Hi readers, here is the next chapter, hope you all enjoy ^_^
Chapter ten
Optimus turns around at hearing movement behind him, he smiles when he sees Kitt sitting up and stretching. "Hi sleepy head," he says walking over to her and taking a seat on the edge of the berth.
"You write an antivirus and then tell me you're not tired," she replies to his comment.
"Okay point taken," Optimus says holding his hands up in defence, this makes Kitt laugh.
"How's Red Alert?" she asks.
"Fine, Ratchet let him leave the med bay earlier, I think he is relaxing in the rec room," he tells her, she nods and stands.
"You coming?" she asks making her way to the door of Optimus' quarters, he nods and gets up, they make their way to the rec room and walk in.
Kitt looks around feeling the mood is slightly more tense than usual. She looks at their normal table and smiles seeing Skywarp and Thundercracker sat at the table with Starblast in Starscream's lap with Bumblebee pulling funny faces at him.
She then looks further along the table and smiles at Red Alert who smiles back. She then notices Mirage sat slightly away from the table with his head lowered, noticing that no one is trying to include him in their conversation. She watches as one of the younger Autobots walks past him and pours something into his energon.
"Kitt come sit down," Optimus says, looking in his direction she notices he is already sat at the table, she begins to walk towards him, when she notices Mirage going to take a drink from his energon, changing direction she begins to walk towards Mirage, looking over his shoulder she sees a few of the younger Autobots smirking.
Just before Mirage can take a drink she grabs his wrist gently with one hand, she uses the other to remove the cube of energon. He looks up at her confused as do most of the others at the table, she walks over to the energon dispenser throwing the cube she took off Mirage away, and she pours him another one. Moving back to him she holds it out to him, taking it he still looks at her confused.
"Someone spiked your drink," she tells him simply.
"Thank you and I'm..." Mirage starts but doesn't get to finish.
"I know you are," she says and softly smiles at him.
"I didn't mean what I said," he says lowering his optics.
"I know you didn't, you were scared and worried, plus frustrated that you couldn't do anything, I'll give you some advice don't take it out on the one bot that can do something to help," she says with a soft giggle.
"I'll remember that next time," he replies raising his optics and smiling at her. "Thank you."
"You're welcome," she says and leans down and hugs him. "Don't worry about it, trust me I have heard worse before," she whispers to him.
"It won't happen again," he whispers back, she smiles and kisses his cheek before letting go of him, she then walks over to Optimus and takes a seat between him and Bumblebee.
Optimus smiles at her, then looks over at Mirage and nods his head once at him. Mirage shifts his chair so he is facing more towards the table.
Starblast is the one that breaks the silence with his little beeps and chirps, he begins squirming in Starscream's lap who just looks at him.
"What do you want now?" he asks the little sparkling who just chirps at him in response. "I don't understand you," he says frustrated, causing Kitt to laugh. "Do you know what he wants?"
"He wants to be on the table because he is fed up of sitting still," she replies simply, Starscream nods dumb founded and places Starblast on the table where he begin to crawl around until he stops in front of Optimus and stares up at him, then he beeps at him holding his arms out.
"He wants picking up," Kitt tells Optimus.
"I don't think that's a good idea," Optimus tells the sparkling getting a huff and a few beeps in response.
"I'm sorry Optimus," Skywarp says leaning over the table but sees that Starblast is just out of reach. "Starblast come here please," he says receiving a shake of the head from the sparkling, and Starblast holding out his arms again.
"This would go far faster if you just pick him up," Kitt says as she tickles the little sparkling.
Optimus nods, he slowly and carefully picks up Starblast realising he can easily hold him in one hand. "Are you happy now?" Optimus asks, as Starblast smiles and nods at him, slowly the little sparkling stands up on his hand but quickly loses his balance falling backwards slightly but is pushed back up by Kitt.
"Careful little one," she says, the sparkling nods and sits back down on Optimus' hand instead, and Kitt suddenly smiles and turns part of the table in front of her over revealing a control panel. Typing quickly she hands a small long piece of metal to the sparkling as the doors to the rec room open. "Everyone stay in your seats. Throw it," she says to Starblast who does as she asks.
Looking in the direction of the thrown stick they see three dog like bots chasing it.
"What are those things?" Ironhide asks.
"They are part of the bases defences but really they are just big softies," Kitt says as she spins around and starts to stroke a fourth one. "Don't want to play?" she asks, the dog shakes its head at her.
Optimus watches as one of them returns with the stick in its mouth, lowering his hand that Starblast is sat on, the little sparkling takes the stick from the dog and throws it again clapping his hands and laughing.
"Any other tricks on how to keep a sparkling busy?" Starscream asks looking at Kitt.
"Plenty," she says winking at him; she looks over in time to see Starblast yawn. "Aaw, is someone tired?" she asks him, he nods and beeps once. "Come on," she picks him up off Optimus' hand and walks over to Skywarp.
"Thanks," he says as he and Thundercracker stand. "See you tomorrow," they both wave as they exit the rec room.
"What do you want?" Optimus asks the dog sat in front of him.
"His name is Kito," she says looking at the blue and white dog, "and he wants you to throw the stick," she says sitting back down. "Kito come here," Kito walks over to her and she scratches him behind the ear. "Good boy," she takes the stick from him and throws it.
"So what are the other ones called?" Bumblebee asks stroking a red and white one.
"Well the one you are stroking is Tijan, the red and yellow one is Brix, and the yellow and blue one is Frax. Please don't ask about the names I didn't name them," Kitt explains.
