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He waited for a reaction for a little while, then he realized he had it. My reaction, not changing.

"Sam?" he started.

"I don't care. I just am happy this isn't a dream and you guys are back. You know how long the only thing I had was that picture thing?" I asked.

"Twenty years, yes, I know."

"And good. Because nothing is going to faze me. The Lennox's might freak out a bit, but you got yourself one human that will stick around and bother you until I can't." I said.

"Not bother, never bother." he assured. "If anything, I'm not letting you go." his hands twitched around me. I was still sitting in his hands, but they were setting in his lap, for he was cross legged.

"You better not." I replied. He smiled. We were silent once again, then I had to ask. "You are real, right. And I'm not asleep, or Sarah didn't knock me out when she realized I was the Witwicky boy not aged a day?"

He chuckled. "No, I'm real." he assured and I sighed, I'm still not wrapping my head around the fact that they're here. It was, in a way, like meeting them all over again, though it's only Optimus and Bee. "And so are the Decepticons. We're still going to keep an optic out to see if they were returning here." he said. I nodded. Again, for another few minutes, no one spoke. We were both content just to sit there. Then a thought struck my mind.

The government. What are they going to do when they realize the Autobots are back on Earth? What are they going to do when they realize I'm still at eighteen? Are they going to send them away from Earth again? If they do, are they going to let them take me with them? It doesn't matter. After they quiet down again, Bee is definitely coming back for me if I am forced to stay again.

If they send the Autobots away, and the Decepticons come back, they're doomed. Only Will I bet even knows how to fight them still. And he can't fend off all the Decepticons on his own. Perhaps we'd stick around nearby so if the Decepticons do return, we can too. Then, will the government let us help, or force us away still, insisting they can win on their own, which we all know they can't. Or will they let us help? If they don't let us help, what will we do? I know Optimus would never just leave, will we help in secret, or try to lure the Decepticons away? Will we save everyone we can?

Then, if they for some reason want us to stay for a while, probably to yell at the Autobots, what will happen?

My head is spinning in answerless circles.

"What's wrong?" he asked. I glanced up at him. Sometime during the last few minutes, he had shifted me so I was more sitting in his lap. I was leaning back and his hands were now over my front, like a blanket, blocking out the wind. How had he known my thoughts had taken a less cheerful edge?

"It's part of the link." he hesitated. But, instead of telling me, I suddenly felt something that I had never noticed, because it was there for twenty years, a part kind of around my heart open up and my emotions weren't the only I was feeling. Only, it wasn't just emotions that came through the kind of bridge, it seemed like part of his consciousness or whatever came through and wrapped around my heart.

After a moment, he sent me questioning and I was pulled away from the link itself to remember his question.

"I was just thinking about what was going to happen. Surely you guys won't be able to hide from the government for long." He sighed and shifted the hands above me. I folded my legs up to sit cross legged, for they were stretched out in front of me.

"We will deal with that as it comes. Optimus is keeping an eye on anything that might suggest the Decepticons' arrival. As bad as it would be for them to return here, it would be best to have proof of a reason we are here. Because odds are, they won't accept my taking you back as a liable reason." I frowned, the government can't honestly kick them off again. It was horrid enough the first time. They had no reason. The Autobots had done so much for Earth and they just kicked them off like parents that make their kid get a job and take half their money, then kicking them out once the kid is too old to be able to take his money. And the kid had willingly given the money over, doing anything they could to help pay for bills and everything.

"I don't like it." I said. "They had no reason to kick you guys off the first time. Really, they had no right to either. Earth isn't only the government. Billions of other people live here too and they all probably appreciate still living. The government is only supposed to keep us in check."

"Sam, the governments are in charge though. And the rest of the world didn't know about us. They couldn't have said anything." He tried to sooth.

"What about me? What about me, and Mikayla, and my parents, and Will, and Sarah, Annabelle" Even though she wasn't old enough to really even have clearance to know of the 'bots, "And Epps and his family, what about all of NEST? We all knew, we all should have had a say."

He was silent for a moment, then shifted his hand to hold me closer slightly. "You should have had more of a say, but the governments represented each part of Earth. They were supposed to speak for their country. I know it wasn't fair, because they can't speak for their country if their country couldn't have an opinion. But it is all flawed. It would have ended disastrous if we had objected with these reasons. This had come up many times on the Ark. Optimus said that doing all this would mean we would have taken control in a way. And even if the governments are flawed and unfair, they are still in charge. It isn't our place. The humans must learn everything on their own."

I was silent for a while longer. "They will destroy themselves before they realize they need to change." I said quietly. Speaking as if I'm not one of them was something we had always done. Because I really wasn't. I am only the same species, but it means nothing. "Or just enough to have to start all over again and forget what they have learned."

"We destroyed ourselves." he pointed out. "But this is true. They seem to have done this much quicker than we had. There isn't time to change, or find a way to live on, when their planet is dead."

Again, silence.

"But," he started. "there are people that know what they're doing. There are people that can turn everything around. They're just in the wrong positions." he glanced at me. "Like Mikayla, and your parents, and Will, Sarah, Annabelle, Epps and his family, and all of NEST. They're all proof the human race isn't doomed. Proof they are slowly changing their ways. But I'm taking the one person that is light years ahead and knows best of anyone how to change their fate with me when we leave Earth. While the others show a slow change, you are already where they are headed. I just hope they get there before it's too late."

I smiled. He was just back, and we were already talking as if we had been together all this time. A longer time of silence passed than before, then he sighed. After probably about an hour, he spoke again.

"Optimus is headed back here with the Lennox's. When they return, we will speak for a while, then it is time to recharge. We needed it, and judging from your drooping eyes, you do too." I smiled up at him again and he shifted his hand.

My mind, recently on depressing topics, was once again reveling in the two Autobots' return. Now that I was with Bee again, I can now enjoy Optimus being here also.

He lifted me up and healed me close to his spark just before I could hear a familiar engine approach. Just as it had what felt like decades ago. Only this time, I wasn't in shock. I was just so happy.


Hey, I honestly didn't think I would be able to get this out. I honestly didn't plan what it said, it just came out this way. But I think it kind of has the right(ish) effect for their reunion.

I have literary no more time, R&R.