She's Like The Wind: Part 2

Optimus came back into the kitchen from his conversation with Wheeljack with a look on his face that told me he hadn't gotten any further with the scientist then I had with the animator.

"Alyssa?"

She turned around and looked at me, "Yah what's up?"

"I need a little bit of fresh air, I'm gonna go out for a bit of a walk."

She nodded and went back to working on the food, "Okay then but don't be gone too long, this stuff will be done in a few."

I nodded and headed for the door. Prime got the message and followed me out.

"I take it your conversation went bust too?"

He rolled his optics, "I've never seen any one as stubborn in my whole life," he paused for a second and then grinned, "Cept when I look in the mirror."

I had to giggle a bit at that crack, as I put my arms around him and we actually did start walking.

"I just hope they don't have all the problems we did, I'd like to think that Alyssa is more reasonable than me."

"You don't sound that sure." He told me.

"It's because I'm not." I replied. "She's a good girl Optimus, better than me in lots of ways; she doesn't want to see any one get hurt."

"Sounds about right from this end too," he told me as we made it around to the back steps.

"So what do we do?"

"For now we do what you said before, we wait and see what comes of this." He blinked and looked off, "If all else fails then we drag them into the living room and make them confess how they feel."

"Nothing like the direct approach," I smiled back.

"Hey what ever works right?"

While the two of us were out getting our "Fresh Air" half of the couple in question had proceeded to wander into the kitchen found the other half.

"Hey Alyssa," Wheeljack greeted her as he walked in.

"Hey there Jack, what's shaking?"

"Aww nothing much, just wondering about a few things is all."

"Like what?" She finished pancake batter and dumped some of it on to the girdle.

"Just about all of the changes that have gone on lately, about how different things seem from...well..."

"Down here?" She giggled and poked one of the cakes with a fork.

Wheeljack had to smile some at that, "I suppose that's one way of putting it, but yah, being on a level with humans makes me wonder about a lot of things."

"Well being on a level with you guys makes me wonder too," She stopped for a second realizing she was getting close to taboo territory for her. "I mean it really dose make you look at the world in a whole new way."

"Yeah," Wheeljack agreed, "But you have to admit, it's kinda nice to know that you're not alone in the universe."

Alyssa scooped the pancakes into the plates and nodded at him, "I have to agree with you, being alone forever would be terrible."
Wheeljack reached out and put his hand on hers as she set the plates down.

"Your not afraid of that are you?"

Alyssa proceeded to freeze and then went into her act again.

"I don't know what you're talking about?" She grinned at him, "I mean it's not like I've ever had a reason to be afraid of being alone right?"

He sighed and then pulled back, "No I don't suppose you have."

She looked at him innocently, or did her best to. Truth be told, she was probably falling apart right then. This fact was made that much worse when Prime and My self chose that moment to come back from getting some air.

Wheeljack's panels flamed bright red and he snatched his hand away from hers. Her own blush charged up to meet the engineers, as she jumped back from the table spluttering.
"Ahh... Angel," She set the plates back down, "Breakfast is ready, I was just about to come looking for you."

Wheeljack stood up and held his chair out for me, "Come on Miss Angel, she went to all the trouble to make this you'd better eat it before she gets you."
I shook my head at the situation, but proceeded to flop down in the chair any how. Wheeljack headed off back into the other parts of the house and this left me alone with Alyssa and Optimus. Prime gave my shoulder a squeeze and then took off to follow him. I took one look at the expression on my friends face and prodded her the moment he was out of sight.

"Okay, spill it!" I growled, "What with the "I swallowed a bug look?"

She looked back up at me, for a second I could have sworn she was going to get mad at me but then she stopped. Her face fell and she looked almost ready to cry.

"Alyssa?" Now I was getting confused.

"Angel," She took a deep breath, "Remember what you were telling me while ago?"

"About what," I knew perfectly well about what but I wanted her to come out and admit it.

"About it being possible for another human and transformer to fall in love with one another?"

"Yeah I remember that, and I remember you letting on like I had a screw loose because of it."

She nodded, "well you're not the one with the loose screw. I think your right, there is some one else in love with another one."

"Let me guess," I took great pains here to keep the grin off my face and out of my voice, "You and Wheeljack?"

"I wish that where the case, unfortunately it's just me."

"You sure about that," I asked, "And don't answer right away because three days ago when I came here I was sure about what I was feeling."

"No I'm sure; he doesn't have any thing for me like I have for him."

I was now at the point where I wanted to thump my head on the table in exasperation. Be it due to a lack of self-confidence, or due to the fact that neither of them knew any thing about relationships, or chalked up to just plain old shyness, it was getting to the point where I was about to go bonkers. I wanted to reach over, grab her and shake some sense into her. It was more than obvious to me, that she couldn't see it was about to make me go into screaming fits. The two of us were now in a huge role reversal from what we had been in when she had first shown up. Now I was the one trying to coax her into accepting her feelings. I had to wonder is this just some thing that all relationships go through, or was this particular brand of madness limited to those of us fools who had chosen to fall for giant alien robots?

"How can you say that he doesn't care about you Alyssa, from everything I could see through the window he was doing his level best to try and get your attention."

"Your reading more into it than there is."

I whapped my head down on my arms and muttered at her, "Whatever Cleopatra."

"Come again?"

"Well your acting like the Queen of Denial right now, so I'm gonna start calling you that."

"Cute, really," She frowned.

I lifted my head up and proceeded to tell her, "Look if you care about him then why not just go up to him and ask him if he feels the same way."

"You know I couldn't do that!"

"Why not," I demanded.

"It's just, I'm not comfortable going up and demanding something from some one else. I can't even introduce my self to strangers at work!"

"You spend all your time with your head stuck in the computer, how do you have time to talk to any one any how?"

"I just can't go up to him and ask him that Angel, I'd flat out die of embarrassment!"

"So you'd rather just sit here in emotional limbo and wonder? Look if he tells you to get lost fine. At least then you'd know!"

She shook her head as vehement as ever on the point, "I'm sorry, maybe you can just do it, but I have a hard time of that." She paused and thought for a second then looked back over at me,

"And to be perfectly honest... yes, I would rather not know then have my heart broken."

I once again put my head down on my arms and sighed. She was having a harder time out of this than I was. Why I had no idea. It was probably due to just her personality, Alyssa really isn't the type to jump to conclusions about things or like she said, demand things of people. Still I didn't see this as being demanding. To me it was just a simple confirmation of affections. I Hope that Optimus was having a better time of this mess than me. Maybe he could make headway on his end.
Right then I vowed to not give up on her and Wheeljack's feelings for one another until they had come to a resolution. Alyssa had been there for me when I had needed her and now I planed on standing by her even if standing by her meant sitting on her and making her confront the situation, whether she wanted to or not.