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You guys, I am so sorry that the story is so late updating. I have been going through a major bout of anxiety, depression, and everything else under the sun. My life has kind of just been spiraling out of control, and I hope you all can appreciate that when this story updates it means that I finally have the energy to do it. This story brings me great joy, but the process of typing and editing it is the most frustrating thing in the universe. If I could just post audio Fanfictions on this site, that would be my preferred method. However, you guys are stuck reading my unedited weirdly punctuated things. Anyway, now that you have heard me rant about myself, I will no longer allow you to carry on living this awful Steven Universe Hiatus that is how long the story has taken to update.

Episode 10.

Together.

The autobots and their human counterparts were spending a great deal of time celebrating in great joy. After all, their beloved leader, Optimus Prime, had just come back to them. Miko played her guitar as loud as Earthly possible, ratchet held his head in annoyance, and everyone else just celebrated with great joy. That was, until an alarm rang out in the base. Ratchet informed everyone that it was a high-frequency signal with an embedded message from Rowan, the daughter of Megatron, who had given them the information that had saved Optimus's life. the message read as follows.

"Autobots, I am indeed in great distress. I have fled the Nemesis, as I said I would in our last conversation. However, my sire dealt me a grave injury to my head. As I was making my way away from the Nemesis through flight atop my floating platform, I was unable to keep it afloat because it no longer had Energon to support it, and I was captured by Mech. I awoke, only to find that someone who I love was captured by them as well. He is in Far More danger than I am, as Silas obviously ordered his people to fix my injuries. However, the one I love is dying, and calling out for help to my former people, is not an option. Please help him. You Autobots are his only hope."

The room went silent. No one knew what to say. However, taking control of the situation as always, Optimus reminded his team that no matter who the former princess had with her, he could not see leaving any sentient being behind. He ordered his medic to activate the ground Bridge, and Ratchet did so. Optimus, ratchet, Arcee, and bulkhead, all went through the ground bridge, and we're very surprised at what they saw.

The Apparently former base of operations for Mech was nothing more than smoldering Ash now. The Autobots approached cautiously, expecting the young human Decepticon princess to be there. Instead, they found a Mech closely resembling Megatron, sitting on their knees, apparently holding someone in their lap. They were crying, and only when they got closer, did Arcee recognize the familiar high-pitched whimpers from the giant Mech before them.

"Rowan...?" Arcee asked, her voice quivering slightly.

Confirming the autobot femme's Theory, the large silver Mech, raised her head. One green optic was visible, as well as the fact that instead of a bucket shaped head like her sire, her head was more rounded and feminine. It was also with the raising of her head that everyone got to see the bot she held in her lap.

All of the Autobots had their own deep histories with certain members of the Decepticons. However, despite everyone knowing how awful Starscream was, they could not deny how heartbreaking it was to see the state he was currently in. Even more heartbreaking, was the site of the young princess, who had obviously figured out how to transform, and was the reason for the destruction of the base, noe crying before them. Arcee remembered Rowan saying that she loved Starscream romantically, and she would do anything for him. She was not kidding. Everyone was silent, and no one knew what to say. However, that silence was soon broken by the quivering, broken voice of the former Decepticon princess.

"Please. Help him."

Optimus motioned, and Ratchet walked over, and scan Starscream. He gave the former Decepticon princess a grave look. "He is alive, but barely hanging on by a thread."

"Is there anything you can do?" Rowan asked, the frantic and sad Aaron her voice clear.

Optimus and Ratchet exchanged a look, and what appeared to be something more, before the medic turned back to the former con princess and said, "I'll do all I can. However, we'll need to transport him to the medbay within our base."

Rowan didn't even miss a Beat. She stood, gently carrying the wounded former Commander towards the ground Bridge. Bulkhead went ahead of her, to ensure that she wouldn't do anything funny when she got in the base. All the humans gasped when someone resembling Megatron entered the room, and once everyone was back through the ground Bridge, it was closed, and all was explained.

Beep.

