Chapter 79 - Decisions
(OPOV)
Optimus thought of something, he couldn't help but smile.
"What?" Mikaela asked, smiling at him.
"Can I give Anabelle my present to her now?"
"We aren't even there yet," his Kae teased him gently. Optimus snorted softly.
"I mean when we arrive."
"You can let her choose which person's present to open before she goes to sleep," Mikaela chuckled.
Optimus grinned. He'd picked that outfit out, because it was precisely what she'd asked for. Something comfy and warm to sleep in, that didn't go over her head and hurt her ears.
She hated that.
"I love that smile," Mikaela murmured softly.
It made Optimus smile, because that tone meant she was smiling too. He couldn't feel her spark within his own yet.
But by the grace of Primus he would someday.
Which brought him right back to square one. He hadn't purchased anything for his Kae, not for lack of trying, he and his weapons master had spend a long time wandering around the shopping centre.
It all seemed so... frivolous... he wanted to give his reliant something with true meaning...
::. Are you driving or reminiscing?.:: Ironhide sent with a baiting snort.
"Ruminating," Mikaela replied for him rather cheekily.
The fact that she was correct never failed to amuse him. His Kae knew him so well.
Ironhide began snorting behind him, his driving patterns becoming somewhat erratic.
"Did you wish to proximity me?" Optimus rumbled innocently as the humans began protesting Ironhide's vectors somewhat.
"Nah, Will, you drive for a bit," Ironhide snorted before he began outright laughing. "Alright Kae, what's he thinking about now?"
"We're both thinking of the best way to rib you back, just because you said that," Mikaela murmured with a snort, glancing at him.
Optimus grinned, one of his processors had been contemplating that in depth for a moment, of course he was also thinking of what he was going to do with his Kae once they'd parked...
"Shouldn't you be concentrating on driving rather than trying to decide what you're going to do first?" she asked innocently. Optimus glanced at the road and lightly corrected his vector.
"Would you do me the honour?" Optimus rumbled innocently.
"I don't know the way," Mikaela laughed at him.
"I got that!" Will grinned, Ironhide promptly passed them.
Mikaela laughed and rose in his cab, not bothering to wait for him to offline his holoform. She sat in his lap and caught hold of his gearshift. As was his habit, he shifted his controls to fit his femme, and made to offline his holo.
"Keep it online," she murmured. Optimus stared at his femme for a moment, then groaned as she began teasing him mercilessly.
"What in Primus name are you doing to him now!?" Ironhide demanded.
"Oh, nothing much," Mikaela lilted innocently. But her aft, her aft was pressed right over his spike, every shift of her legs causing that glorious aft to rub against him.
Every last available byte of processor power promptly focused on that sensation.
"Try and keep up!" Ironhide called out with a laugh.
Then, then Mikaela began driving him in earnest.
She could drive him any day, but today...
It was everything he could do to bite back his moans.
"Mikaela! We're almost here, if Optimus is supposed to function it might help if you let him have his processors back," Ironhide told her seriously.
"He'll get them back eventually." Mikaela stated cheerfully.
Oh he was fragged. Best possible turn of the phrase. Mikaela's aft just kept teasing him, whatever this game of hers was, he wanted to learn it, wanted to learn the methods to get her back.
Mikaela leaned back into his holoform's chest.
"This is for tickling me," she murmured in that Primus damned sultry voice. Then, then she flicked the steering wheel.
Causing his entire right side to vibrate as he sped over the rumble strips.
∂Primus dammit Femme stop tormenting my body!∂ he choked out, forgetting himself and speaking in common.
"Okay," Mikaela lilted cheerfully. A cool surge of energon flashed from her frame and directly into his.
In that moment he was intensely grateful that she was taking care of his vectors as he rebooted.
But that didn't stop his spark from it's musings. His spark had become somewhat vexed at his processor's stalling. It wanted Kae for it's own, to be joined absolutely to her. With his processors safely out of the way, his spark decided firmly, precisely what his gift to her would be.
(CPOV)
Ironhide was carrying her, and Will was taking care of the vectors.
Which gave Chromia ample time to watch as the Prime overloaded at high speed, Mikaela smirking broadly as the holoform winked out from beneath her.
::. Really?.:: she laughed at her sister.
