Title: So Young, Yet So Old
Fandom: Transformers
Pairing/Characters: Will, Sam
Prompt: So Young
Drabble #: 125
Date: July 28, 2012
Word count: 350
Next pairing: Daniel, Reid
AN:*zombie shuffle* So long! It took so long to post!
He was so young, so very young. Just 16 and already a war hero that would remain unknown for years to come.
Sighing, Will rubbed at his face, glad that he had been able to get in a shower before the medics had descended upon them. Sam had escaped into the shower, stating that he didn't trust them and Ratchet would take care of him later. Which turned out to be a good thing, since a few of the medics wanted to see just how the cube had affected the younger man.
Ironhide had told Ratchet and the Cybertronian medic had promptly arrived to state that until atreaty was in place, Sam and any Autobot or Decepticon, alive or dead, was not to be examined. He had pissed off several doctors and scientists but they had relented.
Sam had come out of the bathroom after the doctors had finally left, clean, cuts bandaided and bruises covered in some bruise cream. He had changed into a pair of jeans and a log sleeved shirt, feet adorned with flip flops.
"You okay, kid?" Will asked when Sam sat down next to him on the couch.
"I suppose so," Sam hummed, pulling his legs up to wrap his arms around his legs. "It's kinda…well, it feels like this was all a dream, you know?"
"Yeah, I can feel where you're coming from, kid," Will replied, nudging Sams shoulder with his own, the two falling into a comfortable silence as Epps muttered and complained about the fact he had to wait for hot water. They were fed hamburgers from one past food place and tacos from another, Sam eating much like the teenage boy that he was, stealing Wills side salad much to his amusement.
They were debriefed, Sam keeping silent on how it felt to hold the cube, to shove it into Megatrons chest. He told them the details and only the details of the fight, much to the scientists unhappiness and some anger.
Will mused that while Sam was young, so painfully young, he was smart and strong, older then his years.