Ratchet had done all he could, trying to repair Starscream. It was a long and strenuous process. By the end of 12 hours since he was brought into the autobot base, Starscream was finally somewhat stable. Rowan had transformed back into her human form, and was now sitting on the commander's shoulder as she had once done in the medbay of the warship she used to call her home. She was feeling a small as she did back then. She felt like she couldn't help the commander, and even worse, the Autobots insisted on restraining him to the medical berth.

Rowan could feel the skeptical stairs of the Autobots as they gave her looks. She knew they were all wondering just why on Earth she was so desperate to help the Commander, and what on Earth she saw in him. She didn't care. In the moment that she sat on the commander shoulder, she touched his wings, but unlike before on board the Nemesis, the wings did not move when she touched them. Only when she was alone with the commander, which took some persistence with Optimus Prime to allow her to be so, she sang to him. She hoped the singing would cause some sort of reaction. She hoped the little touches she gave to his wings would be enough to help him along, but nothing worked. In the end, she was left crying.

"I know it's hard kid." said the surprisingly comforting voice of the human known as agent Fowler. Rowan raised her head, and look to the African American man standing atop a platform overlooking her. the former princess gave the government agent a questioning look, and he continued. "When I was first in my position, I was given a job tracking down a terrorist organization. I had no idea the terrorists were also tracking me as well. My now ex-wife, was hurt in an attempt by the terrorists to get to me. Even though we're divorced now, I still haven't forgiven myself. I haven't forgotten the image of her battered in that hospital bed. I know it can't be easy. If I know this Starscream guy from the stories the bots have told me, he is resilient. He'll make it through. Now, since you've clearly been awake all night, I took the liberty of bringing you some breakfast."

Rowan looked apprehensive at the brown paper bag that was held out to her by the government agent, and then she took it. An aroma she had never smelled before came from the bag, but it did not discussed her. In fact, it kind of filled her with joy, and she felt a rumbling within her. She opened the bag and removed the greasy soft thing from its paper wrapping. She gave the agent to questioning look.

"Shoot. I forgot you're half cybertronian. Do you only eat Energon?" the agent asked placing his face in his hand.

"No." Rowan said, beginning an explanation. "Energon provides me only a portion of the nutrients I need to survive. The other portion that is needed for my human form to sustain itself, is usually given to me buy white tasteless energy bars that provide me nutrition. This is very odd to me." Rowan said, holding the soft greasy thing between her fingers slightly timidly.

"I can't believe you've never had a Burger King egg and cheese croissant before. Go ahead. Try it." agent Fowler said, giving the former Decepticon princess and encouraging smile.

For Fowler, this was surreal. It was odd to see a chick who looked so human act so alien. Timidly, she sank her teeth into the greasy sandwich, and instantly a smile appeared on her face.

"Primus bless this wonderful greasy concoction." Rowan said, chewing her first bite before proceeding to take another one.

The second bight was taken with way less timidness than the first one, and in a matter of about a minute, the egg and cheese croissant from Burger King, was no more. Agent Fowler took her trash from her, and left her to her own devices. Rowan thanked him for the sandwich as he went up the elevator that would take him back to his helicopter.

Rowan was alone with the commander again. She found it odd that ratchet did not attend to the medbay earlier in the morning, but given how much the medic had worked on her friend, she knew he needed the rest. She wiped her hands on her clothing, and sat back down on the commander's shoulder with the same somber feeling she had from before. She did everything she had done before. She sang to the commander, stroked his wings, and told him she was there, but nothing happened.

She couldn't understand what was wrong. The medic had said that Starscream was stable, so why on Earth was he not waking up. She was scared that something had gone wrong in the operation; that the commander would just be a vegetable from now on. She began to cry, and speak to the commander, just as she did with her sire when she still loved him and he was in this state.

