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Yorushihe:Lol, The Winter O-Green mints are my favorite to eat. As for the two cops, no, it was not planned, lol, I actually realized that myself after a couple of chapters when it first happened. Thanks for saying that my writing has improved, I'm always looking to further it along.
MySunnySidesLife: Yup, school will do that to ya... As for Lilly and the Twins, I leave you on a cliff hanger with this chap! XD
Midnight84118: Thank you for the review/comment and here's another chapter.
Chapter 37: Friends are Complicated
A resounding smack was heard and I stood still, wide-eyed as I took in the fact that I had just been struck across the face by my best friend before she threw herself at me with sobs racking her body, being careful of the large stomach bulge under her shirt.
I hesitantly wrapped my arms around her and then buried my face in her hair, finally letting out small sniffles at having thought I had lost her in the beginning of all this mess.
"I missed you Maria…" I muttered and I felt her chuckle before pulling back and looking me in my eyes. She then drew me back into her embrace as her arms tightened around my neck.
"I missed you too, Peanut!" she cried out and I couldn't help the laugh that bubbled up my throat as she called me by my childhood nickname, having always been the smallest squirt in school from preschool all the way to Sophomore year of highschool.
I was happy that we didn't have to continue school, but it sucked, not being able to have those simple times to ourselves, to enjoy our young life before the complicated tasks of the real world. Seemed like that was a long time gone. My train of thought was interrupted as Thomas, my other best friend and significant other to Maria and father to their unborn child walked over.
"Hey, haven't seen you in so long!" Thomas stated while grinning and looking me over with interest. Last that we saw one another, I weighed about One hundred and fifty six pounds. Now, I was a twig with lean muscles. My hair was longer and I watched as a shocked expression came to his face as he noticed that my eyes were no longer their chocolaty brown color.
"Don't mention anything about my eyes. I can't tell you anything anyways." I mumbled and Maria smacked the back of my head, causing me to cringe and step out of her swinging reach. Luckily she didn't have anything to throw at someone.
"So, how is the Safe House working out for you all?" I questioned, looking around the place, seeing that we were outside, having reinforced fencing that went twenty feet up in the air. Trees surrounded the inside of the place with smaller gardens of flowers and items.
Acree and her siblings did well. The green house already was producing vegetables, having received a growing solution from Ratchet that quickened their growing rate. Chickens squawked and ran around outside, having, at the last moment, put in a small barn area that held twelve chickens and a rooster along with pigs and cows. Not many, but enough to keep everyone fed and the possibility to breed them for more.
"I can't believe that you all made this place!" Maria suddenly blurted, widening her smile while looking around the place with rosy cheeks. "It'll be a good place for the baby, and all the others that are going to be due in the next couple of months."
Both Thomas and I groaned, having counted twenty women pregnant already a bit earlier. Some were already pass seven months and were closing in on their due date. If we thought this place would be havoc free, then we were wrong. I then turned to Thomas with a large grin and patted him on the back.
"I feel sorry for you. I'll be on base, away from you…and your pregnant house hold."
Thomas cuffed me on the ear and I cried out with shock and playfulness as I smacked him back upon the arm. At least they took me for me and not just some person that was turned into a Special.
Thomas seemed to be the most interested, seeing that I had fully electric blue eyes and not speckled. I then went to say goodbye and head back to the twins, who were waiting for me on the outside of the fencing, only to freeze when my name fell from someone that I recognized.
"Lilly! Wait up, I didn't know that you were here!"
I turned and faced the one that I dreaded the most on seeing. Johnathan marched across the grass, moving pass the newly planted trees and he suddenly came to a halt as his eyes locked with mine. I could literally see the utter horror that passed through his frame that quickly morphed into pure anger and hate. Thomas quickly moved forward, but Johnathan already beat him to it.
I backpedaled as fast as I could and before I could find a way to get out of the place or turn to flee, fingers found their way into my hair and harshly pulled my body into a hard chest. My hands splayed out upon his chest and I tried pushing away, not getting anything but pain from the grip in my hair and on the back of my head. My chin was roughly grabbed and it was forced up, making my eyes lock with John's hate filled ones.
