Heya people. How are you all doing? I'm feeling great at the moment! :D (Crazy writer over here)
So, just a confession I have to make, the previous chapter's 'confession' – where Mel says she definitely has feeling for her guardian - it was kind of quickly written, so just go with it XD
But, as always, here you go with the chapter:
Third person POV
One thing Ironhide always appreciated, was the fact that Mel had finally stopped asking questions. It pained him he couldn't answer to any of them, but that wasn't the only thing on his mind.
He was her guardian, he did a great job at that. The once 'sweet' boy turned bad in a matter of seconds, and Ironhide couldn't care less of what Mel would think if he suddenly showed up to beat the slag out of Dalton. She needed protection and he gave it to her.
And it was another miracle that Primus has provided him with, was that he got back her trust. She could easily lean her head on his shoulders and not feel awkward.
So now, while all the humans on the property are asleep, Ironhide has transformed after so many weeks.
The transformation sequence had been little to no pain, since Ironhide was almost pain-proof, being a veteran for so long made his circuits go weak on sensitivity. Not that he minded, it was always an advantage for him.
He let out a loud sigh as he had to place some of the parts of his body manually.
It was time for him to do some exercise. He'd been growing bored and even tired, from not doing any target practice or even seeing the other Autobots.
Which made him wonder what is the little youngling taking so long? Bumblebee should have been here days ago. He was at Sam's residence with Nicole, but their stay was overdue, and although Ironhide would never ever admit it, he needed some company of his own kind.
Being alone on this strange planet can be lonely. Especially if you are having major difficulties with life, like Ironhide himself. And even though he communicates with his allies all the time, it isn't the same. He needs to be himself, be it with the Autobots or the Lennox unit. It didn't matter.
As Ironhide moved across the street, careful not to step on the concrete, he walked towards the large oak tree.
He stretched himself, feeling relieved of the pressure.
He sat down, leaning on the oak tree, the one tree he knew that could support his weight.
Ironhide looked at the horizon before him. It was still night, even though his internal chronometer told him it was around five in the morning, human time.
He felt relaxed here, even though he was thinking about Cybertron, his comrades, the battles… the only things he'd ever known on Cybertron.
But here, on Earth, he found something else to think about. It was so different, so petite, so gentle and soft… It was the humans and their differences.
Ironhide would just think about it all, until sunrise. He could hear alarm clocks springing inside the house. It must have been an hour that has passed.
He quickly transformed into his alternate mode and slowly rolled into the driveway.
Melissa POV
I woke up to a clicking sound and then a huge sigh. I was sure something was outside, so I rushed out of my bed and up to the window, which was closed.
I opened it and got my head out. I couldn't see anything. It was pitch black outside.
Maybe it was just me hearing loud things. So I got into bed again and tried to go to sleep.
But once I did fall asleep… do you know that feeling where you can see what you're dreaming? Yeah, well, I saw things.
I didn't know what they were, but I could also feel, but faintly.
I could see… blue. Something blue in the darkness.
My dreams are such dumb things.
Two blue spheres, I should've been afraid, but I wasn't. The feel part came here. It, whatever 'it' was, was telling me to be calm, that I am safe. That there is no need to panic.
"Uh…hi."
And suddenly, I could hear. But it wasn't me speaking. Well, it was me. But it was as if I was remembering a conversation, between me and someone.
Wait, remembering?
I concentrated on my dream and the conversation in it.
"Hi Melissa."
The voice was very, very familiar. I could almost place it…
"Wow… this is… wow."
The conversation became a déjà vu feeling, I heard this somewhere.
Yeah, before I got bulleted, yeah, I must have heard this somewhere.
"Thank you. I see you are taking this much better than at the base."
Base? Whose base?
"Sorry. I thought they were going to kill me."
What the-?
"Come. Come here."
I could see what was happening in the background of it all, it was as if I was an audience. I could faintly see.
But one thing I could see very clearly, is me. Me, probably a few years ago.
"I'm supposed to… come into your hand?"
Come into a hand? What?
"No way."
"You do trust me, do you not?"
The voice was so damn familiar. Why can't I remember whose it was? Though it did have a computerized tone to it, just a little.
"What does trust have to do with anything, if I just met you?"
