

Even in his lieing position on the floor, I could already say he's taller than me by a head or so.

Also, his muscles looked as if he could bench-press a car. Witch, if he was in his robotic body, would be totally possible.

I have to say, for a newly transformed robotic alien, he looked, as Miko would say, very hot.

And the small, raven-black beard decorating his chin, only added to the "hotness account".

Wow, I need to stop using those teenage words so much. I'm beginning to sound like Miko.

Though those words maybe inappropriate for an old woman such as I, but that the only way I can describe what I'm seeing right now.

I can almost imagine the hordes of fan-girls, banging on his doorstep, after just a couple of days spent in his new body.

"Uh…Miss Darby?" Optimus's voice, pulled me out of thought.

As I looked down to face him, I realized he was looking at me, with bright blue eyes sparkling with concern. Cursing myself under my breath, I blushed.

He must have caught me staring.

"You look…taller." He added after a minute.

I smiled. "You shrunk."

The Autobot leader blinked. "What?"

I gulped. He doesn't know?

Apparently…no, he didn't know.

His confused eyes, told me as much.

"Wait here for a minute." I said backing away, towards my house. "I'll be right back."

I added before disappearing, inside my home.

#Optimus's POV:

When my systems finally on-lined, I realized I was lieing on the ground.

For a minute or so, I had no idea where I was or how I got here. All I heard was a woman, asking me if I was alright.

Growling silently at the numbness I was feeling, I forced my optics to open. What greeted them was one of my human allies, Ms. Darby. Jackson's carrier or, as humans like to call them, his mother.

Her dark-brown eyes were sparkling with worry and concern, which I did not understand.

My fall couldn't be that great, it wasn't the first time I was blasted by one of Megatron's guns and my systems didn't detect any mayor injury.

So her concern was completely unneeded for, I was fine.

I knew he was expecting an answer so I forced words, to escape my parched throat.

"I'm fine Ms. Darby."

Apparently she did not recognize me at first, because as soon as she heard my voice, a sparkle of recognition flashed in her, beautiful dark-brown eyes.

What can I say? I always liked the colors of human eyes.

Unlike ours, every human has their unique colored irises. Not only purple, red or blue like in our case.

It always fascinated me on how Miko and Jack have dark-brown eyes, while Agent Fowler and Raphael have amber-brown. Even if they're all members of the same species.

Shaking my head slightly, I turn my attention back to Ms. Darby.

For reasons known to her and her alone, she was staring at me.

Or, if I want to be precise, at my face.

I cooked my head at that. Was something wrong with my face-plates?

As if to answer my un-told question, June Darby's own cheeks began blooming with, something I heard Miko call, "blush".

After a couple of minutes, her condition didn't change and I became concerned.

I never saw a human react to me that way.

They either looked up at me with faces showing shock, which had something to do with my size, during times outside of battle, or fear as they watched me clash with Decepticons on the battle field.

Even with all the wisdom of the Primes, I had no idea how to deal with a "blushing" human. Especially one that never reacted to me like that, despite seeing me before on a lot of occasions.

"Uh…Ms. Darby?" I asked, which seemed to pull her out of her trance, for she blinked a couple of times and turned away from me, "blushing" even more.

There was also one more fact that bothered me.

I was renowned for being the tallest Autobot in team Prime, and yet this, normally, small human managed to catch up to me somehow.

In my calculations I was still taller than she was by two human heads, but the lone fact that she was now taller than Ratchet and Bulkhead was unnerving, to say the least.

"You look…taller." I never knew humans could grow to such heights and I wondered if she could explain how that happened.

What she answered, made my spark skip a beat.

"You shrunk."

I blinked, letting that information sink in.

I…shrunk?!

By Primus, how did that happen?!

But that wasn't the only question that plagued my mind.

How am I supposed to fight Megatron like this?! Was next in line and truth to be told, it concerned me more than the previous one.

Ratchet told me about the time I believed, I was Orion Pax again. About how helpless the team was without me to lead them and take on the decepticon Leader. That even together, they couldn't bring Megatron to a standstill.

I fear that in my current condition, this situation will most likely be a repeat of that one.

Again June Darby's voice, pulled me out of thought.

"Wait here for a minute." She said backing away, towards her house I just realized was right behind her. "I'll be right back."

And she disappeared into the building, leaving me alone with my thoughts.

#June's POV:

I ran like crazy, towards my bedroom.

I knew I couldn't leave Prime alone for long in his condition, so I decided to go look through my ex-husband's clothes to see if there was something that could fit the humanized robot.

I frowned at the thought of Joe Darby.

The man my heart choose to love, against my better judgement.

We met back in high school, he was the class bad boy and I took up the role of 'class nerd'.

During one of my friend's parties we shared a conversation and he spiked my interest with his 'bad boy charm'.

That evening, I just knew we were meant to be.

That God pared us up together, so that I can make a good person out of him through understanding and love. That I could somehow cure him from alcoholism.

During the first years of your marriage, that plan seemed to work. He brought me a present every day after work, kissed me good bye whenever he left and never touched a bear bottle whenever I was around.

But like everything enjoyable, that lasted till the day Jack was born.

That's when I finally saw his true colors.

He was drunk that day, he came to see our son.

Immediately he realized that Jack bore, next to no resemblance to him.

Unlike the two of us, he had blonde hair and bright blue eyes.

He accused me for cheating on him, when he was on a longer ride in his semi-truck.

After that I threw him out of my house and asked for a divorce.

Luckily, it was granted to me almost immediately. The judges knew Joe and understood my request.

I shook the thoughts out of my head.

Now it wasn't the time, to be thinking about the past!

Growling at the "happy" memories that began swimming in my head, I opened Joe's old wardrobe in order to find something for a much taller Optimus Prime.

Ten minutes later, I found what I was looking for.

I was now holding a red T-shirt, blue skin jacket, red boxers, pair of white socks and jeans.

They might be a bit too small for the Autobot leader, but they will have to do.

With a sad sight, I left the room.

Completely missing the small yellow envelope, that was lieing on my desk.

JA107: Hi guys! Hope this chap satisfies you lot! Sorry if I messed up Optimus's POV, he's a very hard character to write. But I still love him 3. Anyway, thanks for the reviews! And don't worry, I'll write more soon! And remember! The more reviews, the longer the chapter!

Ciao for now!