Chapter 68 - Loose Ends
(OPOV)
Optimus watched in horror as his spark-mate pressed the Major's gun to her head.
"Well then, it would seem I have the upper hand, now doesn't it?" Mikaela stated sweetly, flicking the safety off, "so how about you and the three men you have in reserve in the chopper take the vests off the ladies there. Bomb vest on a toddler?" she laughed lightly. "You always did have style, Harrison, I'll give you that. Have you taken Barry out yet?"
Optimus stood in shock, that wasn't his Kae...
"No, he's on my to-do list," Harrison drawled, looking at the girl with interest.
"What you see is what you get," she stated sweetly. "Once this is all finished up I have no doubt that I'm going to be needing a new employer. Do me a favour though, Will here is a rather nice guy for an upright, get rid of the vest on the girls. Stylish, I'll give you that, but what's the sense of having a soldier out for vengeance? It's just another man I'd have to kill, and good munitions have been getting expensive. But then, just how expensive is the information Cal foisted on me?"
Harrison laughed, jerked his head and three men came out, roughly taking the vests from Chris, Sarah and Anabelle. Optimus was frozen in understanding now. His Kae was holding herself hostage, getting everyone to safety. He would be proud but for the gun to her head.
"So you're going to die Angel, without saying goodbye?" Harrison simpered at her. Ratchet was parked beside him, just as frozen, she'd used the voice of command. They all knew why, even if they hated her reasons.
"Perhaps," she shrugged, "or we could all get into that lovely chopper of yours there, and discuss... business."
"Well I'll be damned, Cal's baby Angel grew some horns while daddy was away." Harrison leered at Optimus' Femme.
Optimus snarled softly. She was his. Nobody had the right to look at her like that.
"So much more fun this way," she drawled. Harrison gave Will a shove toward the group of hostages. There were still guns trained on them, or those men would be dead.
"Now, is that any way to play nice?" Kae smiled sweetly, fingering the trigger on the gun. Optimus could feel the horror of every 'bot watching, their Kae was a flinch from death. "Vests deactivated, weapons down, same time." she commanded in a sweet tone.
The four men grouped together somewhat, wires were pulled. The five of them crouched toward the ground. The guns touched the ground and they slowly rose again.
Mikaela's hands were in the air as she walked slowly toward them. General Moreshower, Will and his ladies walked past her.
"Mikaela!" Will shouted.
"I'll promise you this one thing, Will," Mikaela said quietly as she walked past him. "They will never hurt your baby girl."
"Tsk tsk, you broke rule ten Angel, that's going to cost you," Harrison shook his head and pulled a gun from his waistband, the sound of a gunshot ricocheted off of the hangar. In a second Mikaela was flying, among the group of four as they struggled to draw weapons, one by one, and so efficiently it almost hurt to watch, she dropped the three bodyguards and stood in front of Harrison, her hand grasping his throat as he stood frozen. There was fear in his eyes, fear and murder. Anyone who looked into those eyes knew that the second he had a weapon, Harrison would try to kill them all.
"Maybe you're right, Harrison, I did break rule ten. But you're wrong." Mikaela said in a deathly quiet voice. Barely breaking the icy silence on the helipad. She shoved him back slightly and in a movement that could have only been trained, brought her fist around and spun his head to the side, her arm swung back and she chopped down hard on his neck. Optimus could hear a muted snap. The man's eyes were blank.
"I was taught by the best," Mikaela stated harshly to the man. Already dead, gravity took it's course, the man fell.
Kae stood deathly still, surrounded by three wounded and a dead man.
Then slowly, she bent down and picked up the dead man's gun, standing and pressing it to her temple.
"Mikaela! NO!" Will bellowed.
"Cover your baby girl's eyes," her voice commanded quietly.
Optimus' spark wrenched as he prepared to watch the death of another beloved, he prayed that he would find her soul in the well, she had said she'd wait for him.
