I wasn't going to update so soon since there were only 2 reviews for the last chapter, but I wanted to thank himelove22 for some awesome fan art of Sunny and Athena so I decided to update early! If you want to see the pictures she did you can find them on my Deviantart page Lunarburst23! I DO NOT OWN TRANSFORMERS!
(Athena's POV)
Ouch...
My helm really hurt...
How many times had Uncle Ratchet belted me with his wrench? Too many to count...
It wasn't my fault that I kept getting distracted with thoughts about Sunstreaker. He was a hard mech to keep off my processor lately. I found myself thinking about how his walls fell down a little when we were together... How he looked when he smirked, or how the sound of his quiet chuckle made my spark pulse in my chassis...
If only I could think of those rare moments when I wasn't working...
Because getting distracted was bad for my health... Really bad... And now my helm hurt because of it...
"Athena!" Uncle Ratchet bellowed angrily... again!
I whipped around with a squeak. "Y-Yes?!"
He was holding a wrench in one servo and the other was pointing at a supply crate. "I asked you to sort and put this away a joor ago!"
"Sorry! I'll do it right now!"
He grunted at me as I scurried over and hefted the crate onto the counter. "What is wrong with you lately femme? Every time I turn around you're sitting in that corner with your helm in the clouds! What happened to the competent medic that I trained?!"
I stumbled due to the hurt those words engineered.
Uncle Ratchet never spoke to me like that...
My door wings slumped as I turned my helm towards him dejectedly. "Sorry Uncle Ratchet... I just have a lot on my processor lately."
"I've noticed." He sighed, before putting his wrench into his subspace and sitting on his stool. "Do you want to try talking about whatever is distracting you? Are you having any problems that you don't feel like you can talk to your creators about?"
Yes... Well not a problem but...
Just a case of a wildly pulsating spark...
And a mech who was always in my thoughts...
If I told Uncle Ratchet that though... he'd flip out and tell Opi and Danni, and then they'd mount a search party to find the mystery mech... And Jazz would find out who it was within a cycle, and then Sunstreaker would be incarcerated for life! Or Cee, Flareup, and Mia would have a field day filled with shooting ion cannons at him!
Danni would threaten him.
Opi would lecture him...
No! Anything but that!
Have to think of something plausible!
"I well... Sparky has seemed really lonely lately, so I've been thinking about getting him a friend. But I wasn't sure whether to get a mech or a femme companion for him."
BAM! A wrench collided with my helm yet again.
"OW!"
"ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT YOU'RE SLACKING OFF ON YOUR WORK BECAUSE OF YOUR STREAM GLIDER?!"
I winced.. Oh no...
"YOU ARE A MEDIC ATHENA! I TRAINED YOU TO KNOW BETTER THAN TO ALLOW DISTRACTIONS TO FOLLOW YOU INTO THE MED BAY!"
"I know..."
"OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T! IF SOMEBOT WERE TO COME IN HERE IN CRITICAL CONDITION YOU CAN'T AFFORD EVEN A SMALL DISTRACTION OTHERWISE THEY COULD DIE! YOU HAVE TO BE LEVEL-HELMED WHEN DEALING WITH THE SITUATIONS THAT ARISE WITHI THESE WALLS!"
"I know!"
He finally calmed down a bit. "No more. When you're here work is the only thing that you're allowed to think about. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes Uncle."
A servo landed on my helm, making me look up at his now much more somber expression. "I don't like yelling at you Athena, but you have to learn to juggle work and your personal life separately. Normally you're very good at this, but lately it seems like you're always distracted."
Because of Sunstreaker...
"I'm sorry..."
"Just focus when you're working." With an affectionate rub between my chevron, he let go and wandered over to the counter to finish whatever he was working on. "When you're finished with that you can go. Your shift was over a breem ago."
"Ok."
With that I quickly sorted out the contents of the crate out and put everything in its designated place in a timely manner. "I'm going now Uncle."
"Yeah, yeah. I'll see you the day after tomorrow."
I smiled at him softly, before I made my way out into the corridor. Only to freeze in my spot when my optics landed on Cee and her older sister Flareup leaning against the wall expectantly. This only happened when they wanted to grill me over something, or Flareup wanted to do a femmes night out!
