Another day off a new chapter! Yays! SO for those of you reading this there is a side story to this one titled The Reason She Left featuring Mikaela. Not saying too much more because I don't want to interrupt either of the plotlines by dropping any spoilers...

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Chapter 24: Sleepless

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Torri was finally asleep for the first time in days... Which meant that Mercy was awake and staring at the ceiling unable to sleep due to the nightmares that plagued her sister. How the woman managed to sleep through them she'd probably never know... With an irritated growl Mercy finally crawled out of the cot that they had supplied her Annabelle, and Torri each their own with, and made her way out of their room.

The base was relatively quiet seeing as it was roughly three in the morning. If it wasn't for the occasional person passing her with large cups of coffee in their hands she would have believed herself to be the only one awake.

She finally asked where she could procure the liquid gold and made her way into the quiet cafeteria. The kitchen was dark. and there were only a couple of soldiers lingering. She felt their eyes light up on her as she made her way over to the counter and poured her coffee.

"You're new here aren't you?" Mercy's grip tightened on the coffee pot as she steeled herself from reacting to the closeness of the soldier that had snuck up behind her.

"Yes I am. Now could you stop invading my personal bubble?" She smiled sweetly at him.

"I can't help that I'm magnetically attracted to you..."

"Back off or you'll be picking glass out of your burned flesh." Mercy said icily, still keeping the smile. When he finally stepped back she finally let go of the decanter and walked away.

"Oooh Burn!"

"Haha! She told your ass Michael!"

"Oh shut up." She heard him growl at his comrades as she made her way out of the cafeteria. She made her way out on to the tarmac somehow... knowing she'd regret it later on... But the view was breath taking. The pre-twilight grey edged the black sky, peppered with more stars than she had seen in a long time... and over heard a blood-red half hidden moon peered down at the earth below.

"An eclipse..." she breathed as she made her way off of the tarmac. After about twenty minutes of walking she found a path that led away from the harsh lights of the runway finally finding as place to sit she slipped her shoes off and sat, and began counting the constellations.

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"I really hope that you don't go to Shockwave... I would love to... Experiment on you myself..." a clawed servo ran down her side... she shivered from the contact.

"Go screw yourself." she spat...

"How about I frag you instead?"

Annabelle sat up in her bed. Sweat plastered her hair to her face. As she tried to calm her thundering heart. She shuddered as the remnant of the dream plagued her mind... She shuddered again and almost regretting not telling her family the monsters intentions... She didn't want to even think about it... Tears threatened her eyes as she grit her teeth angrily.

Screw it I'm not going to get any sleep tonight... she thought as she threw the sheet off and slipped her shoes on.

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Blue stared up at the ceiling panels of his berthroom. It had been a happy evening he had followed Prowl to the med bay and told him all that his brother had missed since they had been split up with their separate missions back on Cybertron.

He had just gotten to the part about his planetfall when Prowl asked him kindly (In his monotonous orderly way) to write a report. It was then that he noted that Jazz was dying to get the chance to talk to Prowl. Blue sheepishly bowed his head and bid his brother a fare recharge before ducking out of the med bay.

Despite how good the evening had been he couldn't recharge. He hadn't gotten the chace to explain Oliver's predicament, and he still was unsure how to breach the subject... Especially with his brother here... He loved his sibling with all of his spark... but even Bluestreak would admit that his brother was a stickler for laws of any kind... And he knew that his brother would most likely glitch once he discovers Oliver's run away status...

He vented a sigh and decided to get up.

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Annabelle had managed to make her way to the rec room with little problem and was sitting at a table minding her own business when a hand came down on her shoulder.

"You look bored." she almost gagged at the smell of alcohol on the mans breath. I thought they weren't supposed to have alcohol on base...

"Nope. I'm perfectly fine..." if you don't breathe on me again...

"Are you sure a sweet little thing like you must be bored being up this late..." he leaned in closer to breathe into her ear.

"Please let go of me." Anna gagged. His grip tightened.

"Come on sweet cheeks don't be like that..."

"Let. Go. Of. Me." she growled.

The soldier chuckled at the steel in her voice. "No sense being sh-argh!"

Anna scrambled to her feet as she turned to face the soldier shaking off the pain in her knuckles. "I told you to let me go. you should have listened dumbass."

"Why you little bitch!" the soldier growled as he picked himself up off of the floor. "I just wanted a taste of that sweet-"

"Is everything alright here?" Blue's voice growled darkly behind the man.

The soldier glanced back to see the mech glaring at him. "This isn't none of your damned business."

"Listen to me well. You have ten seconds to vacate this area before I personally make you regret the actions you've chosen to do tonight. And let me tell you, this young woman clearly wants nothing to do with you. And for the record you have three seconds left."

The man bolted.

Blue glared at the man until he exited the room before turning his eyes back towards Annabelle. "Are you okay Anna?"

"Um... yeah..." she shifted uncomfortably as she blushed.

"Are you sure? Cause I can totally go beat the slag outta guy if he did anything to you-"

"No Blue I'm fine." she shook her head before blinking up at his armor. "So this is what you really look like..."

His face plates darkened lightly as he turned his helm away, rubbing a hand to the back of it. "Um yeah... I'm sorry fo not getting to tell you before now... I just didn't want to freak you out or anything... Um..."

Is... is he blushing? I think he is... Anna blinked up at him. But... why...?

"Shouldn't you be in bed Anna?"

"The same could be said for you." she countered.

"True..."

"So... what is your full designation then? It can't just be Blue."

He grinned. "It's Bluestreak."

She glanced him over again before shaking her head. "Now there's an oxymoron if there ever was..."

Blue blinked. "Why would you say that?"

"There isn't a lick of blue anywhere on you."

"Oh really?" he leaned down to put his optics to her eye level. "But what of my eyes?"

Anna stared into the blue of his optics for a long moment caught by the intensity of that piercing blue before she blinked. "Fine I'll give you a point for that."

"Ha. I win that round."

"Yeah but I'm still beating you by like what twenty points?"

"Roughly... Though I did make up some of those up when I took you shopping for homecoming..." He winced as her eyes darkened and she let out a sigh. "I'm sorry I shouldn't have brought it up.. Primus knows I really suffer from pede-in-the-mouth syndrome at the worse times and-"

"It's... okay Blue. Besides I didn't really want to be paraded around strapped in that torture device they call a dress anyways."

"But it's such a beautiful dress... It looked really... well... um... nice on you." He was blushing again.

"Yeah and imagine just how many jocks would have been drooling over me? Please I'd rather be plunked into the middle Lake Michigan in that dress than to swim in their slobber. Besides, it turns out that my aunts had orders from my farther to stay under the radar. I'm sure getting my name in the paper for homecoming court would have just ousted us sooner... At least now I know why they wouldn't let me do any online media junk..."

"You realize I still have your dress and your text books still right?" He said as he pulled her belongings out of his subspace.

"How..."

"You left it in my altmode right before you shot me in the face."

Annabelle flushed at the memory. "Sorry about that... but you have to admit that I owed you for pinning me in the yard a few weeks back."

"Yeah that's what you said when you got my avatar in the back with th ak47 in Call Of Duty last week..."

"Hm... did I? Then let's settle this the good old fashioned way." she pointed at the huge television.

"Oh it is so on..." Blue grinned.