Hey Everyone! I know it has been a while and I know you have waited a long time for the next chapter. SO! Here it is! Sorry it took so long but I couldn't stop writing and then I got off topic so I had to back track and wrap this chapter up! By the way! I know I said in my last chapter that I was going to put Criminal Minds in here. But I messed up and killed the guy I needed. SO! I wrote a new story. It is a crossover story! It is called, "For Family." ANYWAY! I hope you all check that out and I hope you enjoy this chapter! Here is Chapter 20!

Units Of Time As I Use Them:

Nano-klick : Second

Klick : Minute

Cycle : Hour

Joor : Day

Orn : Week

Decacycle : 3 Weeks

Groon : Month

Metacycle : Year

:Is comm talk:

::Is Bonded talk::

Disclaimer : I own nothing! But I own Jemma, Jacey, Jaylon, Linley and Hacks!

11 Metacycles Later

The last 11 Metacycles had gone by faster than any one could have guessed. Wheeljack and Skyfire's twins are great at keeping Sideswipe and Sunstreaker under control with their pranks, Jemma is studying under her carrier's optics. She is learning the medical sciences, or at least she is trying to. She is well known for her wrench throwing skills just like her carrier.

Jazz's creators finally had their second creation a little over 3 metacycles ago. They had a mech and named him Vincent.

The TIC was happy for his creators and having little Vincent around made him smile. He was constantly reminded of when Linley was little.

Linley on the other hand spent much of her free time travelling on Cybertron. She usually went alone but never turned either of her parents down if they asked to come with her.

The first time she went she had asked Prime's permission and had left without telling her parents. She was in a local club having a small cube of high grade 2 orns later, when she got the comm from her parents. :LINLEY!: She winced and finished her high grade.

:Yes?:

:WHERE THE PIT ARE YOU?:

:Care to not yell at me?:

:Your Carrier is worried sick about you and so am I. We thought you were having fun with some of your friends and we then find out that they have not seen you in 2 orns and I found out from my sire that you asked him if you could travel 2 orns ago. Why did you not tell us or ask us?:

Linley replied sourly, :Because you would have acted exactly like this. I make be young in your optics but I am not stupid! You need to trust me!:

Prowl sighed. :We do trust you sweet spark. We are just worried because this is the first time you have been away for so long.:

:If you trust me than you will patiently wait for me to come back home!: She ended the comm. She groaned and left the club.

Why couldn't her creators trust her? She went outside and saw a familiar bot. "Prowl sent you. Didn't he…"

"He was worried and asked me to follow you."

"How long have you been following me?"

"I have been following since a few joors before you left; he figured that if I followed you, instead of him, that it would feel less like you were being followed."

Linley growled. "Allow me to send a message to my sire, Jemma." She tugged a cord out of the back of Jemma's neck which caused her aunt to fall in to stasis. "Well I guess my trip is going to be cut short this time around.", she sighed.

She carried her aunt all the way back to base. She commed her sire.

:Can you meet me in the medbay in about 5 klicks?:

:Sure.:

The comm ended. Linley knew her sire would get there first. She walked in with an offline Jemma in her arms. "Jemma? Linley! What happened to Jemma?"

"Ask your son, Grand-carrier." She placed her aunt on the medical berth.

"Prowl?" The tactician sighed.

"I sent her to keep an optic on Linley."

"You sent my daughter, your sister after your creation?"

Linley bowed and left the medbay.

"WE ARE NOT DONE HERE LINLEY!"

She turned around calmly and bowed. "But we are. I am moving out!" She stormed off.

She went to find her carrier and found him in his office.

"Sweetspark! How have you … What is wrong?"

"Did you know about Jemma?"

"That Jemma is training with Ratchet to become a medic?"

"No. Did you know that Sire sent Jemma after me?"

"No. I did not. I thought she was still on base training with Ratchet."

"I am moving out. I will be gone by the end of the joor."

"Baby!" The TIC hugged his daughter tight. "Please do not go…"

"I am sorry carrier. But I have to. But I will make you a deal. Don't tell Sire where I am going and I will not cut you from my life."

