The sun continued to rise on this cold day, colder than the rest of the days of this week. Sides was still in statis for his own good until Ratchet takes him out.
In the Med. Bay, it's only been the three of us most of the time with the medic sometimes coming in our small area to check up on Sides. Sunstreaker had lied down a while back after sitting up for too long was draining him of his energy. With his brother out of it, the yellow twin couldn't go far without passing out.
Inside of the hangar wasn't too warm for human standards when the door gets opened a few times and releasing all the pent up heated air. The only heat source for me was Sunstreaker's armor but it was made of metal, meaning it quickly lost the warmth.
A shiver raked my body after sitting here for too long with no constant heat source. The logical side of my brain told me I needed to get somewhere warm or have at least a jacket on. It doesn't help I was wearing a tank top with no bra and basketball shorts on in forty to fifty degrees weather. My caring side was saying to suck it up and wait until Sides is at least awake.
From what Sunstreaker has said, Sides could tell from him if I was near or far from him. He would most likely freak if I left to go get a jacket or blanket. Where would I even get one? Will probably knows of my presences now after Prowl had fetched me from the twins room. Could I somehow get him to get me one?
Another shiver ran down the length of my back. Don't get me wrong, I loved the cold if only I was wearing the proper clothing not my sleepwear. "You cold?" Sunstreaker's voice brought me out of my thoughts.
I gazed where his blue optics were staring at my shaking form and nodded my head. Sunstreaker sat up carefully as I was on his chassis and rested his back against the hangar wall. I could he was hurting and didn't want him to push himself because of me. "Wait! I'm fine. You don't have to strain yourself."
Sunstreaker scoffed and rolled his optics too. "You're not. You humans cannot stand the cold for long. You're also not wear proper clothing to protect you from the cold. And I'm not straining myself," he grunted out and used his servo as a plat form for me to stand on.
It was a little bit warmer than being exposed to the elements. I leaned against the plating on his chassis, closer to his spark where it was the warmest, and sighed in content.
Our little moment was broken by the curtain blocking us from the rest of the bay was opened by a special police bot. Prowl didn't seem fazed about the two of us cuddling and took a step past the curtain. "Aubrey, you no longer have to worry about going to work for the next three earth days. I have talked to your lieutenant and pulled some strings to allow you time with the twins."
"I totally forgot about work," I chuckled nervously. It was the truth though, Sides being injured had taken over my mind which was surprising. Work was the number one priority in my brain compared to everything else in my life, besides my dogs. Kodiak and Vivian are still in the twins berthroom! "I need to go get my dogs from their room."
"I wouldn't be surprised with everything going on. Come with me then, we can go get them," Prowl offered. Sunstreaker's frame tensed and he pulled me closer towards him, clearly showing his displeasure of me leaving.
"No, she's staying," he laid down the rules. His optics trained solely on Prowl, flickers of protectiveness flashing in them. It was best not to get in between the two, or at least not in front of Sunstreaker. He was doing his normal protective thing I have seen him do with his brother.
Prowl rolled his optics but sighed in defeat. "Fine, I'll go get them for you. What were their designations again?" They're most like going to hunt me down in the entire base to find me and not follow any of his orders. Good luck, Prowl.
"Kodiak and Vivian. Kodiak is the big black husky mix and Vivian is the small white and brindle Pitbull mix," I answered and hoped the two would listen to the bot. Knowing my lucky, the two of them would run off before he could get a word out once the hangar door is opened.
The black and white mech left us alone to go retrieve my animals. Sunstreaker relaxed his tensed frame and still held me close to his chassis. "Slagger thinking he could take you away from us," he growled and huffed out a large vent.
I peeked up at the yellow bot with unease at his sentence, feeling like he was trying to completely claim me. If it was like marriage-ish kind of way, I would accept it but the way he was saying it, sounded weird to me. "Let's not go that far," I warned him. "You know how I feel about that kind of thing."
Sunstreaker seemed like he wanted to scoff at my words and brush me off but reframed from it. "Sorry. We don't like you leaving us. Sides would start to freak out," he explained and set me down on the large plat form.
Now I felt bad about my actions and stepped up to his thigh. I placed my hand on his dirty finish and peered up at the large mech with regret. "I'm sorry, I need to get use to your protectiveness. Could you also hold me again? It's cold in here," I questioned shyly and timidly pushed my shoulders up.
He shook his head with a grin on his lips and scooped me carefully back up in his servos. With his other hand, he gently patted the top of my head. "Happy, now?" he teased. I nodded my head and leaned against his warm chassis, savoring the heat.
The sound of clicking nails caught my attention. I knew in an instant who, or what, was coming our way and couldn't help the smile growing on my face.
