Sorry for the wait everyone, I'd like to say that the reason is that I've been incredibly busy, but the truth is that I just didn't have any ideas on how to continue with this chapter. I plan on doing at least two more chapters before this thing is finished, three at the least. I promise to try and do better about posting, which hopefully shouldn't take this long now that I'm not working on this plus other stories for my creative writing class since i just turned my last one in. So here you go, the long awaited next chapter.

Chapter 28

The day had finally arrived that Sam and Mikaela had been planning for the last few months. Now there were only a few hours, three and half to be precise, until they finally became a family. Mikaela, her grandmother, Sam's mother, a number of her friends from high school were currently getting ready for the wedding at her grandmothers house.

Will, Epps, Leo, Miles, Sam's father, and Mikaela's father were currently at Sam's parents house; trying to keep Sam from freaking out. Sam was at the moment acting like he usually did, he was throwing things far out of proportion. Epps was in the corner laughing his butt off as he watched Sam stress over Mikaela would actually say yes.

Will as usual was trying to keep Sam from killing the Master Sergeant at the moment. He usually found Epps teasing of Sam to be highly hilarious, but at the moment he knew that the kid really didn't need it. "Epps, shut it."

"What, why?" Epps asked tearing his attention away from the pacing teen to look at his long time friend.

"He doesn't need it right now, and you know it." Will said, and he watched as Epps began to look like he would argue that what the kid needed was this; just like he had needed before the conference at the UN, but then thought better of it and nodded.

"Thanks." Sam said as his pacing took him past Will. However before he could walk away a hand grabbed his wrist and pulled him back around. Sam looked down at his wrist to find that it was Will that had a hold of him. "What?"

"What's wrong Sam?" Will asked.

"Nothing." Sam replied.

"If nothing were wrong you wouldn't be pacing around and burning a whole into your parent's floor. Now, the truth."

For a moment Sam looked as if wasn't going to answer the man, but then thought better of it. He knew that one way or the other Will would find out. "You're sure that the Decepticons wont show up."

Will sighed, he should have known. From across the room he heard Leo groan and tell Miles that "They better not show their asses at his boys wedding."

"Honestly Sam, there's no way of telling. But I can tell you this that we haven't had anything show up on our scanners all morning."

"They've found a way around our scanners before."

Will nodded but it Epps that answered. "Then we'll send their metallic asses running like we usually do."

Sam glared at the man. "I was hoping for something more along the lines of 'don't worry Sam, there's no way they'd try to crash your wedding.'"

"Don't worry Sam. There's no way they'd try to crash your wedding." Epps said rolling his eyes as he tried to mimic Sam's tone.

"Listen Sam," Will said as he shot Epps a look. "It's possible that something will happen…" Sam cut him off with a groan, to which Lennox held up a hand telling Sam to let him finish. "But, we've got almost all of NEST here, not to mention the Autobots. No one is going to let anything ruin both of your day. I promise."

"But…" Sam started, however this time it was Leo that cut him off.

"Dude, do you really think that even a Con is dumb enough to put themselves on Mikaela's bad side?" He shivered a little at the end of this and began to rub the back of his head where Mikaela had smacked him with wrench. He was sure that he could still feel the lump, even two months later.

"Even their not that stupid." Miles added.

"Listen kid," Sam looked up as he heard the serious tone instead of the joking one that he was accustomed to from the Master Sergeant. "There is no way in hell that their gonna get close to you two. Like these two said, even their not that stupid."

Sam nodded, finally allowing everything they said to calm his fears. However in the back of his mind he knew that they were also saying this to calm themselves as well as him. they all knew that it there was high possibility of the Decepticons showing up.

Somewhere in the back of his mind he knew that the day wouldn't be over until they did show up.


Mikaela smiled fondly as she watched her grandmother and Sams mother cry over her baby pictures and Sams baby booties. Her grandmother had spent the entire morning staring at the baby pictures without so much as shedding a tear, at least until Judy had pulled the booties out of her purse and started wailing that her baby was growing up and didn't need her anymore.

She could feel herself tearing up, but wouldn't allow herself to cry, or else she'd be re doing her makeup, and with Alexis there she'd be at it for the next hour.

"Awe Mik, you were the cutest little baby." Alexis laughed as she looked over her grandmothers shoulder at the photo album. She had known Alexis since they were preschool together and had been best friends ever since. Though they were two completely different people, Alexis being the definition of the ditsy blond and Mikaela into cars, they knew each other better than their own families knew them. Well maybe with the exclusion of Sam.

"Yeah, I guess I looked alright for a chubby baby." Mikaela laughed.

"Chubby? Seriously? You don't look chubby in this picture." Alexis said pointing at said picture.

"She was, believe me she was. She ate almost everything you put in front of her, actually I think she would eat everything except for carrots."

"Hey Jamie told me they'd turn me orange." Mikaela defended herself.

Mrs. Banes smiled fondly at the mention of Mikaela's cousin, who had died just after entering his senior year of high school in a car accident. "Jamie told you a lot of things."

"Most of them were true." Mikaela smiled fondly as she allowed memories of past events to over take her.

Just then the doorbell rang and Alexis jumped up from her position at the couch to answer the door. She came back a few seconds later, another blond right behind her. "I'm not late am I? My plane was delayed."

Mikaela smiled widely at the blond woman. "You're just in time Maggie."

"Thank god." Maggie said as she slumped into a chair. "I never thought I'd make it."

"So, how are things with you and Glenn doing?" Mikaela asked as she looked up at the clock. They had another hour until they had to leave.

Maggie smiled. "Good. Dropped him off at Sam's house before I headed over here."

"That's great." Mikaela smiled. The two had decided that they'd try dating just after the attack in Egypt, and had been together ever since. It surprised Mikaela that the two hadn't gotten together before then, or that it had taken the two so long to see that they had feelings for each other. But then again, she herself had been blind to Sam for the longest time, so she didn't exactly have room to talk herself.

She smiled, thinking that nothing was going to ruin the happiness of the day.


Mars

Starscream found himself going down on one knee along with the rest of his brothers as Megatron stepped out of the Space Bridge and onto the ship. That should be me, I should have taken care of him when I had the chance. Starscream thought as he watched his master make his way to the thrown.

"Lord Megatron." Starscream found himself saying, the words tasting like the earths oil in his mouth as they left him.

"Not Megatron. Galvatron."