Zirconium
By Uniasus
~Argon~
18) He could not spend as much time as he wanted to with Sam, to do so would be to prevent the human from interacting with anyone else.
He didn't quite understand it.
Maybe it had to do with how close the Ark crew was; they all knew each other and for the most part had only interacted with each other. Seeing a comrade interact with someone he didn't even know, let alone had seen before, set him on edge.
Sam and Mikaela had gone out for frozen custard. They were seated on the bench closest to him, that was true, but a few minutes after they sat down another couple joined them. The girl was apparently a friend of Mikaela and was also on a date, with a boy from a different school.
It turned into an impromptu double date as the other couple joined them, talking and sharing laughs for a full hour leaving Bee to do nothing but listen as both Sam and Mikaela ignored the texts he sent them. They didn't even check their phones.
It reminded him of the time Sam when to the grocery store for Judy and came out followed by two guys, laughing at something one of them had said. He hadn't recognized either of them, and when he asked Sam who they were the human shrugged and said they were from gym class.
He didn't like Sam interacting with random people he had no knowledge of. Any one of them could be a potential threat, willing to sell him to the Decepticons.
It wasn't until he saw the emotion in Mikaela did he realized he had it too. Sam had gone into the post office to mail a package, and the woman behind the counter was older but still rather attractive. Mikaela had hunched down in her seat with a huff, and when Sam returned, surprised at the fact there was a phone number on the back of his receipt, Mikaela ripped it in two.
"Someone's jealous," Sam had sing-songed.
Mikaela answered with a punch to his shoulder. "Am not."
But he knew it was a lie, and realized he was jealous too, of all the time Sam was spending with people who weren't him.
He'd have to hide that from Mikaela.
A/N: This fic is done! That is, I have all the pieces written, not that this is the last update. But this does mean the end is around the corner.