"So how strong are they?" Ironhide asks.
"I have seen them rip a bot limb from limb," she says kneeling down and taking the stick from Brix's mouth and receiving a lick in return.
"Primus remind me not to piss them off," Ironhide says looking down at Frax who currently has his head resting in Ratchet's lap.
"They are pretty harmless until you tell them to attack," Kitt says.
"Bumblebee I think you have made a friend," Starscream laughs as Bumblebee is being licked to death by Tijan.
"Yeah I think I have. Kitt how do you make them stop?" Bumblebee asks slightly pushing Tijan away.
"Tijan come here," she says softly causing the dog to walk away from Bumblebee and towards her. "Good boy," she says scratching his tummy. Looking around she notices that Kito is not in the room. "Skywarp is one of the dogs with you?" she coms.
"Yeah he is at the foot of our berth. Why?" he replies.
"Just wondering," she coms back.
"Right time to get some sleep," Ironhide says as he catches Ratchet yawning, who nods in agreement. Frax also stands and walks away with them. "Guess you're coming with us," Ironhide laughs as Frax head butts his hand in reply.
"Red I think we should be going too," Mirage says standing up.
"Yeah it has been a long day," he says standing also, Tijan makes his way over to them and stands at Mirage's feet, who looks at Kitt and sees her nod at him.
"It's fine, he's going with you because Red Alert is carrying," she explains to him.
Starscream and Bumblebee also exit with Mirage and Red Alert nodding to Optimus, Kitt, Jetfire and Sunstreaker.
"You two don't stay up too long," Jetfire says with a laugh and helps Sunstreaker up.
"Yep and no funny business in the rec room, even if you are the Boss Bot," Sunstreaker adds with a laugh.
"Out now," Optimus coms to the two in a serious voice. Quickly they exit as Kitt takes a seat at the now empty table and looking around she notices the rest of the rec room is also empty. "Sorry about them," he says softly to Kitt.
"It's fine, they were only having a little fun," Kitt says looking down at Brix who has settled himself underneath the table, between the two of them.
"They seem to know you very well," Optimus comments looking down at Brix.
"Yeah I used to take care of them," Kitt replies.
"Who was it that spiked Mirage's energon?" Optimus suddenly asks startling Kitt.
"I doesn't matter," she answers back.
"It does matter, they tried to, in a way, attack one of their commanding officers," Optimus says seriously.
"Optimus really it doesn't matter," she says taking his hand and winking at him.
"What did you do?" he asks wearily.
"Nothing yet, just let it drop, no harm was done," she says.
"You could have just let him drink the spiked energon. Why didn't you?" Optimus asks.
"Because I have had my energon spiked on more than one occasion and trust me it isn't nice," she explains.
"What happened when you did have it done to you?" he asks her.
"Most of the times I don't remember, can we please not talk about this," she says letting go of his hand only to have his take hold of hers.
"Kitt please I want to know," Optimus says softly to her.
"And I don't want you to know, so please let go of me," she says struggling to free her hands. Optimus doesn't let go until he hears a growl from under the table.
Releasing her hands he looks up into her optics, slowly reaching back over he gently cups her hands in his this time. "Kitt you have nothing to be scarred of in this base, you have nothing to fear from us, from me," he tries to tell her.
"I know that, it's just some things are too hard to talk about," she says sighing. "My best friend was another femme around my age she was called Fireshot, one day I was in the med bay by myself running some tests when one of the officers dragged her in. He demanding I check her over so I did and found she was with sparkling, which he then ordered me to terminate, I had to do it, I didn't have a choice but all the way through it she was begging me stop, I have never heard screams like hers, they still haunt me, I can still hear her when I offline my optics, she was in so much pain but I couldn't do anything I felt useless, after I did it she never spoke to me again. I lost my best friend all because of an order, she spoke less and less to others until one day we found her in her quarters, she had uploaded a virus into her system that terminated her spark," she tells him with tears running down her face. "All because of something I did, so do you really want to know the rest because trust me it gets worse?" she asks him angrily.
"If you want to tell me I will listen," Optimus replies getting up and tugging at her hands; once she is stood up too he hugs her wrapping his arms around her waist.
Kitt stands there amazed at his answer, he hasn't tried to tell her it wasn't her fault like so many others have, he has just listened to her. Slowly she wraps her arms around him returning the hug.
Optimus pulls away from her slightly looking down at her he lowers his face plate and smiles at her, receiving a small smile back in return.
"I should get going," Kitt says and drops her arms. "See you later," she smiles again and turns to leave.
"Kitt wait," Optimus says taking hold of her arm, she turns around to look at him with a confused look on her face. Lifting his other hand he softly strokes her cheek. Leaning forward he brushes his lips against hers and feels her stiffen, pulling back he sees Kitt look away from him. "I'm sorry," he says quickly but feels his spark sink at Kitt's reaction. "I thought you felt something, like what I feel for you."
Kitt looks at Optimus to see him with his head lowered, reminding herself that he isn't like the other mechs that used her in the past, she slowly raises her hand to his cheek and forces him to look up. "I do," she replies to his comment and softly kisses him until she feels him kiss back. Kitt pulls back slowly and smiles at Optimus before leaving the rec room with Brix in tow.
Optimus sits back down in the chair he was sat in earlier with a huge smile on his face, putting his face plate back in place he slowly makes his way back to his room happy not to meet anyone on his travels.
I will leave it there this time, until the next readers ^_^