Chapter 4

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Rumble quietly watched Soundwave carefully crafted the latest of his gifts, this one an imitation of an organic flower of sorts made from the newest feathers that he had sent the cassetticons to retrieve.

Frenzy sighed as he leaned against his twin as he sat down on the berth next to him. :He's still at it..:

:It was funny about twenty notes ago. This, however worries me.: Rumble bit his lower lip. :I think he might really like the autotwit.:

:Yeah and I'm going to get fragged by Screamer.:

:I've seen the way that Birdbrain looks at your aft.: Rumble playfully shoved him.

:Maybe he's brooding.: Laserbeak cut in to their conversation, and the rough housing stopped as they stared at the tiny femme like she had grown a new head.

:No way.:

:Yeah that's not possible.:

Laserbeak shrugged and nestled up next to Ratbat. :I'm just saying that he could be brooding again. Maybe this time his spark won't be broken.:

Frenzy snorted. :The bot's an autobot. That alone is enough to get us all killed Laserbeak. I just hope he lets this go.:

:I remember the last time he got broody. It landed us here.:

Curiousity filtered through their bonds as Soundwave glanced over at his creations, each one turning back to pretending to do whatever and not gossiping about him.

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Soundwave pulled the delicate item out of his subspace and turned it in his fingers as he stared over the office trying to think of a place to stick the note. He didn't expect to be body slammed by the security director.

Red Alert pinned the taller mech to the wall, the sticky note slipping to the floor as Soundwave stared down at the fierce glare in the other mech's optics. They stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity to Soundwave.

"Why?"

The question caught him off guard as he blinked, his visor flickering.

"Why?!" Red Alert growled as he tried to fight the steadily brewing glitch that was threatening to point out that he was currently pinning one of the most dangerous mechs on either side of the war to the wall.

"Query: Why?"

"Damn you just tell me why you keep insist on driving me nuts with these pretend affections!"

Soundwave blinked again his field shifting from confusion to a muted pang of sadness as it retreated. "Red Alert: was lonely. Soundwave: lonely. Soundwave: wanted to make you smile."

Another stare down took over before Red Alert sighed, his frame relaxing his grip on the other mech easing. "Look just... go before the others come to check on me."

Soundwave stared down at the smaller mech for a few more brief moments before pulling the flower out of his subspace. Red Alert blinked from the flower to Soundwave before it was gently pushed into his hand as the host mech quickly made his way out of the room.

Red Alert was still staring at the empty door frame when Inferno and Ratchet came to check on him.