God Blessed the Broken Road: Part 3

I kept my arms around Alyssa as we wandered down the hall to the main room. She was thoroughly enjoying her position cuddled against my arm and we probably would have stayed like that for the rest of the night if we hadn't heard the commotion start up in the living room. Commotion coming from, as it turned out two different sources.

The first part started with the sound of some one whapping someone over the head with a pillow several times. This was followed by a rather ticked off Miss Angel announcing to him that she was miffed.

"Well announce it to the whole bloody house Ratchet!" She shouted, "What happened to 'Letting the two of us tell people?'"

I heard Ratchet trying really hard to not laugh, "I'm sorry angel," More laughter. "Really it just kinda slipped out!"

"Slipped out my skid plate," Prime put in. "That was deliberate and you know it."

Right then Bluestreak managed to chime in with his own comments, "You mean…That's just…"

"Blue," Angel said sweetly, "It is SO important to your future existence that you NOT finish that sentence."

"It's just…" He tried again.

"That's it!" Angel said, "I give."

This was followed by the sound of Angel and Prime rapidly vacating the front room and leaving those that were in there to wonder about the situation. That was when the second bit of commotion proceeded to kick in, this from the yellow Lamborghini of doom, and our resident black and white.

"NO!" Sunstreaker yelled at the top of his vocals! "That's not fair!"

"What's not fair?" Prowl asked smugly, "I followed the rules of this game to the letter I have you know."

"But it's just not fair!" He continued to whine, "You can't have "Darkness" and "Shining" in your slaggin' deck!"

"There are no rules any where that say that Sunny." Prowl continued.

"But…"

"You know he's got a…" Sideswipe tried.

"Oh don't even go there," His twin told him.

We made it into the living room and saw the two of them there, Sunny looking mortified. Prowl with his arms crossed, looking very pleased with him self. While Sideswipe and Bluestreak perched on the couch and the arm chair looking as nothing so much like a pair of cats the way they were sprawled.

"Are you two still going at that?" Alyssa asked from her spot.

Prowl looked up and graced us with one of his rare smiles, "It's a rather amusing game. What can I tell you?"

"Prowl rocks at it too," Blue added.

"The only reason he's beating Sunny," Sideswipe shot back, "Is because Miss Angel lent him her killer deck." He stuck his nose in the air for a second and then grinned, "I get dibs on it next!"

"Oh you do not!" Sunstreaker shot back. "I get it next!"

Prowl cleared his throat out, "since I'm still the winner, I'M keeping the deck."

This was followed by a course of "Awwwww's!" from all people that were there except the smug looking tactician.

"Okay you four," Alyssa pointed to the door way, "Out!"

They proceeded to give us the puppy dog eyes treatment but she still managed to chase the two of them out of the room and some how leave the two of us with a considerable amount of privacy for once.

"Well now," I flopped back down on the couch and patted the thing, "Why don't you come on down here beside me huh?"

Alyssa grinned and plunked her self down and then leaned back and put her head in my lap.

"Silly thing," She grinned up at me, "I have to admit it is nice to have some time alone for a change."

She settled back down and relaxed some as I reached down and put my arms around her.

"I know what you mean love," I snuggled up to her, "But to be honest we both know that we wouldn't really have it any other way."

"I know," She giggled and then put her arms up around me. "I never thought I'd wind up with a pack of five step kids though."

"Well I'm glad you're so fond of the dinobots babe." I had to smile, "They scare most people."

"Oh how come?" she put her head on my shoulder, "They are just a pack of over grown horny toads."

I grinned more over that one, "Maybe it's the Texas thing. Something about girls that come from this state and that state's stock."

She let out a laugh, "Oh I don't know, maybe that's got nothing to do with it and it's just the way life is?"

"Maybe," I pulled her closer, "but how ever it is I'm glad it is. I didn't think I'd ever be this happy after leaving home. It's Nice to know that even the great inventor had some one out there for him."

"Oh don't be so silly," She waved her hand to Optimus and Angel's room, "If those two characters in there can fall in love and actually wind up happy, that makes our chances actually pretty darned good."

She lifted her head up from where she had it on my shoulder and gave a very tired looking yawn.
"What time did Angel drag you out of bed this morning love?" I asked.

"Oh I don't know," She leaned back and stretched, "But I have you know it was the other way around smart guy. I dragged her lazy but out of bed so we could go get some food in this place."

"You two don't eat that much do you?" I asked.

"Ah no," She yawned again, "but we do eat some."

I noticed her settling down in my lap and so I shut up right then. To be honest I don't think she had really done much in the way of sleeping when she learned that her friend was upset, so the two of us and all of the dinobots had come looking for them. But how it seemed it was catching up with her much the same way it seemed to periodically catch up with Angel and so I shut my yap and let her doze off there in my arms.

Like before when the two of us were talking about how we got to this place and this time I can't help but think back about the past and all the things that have befallen me since I met her. Never once in my life until this girl came along would I have ever considered tackling or in any other shape form or fashion taking Megatron head on. But that's exactly what I did that one day so many months ago outside of our emergency exit to the base. I tackled him and got my self completely pasted. As much as it hurt I have to admit waking up to find her leaning over me was one of the best things that I have ever seen in my life. If Angel fell in love with Optimus, or admitted it any how, the moment she actually got a good look at him, then I have to say that I fell for Alyssa when I woke up to her hugging my face and begging me to be alright.