Ironhide was moving in a nanosecond, his holoform onlined behind Mikaela, snatching the gun from her and forcing her to her knees. She didn't fight him, Ironhide had sworn to her that she would never be a murderer. Even knowing her thoughts – that she believed herself to have killed without justice – it was painful to watch the defeated, compliant movements from his Kae. Ratchet moved forward and covered his chest plates with a gentle hand.
"I'm sorry Optimus," his Kae whispered. And in that second he knew that despite the harsh stillness of her hands, she was crying.
"Steady," Ratchet murmured quietly.
Ironhide released Mikaela, walking around with fury in his eyes and grabbing her chin, forcing her to look up at him.
"Hide," she whispered, "I don't deserve mercy, but please, have mercy and kill me quickly." Bumblebee, Arcee, Chromia and Flare crashed to the ground, clinging to each other.
"It is our responsibility as guardians to guard and protect those in our care," Ironhide roared at Kae. "You have two choices, either you live, or Optimus dies."
Mikaela broke, keening in agony as Optimus almost collapsed in relief. Ironhide's holoform knelt in front of Kae, pulling her roughly into a hug as she keened.
"You remember this well," he snarled, crushing the girl to his chest. "You kill yourself, you die and you commit murder. Understand me?"
Kae began sobbing as Hide rocked her, looking up at Optimus with relief in his eyes.
"And don't you dare feel guilty, you wounded three and killed one. You killed with more mercy than that bastard deserved." Ironhide rumbled softly. "A man who would cripple a hatchling doesn't deserve to live."
Optimus onlined his holoform beside them and hauled his Kae into his arms, holding her tightly as she sobbed. Ratchet was in front of him a second later, pressing a hand firmly into her stomach as soldiers ran to tend the men she'd taken down.
Kae, Optimus and Ironhide looked down at Ratchet's hand.
There was blood.
"Oh, fuck." Kae whispered before slipping into a mild shock.
"KAE!" Optimus roared, shaking her, "Kae come back! Don't you dare leave me!"
"Let her sleep it off," Ratchet chuckled, retrieving the bullet from her stomach as the nanites went insane over the mass of adrenaline fed Energon. "With any luck she won't even remember it."
"What the hell!?" Lennox bellowed, running toward Optimus with a massive group of holoforms and soldiers behind him. "Why the hell would she kill herself?"
"Her survival mode switched," Jacobs shrugged, looking at the girl with respect.
"What!?" Epps stared at the larger man.
"Her survival mode switched," Jacobs repeated himself patiently. "Really, it switched the moment she realized she was holding a syringe an inch away from Ratchet's neck. She's a trained killer, not a natural one."
"Which means," General Moreshower asked interestedly.
"Which means," Jacobs sighed tiredly, "that when she made her first kill, with her bare hands she got hit with a shitload of remorse, she doesn't remember her first kills, it's hitting her again. If she were a natural she would be looking down at the fact that the nanites have finished fixing her up and grinning. It means that she's a good person, and it means that every now and again, probably one more kill, she's a strong young woman after all, she'll believe that she's a murderer and ask to be put down before she kills again. To protect people from her."
"And you know this how?" Lennox asked in a calmer tone.
"Her daddy was a marine, did you see the shots she took? Put that sniper rifle together faster than speedy Gonzalas over there, crouched and waited for her shots, she shoots with ice in her blood and picks her targets with conscience."
The drill sergeant was nodding confirmation.
"I'll add that even in a team exercise she refused to leave anyone behind." the man delicately rolled up Mikaela's pants, shaking his head at the massive bruises already showing on her legs.
Optimus cradled her closer as she clawed her way toward consciousness again.
"She's stayed with professional soldiers for months!" Will frowned.
"Yeah, but she understands how hard it is for us to pull trigger," Tibir shrugged.
"For me it's so easy to kill," Mikaela whispered in shame. Everyone stared at her in shock. "I was trained only to take the time to choose my targets, there was no time for hesitation. If I have the shot, I have to take it."
"Why on earth were you trained to kill like that!?" Sarah asked incredulously, threading herself into Will's arms.