::. Making up for lost time.:: Mikaela stated innocently, just between the two of them.
Chromia couldn't help it, she began giggling, watching as Mikaela continued to guide their Prime's body to remain on course.
Which was highly courteous of her, personally, Chromia would have simply slowed him down and made him keep driving.
She was evil like that sometimes.
But then Ironhide loved it when she did that. He said it got him all the hotter when she bossed him around.
Of course, sitting in his box – surrounded by their gifts to the humans – didn't really give her the opportunity. Chromia pursed her lips somewhat.
Then she grinned.
Her valve was soaked, a bot that said there wasn't a little voyeur hiding in all of them was a liar. She was still watching their Prime trying to sync his processors, which was puzzling. Either Kae had got him a really good reboot this time, or he wasn't trying very hard to sync properly.
Ironhide of course, couldn't really see that all that well...
Chromia smirked and shifted ever so slightly.
Her valve was soaked, she wanted Ironhide in her. So she quietly let a little bit of her lubricants drip into his box.
::. The scrap?.:: Ironhide rumbled with a snort the second he felt the liquid drop. Chromia waited, knowing he'd be analyzing precisely what the liquid was.
Sure enough.
::. Minx.:: Ironhide rumbled fondly, one of his cables began stroking her frame, searching for the source.
::. Master.:: she purred to him. Simply because he loved being recognized for his mastery of weapons. That cable slipped delicately into her valve, working her gently into overload.
She simply couldn't help herself, she loved the gruff, rough and ready mech, Will was driving anyway, she overloaded, pressing the recoil of energon right back to her bot through his cables.
"Chromia!" he moaned the next moment.
"What!?" Will's voice asked incredulously.
"I think I need to drive for a few minutes," Ironhide rumbled tightly.
Chromia smirked as the weapons master sped up somewhat, obviously trying to shake off the lust surging through his spark.
She'd assuage it later, she loved watching him squirm.
(IPOV)
Ironhide began working to shake off the lust the mischievous femme had firmly planted into his spark. He could practically feel her amusement at that. He found it rather funny, too, not that he'd ever admit it of course.
But she'd started it, so he had absolutely no guilt in scheming against her now. Ironhide quietly onlined an extra couple of processors
::. Do try to not scar the humans?.:: Optimus rumbled finally.
"What the hell Hide?" Will asked with a snort.
"Chromia started it," Ironhide immediately defended himself. "She's leaking in my box."
"Oh... kay?" Epps muttered with a frown.
"Yeah?" Kae's voice called out cheerfully.
"No, other okay," Epps snorted.
Completely deflecting the conversation, brilliant femme.
"Aaww, don't you love me anymore?" Kae trilled.
∂Of course I do,∂ Optimus rumbled with a small smile.
Ironhide snorted rather gleefully at that.
∂Saps,∂ he rumbled, as he always did.
∂This coming from a certain weapons master moaning at the very scent of a femme in his box?∂ Kae shot at him cheerfully.
"When you're a bot and catching the scent proper of this femme you're gonna eat your words," Ironhide stated flatly, parking in Will's driveway.
Optimus pulled in beside him, shutting his engine down and winking his holoform beside him.
Grinning.
"What?" Ironhide demanded somewhat irritably.
"You said it in English," Optimus smirked at him. Ironhide nearly jumped out of his exo, immediately looking at the human males riding with him.
"Oops," he rumbled flatly.
Jacobs snorted.
The next second, Epps was struggling to choke back his laughter at the expression on Will's face.
Mikaela began whistling softly, looking at Chromia, Her holoform onlined, looking far smugger than she normally did.
"Better go inside Will, your comprehensions seem to come more easily when Sarah is holding your hand." Mikaela called out teasingly the next moment.
Will nodded, his face lighting up with a broad grin as the femme in question stepped out the front door.
Optimus immediately strode to his passenger door, reaching for his Kae. She stumbled slightly... that wasn't like her, she was normally far more graceful, except...
Ironhide smirked as Optimus' holoform idly caught his Kae, bearing her easily in his arms. And there it was again, just a little flash of it before the face straightened.
Pure, unadulterated joy.
"You did that on purpose," Ironhide told the femme cheerfully. Kae shot him a purely innocent look. That was just scrapping hilarious. Optimus looked entirely confused, and that just made it better.