Anything but those things! Please!
"Athena..." Flareup sang deviously.
No!
"Athena..." Cee joined in obnoxiously.
ANYTHING BUT THAT!
"FEMMES NIGHT OUT!" Both screamed at the same time.
"NOOOOO!" I screeched as they grabbed my arms and dragged me towards the entrance of the base.
"Oh stop fighting Athena! We only have a few groons until the clubs open! So we have to get ready fast!" Flareup chastised me.
"I don't want to go!"
"Too bad! Cee and I spent a few days planning this and you are going to come along quietly, and not be allowed to go home until you've had a good time."
"I'll have a good time at home! Where I won't drink myself stupid!" I argued as we neared their apartment building.
Neither listened to me as they dragged me up four flights in the elevator, and then down the hall and into their unit. Where I was shoved into the wash racks, washed down thoroughly, dried off, then polished and painted to a shine.
They put a light shade of gold paint over my optics, tinged with red liner for more effect.
WHY?! WHYYYYY?!
Together they spent another few breems polishing every part of me until I was gleaming, down to my ped heels even. Cee even took some turtle wax and applied a thin coat from my chevron down to my peds.
After finishing up they stepped back to admire their work. "There!"
"You look gorgeous!" Cee gushed.
"More like drop dead gorgeous! Mechs are gonna eat you up! Can we say bombshell?!" Flareup grinned ddeviously.
I looked like one of those femme pinup models! But without the frame of one! Why?! "Please don't try to set me up with some mech!"
Sunstreaker would maul them to death! Or he'd be angry at me for having anything to do with it in the first place! What if he even broke up with me over it?! I didn't want that! I still had to give him the painting I was working on like we agreed! Otherwise it'd go to waste!
Flareup held up a servo to silence me. "Femme you need to get laid. All you do is work, paint, work, paint, work, play video games..."
My jaw dropped. "No I do not! I am not hooking up with some mech at a nightclub!" The thought of doing that was disgusting! I only wanted to hook up with a mech I cared about! And only after he proved that he wasn't like every other mech I'd ever met!
"We'll see about that..."
Cee smacked her. "She doesn't have to act like you Flare!"
"What does that mean?"
"It means that even though I'm your sister and I love you, you're way too quick to jump into a mech's berth! You'll frag any mech that moves!"
"I will not!"
We both stared at her in disbelief.
She slumped. "Only if they're super hot..."
"And there are a lot of super hot mechs around now that the war's over." Cee pointed out smugly.
"Meaning that you're getting faced a lot lately." I added quietly. Interface discussions were an awkward subject for me to be involved in. I wasn't untried, but I wasn't exactly privy to how normal mechs and femmes interacted when both parties wanted to interface.
The only experience I had in normal relations was with Sunstreaker and we hadn't interfaced or been intimate at all really. Well not outside of kissing or... making out which had happened once or twice. He hadn't pushed me for more since the one time on my couch.
I was woefully unprepared to initiate anything...
I didn't even know if I could properly react to anything either.
Because I wasn't like everybot else...
With a firm shake of my helm I forced the thoughts away and focused back on the conversation. Now Cee was helping Flareup get ready since she technically liked to look the best, so she took the longest to doll up. "I just don't see what's wrong with enjoying a nice frag every now and then."
"There's nothing wrong with it." Cee admitted.
"But how are you going to find a mech that wants more than just a quick frag, if you always give them that and send them on their way?"
Both looked at me in surprise. "I never thought about it like that..."
"You should have."
"Well I'm not as smart as you Athena! You're like the biggest walking processor besides Prowl!"
I frowned at her. "Am not."
She stuck her glossa out at me. "Are too!"
Cee just sighed and finished polishing her sister. "There! You look stunning enough to score tonight!"
Flareup looked herself over in the mirror. "Frag yeah! I look good enough to get all of us drunk and laid!"
Oh Primus no... "I am not getting laid."
"Me either... Unless I decide that I feel like it."
"You'll end up feeling the call of love Cee! You always do!"