Well, I really was smart. Seriously. Always on the lookout and always careful and cautious.
"What is my designation?"
Designation. That's a name.
As the image got clearer, but just a little, it was still very blurry, which annoyed me a lot. But what I could see from the blur, was a big black ball.
Or whatever it was, it was big and black. With two blue spheres at the top.
"Is that like a name?"
The 'dream' me said that. Bravo Mel.
"Yes."
Whoever this was, they were really patient with me.
Hold on. I remember that voice now. I know who was saying this.
"Your name is Ironhide."
"Good."
I felt I was starting to wake up, but I wanted to know more. I wanted to figure out who this black thing was, why he had Ron's voice?
Reality took me back into the real world, where big black things didn't exist.
As I opened my eyes, I rubbed them and just lay there on my bed.
So, here's the recap, Ron's voice, blue balls, black balls, me and a whole new set of questions. Just what exactly was I doing in the past?
Whatever I was, it seemed like I was getting answers to the questions. Like I was completing a puzzle.
And it felt good to start remembering. Or at least, I think I was remembering. I hoped I was.
As I quit being lazy, I got out of bed, dressed myself and got downstairs. And I was feeling really good today.
Hopping my way to the kitchen, noticing nobody was in the house, Will probably went to the base and Sarah probably taking Annabelle to the daycare.
So that made me alone in the house. Maybe Ron was here too?
I looked out the window on the other side of the house, where the driveway was. Nope, his truck wasn't here. Perhaps he was taking Will and Sarah to those places.
But I did notice a yellow car parking on our driveway. The aggressive front and the rare color combination told me the car looked expensive. And in pristine condition.
I was just about to pick up the phone, dial the number and ask my Uncle who these people were and what were they doing on our property, but all of a sudden I saw Nicole coming out of the car.
The phone slid out of my hand onto the parquet and I ran out of the house, the door left wide open.
Nicole noticed me and quickly ran to me. We crashed into each other and were enveloped in hugs and cries.
But we didn't speak a word. We didn't need to. We just stood there, hugging, clearly missing each other too much.
As we were done with the reunion, her friend came. He was familiar to me, but I don't think I knew his name. Maybe I did know it three months ago.
"Mel, I don't know if you remember, but this is my boyfriend, Bee."
He smiled at me. "Hi. Is 'Bee' short for something?" It must have been.
"It's short for Bumblebee if that's what you mean?" Nicole answered the question.
"Oh. Thanks." Another weird name. Oh well. I was getting used to them anyway. "Wanna come inside?"
"Sure. Bee, could you get the luggage?" he nodded, but he motioned with his finger for her to approach him.
Once she did, he whispered something into her ear. She shook her head. "No. Optimus said it. You can't do that."
Whatever 'that' was, I think it was about me not knowing something. But maybe Nicole will tell me the truth? She is my last hope after all.
As her boyfriend nodded in understanding, the finger he motioned her to approach him was now under her chin, gently pulling her lips to his.
It was so cute to look at the two. They looked as if they were made for each other. It was absolutely adorable to watch.
Once they broke apart, Bumblebee motioned me to come towards him.
Once I did walk up to him and was now standing right in front of him, Nicole spoke up. "Bee missed you." She chuckled.
Just as I raised an eyebrow in confusion, I was wrapped around in a hug. It didn't take a genius to know that Bumblebee had hugged me.
"Where'd you go? I miss you so… Seems like it's been forever that you've been gone…" the radio spoke up, just like Ron's truck radio did.
I returned the hug to him and he easily let go. "Go on, get out of here! Go home…" the radio played again.
"Bee!" Nicole scolded him. "C'mon Mel. Show me around." She smiled.
"Sure." I didn't know why would she scold him, I mean, I am used to sudden radio playing.
Oh yeah, Nicole doesn't know that, does she?
Nevermind.
I showed her around the house. Once we got upstairs, I showed her my room, the one we were going to be sharing. "I think I can find a folding cot and some pillows and a-"
"Wait. I'm not going to sleep on a folding cot." I looked at her. "I'll sleep on the floor."
"You aren't sleeping on the floor. I'm sure my Uncle has at least one fold-" I continued to search under the bed.
"Nu-uh. Floor. Period."
