Fear

Moongaze/Skybolt

(Stories: Never saw it Coming & Together at Last)

The white and black 747 airliner walked into the medbay stopping just inside the door as he saw the deep sky blue Ford Fiesta tend to his second-in-command. Cruiser had a run-in with both Shadowstrike and Stampede. He watched as the first aider fussed over the dark red mech and inwardly sighed as he remembered the fear that had griped him when he found out she had been captured by the cons. He had made excuses to Prime and quietly assembled his team to rescue her only to find that when he got there Mirage had already rescued her, pushing the unconscious femme into his arms stating that she belonged to him and driving off. He remembered the dread he felt at the thought that he might have been too late and she'd offlined without him telling her how he felt. He jumped when he felt a hand on his arm and looked down.

"Are you okay, Skybolt?" Moongaze asked worriedly.

The HIT leader looked at her a few moments before pulling her into a hug, holding her as if his life depended on it resting his cheek on top of her head.

After getting over her shock Moongaze snuggled into the hug wrapping her arms around the mech. "if you wanted a cuddle all you had to do was ask." She joked.

"You scared me." He said after a while.

The Ford tried to get out of his embrace to look at him but it only made him hold her tighter.

"I don't understand." She said. She hadn't been on any missions lately or even left their underground base so how could she be…scaring the airliner?

He finally let out of the embrace only to hold her at arm's length. "Promise me you won't do that again." He told her looking her in the optic.

"Do what?" Moongaze asked confused "Skybolt you're making no sense."

"Running off, getting yourself caught by the cons, scaring me sparkles when Mirage pushed your unconscious frame in my arms."

A soft smile made its way onto the Ford's face as she recalled what he was talking about. "Those were a special set of circumstances." She told him "Crystal was my respons…" she stopped as the mech placed a finger on her lips.

"Do you know how scared I was when Cruiser told me you were missing? That you wouldn't answer anyone's communications, not even Surefire's." he began "it terrified me. I felt for sure I lost you forever, that I'd never be able to tell you how much you meant to me. How I loved you from the moment we met all those years ago." He told her looking away.

Moongaze removed the finger from her lips and lovingly held her lovers face her thumb rubbing across his cheek in reassurance. "I'll let you in on a little secret, Bolt." She said quietly "everything I did up until the point we got together was to get you to notice me. I may have got…distracted a little when I met Ratchet but in my spark I always know you were the one I wanted. If it makes you feel any better though, Surefire will always in sure that I come back even if it costs him his life."

He smiled and gave a nod, his fear of losing her would always be there but at least he could rest assure in the knowledge that no matter what she would always return to him.

(End)