"No. Not really." Cee grumbled as Flareup took the rag from her and started buffing her armor.
"You will... Now all we need to do is get Athena laid."
"No."
Cee giggled at Flareup's disgruntled expression. "Give it up Flareup! Athena isn't the type to hop into some mech's berth! Don't put that kind of pressure on her!"
Yes please don't do that to me... I didn't even know how to explain that scenario to anybot, let alone cope with it myself... Let alone dealing with my mechfriend when he found out... He was rather possessive after all, as I was already well aware of...
I must have been really deep in though, because the next time I actually thought to pay attention was after Flareup grabbed me and dragged me back out of the apartment.
Forcing me to have to almost run to keep up with her. "Isn't there anything else that we can do instead of going clubbing?"
"Aww c'mon Athena! That new club Heat Wave just opened up downtown! I've been wanting to go for days not but I waited for you two to have a day off!"
"Heat Wave...? What kind of name is that?"
She smirked at me. "One that embodies everything that's hot."
Oh Primus... Something told me that I was not going to enjoy this... What could have possibly clued me into how bad this night was going to be? Flareup insisting that I needed to get faced?
The big bulding that she was leading us up to? Which was booming with the bass from the stereo system. Oh Primus... my audios were going to explode... I better turn down the sensitivity on the sensors on my door wings, even if they weren't up to par with most Praxians, they'd still throb tomorrow from the sheer volume of that bass...
We ended up waiting in line with a bunch of bots milling around us, bumping into me, or Cee and Flareup. Some mechs winked at them while we waited, prompting Flareup to wave at a few of them in a flirty manner.
Why Flareup?! Why?!
And it only got worse after we got inside!
Mechs and femmes were all over the dance floor, grinding against each other, drinking at the bar, making out in the corners, and some were even taking it farther than that. Eww...
Flareup steered us over to the bar where a tall copper colored mech was mixing up drinks. He looked up at us when we walked, or more like when Cee and I were dragged up to the bar. "Hello femmes..."
"Hello mech..." Flareup purred. "We'd like a dozen of your best high grade shots to start off with."
My optics bugged out and I gaped at her. A DOZEN?! HOW DRUNK DID SHE PLAN ON GETTNIG US?! SHE KNEW THAT ONCE I STARTED DRINKING I LITERALLY DIDN'T STOP UNLESS SOMEBOT MADE ME!
"Anything for you three fine looking femmes." He grinned flirtatiously, before he turned and started pouring high grade into little shot cubes.
How did I end up here again? How?! Seriously!
I was standing at a bar, watching Flareup flirt with the bartender, while Cee was flirting with some other mech who I didn't care about, leaving me to just stand here! Why didn't I just run when I had the chance? Now there was no escape!
Something bumped into me, nearly sending me sprawling out face first on the floor. I managed to catch myself and spin around to see what had hit me, optics landing on a tall silver Iaconian mech standing right in front of me with a servo raised as if to catch me.
He opened his mouth and spoke in a deep, rumbling timbre. "Are you okay?"
"Yes! Yes I'm fine!" Somebot get me out of this place!
My answer seemed to make him relieved. "Oh good! I was worried that I hurt you somehow!"
"No. N-No I'm f-fine!"
"Good! So uh, do you come here often?"
I blinked at him. "No..."
"I figured! I come here a lot since it opened and I've never seen you!"
Was that a compliment or an insult? "O-Oh..."
"You wanna dance or something?"
Dance?
Flareup suddenly popped up over my shoulder. "Oooh Athena hottie is hitting on you! Don't let him go to waste!"
"He's not hitting on me Flareup."
"Yeah he is femme."
He nodded at me when I looked up at him in question. "Yeah. You're really hot."
My cheeks heated up to insane levels! Me hot? No way! "U-Um... I c-can't! S-Sorry!"
"Oh well." With that he turned and melded back into the crowd.
"Thank Primus..."
"Athena! He was fragging hot! Why the pit did you turn him away?!"
"Because I'm not here to pick up mechs Flareup. You made me come!" That and I wasn't going to be unfaithful to Sunstreaker! I hated it when bots cheated and I wasn't going to do it myself!
