These are the random events that take place from the beginning to the ending of Cat living at the Witwicky's. Little ficlets about random expressions and things Cat learns about that are too short to put in their own chapter.

FORD B: Hehe I'll try to keep dishing out the loops. I don't like my readers knowing what's in my head lol . Oooo, here's a question for you, personally. Who might you, given the entire cast of characters that are in Soul Recon up to this point, think would make as the best match for Cat? Now the given is that I've already paired her, but as someone who's followed this series from the beginning, what are your thoughts?

Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers.

Please enjoy!

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The "Human" Element

"Dinner!" Judy called throughout the house.

Several "booms" and "clangs" suddenly broke out around all corners of the house. Judy sat down at the table and prepared herself for the dinner rush. Sam and Ron appeared in a flash, their stomachs growling from the wonderful smells of food that had been teasing them since Judy had started making dinner. They sat themselves down at the table with starving looks on their faces.

"Looks great hon!" Ron complimented.

"Yeah, great stuff mom," Sam added without even thinking twice about it as he dug the serving spoon in a vat of potatoes, dumping a rather large serving of them on his plate.

"Well where's Ca-" Judy started, "Oh, there you are!"

Cat casually made her way to the dining room, sitting at the table politely.

"For someone who wasn't fed on a regular basis, Cat has the best manners in the house!" Judy commented with a smile, Ron and Sam ignoring her as they were completely engrossed in shoveling food into their mouths.

"Eh," Cat replied, "You learn to be patient. It's just food."

"Well not anymore it's not!" Judy stated, "I promised Doctor Thacker that I would take care of you and feed you the proper nutrition, and I intend on doing just that!"

Cat smiled as Judy continued, "You've got to start remembering that you're a person too!"

"Not really," Cat contradicted, "My physical well-being depends on taking in less nutrients than your average human. I could survive on just a few sips of water for days at a time if needed."

"Well it's not needed!" Judy frowned, "And stop with that 'human' thing! You are just like us, and we are all people!"

"I'm sorry.." Cat apologized, "I'm still stuck in my old self... I just have problems seeing any sort of likeness between me and... er... people.."

"Well no more of that!" Judy said happily, "We're going to have you all turned around in no time!"

Cat gave a faint smile as she began taking small bites of food. She wondered if she could ever really feel like a person instead of a weapon..

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Sun... Burns??

It was late in the afternoon, and Cat had the entire place to herself. The Witwicky's were out for a little while, and Bumblebee was staying quite in the garage as he spent his time finding good tunes to listen to while he was bored. Cat had fallen asleep on one of the laid out beach chairs behind the house. She'd decided that it was the best place to listen to the quiet sounds of nature. It wasn't something that she was used to knowing anything about, but it was something that was easy to get used to. The sun was her new, favorite part about being on the outside of that cold lab. It was so warm and comforting. Her muscles always felt better after bathing in the sunlight, and it was a nice reminder that no one was going to take her new found freedom away from her. Cat snored ever so slightly as she slept comfortably.

Sam and his parents came home earlier than expected, and of course they were arguing as they walked through the front door.

"I'm just saying!" Sam defended, "I'm not going out with the family again if grandma won't stop hitting on the waiters!"

"Oh, Sam!" Judy laughed, "She's not dead! Maybe she needs a little luvin' sometimes, too!"

"Besides," Ron added, "She wasn't going overboard, she was just kidding around!"

"Kidding around.. So when she told that guy, who's in my grade by the way, that she'd kiss him but she was afraid her dentures would fall out if it got too hot; that wasn't going overboard?!" Sam argued.

"Nana Witwicky has always been a little odd, you know that," Ron waved off his son.

"Yeah, well, I'm not going out to eat with all of them anymore.." Sam began to stomp his way up to his room.

"AHHHHHH!" A screech from the back of the house caught the attention from Sam and his parents.

"CAT!" The three chorused as they all made a run for the back patio. Their thoughts were uncertain. Was it a Decepticon? Did she fall, using her crutches?

The sliding glass door flew open and the family emerged from the house. Sam noticed that Bumblebee had also peered from the garage, as if to ask what the commotion was about. They caught sight of Cat on the beach chair. She was sitting up, looking over her arms and legs.

"What's going on here?!" Ron asked as they approached her.

"What happened to me?!" Cat asked, feeling a strange stinging sensation all over her legs, her left arm and even her face.

"What? You mean this?" Sam asked, poking at Cats arm, which left a faintly pale spot for several seconds before disappearing.

"Yeah! I fell asleep, and the next thing I know, I wake up and I'm red like this..." Cat explained.

Judy sighed and said, "I'll get the Aloe."

"You've been burned by the sun," Sam chuckled.

"But... I wasn't even out here that long!" Cat had never experienced a sunburn before, so of course, this confused her greatly.

"What time did you come out here?" Ron asked.

"When you guys left!" Cat said, thinking that they couldn't have been gone for more than a few minutes.

"Did you fall asleep?" Sam asked.

"Well... I suppose I did, but it hasn't been more than a few minutes!" Cat claimed.

"Cat, we've been gone for over four hours!" Ron revealed.

"...Oh damn...."

"Think of it this way, Cat," Sam laughed, "Maybe you'll get a nice tan out of this, huh?"

Cat hissed as touched her metal finger to the opposite arm and watched as it changed color, "Owie, ow ow ow..."

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Cows do what now?

