It's been four days since Steeljaw took Strongarm, Steeljaw has already set up a berth for her to lay on as well as other stuff for the room. The rest of his gang have set up their rooms with berths and anything else they wanted, with each one having their own berth room.

The gang took in a new member, a mech name Fracture, who came to Earth in search of Bumblebee but couldn't catch him due to the interference of Drift. Fracture couldn't get back to his ship thanks to the Autobots so he and his mini-cons fled, he later came across Steeljaw who got him to join his pack.

One day Fracture was at the base with Underbite while Steeljaw and Thunderhoof were out searching for other 'Cons or something that could give them the upper hand over the Autobots. Fracture decided to take a look around the base and came to the one-room he never saw the inside of, Steeljaw's room. He had been shown around the base after he joined the pack and he's seen every place except Steeljaw's room, the room nobody is allowed to go in.

Fracture usually wouldn't be bothered by that as he believes in giving bots their personal space if need be and Steeljaw being his "boss", he needs to stay out of his personal stuff. But curiosity is getting the best of him as he keeps hearing noises coming from the room when Steeljaw is out, as though another being is in there that he hasn't seen.

"Don't even think about going in there."

Fracture looks to his side and sees Underbite standing there watching him. He didn't even know he was there, "Why not? What could our leader be hiding in there?"

"Not something for you to know!" Underbite says firmly.

"Why can't I know? I am part of the pack now."

"Just Steeljaw's rule."

Completely ignoring Underbite's warning Fracture unlocks the door then opens it. He looks into the room and sees a femme lying in the berth, he watched her as she jumped off the berth and got into a position to defend herself if need be. He noticed she had the Autobot symbol. An Autobot femme!

Strongarm takes a fighting position as Fracture comes into the room. She glares at him knowing that he's a Decepticon but she doesn't know who as she's never seen him before, "Who are you?"

"Name's Fracture. I'm a new member of the pack."

"What are you doing in here?"

"I've been hearing movement in this room when Steeljaw be away so I got curious," Fracture says as he moves closer to Strongarm.

Strongarm moves back while Underbite runs over and gets in front of him to block his path, "Trust me Fracture you do not want to touch her or even get close to her, Steeljaw will kill you if you do."

Fracture looks at Underbite for a moment then turns his attention to the femme and looks her over. He looks at her neck and sees the bite mark in the crevice of her neck, "He's marked you I see."

Strongarm placed her servo over the bite mark as she thought back to when Steeljaw bit her. It was a day ago after she tried to escape again and failed, he reduced her Energon consumption some more like he said he would, and in his rage, he harshly bit her to show her that she belongs to him and she can never leave.

"I shall leave you alone then, I know better than to mess with a Wolf-Con's femme."

Strongarm glared at him, "I'm no one's femme!"

Fracture lets out a cackle, "You don't know much about Wolf-Cons, do you?"

"Of course I do," she's been reading up on Wolf-Cons ever since she was captured. Especially after Steeljaw marked her. She wanted to know about it, and if there was a way she could still get away from him even though she's marked.

"So you do know that since Steeljaw marked you you're now his forever."

Strongarm's optics widened in shock. She didn't know that as she was just getting to the marking part when he came into the room and interrupted her reading. She was about to speak when she heard a vicious growl coming from the door. The three looked towards the door to see Steeljaw standing there.

"I tried to stop him, boss..." Underbite starts talking but is quieted by Steeljaw's vicious glare.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE FRACTURE!?" Steeljaw growls out.

"I was curious about what you were keeping in your room..."

"IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!"

Fracture smirked, "I see now why you don't want any of us to come into your room. She is pretty."

That statement just angered Steeljaw further and he ran towards Fracture with his claws out ready to slash him, but Fracture moved out of the way and went to the other side of the room away from Strongarm. Steeljaw growled as he went to stand in front of the femme in a protective stance, "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT TOUCHING HER!" Steeljaw warns.

Fracture throws his servos up as a sign of surrender, "Whoa Steeljaw, I'm not trying to take her from you. I would never mess with a marked femme."

"Good! Now get out!"

"The protective nature of a Wolf-Con always protects the one they love," Fracture says as he looks at the femme, "You're special if you could get this Wolf-Con to fall in love with you. I've heard about him and he's never gotten this intimate with any femme."