She pulled me over to a table near the dance floor. "You really need to loosen up and have fun!"
"How can I do that when places like this drive me crazy?"
She grinned as a tray of high grade shots were placed in front of us. "Let me show you how..."
PRIMUS HELP ME!
(Sunny's POV)
Where the frag was Athena? I hadn't been able to find her all fragging day! She wouldn't answer my comm link messages, or my calls! She wasn't at her apartment! She wasn't working late in the med bay, because I had poked my helm in and checked and Jolt was the only one there!
Now I was waiting outside her door for her to return from wherever she had gone, when I should be getting ready to go home and get some recharge! When I saw her we were going to have a talk about her wandering off to who knows where!
I growled as I leaned against the wall outside her door. Waiting. Waiting...
For almost a joor I waited for some sign of her.
What I was not expecting was to hear something hit the wall down the corridor.
I looked to the left an astrosecond or so after it had occurred, and was surprised to see Athena come stumbling around the corner, tripping and bumping into the wall as she made her way towards me.
Was she... over charged?
Her cheeks were flushed, optics glassy, and even from here I could clearly see her swaying back and forth.
"Athena?"
Her optics snapped up to my face and she smiled widely at me. "Sunstreaker!"
Yup she was over charged... I got that when she ran at me and tripped face first onto the floor just short of reaching me. "How much did you drink femme?"
She looked up at me. "I... don't... d-drink!"
I helped her up. "Yeah and I'm not gold."
She gasped. "Then what color are you?"
Primus she was overcharged... "I was being sarcastic Athena."
"Call me Athe!" She declared out of nowhere.
"Athe? Why?"
"I made you say it!" She giggled.
Real clever... Seriously. "Let's get you into your apartment before you do something stupid."
Getting her into said apartment was the easy part, controlling her after she got in was the difficult task. Because over charged Athena was a hyper Athena, literally as soon as we got in the door she took off running into the living area.
Only to trip over a table and fall face first onto the floor again. "OWIE!"
"Primus... she's as bad as Sides is." I grumbled as I stomped passed the entryway.
Somehow in the time it had taken me to catch up she had knocked her table over, and was now rolling around her living room while giggling madly. "Flareup took me clubbing Sunstreaker! We drank high grade!"
"Flareup took you out?" I asked in surprise. Athena actually knew Flareup?
"We had a drinking competition and I beat Cee, but Flareup cheated and got us kicked out of the club before I could beat her!"
And Arcee? Chances are she knew Chromia too then, and possibly Ironhide. Well if Flareup and Arcee took her out who knows where they had ended up, or what they had done.
A weight settled itself against my chassis, snapping me out of my internal musings. Somehow Athena had gotten up and was now leaning against my chassis, all without me even noticing that she wasn't on the floor anymore. "Athena?"
She looked up at me with smoldering optics.
Wasn't that look familiar, but not one that I expected to see on her face? Lust.
Over charged Athena was a lustful Athena...
Normally I wouldn't hesitate when a femme was over charged, even if I wasn't. But when she leaned up and plastered her lips against mine I didn't just toss her on the nearest surface like I normally would have.
Instead I hesitated again. I kissed her back, but I didn't just let go of my control and take her like I could have.
Why was I hesitating? Obviously she wanted it right now.
My frame wanted it right now.
But my spark just wasn't in it.
I didn't want to just screw her to sate all my carnal desires.
Not if she wouldn't even remember it tomorrow. What would that prove to her? That I was the mech she was afraid I was? I didn't want to do that to her... Not to Athena, because she was different. She was made up of so many of the things I had never realized I wanted.
I wasn't going to screw her just because I could.
For that reason I gently pushed her back. "You don't really want to do this right now Athena."
She nodded quickly. "Yes. Yes I do..."
"No you don't. We haven't even been together that long."
"So? If I want it, and you want it, why does it matter?"
"Because you don't really want it Athena. It's just the high grade talking."
In a sudden move she tore herself away from me and turned her back towards me, door wings slumping down dejectedly. "It's because my chassis is small isn't it?"
