Okay, before all of you yell at me, I know it is short. But I really felt like it was the right place to stop. Had I added anything more to it, it just felt like it would have out of place or sounded odd, forced even. So yes, it is short, but it has the feels, and the answer, you all are wanting. At least I hope you guys want the feels, cause this chappie is heavy with them.

Now! Pop quiz!

The disclaimer of this fic is...? (sorry, had to. was getting tired of writing the same thing over and over. XP)

Optimus didn't know what to say. Never in all his years had he been asked such a request. He knew in his spark that the femme in front of him was supposed to be in her dimension, not in theirs, but who could argue with hat he had just heard? Who could say no to that? He was suddenly wishing he had decided to visit later that day.

Ratchet stood still, trying to process everything that he had just heard. He wouldn't say it out loud, but he was dreading the orn she would have to return to her world. He had grown quite attached, even though he had made himself promise that he wouldn't. Katie was just so vulnerable, when she let her walls down. He had seen that she needed someone, desperately. She had found them. Sunstreaker had opened the door into her damaged psyche. He had been foolish enough to walk through. He couldn't leave her after that. Ironhide had had a similar experience. He was not a mech that showed his softer side, but younglings had always been a weakness for them both. Seeing her nearly dead, it had hit the war hardened mech harder then anyone would ever know. Sometimes he would find his bonded standing outside of their quarters scanning her room to make sure that she hadn't tried again. He still blamed himself for the event.

Ratchet vented softly. Quietly sending Ironhide a data file containing what had transpired. He felt his bonded's confusion before the shock and, the one thing that Ratchet wasn't expecting; love. His bonded, who had been so willing to doubt Katie in the beginning had fallen for her. Ratchet knew he had too. She was lost, alone, vulnerable. He didn't know if it was his carrier programing activating or Primus himself answering his prayers, but he knew he didn't want to lose her. Katie had wiggled her way into their sparks and it would devastate them to lose her. To know that she felt that they were doing better then her own creators had sent both anger and pride through him. She wouldn't know that kind of pain again. No matter what Optimus' decision, he wasn't going to let her go. Never had he been so ready to defy his leader before. Ratchet felt Ironhide getting closer. Inwardly he smiled, knowing full well that his bonded just ran out of a meeting because Katie needed him. They really had fallen for her.

"Katie." She looked up at him, eyes brimming with tears. It broke his spark. He gently brushed them away, cupping her cheek as he did. He smiled as she leaned into his hand, raising hers to hold it in place. "Shhh. It's going to be alright." Even if he had to fight Optimus he would. She deserved to be happy, and by Primus he would make sure she was!

Ironhide ran through he halls, not even caring that he had left a meeting long before it was to end. He pushed his old joints far past their limits, but he didn't care. This wasn't a time for him to be worried about something he could be briefed on later. Katie needed him. Their youngling needed him! He had to admit, the data file had surprised him. It's contents had shocked him, especially the last part. He knew that she had compared them to her parents before. She told Ratchet as much, but to know she thought more of them then her own creators had his spark pulsing rapidly with joy. He still blamed himself for letting her get hurt, but knew that he wouldn't have gotten to know her had she not.

Upon entering Medbay, he transformed and activated his holoform the moment he could, sending it to her room, not bothering to use the door. He spark clenched tightly as he saw her crying again. She cried far to much. If only he could make them disappear he would.

"Katie." he said, smiling when she looked up at him, shock written clear as day on her face. He walked over to her and pulled her into a tight hug, making sure not to remove Ratchet's servo from her or her's from him. "Yer not goin' anywhere. Ratchet and I wont let ya." His smile widened as he felt Ratchet's own shock and relief over their bond. He knew he had said the very words he knew Ratchet had wanted to say.

"Really?" His spark dropped at how small she sounded.

"Really." Ratchet said, leaning down and placing a kiss on her head. He pulled back just enough to rest his forehead on hers.

Optimus watched at two of his oldest friends comforted the young human femme. He had never seen them act this way before. It was new and strange, but somehow comforting. He had known that they longed for a family, had been about to start trying when the war had broken out. He knew that they were devastated knowing that was was not the time or place to bring new life in to world. Knew that it had become no more then a distant hope. Now here they were on a distant world, the war still raging on, and they were comforting a youngling who considered them as creators, adopted, yet still the bond was there.

While he worried what the repercussions of allowing her to stay would cause. He knew from speaking with Preceptor and Wheeljack that even if they did obtain the machine, there was a chance that the dimension they connected to wouldn't be hers. There was a very real possibility that even if they had the means to, they would not be able to send her home. Now though, it seemed like that fact was no longer a problem. She was fine with staying here and she would have a place that she could call home.

He had not wanted to be the one to make the decision about her fate, but it seems like he didn't have to. He could only hope that Primus had a plan. One that hopefully would allow all parties involved to get the happily ever after found in so many of Earth's fairy tales.

He smiled at the sight before him. He had never seen Ratchet or Ironhide so happy, so content as they were right now. He would not be the one to take that from them. Katie seemed to glow as they comforted her. He shook his head lightly. Even Sunstreaker it seemed had found something in her presence. He had hoped that the young warrior would one day find a reason to open up. To be able to fully relax like his twin had. Perhaps now, he would have that reason to. He would not be the one to take away everything Primus had put in place.

"Katie." All optics turned to him. "You may stay. Who am I to take from you everything you have found here. I only ask that you look after them as they look after you." She smiled at him. It was brighter then any she had given him yet. It lit up her face, showing him just how beautiful the femme could be. Perhaps that is something that Sunstreaker saw at the start. He would have to speak with the mech at some point. If anything, to tell him that he would support his decision. While he did worry about the relationship, as they are from vastly different species, he had a feeling that Primus was up to something. He wasn't sure why he felt that way, perhaps it was a part of being a Prime, or perhaps it was merely wishful thinking. Even so, he had hope that everything was unfolding as it should.

He nodded his head and left the trio. He had meant to merely stop in and check on her, not give her permission to do something that he did not feel permitted to give. But the joy he say in that room made it worth it. Now, if only he could convince those mechs that saw the femme as a threat otherwise. After all, the femme he saw in that room was no threat to them. He could hardly believe that she ever could be.