*** Chapter Two ***
The Morning After
The two lay in the other arms just enjoying the moment before Naru yawned tiredly.
"Hope you don't mind,but I need some sleep have a meeting early in the morning." The sleepy slur to her voice made him smile. She, designated Naru was adorable.
He sat up for a second and reached to the foot of the bed and pulled up the discard and very rumpled bedding to cover themselves with. After he got them back into a comfortable position with the tired pliant female he hugged her tightly to himself.
Orion's baritone voiced murmured in the quite of the room, "sleep love we can talk later." With that he held her a little more closely offering what comfort and heat he could to the naked woman in his arms.
The morning came too quickly to the cybertronian and he prayed to Primus for just a few more hours of recharge. But he couldn't go back to sleep for the sun shone brightly from behind the same curtains he saw last night framing the beauty he had slept with.
He closed his optics in thought already knowing why he woke up. Her side of the bed was cold.
She had vacated the bed and was from the sounds resonating around in her condo she was singing terribly off key in the shower, if the sound of running water was anything to go by.
Orion/Optimus had to smile at that. She his unheralded intended was an interesting creature, that was for sure. He winced, when she tried to hit a high note and failed horribly from the sounds of it. He wouldn't trade her for the All-spark/or for anything else just as precious.
He knew nothing would make him go back to bed now. He had a feeling that Naru was in a bit of a hurry to get to her work meeting she had mentioned last night.
Now the delima came up should he get dressed and just leave, leave his number on a convient place for her to find. Should he go take a shower with her, even knowing she had stuff to do? He had never had this kind of trouble on Cbyertron. Courting human females was so much harder, then the femms on Cybertron.
Hearing the water turn off he sat up in the bed with the typical morning wood of the average male but he unfortunately had a raging semi and the irony wasn't lost on him.
He snorted a snickering laugh back at all the semi jokes his allies had found online for their amused teasing of the Boss-Bot as they called him in the early days to break the Ice with the Autobots.
Unfortunately his crew liked it so much they even got in on it as well. He punished Epps and Fig appropriately at the anarchy they had single handed conveniently wrought up themselves. The Twins Tour for TWO Weeks.
The wrecker brothers couldn't be happier with their new toys to torture. What they found they were all suppressed under the heel of their commanders and untied their efforts of being pains in the asses to all personnel on the base regardless of rank.
He had gotten chewed out for that. The American Brass wasn't one to mince words and
Now that he thought about it, wasn't a bad solution overall. And He decided that would be their punishment for now on. Secretly he was giving them to Ratchet cause they made him want to glitch and offline himself to get away from their irritating behavior.
He didn't even realize he had lapsed into memory of his teams earlier integrating with the N.E.S.T. Personnel when they first sought refuge on this blue alien planet.
He looked up to the blonde woman and smiled when their eyes met again.
"Hello beautiful," He pulled her closed and tilted his head back to receive a kiss from Naru.
"Hey handsome. The shower is open if you want to use it." She said gesturing to the vacated hall way and the wide open doorway to the bathroom.
Pulling back from her lips he decided to stand up instead and pulled her close to himself again for a deeper kiss.
Pulling back from her intoxicating touch he said with resignation, "sorry love, but I have to go pick up a trailer for a long haul to New York in just a little while." He said making up a lie on the spot that sounded plausible.
"Ah too bad, I would like to have you over again. I am not of those hoes. I just don't jump into a bed with a strange man no matter how sexy he is. You were an unexpected spontaneous decision I am glad I made at the spur of the moment." She had her arms warped around his waist and was looking up into the much taller man's face and into those blue eyes that were just criminal.
He smiled back at her and said, "good when our schedules clear out sometime soon, I would like to see you in a more permanent position in my life." He asked her with all the confidence he could project but not feel due to nerves ever afraid of the rejection.
"Are you asking me to be your girl friend, Orion Pax?" She said with her usual teasing lilt in her voice he was quickly becoming accustomed to hearing.
"Only If that is what you desire as well?" The question hung out in the open between them creating a moment of stress before Naru burst out laughing.
