Title: Memories

Summary: Jade finds some old photos of her bondmate, HighRoad and herself, and reminisces on the first time they met. Well, in the T.F. 'verse, anyways.

(told in first-person point of view.)

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I sit here going through old photographs and holograms, and smile at some of the pictures. HighRoad and I standing out in front of the Ark, another of us in the rec. room with some friends. There's even a couple of really old photos, from back when we were dating, long before we ever entered this dimension. I hold up one picture, taken out at the Piqua Mall when I was about 16 or 17, and snicker at the faces we were making. We were just dating back then. I look at the slightly-faded photo, and realise that was almost ten years ago. I'm 25 now, and HighRoad and I have since married, and have a son who's four.

We were so in love back then. Heh. It seemed like we could never get enough of each other. Even though we lived 50 miles apart from one another, we allways found a way to get together. I curl up on my living room-balcony couch and flip through a few more, glancing over at where Highroad-er, Dennis, is sitting on the floor in front of my t.v. playing Gamecube.

I remember when we met for the first tim in this realm. smirk I was staying with my friends, the whole group of us had been zapped into this realm, and we had our own base inside a mountain... long story.

Anyways, I was out on my morning patrol around our base, and as bored as could be. Since everyone else was still asleep, and I was bored and feeling rather mischevious, I decided to give a passing semi driver a hard time. Now I admit, I was kinda dumb for not recognising the paint scheme. I just thought it was a regular (human) vehicle.

And it would have reduced our chances of having humans going through our territory and possibly discovering our base. That would have led to the Autobots at our front door. Oh, did I mention we weren't exactly friends with the Autobots? yeah.

Anyways, all I did was swing down and fly in front of the vehicle. The driver slammed on his brakes, so I thought it would be okay to fly back towards the semi and give him a little more of a scare, expecting him to slam on the brakes again.

Well, Sparkplug did jump out. But the vehicle sped up!

And transformed!

He even called me STARSCREAM!

Grrrrrr...

Ahem.

Anyways, a few more sarcastic words were exchanged before I finally flew away. (Scythe, my team-leader, caught me mid-predicament and there was no way he could help. We were too close to the base, and I really thought it was Prime, would have seen him leaving. So I was forced to run away.)

(makes a face.)

Later on, we looked back on it and laughed, though. heh. HighRoad says I should have seen the look on my face when he transformed. He still claims my optics were as round as dinnerplates. I usually just smack him rightabout that time.

grin

Anyways, HighRoad has since returned to our home-dimension, as have the rest of my friends, my old team. But HighRoad comes back to this dimension every now and again. And I'm allways just as happy to see him. He may be a pain in the aft sometimes (he's reading this over my shoulder now), but I still love him. As annoying as he can be. snickers