We Didn't Start the Fire: Epilog.

To this day I'm still not sure how Alyssa managed to get her hands on Megatron in the first place but I do believe every single one of us heard the groans that came from poor Hook when the first of two boxes reached the Nemesis. She made a point of sending the parts and the widgets to hold the thing together, separately.

Almost every one there looked at the box and couldn't guess what in the name of god possessed us to do something like this. It wasn't some thing the Autobots would have done. No this could have only come from some one as crazy as my friend and her engineer boyfriend.

Speaking of which they finally did decide to let her parents go. I think they had learned their lesson on all of this. Even if they hadn't realized that the relationship between their daughter and Wheeljack wasn't going to change, they had at least learned that they needed to keep their mouths shut.
It was in seeing them off that the funniest thing of all of this happened. Alyssa stood there and waved goodbye to them and then grinned up at Jack as the plane finally blasted away.

"So, we've passed the first hurdle in our relationship, now what?" she grinned.

"Well I've been looking into some of human customs." He suddenly turned sheepish.

"Oh? What for?" She asked.

"Well according to the human traditions when a guy wants a girl to know he's in love with her, he's supposed to give her some kind of gift to symbolize that right?"

She nodded at him, suddenly leery of what was coming, "Jack, I don't really want a ring."

He grinned at her with his eyes, "I know so I didn't get you a ring."

He produced a small black box from somewhere and held it down to her. She looked up at him questioningly and then took the box from him. After a few seconds of hesitation she opened the box and stared at what was in there.

"Umm… Jack?"

"Yeah?"

She pulled out the necklace and stared at it. What it was turned out to be a small bolt attached to a long gold chain. She stared at it for a second and then the realization that she had seen this one and lots of similar ones just a few days before.

"You…" She had to cover her mouth to keep from cracking up, "You took one out!?"

"Yeah, and took it to the jewelry shop and had it made into a necklace for you."

She held the thing in her hand for a few more seconds and then grinned, as she reached out and slipped the chain over her head.

"Well I accept," She beamed at him, "And I can't think of anything that would have suited me better than this."

"Well it fit your personality and sense of humor so …"

She grinned at him, and gave him a long hug then the two of them headed back.

Down in the nemesis just at that point Hook had to deal with a bit of a problem.

"DON'T yell at me Megatron! I Don't KNOW where the last bolt is!!"