"I had to protect Tinny," Mikaela whispered, beginning to cry again. "I had to protect Tinny and I failed. I failed my tiny big sister."
"Tinny knew how to fight," Optimus rumbled firmly, his holoform carrying her to himself.
"She used up all her fight before she could walk, I was an hour late getting home." Mikaela sobbed into his shoulder, "I should have been there, taken care of her."
"She was kidnapped with her father in the house," Optimus growled, "the man was good enough to get her out from under Chen Sho's watch."
Mikaela sagged against him, shaking and covered in blood. Before the eyes of her unit, she became a tiny, broken femme.
(RPOV)
"Gods," General Moreshower whispered, "you just don't realize how tiny she is." Will nodded, wrapping his arms a bit tighter around his Sarah and Anabelle.
Optimus' holoform was carrying the bruised and broken girl back to himself, gently laying her in his hand before transforming around her. He drove slowly back to the hangar with Bumblebee following him.
Ratchet crossed his arms as he watched Prime, nodding to himself.
"Is she going to be okay?" Chance asked sadly.
"Prime has her," Ironhide shrugged. "Hello Sarah, haven't seen you for a while." he grinned at the women snared in Will's arms.
"How have you been, Ironhide?" she asked in a shaky tone.
"Better than usual," Ironhide grinned, he held out his hands and scooped up a pouting Anabelle, settling her into the crook of his arm and gently grabbing one of her hands. "Ab dub dub?" he asked seriously.
"Dub dub!" Anabelle stated with a broad grin, wrapping chubby arms around his neck and cuddling into his shoulder. Sideswipe stared at the normally forbidding weapons master and burst out laughing.
"She's going to forget Common when she starts speaking english!" the asian holoform grinned.
"The point stands," Ironhide stated with a grin, bouncing around slightly as Chromia eyed him with adoration.
"Wait, she's speaking common?" Epps asked curiously.
"Sort of," Ironhide rumbled with a laugh, cheerfully bouncing the babbling toddler around. "If you listen hard enough she's telling us about her day."
"Is she okay?" Sarah asked in a choked voice.
"Dub dub," Ironhide nodded, Anabelle looked at her mother seriously.
"Dub dub," she repeated.
"That's what that means?" Will grinned.
"Good good," Sideswipe chuckled, he listened to her babbling for a second and replied in the same. She crowed and reached for him. Ironhide carefully handed the toddler over to Sideswipe, the holoform grinned.
"It's been a long time since I was able to hold a hatchling," he chuckled, speaking common to the tiny human and listening to her responses, it was almost as much fun as listening to his little sister Kae. She always had a good pun. He glanced toward the hangar. Bee and Optimus were speaking quietly, working out how to bring Kae back.
::. Remind her that she's loved. That she has healed us, true killers are incapable of healing others.:: Sideswipe looked down at the hatchling in his arms and looked at Will.
"You're coming for Christmas right?" Sarah said with a bright smile. Ironhide looked at Will curiously.
"It wouldn't be the same without you guys," Will grinned.
"May I borrow your child?" Sideswipe asked formally, "Mikaela grieves, I believe my little sister could use a reminder of why she fights."
Bumblebee sent a silent, ecstatic affirmative to Sideswipe's suggestion.
Will nodded.
∂Little one, will you hug my sister?∂ Sideswipe asked Anabelle curiously.
∂Tiny giant! Where's tiny Giant?∂ Anabelle babbled with wide eyes, looking around. Ironhide and Ratchet stared at Will's little girl in shock.
"What'd you guys say?" Epps asked curiously.
"She wants to know where tiny giant is," Ratchet murmured.
Sideswipe turned and began walking with Anabelle to the hangar.
"Are you sure Mikaela is calm enough to not hurt her?" Sarah asked worriedly.
"Easily," Will said assuredly, he wrapped an arm around his Femme, "you know she fixed my ears right? Did you hear what she said as she walked past us?" Sarah nodded for a second before her eyes widened.
"She killed that... man... because he had a bomb on Anabelle?"
"She broke a rule..." Epps frowned.