The saboteur nodded slowly. "Deal…"

Linley went back to the house and moved all of her stuff out. She moved it to flat not too far away. It was overlooking the whole city. Linley locked her flat and drove back to the club she had been attending for the last 2 orns.

"Hey! I thought I would never see you in here again."

She turned around and smiled at her door winged friend. "Mimi. I told you I would come back."

"True. But a lot of bots tell me they will come back. You are the first I have seen. Have you given any thought to my offer?"

"I have. I will go to the school with you. But I do not know if I am smart enough."

"Come! I will take you to a good friend of mine and he can tell you." The two femmes left the club and sped down the road.

"Hey femmes! I never thought I would see you again Linley."

"Hacks, I told Mimi that I would be back."

"She is willing to go to the school with me but we need to see if she is smart enough."

"She needs at least 150."

Hacks held out his servo. "Let us find out." The visored femme took his servo and followed him in to another room.

20 klicks later she came out with a smile plastered on her face.

"And and and and?"

"167!"

"Congratulations Linley! You are almost smarter than me."

"What do you mean?"

"I am 171." The two femmes squealed.

"Thank you, Hacks!"

"Do your creators know you are here?"

"No… Jazz and Prowl are too busy to care about me. Thank you again for your help."

"Anytime you two." The two friends left the older home and sped down the street toward the direction they started from.

5 metacycles later.

Jazz was concerned. His daughter had been gone for 5 metacycles… Where had she gone? Prowl got angry and threw himself in to his work.

"Prowl… You need to take a break."

"Why? So I can go crazy because I know that my daughter hates me?"

"She does not hate you, baby."

"Jazz… She left! What could say, 'I hate you, sire.', more than that?"

Jazz sighed. There was a knock at the door. "Come in." A young looking bot with a few scuff marks, grey in colour with faded green stripes walked in.

"Are you Jazz and Prowl?"

Prowl said nothing and Jazz looked at the bot with interest. Who was this mech and where had he come from?

"I am Jazz, Third in command of the Autobot family, and this is Prowl Second in command of the Autobot family. How can we help you?"

"She never mentioned that…"

"Who mentioned what?"

"Do you know a bot named Linley?"

Prowl's helm shot up and was going to say something when Jazz stopped him.

"Linley is our daughter. Why do you want to know and who are you?"

The bot bowed. "I am very sorry. This is very rude of me. My name is Hacks. I got the name from being so good at hacking in to computers and such. Spent a few metacycles on a planet called earth and I have been back here for almost 6 metacycles. I live a few cities over. My friend Mimi and her best friend Linley have been spending time at my place over the metacycles."

"But why tell us? She clearly left and wanted nothing to do with us."

"PROWL!"

"What? It is true!"

"Can you at least let the mech finish what he wanted to say?"

Prowl nodded.

"Sorry. Please continue."

"Your daughter is very smart. She is about to finish her third academy degree. I thought I would surprise her and invite her family to her graduation. The only names she gave about her family were the two of you." Jazz had tears welling up in his optics.

"When is her graduation?"

"In 4 joors. Are you going to come?"

"Of course we will. If you will excuse me I have a few other bots to tell." After speaking the tactician left the room.

"Please have a seat Hacks. I would love to know whatever else you can tell me about Linley."

"What would you like to know?"

"Well to start you said that she is about to finish her third degree."

"That is correct."

"Well what were her first two and what is the one she is getting?"

"Her first one was her medical degree. The second one was her scientist degree. And the one she is working right now is her engineering degree."

"Wow… she has kept herself busy."

The hacker nodded and looked at the floor.

"Hacks what is wrong…"

"There is another reason she never came back."

"Linley and I fell in love and have been bonded for about 2 metacycles." Jazz smiled.

"Well I am a little disappointed that I did not get to meet you first… But I do not see why we can't spend some time together and both Prowl and I get to know you. If Linley fell in love with you, I am sure that you are something special to her and that means you are something special to us as well. We just have to get to know you. That is all."

