Please remember that Allie is going through an adjustment period which is normal for a leader who may be relinquishing some of her responsibilities yet is not retiring. Also, she is not used to having Optimus there every day and night. Even in the G1 series Elita-One was on Cybertron while Optimus was one earth so they did not have to deal with day to day pressures that one would face as a bonded couple. That is what I am basing the adjustment period on because when my husband came off the truck for two years it took me six months to get used to sleeping with him every night even though we had been married for three years. Marriage is work and I wanted to bring some of that out in my story. I hope that everyone likes it so far.
Please take a moment to comment because I do read them and love them even if I don't agree with every one of them. Enjoy!
Chelsea was in for her monthly checkup. They had been in the Realm now for three months and she was getting close to her due date though she suspected that she might deliver early since her son had come three weeks early. She and Barricade were excited about the sparkling and even more excited that it was going to be a mech. At least she wasn't carrying twins though she had worried since twins were getting more and more common. Cassie recommended Seaway since she was only coming to help Cassie twice a week now but Chelsea was a very active mother and she knew that she wanted to be with her sparkling every minute so that she wouldn't miss one moment of his life.
She and Barricade had finished the nursery and it was bitter sweet because she had chosen to use the same room that Matronus had used when he was alive. She had never touched the room and Barricade had seen glimpses of his life through the décor of the room, from youngling posters to simple weapons and guns collections that his mother allowed him to have. In the end Barricade had been the one to pack up his things and Allie came down to help him go through them. They saved a stone carving that he had done in art class to keep for the sparkling so that he would have something of his older brother and know how wonderful Matronus had been.
Once everything was cleared away and Barricade had removed the furniture and all traces of their dead son, Chelsea was finally able to get in the room and paint. It had been hard at first but then as other femmes came in to help she was able to finally let go of the painful memories and feel the joy that her little sparkling was giving her in her chamber. They finished the nursery in good time with Allie coming down and painting little gatos and other various animals as well as a cute dragon with a gold crown on his head to symbolize the little sparkling.
"Well, you are certainly looking on target for your due date, and maybe even early. In fact, we may move your date up a week." Doc said as she took a few more pictures of their mechling as he inched around in the now too small chamber. Chelsea laughed as she saw her little mech push his hands out and she felt it as they all saw the little protruding bump push up on her abdomen. Barricade looked on with a big smile as the proud sire and Chelsea squeezed his hand as they watch their son play in his mother's chamber.
"Well everything looks good. I think that you may go another month if that." Doc said as she handed Chelsea the wipes to clean herself. "Now that you are much closer to your date I do need to check your valve. Do you want Barricade to be present or would you rather we do this in complete privacy?" Doc knew that though they were mated that some femmes were still shy about their bodies.
"No, it is fine if he stays. I'm comfortable." Chelsea said. Doc pulled the curtain around them. Even if Chelsea was comfortable she still didn't need the embarrassment of people walking in on her. "Okay, Chelsea I need you to scoot forward and place your feet in the stirrups." Chelsea did as told and Doc gently lifted her medical gown and proceeded to check her valve and feel around the skin that covered her chassis. "Okay, you are dilated but not very much so from here on I recommend no more interfacing because it could start an early labor and I want to make sure that the sparkling's processor has finished formatting."
"Well, it's official, honey. We are in the final stages." Chelsea said dryly. She would miss the closeness of interfacing but then she knew that it was getting a little uncomfortable.
"Yes, but your health is more important and we have the rest of our loves for intimacy." Barricade lovingly told her. He held her hand as excitement coursed through his systems. It wouldn't be long until they would be holding their sparkling.
"Hey Doc, who is going to deliver your sparkling? Shalon's right behind me and Aura and I are almost due at the same time so what are you going to do? Have Ratchet?" Chelsea asked.
"No, Knockout is going to replace me the last two weeks of my carrying unless I have it early. That way Ratchet can hold my hand through the labor. I also made him promise not to scare Knockout too much during labor or I wouldn't talk to him for a month." They all laughed at Doc's words. "Besides who do you think taught him how to weld a aft to the ceiling?" That caused an uproar of laughter from the couple as Chelsea went behind the screen to get dressed.
