"Come on, wake him up," came a voice waking Starscream from his dreams.

Starscream soon felt a light smack on his face. It wasn't Alexis, no, the hand was too small. So who could it be? His optics came online to see his son looking at him with large adorable optics.

"Oh, hello," Starscream said with a soft smile as he took the little mech in his arms and sat up.

He then looked at Alexis who was fully clothed just smiling at him. She fluttered her eyes to him as she said—

"He's an early riser as you may know."

"Hm, just like his papa," said Starscream with a grin as he bounced the child playfully up and down making him giggle. "What's that? Is that fun Starscream? Well then by all means let's do it again!"

This time Starscream tossed little Starscream up in the air making him gasp in a large squeal. Alexis just smiled as he caught him again.

"Him, looks like he'll get attached to you," she said scooting closer to him.

"Well—isn't that a good thing?" asked Starscream with a smirk.

He then took one hand and rubbed Alexis' bare arm. They both inhaled, as it seemed, at the same time. Their eyes both gazed into one another's wondering if they were both thinking the same thing. There was short silence before Starscream handed his son to his mother saying—

"Here, I think he wants to be with the nurses."

"Okay," said Alexis hurrying to give the child to the nurses and return to Starscream.

Once Alexis shut her doors Starscream pounced on her and took her in his arms only kissing her all over. She gladly welcomed his kisses as he brought her back the bed. They stayed in their room the whole day just loving one another and being in each other's arms. It wasn't until early noon the next day when they were seen again.

The next day they decided to spend most of their time with their son. Oromus didn't mind not seeing them in a while for he knew they deserved to spend family time with one another. Little Starscream needed to get used to his father, and he did—oh he did.

Alexis brought the boys to the garden where she spent most of her time while she waited for Starscream to come back to her. Starscream enjoyed it out in the garden with his family. He couldn't think of any other place he'd like to be than with them.

Alexis decided to have a picnic out in the garden like she had always wanted to as a family and this made Starscream ever so happy. He laid down on the blanket provided for them and just smiled seeing Alexis prepare their food and little Starscream sit up playing with his toys that surrounded him.

Is this what is was really like to be a family? that was the question running through Starscream's mainframe. He hadn't known because being in the Decepticon ranks never taught him something for this or even mentioned what it'd be like. Perhaps it was a good thing . . . because it was the best thing in the world to figure this out all by yourself.

His love for this family thing only grew and grew with the more time he spent with them. Never a day did you see Starscream not smile. Because he was with them he felt so different—he felt he actually had something to life for than himself—he felt . . . like a family.

Oh what a glorious thing to feel. The feeling of knowing and being able to love a family. He had a family, him, Starscream second-in-command of the Decepticon armies of Cybertron had someone to care for and hold so dearly. He had a family and he was a father.

Many a time you would see Starscream holding his growing son and tossing him in the air. Little Starscream smiled so big at this new being that entered his life. Starscream knew his love for his son would grow just as much as his son's love for his father. The little mech began to want Starscream like to hold him and play with him and Starscream never passed up the opportunity to do so.

Why would he when he could have him get taken away from his at any moment? It would extinguish his spark if anything happened to them again. He was so happy now and prayed to Primus He not take is away again. Starscream would hold his son close to his spark and pray this and deep inside his spark he knew that this time—to have them and hold—it was for good.

It was just, all those times he lost them, it downed his spark and made him sore afraid of it happening again. Could it? Yes it could, but Starscream didn't want to take that chance. He had promised Alexis he wouldn't leave her and he had twice already. Sure it wasn't his fault but he felt he had betrayed her no matter how many times she had not blamed him for it.

Still, all the same, he didn't want to make a promise he knew he couldn't keep . . . but . . . he knew, now, he could tell the both of them he'd always be there for them and see it through to the end. Being with them, so near and close, made him feel invincible. It made him feel like the luckiest transformer in the Universe and he knew . . . he was.

What other transformer had the love of a organic wife and a newly sparked son? No one that's who. Only him and he was thankful for it ever single moment of the day. He would have never thought life could be so kind to him at this moment for it seemed to press down on him the hardest all of the time because of his love for one of another race and species.

These were the reasons he smiled every single day. Who wouldn't at that? He was so blessed and now his curse didn't seem much like a curse. Spending eternity with Alexis was something he'd always dreamed of and would do over and over again.

One day though was so special to Starscream. As he watched his son play with his toys his mech looked at him and smiled saying—

"Dada."

Starscream's optics widened hearing him say this for the first time. His head straightened as he looked at his son who gazed up at him with glimmering optics. When Starscream's mouth opened to speak he turned and said—

"A-alexis!"

Alexis came running in with wide eyes wondering what was wrong.

"What is it?!" she asked worried.

"He said . . . he said 'dada'," said Starscream pointing to his son.

"He did?!" gasped Alexis looking at her little mech. "When?!"

"Just a moment ago!" said Starscream with a smile as he turned to Alexis. "Our son said his first word!"

"That's great!" squealed Alexis as she jumped on Starscream and hugged him tightly.

They then halted as they heard little Starscream say another word—

"Mama."

They turned to look at him stick his fist in his mouth and look at his parents. Their gaze soon came back to each other as they shared a short blank expression. Both then smiled as they hugged once more so happy that their child began speaking. It wasn't but a weak after that until he began speaking up a storm saying 'Mama' and 'Dada' all the time.

If there was anything that could make a parent smile it was their young child saying their name. It was different to be called a father to Starscream, but he knew he'd get used to it. He had his whole life to—actually—he had all of eternity to do it and he was ready for it.

Being with them Starscream was beginning to learn what it was truly like to be a family and he was loving every minute of it. The Starscream he used to be before would have scoffed at him only calling him weak but now that he sees all the sparkaches of it all he knew he was stronger now than he ever was before.