"Rule ten," Ratchet rumbled quietly. "Never get personally involved."
"You care about someone and you protect them, every Femme knows that," Chromia stated in a soft voice.
"The care of the hatchlings falls to all of us," Arcee stated calmly. "That includes their protection. We all know that. Kae is grieving the necessity of following instinct."
Sarah walked forward and collected Anabelle from Sideswipe, walking quickly toward the Peterbilt. Optimus transformed, cradling Mikaela in his palm. She looked so small there.
Sarah marched forward and calmly stood in front of the girl.
∂Tiny Giant!∂ Anabelle babbled brightly, holding her arms out for Mikaela to pick her up.
Mikaela's movements were automatic, accepting Anabelle and cradling the toddler gently. Ratchet, Optimus, every auto-bot and soldier stared as Mikaela's entire demeanour changed, cuddling Anabelle and speaking in quiet tones. Anabelle reached up, grabbed a fistful of her hair and promptly fell asleep in Kae's arms.
Mikaela looked at Will's baby girl with a single tear running down her face as she continued to rock the child, singing soft lullabies under her breath.
"Kae? I see no failure in you now," Optimus rumbled softly.
Mikaela looked up at Sarah.
"Thank you," she whispered, carefully handing the sleeping toddler over to her mother. Sarah beamed, cradling her baby. Anabelle was down for the count. A blessing in itself.
"I'll see you at Christmas," Sarah told the young woman firmly. Mikaela blushed.
(OPOV)
Optimus cradled his Kae, keeping his holoform online and laying beside her. She was whimpering in her sleep again, calling out the names of her lost family. The nanites were trying to keep her in recharge, her mind refusing the rest. At a loss of what to do he held her tightly, keeping the hammock moving at a gentle swing.
::. Sing.:: Bumblebee told him quietly. Optimus opened the transmission curiously. ::. She loves your voice.:: Bee stated calmly ::. and anytime I was upset she sang to me, it makes you feel loved.::
::. Remind her that she's loved. That she has healed us, true killers are incapable of healing others.:: Sideswipe put in calmly. Bumblebee agreed enthusiastically.
"You shouldn't have to keep babysitting me," Kae whispered hoarsely, startling him.
"There is no 'have to,'" Optimus murmured in her ear, "You spend so much time being strong for us, that we forget that you are a paragon of the gentle spark. It hurts to love, sometimes, and it is an agony all it's own to lose them. Their love will always be with you."
He reached up and lightly stroked her hair. She took a deep breath and looked up at him.
"I killed a man in cold blood and still you're comforting me?" she asked hoarsely.
"You killed a man who would cripple a mother, maim a hatchling. Innocents both. Kill a good man to save his own worthless hide." Optimus rumbled angrily, "A man who intended to kill you the second he had the chance. There was no compassion left in him."
"There was no compassion in my eyes as I killed him," Kae whispered.
"Good," Optimus growled sternly. She looked up at him in shock. "There are times for compassion, and times for making damn sure it never happens again." Optimus growled softly, quoting her words to him. "We have told you, many times over that you are one of us. It is not symbolic. We are guardians, within us is the strength to protect those who cannot protect themselves. We are the necessary evil."
Mikaela was still against him, breathing slowly as she searched his face.
"I failed, Prime," she whispered. In response, Optimus transformed and offered her to Sarah. The woman walked forward and deposited her child in Mikaela's arms. In his palm, he felt the harsh shudder that went through Kae's body, a suppressed sob as she stared down at the tiny youngling in her arms.
The next instant, she was the gentle, protective, loving Femme most had only glimpsed in her. Bumblebee was grinning. Anabelle babbled at her cheerfully for a moment before promptly falling asleep in her arms. Kae sang to the child, rocking gently.
"Kae? I see no failure in you now," Optimus rumbled softly.
Mikaela looked up at Sarah and offered her her sleeping child.
"Thank you," she whispered.
"I'll see you at Christmas," Sarah stated firmly before smiling. Mikaela blushed.
Will came forward and enveloped Mikaela in a bear hug.