"No! For Primus sake femme! How many times do I have to tell you it isn't small, or that I don't care if it isn't huge?!"
"All mechs care about the size of a femme's chassis!"
I rubbed the sides of my helm tiredly. "Athena we already settled this discussion a while ago. I don't care about any of that."
She whirled back around angrily. "Then why won't you frag me?!"
"Because you're over charged!"
"Why does that even matter?!"
"Because it's the same as taking advantage of you! I don't want to do that!"
She froze, door wings shooting up to broadcast her surprise. "What?"
I huffed angrily. "I don't want to take advantage of you."
It looked like she didn't know how to react to that. So she just backed up until she fell onto her couch, helm cupped in her servos and door wings tense. "I'm sorry Sunstreaker."
"What do you have to be sorry about?"
She looked up at me with coolant pooling in her optics. "I just... I was frustrated with Flareup earlier because she keeps getting after me for not getting fragged more often,"
My optic ridges shot up. What?
"and then she forced me to go to that stupid nightclub and get over charged."
So that's what happened... Figures...
"And then mechs were hitting on me all night, and she kept trying to persuade me to loosen up a little bit and just screw one of them."
"WHAT?!"
"Then I kept thinking of you and I just had no interest in doing that. But the thing is that I couldn't tell her about you because I didn't know if you were ok with that, and I'm a horrible liar so they would have found out who you were. And then the whole base would know we're together by the time first shift starts tomorrow!"
"Athena hold on a klik!"
She froze, mouth open to continue sputtering incessantly.
"Just answer this question for me; Did anything happen between you and a mech tonight?" Because if something did happen I was going to hunt Flareup down myself and cuss her out so badly that her audios would never recover!
"No. Why?"
"Because you're mine and that means only I can touch you!"
And I was slowly losing my fragging processor because of this femme! It was like one of those cheesy romance movies that Sides and I had seen on Earth; where the main character fell peds over helm in love with somebot else! Hold on an astrosecond... Did I just use the word love when thinking about Athena? I didn't love her! No! There was no way that I loved her! It was way too soon for that!
No! There was no way and that was all there was to it! I would ignore the way my spark pulsed at the thought, sending unexpected waves of pleasure through me.
Athena just gaped at me after my declaration of what was only fact, a deep sapphire blush straining her cheeks.
I shook my helm to clear it before sitting down next to her. But I didn't know what to say right now really. I'd admitted that I felt something for her, but I still wasn't sure of what. And I refused to believe that I was in love with her so soon. It just wasn't possible!
"You know... I would rather have spent my evening with you." She admitted quietly.
My optics drifted up until they locked with hers. "I'd rather you have spent the day with me than at a nightclub."
"We can spend some time together now?"
I leaned back and held an arm out for her, wasting no time in bringing her in for a kiss after she clambered onto my lap. Arms locking around her slim waist to hold her flush against me, one servo sliding up to cup her right cheek as I deepened the kiss.
For once the tension that was usually present in her frame was absent. She responded beautifully, sighing softly and pressing back against me fiercely, shifting so that our apexes grinded against one another.
A soft whimper escaped her as she repeated what she had just done.
I grunted when the pressure lit up the sensors in my array. My servos came down to grip her hips and help her grind faster against me.
But I was warring with myself about not doing anything with her that she would regret later. That's why I pulled away from her. "Athena you're over charged. We should do this later."
Much to my surprise she suddenly swayed as her optics dimmed before sliding shut, and then she slumped against my chassis in a dead faint. Within an astrosecond her vents were rattling softly, and she buried her face in my throat cables.
I sighed in relief, before getting up and taking her into her berthroom. "Troublesome little femme..."
She sighed softly when I put her in her large berth and covered her with a large thermal blanket near the end of it. "Sunstreaker..."
I found myself smiling softly because of the soft utterance of my designation. "Dreaming about me Athe?"
Her lips tilted up at the sides. "Mm hmm..."
I chuckled quietly, leaning down to kiss her gently on the lips. "Maybe I will call you that."
With that I turned and made my way out of her apartment.
"What are you doing to me femme?"
And why wasn't I fighting it harder?
R&R!