"Well you have a plan and I am glad. Also glad to see you showing your little bump." Barricade said as he teased the medic.
"It's about time too. I was wondering if she would ever show." Ratchet said as he walked in from the office.
"So I am a little small; maybe it will be a femme." Doc said. "My sibling was small on Cybertron so it may be on my side that it gets it size."
"Well, we'll see. Either way it will be loved." Ratchet said as he walked by and placed a kiss on her head.
"It will be spoilt if Ratchet had a say. He already talks to it every day and night and insist that I play music for it to listen to." Doc said teasing her mate.
"Well they say music is a language and I will do anything to make sure it has the best start in life." He countered.
"We play music for our little mechling. There's nothing wrong with it. Barricade even puts the phones on my stomach so that he can listen directly." Chelsea said.
"Hey everyone. What are you discussing?" Allie walked in with Optimus as she had come for her checkup. She and Optimus were doing better but Chelsea was still concerned for her friend because since she had been carrying Chelsea saw the strain that it placed on her friend and knew that she missed the freedom of flying or getting on her motor transport and taking a drive with the wind blowing in her hair.
"Hello Ratchet. How are you today?" Optimus asked his old friend.
"We are fine, Prime. Just talking about music for sparklings." Ratchet told them. He walked around and pointed to the medical berth across from Chelsea. It would make it easier with the equipment between the two so that Doc wouldn't have to move too much around.
"Allie, you will need to go behind the screen and put a medical gown on please. I want to get some pictures and make sure that the protoform is developing correctly." Doc told her as Chelsea came out fully dressed but couldn't quite get her zipper up on her dress so Barricade walked over to help her.
Allie took her place as Doc handed her a fresh gown and proceeded to remove her clothes.
"Optimus, do you have any questions for us while Allie is getting ready?" Ratchet asked him.
"Yes, Allie seems very lethargic lately and it concerns me." He said.
"Is she drinking he energon regularly?" Doc asked.
"Yes, and we are doing the nutrients." Optimus added.
"Good. We'll take a look and see." Doc replied as Allie came out and quickly laid down on the medical berth she was assigned to.
"Okay, we are going to do the ultra sound today. Do you want to know the sex of the sparkling?" Doc asked them as she looked first at Allie and then at Optimus.
"My lord?" Allie asked formally. It was how she answered him now and Optimus hated it but since their last argument she refused to be informal with him around anyone and even formal in the berthroom. The only time she called him Optimus was when he was loving her but still it made his spark ache that she didn't trust him anymore.
"Doc, we will want to know if that is possible." Optimus stated for them. He heard Allie's sigh and knew that he had chosen correctly but still it hurt that she wouldn't trust him anymore.
"Very well. Allie will you lift your gown?" Doc placed a sheet over her legs and lower area as she lifted the gown and her abdomen was exposed. Allie shivered from the sudden lack of covering but then Doc was spreading a warm gel substance on her belly and Allie watched in anticipation for the first pictures of their sparkling.
Doc placed the monitor in the gel and began moving it around. Pictures of her carrying chamber immediately flitted on the screen and Allie and Optimus watched in eager anticipation. She had been rounding nicely though a bit large for as early in her carrying and Doc was concerned with the size of the sparkling or if she might be carrying twins. The ultrasound would answer these questions and as Doc began taking picture and counted three legs she knew the answer to the second question.
"Well Allie, I hope you have two cribs ready because I see two sets of peds." Doc said smiling as she continued to take pictures of the sparklings.
"Wait, you mean…?" Optimus asked incredulously.
"Yes, Allie, you are carrying twins." Doc said softly as she took a picture of two heads cuddled together. Allie looked with emotion choking her throat as tears formed and then silently ran down her face. After a moment of staring she turned to Optimus and looked at him with all the love and devotion in her eyes and Optimus' spark broke.
"That's our…" She tried to say but then she broke completely and Optimus reached for her and held her to him as much as he could without disturbing Doc.
"I'm through taking pictures. Why don't Ratchet and I give you a minute?" Doc said. She wiped Allie's belly clean as she stood, and grabbed Ratchet's hand as they walked to the office.
