Chapter Twenty-Nine: Twins Terrors Not So Terrible.

A/N: This is way longer than I had planned. YAY! lol I will remind everyone that we are close to 70 reviews. If we hit that mark this will be my most reviewed story. So when we hit that I will post a preview of all of my planed Author sara! How dare you skip October's birthday! oops lol. Un-Beta'd. But my internet lives again. So few reminders also. New poll is up for my twins/Oc fic. and i want my seventy reviews! I have the preview written up all save for Jazz and I want to post it! Review please!

By weeks end, next Sunday considering Ironhide left on a Friday, Optimus was furrowing his optic ridges and watching October. Something was obviously up with her. Was Sam right and she was unhappy here? Had someone forced her to come back? Air puffed from his nose and Ratchet noticed. The Medic's eyes moved from his leader to whatever he was looking at.

"Oh Frag," he grumbled catching Optimus' attention. He knew he had forgotten something that day. "Optimus, why did you send Ironhide out with Lennox? He has a bond with them but keeping him this long is surely affecting even him."

"He is their guardian, Ratchet. you know as well as I that if necessary he will stay indefinitely with them." October froze, not even a breath escaped her. Her eyes were wide when she turned to look at the Prime and Medic.

"No! No, he will not be gone forever, October. He will come back. You know that- frag." The panic had set in and combined with her lack of air made her pass out. "Primus, I wouldn't doubt it if Ironhide is heading back right now pissed as pit and freaking out." gently he lifted the unconscious girl up off of the ground. Scanning her he was glad to see that she had not hit her head too badly. It would be sore and bruised but no concussion this time.

"Ratchet, what is going on? Why would you tell her that Ironhide would be coming back no matter what? You do know that if it is necessary he will indeed stay with them forever. Why would he be racing back now? Lennox had requested a few more days off to watch the sitter he and his wife picked. Ironhide has no reason to-"

Ironhide'ls paniking voice cut Optimus off. Curious, really curious, :is the base under attack? Has something happened? What's going on with-:

:Everything is fine, Ironhide. Calm yourself. What has gotten you into this uproar?: Optimus asked through the comm link. Jazz caused some static as he got on and coded the signal so that the 'Cons would not pick up on it.

:October, is she alright? What happened to her?: He pushed on surprisingly ignoring Optimus' question.

:She is fine, Ironhide. Simply was shocked and forgot to breath. My estimate is in just a few minute's she will be online again.: Ratchet said, what was going on with Optimus? He should have know to answer Ironhide immediately about the passed out girl. Sparkmate's primary concern was the other. Sure they fought with each other at times and disagreed but they would lay down their life for the other in a spark pulse.

:Thank Primus,: Ironhide said with a sigh. :When her fear spiked as it had before going blank I worried that a fragging 'Con had gotten to her.:

:What is going on?: Optimus said, the voice of previous Prime's leaked into his words making it impossible for any of the three other mech's on the link, Jazz was still there, not to answer.

:I was worried about October.: Ironhide grunted.

:Prime, ya do know tha' Ironhide and 'er are Sparkmate's, right?: Jazz spoke for the first time since getting on the link. Optimus visibly did a double take, eyes wide he looked at the tiny and fragile human in Ratchet's hand before looking at Jazz and back. :Ah take it 'at's why ya told 'im he could not go afta 'er when Sam came by. An why ya sent him with Lennox when any oh us otha bots coulda.:

Optimus was left speechless. When had this happened? Ironhide had a sparkmate? The other 'bot's let him tell her she could not stay? If anything had happened to her while not on this base it would have been his fault. He would be the one to blame if the 'Cons had gotten her. Condemned to death by him because he had sent her away.

:Who- who knew about this?: Optimus asked not looking away from the pale girl that had still not woken.

:Ah thought everyone.: Jazz said, :when ah found out, ah said it loud ova da comm's,: silence came from Optimus. Someone miscommunicated majorly, :oh look! Tha lil' lady is wakin.:

Ironhide focused on his bond rather than the green light he was stopped at, Will became nervous and jittery trying to get Ironhide to move, while the others watched her. October felt the probing of Ironhide before she had even woken fully. She was confused, what had happened? One minute she was sitting with Jolt, he was temporarily resting and letting her lean against him as long as she didn't disturb him, then when she had gotten up to go get a new book because she finished the one she had been reading- nothing. After that she only remembered sheer panic then nothing.

"Wha-" she mumbled lifting her hands to rub at her eyes. Six blue light sources looked down at her, two for each of the three 'Bots.

"You passed out due to shock." Ratchet said aloud, "apparently Prime had not known you and Ironhide were bonded the way you are. Do not fear, Ironhide will be back for you." It took a second before she understood. The fear and panic of thinking she had lost Ironhide forever had- the pain it had caused her heart still made the organ ache. Her hand rubbed at her chest a few seconds after Jazz rubbed his chest.