"You saved my baby," he murmured. "My wife and my baby girl. Thank you."
Mikaela began crying softly, hugging Will for a second before pulling back. "Get some sleep," Will ordered gently, squeezing her shoulders.
She looked down at her bloodstained clothes with eyes becoming glazed again.
"Come on Kae," Optimus murmured gently, bringing his holoform online and gently picking her up. He carried her to the tiny bathroom designated for her use and sat her on the counter, gently peeling her clothes away and turning the shower on. The femmes appeared the next moment, brushing her hair and surrounding her with the comfort of females. Mikaela began sobbing finally, and the holoforms crushed in on her, rocking her.
"Dearspark," Chromia whispered. "Dearspark Kae don't grieve the protection of the young, we have all killed, remember that Kae, we have all killed to protect."
"Do not grieve your instincts," Arcee added softly. "With thirty witnesses we saw the murder in those creatures' eyes. You killed one, and disabled three. That is not murder."
Optimus watched in shock as the energon in her system began scribing the predator's credo down her back. Fire flickered over the markings as it was branded into her skin, Chromia caught his hand as he made to put the fire out.
"It is acceptance," Chromia murmured gently as all three femmes blinked out of their clothing, showing the identical markings down their backs.
"Kae has been through enough pain," Optimus rumbled tightly, cupping her cheek.
"Let me feel it," Kae whispered in a stronger voice. She cuddled into him as he pulled her into the shower, washing away the mud, blood and gunpowder residues from her skin. Her blood was still flooded with adrenaline.
He gently wrapped her in a towel and lifted her into his holoform's arms, carrying her across the hangar and into his hand.
She was silent, eyes glazed with grief and exhaustion again.
Bumblebee was grinning, piping a song to his processors, Optimus viewed it for a second and jumped. A new song, one that encompassed his thoughts perfectly. Bumblebee began playing the music softly as the unit transformed and circled them.
"I know the feeling," Optimus sang softly, "of finding yourself stuck out on the ledge, and there is no healing, from cutting yourself with the jagged edge."
Kae looked up at him with mild astonishment in her eyes, spurring him to continue despite the incredulous looks from the soldiers. He sat in his own hand and cupped her face in his holoforms', gently stroking the hair from her eyes.
"I'm telling you that, its never that bad, take it from someone who's been where you're at: laid out on the floor and your not sure, you can take this anymore."
Music swelled around them as Optimus cradled his Kae, rocking her as his unit's holoforms onlined to stand around his and his Kae. Bumblebee stood directly across from him, his own voice singing in counterpart. Singing to his sister.
"So just give it one more try to a lullaby and turn this up on the radio if you can hear me now I'm reaching out to let you know that you're not alone and you can't tell I'm scared as hell cause I can't get you on the telephone so just close your eyes, well honey here comes a lullaby your very own lullaby."
"Well please let me take you, out of the darkness and into the light, cause I have faith in you, that you're gonna make it through another night. Stop thinking about the easy way out there's no need to go and blow the candle out. Because you're not done you're far too young and the best is yet to come," Optimus sang alone again, letting his scout see his surprise that his Kae's little brother wasn't continuing to sing, or rather, that he wasn't taking the lead.
::. She is my sister, but you are her mate.:: Bumblebee murmured on a separate channel, letting his trust show in the holoform's eyes ::. there is no better.::
Optimus' spark gave a wrench in his chamber at his scout's comment as the voices of his unit, his true-spark family raised with his again.
"So just give it one more try to a lullaby and turn this up on the radio if you can hear me now I'm reaching out to let you know that you're not alone. And you can't tell I'm scared as hell cause I can't get you on the telephone so just close your eyes, well honey here comes a lullaby your very own lullaby."
"Well everybody's hit the bottom," Sideswipe put in softly.
"And everybody's been forgotten," Ironhide rumbled.
"When everybody's tired of being alone," Bumblebee continued.
"Yeah everybody's been abandoned," Chromia crooned sweetly.
"And left a little empty handed," Ratchet intoned softly.
