Trapped

She was lying on the cold hard ground, not knowing where she was. She felt terrible, she felt numb. Every part of her body she could still feel hurt, from helm to toe. Her spark was beating hardly, skipping every second beat. The only positive thing which came to her mind was that she was alive… but was her enemy she had to work with as well? She didn't know where he was or if he was still alive, and she worried a little. The mech was helping her out at some point…

She soon tried to move her injured servo and soon realized that she could move it, so it wasn't broken anymore. Soon, she started regaining mobility after a long time… she didn't know how much time she spent at the place, but she knew it had to be a long period of time if her wounded servo already recovered.

She tried opening her optics, but as she moved, the pain got bigger and she couldn't manage to open them at all. She never knew electricity could do such damage to Cybertronian beings. The place she was in was icy, and she didn't really stand the cold as she was weak from the things she's been through, including battles, running and fighting with the mech who brought them into the trouble at the first place.

As it was freezing cold, she curled up a bit to warm herself up, but it didn't work. She soon silently moaned and turned at the other side, but it wasn't really helping, but after a few seconds, she felt somehow warmer, so she decided to bring herself closer to the source of the warmth.

She soon came closer to it and nuzzled her head at some metal which felt like a pillow beneath her. She slightly smiled and sighed as it wasn't so cold anymore.

Soon, the metal moved and she fell at the ground, but it didn't really hurt, so she had no reason to open her optics. She came closer to the source of warmth again, but then suddenly felt the metal wrapping around her waist… having hands.

She started opening her optics slowly, but as her sight was still blurry, she could only see a black and gray background with some red points at it which were slowly getting wider. As soon as her sight went back to normal, she widened her bright blue optics and opened her mouth, just like he did in the same time. The silver mech and the blue femme stayed a second in the same position as before from the shock of being only an inch away from each other's faces, and then they both loudly shrieked and swiftly stood up, but as the little place wasn't big enough, they hit their heads into the metal, bounced away from it and then slammed their foreheads.

They both backed off of each other and put a servo at their foreheads as it hurt. Then, Arcee looked at Starscream and narrowed her optics. As he saw that with peripheral sight, he looked at her as well.

"If we ever get out of this… don't tell anybody about it", he stated and she got angry.

"You're telling this to me? You're the chatty one!" she angrily stated, but he didn't care, he just looked around and saw that they were in some kind of metal box. The only visible things were the edges of the box and the blue femme looking at him like she wanted to kill the seeker.

"Whatever", –He stated, leaned back, put his servos behind his head and crossed his legs. Then he half-closed his optics and smirked into her direction.

As she knew he wanted to tease her once again, she sat at her shins and started looking around so she would see if there was a way out, but she couldn't detect it, so she started handling it on her own. She tried to pull up the ceiling of the metal box, but it couldn't be moved. Then she started scratching the walls with her blades, but it was too thick to simply cut through it. As nothing seemed to work, she started tackling the box and finally heard him chuckle, so she looked at him sternly. The mech was still in the comfortable position he was before, the only difference was that there was a bigger smile on his faceplate at the moment.

"So you're just gonna sit there and do nothing while I'm trying the hardest I can?" she angrily asked and he raised an optic ridge, still having his optics half-closed.

"Well… I love to see you try", he silently answered and compressed his hands at his chest. She narrowed her optics.

"You love to see the others in pain", she stated and he grinned.

"That actually depends… I love to see you in pain, you know… So weak and defenseless… I can't really manage to offline you as you're just asking me to spare your pathetic little Autobot life", he said and she showed her dentals in fury.

"You're such an aft!" she angrily stated and he widened his optics as he heard that.

"What?!" he loudly asked and she smirked as she saw that something finally hit him.

"An aft", she repeated and he narrowed his optic ridges.

"I heard it, you glitch!"

Hearing that, she narrowed her optic ridges as well and replied: "How did you call me, you overgrown chicken?!"

He gasped and lowered his optic ridges for a second, but then narrowed them again to return: "Overgrown chicken?! You're calling me an overgrown chicken, you ignorant femme?!"

She smugly smiled and crossed her servos. He realized that the bandage he was working on for so long was already gone.

"Yes, yes I am. Oh, and I'm not ignorant, you idiot", she replied.

"Me? An idiot?! How can scientists be idiots? Look at yourself, you wretch, then comment on someone else!" he angrily stated and she rolled her optics.

"Here we go again… You're such an oaf! How could you be a fragging scientist if you're dumb like your processor had burned down!?"

"You just keep talking, don't you, you Mini-Con?"

She narrowed her optics even more as she hated it when someone would underestimate her power just because of her size.

"You're such a... stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerve-wrecker!"

He narrowed his optics and sneered, replying: "Who's scruffy looking?"

She narrowed her optics even more.

"You."

"Well... then... you're a wheeled trash can!" he exclaimed and narrowed his optics even more as well.

"Well, you're a spike heeled can!" she exclaimed and neared her face to his, meeting his optics.

"You're such a… beautiful monster!" he shouted into her faceplates and she backed off, raising an optic ridge.

She pointed her index finger at him and asked: "Wait… did you just call me… beautiful monster?"

As she asked that, he widened his optics and turned his head into another direction so she wouldn't see he was a little ashamed.

Soon, he narrowed his optics and looked at her once again, justifying himself: "No… I said vengeful… that's entirely different…"

"It surely didn't sound like that… but fine, whatever", she stated and slightly smiled; turning around from him so he wouldn't see that he actually made her smile. In the same time, he felt too awkward to look at her as well, so he turned around.

