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Chapter 4
Ironhide just looked at Bumblebee with his jaw hanging. He couldn't believe that what he had just been told was the reason why Bumblebee had never gotten any mail.
"You mean to tell me that you just up and ran away from home when you where only a first framer?" Ironhide asked still not believing what the yellow minibot had told him.
"Yeah. After the last fight I had with my father I just couldn't take being there anymore. So I packed up what little I had and left and never looked back." Bumblebee said as he leaned against the wall making sure to keep the data pad close to his chassis.
"What's the deal with the data pad?" Ironhide asked seeing the look of fear in Bumblebee's optics.
"It's just something that I took with me when I left home." The minibot replied before slipping the data pad back into subspace before Ironhide got a look at it.
Ironhide was curious as to what was on the pad but didn't push the matter any more for he knew that Bumblebee would tell him when he was ready to. He was just having a hard time dealing with the fact that Bumblebee was abused when he was growing up. Granted he never was hit but there was more than one way to abuse someone. In Bumblebee's case he was abused by a father who never paid any attention to him growing up.
Ironhide felt ashamed of himself at the way he teased and treated Bumblebee in Boot camp. He teased his fellow Autobot because he didn't get any mail and said some pretty horrible things to him. He remember that not once did Bumblebee ever resort about being tease about the mail situation. Ironhide figured that Bumblebee was glad that he got any form of attention from anyone.
"Did you ever receive any kind of attention from any one living in your house?"
"To me my brother was the only family that I had along with a few others but that was about it There was this one time I remember when I was very young and had just come home from school and had gotten an A on my test and wanted to show my father. I ran into the living room to show him and he told me to get out and that he was busy and couldn't be disturbed. I could remember running up to my room and crying my optics out. My brother came in and just held me as I cried. When I was done crying he took my test and put it in a book that held my other homework that I had scored good on. My older brother was always there for me. He was the one that would hold me when I had a nightmare or had a bad day at school." Bumblebee told Ironhide with tears threatening to fall as he thought of his loving brother.
"Have you ever thought of contacting him and telling him that you are alright?" Ironhide asked. He was sure with how close Bumblebee was to his older brother that he must have try to contact him.
"I have a few times before when I sold energon on the streets to survive." Bumblebee said leaning his head against the wall.
Once again Ironhide's jaw hit the floor. Bumblebee sold energon just to be able to eat. How in the world did he get enough credits for the application fees for Boot Camp? That was another thing that Ironhide remembered about Bumblebee was the canteen. The only times Bumblebee would eat was what they were given breakfast, lunch or dinner. Not once did Ironhide see Bumblebee at the canteen getting some snacks or energon goodies. Was Bumblebee really that poor that he couldn't even afford one energon goodie which was only a credit.
"Hey it wasn't that bad when I sold energon for the vendors. I got to know a lot of bots and they helped me get into Boot Camp." The minibot told Ironhide when he saw the look on the red Elite Guard's face. "I went hungry a few time but I could do whatever I wanted to do with anyone telling me what to do."
Ironhide still had his jaw down. Bumblebee the annoyance of Boot Camp had never Bumblebee had to raise himself and went hungry sometimes.
Ironhide felt the need to purge his tanks at that idea. Could the way that Bumblebee acted just a ruse to hide the pain that the minibot kept hidden deep inside?
Ironhide was about to say something but heard the steel doors open behind him.
"Are you two alright?" Optimus asked as he and Bulkhead pushed the doors open to allow the two trapped Autobots to walk out of the room that they had been in for almost three megacycles.
"Yeah just a little hungry Boss bot." Bumblebee said with a smile on his face.
Ironhide frown at the sight of Bumblebee putting on his airs for everyone. It appeared that none of the yellow minibot's team knew about his past. As much as Ironhide wanted to tell Rodimus what Bumblebee had told him, he knew that he couldn't as Bumblebee was just now starting to trust him. He didn't want to ruin that trust.
As he was leaving the room Ironhide saw Bumblebee's data pad on the floor. Bumblebee must've dropped it when they were talking earlier. Not wanting to make a scene for Bumblebee Ironhide quickly reached down and picked up the data pad and put into his subspace pocket but not before he got a look at the what was on it.
On the data pad was a picture of a young smiling purple and yellow femme sitting on the lap of a slightly older red and orange mech. There was something familiar about the mech but Ironhide just couldn't place it. Why was Bumblebee looking at this and why did he have it. That was another mystery that Ironhide had to solve.
Next chapter Ironhide tries to figure out who the bots in the picture are and what they have to do with Bumblebee.
Kudos to anyone that can figure out who the red and orange mech in the picture is.
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