Chapter 13: Glad you came

Sitting up, Shadowblur pushed away her thoughts and sighed.

"And, thus I sit here with cuffs, fun."

A knocking at the door had her on alert. The door slid open. Rumble walked in along side Ravage. Smirking at her he closed the door.

"We're going to talk," he chuckled.

"Finally decided to see me then?" she asked a small smile playing around her lips.

"Come on, I basically grew up with you, why wouldn't I see you…eventually."

"Maybe because your pranks with Frenzy are more important." She laughed as Rumble crawled onto her berth and sat beside her. Looking up, he still had the childish smirk on his face, that evil glint in his eyes.

"That's a lie" he smirked wider at her. Tapping a claw against her chin she adopted a fake thinking face.

"Well let's see, if my inner clock is right, I've almost been here for a month and not once did you or Frenzy and lets not even mention Ravage or Lazerbeak came to see me."

He shrugged his shoulders and looked at her.

"We've been busy."

"Pfft, busy my aft, being a trouble-maker is more like it." She smirked down at him. Ravage sat at her feet and looked at her, his tail swished back and forth. Reaching down she touched the top of his head between his ears. She gently rubbed his scalp before gently tapping him on the nose. Frowning, she looked down at him as he growled back.

"You are a bad-boy, bad." She pointed a finger at him, "Heard you and Lazerbeak were the first to find me." He merely growled at her and laid down on her feet, his ears twitching occasionally. Switching her attention to Rumble, she frowned again.

"Are you even supposed to be seeing me?"

Rumble stayed quiet before answering.

"Not exactly," he rubbed the back of his neck and looked at the floor. "There's a password lock on the door and I kinda stole the lock information from Starscream's office."

She only looked at him before laughing.

"Well congrats on getting a one way trip to death."

"I doubt he'll even notice, and if he does, I'll already be safe inside Soundwave."

"Primus, I've really forgotten how devious you can be," she chuckled and looked at him. Resting her head against her hand, she sighed.

"I remember when I was as tall as you," she smirked at him.

"Oh, great here come the short jokes. Look at how cute you look, so small and squish-able," he mocked.

Smirking, she continued to look down at him.

"No, seriously, I remember when we were eyelevel with each other. Frenzy would always harass me and tell me that's as big as I was going to get and he wouldn't stop until I cried." She chuckled, looking at the floor, her smile broadened. "You guys were really big afts to me, still kinda are afts actually." She teased.

Rumble smirked, "We're sexy afts."

That got her to laugh. How long had it been that she laughed like this? Joked around with someone, feeling completely relaxed? Primus, who knows. He looked up at her and smiled.

"Remember when we tried to get you to fit inside Soundwave's chest when he was asleep?"

"Primus, yes! How could I forget, my head got stuck and when Soundwave got up I was literally hanging from him," she snorted, remembering some other times the twins had gotten her in trouble. "Though sometimes you guys were jerks to me, it was a whole lot better being with you two than being alone." She frowned at the floor.

"You mean when you were shipped somewhere else when you became a youngling?" he asked. Nodding, she reached down and ran her fingers down Ravage's body. Feeling his heat, she sighed. The chains jingled with her movement as she petted the large cat.

"You kicked aft today!" Rumble finally said after a moment of silence. "She deserved it too!" Tilting her head to look at him, she quirked an optic ridge at him.

"Explain." She asked.

"When you left Nightbird kinda took over, started bossing everyone around. Kept saying that since you couldn't handle being a proper decepticon femme that she was going to be better."

She glared at him, "I can't handle being a decepticon femme?"

"Her words not mine," he raised his hands up; "She said you were weak since you needed guards to be watching over you."

Sitting up, she tilted her body to face him more. "Keep going," she asked.

"She insults you, and makes jokes, says that you're a whore and you sleep with Starscream's trine…" He trailed off and looked at Ravage who now was looking at them.

"Hmm," she pursed her lips in thought.

Coughing once, he looked at Ravage.

"She also kicked Frenzy once." He hastily said. She looked at him for a moment before frowning.

"Oh, did she?"

"Yea,"

"It was a rhetorical question." She smirked and then frowned again.

"If she kicked Frenzy, Soundwave must have felt it right?" she asked curiously.