"So if you're out there barely hanging on," Flareup choked, Kae reached out with Arcee and Chromia, dragging Flare deeper into the group hug.
"Just give it one more try to a lullaby and turn this up on the radio if you can hear me now I'm reaching out to let you know that you're not alone. And you can't tell I'm scared as hell cause I can't get you on the telephone so just close your eyes, well honey here comes a lullaby your very own lullaby."
Tears were streaming from his Kae's face as she desperately clung to the holoforms surrounding them. Optimus looked at his unit in pride as every speaker played the music, surrounding them with song. He could feel the strength returning to his Kae's spark as the music continued. Bumblebee leaned down slightly to kiss his sister's cheeks, Ironhide and Ratchet her forehead. Chromia grinned at the surprise in the tiny Femme's eyes as the field marshal Femmes cuddled against their newest sister, kissing her as well. Ratchet quietly noted on the primary the astonished looks on the soldier's faces as the etchings on every piece of armour and exposed protoform glowed with energon.
"Get some sleep, big sister," Bumblebee whispered in her ear.
"We'll see you in the morning," Ratchet murmured, stroking her cheek lightly before the holoforms offlined. Optimus transformed, delicately depositing his Kae in her hammock.
She laid shivering for a long time.
"Optimus?" she whispered finally.
"Kae?" he murmured gently, onlining his holoform beside her.
"Who am I?" she asked in a quiet, lost voice.
"You are my Kae," Optimus murmured, reaching out and caressing her cheek. "And I am your Optimus."
She smiled at him then, reaching out and running her hands delicately over his exposed neural fibres.
Optimus let out a soft moan and directed his holoform toward her, peeling off the towel and caressing her naked form.
He pressed a warm kiss to her lips as the neural fibres stroked every inch of flesh they could reach. She began gasping.
"Come with me," he whispered.
"Where?" she gasped as he stroked lower.
"Christmas," he grinned against her skin.
"Alright," she whispered then groaned as he stroked lower. She was so wet, so hot and wet and maddeningly tight.
"Oh gods, oh Primus Optimus what are you doing," she began babbling softly.
"You have but to tell me and I stop," he whispered in her ear, delicately rubbing the knot of nerves defining her sex. "It is a fondness of mine to try new things. You mentioned that it takes you two hours of meditation to come down from the adrenaline in your system. So what do you want to bet that I can get you to completely pass out in less than twenty minutes?"
"Why?" she whispered, Mikaela turned her face to look into his holoform's eyes. He could see desperation there, a need she wouldn't share even with herself.
"Why what?" he murmured softly.
"Why would you care about me?" she choked, "Put yourself in so much danger to protect me. I'm just one among billions."
"What danger?" Optimus rumbled, pressing his holoform down onto her body, "You can not hurt my holoform, it is a beam of light, the only part of me that you could hurt is my spark. Something that I know you are not truly capable of. Oh you could tear me apart," Optimus smiled at her gently. "But you wouldn't. Kill my holoform in two hits, but no matter how angry you are you have never struck the first blow." He began kissing the tears off of her face, delicately slipping a second finger into her.
"Optimus," she whimpered, "please..."
"Please what?" he whispered in her ear. "I have felt your heart, seen your spark. You are so much more than the one among billions. You are my Kae, my ambassador, my archangel, my beloved, the one who wore my mark with pride."
She stared at him, more tears escaping from her eyes. She reached up and touched his mark on her chest, lightly caressing it.
"I still wear it with pride," she whispered softly as it began to glow brightly.
"Then come back to us Kae," Optimus growled, leaning down and pressing a bruising kiss to her lips. "Stop trying to push me away, I am never going to leave you behind."
Her hand flew up to grab the back of his holoform's neck, holding him tightly as she kissed him back, and in a moment she had Optimus beneath her. He stared up at her in shock as she straddled him. Her eyes burned as she leaned down over him.
"Before you decide that you're never going to leave me behind," she purred, "I have nothing more to hide."
Optimus gave her a wolfish grin.
