By five at night, Jayce needed Drift. Drift quickly realizes Jayce waited for his comfort to cry.
This Isn't frustration over her persistent headache and dizziness; this is fear Bulma's going to decide we need to let Jamie go, that Jamie can't recover. Drift realizes as he listened to Jayce cry. With J.R. still asleep, Crosshairs tries his best to help Drift calm Jayce, though it's getting harder to calm her down. Bumblebee and Hound watched, hating the tight hold Jayce has on Drift.
Damn, don't tell me she had another nightmare? Hound frets.
Unknown to them, Bulma is standing in the hallway, the door open enough for her to hear Jayce's crying. She stays for a few minutes before going to her lab.
Jamie is finally making progress to where I'm confident she will not have a severe setback, but she's slow to recover. I worry Jayce or J.R. are going to try something before Jamie wakes up. Bulma frets as she reviews test results.
Drift tries to see if a walk around the building will help Jayce though he's carrying her.
Are you recovered enough from Post Concision Syndrome and back to emotional struggles like J.R. is, or have the drugs been keeping you that relaxed? That can't be right, though; it's only pain killers unless it's all the sleeping you've been doing. Drift wonders.
Drift is focused on Jayce and unaware he's walking by Vegeta, who is hating what he's seeing. Vegeta knows he'd be no help to Drift and hates it. He goes to Bulma's lab.
"I know," Bulma tells Vegeta in a sad tone after he tells her what he saw, "I don't know if telling them any good news is a good idea, or even going to help them."
Vegeta knows Jamie is making minuscule improvements, but it's good Bulma believes Jamie has enough strength to fight and not flatline again.
Crosshairs couldn't believe how frightened J.R. is, bawling and trembling.
How the hell did she not deal with this the past fifteen days? It's obvious Jayce on pain killers, and sleeping most of the day and night helps her. No way worrying about Jayce was a good enough distraction for J.R. Crosshairs wonders while hugging J.R. He gets her to lie down with him, but getting her to stop crying is proving to be difficult.
"Jamie will die," J.R. sobs.
Crosshairs doesn't know what to say. He'd rather not tell Jayce or J.R. the slight improvement Jamie made.
Once the two girls are asleep four hours later, the four mechs, Bulma, Cade, and Vegeta, talk about the rough day Jayce and J.R. had.
"I fear things are going to get worse," Bulma frets, "not with Jamie; I'm certain she's strong enough not to flatline, but I worry about J.R."
Everyone agrees they will continue not to tell Jayce and J.R. about Jamie. Crosshairs couldn't tell everyone what J.R. told him.
"Jayce is recovering from Post Concision Syndrome; she's going to be more of a challenge," Drift tells the others.
"We knew she'd recover before Jamie," Bulma sighs.
Everyone hates thinking the plan in place for J.R. if she tries to get away from here and harm herself, is now in place for Jayce.
Crosshairs worries part of Drift's nightmare is telling Jamie Jayce and J.R. are dead. His fear causing him to forget if any of the three girls die; all memories are erased.
"I would love to tell Jayce, and J.R. Jamie is getting stronger, but I don't think it'll matter. The longer this goes on, the more they struggle along with Crosshairs and Drift. We're lucky everyone isn't struggling as bad as they are," Bulma sighs.
Three days have passed. Jayce's recovery from Post Concision Syndrome is making taking care of her more of a challenge. As Crosshairs worried, without worrying about Jayce, J.R.'s nightmares have returned. Drift tries to help Crosshairs calm her down while Bumblebee watches Jayce, who isn't dealing with nightmares... yet.
With Jayce and J.R. still asleep, Crosshairs insists. Drift goes to see Jamie.
"We can handle them for a few hours," Crosshairs assures Drift.
Drift walks into the building and sees Bulma by Jamie. He thinks she's taking care of Jamie until he watches Bulma do something with the ventilator.
No, is she...? She can't be, she said Jamie is strong enough not to flatline again. Jamie is recovering, so why is she...
Drift is afraid to continue watching what Bulma is doing. He quietly leaves the building before running to the back of the building.
I can't believe Bulma would lie now, and about Jamie. I should have asked to stay, to stay goodbye.
Drift lets himself cry, unaware Cade is watching.
Damn, this is really getting to him. Cade worries as he watches Drift.
"He's here? Oh shit," Bulma frets, "then he saw me touching the controls on the ventilator..."
Tears roll down her face, hating how Drift thinks she turned off the ventilator.
"You should talk to him," Cade insists, "what were you doing, anyway?"
"Lowering the amount of oxygen required, but just a little."
Finally, something good; come on, Jamie, you're a strong fighter. Cade thinks as he sits by Jamie.
Instead of going to talk to Drift, Bulma sat at the table.
An hour passes before Drift is in recharge. No one knows how much his spark aches. He forced himself to go into recharge to avoid seeing everything be erased in front of
him.
It displeases Cade Bulma did not talk to Drift before he slipped into recharge. Cade hasn't seen any of the Autobots cry but has seen them have nightmares. Only a few times, but enough to know Drift is having one.
Probably about watching Jamie disappear. You should have talked to him, Bulma.
Cade doesn't get far from Drift before seeing Bulma.
"Is he ok?" Bulma asks, knowing something is wrong with Drift.
"No, he's having nightmares about Jamie disappearing," Cade tells her, "I told you to talk to him. Now, look what he's dealing with!"
Cade walks away, furious, while Bulma wonders if she can do anything.
"I'll take care of it," she hears Crosshairs say.
Instead of leaving the area, Bulma stands ten feet away from the two mechs, watching Crosshairs try to wake Drift up.
Drift wakes up and immediately cries.
"She's gone," he sobs, clearly unaware he was dreaming, "and we still remember everything."
Crosshairs hugs Drift close while trying to get him to calm down.
What have I done? Bulma regrets not telling Drift Jamie isn't dead sooner.
"It's ok, Drift, just a nightmare," Crosshairs assures him, but Drift is having a hard time calming down, "come with me," Crosshairs insists while getting Drift to stand up.
Crosshairs leads Drift into the building, thinking getting Drift to activate his holoform will be impossible.
He made sure Drift is looking at Jamie.
"She's stable, and I'm able to decrease how much oxygen she's getting," Bulma explains. Though Bulma has just started decreasing how much oxygen Jamie is getting at a slow rate.
Drift activates his holoform and cautiously walks to the bed, "she's recovering, but slowly," Bulma assures him before hugging him.
Drift sits on a chair by the bed and holds Jamie's hand. Crosshairs' holoform sits on the other chair, putting a hand on Drift's shoulder and his other hand on top of Drift's.
Damn, he's falling apart; I worry he's going to avoid Jayce and J.R., but Jayce needs his support. Crosshairs worries. Of course, things have to get more challenging with every piece of good news.
