"Hey Ironhide!" Ratchet called Ironhide into the monitor room where as the name stated there was a large monitor. "You have an email" Ratchet told him smirking "From that girl you saved"

"Paige?" Ironhide said walking into the room. "She did say that she was going to send me something…" Ironhide said looking curious. Ratchet handed him over the controls of the monitor and saw and expert from a newspaper in his inbox. Above the page was a message from Paige.

It read 'Dear Ironhide, thanks once again for saving me. I won't ever forget it. I was thinking about ways to thank you when I came up this idea. Let's just say if this were a real newspaper this would be front page stuff. Thanks once again.

Paige'

Ironhide scrolled down and saw a picture of his car mode, he was sure the picture was not of him but rather was meant to represent him. He read through the article which he immediately recognized as Paige's style of writing when compared to her above message. The news article was of his daring rescue and how Ratchet had fixed her up. It was very well written and was an acceptable thank you in Ironhide's opinion. He gave a satisfied grunt and saved the message. Then he turned to Ratchet who had also read the message.

Ratchet was giving him a strange look, "What?" Ironhide asked his anger flaring for a moment.

Ratchet shook his head "Nothing" he said shrugging. He walked past Ironhide and proceeded to walk to the med lab. Ironhide stared after him looking completely and utterly confused.

Paige was feeling the same confusion that Ironhide was feeling at the same moment. She watched in dismay as her car was being attached to a tow truck.

"B-But why?" she asked, running up to the man attaching her truck to the hook.

"This your car ma'm?" he asked with a slight accent.

"Yes!" Paige nodded.

"Well It's the bank's now. I'm gonna need you ta sing this, If you please" he handed her a clipboard which Paige took.

She read it over with narrowed eyes "It says I haven't paid my car payments…" she looked up at the man, "But I paid them last week!" she protested.

"Look ma'm don't complain ta me. It's my superiors ya got'ta deal with. I just pick up the cars" he said as he tugged on the cable connecting the two cars.

Paige looked at him with desperation "But sir-"

He cut her off, Impatience evident in his voice "Ma'm just sign the damn thing!" he said angrily. Paige gave him one last look of desperation but did as he had told her. Her final looks upon her old beat up car were sad ones. She watched as the tow truck driver took the clipboard, then with out another word he gave her an apologetic tip of the hat and walked to the driver's side of the tow truck, got in and drove away.

Paige stared after them for a moment and then realized that she needed to get to work, she swore. Paige was turning towards the park thinking she would take the short cut when suddenly she had the images of herself being attacked once more. Paige felt the bruises around her neck, they had developed a few hours after the attack and it seemed that they were not going to fade away. Paige looked towards the park which had once looked pleasant, it now looked dark and menacing and Paige did not want to walk through it again. Paige didn't trust cab's, after watching a C.S.I New York that was about a serial killer who drove a cab she never stepped inside one of those yellow things again. It seemed as if she had no way of getting to work with out having hell to pay.

Paige gave out a sigh and pulled out her cell phone, she flipped open the dark blue device and called her boss.

He picked up on the second ring "Yellow" he said.

"Uh, hey boss, It me Paige" Paige said.

"Paige! What can I do for you?" he asked sounding cheerful.

"Well uh sir, I'm afraid I can't come to work today" Paige said.

"Why's that hon'?" he asked.

"Well I'm sick you see…" she coughed for good measure.

"Aww… well you're not coming over here, I don't want your sick germs" he said with a small chuckle "Get some rest hon'" he told her.

"Thanks" Paige said, she twitched when he hung up, Paige hated lying but she figured that she might as well get this business about her car sorted out and would take the day off to do so. Her reason for lying was her fear of her explanation being not a good excuse so she figured pretending to be sick would have to do. Paige flipped her cell phone close and with another long sigh, she walked back into her apartment.

Once inside she threw all her things on the ground, Paige was never one for neatness, her apartment was littered with little candy wrappers, clothes and other things she could throw around. Her walls were plastered with pictures of flowers, she had a strange fascination with plants and if she had her own yard she would have a huge garden. There was one huge picture that hung over the mantle of her electric fireplace, It was a picture of an Iris her favorite plant. The picture had a gold frame and she dusted it regularly. All around the house were small plants, Paige had somehow managed to keep Bonsai trees alive all throughout the house, they were hard plants to take care of but she managed it well.

Paige let out another sigh; even her plants could not cheer her up as she sat upon her couch in a huff. Paige picked up the phone and looked at it for a moment.

She then let out a giant yell of frustration "Ahhh!" she threw the phone on the ground in a huff- she had forgotten which towing company took her car. Paige let out another angry growl and got up, she found a phone book and began leafing through the pages to try and find the number to her car insurance company.

