Ratchet was waiting patiently. Optimus noted that he seemed overly happy, and his optic ridges shot up as he looked over at Arcee, who shrugged.

Then they saw why.

June was pulling up with more food for the humans, possibly the pizza she had promised last night. Ratchet went back over to his work station just as she arrived and it seemed that he would disappear again upon a human arrival.

But he returned and lifted her car as soon as she was out.

"Ratchet, what are you-?"

"I am fixing it for you," he explained, and then he was gone.

Optimus' mouth fell open and Arcee copied him. June crossed her arms and smiled.

"And you said he didn't have any good days," June accused as she patted Optimus' pede.

"He does not," Optimus murmured, then he shook himself. "Primus. I wonder if Ratchet is injured."

Arcee rubbed her helm in confusion. "I don't think so. He was fine when I took a long shower this morning."

By that, she meant that he had yelled at her about it for half of an Earth hour.

After the human children devoured the pizza and just when June was getting anxious about missing her shift, Ratchet rolled up in his ambulance form and apologized about her car not being thoroughly fixed. He offered her a ride back to her hospital, and Optimus' mouth fell open again.

June sat in Ratchet's passenger seat and she saw that the interior was almost perfect. No human had ever sat in him, it seemed, while Optimus' cab had obvious wear due to Miko, her son, and maybe Raf.

"What's with this nice-streak, Ratchet?"

"I am still researching family units, and I realized that every child had a mother and a father, every child in our base except Jack, and I was wondering why."

June looked out the window and sighed. Ratchet wondered if she had the ability to growl as a Cybertronian, would she have growled then? "I don't want to talk about it yet, Ratchet. I appreciate your concern, but after he left, I have been raising Jack for thirteen years and everything seems to be going well. Isn't he a great boy?"

"Yes, it appears that so far, you have done an excellent job in rearing him," Ratchet said. He parked in front of the hospital and opened his door for her, then he watched her go.

When he arrived back at base, Optimus never let him be.

"Remember when it was BJ," Arcee said as she elbowed Ratchet, "when you hated humans?"

BJ?

He gave Optimus a glare. "BJ?"

He grinned. "Before June."

"Prime, I will officially attend your funeral only to spit on your grave!"

Optimus laughed and he hugged his old friend. "Thanks for burying the grudges against humans. I knew you would come around eventually."

Ratchet gave him the Cybertronian insult. He bit his thumb at Optimus, then walked away.

The Prime was still grinning. "I will see you later, old friend!"

"No, you won't!"

"Yes, I will!"

"In case you cannot see, I am biting my thumb at you again!"

Arcee watched with amusement, then went to the catwalk to smile at Jack. "So, what do you think about having a Cybertronian as a sire?"

Jack gave her a glare. "Don't push it..."