"Now you believe that you are going to scare me away by proving your complete lack of submission?" he growled softly, reaching forward and gripping the incredible flesh of her aft. He caught her by surprise as he flipped her onto her back again, she stared up at him as he let his own desires show in his eyes. "What fun is a mate who would allow me to walk all over her? You are not weak." he husked, "I need a mate who is strong enough to hold her own against me. Do you want to know why I care? You give, you love, you comfort, you watch my back in battle and shout me down when I am wrong. You remind me every single day, with every breath how to be a better person. You are a femme to be proud of."
Mikaela's pheromones were intoxicating as he teased her coupling again, her eyes were dark, gorgeous. Her lips flushed with blood, swollen from his kisses. She sat up and pressed herself tightly against the holoform.
"I won't live long," she said softly, looking him in the eye.
"You let me decide that," Optimus rumbled, he couldn't hold himself back anymore, and thrust the holoform's spike into her coupling. She keened, so tight, so hot and slick, Optimus groaned as she squeezed around him, writhing deliciously in the holoform's lap.
He crushed her to his chest and laid her back in the hammock of neural fibres. She moaned as they began to slide deeply into her skin, fully connecting to her nervous system.
Optimus looked at his Kae with a gentle smirk as she overloaded in his hands, the rush of endorphins beating away the last of her adrenaline.
She looked up at him with glazed eyes, pulling him down with shaky arms to kiss him again. Another burst of Energon flowed from her systems, making him tremble.
Her spark reached for his, fully, he couldn't help but reach for hers, pulling her into the mindspace.
(MPOV)
I opened my eyes in the light, Optimus stood in front of me. I looked down, and up at him in confusion.
"I'm..." I murmured.
"A Femme?" Optimus rumbled with a smug look in his optics, "Here, you are whatever you wish to be. You can change if you wish, but I must admit you have incredible taste in forms." his optics ran up and down my body hungrily.
"You only love me for my body," I teased him, running a gentle finger down his chest plates.
"No," he said softly, earnestly, "I love you for your beautiful heart and soul," his eyes turned wicked. "The body however, is a definite bonus." he caught me up and took me to the ground in seconds, laying his heavier form over mine.
I gauged him for a second before flipping him onto his back with a wicked grin.
"You look incredible, stretched out on your back and looking up at me like that," I murmured, leaning down and gently lipping my way down his neck struts. He groaned and flipped me back underneath him, laughing softly as he pinned me down.
Binder cables snaked from access hatches, invading my couplings without remorse as I writhed beneath him.
Energon flashed over my frame, heat sensors crept closer to the red, and my cooling systems kicked in.
"I'm going to make you overload first," I whispered with a smirk.
"Good luck with that," Optimus rumbled mildly, reaching a gentle hand into my spark chamber. I smiled and offlined my optics for a second, onlining them to watch his face. I reached up and cupped his cheek with a delicate hand as my spark reached out and touched his. He began moaning, fighting to stay as still as possible overtop of me.
"Kae," he rumbled in desperation, "Kae what are you doing?"
"I told you," I murmured, sitting up slightly to tuck my face into the crook of his neck. "I'm going to make you overload, because you are long overdue my beloved guardian."
In a flash I had an arm around his back, pressing our chests together, his spark flashed out and connected itself to mine. I caressed it, fighting my own overload as he pounded himself into me. I arched and met him at every thrust.
"Kae, Kae don't stop!" he roared. Our sparks connected and I could feel him, knew every code that defined him. My overload hit me at the same time his did. Blasting my awareness out among the stars before automatically re-booting me into a recharge cycle.
(OPOV)
Optimus' cooling fans roared, his Kae had surprised him once again. He vented at a furious rate, fighting to keep his laughter silent. She was deep in a recharge cycle now, and now she knew, she knew everything that he is. He had touched her mind, seen every second of her life in a flash. Had seen and felt every piece of her. And loved her more.
::. That sounded fun.:: Ratchet sent in amusement.
Optimus snorted and pulled his femme close, dropping into his own re-charge cycle.