And here's the next yawn worthy installment of Reconnecting... (seeing as it's 3:30 am...) XD

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Many thanks to Answerthecall and Shadow Kat for reviewing.

***Author is taking suggestions for sparkling name***

Speech Key

Thoughts

:Comm Link:

Twin speech

synced/multiple people talking


Chapter 5: Fret

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Neal put his hand on either side of her head, his grey eyes locking with Mikaela's. "Now you're positive about this."

"Yes."

"You know only fools are positive right?"

"Stop quoting Fern Gully and just get it over with Wentauker." Ratchet grumbled from the other side of the bed.

"I was asking her."

Mikaela sighed. "Neal please, just get it over with before I change my mind."

Very well then. Turquoise eyes widened at the unspoken words. Fear tinged her mind as she stared into his stormy depths. And then there was pain...

You are not welcome here. Be gone pest.

Neal and Mikaela both, gave a sharp cries as there was a bright flash. Ratchet bolted to the other side of the bed kneeling down to Neal who was lying on the floor groaning. A quick glance up at Mikaela to note that she was unconcious. Ratchet scanned the woman as Neal sat up clutching his head.

"What happened?" the CMO glanced down at him.

"Something is blocking her mind... Whatever it is is strong... sentient but not her.. Gah, I haven't felt this bad since the time I got into Megatron's head." Neal said as a thin trickle of blood began to leak from his nose. "Argh..."

"Neal?"

"I'm... okay. How is Mikaela?"

"She is unconscious, but her vitals are all good, as well as her brainwaves." Ratchet held out a hand to the grey haired man.

"No." Neal said with a grimace. "I... I don't think I can handle being touched right now. Gah... what the hell was that... that entity?"

"Nothing you need to concern yourself with. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go speak with Optimus." Ratchet said before dismissing his holoform.

"Oh Miks what have you gotten yourself into?" Neal glanced at the prone woman as he rubbed his aching head.

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"LAY OFF MY PICKLES!" Nora shouted when she fell of the couch with a thud. Sitting up with a groan she ran a hand over her mussed up hair. Damn that hurt... she thought as she frowned as she pulled off her headphones and tossed them in her sack, pulling out her hairbrush. She got to her feet and began brushing her hip long tresses as she yawn and turned to the beds.

"Okay you two it's time to get up and find some grub." she said as she made her way over to the first bed. She set the brush on the nightstand and reached over to grip the blanketed form. "Come on Dion... foood..." she frowned at the nonresistance of the form. Blood draining out of her face, she ripped the blankets off to find the pillows stacked there. A curse later and a second torn off coverlet she began to freak out.

"Sam?! Dion?!" she yelled as she began to systematically tearing the room apart. "Shit!" she yelled as she darted to the door and promptly ran face first into Eject in his bipedal form.

"Nora I was just about to knock-" Eject said as he glanced down at the girl who was rubbing her nose. "What's wrong?"

"They're gone. The twins are missing! I woke up and they weren't in here with me!" The girl wrung her hands. "I decide to freaking sleep and they vanish on me."

"Actually that is the reason I came to wake you up. One of the other bots found them wandering around the base and sent me to come take you to the mess hall to collect them."

Nora wilted as the stress of them missing wore off. With a sigh she grabbed her headphones and nodded at the bot. "Figures they'd ditch me for the search of food. Let's go."

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Prowl watched as the boy inhaled his food much to the distaste of his sister who grimaced as she pecked at her own with a fork.

"Are you even tasting that?" Sam asked as he shoveled another forkful of his pancakes into his mouth.

"Yup."

"Ew... don't talk with your mouth full Di or I'll tell mom." The girl winced as soon as the words had slipped out of her mouth.

The boy froze, the next forkful midway to his mouth. Prowl watched as a pained look flashed through the boys eyes as he set the fork back into the plate and pushed it aside.

"Dion..." Sam blinked at her brother. "Dion I'm sorry, I forgot."