"You were fucking hiding this?" he spat out, causing fear to actually pulse in my spark. Thomas went to bolt forward, but Johnathan snarled and suddenly pulled out a knife from his belt, forcefully placing it upon my neck, yet not hard enough to draw blood.
"To think that I was actually interested in you, bitch!" he ground out and my eyes widened before narrowing. He was threatening my life just because of me being a special, something that I couldn't control.
"Be happy I was the one to think it would be a good idea to build a Safe house!" I snapped while trying to push away from him, getting nowhere. I could feel the knife digging slightly further in my skin and I inhaled sharply as it broke the surface of my skin, letting my odd blood slip down my neck. His eyes flickered to it and confusion swept through his eyes, letting me take the sudden distraction as an advantage.
Balling my fist tightly, I cocked it back and sent if flying, hitting him right in the nose. Blood gushed out and covered my fist as I pulled it back and watched him stumble backwards and away from me.
"Serves you right you pig. I am a Special and I am proud to be one." I snapped, finally allowing myself to admit that I was a Special and to accept it. I would have never met my twins if this hadn't happened. "You should back down too if you know what's good for you. My ability is to set things on fire." I stated, mostly bluffing my way through with the threat.
I was able to set things on fire, yes, but I still didn't know how it correctly worked. So, it might be an empty threat in the end. With a simple goodbye to my friends, I turned and stalked away. I was done with Johnathan and his attitude against us Specials. It was not our decision.
Storming pass the security guards and slamming the door open, I heard them mutter something from behind me and then the sound of the gate doors shutting and locking reached my ears. I instantly spotted my red and yellow boys and I swiped the small trickle of blood off my neck and wiped the blood from punching Johnathan off my hand. That man had another thing coming if he acted like that all the time.
Finally, I came to a stop and smiled slightly at the twins before opening Sideswipe's door and climbing into his interior. He was the closest anyways.
"Let's head back to the base. I could use some rest." I murmured while running a hand over my face. Ratchet would no doubt want to see me and make sure I was functioning correctly and nothing was out of place. Most likely wanted to make sure I was healthy so he didn't have to face the twins and their wrath if something was wrong with me.
Once we arrived to the base and were let in, I sighed heavily and looked around, already spotting many people milling about. In the main hanger, I was let out and I grinned as I watched my Twins transform, stretching as they went along. Seems that they were stiff with not being able to move around freely.
"I'm going to go and talk to Ratchet for a bit. I'll see you in our room." I stated before turning and walking down the hall, probably still forbidden to transform around the humans. It's not like I was going to purposefully step on them, plus they already gave us bots' a wide berth, not wanting to be stepped on in the first place.
Walking into the Medial Bay, I grinned when Ratchet swung around, ready to scold whoever it had been that he was expecting. He shuttered his optics and then looked down at me, letting himself relax before walking over to me and offering me a hand. I shook my head, thanking him anyways and then let myself expand upwards and out.
I could feel parts moving, being flexed and stretched as they had been cramped from staying in my human form for so long. Once I was standing, I let my arms reach above my head and stretched, standing on my tip toes just to get that feeling of satisfaction in my limbs.
"Hello Ratchet." I stated once I was done stretching. Ratchet replied back to me and then he gestured to a berth, letting me know that I needed to go through a checkup. As I sat down, I looked around and noticed that the door to the back room was open. My attention was brought back as Ratchet snorted.
"Those three escaped when we were all busy. They aren't causing any havoc, but simply capturing as many Specials and Infected as they can. Seems that Frenzy has some use after all, being the bait and everything."
I snorted at the mental image of Frenzy tied up with rope, hanging high off a branch of a tree. A superior being to humans, yet reduced to something small and insignificant when faced with something that can infect them. Ratchet then began my checkup and I watched as he tightened bolts and made sure everything was in working order before fully scanning me. A frown formed on his facial plates and I looked at him with a questioning stare.
"What is it?" I asked while holding up my arms and staring down at myself, expecting to see something out of the ordinary.