Prowl was in hot pursuit of the two dogs running at full speed from the crack between the curtains. The dogs seemed to be winning this race being four legged against a twenty foot tall alien robot. It would make sense though if you thought about it. "Get back here, slaggers."
By the sounds of it, Prowl wasn't pleased with them from the tone of voice and choice of words. A laugh escaped me at his words towards my dogs. This wasn't a serious situation where I would have to jump a good ten feet to save them.
When the two troublemakers passed the entrance of the Med, Bay, Prowl stopped in his tracks and released a deep sigh in irritation. He waved his servo dismissively and left the two on their own.
Said two had trotted over to the bottom of the metal slab and sat down heavily. Their heavy breathes created clouds of fog which disappeared quickly. Kodiak started to whine like he did when he was younger and padded over to where Sides was laying still knocked out. "I know, Kods. I'm worry about him too but he'll be better in no time."
At the sound of my voice, Kodiak perked up immediately and peered at me from his position down on the ground. His tail started to wag but his attention was drawn back to the red twin. The two of them must have grown a bond with each other.
A pang of jealousy hit me at the thought of Kodiak and Sides becoming close. It's okay, Aubrey, Sides would never take away Kodiak from you. If he ever tried though, he'll be turned into a fucking toaster before he can say crap.
"Could you put me down real quick? I'm just going to say hi to them." Sunstreaker nodded his head with no hesitation, luckily for me, and set me down on the ground. Vivian was the nearest and the first to reach me in full force.
Her muscle body crashed into mine and thankfully she wasn't able to take me down. We would have had a problem with that; she would be in trouble for jumping and pushing me to the ground. Kodiak on the other hand reached me a couple of seconds later and came full force towards me.
All of his one-hundred and fifty or so body crashed straight into me knocked me off of my feet with no problem. I yelped from the sudden weight and fell backwards onto my butt. The two of them assaulted me with kisses and nips from Vivian.
After being nearly suffocated by their slobber, I pushed the two away and scrambled to my feet. With a stern finger pointed towards them, I scowled angrily down at the puppies and wiped off the slobber form my face. "Bad boy! Don't jump on me ever again." Having them suffocate was the least of my worries; jumping on me was a different story.
Once I take the two out again into the public, they could possibly jump on a kid or elderly person and seriously injure them. That's why I teach them jumping isn't a good thing, even if they are excited.
The black mix dipped his head down in shame and his tail no longer wagged. I felt a tiny bit guilt of causing him to do that but he needed to learn that jumping on me or anyone wasn't good. "Lay down," I ordered sternly. He followed my order slowly, still not looking me in the eye. Which was a good thing, he knew who was the leader of this trio.
I went to lay down on the concrete and sprung up when my hand made contact with it. The floor was freezing to the touch. No way was I laying on that, neither should Kodiak. "Okay, you're fine." He got to his four paws and stared up at me, waiting for my next command.
Should have thought about this before allowing for Prowl to bring them in here. Would Ratchet have some sort of blanket I could put done for them to lay on to protect them from the cold? Kodi maybe part Husky and have a thick coat but it still doesn't mean he should be lying in the ground.
Would Sunstreaker know if there some blankets in here? I turn my gaze to the yellow bot watching me intently from his spot on the metal platform. "Hey, Sunstreaker. Do you know if Ratchet keeps any blankets in here? It's too cold for the dogs to be laying on the ground."
"Not necessarily blankets but they are thick enough to keep the cold from reaching them." Sunstreaker wearily got off the massive table and lumbered over to one of the many desks their size. The mech pulled out a gray blanket from a draw and dropped it down in front of me.
From the way he was moving, his frame was taking a toll with his brother being both injured and knock out. I felt bad for somewhat making him move to get me something I could have gotten, most likely. "Thank you. Though I could have got it for myself… Are you alright?"
"I would like to see you grow to my size and grab that for yourself. And… not really. Sides is getting better from what I can feel but it's straining on the two of us." I dipped my head, understanding what he was saying and spread out the thick blanket he gave me.
The dogs hopped onto the blanket excitedly. I hoped that Kodiak wouldn't do his normal thing and decide it was a threat towards me. If that would happened, he would rip it off of me and start tearing into it like an enemy.
Once the two were settled on the fabric and out of the way of Ratchet, I strolled to the edge of the thing Sunstreaker was on and made a grabby motion with my hands. Sunstreaker gave me a 'seriously' look before picking me off the ground once more and holding me close to him.
A smile grew to my lips at the close contact with the iron giant that I somehow stole his spark, er, at least caught his optic/eye. I couldn't wait for Sides to be awake and back to his normal self. This was going well, hopefully I didn't fuck it up like what usually happens.