"Leave Fracture!" Steeljaw says as he starts getting annoyed. Without saying another word Fracture leaves the room along with Underbite, "Close the door!" Steeljaw demands and they do so.

After the door is closed Steeljaw turns to look at Strongarm, "Did he touch you?"

Strongarm shakes her helm, "No. Just talked"

"At least you weren't harmed. You better lay down and get some rest," Steeljaw said and Strongarm didn't hesitate to obey. She lays back down on the berth and Steeljaw climbs in to lay next to her, he's not gonna leave her again anytime soon.

Strongarm turns to lay on her side and face him, she's not sure if she should feel at ease or not with having him lay with her. She decides to let it go this time as she closes her optics and drift off into recharge.

Steeljaw looks at her as he caresses her cheek plate. He did not like that Fracture was in his room and talking to his femme, he'll have to deal with him later. Right now he just wants to lay next to his femme, his Cadet, his mate, his angel.

Hours later Strongarm wakes up to find Steeljaw fast asleep, for once he doesn't have his arm, or tail, laying across her waist. His left servo rested on the berth just a few inches from her face, she suspects he was caressing her face again before he fell into recharge. She notices that he caresses her face a lot and she's not sure why. Her ex never did that, in fact, he hardly ever touched her unless he was trying to touch her body.

She removes those thoughts of her ex from her processor as she carefully gets up off the berth trying not to wake Steeljaw. Once she's off the berth she stretches as she walks around, lying there for so long cramped up her joints and she needed to stretch. While she stretched she got a very sharp pain in her neck which caused her to wince and place a servo over the bite mark. It still feels weird to feel the marks on her armor. She looked over at Steeljaw as sadness, anger, and concern all filled her at once. Is she really his forever?

No, she refuses to believe that. There has to be a way to get rid of the mark and get away from him, it's not like spark bonding which is unbreakable. She looks over at the door as she remembers that when the other Decepticons left they didn't lock the door, at least she didn't hear them lock it. She walks over to it and tries to open it...

It opened! Some 'Cons really aren't all that smart.

She pokes her helm out and peers into the hallway, none of the other 'Cons were in sight and the place seems very quiet. The other 'Cons must be either in recharge or they're out. She looks back into the room at Steeljaw as she debates on if she should attempt another escape or not. Primus knows what Steeljaw will do to her this time if she gets caught again but she also doesn't want to miss the one, and probably only, opportunity she gets to escape and possibly not get caught. Steeljaw may have marked her but that doesn't mean anything to her, he's still just a 'Con criminal she can't wait to lock up.

Strongarm finally makes up her mind and heads for the exit, she moves very quietly just in case the others are still around and she just can't hear them. She hears nothing as she quietly moves through the hallway, even when she reaches the big room where she first saw Thunderhoof and Underbite after she and Steeljaw arrived, there were no signs of any of them. She guesses they all left for a bit to let Steeljaw cool down, she's not sure how long they've been gone and how soon they will be back so she's gonna have to hurry.

She runs straight for the exit, freedom is finally in her grasp. The sun was just starting to go down but she could feel the sun's rays on her metal plating as she reached the outside. The feeling brought her great relief, she was so happy to feel the sun's rays and the cool breeze on her metal plating once again. But she didn't have time to dwell on it as she needed to get moving. She transforms and drives off at full speed, she's not gonna slow down or stop until she reaches the scrapyard.

Steeljaw abruptly wakes up with a weird sensation, like there was an emptiness as though he was missing something very dear to him. He sits there confused about what it could have been until he looked over to his side where Strongarm should have been and found her gone. He looks around the room to see if she got up to move around but he doesn't see her. His optics soon land on the open door and he starts to panic, "No no NO!" He says as he jumps off the berth and runs out of the room.

"STRONGARM!" He shouts as he heads for the exit. He runs outside and sniffs around, just as he started to get her scent he gets that sensation again, but this time it's basically telling him which way to go to track down his mate. He transforms and heads in the direction he's sure she went as pain suddenly shoots through his frame and he starts to feel like purging out his Energon tank. Why is he feeling like this? He's not sure and it's scaring him which is angering him even more.