You guys must be good luck or something I don't know. However I did great on all my finals! So since I'm in such an awesome mood I decided I would update with another chapter.

This is just a quick note on my writing. I am dyslexic and it is hard for me to notice spelling or missing words while I'm proof reading my work. So I apologize to those who are slightly annoyed due to the typos. (I have gotten better at noticing things as I've gotten older but it still affects my writing abilities.) Luckily one of my friends has offered to proof read my stories so hopefully my stories will have fewer errors as we progress.

Also some of you have asked how the story will progress. I will be going past DotM and taking out and adding some other characters (OC's are NOT major in the plot). Besides that I hope to put a new twist on Sam's interaction with the Allspark and the other Autobots (new and old). If you guys have any ideas or think it would be cool to add something to the plot don't be afraid to drop a review with your suggestion. I'm writing this story hopefully to everyone's satisfaction.

Also any slash that may occur in Love in Reverse will be later in the story. Probably after the Mission City battle. I like to have a diverse plot before introducing any deeper relationships. I want this story to be realistic or as realistic as it can be with Autobots, Decepticons, and Ancient Primes.

So I hope you enjoy this new chapter!

Warnings: Violence, Insanity, Cursing.

~Loaded~

A couple of days had passed since Sam had come into contact with the Autobots and as each day passed Sam began to worry more. He was missing school, his parents had to be emotional wrecks, and Sector Seven didn't make him feel any safer with going outside. Jazz had told him the other day that he was on the news as missing and a large reward was being offered for his return. Sam was only able to go out once with Bumblebee to get some supplies and a few pairs of clothing. Luckily his wallet was in his backpack. Even going out then was risky because Optimus had the feeling that they were definitely being searched for extensively. Sam had bought a black sweatshirt with a hoodie some jeans and a shirt with some deodorant since there wasn't any running water at the ware house, he didn't want to smell.

Sam wasn't super comfortable in the drafty building but he made the most of it. He had found an old tarp that he was going to use as a blanket until Ratchet went on about how dirty the sheet was and how it could make him sick. So it had been arranged that Sam sleep at night in either Sideswipes or Sunstreakers alt mode. When Sam slept in Sideswipe the first night he felt bad as well as super awkward. He was basically using a giant alien robot as a bed not to mention that Sideswipe tried to keep the cab warm for him occasionally changing the station to soothing music when Sam thrashed in his sleep or whined. Without Sam knowing Sideswipe had spoken to Ratchet about how he was sleeping. Ratchet informed him that Sam was having nightmares something no one in their species can experience. Ratchet told Sideswipe to try to keep Sam comfortable in his sleep as well as Sunstreaker and if it got worse to wake him up gently. Ratchet theorized that Sam's brain was trying to make reason out of his rear death experience. He had read up online what occurs when a human sleeps and it fascinated him greatly.

So now Sam was sitting on one of the many crates in the building watching the bots shuffle about doing things. Just the other day Ratchet and Optimus were able to decode the inscriptions on the glasses. Sam was happy for the others since they were closer to their goal. It was interesting to listen to the others when they forgot that Sam was there. Sometimes they would speak in another language which Sam figured was their native tongue. He had figured out when someone was annoyed or cursed. It was usually Ironhide that cursed.

Sam was still being watched over by the overbearing Ratchet who examined him every day. Earlier that afternoon Sam was allowed to take the bandages adorning his wrists and forehead off. A nice purple bruise surrounded the cut on his face while the damaged skin on his wrists had scabbed over. He still wasn't very comfortable being picked up by either of his guardians when he tried to walk. His ankle as well as his knee was still very swollen. His entire leg ached every time he moved too quickly but in the few days that had passed the pain had eased off.