I gave up my search. There was no arguing with her. "Then we both sleep on the floor."
"Works for me." I sat on the bed and she sat next to me. "So how have you been doing?"
"Me? Good, really. I think I'm starting to remember."
"You are? That's great!" she hugged me suddenly. "Do you remember the Autobots?"
"Well… no." this was the first time in three months that someone had mentioned them to me.
"Oh… Well, that's okay." She smiled. Her boyfriend came into my room, knocking first. "Bee, just come in." she shook her head in disbelief. "I can't believe he still knocks."
"Polite man." I told her.
"He's not a-yeah, you're right." She corrected herself. Looks like she's going to keep the 'secret' away from me as well.
"Where do you want me to put this?" he came with all sorts of luggage.
"Just put it wherever." I told him as he nodded and left it in an empty corner of the room.
"Thanks Bee." Nicole said as Bee sent a kiss to her, just by pouting his lips and making that noise you do with your lips. (Author sucks at explaining, but if you understood, kudos to you. )
"There's no more luggage, so what do you want me to do?" Bee asked her.
"I dunno. Go downstairs and uh, check the uh, oil level in the car?"
He nodded and got downstairs. "What was that about?"
"What?" she looked at me.
"Check the oil level?" I squinted.
"Well, he really loves his car. I think he'd love to take you for a ride in it. Damn, it's humid in here. Do you ever open the window here?" she got up off the bed and opened the window.
"Well, I do, it's just been colder than usual here, so it's been shut for a couple of days."
"Yeah, you can tell by the humidity in here. I need more fresh air. Say, is there a park nearby?"
"There is one in town, but we need a ride to get there. Unless you want to walk for two miles. That's the only option."
"Come with me. We'll have Bee get us there in no time." She grabbed my hand a sprinted downstairs. She was already out of the house and in the car. I was beginning to lock the house and then I put the key above a little wall lamp.
It was a 'secret' place where we kept our keys. Nobody knew of this.
I locked the house and got to the car. I wondered where I would sit. But Nicole was already in the back, the driver was in his place so the choice had been made for me.
So without further adieu, Bumblebee started driving us towards town. "Do you know where the park is, Bumblebee?"
He tapped the display. "Navigation."
Oh. Right. Most cars these days did have built in navigation.
And after about ten minutes, Bumblebee parked in front of the park as we all exited his Camaro. People turned around at the shiny and eye-catching Camaro.
We entered the park, and surprisingly, it was warmer outside that I thought it was. I found a nearby bench to sit on. Bee and Nicole set beside me, one on each side of me. "You like this place?" I asked both of them.
"Looks really nice." She said. After a minute she got an idea, standing up all of a sudden. She looked behind us, thought about something and the she took Bee's hand. "C'mon Bee, time for a little walk." She said it as if she was telling that to a puppy.
And her boyfriend, the puppy he is, followed her as their hands joined together and walked away slowly. I didn't mind being left alone, in fact I enjoyed it.
She turned around at one point and pointed out with her finger at something behind me. I looked behind me, but I only saw the all too familiar black truck.
Black truck. Ron's here.
Bee and Nicole didn't even finish their walk around the little pond that was in the center of the park, Bee tugged her a little, told her something and then she complied, going with him in his car.
Just as they passed by us, Nicole winked at me and looked at Ron and then at me suggestively.
Of course I got the memo she was trying to send, but she got in the car too quickly and got away with Bee in the direction of my house, leaving me with absolutely no time to think about what Ron was doing here.
And just as I started to think quickly, he came from behind me, tapping me on the shoulder. I looked at him and gave a small smile and nodded, giving him permission to sit next to me.
He sat next to me and didn't feel tense at all. I just felt excited with him sitting next to me.
"How are you feeling?" he asked me as the butterflies in my belly started prancing around.
"I'm good."
We must have looked like two shy people. Though I couldn't say for him 'shy'. He just didn't strike me as that kind of person.
"Mel." He caught my attention once again, after so many minutes spent in silence. I turned my head towards him. "Will you show me around the park?" he politely asked.
"Of course, Ron." I smiled and got up, he getting up with me. We started walking a circle around the park, it wasn't that big, I figured it was an excuse to get up and walking.
"What do you do in these parks?"