"Linley actually never wanted me to meet you. She never wanted to come back… after she finished her current degree she wanted us to move from the city and start fresh somewhere. But I could see that it was killing her and since we bonded I can feel her pain and I felt a sense of duty. A sense of duty to search you out and see if you would at least be willing to come with me to her graduation and then take it from there."

Jazz gave Hacks a quick hug. "Thank you Hacks, for coming to find us."

The Mech nodded. "There is one more thing you need to know. Linley… She is in the second stage of carrying."

Jazz sat in shock. He did not know what to say. He tried to think clearly for a klick. The joor started off like any other joor, the usual work and meetings. Then while trying to get his bonded to relax and calm down and or take a break. A bot he has never seen before comes in and says he knows Linley.

Not only does he know Linley, but he is bonded to her and now his daughter is going to have a creation of her own. "If you will excuse me, I have a lot of news to pass on. On second thought, you come with me. It will make this a little easier."

"Ok." The two mechs stood up and Jazz tried his bond with Prowl.

::Prowler?::

::Yes Jazz?::

::Have you told anyone yet?::

::No. Looking for my carrier.::

::Okay. Do not tell anyone. Call a meeting.::

::A meeting?::

::Yes. Call a meeting for my creators, your creators and us. There is a lot of information that needs to be told and I believe it is best for it to be told at once.::

::What about Vincent and Jemma?::

::Bring them too. I will find my creator's you find yours and we will meet in the meeting room in 20 klicks?::

::See you then.::

"Okay the plan has been set. You are coming with me but try not to say anything until we have everyone. I am not sure if the story can be handled more than once."

"Understood." The younger bot smiled and followed the TIC out of the office and down the corridor. The saboteur knocked on his creator's door.

A klick later the door slid open. "I need you, Vincent and sire to come with me." Adora nodded, picked up her son and went to get her bonded.

They quietly followed their oldest creation down the corridor until he motioned for them to enter the meeting room. One by one they entered and sat down.

"Jazz why are we here?"

"Because there is something both you and Prowl's parents need to know and I do not know if anyone could handle the story twice. Nor do I want to tell it more than once. We are just waiting for Prowl, Jemma, Ratchet, and Prime."

"Jazz, what could be so important that it could not wait 3 cycles, since that is the end of my shift."

"Well good morning to you too, Ratchet."

Once everyone was seated Jazz motioned to Hacks, who stood up and stood next to the TIC.

"Everyone this is Hacks. I will let him do the explaining."

"Hello, everyone. As Jazz told you my name is Hacks. I lived on the planet earth about for a few years and have been back on Cybertron for about 6 metacycles now. I got the name from hacking computer and codes so well on earth. When I came back to Cybertron I decided to keep the name. I came searching for Jazz and Prowl because of a bot named Linley."

Almost every helm in the room shot up and stared in shock at the mech who was speaking. Most of the bots had not seen or heard from the femme in 5 metacycles. Jazz spoke up.

"Before you get any farther, I should tell you who all these bots are. You know who I am. Next to me is my carrier, Adora and this little mech is my younger brother Vincent. Then there is Aphilo, he is my Sire."

Jazz then pointed to the other side of the table.

"You know Prowl. Next to him is Ratchet. That is Prowl's carrier, than there is Optimus Prime, head of the autobots and Prowl's Sire and finally, the femme on the end is Jemma. She is Prowl's younger sister."

Hacks nodded. "Even though my name is Hacks, I am a great hacker as my name suggests, I am also an inventor. Anyway… Back to the point of this meeting… Linley, her best friend Mimi and I have been spending a lot of time together and eventually Linley and I started dating. We started dating after she finished her first academy degree."

The medic interrupted. "Her first degree? How many does she have?"

"She has two right now and in 4 joors she will have finished her 3rd and final one and before you ask. If you let me finish the explanation I will tell you what 3 degrees she went after."

Ratchet nodded and said nothing more.

"When we started dating she had just finished her medical degree. We continued to date while she finished her second degree, which was her scientist degree. Keep in mind that she finished both these two degrees in 3 metacycles, total. After she finished that degree I asked her a very important question. I asked her if she would bond with me."

