N/B - This bit is... I don't know. Just a break from the Autobots? (or something I just wrote for my friend, since I'm borrowing Bill from her, techincally xD) I promise action is on the way. Action and a death that still haunts me to this very day ;_; xD;

Bill made an unimpressed noise and shook her head, walking across the room to peer into the bathroom that was tucked in the far corner of the room, "This will do," she announced as she moved back over to the bed and sat down on the edge of it, "Apart from the sleeping arrangements of course."

"Ah, it'll be all good," Alex threw himself on the bed next to her, beer still in hand, nearly causing her to be bounced off and go flying across the room.

"Alex!" she snapped, thwacking him hard in the stomach, causing him to grunt loudly and jerk violently, "Serves you right," she added.

"No fair," he groaned, rubbing his stomach with one hand while he sipped at the dregs remaining in the beer bottle. Once it was empty, he stretched across to the nearest table and put it down carefully, then proceeded to stretch out on the bed, trying to push Bill further over to her side of the bed.

Again, he received a fist in the stomach.

He grunted in pain, barely hesitating slightly before he launched himself on top of her, both of them tumbling off the bed in a tangle of limbs, Bill managing to yell at Alex at the same time. He ignored her trying to struggle and push him off her, instead he pinned her to the floor by her arms, which were up by her head, while he straddled her to keep her still.

"Get off me Alexander," she growled at him, glaring furiously up at him.

"No chance Bill…ander, yeah, Billander," Alex frowned slightly, then returned to looking determined quickly.

"That's not my name, genius," she scowled.

"It is now," he smirked at her.

"Get off me now," she continued to glare at him.

"Make me," he shrugged.

"Do you want my knee to connect with your rather pathetic manhood?" she raised her eyebrows mockingly.

"Had a good feel, did you? That how you can call it pathetic?" Alex mirrored her expression.

She quickly returned to scowling, "I didn't grab it on purpose! Your jeans have stupidly deep and wide pockets!"

"Your purse was in the other pocket. I would have thought you'd have seen it. You know. The smaller bulge," he replied coolly.

Bill appeared to colour ever so slightly, though from anger or embarrassment, Alex couldn't tell, "I'm sorry I didn't have time to decide which great big lump was what!"

"Great big? Now you're saying it's big?" Alex smirked again.

"Shut up, you!" she tried to struggle again, attempting to pull her arms free.

"I'm shutting up," he refused to let her go, and suddenly, without any warning, leant down to her and kissed her hard on the lips.

Bill barely managed to gasp in surprise due to his lips crushing hers, but she went limp, no longer struggling or offering up any resistance. She didn't know what to do as Alex continued to kiss her, his eyes almost completely closed, his body pressed close to her, so she just lay there, eyes wide in shock, letting him do as he wanted.

Eventually Alex was forced to pull away, looking a little flushed and out of breath, panting ever so lightly. He grinned at her, looking rather exhilarated.

Bill didn't know what to say, completely speechless by his sudden action. So she just lay there, blinking at him.

Of course, she'd been kissed many times, and not just on the lips, but coming from Alex, it was seemingly completely different and so very, very confusing.

"Bill?" Alex's smile slowly slipped away, being replaced by a frown when she didn't respond, and he quickly got off her, looking at her worriedly as if he might have some how caused her some pain when he'd lain on her.

She pushed herself up slowly into a sitting position and looked at Alex, shaking her head slightly.

"I… Oh… Uh…" Alex stuttered, not quite sure what to say.

She shook her head for a few seconds more, before suddenly lashing out, slapping him hard in the face, before scrambling to her feet and running to the bathroom, the door slamming shut behind her, the sound of the bolt being pulled across echoing surprisingly loudly around the room.

Alex rocked back on his heels, putting a hand to his face where she'd slapped him, before muttering a quiet, "Ouch."

He just stayed where he was, staring vaguely at the white wall in front of him, which seemed to be swallowing him whole, before he finally realised there were lights flashing on and off repeatedly outside. He staggered to his feet and even though he'd only had one beer, he moved unsteadily over to the door, opened it and simply stumbled out.

"Al, you ok?" Jak hissed, switching his lights off quickly, having been the one flicking them on and off.