"I'm sorry that I have been so distant." Was muffled against his neck and Optimus shuddered as her apology was spark felt deep within his chassis.
"I've missed you." He said softly. "I know I have seen you every day but I felt that I was losing you over that last argument."
"I know. I was being a bitch and I know it but it hurt so much to know that you used me that way." She said quietly. She pulled back to touch his face and he turned his helm to kiss the palm of her hand.
"So, we are having twins." Optimus said to her.
"Yes we are. Are you ready for this?" She asked with stars shining in her eyes.
"With you I am ready for anything." He replied and reached down and kissed his mate very gently. He pulled back thinking. "She didn't tell us if they were mechs or femmes."
"She will. She's known about my melancholy moods for a while and probably wanted to give us a moment." Allie stated.
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Megatron was in his office that Allie had commissioned for him since the peace treaty had been signed. It had all the latest equipment and was spacious since he didn't like to be closed in. It was one of the reasons he had a throne on the Nemesis and not an actual office. He was adjusting to all the newness and he did like having a window that looked down over the tarmac just like Allie's office which help him adjust to having his own space. He and Shalon were getting ready to move into their own quarters and Shalon old berthroom would be the new nursery for Optimus' sparklings. Allie had offered to move first since Shalon was down to her last month of carrying but Shalon had wanted a three berthroom apartment type quarters where she and Megatron could have their own kitchenette. Allie was having a kitchenette built in their quarters and splitting Shalon's quarters into two rooms.
In all, everything was going great for them in the Realm. The only thing that had marred it so far was two transport bombing, one close to the tarmac. Allie had told him that there were bombings occasionally and Megatron and Allie feared that the latest had come from the underworld, specifically Lord Staphano. However, they could not trace it back to the Warlord but Megatron had increased security after the second attempt to help keep Sara safe as well as doubling patrols.
The other thing that concerned him was that Allie had suddenly become very formal since her disagreement with Optimus. She never called him my just Megatron anymore. Now she called him by my lord or Lord Megatron. Even in private she kept everything formal and Megatron missed her dry humor. He knew that she was trying to adjust to the changes that had occurred but Megatron did not realize just how much it would affect her. He also suspected that she was sulking because of what Optimus had done but that was strictly between them and he would not even allow Shalon to interfere. He did broach the subject once with Optimus but all he said was that he apologized shortly after the incident and that she would come around.
All in all though they had a good life here in the Realm. Starscream and Kiki were happy in their home and Kiki was getting closer to Stargazer since they lived in the same neighborhood. Thundercracker and Aura had built them a beach house on the coast and Skywarp had built a home half a mile away. He still was playing the field much to the femmes chagrin but then Warp would be the type of mech that wouldn't make up his mind until it hit him over the head. Currently he was dating the little femme that they had met the first night they were here, Emalia. She seemed very nice and sweet, the type that a seeker would immediately want to protect. Megatron hoped that she would be the one.
"Hey honey." Shalon said as she carried herself through the door. She was so cute waddling in holding her large belly. She had stayed small all through the carrying stages until this last month where she ballooned out. Megatron loved her though he missed interfacing with her. Doc had finally put an end to it since she was close to dilating.
"How was your day?" He asked as she walked around and sat down in his lap. She was still light even with her carrying and Megatron smiled as he wrapped his arms around her frame.
"Mine was good. Our quarters were finished today. They even finished the nursery." She said as she kissed his lips and he opened so that her glossa could explore his mouth cavity. She moaned and began to grind against him. She was so hot and swollen and Megatron knew that she was horny but they couldn't do anything about it.
"That's wonderful. We will move in then tomorrow since we have everything ready." Megatron said.
"Good." It will be nice to not have to listen to them in their berth."
"Well they have to listen to us." Megatron countered.
"Well not any more. Have I told you today that I love you and our little femling?" She asked.
"You just did as I love you and our little one." Megatron replied. "Let me finish my reports and then we will inspect our new quarters."
"Cool. Maybe we could christen it." She said.
"No, we can't. We will have to wait until after our little femling is born."