A few hours later Paige was nowhere, she had been put on hold seven times and had been forced to listen to crappy elevator music through her phone. The car company had sent out a tow truck and she had gotten their number and called them but they had told her in order to get her car back she had to call her car insurance company and ask them to do it. So Paige had called them again and they had told her that they needed a check for her monthly payment before she could get her car back. She was then directed to a manager who she angrily explained to telling him she had already sent in her payments for the month. He had told her in a monotonous voice that they would wait a few more days to see if the check had gotten lost in the mail and if they did not get it within a week she would lose her car.

Paige hung up the phone angrily she had to wait now for her car to be returned to her. Paige knew she could not pretend to be sick for the entire week so she sat back and thought. Then and idea popped into her mind, why not ask Ironhide?

Paige now feeling very giddy rushed to her computer and quickly opened up her email, there she clicked new and was about to type when she paused. She blinked for a few moments and then banged her head on the desk, hard. He was a super advanced robot; he probably had better things to do then drive her to work. Paige let out a groan and looked at the screen, she sighed and shrugged. It couldn't hurt to ask….

Ironhide was sitting in the monitor room bored as hell. He had been assigned to monitor duty; in this job he was to scan the surrounding area for Decepticon activity, and well there were no Decepticons in sight. Ironhide was secretly plotting to leave for a little bit and shoot something down in the training area when suddenly a little box popped up in the corner of the screen saying he had an email from Paige.

Intrigued he opened the email and read,

The letter went like so: 'Dear Ironhide. Hey how are you doing? Well I'm fine… no wait that's a lie. See the thing is my car just got taken away cause the stupid mail man lost my car payment in the mail and so the bastards took my car away and now here I am… well…carless. So I'm just writing to ask, if you could lend a girl a hand and give her a ride? Your allowed to say no, it wont hurt my feelings, seeing as you're a robot with the world to save, you obviously have better things to do… but just figured I ask.

Thanks, Paige.'

Ironhide read the letter over a few times smiling softly at the small human's colorful language. Once done reading he felt like cheering, anything was better for monitor duty, anything. Ironhide silently thanked the small human and rushed out to find Optimus, once he had found the red and blue bot he made a small sound which sounded like a cough to get the big Autobot's attention.

"Yes Ironhide?" he asked turning around from his work. He had been in the lounge and was trying to figure out how to work the T.V.

"Uh sir, I just got an email from the small human named Paige" Ironhide said.

"Yes…" Optimus said.

"Well her car was taken away because her car payment was lost in the mail and now she has no ride to work and has requested my help" Ironhide told him.

Optimus nodded "Then go help the young woman" he said. "I'll tell Bumblebee he needs to take over your shift on the monitor"

Ironhide smirked slightly and nodded "Thank you sir" He then rushed back to the monitor room to write Paige to tell her he would be there soon.

Paige was on the couch wallowing in her misery, she had half a pint of vanilla ice-cream to eat and while doing so she watched a cheesy soap opera. She was going to be fired because she could not get to work, she was going to lose her car and then because she lost her job she was going to be kicked out of her apartment because she didn't have any money, all her plants would die and she would die a homeless person with a shopping cart filled with her trash and-

Her misery was cut off by a small noise that came from her computer; it was a noise that signaled she had a new email message. Paige snapped up and with a spoon sticking out of her mouth she rushed towards the computer and saw she had a new message from Ironhide.

It read 'Fortunately for you I don't have anything better to do. I be around soon and drive you to work.

Ironhide'

Short, sweet and her savior. Paige ripped the spoon from her mouth not minding the small splatter of ice-cream that fell out of her mouth to land on the desk.

"Yes! Thank you Ironhide" she giggled hysterically, she wasn't going to die homeless! Paige fell back onto her couch and let out another laugh. She stayed silent for a moment and then sat straight up. Ironhide didn't know where she lived….

Ironhide was driving towards town when he realized that he had no idea where Paige's home was. He let out a little mechanical sigh and pulled over, then opening up her last email he traced it to an apartment building, he figured that if he parked there Paige would see him and he wouldn't have to go to her door and pick her up. Ironhide started his engine once more and began to drive to the apartment building.

Paige was pacing franticly, she had forgotten to tell him where she lived, sure he knew where her work was, but what help was that? She held onto her head in frustration and paced some more. Paige walked past her window and saw a busy street, a black truck, a lady walking with her five smallish dogs, a hot dog stand- wait a black truck? Paige curiously walked over to her window and pressed her face against it. She looked at the truck for a second longer and then rushed outside. She walked on over to the truck which seemed inanimate and gave it a small kick.

"Hey!" Ironhide's voice came softly from the inside of the truck, "Is that how you humans treat others who help you?" Ironhide said with a hint of amusement entering his voice. Paige felt like throwing her hands up in the air and screaming for joy, instead she held up one of her fingers and waggled it in his direction.