"Your spark is under an unusual amount of stress for some reason."
I froze up and my arms fell down to my lap as I just stared at the wall of the Med bay. "It's nothing Ratchet." I choked out while looking down and at the ground when I found the wall boring. At least there were tiles on the floor to count. "Just something I need to talk about with the twins." I murmured and Ratchet sighed while looking at me with a stern gaze.
"If things get worse, you will talk to me Lilly. I will not allow you to continue down this road. Stress can lead to Spark failure if it becomes too overwhelming for it to take."
I gulped, understanding just how serious this was and sighed. I needed to speak with the Twins to get this off my chassis. I then nodded and after drinking my unrefined energon and transforming back into my human mode, I quickly bolted it out of the Med bay, heading toward my room.
When I finally got there, I stopped at the door and just stared. It was either the Lap Dance or the lovely talk about what happened. I personally would have rather dealt with the Lap Dance than the talk. Taking a deep breath, I stepped closer toward the door and before I could even take another step, I was grabbed and pulled into the room by a pair of arms.
I squealed in surprise, since the lights were off and I couldn't make anything out since I had just been in a really bright hallway. A hand covered my mouth and I shivered as a tongue glided over my neck before being replaced by a mouth.
"About fragging time Femme." Sunstreaker's voice stated before the lights flickered on and I found Sideswipe's holoform in front of me, currently nipping at my neck and Sunstreaker stood further back. Sideswipe then pulled back from my neck and tugged me into a strong hold.
I felt my spark thrumming heavily beneath my skin and my eyes filled up with liquid as Sunstreaker walked forward and moved aside the strand of hair that had fallen into my face.
"What happened Lilly? How did you escape, why do you seem so flighty about it?" Sunstreaker questioned while Sides hold became my stabilizer.
"He said he couldn't wait to kill you both." I whispered while burying my face into Sideswipe's chest. "He stated that I'll be his, that I'll be the one to help kill the Autobots, starting with you two once we are bonded."
I felt the liquid slipping down my cheeks and I let a sob escape before I was suddenly pulled out of Sideswipe's grasp.
"Who said this Lilly? Who told you all this?" Sunstreaker questioned with fury in his optics. He didn't look too happy, more like pissed and ready to tear apart anything that came close to me other than his twin.
"M-Megatron." I stuttered out, flinching at even speaking the name. I didn't want him near me, to touch me again and say that I was his. There was no way that I would be able to fight against him, take him down and escape. Once I was trapped, he would use me to his full advantage, probably maybe even bringing all the Autobots down just to make sure that they kept me safe no matter what.
"I'm afraid." I suddenly blurted while starting to sob and buried myself between the twins when both came and surrounded me. I wasn't ashamed to show my feeling. I loved these two and I loved that they were there for me, that they were not leaving me alone to deal with my fear, my pain.
"We won't let him near you again Lilly." Sideswipe purred and stroked my back, causing a shiver to climb up and down my spine. I took in a shuddering breath to cool down my body faster from my sobbing and when I was mostly stable and not crying anymore, I let a small smile come to my face as both stroked a cheek, wiping away the tears that were still there.
"Forget about him Lilly, you are here, right now, with us, not with him." Sunstreaker stated before pulling me closer. I nodded my head in understanding and pulled away from the two, wanting to get off the subject. No matter what, I wasn't just going to push my love for my twins aside because of my fear.
I was taught to cherish what we had and not take things for granted. This is what I was not going to take for granted. I was not going to let myself take the twins for granted, our love, for granted. I would cherish everything we held.
"So…that Lap Dance." Sideswipe suddenly stated, looking innocently at me. Sunstreaker suddenly smirked and crossed his arms over his chest while staring at me with a lust filled gaze.
"It'll help take your mind off things that are troubling you. Plus you do owe us one."
I groaned and looked away from them both, not liking the fact that they were getting both the explanation and the Lap Dance in one night. Who knows what else they will get out of me. But they were right, if I did this, it would get my mind off things that were bothering me and I could spend some more alone time with them.