Ratchet pushed the curtains to the side as he entered our little corner of the Med. Bay. A glare was set in my direction. "What are you still doing here?"
Confused on why he was acting this way, I tilted my head to the side like a lost puppy. "What do you mean?"
"You should be getting dinner as it that time for you humans." I made a 'oh' face at the mention of food. Time had been flying by and it was already dinner. This entire day, I haven't had anything to eat or drink which is why I was thirsty.
"Oh, yes, food. Uh, I forgot about that." I scratched the back of my neck nervously, knowing he wasn't going to be happy.
The plating around his nose flared outward, showing his anger. "How do you forget about a necessity like that?! William and Sarah have alerted me of your predicament." Ratchet had hardened his voice for the word predicament. Oh shit, now I was in trouble.
"What predicament?" Sunstreaker cut into our conversation, sounding a little worried.
"She likes to starve herself." Ratchet was making sound worse than it is.
"What?!" the yellow mech revved angrily and stared down at me with his brows furrowed.
"Well-no! It's not like that. If I don't feel hungry then I don't eat. My brain isn't telling me that I'm hungry so then I don't have to worry about that," I explained with a weak truth but it was the truth to me.
Ratchet's glare deepened at my reason. "That doesn't make it better. Missing a course when you know you need to have isn't healthy. From what I have heard, you didn't eat for three days straight." What I really wanted to say to him was that wasn't the truth to me but whatever.
"That last one, I was working on a case that needed my full attention."
"I'm ready to pull you off the force if you continue to do that." My eyes widened in shock and fear from his words. There was no way he could do that, could he?
"You can't do that. You don't have any jurisdiction over me!" Who did he think he was saying that to me? I was my own person and he couldn't do shit about it, neither could the twins.
"Oh yes I can. Prowl was able to get you three days off but I can extend that till forever or at least until you are on eating on a healthy schedule." Well, shit. I knew at this moment I was backed into a corner and didn't have a way to get out.
"What will I have to do to get you off of my tail?" I wasn't pleased with his threat but knew he could fulfill it if he wanted to. My voice expressed my anger about this situation. If he fucking dared to take me off the force, I swear to any god that would listen to me I would hurt him.
"Simple: eat more. I'll take you to the cafeteria after I check up on Sideswipe's vitals." Ratchet strolled over to the red bot still in statis and seemed to scan over his frame. He hummed and nodded his head thoughtfully. "He's healing well. He's also well enough to bring him out of his forced statis."
Sunstreaker perked up at his words and an ecstatic smile graced his lips. I couldn't help the one that also took over mine. Sides is getting better quickly, their healing factor much faster than ours. A human could never heal as fast as that, we could only dream for that.
Ratchet didn't say anymore and started to do his thing. None of it I understood being it was alien to me.
Sides's optics powered on slowly, like a computer that has been shut off for too long. He groaned painfully and raised his servo to his helm, lightly touching. "Remind me never to get slagged over by a fragging Con," he cracked a joke a few seconds after being brought out of statis.
His brother hopped to his pedes with me still in his grasp and stood next to him. Sunstreaker flicked his brother's nose like how true siblings would do. Sides sat up carefully, being mindful of his injured shoulder and area near his spark. "Hey! Why did you do that?" Sides whined.
The yellow brother set me down on the ground to the left of him and hugged his brother tightly. The corners of my mouth tipped up at the interaction of the twins. Instead of standing there like a weirdo would do, I snuck over to where the dogs were and petted the two of them. I was glad Sides was awake and getting better since his tumble with the Decepticons.
For a moment, I thought I was safe away from the Autobot's medic, main word is thought. Suddenly, my body was scooped up from the cold floor and grasped carefully in a freezing servo. "You're coming with me. Don't think for a moment you were able to get away."
Ratchet's servo was freezing to the touch, especially on my exposed legs. To the right of me, the twins finally noticed the medic taking me away from them. Sunstreaker turned around and glared daggers at him. "Where are you taking her?" his voice low and dangerous sounding.
"She needs to eat proper and healthy food," Ratchet answered, not at all imitated by the yellow twin's actions, and turned to walk out the hangar doors. "Don't try to stop me. We all know she needs this. It doesn't help that you two kept her with you all day."
Technically that was my fault. I wanted to their side just in case something happened while out and about. The dogs took note of my forced leaving form and gave chase after Ratchet. Said bot didn't give them much thought and ignored them staring intently at him.
To my surprise, neither of the twins rushed after the two of us. Maybe they took his words to heart, Sunstreaker knowing about how I am with remembering to eat. It wasn't my fault though, I just didn't believe eating all three courses was important.
