Shadow laid on Bulkhead's chest listening to his spark beat. Bulkhead smiled.
"Do you like listening to my spark or something?" She nodded.
"It's warm. I remember recharging while I would listen to your spark."
"When?"
"When I was a tiny sparkling. Yours and mama's spark beats were like lullabies. They're comforting." Bulkhead smiled again.
"I heard Ellie say a sparkling's first lullaby is its mama's spark."
"Yeah. That's definitely true." Shadow held her helm with her servo.
"Do you remember your mama's spark beat?"
"Yeah I do."
"I remember mama's spark and yours too. I bet my little brothers or sisters will remember you and mama's sparkbeat too."
"Yeah. They will." Shadow yawned.
"I can't wait to meet my little brothers or sisters," she said.
"Me neither Shadow." She yawned.
"Where's mama? I want him to recharge too."
"He should be in h—" Wheeljack walked in the door and Bulkhead smiled.
"He's here now."
"Mama!"
"Hey Shadow."
"You have to recharge with us."
"Oh, do I?"
"Yeah," she said sleepily. Wheeljack smiled and sat down beside Bulkhead. Shadow looked at him sleepily.
"Night, night mama."
"Good night Shadow." Wheeljack kissed her helm. She nearly slipped off Bulkhead's chest and Wheeljack caught her.
"You'd better watch her better Bulk." Wheeljack laid down and Shadow laid between them. Bulkhead pulled the recharge blanket over their frames.
"Night Jackie."
"Night Bulk." Wheeljack felt Bulkhead pull him and Shadow closer. He smiled and let recharge take him.
A few months later
Ironelle-4months
Wheeljack-5months
"Mechs. We're having mechs," said Bulkhead. He hugged Wheeljack.
"Take it easy Bulk. Don't hurt them." He quickly sat Wheeljack down.
"We should tell Shadow. She's dying to know whether she's getting brothers or sisters."
"Yeah. You can go tell her. I'm going to take a recharge nap."
"All right Jackie." Bulkhead kissed his helm and then left to go find Shadow.
Rec-Room
Shadow was contentedly drawing on a data pad, Redcord was playing the blocks, Nova was reading something on a data pad, and Luna sat watching them with her stuffed petro rabbit in her arms. Bulkhead walked in and Shadow looked up.
"Hi daddy!"
"Hey Shadow. How about you come with me. I need to talk to you."
"Ok!" She stood up and grabbed the data pad.
"See ya Shadow."
"Bye Red!" Bulkhead picked her up and took her out of the room.
"What did you need to talk to me about daddy?"
"Mama figured out what the sparklings are going to be."
"Really?"
"Yeah. You're going to get brothers."
"Awesome! Are they still kicking?"
"Yeah."
"Mama said they kick him at the same time and throw him off balance." Bulkhead chuckled.
"Yeah. I need to watch him." Shadow giggled.
"My little brothers like being pain in the afts don't they?"
"Yeah they do Shadow."
Med-bay
Ratchet rolled his optics.
"Please daddy!?"
"Fine Red. I will. Just don't tell your mama."
"I won't." Red smiled and hugged Ratchet's pede. He smiled and picked up Red.
"Is my sister going to be here soon?"
"In several more months Red."
"How long is that?"
"4 months."
"Aww. That's a long time! I hope it goes by fast."
"Me too Red." Ratchet kissed his helm and Red laid against Ratchet's shoulder.
"Why are the Cons bad?"
"Because they're just like that Red."
"Mama why are there secrets? I don't like secrets."
"There just are Shadow. I don't like them either." Shadow laid against Wheeljack's chest.
"Why do bots keep them?" Wheeljack didn't know what to say.
"I don't know Shadow. There's a whole bunch of different reasons."
"Why did you keep me a secret?"
"Because...I was embarrassed."
"You were embarrassed of me? Why?" Wheeljack was silent and Shadow laid against his abdomen.
"You don't have to tell me why if you don't want to mama. I don't think I want to know."
"All right sweet spark." The white mech gently stroked her helm. Shadow smiled.
"Mama what are you and daddy going to name my brothers?"
"We still haven't decided Shadow."
"Are you going to decide soon?"
"We have Ideas but we haven't decided."
"What are your ideas?" Wheeljack smiled and grabbed a data pad with the ideas.
"Daddy's been teaching you to read Cybertronian right?"
"Yep!"
"Let's see if you can read these." Wheeljack turned on the data pad and he underlined the first word.
"I know your daddy's pen-bot-ship isn't the best but I can read it. Hopefully you can." Shadow looked at the underlined symbols.
"Impactor?"
"Yeah." She read the rest.
"Wild Flame. Roadbuster. Red Zone. Whitefire." Wheeljack smiled.
"You got them all. You can read Cybertronian well."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome Shadow." Shadow kissed Wheeljack's cheek and laid against his chest.
"I love you mama."
"I love you too sweetspark."