The next day found Jazz in Prowl's office content on filling the datsun in on things about sparklings he didn't know. When Prowl had to focus on a report with full attention, Jazz entertained himself and the sparkling by humming to it. Making the sparkling zip around in excitement sending Jazz happy vibes in appreciation. Prowl stiffened as he started having happy feelings shoot into his spark that weren't his own, remaining calm he placed a hand on his chasis wondering whether or not he should comm Ratchet. "Prowler? What's the matter?"

Prowl noticed the feelings die away a little "My spark. Some things wrong with it."

Jazz shot up from the chair he was lounging in grinning madly "Prowl I think you've finally connected to our sparkling! What happened to make the feelins appear?"

Prowl leaned back in his chair being mindful of his doorwings "Well you started humming and..."

Jazz raised a hand "Say no more!"

With that statement he started humming again barraging Prowl with happy notions making him happy in turn "Primus." he whispered.

"This is the sparklings feelings?"

Jazz sat on his desk "Yep. It likes it when I talk and hum but it loves it when I sing. Come ta think of it, it loves ANY sound I make. It also loves hearin' your voice to."

Prowl stared at him wonder etched onto his face "Really? It responds to me as well. Why can I barely sense it then?"

Jazz shrugged "Maybe cause you've only jus' become aware of the bond it'll take a while b'fore ya can feel it as easily as I can."

Prowl accepted that answer than checked his internal chronometer "Come on Jazz we have Ratchet's appointment to get you to."

Jazz whined "Do we haveta go?"

Smiling in amusement Prowl seized Jazz lightly around the wrist "You know we do."

Jazz sighed dramatically but followed along without much of a resistance on the way he said "Wish Ratch could tell us the gender so we'd stop callin the poor lil thing it."

"Yes well according to the datapad we won't be able to know til the first month and a half of your pregnancy at the earliest."

"That sucks. Still what do you think it'll be? A mech or a femme?"

"Who can say. There's a fifty percent chance of either."

"I know. I guess what I'm askin' is what would you prefer."

"As long as it's healthy I don't mind. Besides it can only be one or the other."

"Now I know your purposely tryin ta annoy me."

"Jazz I'm only being truthful based on facts."

"Yeah I know. Still I think a lil femme might be nice, long as Sides kept his hands to himself."

"Sideswipe comes within one hundred meters of our sparkling and he's going to the brig."

Jazz laughed "Warning, Police line do not cross."

Prowl smiled "Exactly."

Ratchet looked up as the two officers walked in with a happy aura radiating off the both at them, he was pleased that things were going well dispute the unusual circumstances. He just had that niggling feeling though that Primus wasn't finished with him and at this point Ratchet was inclined to think "Bring it on."

"Jazz, Prowl I suspect you're here for the check up?"

Jazz sat down "I am Ratch he's jus' the emotional support. Speaken of emotions sparklets finally senden her daddy some love."

Ratchet looked at Prowl "Oh? Is that so."

Prowl nodded "Yes when Jazz started humming I got pangs of unexplained happiness in my spark."

Ratchet hooked up the scanner "Well that's really good for a new forming bond. There we go. There's your sparkling."

Jazz smiled at the awe on Prowl's face at the tiny blip on scream zooming about in its self chosen patterns. Ratchet looked at the readings nodding occasionally at the results satisfied all was well, "Jazz could you hum or sing now? So I can monitor the sparklings reaction."

Jazz tapped the berth "Hm. Well singin' gets a stronger reaction so I'll sing a few lines then. Lets see... We were strangers starting out on our journey, never dreaming what we'd have to go through, now here we are and I'm suddenly standing, at the beginning with you..."

Jazz paused smiling as the sparkling kicked up it's speed. Fascinated Ratchet motioned him to continue, Jazz looked at Prowl "Prowl you know the other part of this song don'tcha?"

Prowl nodded he had heard it a few times, Jazz grinned "Well could ya sing it with me? The sparkling loves ya to ya know."

Slightly unsure Prowl nodded picking up where Jazz left off "No one told me I was going to find you, unexpected what you did to my heart, when I lost hope you were there to remind me, this is the start,"

Ratchet's face grew amazed as the sparkling started moving in completely new patterns making figure eights, a star shape and spiral so he motioned for the two bots to keep singing whilst he recorded this. Jazz and Prowl picked it up again "And life is a road and I want to keep going, love is a river I want to keep flowing, life is a road now and forever, a wonderful journey, I'll be there when the world stops turning, I'll be there when the storm is through, In the end I wanna be standing, at the beginning with you."