Alex just shrugged and wandered over to him. Jak opened his door quickly, letting Alex slump into the drivers seat before sealing him into the cabin, away from the world and Bill who may well have been sobbing in the bathroom, Alex couldn't quite have been sure.

"What's up?" Jak asked after a few minutes of silence, when he'd been expecting Alex to gush out everything that had gone on.

"Who said something was up?" Alex muttered.

"Generally the talking from inside going silent, followed by a loud noise that resembled a good spanking, or slapping, then you getting into me like you're a zombie… Well, to me, that seems like something is wrong. But hey, I could be wrong. Alien from another planet an' all."

"Bill hit me," Alex grunted.

"I'm hardly surprised. She beats you up quite a bit," Jak shrugged.

"I kissed her. And she slapped me."

Jak made a sound that resembled a quick exhalation of air, "Ouch."

"It did hurt. Yes," Alex muttered.

"And what, may I enquire, possessed you to kiss her?" Jak asked casually.

"It seemed the right thing to do at that moment," he shrugged innocently.

"Which was?"

"Lying on top of her on the floor."

"I won't ask how you got into that position. Where's Bill now?"

"She locked herself in the bathroom."

"Oh, interesting," Jak mused, "Could be bad, could be good."

"Since when did you know anything about human relationships?" Alex huffed.

"I pick things up. Some websites I stray onto are too good to ignore."

Alex just grunted in response and hunched up in the seat, putting his feet on the edge of it so that he could draw his knees up to his chest. Jak made a slightly strangled noise that seemed to be fighting the urge to tell Alex to keep his feet off his upholstery, but quickly turned it into him clearing his nonexistent throat, "Well. I don't know what you can really do. Just pretend nothing happened? Go back in there; get into bed, sleep? Let Bill sort herself out. She might be a little confused or scared, but even so, if she wants to leave at any time, we're here, so we can help. Drag or Tract can take her home if she wants."

"I don't want to have scared her away. Not when she hardly flinches talking to giant robots!" Alex muttered.

"How about we do a trade over? Get Freeway back and send Drag off to replace him? She might feel better if she could talk to him, or if she's desperate sleep in him."

"I don't know," Alex mumbled, resting his chin on his knees.

"We'll do that. And that way we get rid of Drag too, since he's in one of his crazy irritating moods," Jak decided.

"Well ok," Alex shrugged.

"And you're going back inside," Jak added.

"I want to sleep here," he muttered.

"Tough luck, you've got a nice warm bed in that room, get back in there. Go to sleep. Things will be better in the morning," Jak told him.

"That's what people always say. Then it's not. It's always worse."

"Alex. I will forcefully remove you from me if you don't get out in five seconds. I'm counting. Now. Five."

"Jak, please, I don't want to go back in there."

"Four."

"Seeing her upset will kill me!"

"Three."

"She won't want to share the bed with me, I'm supposed to give it up to her."

"Two."

"I'm supposed to be a gentleman!"

"Try to be a man first. One."

"Fine, fine!" Alex quickly opened the door and scrambled out, running a hand over his face.

"That's my boy," Jak let his door swing out a little more so that it imitated patting Alex on the backside, "Run along now."

Alex muttered something under his breath but began to trudge back to the room slowly, the door opening easily for him since it had only been left on the latch. Which was a good thing, since he'd left his key on the bedside table. He shut the door behind him once he'd edged into the room and looked around briefly.

Bill seemed to have gone quiet in the bathroom, so he made his way over to the extra external sink where he simply splashed his face with a handful of cold water, which was rather soothing on his smarting cheek. He rubbed his face dry fairly quickly before going back over to the bed, where he sat down and kicked off his now rather sandy and messed up skate shoes that had probably never seen so much action. He then pulled off his 'new' shirt and tossed it over to one side. He began to unbuckle his belt, but paused, thinking things over. Normally he slept in his underwear, but with Bill sharing a bed maybe it wasn't the… No. She most likely wouldn't share the bed with him anyway, not after how she'd reacted. So he continued to undo his belt, then slipped out of his jeans, throwing them across the room too. He tugged at his short, white and rather tight boxer briefs before pulling the covers on the bed free from where they'd been tucked in neatly, then slipped under the sheet, resting his head back on one of the overly squishy pillows. He grunted quietly in protest when the pillow tried to suffocate him and eventually just shoved it to one side, deciding to just sleep without a pillow.