But everyone focused on October and Ratchet scanned her. Her heart was overworked and extremely stressed at the moment. "You are to be locked in the Med Bay until further notice. Even at your young age another shock like that could cause heart failure," Ratchet informed as he whisked her away to her prison. Mikaela was surprisingly not there.

Ratchet had given her the day off to relax, odd considering Jolt had requested a day or two to relax and Ratchet always denied him. October whined when he told her to sit on the cot and stay there. He left after that and she easily made out the clicking sound of the locking door. How pissed would he be if she left? Pretty pissed. But she felt that way at this moment so why the hell not?

Optimus had basically threatened that she would never see Ironhide again, the agitation from the whole Sam thing built up along with missing seeing Ironhide an entire week, and she was not happy with being condemned to here. Again.

Taking the blankets that were provided to the go with the cot, a thin scratchy one and a nice plush black-blue comforter, she headed to the human sized door. Was she ever glad or what for that stupid piece of duct tape. Ironhide's room was pretty far away so she sneakily headed to his training room. The door was way too heavy for her or any other human to push open but it was cracked open. Cracked for a bot at least. Now she was glad for her small size because after pushing the blankets into her hiding spot she squeezed through.

This also meant that the sex talk her brothers had been threatening to talk about with her wouldn't happen today either! Avoiding them this passed week was not as easy as it would seem. They had known exactly where to look for her and there had been no one around all those times. Surely Sideswipe and his brother Sunstreaker weren't ratting her out. Their immense dislike for any humans would include her brothers. Or was their want to get back at her enough that they could over look that and team up with Thor and Nero? Nah, never.

She contemplated Ironhide's desk. There was a ladder to get up there but if she was up there she would be easy to spot if Ratchet checked. Not to mention the danger of climbing a ladder with two blankets. Eh, what the hell. Carefully she made her way up the metal steps. By the time she reached the top she vowed never to take the hep of being lifted by the bots for granted. Or stairs. Ratchet's Med Bay cot place was three times easier than this ladder.

Outside the room she heard the pounding of feet. "Hurry Sunny! Before Ol' Hatchet catches us!" The two barreled into the training room and closed the door tightly. Laughter rung out from the two and October was amazed. They were so lively and happy now but every other time she ever saw them they were so arrogant and, well, pissy. "Oh man, he'll weld our afts to the ceiling for sure this time!"

"What did you do?" October called out, neither seemed to notice her or care that it was her. Their moods too high.

"The Med Bay was locked so we went in and though some of his things." Seconds passed after Sideswipe replied. The yellow and red bot connected shocked eyes before looking around. They saw no one. No human and no bot. Though the pile of blankets on Ironhide's desk was unusual, they chalked that up to 'Hide always having that fleshy around. Not just 'that' fleshy, bit his fleshy. They had heard that day over the comms. Still hesitantly Sideswipe called out, "October?"

He held in a shocked sound when her head popped out of the blanket's, "you're not going to try and squish me or anything, are you?"

Confused he looked to his yellow brother. Sunstreaker shrugged, how was he supposed to know what the fleshy meant? "No, why would we do that?" Sideswipe asked.

"I don't know. But you two kinda scare me." She admitted.

"As long as you don't rat us out to Ratchet we're good."

"Don't rat me out either and we got a deal." She jokingly said.

"What did you do?" Sunstreaker asked, his interest piqued.

"I'm technically his patient at the moment- oh, he uh might be a bit more pissed at you two than you think." The twins shared a look of confusion, "he's probably going to assume my escape from the locked Med Bay was due to you two if you went in there." Sure enough over their comms was angry chatter at them about letting October escape.

"Eh, we'll take the credit for getting him this salgged. That fragger needs something to occupy his processor other than work." Sunstreaker said. October smiled at him and he felt his spark melt just a tiny bit. She was such a nice fleshy that he regretted using her that time so long ago. He also almost regretted being the one to rat her out to her brothers. Almost. It was funny watching her try to escape, and managing to do so, two large marines.

Talking with her they realized that they liked her. At least someone around here appreciated their humorous antics. They had her cracking up laughing at half of what they told her. Especially when it came to the story of Ironhide being the machine equivalent of naked because of them. oh how she wished she could have seen that. Not necessarily Ironhide naked, though she did wonder what that looked like, but him chasing the these two bots through Cybertron screaming profanities in the nude.

"I-" she gasped trying to catch he breath, "I haven't done anything nearly that bad. But when my brothers were in sixth grade and I was in second I glued pictures of then as naked Babies over their homework and their teacher stood at the front of class and announced that was why you don't let younger siblings go though their bag." Sideswipe chuckled while his brother cracked a smile.

Looking at each other the pictured having a naked protoform of then shown to their classmates and they laughed. It had indeed happened. Boy did they have a story to tell her.