Meh, I have no reason other than filling out my table to have written this piece. I like it but it needs something more.
"Wait! Whad'ya say," Demolisher asked, proving that Cybertronian could indeed sound breathless even with the absence of organic lungs.
"I-I'm sorry Demolisher," squeaked Scalpel, dropping the Transformer -sized Rubik's Cube Swindle had somehow acquired last week and looking as apologetic as possible. The shock in Demolisher's voice sounded more like anger in her mind.
"No, I'm not mad at you," he quickly amended, still sounding every bit as surprised as he accurately felt, "but I just want you to repeat what you just said."
"Umm," Scalpel trailed off uncertainly and turning to face her more permanent of caretakers; seeing the look of shock left her feeling more nervous but lately the youngling had been feeling more bold than before. In fact, ever since being captured by the Decepticons she'd noticed a few changes within herself, so she decided to just say it and get whatever was coming to her.
"Well," Demolisher coaxed, bringing her out of her thoughts, "c'mon, I'm not gonna punish you or anything, just say it."
Mumbling Scalpel repeated her earlier words. "I called you Dad." Then she prepared to receive the scathing laughter more in character to Starscream or hear and feel the tell-tale signs of plots of manipulation for future purposes like Barricade so often thought. When she stopped looking at her twiddling thumbs she saw the familiar "surfing the Information Superhighway" look on his face.
He doesn't know what a dad is? Well he really isn't s'posed to like human stuff so I guess he wouldn't know a human word.
The definition floated before Demolisher's optics and he read over it carefully. What he found confused him but then he looked up the word "father" and he found himself once again breathless.
Father – noun 1. male parent 2. founder; creator
There was more to the definition after that but he saw no reason to read any further than creator. Touched was the least of the emotional words that could describe how the tank felt.
I know that the prompt is Parents but I don't think Scalpel considers anyone but Demolisher a parent in this ficlet.