Ratchet commed Wheeljack to come and see this to make sure he was actually seeing what he thought he was as the sparkling zoomed in a zig-zag pattern, zoomed left, up, down, right then spiralling again "We were strangers on a crazy adventure, never dreaming how our dreams would come true, now here we stand unafraid of the future, at the beginning with you,"

Wheeljack entered the medbay raising an optic at the singing bots but was soon ushered to the monitor that Ratchet was watching his fins flashing in shock as he watched the sparklings movements shift from a criss cross pattern to figure eight "And life is a road and I want to keep going, love is a river I want to keep flowing, life is a road now and forever, a wonderful journey, I'll be there when the world stops turning, I'll be there when the storm is through, In the end I wanna be standing, at the beginning with you."

Wheeljack looked at Ratchet to the screen, back to Ratchet, to the screen then fell on his aft on the brink of crashing "I knew there was somebody somewhere, like me alone in the dark, now I know that my dream will live on, I've been waiting so long, nothings gonna tear us apart,"

Ratchet hauled him up again, "And life is a road and I want to keep going, love is a river I want to keep flowing, life is a road now and forever, a wonderful journey, I'll be there when the world stops turning, I'll be there when the storm is through, In the end I wanna be standing, At the beginning with you. Life is a road and I wanna keep going,love is a river I wanna keep going on...Starting out on a journey."

The sparkling whizzed around in anticipation "Life is a road and I wanna keep going, love is river I wanna keep flowing, in the end I wanna be standing, at the beginning with you."

As there voices faded on the last line the sparklings movements settled down to it's normal pattern of left, right, left, right, up, down, up, down, corkscrew twist. Wheeljack still seemed pretty dazed "That." he said "Is so not normal."

Ratchet rubbed his helm "Your telling me, at least I know I'm not seeing things."

Jazz stared at them "What's wrong?"

Wheeljack continued "Well I'm sure Ratchet has told you sparklings move in set patterns varying from lazy circles to side to side right?"

Jazz and Prowl nodded having also read that in a datapad "Well that pattern is MEANT to stick. Its pattern is a way to keep itself stable but your sparkling completely defies that and yet still manages to remain stable. It's... well it's amazing!"

Jazz grinned "Well what do ya expect? A sparkling of me an' Prowler's has no chance of bein' a borin' mech."

Prowl smiled a little "Or femme."

Jazz nodded enthusiastically "Or femme."

Ratchet unhooked the scanner and grumbled "The lil slagger better settle down soon or the nanites won't be able to contain it in it's protoform long enough to be self sufficient when it's due."

Jazz and Prowl both shared a worried look so Ratchet supplied Jazz's cube of richer energon and shooed them out of his medbay.

Wheeljack stared at his old friend "You haven't told them about the chances of the spark extinguishing on its own have you?"

Ratchet vented feeling tired "Why worry them when it may not happen Jack?"

Wheeljack sighed as well "And what if it does Ratch and Jazz doesn't know why and blames himself. He should at least know how high the chances are before he gets too attached. You know as well as I do that Prowl would hurt having recently connected with the sparkling but Jazz would be absolutely destroyed!"

Ratchet sat down "Did you see Jazz's face when he saw their sparkling Jack? It was filled with so much joy... I couldn't ruin the moment for him with things that could cause him nightmares and a loss of rest putting strain on his body and extinguishing the spark anyway."

Wheeljack quietened at that valid point. He'd worked with Ratchet a long time to know that sparklings before and for a while after birth were delicate things. He'd seen couples devastated because their sparkling extinguished for seemingly no reason six weeks in, or another couple he'd felt bad for as their sparkling died minutes after its birth, or the one he'd never forget was the carrier had lost her bonded in a Decepticon raid and consumed by grief had neglected to refuel and lost the sparkling. Wheeljack never saw that femme again so he couldn't be sure if she had the will to live or not any more.

That was something that worried him greatly.

With bonded couples should their sparkling die they had each other to get through the pain and the hurt, with Jazz... Wheeljack prayed it never came to that as he could just tell that if something happened to it Jazz would never recover, he knew many unbonded mechs and femmes usually just took their lives in situations like that. Fed up with the hurt aching in their sparks they just ended it. Wheeljack watched Ratchet prepare a few more of Jazz's cubes noting the medic was taking extreme care with every ingredient he added, he'd been the medic's friend long enough to know that everything Ratchet was doing he was doing to ensure a happy outcome.

Wheeljack place a gentle hand on Ratchet's shoulder saying quietly "I still think they should know but I know you're doing all you can and more. And you know if you ever need help all you need to do is call."

Ratchet smiled "Thanks Jack."

Wheeljack's fins flashed happily as he worked with Ratchet in companionable silence.