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I NEED HELP TO FIGURE OUT WHO IS GOING TO BE Samantha's AND Dion's GURADIANS! SUGGESTIONS VERY WELCOME AND NEEDED!
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Chapter 10: Mealtime
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Mikaela poked at her plate of spaghetti with disinterest. She had never been found of the dish but she never turned down offered food. She was watching Nora who was glaring ferociously at the small pile of lettuce leaves on her plate, twitching slightly with irritation. "Are you okay?"
"Hm? Oh... yeah never better..." Nora smiled before stabbing a leaf. "Why do you ask?"
"Are you usually so twitchy?" The girl flinched before sighing and glancing at the twins, both of which were obliviously eating their spaghetti.
Nora laid her fork down in irritation. "No..."
"Then tell me what has you so nerved up." Mikaela set the girl with a pointed look. Nora ducked her head and mumbled something incoherent. "Come again?"
"I can't eat with all of those people staring..."
"What?" Mikaela blinked.
"One." Nora pointed at the tall raven haired holoform of Ironhide. "Two, three, four," She pointed at the three women siting at a table behind them. Mikaela recognized them as Arcee, Flareup, and Elita. "Six, seven," Nora pointed over to a pair of twin's one Mikaela recognized Sideswipe... "Eight, nine, ten, and eleven." Nora pointed over to the wall where Mikaela saw Optimus, Jazz, Ratchet, and another holoform taking as they watched the foursome.
"Nora there's nothing to fuss over just eat already."
Nora sighed again and glared at the plate trying to ignore the churning feeling in her stomach. "Yeah... I don't think so..." Nora pushed aside her plate.
"Hey."
Mikaela blinked up to find Sam standing there, his nervousness written plainly on his face as he put on a somewhat forced smile on his face. She returned the smile. "Hello Sam."
The twins glanced up at the brown haired man. It took barely a second before Dion was off. "Are you really our dad? How old are you? What's your job? No wait! Which is better: Marvel or DC?"
Samantha snorted. "Really Dion? That's the most important question you could come up with?"
"Hey it's a reasonable question!"
Nora suppressed a groan as she pushed her seat back. "Here take my seat. You're going to be here a while." the teen said as she picked up her abandonned salad.
Mikaela shot her a glare. "You didn't eat anything."
"I'll grab a banana or something on my way out. Scout's honor." Nora waved to her as she left the family.
"You better."
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A little bit earlier...
"I have not decided on who should be the children's guardians. I have been waiting on you analysis of their energy signals." Optimus said as he stared over at the table where Mikaela and her younglings were eating.
Ratchet vented a sigh as he pinched the bridge of his holoform's nose. "DO you want the good news or the bad news."
"It is highly unlikely that whatever information you have can be classified as good news Ratchet." Prowl pointed out as he watched the teenager begin pointing out every Autobot in the room to her cousin.
"Well as you know the Allspark reading is strongest when the two of them are together. However, according to my scans, the signature is strongest from the girl. I can only assume that the two of them have a stable twin bond for the boy to be reading with the signature as well."
"Two halves of a whole, like propa' cybertronian spark twins." Jazz smirked.
"Indeed it seems. But I have only recently began researching about human twins..." Ratchet muttered. "I think I will ask Mikaela if I can perform more tests on their bond."
Optimus smiled as he watched Sam nervously make his way over to the table. "How is Mikaela recovering from her injury?"
"Do you think I would have let her leave my med bay if I didn't think she was doing better?" Ratchet glared.
"You're still watching 'er like a hawk Hatchet." Jazz teased.
"I gave her strict orders to come to me if there was any kind of headache, dizziness, or unsteadiness. Mikaela knows better than to ignore me. Unlike the rest of you slaggers." Ratchet crossed his arms as he watched Nora vacated her seat for the boy. The teen waved to Mikaela as she made her way over to dump her untouched dinner into the trash. His gaze narrowed as she stopped and picked up a banana on her way past the kitchen line before heading to the door.
Ratchet growled lowly and stalked forward much to the amusement of the other three mechs.
"So have ya considered any bot in particular?" Jazz asked as he watched the Hatchet descend upon the unsuspecting girl.