Cat had gotten ready for bed hours ago. The house was quiet and airy. The siding of the house creaked as it settled during the normal cooled night. Cat sat cross-legged on her bed staring out the window, watching as a few, sparse clouds rolled by slowly and smoothly. It was a normal practice for the girl. Sometimes she just couldn't sleep, so she stayed as still and as quiet as possible to slow her thoughts and calm her soul. It was different for her, being in surroundings where she didn't have to listen to machinery 'cling' and 'clang' as well as the loud buzzing noises interrupt her sleep, and she liked it very much. The house, the neighborhood, heck the entire town was deep in slumber. Well, everything except -

"Honey, stop it!" Ron yelled in a loud whisper.

"I'm serious, Ron!" Judy's voice was distinct, even in a whisper, "Diabetes, heart problems; I could talk about all of it until the cows come home!"

"Cows?" Cat asked as she peeked outside of her bedroom door.

The couple stopped as they made their way downstairs and looked to the younger woman in surprise.

"You woke her up!" Judy lamented her husband.

"I woke her up?! I don't have a voice that can shatter glass!" Ron pointed a finger at Judy as he continued down the stairs.

Judy sighed and turned to Cat, "Sorry, sweety. You can go back to bed."

"Are... Are there cows coming?" Cat asked.

The older woman smiled and laughed lightly, "No, thank god... It's an expression. It means that you could do 'whatever' it is that you're talking about until the end of time."

"Ah..." Cat nodded in aknowledgement, "Um.. Goodnight.."

"Goodnight, dear," Judy smiled before turning back to walking down the stairs.

Cat gently closed the door and turned towards her bed. Her face had gone from relaxed, to 'what-the-hell?'. She walked back to her bed and thought "Humans think of so many odd things to say..."

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Offline

"Dammit!" Sam yelled from the back porch. He was sitting at the new outdoor patio table with his new laptop. It was evening. The sunset had nearly gone down to the point of pitch darkness, which meant-

"Yo, Sam!" A familiar voice called out from behind the back fence.

Sam looked up as he heard the metal grinding and shifting forms, seeing the headgear of Jazz pop up first. The silver bot jumped over the privacy fence and was soon followed by none other than the weapons specialist himself. Ironhide was, of course, brooding over one thing or another as he carefully stepped over the fence and made sure not to get as close as the fresh concrete that lined the yard.

"Hey guys," Sam was a bit nervous about the Autobots always popping in for a visit. It always brought Bumblebee out of hiding, and he feared one of his neighbors may see them and either have a heart attack or call the cops.... Those policeman were going to start charging them if they had to come visit the house too often...

"What's a matta?" Jazz asked with a large grin.

"Oh, it's just that I got this new computer for classes, and I can't get the wireless network card to work for more than a few seconds..." Sam answered, looking back to his computer to try and diagnose the problem at hand.

A window upstairs shot open and Cat looked out with her own grin, "Hey guys!"

"Hey, Cat!" Jazz greeted.

Ironhide 'hrmmed' and nodded in a less-than-excitable tone.

"What are you guys doing here? I thought you got your own little parking garage to stay in?" Cat asked.

"'Little' is correct.." Ironhide growled deeply, "There's not enough room for all of us to sit in our alternate forms comfortably..."

"Yeah, I think Optimus is gonna have a word with one of those contacts to get somethin' better..." Jazz agreed.

Cat frowned with empathy, "Sorry to hear that. You staying at the Lookout, then?"

"Don't have much of a choice..." Ironhide replied.

Cat smiled a little, but looked down to see Sam playing with his computer, "Oh! Sam!" she yelled.

"I'm kind of busy right now, Cat," Sam replied, annoyed that his new piece of technology was less than easy to use.

"Ummm... Okay, but I was going to tell you that the new wireless hub router is offline!"

"Offline?!" Jazz sounded shocked.

"What?! Why?!" Sam whined as he shifted quickly in his seat to look up at the girl.

Cat shrugged, "I told your dad that it just needed a little set-up and uh... He's 'fixing' it..."

"And you let him?" Sam was deeply annoyed.

"Oh, you know how he is... He gave his 'Nothing doing' speech and went on and on about how he's 'Mr. Fix-it'... I'll let him have fun with it for a while and fix it for you later, okay?" Cat laughed.

"...I guess I can start my summer work for my advanced classes on the desktop..." Sam sighed and closed the lid to the laptop.

"You can fix things after they've been offlined?" Ironhide asked.

Cat looked to the two, she herself, was confused, "Well, yeah... It's just temporary until I get it to work again later."

"Oh," Cat noticed how the two looked a little relieved as Jazz spoke, "You guys have a different meaning to 'offline' than us!"

"What's it mean to you guys?" Sam asked.

"Death, or near-death," Ironhide answered.

"Near-death?" Cat raised an eyebrow, "How can it mean both 'death' and 'near-death'?"

"Hmm," Jazz thought for a moment while he researched any terms that would fit the description of what it was he was trying to translate, "I guess the closest term for you guys is 'coma'."

"Oh," Cat and Sam both nodded slightly.

"Cat!" The girl turned back inside the house as she heard Rons' voice.

"Yeah?" she answered.

"... I think this damn thing is broken!" he yelled.

Cat turned towards Sam and the others and smiled, yelling back, "Be right there!"

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A/N

I'll have more little ficlets like this when I think of some more. In the mean time, any of you that have any ideas, I welcome any advice!