"Have you ever been to a park before?"
"No."
"Not even as a child?"
"Not even as a child, no."
That was peculiar, but hey, who cares. "Well, what you basically do in these parks is just walking around, enjoying the peace and quiet and stuff like that."
"Oh really?" he sounded interested. Or not. Perhaps it was sarcasm.
"Well, yeah. People usually come here to relax, think or just spend time with someone."
"Yes, I've seen such behave-I mean, yes, that does sound good."
I chuckled at this awkwardness. Suddenly, I felt my hand being taken. I looked at the hand and then at Ron.
I don't even know how my hand fit his perfectly, the way our fingers interlocked. It was crazy. But then again I see myself crazy for falling for my guardian. But he was so perfect in every way.
My hand stood in his as I smiled at his actions. Perhaps he was feeling the same way I was? He was man enough to make the first move.
So we walked. A couple of circles around the small pond in the center of the park were enough. But we chatted all the way while walking. It was so beautiful.
He was such a nice person to talk to, you wouldn't believe how hard it was at first to try and make a conversation with him. Now it was much easier.
We sat on the same bench and talked again. Talked until night came. It was so majestic to talk to him. It was so special, because I was feeling something for him and I couldn't possibly deny it.
We talked about his obsession with cannons came to life, how my love for horses and volleyball were made. Physical activity was something we both loved to do, and he even told me about how he trained me in martial arts once. But that ended badly.
I kept getting short flashbacks, I could see those trainings, just for a second before the images would disappear.
And as we continued the talking, the park had gotten empty until there were just me and Ron left in it. It must have been the wee hours in the morning.
Somehow my legs had made their was over his as if he was a pillow to spread your legs across. It was amazing the things he let me do to him. It only made me like him more.
After a silence fell, I yawned. It must've been really, really late at night.
"Shall we go home now?"
"Please, let's go home." I smiled and as we went to his truck which was near, we held our hands together all the short way to it.
Soon after we got into the truck, the radio songs kept turning on and off at will.
"Trying not to love you only goes so far, But trying not to need you is tearing me apart… 'cuz trying not to love you, only makes me love you more - I can be your hero, I can kiss away the pain, I will stand by you forever, because you take my breath away…"
"The radio does that quite often."
"I know." He squeezed my hand affectionately.
And soon we got home. My eyelids started burning a little, I was really tired.
I made my way up to my room, careful not to wake up anybody. Nicole was sleeping on the ground in my room, as she stubbornly said she would. The spare mattress was on the ground and she slept on it, but I saw the mattress from my bed on the ground next to it, as well.
Bee must have put it there when they got home. How nice of him.
I took my clothes off and put my PJs on. Just as I lay down on the mattress, I forgot to put the cover on. I so wasn't in the mood to get up and put the cover on.
About three seconds later, there was a quiet knocking on the door. "Come in." I whispered.
Ron came inside, leaving the door open. The light in the hallway was on, making it easy for me to see him. "I just wanted to tell you goodnight." He said as he probably noticed the lack of the bed cover on me.
He went to the bed, got the cover and put it over me. Just as he did that, he got near me and crouched. "Goodnight." I said as I closed my eyes and he tucked me in. A smile formed on my lips.
And just as it did form, something soft touched my lips. My eyes opened wide, as I smelled Ron's scent and somehow recognized his lips on mine.
Opening my mouth to deepen the kiss, I felt so many memories come to life. And for the first time ever, I didn't want to know the memories. I wanted to focus on the kiss.
It didn't last long and it didn't have to. All I ever wanted was fulfilled in those three to four seconds of emotions being shared and I couldn't have gone to sleep happier.
"'Night Mel." He said as closed the door.
I wanted to scream out of happiness. Suddenly, I wasn't so tired. "Nicole." I pushed her. She didn't respond. "Nicole, wake up." I shook her harder.
"M-n-wha-? What is it?" she yawned and opened an eye.
"Ron and I just kissed." I grinned.
Damn! Was that something you guys have been waiting for a long time or what! I hope you like this chapter, it took me a long time to write it, and it does form around 4.000 words. Which is too much for me and my lazy fingers XD
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Songs used here are:
Nickelback – Trying not to love you
Enrique Iglesias - Hero