"Duh, stupid! I would love to be your girlfriend." She broke the tension that his question had opened a slight rift between them.
He breathed a sigh of relief letting the tension melt from his posture.
"But let's take this slow, I am not planning to go anywhere any time soon. And we sort of did this backwards. So let us take this slow and get to know one another better. That sound Okay to you?" She presented her statement to the disguise wearing Hologram mech.
"Yes that sounds satisfactory." He pulled back from the female an asked a wonderful question.
"Do you know where I put my clothes?" Orion acted a bit embarrassed, his playacting was improving he noticed. Trying to blend in like the average human male was harder then he thought it would be.
"Yeah,we were a bit distracted last night." Naru rhetorically asked the hologram-ed man and continued saying, "You dropped your drawers somewhere at the end of the bed." She smirked over her shoulder at the man that began to look on the floor by the foot of the bed.
She dropped her towel and walked into her master closet grabbed the remote and selected her outfit for the day.
A golden ivory creme silk top with a v-neck, ¾ length sleeves with ruffles around the neck and arm openings edged in black velvet seams. The dress was a black velvet knee length skirt that hugged her every curve with smart looking matching black velvet four inch heels. She finished her look off with deep red lipstick smokey eyes and a odd single green gem necklace with a platinum chain holding it aloft against her breastbone.
After she deemed herself fit to step into public, she walked out of her closet and saw that her one night stand had sat himself down upon the customized Orange damask duvet.
"Are you ready to go?" Naru asked Orion. "Yes. Do you want me to take you to work?" he asked his girlfriend. He was raised as a gentle bot after all.
Naru continued smiling at the man before her and said, "naw, you go on a head I will see you some time later." The statement sounded more like a question but he responded in kind, "Yes that would be most agreeable. Would you mind putting in your phone number into my phone so that I may reach you later?" He said as he handed the device over to his new female and said in that endearing way only a man that had just found love could sound, both timid and embarrassed and a bit shy. he knew that he came off a bit dorky he didn't mind. Orion's female never stopped smiling. Naru gently took the phone into her nimble slender hand and began typing the number into the device the way only the techno gifted could achieve.
She would have made a good receptionist he thought with how fast she input the data into the little phone he had gotten from the N.E.S.T. Supplies Officer a few months back.
He pondered how in the name of Primus was he suppose to use the tiny device he had been given. Orion immediately sent the query down the comm link to his auto bot command team. They too were amused and not at the same time about the little communications flip phone. They all agreed to carry it just encase there ever was any such emergency to actually require them to be needed. It was quietly said on only autobot comm channels that it was really a tracking device from the scans they had all done upon receiving them. Any present was to be of suspicious nature until proven otherwise, was his direct command down the comm link. They all agreed, mostly because decepticons had tried and done this to them before. They were not foolish enough to totally accept the humans as whole race full of docile and some times harmless creatures. They were cunning little devious sneaks and had to be watched and regarded as suspicious at all times. But the relationship of the American commander and chief and the Autobots was a parasitic symbiotic relationship and they both knew it. They all had good enough manners to not comment on it.
Snapping out of of his memory banks he came back to what she was saying with a dumb look on his hologram's face. "I'm sorry can you repeat that."
She gave him a tired sigh and just gave him back his phone and said with a put upon playful way very much exaggerated mien with body language alone, "I said, do you mind getting up. I have to lock up the house so I can go to work. You know that place that gives you money for working like a mindless drone for 10 hours a day for crap pay and even crappier retirement plans. And I mean don't get me started about the health care plans!" Naru pulled the much taller man from her duvet and began pushing him out of her condo in a purely humorous way.
"Oh come on," he responded to the femm pushing him playfully on his back out her front door. "Don't you just love getting that pay check at the end of another horrible week and thinking about all the fun things you can do with that money?" Orion playfully bantered back to her over joyed at how easy it was to provoking a reaction from his femm. She was ever so humorous with how outlandish she exaggerated her motions with her whole body to describe how utterly horrible work was for her. Going so far as to say it was inhumane and describing it as volunteer enslavement to the man for the unwashed masses.
