She's Like The Wind: Part 4

Some time around early morning I woke up and found my self greeted to the sight of Alyssa heading in my direction.

"Hey sleepy head," she displayed the tray she was holding, "Time to eat."
I sat up and yawned, then proceeded to look around.

"Where's Optimus?"

"He's in the kitchen helping Wheeljack get the power converter installed."

A look of utter horror suddenly passed over my face and she sat down near me with the tray.

"What's that mean?" She demanded.

"He'd better not rewire any thing in there so that its nuclear powered!" I growled.

"Now you know he wouldn't do that kinda thing." She grinned.

From out in the living room a course of three voices suddenly piped up.

Jazz, Prowl, and Bluestreak all called in perfect unison as if they had either had the chance to do this many, many times or had been practicing, "DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT!!"

I crossed my arms and looked at her smugly.

"Don't start up you...."

"I'm not gonna say one word," I gave her my most angelic grin and began to investigate my food.
For the most part the rest of the morning was pretty peaceful. Jazz and his two accomplices showed up to keep me company. They did a really good job of it too but that's when I did something that I knew would get me into trouble with several people thee in the house and back home but I didn't really care. I sent Bluestreak off for my purse and a certain catalogue that I keep in the house up here. Ten minutes later he made it back and I got on the phone to the company on the other end. I should have been able to get what I wanted ordered with out any problems; unfortunately that was when it occurred to Alyssa, Wheeljack, Ratchet and Optimus to come make sure that I was behaving for my baby sitters.

"That's right," I told the guy on the other end of the line. "No I don't want something smaller I want one of those."

Prime looked at Jazz and raised an optic ridge in question but the spec forces officer only grinned and continued to watch me, Prowl in the mean time was going over my catalogue with Bluestreak and muttering something about how I had good taste for a human.

"No the highest it will take," I sighed still not noticing my other audience.

Alyssa wondered over and looked over the two datsun's shoulders and suddenly began cracking up. She puffed up like some kind of balloon and did her best to try and not make too much noise until I got off the phone. This in turn got Wheeljack's attention he wondered over, now there were four of them huddled around that thing, which left the leader and his medic standing in the door way wondering if I had finally gone around the bend.

"Both," I told the guy on the other end, "No actually all three, Bean bag, Glazer Safety and Armor pricing." I paused for a second and listened some more, "I can afford it; I don't care how much it costs. Just get it, get the stuff for it and get it here too me ASAP!"

I hung up the phone and noticed that I had gained a few folks in my room. I smiled up at Optimus and couldn't help but grin at the charming DUH look plastered on his face. Either he had guessed what I was gonna do and didn't believe me capable of that, or he still hadn't figured it out and was trying to make sense of this mess.

Ratchet on the other hand, true to form, marched over plucked the catalogue out of every one else's hands, read a lil' bit of it and then proceeded to give me one of the worse death glares I've ever seen.

"You weren't?!"

"Oh yes I was!" I snatched it back from him and flipped through the pages. "A really nice one too, See?"

Now Optimus made it over, "See what?" He looked down at the book in my hands and his jaw nearly fell off.

"You bought a GUN?" He blinked at me.

"Nooooo..." I grinned at him, "I didn't by a "gun." I bought a Desert Eagle."

"YOU," He paused, "bought a gun..." He was having a very hard time grasping this concept.

Now Ratchet was glaring at me, "NO," He declared, "No guns."

"Well excuse me! Look you may be my doctor but you're not my boss. I want to make sure the next time any thing happens that I'm able to defend my self and him!" I pointed up at Optimus.

"Come again?" Optimus said, try as he might the beginnings of a big grin were starting to form on his face.

"THIS is nothing to be smiling about PRIME!" I got the impression poor Ratchet was at the end of his rope.

Alyssa had finally had enough and was about to pop from keeping all the giggles inside. So once again she dragged Wheeljack out of the room and left me there to deal with the irate doctor. They made it as far as my front porch before she exploded into huge fits of laughter.

"That..."She gasped, "Was PRICELESS!!"

Wheeljack wasn't much farther behind her on the laughing condition. He slid down beside her on the steps and started to also crack up.

"I'm not sure which was funnier, the look on Ratchet's face or the look on Prime's."

She snickered, "If she wanted a gun why didn't she just ask you to make her one?"

"Hehe, I think she just wanted to make certain that she could do it her self. Optimus really did seem to get a kick out of it though."

They spent a few minutes leaning on one another and cackling like a pair of hyenas. The fits of giggles finally stopped and left the two of them there leaning on each other trying desperately to get their breath back.

The two of them stayed that way for a while but like it had for the last few times the two of them had been alone with one another insecurity and shyness got the better of the two of them.

"Well I suppose I should head in and see if they have finished yet." Jack said.

"I know, I wanna go make sure that Angel is doing okay too."

The two of them headed back up the steps and into the house. They were in the process of very slowly edging in the others direction, but human nature, and that of an autobot where causing them to miss or deliberately pass by chance after chance.

I had been holed up in my room for a while for the most part just zoning out when she came wondering in to see me.

"Hey girl, what's on your mind?"

"Honestly? What do you think is on my mind?" She sighed and flopped down next to me. "In fact he's all I have on my mind."

I put my book on my lap and looked at her, "you know we keep on having the same conversation here. That you're basically just to scared to get out there and try to have a relationship with him."
"I guess we do don't We?" She rolled over on to her stomach, "There's a good reason for that though. It's because I keep rehashing this problem and not finding a single answer to it."

"The answer to it is simple; you just have to admit it."

She shook her head, "Was it really that simple for you to do? Just admitting it?"

"It was any thing but simple Alyssa," I told her, "But in the end it really wasn't that complex either. What was clouding issue for me was every thing else that had gone on in my life."

"You had some good excuses, I'm just being a first class wuss here."

"You're not being a wuss okay? You're just being a normal person. EVERYONE, no matter what kind of a relationship they have has these feelings. I realize that now. Every single soul has to come to terms with what It means to let them selves love some one else."

She put her head back down and sighed at me. "It's just not that simple Angel."

"I know, but it's the only thing we can do."

I wanted to help her some how, by now though I was getting the impression that if I left her alone eventually she would accept it, and would let someone in. She is the type of person that doesn't fall in love very fast or easily but she is the type that loves deeply and fully when she dose. Given time she would come around. That just Left the lil problem of a certain blinky headed engineer. I was hoping that Op would eventually convince him to come around as well.

What I wasn't aware of was that he had already convinced him self other wise. I thought it was now down to a matter of wait and see. Truth be told, it was vastly more complex than anything else I could have possibly created in my wildest dreams.