Saya blinked at him, her eyes wide. She looked taken aback by his words. Finally- Optimus thought with some satisfaction. Finally he was getting through to her. Or at least that's what she let him think until she opened her mouth again.

"What the hell do you mean I'm your responsibility? I'm my own person. I don't need a stranger to look after me."

"Yes you do."

"I do not!"

"You sound like a child-"

"Maybe I wouldn't sound this way if you didn't keep talking nonsense!" She shouted at him.

Optimus scowled at her and pointed to the inferno across the street. "You burned down my home. That was not only foolish, but childish as well."

"And you are getting on my nerves." Saya growled at him. He glared at her.

"I feel that I should point out to you; that you burned your things too." Optimus said in an irritated tone. She snorted and crossed her arms over her breasts.

"My things, are at my home-" Optimus shook his head slowly, his expression somber. She gave him a funny look as she seemed to be thinking over what he was trying to tell her. He knew the exact second it sank in for her. Because his ears would never be the same.

Her scream of outrage and fury rang through the darkening city, causing his sensitive ear drums to vibrate dangerously as he clapped his hands over his ears and dropped to his knees blinking back tears as she got to her feet and looked towards the inferno.

Primus! Optimus thought darkly. The female had lungs that could rattle even the steeliest of bots. "Stop screaming!" Optimus roared at her.

Saya abruptly snapped her mouth shut then without any worning kicked him in the shoulder, knocking him off balance a little bit then turned and started running down the street. Optimus righted himself and rubbed his shoulder absently and sighed as he rolled his eyes.

Gods above. Why couldn't anything ever be easy? "Where is that damned woman running off too?" He muttered under his breath as he got up and started running after her.

He needed to catch her before she did something else stupid...like burn down the entire city block. Or something.

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Saya ran as fast as she could, heedless of the fact that she wasn't wearing pants or shoes or her foot hurt from kicking that dumbass bear of a man- Or the fact that she was getting funny looks from the people on the streets around her. Or the fact that she thought that she'd stepped in something nasty a little ways back.

Her only concern was getting someplace far away from Optimus.

Which was probably why she didn't really notice him fall into step beside her until she saw a large size thirteen black nike sneaker enter her line of vision. She glanced up and to the side and let out an oath and tried running faster, but the bastard had her.

Literally. His hand snagged the back of the shirt that she was wearing, and though she thrashed around and tried to free herself, logically she knew that nothing less than stripping would free her from his grasp.

And she couldn't do that because she was fairly certain that she wasn't wearing a bra. "Where do you think you're going?" Optimus growled at her as she thrashed around a little more in his grasp.

Saya went still for a second as she panted for breath and mulled over his question. "To the border... I had a craving for Toco's." Optimus gave her a funny look as he thought. That is the worst lie I've ever heard. Couldn't she have come up with something better? Hell even the excuse; I heard my mother calling me wouldn't have been as lame.

Saya frowned as she heard a voice in her head and glanced at Optimus and blinked before muttering under her breath, "It's not a bad lie. For all you know I really did have a toco craving." Wait. Who was she defending herself too? She wondered as she looked around before asking in a slightly suspicious tone.

"Did I have to have a metal plate put in my head?" Am I somehow picking up radio frequencies or something?

Optimus caught her thought as it entered his mind and had to bite the inside of his cheek to keep from snickering.

Silly girl. She had finally picked up on his thoughts. Which meant that it wouldn't be long before she started to answer him with her mind. And finally figured out that something about herself was different.