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A hand landed on Nora's shoulder as she reached the door. "That is not an acceptable meal." the deep voice of the CMO rumbled darkly.
Nora turned her head as she blinked at Ratchet. "Um... It's healthy... So I would say it is."
"Youngling, I do I need to lecture you on your basic food groups?" the CMO said darkly as the girl's eyes narrowed on him.
"No.. However I find it a little intolerable to eat when there are people staring at me while I eat. Now if you don't mind I am going to find somewhere a little more secluded to attempt to eat my banana." Nora glared at him until he finally sighed and let the girl go.
Only to wrap his arms around her stomach and tossed her over his shoulder.
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"What is your favorite color?"
"Hm.. yellow."
"What's your middle name?"
"It's James."
"Like mine!" Dion grinned. Samantha blinked at her twin before shaking her head.
"Well momma did name us after him. Dion."
Mikaela smiled at her daughter's wit. "I didn't get to name you two remember? Your uncle John always made sure to point that out."
"Really?" Sam blinked at her.
"Well yeah.." A shriek from Nora echoed across the cafeteria...
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"Hey put me down!" Nora screeched as Ratchet slung her onto his shoulder.
"A banana is not enough sustenance for someone of your height stature. You are going to get something more to eat or else I will put you in my med bay and put you on an IV." Ratchet growled as he plunked her at the table where the femmes were sitting. "Watch her, and don't let her run off."
Nora glared venomously as he stalked off. Mikaela sighed and waved a hand to get Nora's attention. The girl turned and glared at her before signing "What?"
"It's not wise to argue with Ratchet when he's riled up like he is." Mikaela returned with a sympathetic smile. "I told you to eat. It's not my fault you didn't and he caught you."
"Bite me." Nora finished signing before Sam caught Mikaela's attention as he asked her something. Nora sighed as she rubbed her temples. "I think I'm getting a headache."
"I wouldn't say that too loud youngling you've already got our CMO gripping about your eating habits..." The auburn haired femme smiled. "My name's Flareup. This is Arcee-" she pointed to the holoform with the blue black hair, "-And Elita-1" She pointed at the other female who sported a light strawberry blonde shoulder length hair cut.
"I'm Nora..." Nora said as a plate of spaghetti, with meatballs piled high on top of it, and a side of broccoli was plopped onto the table in front of her. She glared darkly at the plate... more specifically, the meat on the plate.
"Eat up." Ratchet said gruffly as he pulled a chair over and sat next to her holding out a plastic fork.
Nora cringed as she eyed the plate. "No." was out of her mouth before she could stop herself. Elita raised a brow as the girl leveled Ratchet with a glare.
The medic's eyes had paled in anger. "Now."
"I said no." Nora growled as she crossed her arms and turned her head away.
"Girl..."
"Yes sawbone?"
Ratchet's eyebrow twitched at the insult. "You are not leaving this room without eating this plate."
Nora grit her teeth as she bit back the retorts that came to mind as she glanced over and noticed Samantha watching them. "Do me a favor and google vegeatrian would you? And then tell me to eat that."
Ratchet glared at her. She glared at him.
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"Your cousin has a death wish doesn't she?" Sam blinked over at the standoff between the Hatchet and Nora.
Mikaela sighed. "Unfortunately." She smiled as Ratchet let loose a growl and stalked back to the food line. "Sammie, Dion, why don't the two of you go help Ratchet find something to eat for Nora? I'm sure he could use the help."
"Okay!" the two darted off. Sam watched before nervously realizing that he was alone with Mikaela... He shifted uneasily
Mikaela's smile faded as she turned to Sam. "Sam.. I... I can't say that I remember why I left you... and I doubt that you can forgive me... for whatever it was I said. But I want you to know that I'm not going to ask you for your forgiveness. Just don't let the twins realize how much it bugs you to be near me."
"It doesn't-"
"Sam. You're acting like you've got fire ants in your pants. I know that you're mad at me I saw the expression on your face just before Nora whipped you out of the med bay earlier." Mikaela watched as her children danced around the medic as he was staring at the food choices.
"Rambunctious aren't they?" Sam said as he followed her gaze to the mildly irritated medic. Somehow they had managed to get Ratchet to smile slightly, despite being completely slagged about Nora and her stubbornness.
"Yep."