Most of the bots in the room gasped in shock.

"She said yes. I was more than happy. I was explaining to Jazz earlier that Linley does not know I am here. When I asked her to bond, I told her we could go anywhere and do anything she wanted. She told me that she would love that but there was one place she never wanted to go and that was to come back here. She told me that once she finished her engineering degree, which is the one she is on now, she wanted to pack up and move somewhere and start fresh."

Prowl looked at the floor and continued to listen.

"We have been bonded for 2 metacycles and now, Linley is just finishing her third and final degree."

Prime spoke up. "Why is her third degree her final degree?"

"Two reasons. First reason, she said that she did not want any more degrees, she only wanted the three she has. Reason two. She is in the second stage of carrying." Prowl, Ratchet and Prime looked shocked and Jemma sighed.

Adora and Aphilo smiled.

"Congratulations!" Every bot looked at Adora who was smiling and held her servo out to the inventor.

"I am sure the two of you will make great creators." Hacks smiled and relaxed a little. This had gone better then he first thought it would. Aphilo nodded and did the same. "We really mean it. Linley is a great femme and if you caught her optic then you are something special."

"Thank you, sir. Before any of you leave. I will admit. I came here for another reason. Linley is graduating in 4 joors and I am open to take all of you back with me if any of you want to come."

Jemma stuck up her servo. "I will go."

Adora did the same.

"I have stuff that needs to be finished. So I sadly can't go with you." Every bot looked at Aphilo.

"I understand."

Prime smiled and looked at his oldest creation. "Are you and Jazz going to go?" The SIC looked at his bonded and his bonded nodded.

The SIC looked back at his sire, "Yes, Jazz and I are going to go."

"I want to go. Ratchet?"

"I am not missing my only grand-creation's graduation."

"That settles that then. I will put Ironhide in charge until we get back. When are we leaving?"

"We can leave as soon as I am done talking. I have a few homes in the city. I can't have you staying at my place without Linley seeing you." Everyone stood. "Adora. You can bring Vincent if you want. It is up to you."

With that they left the base and left the city.

::Baby?::

::Yes Linley?::

::I came home from school and you were not here. You okay?::

:: I am fine. I just went to see a friend from out of town. I was fixing something for him and I thought that I would give it back to him.::

::Oh, will you be home soon? If not Mimi wants me to spend some time helping her with a project.::

::Go have fun dear. I will see you tonight.::

::Okay, I love you.::

::Love you too.::

The comm ended and Hacks stopped and went up the front steps. "This one is a two berth room home. Ratchet, Optimus and Jemma you can stay here." He opened the door for them and head to the next house. This is one berth room. "Prowl and Jazz, you can stay here." He opened that door for the two of them.

"Thank you." Jazz smiled at the bot he now knew as his son-in-law.

"For what?"

"Thank you for inviting us out here to see Linley graduate."

The inventor smiled. "You are welcome." He headed down the steps and walked to the next home across the street.

"This is a 2 berth room home as well and you and Vincent can stay in this one."

"Thank you."

The hacker nodded and went back to the home Prowl and Jazz were staying in. He knocked on the door and Jazz looked through the peep hole and opened the door when he saw that it was only Hacks.

"Something wrong?"

"No. But my creator's died when I was 12 metacycles old. I have lived on my own since then."

Prowl had joined his bonded at the door at this point." If it is okay with the both of you, I would like to sit down and get to know the both of you."

The SIC spoke up before the TIC could say anything. "You are bonded to our daughter. So it would be ideal for us to get to know each other."

The tactician headed toward the living room.

"Was that a yes?"

The saboteur laughed and nodded.

"That is about as close to a yes as you will get from him at this point. But I do not mind. There is not much for us to do until Linley's graduation."

"True enough."

Jazz gestured for his new son-in-law to come in. The mech headed for the living room as well. Jazz closed the door and then headed for the same room.

"So what would you like to know about us?"

Author's Note: Hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Until next time! Love to all! Leave me a line or two and let me know what you think!