She nimbly side stepped the broken vase and its contents of crushed half dead daisies and continued down the hallway and out the door the whole way talking about work until the stepped over her door's threshold.
She turned around and looked into the entry at the little in-table before she recalled she had quickly threw her purse there sometime last night. The memory was sketchy at best since it was full of what they were doing at that time and place and not to where she had dropped her purse.
Naru was very much relieved to see that her purse was still there. The small suede leather Louie Vuitton had not been damaged as she had originally suspected.
Her sigh at the sight of the bag made the mech wonder what she was thinking about.
The blonde woman stepped back into her home and picked up her bag she turned to her new boyfriend and said as she was stepping back over the threshold and turning back to locking her beautiful stained glass door. "Call me some time after six OK, I usually get off work by then, unless something comes up." her blue eyes locked back onto the aliens hologram's form and smiled as she stepped into her personal space and pulled him down for a quick peck on the lips. She turned and smoothly went around his still form and down her steps to the sidewalk and began her walk to work.
He finally turned around to watch as she disappeared down the side walk and around the corner of a building and out of sight.
He gave himself a good mental slap in the face plates and a good sock in the dentas for good measure to make sure he had gotten rid of the stupid besotted expression he knew his hologram's form was displaying.
It was just too unseemly to go back to base with that expression, he was a leader and had to start acting like it.
He walked over to his truck form and got in before the windows tinted, he noticed a little yello piece of paper under his windshield wipers blade wondering how he hadn't felt some one so near to his truck form.
He undid his seat belt and opened the cab door before he reached around to his windshield's wiper blade and pried the offending piece of paper off it.
This was some sort of alternate reality he suspected as he kept staring at the yellow slip of paper.
It said. "250 dollar fine for the illegal parking of a bob-tailed Semi in a residential area and was to appear in court if he wanted to contest the fine or to go to the local police installation to pay the fine. Signed Officer B.R. Cade"
The utter ridiculousness of this was processor glitching stupid. Oh he knew what what he was going to do to Officer B.R. Cade when he saw him next! Oh yeah! There would be one less decepticon that was for sure!
He grumbled as he got back in his cab and started the engine the windows tinted as it turned over in the early morning light and he looked one last time at the place he had spent his first time with a native, he could now be classified as a Zeno-lover. He shrugged his shoulder's and his hologram's form shimmer out of existence as he pulled out of the parking space he had double parked on and got back on his way back to the hangar. Oh he knew the others were waiting on him to arrive if the number of flashing missed messages in his receiving folder was anything to go on. He both drove down the highway and looked at the messages as he went.
He almost drove off the highway and rear ended some one when he looked back at the message. It was just to impossible to happen. No he had to get back to base now. So he pressed down on the gas and made it to the hangar in record time.
The screeching of his brakes as he glided into the massive hanger and the quick metal and whirling of spinning of gears as he transformed he didn't even brake his stride as he went to his most trusted friend in the med bay.
"Is it true?" Was all he got to say before the lemon and neon green search and rescue vehicle also clicked himself back into his biped form and answered back in that rough matter of fact way he was so well know to have and answered.
"Optimus you might want to look at all the data before making any decisions that could effect us."
"How can this be?" Was the simple question that had a thousand other meanings between them.
"I have never seen this happen before." Was the medics stunned answer.
"There was a eregon spike and we quickly made our way to the location of the spike and this is what we were greeted to." Was all the gruff intellectual medic could tell the Prime still on the verge of glitching and being offline from the sheer illogical sight before his optics.
There right in the middle of the hangar was the living bodies of both his senior weapon specialist and his first lieutenant saboteur, Jazz.
His attention was pulled from both their resting bodies to the shining silver orb that rested so innocently betwixt their prone forms.
"What is that?" Prime said as he pulled himself away from his C.M.O.
It only took two strides for him to reach the strange device that was found between the bodies of both his friends.