Sam had figured out that Jazz as well as the twins were trouble makers, although they entertained him greatly causing him to laugh a few times. It seemed when he laughed the tension in the air let up a bit. He could understand that they felt weird around him but he felt the same way. It was the afternoon now and while perched on his crate Sam watched as Ratchet hit Ironhide on the head with one of his tools causing Sam to giggle into his hand trying to not let Ironhide see or hear him. The silver mech made a slight noise of pain before slinking off to do something else. Sam didn't see Ironhide glance at him for a moment before leaving. As Sam continued to watch Ratchet, Optimus came out of what Sam knew was the med-bay. He was carrying a tablet looking device tapping something onto it. Sam tilted his head regarding the Primes serious facial expression.

Optimus looked up to see Sam staring at him. Optimus didn't know how to treat their new comrade. He had deemed Sam a capable person with courage and a sense of duty. If not a little reckless. But he still feared for the young one's life. In dealing with the Decepticons and the war he had seen far too many die far too soon. The thought weighed heavy on this processor. Optimus managed to pick up a few of the human outside emotions. When Sam smiled he was happy, when he frowned he was either thinking or troubled about something. Other times the boy remained a mystery. Optimus didn't mind the boy's presence as he stayed out of the way and tried not to bother them. But he couldn't help but feel that the boy was being excluded.

Sam regarded the Primes expression as strange but smiled at him nonetheless causing Optimus to smile back as he walked over to where he was sitting. Sam could feel the ground tremble as the tall mech made his way over kneeling down to his height to talk.

"Hey Optimus." Sam greeted friendlily even though he was panicking on the inside at the Prime paying attention to him.

"Hello Sam, how are you feeling today?" Optimus asked in a quieter tone as he found that human ears were hypersensitive to noise. He felt bad and responsible for the boy's less than well disposition as did all the other Autobots, even if some of them didn't express their worry well. Sam thought for a moment before answering the leader.

"Better than I was but…" Sam fidgeted embarrassed by his childish feelings. Optimus leaned in a fraction not that Sam could notice the Primes obvious discomfort at Sam's admission. "I'm just a little homesick." Sam finished hiding his eyes by lowering his head slightly. Optimus looked confused. He knew what sick meant and that it wasn't good but not what "homesick" meant. Before he could ask for an explanation Ratchet was standing next to him picking up Sam and scanning him for injuries. Sam was surprised at the sudden change in height looking towards Ratchet seeing a worried expression on his face. Sam moved to balance himself stressing his leg causing a painful pop to come from his knee.

Ratchet tried to keep Sam from touching it but out of instinct Sam had curled his body around the hurt appendage. He breathed shallowly trying to keep the pain under control and failing miserably. A few stray tears fell from his eyes. Ratchet felt bad at being the one who caused Sam's discomfort. Instead of trying to pry the boy from his leg Ratchet waited for Sam to relax. A few moments later Sam uncurled seeing that both Optimus and Ratchet were watching him.

"Hurts…" Sam looked at Ratchet for a moment before hissing when he accidently moved his leg. The CMO made Sam lie down in his hand.

"I'm sorry Sam I didn't mean for this to happen."

"It's fine, you didn't do it on purpose." Sam half smiled at the medic while softly running his hand over his knee trying to rub the pain away. Ratchet felt a weight lift from his shoulders. He wasn't used to handling the human yet even though he was a medic and responsible for the little one's health. Ratchet was very new to human anatomy was learning every day how to deal with Sam. He was just glad that Sam wasn't upset with him.

"I picked you up because you said you were sick." Sam stopped babying his knee to stare at the two mechs who were obviously in the dark still about homesickness. Sam snorted and laughed for a moment before regarding the two again.

"I'm homesick, not sick. They are different." Sam said looking away for a moment thinking for a second. "Sick is when a human's immune system can't handle a virus or some other bacteria." Ratchet and Optimus seemed irked by the word virus but Sam didn't pay them any mind. "Homesick is when someone misses their family." The two mechs nodded in understanding.

"So you are not ill? Especially not with a virus?" asked Optimus.

