This time when the car approaches her, she jumps in without needs for an invitation.
But this time the decepticon sounds less friendly: "It doesn't work" he growls.
"W-What?" she asks confused, and a bit scared that she could have underestimate the peril.
"THE FLOWER!"
"no…" she starts cautiously "no, you are wrong!" a bit more convinced.
She thinks back to Bee's expression when he took the flower into the garage, his room, how his digit kept caressing the petals. "He loved it, he spent two days looking at that, touching the petals, and sighing in a dreamy way. I'm sure you hit the score with that!"
"HE CRIED!"
"What? When?what did you do to him?" she asks incredulous (and a bit pissed for the mech attitude).
"I followed him to the scrap yard, as usual, and there he pointed his weapons to me, and he was crying…" Barricade still growling, but at least stopped to yell. "I'd never seen him so distressed…" he adds slowly and quietly, almost mouthing to himself.
"no… I saw how he reacted to the flower, I'm sure there is another explanation…"
"like what?!" this time the growl is tamed by hope. He could be cute, if she lets herself forget how dangerous he can be.
"I could have a plan…" she smiles.
Later that night, she admits to herself that she is not sure of her plan. Took her a while to convince Sam and Bee that the drive-in movie was a good idea. Sam kept look to Bee for permission, and Bee… Bee looked as the usual self, if one ignored his twitching door wings. Even now, parked in the drive in, she can feel his disquiet in the little jerks in the seat. Sam noticed it as well, if the soothingly caresses on the steering wheel are any clue.
And then a black car parks in the nearest spot on their right. Bumblebee jerks and is engine revs up, and he would had fly is she hasn't pull the handbrake. She keeps it pulled, and starts to hush the young mech "Bee, everything is ok… Bee, let him explain himself, would you?"
The Camaro engine revs in despair, the radio sending only statics. Then from the Mustang arrives clicks and chirps, and that seems to tame a bit the yellow car.
More chirps, this time from Bee, makes Mikaela realize that they are speaking in their own language.
She pats encouraging Bee's dashboard. And then she assist as a blonde boy, barely older than Sam or herself, appears in the passenger seat of the Mustang.
The Policeman, the one that invite her for a ride days ago, appears just after that on the driver seat. This time she have time to study his features, also because this time she is not in danger. The man, black short hair and brown-ish almost red eyes is in his late twenties or first thirties. He's muscular and in his leather jacket is as daunting as with the police uniform. His body size make the blond teenager looks even leaner and slenderer.
The blonde, that Mikaela is assuming being Bee's holoform, Optimus refers to those as holoform, rights?, is talking, but without face the older man. No, his piercing blue eyes are trained on the movie projected on the screen. Now he is wringing his hands and he shuts his eyes closed, and Mikaela would admire the details of the holographic projection, if she wasn't so concern for her friend. She has no idea what the young man is saying, but suddenly Barricade's holoform hits the steering wheel, and Bee winces and his engine revs again in a pitiful way.
Sam seems ready to dismount and stomps to the black car to rescue is own guardian's holoform. But she stops him as Barricade sighs and turns back to the blonde teenager, placing an hand on the smaller one shoulder. She cannot hears them, nor reads either of their expressions as the decepticon hide Bee' face to them. But whatever he is saying it's working, as the car around them relax, and his engine revving became quieter and almost sweet.
Mikaela and Sam stay still, pretending to watch the movie but both painfully concentrated on the interaction of the two holoforms in the other car. For a while the only sound in the car is Bee's revving engine, that slowly turns from quite and sweet to content and amused.
In the other car, the younger one is now smiling shyly to the other man. He bends his head and looks at Barricade through his lashes, blushing adorably as he do that.
And then Barricade moves slowly forward and Mikaela holds her breath waiting for the kiss and…
... and Sam opens the other car's door and pulls the decepticon out of it. And then stares at him, unsure of how to procede…
"Ladiesman217, release me now!" is the daunting growl from the man. Sam silently glares at him, and then Bee is pushing himself between the two, facing the one that is supposedly his charge.
"Sam, what are you doing?" Bee whispers and then Mikaela is giggling and Sam is just blushing and sputtering "he… you… the first date… and you… he will hurt you…." and now Mikaela is laughing so hard because she remembers that same boy running from that same decepticon no so much time ago.
But she's also amused, because Sam got this protective flair in him, that apparently is bursted up by his own guardian.
And so she finds herself to step in, pulling her boyfriend away from the two holoforms, adding for good measure a "don't worry Sam, 'Cade will not hurt Bee. Otherwise I will dismantle him down to the screws." A glance to the decepticon, who nod to her, confirms that he's taking the threat seriously.
Good that.
She leads Sam to the Camaro as the blond holoform turn to lean a feather-like kiss on Barricade cheek, before disappears and drive them home.
Her plan was great!