"Just wait for a few seconds, gotta grab my stuff" she rushed back in the apartment, grabbed her things and her shoes and ran back outside.

She opened the passenger side door and crawled in. once she was in the door automaticly closed and the seatbelt snaked its way around her torso. Paige gave out a small yell as she felt the seat belt go around her body.

"Sorry" Ironhide apologized "Safety first" he told her, "I didn't mean to alarm you."

"Its ok" Paige gave the dash a pat and settled back into her seat. She opened up the little flap above the front window that held a mirror and made sure she looked alright. Paige gave off a little disgusted grunt as she saw that her hair was all messy up and hanging out of its pony-tail. She pulled the little elastic out of her hair and brushed her fingers through her dark blond hair a few times and put the elastic back in. Once she deemed her hair acceptable she closed the flap.

She stayed silent for a moment and then peered at the steering wheel "thank you Ironhide" she said with a quiet voice "you really saved my butt" she told him.

Ironhide let of a little chuckle which made the cab vibrate "I think I saved more than your butt, but rather your entire body" he told her.

Paige shook her head "you haven't heard of that saying have you?" she asked with a slight laugh in her voice. Ironhide noticed that she had a dimple on her left cheek, he thought it made her look younger and more child like.

"I've heard of it, but it doesn't make sense to me" Ironhide said.

"Ah" Paige said, "Should I explain it, or leave it"

Ironhide wishing to hear her speak said "Explain it" he said.

"Well," Paige said "When someone says that, when referring to their butt it actually refers to their whole body, which could be both physically and spiritually."

"Then why not say body?" Ironhide asked turning a corner.

Paige thought for a moment "Tell me, which fits better: 'you saved my butt' or 'you saved my body'?" she asked.

Ironhide paused "Ah" he said "I get it" he gave off another chuckle and said "Well your welcome for saving your butt." Paige laughed as Ironhide pulled to a stop "Here we are" he said.

Paige grabbed all her things and blew the steering wheel a kiss "Thanks again Ironhide" she stepped out, but before she closed the door she leaned back in and said "if you could pick me up after work that would be nice" she told him a hopeful smile on her face.

"I was going to drive you home anyways" Ironhide told her. "What time do you get off?" he asked.

"Around three. But I could be a little later cause I'm late and all" Paige winked at him and rushed off to work. Ironhide settled down and let off a happy sigh, this, he thought, was much better than monitor duty.

As the day progressed Ironhide amused himself by watching the daily lives of humans. He watched as a pick pocket attempt was foiled and resulted in fist fight. Ironhide thought it was incredibly generous as the would be robber sported a bloody nose and the would be victim of a robbery who had a black eye helped each other to the nearby hospital. Ironhide then watched as a hot dog stand owner left his stall to chase after a dog which had stolen some of his prized hot dogs, this had left the stand wide open and Ironhide watched amused as a bunch of teenagers helped themselves to the hot dogs. A police car passed but Ironhide paid it no attention, police cars were a common sight, besides an old lady was being far more interesting. She kept stopping, she then would raise her head and pulled an expression which suggested she needed to sneeze and then after a few moments she would lower her head to continue on a few steps only to stop, look up and look as if she needed to sneeze again. Another police car passed.

Ironhide watched as a couple stopped near his cab, they were bickering.

"I saw you with him" The man was poking the lady in the shoulder.

"You saw nothing" the lady hissed poking him back.

"I did"

"You did not!" she screeched.

"Did" he muttered.

"Didn't "the couple had moved on, and Ironhide moved his observation over to a young lad who seemed was leaned over the door handle, he seemed to be fiddling it with it. Ironhide just figured that he had key trouble, but the way the boy was looking around as if he was doing something he was suspicious, but his thoughts were cut off as Paige reentered his cab.

"Hello Ironhide" she said weakly. Her hair was askew and Ironhide thought she looked dead on her feet.

"What happened to you?" he asked, he waited for a police car to pass him and then drove out of his parking place.

Paige looked at him from the hollows of her eyes and muttered "Kids…" she pointed at the steering wheel "I swear to you, when I have kids and a loving husband, they ain't ever getting sugar" she told him.

Ironhide laughed "I see" he turned a corner "Anything else happen today"

Paige thought for a moment "well all of my co-works stayed clear of me because they thought I was sick, I just told them it was a false alarm, and then I had to take a picture of this family and the husband kept winking at me" she said thoughtfully.

"I thought Husband's were supposed to be loyal to their wife's" Ironhide said as he paused for a red light.

"Well technically they are. That's the rule at least" she sighed "But rules are meant to be broken" she told him.

Ironhide took his optics off the road for a moment and let them rest on Paige, the usually rosy flush from her happy face had lessened and her full lips were in a tight frown. "You talk like you know all about it"

Paige waved her hand "It's a long story" she told him.