"Explanation later?" Optimus rumbled softly to his Kae.
Oh as if.
"Maybe," Kae smirked at him.
Out of the line of sight from the humans, Optimus shot a small pout at her.
It was all Ironhide could do to not laugh at them.
"Saaapps," he rumbled gleefully.
"I don't get it!" Optimus rumbled indignantly.
Ironhide surveyed them for a moment, Optimus had yet to set Kae down, he weighed his options: Leave his Prime to try to figure out what they meant, or spark another adorable moment.
He was on a roll with the adorableness today, and sparking adorableness meant Chromia points.
Chromia points were priceless.
"Kae fell on purpose," Ironhide smirked.
"Why?" the Prime asked curiously.
"Because I love it when you catch me," Kae murmured, pressing a kiss to his jaw.
Ironhide couldn't have stopped the grin if he'd wanted to, right in front of him, his Prime had returned to the balanced mech he'd once been. A look of absolute adoration in his optics.
"I will always catch you," Optimus murmured tenderly, holding his femme a bit more closely. Ironhide nodded to himself and turned.
"Sarah!" he grinned, striding forward to catch his human friend's mate in a bearhug.
"Ironhide," the femme smiled, winding her arms around his holoform. "Is Mikaela doing any better?" she asked with a soft tone of worry. She was such a dear femme.
"Much," Ironhide nodded cheerfully. "Now where's my favourite hatchling?"
"Unka Ionhide!" was squealed the next second, and the tiny hatchling promptly scurried toward them, winding herself around his holoform's knees.
Ironhide grinned and lightly tossed the tiny femme into the air, catching and cuddling her the next second.
"Ab dub dub?" he asked her seriously. The way he always did.
Optimus was beside him the next moment.
∂You should open my present to you first,∂ the Prime murmured with a grin.
∂Get me sleeping armour!?∂ Anabelle demanded with a broad grin.
∂I did∂ Optimus rumbled with a smile, lightly touching her nose with a finger.
"Saaap," Ironhide rumbled again.
Anabelle promptly fell to giggling in his arms, bouncing around somewhat on his chest. It made Ironhide laugh, so he promptly got down to some serious bouncing, and making the hatchling squeal with laughter.
Yep. This was gonna be fun.
(MPOV)
"So do I get to use my legs?" I murmured with a small smile. Optimus still hadn't put me down yet.
"Maybe," he rumbled with a snort, gently setting me on my feet regardless.
But that most certainly didn't stop him from winding a gentle arm around my waist, and I most certainly wasn't going to bring him up on such a thing.
However there were niceties to be attended to, I waited until Will was capable of releasing his wife.
"We never got to meet, properly," I murmured with a small smile, reaching out a hand to shake Sarah's.
"You saved our lives, Mikaela, you're family now, family gets hugs," Sarah smiled at me, lightly grasping my hand and pulling me into a hug.
I couldn't not hug her back, the dear woman.
"Kae," I murmured with a smile.
"Hmn?"
"Mikaela is my given name, call me Kae," I smiled at her as she pulled back.
"Everybody else does," Jacobs added teasingly.
I couldn't resist lightly punching him in the side.
∂Tiny Giant!∂ Anabelle's voice squealed the next moment, Ironhide promptly grinned and handed the child over. I smiled and bounced her somewhat, listening to her talking about her day before demanding to be handed to Optimus.
I laughed and handed the girl to my spark-mate, Optimus grinning as he found himself the centre of Anabelle's attention.
"Dinner's almost ready," Sarah added with a smile. "But are you sure you want to sleep in..." she glanced at Optimus.
"She tends to stay in his sleeper, even at base," Will snorted quietly.
"Doesn't it bother you at all that he's sentient, and you're staying inside of him?" Sarah asked curiously. "It still feels weird for me to sit inside of Ironhide..."
"Well you should quit that," Ironhide rumbled with a snort. "'Cause I don't mind, and Optimus adores having Kae sleeping with him."
I rolled my eyes at my Uncle, then promptly turned a grin at Sarah.
"Mistress of the kitchen: put me to work!" I demanded through that grin.
Sarah smirked at me, and shoulder to shoulder, we marched into the territory of mothers.