Then as time passed and she waited to see if Angel would recover, the two of us again became closer because there was no one else there to tell her exactly what had happened and tell her if her dear friend was going to make it through what had been done to her. Looking back now I have no idea why when the two of us began to realize that we were getting close, why I began to pull away. I think I either was scared by something or just scared my self, probably the latter. It wasn't fair to my self or to Alyssa, but it was merely yet another of those bumps on the road of life that the two of us were discussing earlier during the night.

It's also a strange thing to me that I had to come clear across the galaxy, make all kinds of blunders relationship wise back home, and have several other strange things happen to me before this girl who's not even a member of my own race was presented to me. I guess some one back home, Alpha Trion maybe; he would say something to the effect that Primus works in strange ways. I guess he does in the end.

I look down at the sleeping girl in my arms and have to grin to my self. Yes I guess the powers that be in the universe do work in strange ways. Someone like me who has been fighting the flow of the world for so long might have a hard time accepting that kind of thing but in this case I think its safe for me to say that I plan on just enjoying what ever the world, the universe or what ever else is out there, has in store for me.

The peace and quiet should have lasted longer than it did, and I was hoping it would. Unfortunately there were several other someone's who had other plans. Rather loud plans as it were. Which I found out five minutes later when they all plied into the living room and began going through the DVD's stacked up there.

"Me Slash want see Evil Dead!" The newest addition to the dinobots demanded.

"Me Slag no listen to girl," slag snorted, "Me want to see Tremors."

"ME Grimlock out vote all," He produced another dvd, "Me Grimlock say we watch Episode 3. Other dinobots deal!"

Alyssa gave a prodigious yawn and looked up at me.

"I guess the kids had enough of the swimming hole," She grinned.

"What was your first clue?" I told her as I put my face in my hand. "You'd think I would have installed a "Be Quiet" program."

"Nah," She sat up and stretched, "This is much more fun when we do it this way, just one thing I was wondering about."
"Yah?"

"Mind telling me how they got their claws on a copy of Episode 3?" She asked.

"I dunno, My guess would have to be the video store or some thing like that. They were down at the river all day long, maybe they snuck off and got it then?"
That was when we heard the shriek from the bed room, the room that happened right at that moment to be occupied by Angel and Optimus.

"WHOS BEEN IN HERE?"
Alyssa and I both looked at each other and blinked. The dinobots on the other hand took one look at the door that was concealing the girl and the proceeded to make a very fast bee line for the door before she could get it open and come after them.

They were all out to the kitchen and had tossed Alyssa the missing dvd by the time the door popped open and Angel stuck her head out.

"Have those over grown iguanas been in this room?" Angel demanded.

"Now what would ever make you say something like…"

This was broken by a commotion from the kitchen, several people yelling and lot of other strange things happening. This resulted in both girls and Optimus and my self heading to the kitchen.

What we found when we got there was Slash half up on the table, half in Sunstreaker and Sideswipe's arms. The rest off the dinobots where huddled down behind the table and all of them were cowering in fear from of all things the toaster. The toaster in question was now displaying what looked like a toasted hand sticking up out of the thing.

Mean while the commotion had attracted the attention of my and Alyssa's accomplice in crime Ratchet.

"Oh man," He put his hands on his hips.

"Okay," Prime got out, "What happened?"

Slash promptly shook her head, "Slash not know! Slash just put waffle in toaster and hand pop out!"

Angel promptly put her face in her hand and shook her head. Prime turned to my self, Ratchet and the girl.

"Okay you three," He crossed his arms. "I ever catch any of you on the "Ill Will" web site again and all of you will be on KP for a month."

We all some how managed to look sheepish, until a strange noise came from the table.

"Will you please get her down?" Sideswipe grunted.

"Please?" Sunny added.

Alyssa and I looked at each other and had a hard time not busting out laughing as we did our best to get the terrified mega raptor down off of the table and back out to the rooms in the barn. We also managed to get Ratchet roped into doing this and finally after about 20 tries we got them down off the furniture and back where they belonged.

"Well that was fun." Alyssa let out a breath, and was about to walk off when she got tackled by Slash.

"Me Slash want Aly and Wheeljack stay!" she demanded.

She was promptly joined by all of the other dinobots as they began to demand in no uncertain terms that the two of us spend the night out there with them.

"Come on!" Grimlock chimed, "you not let us watch movie, so you stay out here and keep company!"

"Me Swoop agree! Stay and keep company!"

"Me Sludge say stay too!"

"Me Slag want see Aly!" he added, "Wheeljack hog her all time now!"

"Snarl want to stay too! Stay! Stay! Aly Stay!"

I thought for a second Alyssa would have been mad over all of that but again I misjudged the girl. A huge grin broke out across her face and she smiled up at me from where she was scratching the mega raptor, and the 'dactal on the stomachs.

"I don't think they'd let me and you leave even if we wanted to," she smiled, "Feel like camping out in here tonight?"
I laughed, "Sure why not? I'm sure Optimus and Angel would like to have the living room for once." I came over and put my arms around her as she stood up from where she was petting. "Sides, we can take a cue from the two of them once every one else conks out and make use of the loft."

"I think I could live with that." She grinned reached up and gave me another kiss.

We were apart two seconds later when the dinobots started trying to vie for her attention again. I gave another laugh at all of this mess and thanked Primus one more time for all the bumps and everything else on the road of life, and thanked them for the great woman I had been given to share them with.