Soon, the metal place they were in got even icier, and Arcee crossed her servos and shivered. Being a two-wheeler, she wasn't built for cold weather; it would only freeze her circuits.

As it was cold, she remembered the first time she was in the snow, in the Arctic, together with Optimus. She started freezing as soon as she stepped out on the snow, but she didn't want to show it to her leader who tended to care a lot about them all. After a long time of marching through the snow, the two of them couldn't really move along as their whole body was slowly getting too cold; they couldn't move anymore, and it was her fault. She started freezing first. Her leader could have moved on, but he didn't… he stayed with her, even though he could have made it… He wanted to stay close to her; he even held her hand as they thought it would be the end, though it wasn't…

As she remembered her former, great leader, her optics got slightly wet and she lowered her optic ridges. Surprisingly, Starscream saw the look at her faceplates and raised an optic ridge, wondering why she was sad.

"Um… is everything alright?" he silently asked and she widened her optics in surprise to hear his voice. The least thing which she expected was that he would show some kind of concern.

"Yes, I'm ok… It's just a little cold over here, that's all", she silently answered, but he knew there was something else.

He sat at his shins and put his servos at the ground, continuing: "Yeah, the chilliness would totally explain the tear which is sliding down your faceplate at this moment", he sarcastically said and slightly smiled.

She realized that he was right and quickly wiped the sliding tear off. She didn't want to correct herself as she didn't want him to know about her sadness because of the fact that the last Prime was gone. As she didn't respond anymore, he shrugged his shoulders and wanted to let it go, but she soon shivered and he knew she was freezing. He raised an optic ridge and looked away from her, into the corner.

"You know, femmes aren't really built to withstand such coldness", he stated as nothing else came to his mind and she looked over to him. He saw that her optics were still wet, and he couldn't help but to like that she was in pain.

"You think?" she angrily asked and his smile got a little bigger.

"Ugh… I know", he corrected himself and she rolled her optics.

"Like you'd ever care", she silently stated and his smile disappeared for a few seconds. Then, he tilted his head to look at her from another position, slightly smiling.

"Not that I care for you or anything. No, it's just that I'm not really warm as well… You know, there's a tactic to stay warm when you have nothing but yourself and one or two companions…"

She rolled her optics and sighed, immediately saying: "I'm not going to get closer to you, scream. Not now, not in billions of years, I'd rather die than cuddle with you!"

He actually expected her to say something like that; he knew she would never trust him again. He could stab her, after all.

"Oh well, it's not that I'm going to die from the cold… It's you whom I'm trying to protect here, you know?" he smugly smiled and she narrowed her optics. She soon turned around and raised her head into the air to point out that she wasn't going to listen to him. He rolled his optics and his smile got a little smaller again.

"Fine, as you wish. Can't wait to see you frozen on the ground… I just hope the humans will experiment on you first and that they won't know you're dead", he said like he was disappointed and nuzzled his head at the wall. He gently stroked it with his cheek and closed his optics to go into recharge to keep his energy.

She was just sitting at the same place for a few minutes, her circuits slowly getting frozen. Then, she looked over to the silver mech and saw that he was fine, tightly sleeping. She knew if she wouldn't get closer, she'd really freeze and Starscream would be right. She didn't want to get closer to the seeker, she felt abomination at a simple though of cuddling with him… he was her worst enemy and he was anything but accepted by her… but did she have a choice?

She knew that she even said that she would rather die than cuddle with him, but now she realized that it could really mean her doom, and she still didn't want to leave yet. She sighed and slowly crawled over to the seeker whose body was in a sitting position. Only the thought of sitting right next to him was unacceptable, but still, she wanted to stay alive. She looked up at the ceiling of the metal room and slightly shook her head.

"Why?" she sadly asked.

As she asked that, she looked back to the seeker and saw that he was asleep, so she didn't have to feel that uncomfortable. She thought she'd be long gone away from him when he'd finally wake up.

After another few seconds of hesitating if she would or wouldn't get closer, she finally decided to get right next to him. She sat down and carefully pushed herself towards the seeker's body which was resting right next to her. She lowered her optic ridges. After another few cycles, she put her head at his shoulder and felt that he actually wasn't cold at all, he was warm.

She soon yawned as the cold and the warm mixed up, making her sleepy. Regardless of the fact that she was scared and disgusted by being next to him, she somehow felt safe. She knew the last thing she should do in the situation she was in right then was to sleep, but she didn't have a lot of energy as she didn't eat for a long time. She soon couldn't help it; she was trying to keep her optics open, but they were persistent, they wanted to shut close so she could fall asleep. So she did. As she was already asleep, she started sliding away from the shoulder towards the chest.

Then, the silver seeker felt something at his chest plate, so he opened his optics to see a blue femme sleeping at it. He widened his optics and gasped in disgust to see one of his worst enemies sleeping on him, but he knew he provoked it. He offered her his warmth at the first place.

He was looking at her face as it was facing his one. Her mouth was half-opened and her optics were closed. As much as he hated her, he couldn't help but to think that she looked adorable as she was sleeping.

He didn't know how and why, but he soon got used to it. He half-closed his optics and slightly smiled. Then, he carefully pushed her away so that she would lean onto his shoulder again, putting a servo around her to comply her. He soon started to get drowsy as well so he decided to go into recharge once again. He soon turned his head into her direction and put his chin at the top of her helmet to comply her with it as well.

"Pull yourself together, Scream, it's just for survival", he said as he had a hard time of accepting the fact that she was cuddling with him. He felt poorly from her nearness in such a way, still, he did not hate the moment completely... he just disliked it.