It didn't take too long for Alex to drift off, though he did half think that he missed the sound of Jak's engine and music lulling him to sleep. But the covers drawn up around his neck and the past few days crazy events were just as good at sending him to sleep, and eventually he was sound asleep, snoring lightly.

Bill lost track of time as she sat in the bathroom, on the edge of the grimy white bathtub, her face in her hands as things tumbled around her head. She couldn't think straight, everything bouncing all over the place, refusing to stay for a moment to allow her to come to a rational and well-thought out outcome. But nothing came to her, no matter how hard she tried to concentrate, and it was driving her insane. Tears of frustration and confusion kept slipping down her cheeks, no matter how many times she angrily tried to wipe them away.

She never got this worked up over anything, it was stupid and she knew it. She'd had many a boyfriend, and probably just as many casual flings too, so she shouldn't be getting so panicked over a simple kiss. It was ridiculous.

Steeling herself, she eventually rose to her feet and moved over to the mirror above the sink to check herself out. She rubbed her eyes a few times, sniffed a couple more times, then ran a hand through her hair.

That would have to do.

She then unlocked the door and put her hand on the door handle, hesitated for what seemed like half an hour, then finally pushed her way out of the bathroom into the silent bedroom. At a quick glance, she couldn't see Alex, so she supposed he'd stayed outside with the Autobots, since she'd heard him go out there earlier.

Curious to see if she could spot him, she quietly padded over to the window and pulled back the curtain ever so slightly, starting slightly in surprise when she saw that Drag had been replaced by a bright yellow Jeep Wrangler.

"Freeway," she muttered under her breath, sighing quietly as she remembered back to a brief conversation she'd had with him while they'd been driving.

As if he'd heard her, he flashed a single light, both winking and greeting her at the same time. If either Jak or Traction had noticed her, they didn't show any sign of having done so, so she smiled slightly, waving briefly at Freeway before she stepped back from the window and let the curtain fall back into place again.

Bill then turned back and was about to go over to the bed when she froze, realising that Alex was not in fact in Jak, but instead in the bed.

She was seized by a sudden urge to bolt for it, but it quickly vanished as her eyes fell on his peaceful face. His eyes were closed lightly, his mouth ever so slightly open and his hair a complete mess as usual, sticking up in places as well as covering up part of his face. She felt a sudden sensation in her stomach, as if she'd been hit in the gut, so she quickly looked away. But she couldn't distract herself for very long, and her gaze quickly gravitated back to him. She started slightly as he gave a low moan and shifted himself, the sheet covering him slipping down to his waist, exposing his bare torso.

Bill tensed slightly, suddenly wondering if he was naked under the sheets, but she could just about make out the waistband of his underwear, so she relaxed again.

She hesitated once again for a long while, before slipping her trainers off, kicking them to one side before creeping over to the side of the bed that Alex wasn't sprawled across and pulled back the covers then slipped under then carefully.

She'd paid for the room, so she'd sleep in the room, regardless of whether Alex was in the bed of not.

As she pulled the sheets over herself, she became acutely aware of the heat emanating from Alex's body, which was so close to hers. As she shuffled herself into a comfortable position, her hand accidentally brushed Alex's back, causing him to give a quiet groan and roll over to face her.

Bill froze, unconsciously holding her breath too as she waited for Alex's eyes to open. However they didn't, and instead, he just shuffled closer to her with a sleepy sigh.

Bill couldn't help but smile as he tucked his chin into his chest and nuzzled his head into her chest, one of his hands briefly catching her shirt as he moved into yet another more comfortable position.

She hesitated slightly before stroking his hair for a little while, then moved herself closer to him. She then reached out, gently placing a hand on the cheek she'd slapped, before kissing him lightly on the lips.

He grunted quietly, but didn't wake, a smile briefly passing over his lips as she pulled away, something in his dreams obviously having amused him.

"I prefer you when you're asleep," Bill murmured quietly as she closed her eyes, finally letting herself drift to sleep with Alex so close to her.