Flashback

But I never could have anticipated who was at that door. I opened it revealing a purple-feathered, orange blossom smelling monstosity.

"Alisha darling, how are you?" It said, making a move towards me. I slammed the door, barricading it with my body.

That monstosity was my mother.

Ironhide's POV

As I picked up the plates from the stained table and followed Mr. Grearin into the kitchen to wash them, I couldn't help but wonder who was at the door. They had sounded pretty insistent and were probably impatient. I hoped Alisha would be fine by herself. But that thought was lost as Mr. Grearin turned on me.

"You listen to me and you listen good. That's my only girl there, my only little girl. So if you have any ideas about just leaving her on the side of the road, or dumping her on her ass, just remember this. I am not afraid to kick your ass from here to Canada." He growled, glaring at me.

"Mr. Grearin, sir, I assure you that I have no intentions of doing that. I adore your daughter and would never do anything to harm her. I would protect her from anything, anything." I said, holding up my hands defensivly.

"You'd better, or else your ass is grass." He said, turning his attention back to the dirty dishes. He seemed to work off some of his anger as he scrubbed the stubborn marinara sauce stains off of the pastel colored plates. I took my place by his side, ready to rinse each plate as he finished in the other sink.

"It's just, God, it's just been so hard after her Mom left." Mr. Grearin said, dropping the sponge back into the hot, soapy water. "For the first ten years she's great and then one day she just calls up and says 'It's over John.' I mean, Alisha didn't even get to say goodbye. She just took off leaving Alisha at school, wondering when her mother was going to pick her up. Poor girl didn't even realize what had happened for a little while, just kept thinkin' her mom was coming back."

"That's terrible, sir. Alisha has often metnioned how much she loves you, but now I can see why she never talks about her mother." I said, letting the water flow over the freshly cleaned plate. Now I understood why her father had been so hostile when I first met him, he disn't want me to harm her

"Yeah, she's a good kid. Never one for the boys though, but I can see why she likes you." He laughed, recovering a bit of humor.

"Sir?" I asked, shutting the water off and pulling out a dishtowel to dry the plates.

"That truck, Alisha's always been a sucker for big pickups." Mr. Grearin said. I couldn't help but laugh at this, she had often mentioned how much she loved my alternate form. But, then again, did she just like me because I was a truck? No, no she liked me for who I was. I mean, she hadn't even known I was a truck when we first met. I loved her for that fact, she had liked me from the beginning. Ever since I picked her up that morning with her hair all messed up and she had smiled, glad to be accepted.

"I understand, sir. She said that she sent you rims, for my truck?" I asked, placing the plates back in their cupboard.

"Oh yeah, nice ones too. That's a pretty interesting symbol she had Dave make on 'em. Some kind of family crest or something?" He said, pulling the plug on the sink to let it drain.

"Something like that." I remarked, closing the cupboard door. What had she put on the rims? Oh Primus, she didn't. She wouldn't! She shouldn't! But, she did. Sure enough, when I peeled back the wrapping paper from the package that Mr. Grearin showed me, she had put the Autobot insignia on my rims! I felt like I was going to explode, didn't she know we had to be covert? That we couldn't go off flaunting the fact we were not of this world? I couldn't stay mad at her though, she was just trying to be nice. And suddenly, there she was. One hand bracing herself against the wall the other hanging by her side. She gasped several deep breaths before uttering four words.

"We have a problem."

Alisha's POV

Please, please please let it be a dream. My mother can't be here. She can't. It's impossible. She's supposed to be in New York. She left Arizona years ago. And yet here she was outside the door of my father's house banging on the wood.

"Alisha! Alisha, open up baby!" She called over and over. I wouldn't open up, I wouldn't do anything for this woman! She had left us, left me, left my Dad. Left her family for God's sake! Why would she come back? But if she's here, she'll see Ironhide. And she won't just stop at seeing him. She'll try and take him. This thought spurring me, I raced to the kitchen where he and my Dad were.

"We have a problem." I managed to gasp before I heard the door open.

"Alisha! What is it?" John, my father, asked turing towards the sound of Prada heels clicking ever closer.

"It's her. Delilah." I spat, looking towards Ironhide. If I could get him into the bathroom, out the window and back to his body he might just have a shot to get out of here unscathed. I just didn't have enough time, and the bathroom was in the wrong direction. You had to head toward the designer clad harpie to get to it. Damn, everything was going so good too!

"Why Alisha, here you are. My, and who is this? A friend perhaps?" The sickly sweet voice came echoing out of her, freezing me in place. One fresly waxed eyebrows crepped up her botoxed face. Perfectly manifured fingers clicked against a Coach bag as she examined the room. Gritting my teeth I balled my hands into fists as I turned around to face her.

"What the hell are you doing? You leave me out of your life for fifteen years and then just show up?" I berated her, trying to force my voice to remain at a talking level. and to keep from creeping up higher and higher, she who had almost destroyed me now comes back? Sorry, when I get mad i slip into kind of Ye Olde English.

"Oh, Alisha. You always were headstrong. I just came by to get your baby pictures, you know a mother always has to have something of her daughter. It would have been better if you hadn't been here though." Deliliah said, lying through her teeth. More than likely she had come to get money off of my father.

"Than why didn't you keep your daughter, if you needed a momento?" I asked, moving slowly towards Ironhide.

"You still haven't learned any manners have you? I asked, who is this handsome young man?" She said, reaching towards Ironhide. He drew back, pulling me with him.

"This is Roin Ideh, my boyfriend." I spat, trying to get out of Ironhide's restraining grip. I wanted to punch her so bad, punch, kick, rip, shred, anything to cause her harm for the years she had left us. The pain that she had caused me, the sadness that had coursed through my veins. Tears sprang unbidden to my eyes as I thought of the whore that stood in front of me.

"Oh honey, you could have done so much better." Deliliah remarked, pursing her lips. I struggled to get loose from Ironhide's protective grip when I realized who the gorgon that had bore me was directing her comment to. She wasn't talking to me.

She meant Ironhide.

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