"You need to finish your food youngling." Prowl said quietly.

"I'm not hungry anymore."

Before Prowl could speak a tall lithe young woman came jogging up to the table, followed by Eject. "There you are. Do you two have any idea how bad I freaked when I woke up and found you two missing? I tore the entire room apart and was about to go on a rampage looking for you if I hadn't ran face first into Eject, who told me where you were. You two know better than to go wandering off! Why in the blue blazes didn't you try to wake me up?"

"I did." Dion said monotonously.

"... well you obviously didn't try hard enough because I'm not hurt or suffering from hearing loss now am I?" Nora sighed.

"Well... Nora we did put your noise cancelers on full blast and you still didn't wake up to BVB or Killswitch Engage." Sam pointed out.

I thought I didn't fall asleep with those on. Nora thought before sighing and sitting down at the table. "You still should have woken me up."

"You must be Nora."

Nora jumped as she finally noticed the man at the table with them. "Um... yeah... and you are?"

"My designation is Prowl. And children your caretaker is right you shouldn't be wandering around this base without an adult."

"We're sorry."

"You better be other wise your momma would flay me alive if something happened to either of you..." Nora shuddered. "Remember the time I was getting ready for that track meet and you decided to play dare devil and tried to ride your bike off the roof Dion? After I got out of surgery your mother tore into me because I should have been keeping a closer eye on you... that and for letting you watch the X Games."

"Wait... Why would his jumping off the roof result in your surgery?" Eject frowned.

Dion cringed. "When I fell I kinda landed on her and broke her ribs..."

"As well both of my ankles resulting in me losing my chance at the state title..." Nora grinned. "But in doing so he made me realize that there was more to life than running and trophies. Though I do have to admit that when comparing that to all the bad luck you and I have together, I was kinda lucky to have been good at those sports."

"I think it was because Nana Jade was praying for you all the time." Sam grinned.

"You're probably right on that one." Nora said as she stole Dion's fork. "Aren't you going to finish your food kid?"

Dion shook his head. "I'm not hungry."

The plate was forgotten as Nora placed a hand on his head. "You are never not hungry." she said before switching it to the back his neck. "You don't have a fever so what's wrong?"

"He's worried about mom..."Sam supplied as the boy looked away from Nora.

"Dion you know she will get better."

Dion hiccuped. "Yeah but she doesn't even know us anymore..."

"Oh Di..." Nora pulled him into a hug. "Finish your food, and we'll go find the med bay so that you can see her. Maybe telling her of your more... awesome exploits will knock loose some of her memories yeah?"

The boy remained silent for another minute. "Okay..." he finally said as he pulled his plate back.

"Um... I don't suppose one of you could take us to the med bay when the kids get done eating could you?" Nora smiled at Prowl and Eject.

"I have a meeting to attend, but Eject can escort you seeing as his presence isn't required." Prowl said quietly. "If you'll excuse me." he said before his holoform faded out.

"So stiff and formal.." Nora said before glancing at the blue bot. "He doesn't smile much does he?"

Eject grinned. " Prowl's the SIC so he's got a lot on his plate... Though if you ask me, he'd probably glitch before he'd smile at something... His battle computer and tatical programs don't really allow him to really handle anything his processor sees as illogical..."

Nora snickered. "Does not compute?"

"Pretty much."

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Ironhide was sitting in his quarters watching the sparkling sleep in his servo as he tried to come up with a name for the tiny femme. So far the only ones that knew of the sparkling were Jazz, Eject, Ratchet, and Optimus, but seeing as the tiny femme would not let anyone else feed her besides the youngling Eject (and even then the little femme was being difficult for the small mech), Ironhide had taken her to his quarters after requiring low grade for the sparkling.

:All Autobot's not currently on duty please report to the main hangar for an important meeting the rest of you will report to me after your shift.: Optimus said over the open comm link.

"Well... I guess I'd better come up with a name for you soon..." Ironhide sighed.