The medic dropped me off at the entrance of the cafeteria where Will was standing. Thankfully for me, he was holding a thick jacket and a pair sweatpants. "Heard you're underdressed for the weather. Thank you, Ratchet. I'll make sure she eats her dinner." My friend turned his attention to me with a hardened glare on his face.
I took his offerings, slipped the thick hoodie over my head, and pulled the sweatpants over my basketball shorts. "You can't blame me, I was worried about Sides. The two of them woke me up in the middle of the night and snuck me into the base. Then I was trapped in their room until Prowl took me to the Med. Bay and told me that he was injured," I argued and crossed my arms with a pout on my face.
Ratchet mumbled under his breath, something on the lines of 'idiotic twins' before leaving me with Will. Said person gently pushed me in the direction of the cafeteria. "Come on you. Let's get some food into you and taken home."
Alarm flashed inside of my head at the sound of leaving the two to their own. "Wait, Will. Can I please stay? Prowl gave me three days off and I kind of wanted to spend it with them. Because I-uh… never mind." I couldn't bring myself up to say that I was starting to like them more than guardians or friends.
"Oh, right… Is everything going well between the three of you?" Will took me over to where Epps and a couple of others were sitting. The dogs happily trailed behind us, watching out for any danger. Vivian did seem like she wanted to go to the soldiers and get some pets from them.
"Yes, everything is fine. I just don't know how to feel around the two of them. I want to maybe have a relationship with them but fear is holding me back. Plus having two partners is frowned upon out in the real word. God, if my mother could see me now." A shiver ran down the length of my spine at the though. She would never accept them as my partners.
"Do you like them? Like really like them?" I sat down next to him and dipped my head at Epps and the others to silently greet them.
"Well, I-I think so. I haven't felt this way towards someone in… never actually," I answered truthfully and stared down at the not-so-good looking food Will pushed in my way. My mind was confused on what I should feel for the two mech's. Should I let them into my fucked up life or push them away like I have done to everyone else?
"Ohhhh, someone has a crush," Epps teased and poked me on the shoulder from the other side of Will. I rolled my eyes and shoulder bumped into Will.
"Anyway, eat now or else Hatchet will have a fit about it. He'll figure it out somehow and things won't go good for the both of us." I dug into my food that Will gave me and didn't find the taste of it good on any level. With Ratchet figuratively leaning over my shoulder, I knew my only option was to eat it or be taken off the force.
Stupid robots thinking they could control my life.
After finishing up the meal, I headed back to the Med. Bay with the dogs side-by-side next to me. Kodi has the top of his head in the palm of my hand, savoring the rub of my fingers. Vivian was trying to gain his attention but was failing terribly as he was paying more attention to me. He was probably worried over my wellbeing like a lot of beings have been the past few weeks.
The Med. Bay doors were opened, welcoming anyone to enter if they dared. Many of the soldiers, including bots alike, were fearful of their medic and usually stayed away from him and his place of work. I entered the hangar and noticed that the curtain blocking off the two was open.
Said two noticed my appearance. Since Sides was unable to move from his spot due to Ratchet ordering he has to stay, Sunstreaker came up to me and swiped me off the ground. "Took you long enough. Did you eat enough?" he grunted out and petted his favorite of the two four legged animals.
"Yes I did. I'm not use to eating dinner. I usually skip it and head to bed instead." Sunstreaker stood back up and strolled over to where his injured brother is. Ratchet was back in here, checking up on the red twin. Hopefully everything was healing nicely.
"If we knew this from the start, we would've made sure you were eating." He sat down on his original metal platform and held me close. The clothes that Will gave me were protecting me from the onslaught of cold outside so I wasn't relying on Sunstreaker or Sides to keep me warm.
Little did they know, I was amazing at keeping secrets and dancing around the truth. "William better have fed you healthy food and none of that junk slag your kind has," Ratchet spoke up as he was taking a couple of tubes out of Sides wound. Just from the time I saw him, Sides was healing quickly to the point he could probably be up and moving by tomorrow or so.
"Yes, he did and got me some warmer clothes. I can handle the cold for a while but too long in it, it starts to get to me," I reassured and snuggled into the warm hoodie.
"If you wants some warmer clothes, we can take you after Ratchet checks me off as healthy and fit," Sides wiggled excitedly in his spot. A smile adorned my face at the sight of him.
Ratchet flicked the side of his helm. "Stop moving and you're not going anywhere. Optimus will send someone else with her to retrieve whatever she wants from her dwelling." Sunstreaker held me closer to his frame and covered me with his other servo.
A snarl grew on his face plates from Ratchet's words. "You need to stay by Sides, you know this. And Aubrey needs better clothes then ones she is wearing." The medic did have a point, also Sunstreaker needs to get use to me do other things without them.
Only thing that the yellow twin did was growl and gladly set me down on the ground. That's an improvement.