"Yes, I just miss my mom and dad." Sam looked a little sad when mentioning his parents. "I was just thinking how worried they must be." Ratchet and Optimus exchanged knowing looks before Ratchet carefully settled Sam in Optimus' servos. Sam sat a little confused at the exchange between the two before looking at Optimus for a reason. The large mech just smiled at him before standing to his full height causing Sam to hold onto one of Optimus' fingers. As they walked outside Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were just coming back from patrolling the area for humans and Decepticons. The twins regarded their leader hesitating to ask as to what was wrong. But Optimus waved them off. The ware house was in a secluded area so it wouldn't matter if they stayed out for a while in the sunshine. The road that lead to the building had long eroded away but all the vegetation had grown. Optimus stopped near a few trees settling his back against them for support. The entire time Sam was quietly thinking about Optimus.

Sam thought that Optimus would be much stricter with his soldiers but he treated them like equals and Sam couldn't help but like that he was also kind towards him and understanding. The Prime had an aura about him that Sam couldn't pinpoint. But the mech was definitely very, very formal. Sam was roused out of his thoughts when Optimus prodded him. He looked up to see that Optimus was comfortably relaxed.

"What are your creators like?"

"Creators?" Sam paused for a moment before figuring out what Optimus meant, "Oh, you mean my parents?" Optimus nodded adding the synonym to his memory banks. "My mother is piece of work let me tell you. She is the best mother I could ask for even if she is overprotective at times." Sam looked to see if Optimus was listening. "She is a great cook and her and my father aim to have the best looking yard in our neighborhood. If anyone every ruined her roses I think she might kill them." Sam chuckled to himself picturing the scene in his mind while Optimus was a little confused. "Then there's my dad, Ron. My mother's name is Judy by the way. He is your average father, works during the day and when he gets home becomes a couch potato." Optimus was surfing the web for all the different terms Sam was using to understand what he meant. "But don't ever tell him I said that. He gets worried about his image. He's actually a good father; he looks out for me when my mom gets a little too crazy." Sam relaxed into Optimus' hand while he continued to talk about the rest of his family. Optimus just listened contently. It wasn't long until Sam dozed into a quiet nap, tiring himself out.

When Optimus came back into the ware house with a sleeping Sam, Ratchet just smiled for a moment before turning towards him.

"Is he feeling better?"

"I believe so. However his family is different from what I thought it would be." Ratchet contemplated for a moment before Ironhide cut in setting down the tools he was using on his cannon.

"Humans are just strange." A silent agreement echoed throughout the warehouse. Sunstreaker walked over to Optimus motioning towards Sam before Optimus realized that it was the front-liners turn to look after the boy for the night. Sunstreaker slinked off with Sideswipe into the med-bay where Sam usually slept.

When Sam next awoke he was resting on Sunstreakers chest, one of his hands covering him shielding him from the night air. Sam looked in-between the Lamborghini's fingers seeing that he was back in the med-bay realizing that at some point he must have fallen asleep when talking to Optimus. He blushed a bit out of embarrassment before tapping his fingers against Sunstreakers to get his attention.

Sunstreaker knew Sam was awake. He had been watching over him for the past three hours making sure he was adequately warm. It was quite dark out now and it had gotten considerably colder. Sam had slept peacefully in his hold surprisingly. The nightmares that Sideswipe and Ratchet mentioned to him must have not bothered the boy. Sunstreaker shifted letting Sam know that he would move his hand. When he did he lifted Sam a little higher so he could look at him, he couldn't help but notice that the boys hair was a mess as were his clothes. He smirked at the others disheveled appearance before running one of his fingers over the brunette's hair fixing it. Sam sat still, shocked. Sunstreaker had never touched him out of his own volition. After the mech had deemed the boys hair satisfactory he motion to Sam's clothes snapping the boy out of his thoughts.

Sam looked down seeing that his shirt was twisted and had ridden up in his sleep. "Oh right…" Sam blushed a little fixing his shirt and jeans. "Thanks." He looked up into a pair of bright blue eyes.

