"Jazz !?" Ratchet asked. "Need help on getting a girl?"
"It depends on who ta' girl is? Which brings me to my next question. Who?" The silver mech replied.
"Oh, Was hoping you wouldn't ask that question." The medic was not the kind of mech to show his kindness for anyone. He add. "Don't laugh alright."
Jazz snapped. "Oh, for the love of Primus. I won't."
"It's Erin." Ratchet said embarrassed a little by it.
"Ya' a' joking right? Cuz if your are then I fell for your joke." Jazz viser widened and he was about to laugh when he reminded himself not too.
Ratchet didn't answer. So Jazz took the time to go over the information that his friend told him. "Oh, Okay. How did you asked her?" Jazz asked. Trying not to dig himself deeper than he already did.
"It's not how I asked her. I... kind of... ran into her. It was by accident, it's, you know what I'm talking about Jazz." The medic stated.
"Ya, I do know what you talking about. Okay let's see if you can try again tomorrow with some of Jazz's help." Jazz said in a confident voice to his friend.
Erin was up at five because she had to cleaned stalls out and at Will's place too. Walking out to the barn Erin decides that she had a little time to ride Rain for abit. Saddling Rain up, she walks her horse in the direction of the arena. Getting up on the back of Rain she sensed that something was going to go wrong. Putting it off she, never imagined that she would end up on the ground with a broken knee and a few broken ribs.
Rain started to kick up her heels. Losing her footing in one of the stirrups, she fell off with her left foot stuck in the stirrup. Erin was fearing the worst for herself. When she thought that she was going to get killed, her foot came out of the stirrup and she landed in the dirt. Limp, not moving. the fall knocked the wind out of her. Hearing the beating of Rain's hooves made Erin think about her sister, Kyra and older brother, Ryan.
It was a good two hours before someone found Erin. She was still able to move, but it hurt every time she tried. Will began to worry that Erin had forgot to come, so he walked down to her place. Reaching the top of the hill he noticed that Jazz and Ratchet were there. Quickly Will runs down the hill towards Erin's place. Walking up closer he didn't like the fact that they were all heading inside the arena. Peering through one of the gates that made arena, Will sees Erin laying in the dirt.
"This isn't good, my friend to my daughter, a soldier to me, friends to my whole NEST team." Will said to himself and Ratchet heard what Will had to say about Erin.
Jazz looked up from where he was standing to see four vehicles pulling into the driveway and driving towards him and Ratchet.
Will started to wonder Why, would Erin ride Rain when, she knew that paint horse wasn't even trained to be a calf roping horse just yet, but yet she almost knew that something was going to happen to her when she rode Rain two days ago. Shaking his head in disbelief Will walks over to the four Autobots.
"What happened Will?" Optimus asked him. Will looks back over his shoulder at Erin who was crying out in pain that looked to be coming from her knee, but he also had to guess that it was a few ribs that got broken during the accident.
"Will?" It was Jazz that shouted his name. Will looks over from Erin to Jazz that was already by the gate. "Ya, What?" Will managed to say to Jazz.
"Wondering about Erin aren't ya' ?" Jazz asked.
"I am. So what'a happened, here?" Will asked.
"Well, by the looks when we got here. I had to say she's been there 'bout two hours, waiting for someone to come. Here's ta' story that I figure what happened. Riding Rain around ts' mare kicks up her heels out ta' blue. Erin lost her balance. Foot caught in one of ta' stirrups. Tried to stop Rain but ta' mare didn't. So she ended up breaking her leg and got three broken ribs. Somehow her foot came loose. Lands in the dirt, right where she's at now. That ta' paint horse has ta' go, Will. You need to talk to her about tha'. If ya' know what I mean here." Jazz said.
"I get your picture." Will said to him. "How's the the other guy doing?"
Jazz was leaning up against the same gate as Will was and answers "He's taken a' hard hit. He's been a talking about tha' a girl. Wanted to just go a' out with her on what you human call a date."
"Your joking, right Jazz?" Ironhide holoform asked.
"NO!" Jazz shout back at the Weapon Specialist. This got Hide about ready for emergency shutdown.
Jazz laughs and so did Bee, while their leader shakes his helmet at the two of them.
Will climbs the gate and jumps the other side to go see how the medic was doing. Walking up to Ratchet and Erin, he could see that he was crying, but why, yeah he's in love with the girl, but that's not the side the medic likes to show to others.
It was three whole days that Erin was out. She suddenly wakes up in her room. Looking down at her left knee she noticed she had on a knee brace, no for the second time. The first time wasn't her fault it was someone elses. "Damn Rain. Son of a Bitch." Erin mumbled to herself.
So the months went slowly by, like a clock stuck in slow motion and her in fast forward. Ratchet yelling at her to take it nice an easy, but do you think a cowgirl like Erin would take an easy. No, she was able to walk, do chores, and other things. What she hates the most was Ratchet telling her she needs to have physical therapy. Like she was going to let him touch her after what happened between the two. That got old and well, Erin did have fun bugging her older sister, Kyra, that came home, only because she got a call from Will telling her what happened, also Ryan.
The first and last time Erin talked to her sister was when she was moving four hours away from her and for her brother, it was the same, but he moved out of state. For the three of them they've been talking over the phone with each other.
"Erin! What happened to you?" Kyra asked as she walks onto the porch where Erin was sitting with her knee brace on. The younger sibling glares at her older sister, then at her brother that was trying so hard not to burst out laugh at her.
"Don't want to talk about it rightnow!" Erin snapped at her two older siblings. Ryan walks up to Erin and sits down next to her. He pulls her into a hug and she shoves him away.
"Ryan, You try to hug me again, you're died, when I am at my best."
"Oh, Come on Erin. You're just jealous because you don't have a relationship with someone. Like me, and your sister."
"You can't expect me to find someone, when I'm busy working for Will. When I have the time I go to rodeos. Do you, Ryan?" Erin said with some sarcasm in her voice.
"You know Erin. I think I know someone who asked you to go out on a date with you." Kyra throw that into the conversation with her and Ryan.
"Who?" Erin asked kind of having an idea of who it was.
"Well, He told me not to tell anyone and that includes you, Erin."
"Lets leave it be. Cuz I think Erin is going to kill us when she can finally walk." Ryan told his middle sister.
"Shut up! You're already in trouble. So dig yourselves in a deeper hole, why don't you. And for your information I can walk!" Erin added.
"I have a question? Where's Gunner?" Kyra asked without even knowing that their dog was sleeping under Erin's new truck that she bought.
"Is that a...What I think it is!" Ryan shouted in his little sister's ear. His sister looks at him and then back at the new GMC Sierra that she bought about three weeks before the Fourth of July and before the accident.
"I LOVE THIS TRUCK!" Ryan continued to shout as he ran towards his sister's truck. Erin looks at her sister and then at the white truck that had Gunner under it. Putting her hand up to her lips she whistled for her dog to come out.
Gunner knocked Ryan off his feet then to the ground. "GUNNER!" Ryan shouted at the german shepherd that just knocked him off his feet.
"Hey, girl!" Erin yelled at her dog. And as soon as Gunner heard Erin's voice she knocked her back on the porch floor. She licked the girl's face and then growled at Kyra.
"So she's still kicking." Kyra said.
"Yeah!" Her sister shouted.