Ratchet drove June back and forth from work for days while he worked on her car. She would sit on his work table and watch as he made modifications where he saw fit. She stopped talking to Optimus, and the Prime barely saw her.
Meanwhile, Jack and Miko were making jokes about how their relationship would work out. They saw this as a little one-time thing, but they didn't get that Ratchet was serious, and June was getting there.
Finally, June's car was fixed and the humans stared in awe at the newly repaired vehicle. It had been repainted with a paint that could change colors in the sun: from white to an icy-blue. The broken radio had been replaced with an updated version, the airbags had been repaired, the seats had been sewn back together...Jack could hardly recognize the car and he began to see Ratchet in a new light.
It was a Sunday night, which meant that Bulkhead and Arcee and Bumblebee were to take the humans back so they could sleep the recommended number of hours before school. June had asked Ratchet if she could stay a little longer.
The medic allowed her into his lab, setting her on her little area that he had cleared off on his table. He was ready to speak with her about his own past, and he wondered if she was ready to talk to him about hers.
He began first, telling her about the mate he had lost due to the war, telling her about his only son that he had held while he shuddered through his last moments of his life. He told her how Optimus drug him to his pedes and put him to work. He watched her blue eyes widen as he went on and he had begun to speak lower. She would move as close as she dared to hear him, and he would move his face closer so that she didn't have to move.
She began to tell her own story: Falling in love with a peer, finishing high school and college without incident, finding out she was pregnant months after her wedding, then waking up one day and finding he left her with a three-year-old boy. She had worked hard to put him through a good school, trying to make sure that he was growing up the way she hoped.
Ratchet touched her cheek with a digit, keeping her from losing her hold on her emotions. He still didn't know what to do with a crying human other than walking away and praying they stopped on their own. He bit his lip and he guided her into his servo. He wanted to try something. He pressed his mouth onto her head and she wrapped her arms around his face in the most awkward hug in history.
That was about the time that Optimus and Miko came in.
Miko's phone flashed.
And the picture of Ratchet and June was saved on her phone. There was no way she could be convinced to delete it.
Optimus smiled and he leaned against the doorway. "Such a precious couple you two will be. Just wait until I tell Jack about his new sire."
Ratchet looked at him. The Prime wasn't serious. He just liked to tease his friend like anyone else. To his amazement, Ratchet dismissed him with a shrug and he went back to focusing his attention on June.
"Primus," Optimus said as he backed out. "Mmm..."
Miko looked over at him. "What are you thinking about?"
"I am thinking that the size difference will be a major problem for this relationship, but I believe that I have a solution."
Miko leaned against his cheek as she scrolled through her photos. "Okay, Prime."
Optimus walked back to his personal computer and began researching.