"Hmp." Sunstreaker regarded the boy as he always did. Sam pushed himself up to lean up against the others hand rubbing at his knee again. It was stiff from the way he had slept. Sunstreaker watched for a moment before settling Sam into a better position relieving any weight on the leg. Sam looked back up as Sunstreaker gently ran the tip of one of his fingers over Sam's knee. "Is it still bothering you?" Sam gaped at the mech before stuttering trying to respond.

"Ah, yeah it's just I agitated it earlier."

"Sideswipe told me."

"Oh." An awkward silence descended upon the two. Sam didn't know what to say to the other. He thought Sunstreaker was angry at him from their earlier conversation where he basically told him off. But the arrogant mech didn't seem to even acknowledge that they had an argument before. Sam was slightly relieved while still wary. He didn't usually snap at people but everything that had happen had caused his nerves to wear thin. Sunstreaker was still prodding at his knee but not causing Sam any discomfort as he was being careful. Sam was confused to say the least. Sunstreaker seemed to be more a person of action rather than words and much rougher than he was being now. It made Sam feel guiltier about his earlier outburst.

"You know..uh." Sam tried to get Sunstreakers attention. "I wanted to say that I'm sorry about getting angry at you before." The mech froze and snapped his head to look straight at Sam.

"What?"

"I was saying that I'm sorry for getting so angry at you earlier." Sunstreaker looked incredulously at Sam for a moment.

"You don't really mean that." Sunstreaker turned his head to look across the med-bay. Sam furrowed his brow at the others strange demeanor. He was slightly miffed that Sunstreaker didn't take him seriously. He didn't have to apologize for the mechs rude behavior but he felt it was the right thing to do.

"I mean it." Sam added some force to his words causing Sunstreaker to look at Sam from his peripheral vision. "I wouldn't apologize if I was going to be half-assed about it." Sam crossed his arms over his chest upset at Sunstreaker not accepting his apology. He was beginning to think that the mech didn't think his apology was good enough. "If you don't believe me it's your loss not mine. The ball is in your court now so you can't say I didn't try to make amends." Sunstreaker looked at the boy fully this time scanning him seeing that the other wasn't lying.

He was at a loss. No one had ever truly apologized to him. He had always been slightly despised in the Autobot ranks for his arrogance and vain behavior. No one thought that he deserved their gratitude even if they were the ones that caused the problem in the first place. Everyone always blamed him. Sam rocked in his hand looking at him letting out a sigh. Sunstreakers face was hard as stone.

"Don't blow a circuit over it." Sam patted the warm metal beneath him. "I just felt guilty about it." Sunstreaker was even more shocked. No one ever felt guilty either. Sunstreaker stood up walking out of the med-bay to find his brother, ignoring an annoyed Sam. He found him soon enough helping Ratchet. He grabbed his shoulder causing him to turn around wondering what the other wanted. Ratchet was slightly annoyed from being interrupted. Sunstreaker set Sam in the others hand before turning away.

"I accept it." He then quickly transformed and drove out of the ware house and down the road leaving a very confused Sam, Ratchet, and Sideswipe.

"What did you do?" Sideswipe asked genuinely curious since his brother wasn't answering his comm.

"All I did was apologize!" Sam threw up his hands. "He got all quiet on me and then he just said that." Sam turned toward Sideswipe seeing a shocked expression on his face as well as Ratchet. "What?"

"Ratchet my audio isn't going bad is it?"

"No it's not. I'm just as surprised as you are. I never thought anyone much less a human could crack him." Both mechs saw Sam looking very upset and confused about the situation.

"You know Sam you keep amazing me."

END. So that's the end for this chapter. I decided to add a little more down time before we head into the battle of mission city in the next three chapters. PLEASE review on what you thought of Sam and Sunstreaker and well as Optimus. I'm trying to build up their relationships before throwing them into battle.

Also I'm debating on throwing in a chapter about Ironhide, Jazz, and bee so please tell me if you want me to go into their relationships before the battle as well!

Thanks!

Tata~
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