"Oh Commander, I really wish you would wake up. I feel so lost without you. I've joined the Autobots. I couldn't stay on that warship anymore. My sire has lost my trust completely, and the only one I truly care about is you. You're not here though. You were hurt, but the autobot medic fixed you. He seems competent enough, so why aren't you waking up? I need you. I can't imagine my existence without you. I know I haven't known you that long, but I feel like I've known you a lifetime. I only want you to be careful and safe. I don't want you to hurt anymore. If it is the will of Primus, then I only want your suffering to end. I know that's why you left the Decepticons, and I fully accept that decision. I accept everything about you, because... I... I love you Commander."

Rowan was incomplete hysterical sobs now, but she did the one thing she hoped would work. Ever-so-gently, while stroking one of the commanders wings, she placed a soft kiss on the side of his helm. She then sunk to a ball on his shoulder and cried, and no one expected the voice that spoke next.

"Rowan?" questioned the very weak voice of Starscream.

Rowan gasped, as did all the autobots who were not previously known to be in the room, as they had entered silently during her hysterics.

"Oh Starscream!" Rowan exclaimed, throwing her arms around the Commander's neck.

"You... you called me by my real name." Starscream said softly and happily.

"Of course. It's who you are." Rowan said, now crying happy tears.

It was at this point, that Starscream took care to notice his surroundings. He noticed that they were not on board the nemesis, so he asked the question of their location. Rowan explained everything, and then Ratchet gave Starscream a description of his medical status. Everyone feigned happiness at starscream's recovery accept Rowan. Starscream new Rowan's happiness was genuine, and he also knew something else Rowan had said just before something else he had felt before making his Consciousness known to the hysterical little princess.

Beep.

It had been about four weeks since Starscream and Rowan had entered the autobot base. Starscream had been cleared for health, but much to Rowan's anger, he was placed in stasis cuffs and placed in a prison cell. Luckily, a wing clamp was negotiated out of starscream's imprisonment. Rowan was indeed right when she told the Autobots that wing clamps were cruel. Optimus Prime agreed with her, and Rowan saw to it that all wing clamps were destroyed. she was not necessarily happy with the fact that Starscream had to stay in a prison cell, but she understood that trust needed time to build. She was sitting calmly with Starscream, when she looked at him and finally had the courage to tell him what she had said prior to him Awakening.

"Starscream, I can't tell you how happy I am to see you so well. I thought so many times that I would lose you, and that hurt me more than anything in the universe. I'm so happy to be with you. My sire and airachnid played me. they made me believe that you were dead just so that I would get back on the proper side of the Decepticons. What a cruel trick that was. In the time you were gone, I realized something I should have told you a long time ago. Starscream, I would like to start a courtship ritual with you. I love you so much, and I want you to one day be my sparkmate." Rowan said, confessing everything to the commander she loved so much.

Starscream gave the former princess a thoughtful look before saying, "I too have thought of you in much the same light. From the moment I met you, I knew there was something special and different about you. Instead of automatically assuming that I was an unwanted swine because of my treacherous actions towards your sire, you defended my right to stay the ruler of the Decepticons. You have always defended me. Just as you have done for me, I wish to always defend you as well. The reason I did not tell you sooner, is because I was afraid of your sire. I would stand to reason that this is the reason you did not tell me of your feelings beforehand. We are away from him now. It can be just the two of us. I would love you to be in my life as my mate eternal."

"Of course." Rowan said. She was lifted to the commander's shoulder, and though there was a great size difference between the two of them at the current moment, they managed their first kiss. After the kiss, Rowan was reminded of something that she needed to tell the commander. "I don't think you actually kept your love for me hidden. Dreadwing actually thought we were already mates. It's for this reason, that he actually gave me your seeker prayer wings After You're supposed death. I'll be happy to return them to you. I've placed them into my Subspace and they have been kept safe."

"You may keep them. When two seeker mates are bonded, one mate gives their prayer wings to the other to symbolize How Deeply they trust one another. Our courtship is founded upon Trust. We can only trust each other in this war, and I know you will protect those wings with your life. I trust you eternally my mate." Starscream said.

The newly-made courtship mates shared a kiss, and went to recharge, knowing they would always have each other.