Paige's head followed the building that was her apartment as Ironhide drove past it, "I got time" Ironhide told her. "… Unless you have something to do" he said after a moment.

Paige let out a little laugh "No Ironhide. I have nothing to do"

Ironhide drove out of city limits and drove a little further until he found a lookout point and parked there. Paige had remained silent during the trip and Ironhide activated his holoform.

Paige gave a small jump and Ironhide held up his hands "Woah, Whoa. Easy now" he gave her a small reassuring smile and leaned back, his back pressed against the drivers door and her looked at her intently, "Tell me what you know of disloyal husbands" he said crossing his arms.

He looked at her expectantly and Paige sighed "fine…" she muttered. "His name was Bradley"

Ironhide snorted "Sounds like a priss"

Paige let out a laughed and grinned as she continued "Well you hit it dead on, the man ran away from a dog once"

Ironhide tilted his head "why did you stay with him? Shouldn't a man protect his woman?"

Paige sighed "He had said the three magic words"

"Really?" Ironhide said sounding amused. "What were they?"

"'I love you'" Paige laughed a harsh laugh "he said to me and the next day we moved in together. Then a few weeks later I caught him with my sister"

Ironhide cocked his head to the side "I'm still a little new to earth; you 'caught' him with your sister? Please enlighten me."

Paige pouted "He was having sex with my sister." She leaned forward "you understand"

Ironhide nodded "Yup. Please continue"

"Well after that he kept begging and pleading for him to forgive me and I moved out. And that's not the worst of it!" she told him "Three days later at work I caught him doing it with my co-worker" she sat back in a huff, she pouted and looked up at him. "So there you have it" she said.

Ironhide was feeling the sudden overwhelming need to comfort her somehow, he had thought about hugging her but then he wasn't sure how the small female would react to the hug, so instead he decided to use words.

"From what I've seen spending some time with you, I don't understand why he left you."

Paige looked up "Huh?"

"I don't understand why he left you, to humans you are very attractive" and robots too he thought "And you seem to have a good head on your shoulders, you seem very loyal and very dedicated to what you do. You have a kindness in your heart and I do not think that Bradley man had his head screwed on right" Ironhide paused and leaned forward, he took one of her hands "He passed up on a good deal"

"You think so?" Paige sniffed and Ironhide grinned at her.

"Positive" he told her.

"Thanks" Paige said, she retracted her hand from his and Ironhide's holoform disappeared.

"Any time" he told her his voice coming from the speakers.

Ironhide drove Paige home and after promising to be there to pick her up in the morning he left.

Inside Paige got ready for bed; she stripped herself of her day clothes and pulled on a night gown that reached her shins. She made herself a quick dinner, not really feeling hungry, which was a first. Then after that she prepared herself for an early sleep, she was tried, so she brushed her teeth and crawled into bed. Five minutes later she was asleep.

And hour later a police car pulled up beside Paige's apartment and a silver metal looking creature crawled out of the cab. This creatures name was Frenzy, a hyper robot who was on a mission. Frenzy walked on in to the building and walked towards the door which would lead to Paige's apartment. The small robot strolled on over and held up his hand, one of his fingers began to morph into a small rod which he then inserted into the lock, then after a few moments of jiggling his hand up and down the door opened.

Frenzy walked into Paige's messy apartment and shut the door softly behind him. He scuttled on towards the living room. Frenzy took one look at the mass of green vegetation in the room and shook his head, he hated plants, they grew in dirt and dirt was hard to clean off his armor, so naturally he had decided anything to do with dirt was something he hated. Frenzy walked into the room giving the plants a wide space. His small head swiveled about; he seemed to be looking for something.

When he spotted the bedroom door he scuttled on towards it and slipped into the room. He saw Paige lying on her bed. She was one her stomach, she hadn't bothered to cover herself with the sheets, it was summer and it was too warm for sheets. One of her shapely smooth legs hung off the bed and Frenzy walked up to it. He wanted to poke it but his orders were not to disturb the human. Paige's breathing was smooth and even, some hair had fallen over her nose and it rose and fell with her breathing.

Frenzy walked around to the side of the bed that Paige was not occupying and crawled on the soft mattress. He was careful not to disturb the human as he walked closer to her. Once he was near her thigh he stopped, he gave the human another look and then activated his scanner. His eyes swiveled over the body of the human female before him, when he had reached her stomach his eyes stopped for a moment, he seemed to focus in on something and then with a small cybertronian swear he stumbled back his sensors turning off abruptly. The small robot backed away from the human before him and then high tailed it out of there.

After narrowly avoiding some plants he reached the door opened it in a rushed haste and closed it as quietly and as quickly as he could. Then he ran back to the police car and climbed in chattering non stop.

"Gross-disgusting-freaky-human" he said as the police car drove away "freaky-freaky-freaky"