Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, they are owned by Hasbro. The precious little girl in this story belongs to :iconsw124:, who requested this fic. Detective Sherwood is my creation. Based in G1. There is slash here. No like – no read. This is strictly a fan fic, and will have a more chapters to come. No flames or harsh comments. Constructive criticisms welcome. Enjoy!

As S4 slept peacefully on Bluestreak's shoulder, Prowl and Jazz finally told Bluestreak of the horrid condition that they had found S4 in. Bluestreak was saddened when he learned just what S4 had gone through, and he gently removed her from his shoulder without waking her up. Bluestreak used a finger to trace along the scar on S4's neck and was saddened that she would never be able to talk or sing or anything like that. Prowl and Jazz just watched as Bluestreak comforted his "little sister", no one yet aware that there would be another family member or so in about 8 months.

Bluestreak looked down at his "little sister" and studied her. He could not believe that someone had been so callous to have murdered her whole family and then cut her vocal chords so that she could never talk. This made Bluestreak mad, but the bot realized that he could do nothing about it, as they had no clues as to where to start looking for the crooks that had done this to little S4. S4 continued to sleep, curled up in Bluestreak's warm hand.

And as the family was settling in, there came a knock at the door. Prowl looked at Jazz who looked at Bluestreak, as none of them were expecting company. But soon enough, Jazz got up and opened the door to find no one there. No one, that is, until Jazz looked down and saw a human man standing at his door. It was a detective, that much Jazz could tell.

"I followed you here" the detective spoke, "my name is Detective Sherwood, and I have been investigating an ongoing case about a little girl who was tortured and her family who were murdered."

Jazz was astounded, as judging by the way he had found S4 he never thought anyone was looking out for the little girl. But knowing that maybe the Autobots might be able to help, Jazz let the detective in only to see a fading energy signature leave. Ah thought Jazz, Mirage led the detective here probably on orders from Prime.

And as the detective came in, he saw little S4 in one of the large bot's hands. The detective was worried as he had been looking for years for little S4, to see if he could get any information out of here.

"Prowl, Bluestreak" stated Jazz, "this is detective Sherwood, and he has been working on S4's case."

"Nice to meet you, Detective" stated Prowl, noticing Bluestreak's obvious discomfort, as Prowl could tell Blue was worried that the Detective would take little S4 away, "but I must let you know, that S4 will be unable to answer your questions verbally, as her vocal chords were forcibly removed years ago. We have been trying to teach her sign language and teach her how to write better."

The detective was slightly taken aback, as he did not realize that the young girl, only a couple years old at the time, was mute. He knew she had been tortured, as old photos in a camera found at the scene years ago, but he never knew that they had removed her vocal chords. Prowl carefully lifted the detective up so that he could see S4. And if not for trying to be professional, the Detective might have broke down due to what the Autobots had told them about what S4 had told them.

Jazz talked at how he had found the little girl and Prowl talked about how they had adopted her into their family, as she had told them she had no other family. The detective was taken aback slightly, but seeing that the young girl was in no danger, he was not going to press the issue. And while the detective was talking with Prowl and Jazz, S4 woke in Bluestreak's hands. She looked up and saw Bluestreak and immediately gave the bot a big hug, or at least as big as she could give considering it was a five year old little girl giving a hug to a bot 20 feet tall. After the hug, S4 noticed the detective and curious, S4 pointed at the man and then looked up at Bluestreak. Well, since Bluestreak knew little more than S4, he shrugged his shoulders and said "I don't know."

And the detective, having noted that S4 was now awake, decided to try and talk to the young girl. But what he could not have known was that she was absolutely terrified of men, as she had watched men bigger and stronger than her daddy and her brother literally squeeze the life out of her mother and then turn around and shoot her father and her brother. She had only been spared as none of the men, for some unknown reason, were able to bring themselves to kill a little two year old. So instead, they abused her in various ways, not including the removal of her vocal chords. And though she was not very old, she remembered being told that this was so she could not scream and draw attention to the men who were abusing her.

And so, being afraid of men, especially those that were sturdily built like Detective Sherwood, S4 scrambled to get away and ran straight to Prowl, hoping that the her new father would keep her safe from this strange man. The three Autobots and the detective were shocked as well as angry, but not at S4. They were angry at the people who had done this to S4. And since Detective Sherwood was unable to talk to S4, he left to hopefully send a female detective to reach out to little S4. Prowl and Jazz, as well as Bluestreak, all agreed to help the investigation any way they could.

After the strange man left, S4 once again emerged from her hiding spot, crying with brackish tears of fear running down her little face. It broke Prowl, Jazz, and Bluestreak's spark to see her crying, but it made their resolve to solve the case that much stronger.

Prowl gently lifted the precious little girl off of his shoulder and asked her, "Why were you so scared?"

S4 reached for a nearby pad of paper and scribbled "the bad men that hurt me were big and strong, and ever since they hurt me, I am scared of men." She looked at the three bots and then continued, "I want to catch the bad men that did this will you help me?"

And all three quickly answered, "absolutely."