"He did, but he didn't do anything. Cuz' you know…she's been sleeping with Megatron."

She laughed, "So, since Soundwave didn't do anything you came and told me?"

"Well, I-" He was cut off as the door slid open. Looking towards the door, she watched as Thundercracker walked in. Rushing to his feet, Rumble jumped off the bed and saluted Thundercracker. Ravage was beside him.

"I only came to remind the femme that she's- she's uh…a prisoner." Rumble started to inch out of the room before scrambling outside. Ravage only walked out, taking his time. Biting her cheek, she held in her laughter. The after a while she finally looked at Thundercracker.

"Do you need something?"

"Look I didn't know that, that mech in the warehouse-"

"Go away," she asked him, cutting him off mid-sentence.

Thundercracker sighed; he swiped his hand across his face softly before looking at the femme standing in front of him. Her hands were on her hips, her face scrunched up in a glare. Reaching out to grab her hand she pulled away and snarled at him.

"Don't touch me." She warned.

Sighing in frustration, he looked at her as a silence built around them. Uncomfortably, he shifted his weight under her gaze.

"Starscream didn't want you to-" Thundercracker finally started to say before he was cut off again. A purple fist hit him in the face, he jumped back surprised. He was pushed onto his back and felt Shadowblur get on top of him. Her knee was shoved into his side painfully and he grimaced. A clawed hand held his shoulder down; he felt the small drip of energon going down his back from his shoulder. His wings were harshly tucked underneath both their weight and he started to feel the metal bend underneath him.

He didn't let her know that she was hurting him. He wasn't going to show that weakness to her. He watched as her right hand turned into her sniper, she held it to his forehead.

"Don't give me that slag that 'I was only following Starscream's orders I didn't know.'" Shadowblur snarled at him, her eyes glowing brightly with her anger.

He growled back and raised his head slightly; the gun was pushed harder into him.

"I didn't know! Starscream doesn't tell me anything anymore. He lost the motion of a trine a long time ago. He doesn't understand anymore. Skywarp and I didn't know." He repeated getting angry as well. "Starscream doesn't care who he has to use to get what he wants, he just does."

Shadowblur stared down at him glaring, her body tensed and then relaxed. She pulled away the gun from him and transformed it back into her arm.

"Then if you know he might use you, why did you follow him?" she asked.

"Because I remember what being a trine meant a long time ago," Thundercracker sat up wiping the thin trail of energon that bleed from his mouth from her punch.

"It might mean something to you, but like you said Starscream doesn't care anymore. He's your commander, but why still follow him?"

"He isn't just my commander, he's my brother. Even though war has changed him, he's my brother. Skywarp and I will follow where he goes and we won't question each other."

"That's stupid." She scoffed. "You and Skywarp will just end up dead."

Rising to his feet Thundercracker stepped closer to her, his cockpit touching her chest as he looked down at her; his face void of any emotions.

"Sometimes stupid and rash decisions can lead you somewhere good." He answered back calmly. He raised his hand to her cheek and laid the backside of it on her face. Shadowblur looked up at him, glaring. She pushed his hand away and stepped back.

"Good? What kind of 'good' can come from following someone half insane? You know, because of you I lost a connection to my mother," she hissed.

Thundercracker stepped closer and looked down at her. He grabbed her face in-between his hands and held her face.

"Good is that I came to earth, and then you shortly arrived as well and I didn't know that mech had a connection to your mother. I doubt Starscream did either. Well not until we brought you back to the base, we didn't." He said softly.

"I'm just me, I'm nothing special." She looked at him.

"Let's agree to disagree," he said.

He looked at her for a moment before bending down and kissing her. Shadowblur struggled to get away but he firmly held her. One of his arms slowly slithered down to her waist where he wrapped her up in an embrace and pulled her closer towards him. A moment passed before he felt thin arms wrap around his neck and pull him down. Dropping the other hand that held her cheek, he snaked it down to push her aft upwards. Wrapping her legs around his waist, she didn't break the kiss. His arms held her weight as they kissed. Walking towards her berth, he gently tossed her against the surface. He crawled onto the berth and kissed her again. Her legs circled around his waist again. Breaking away from the kiss he looked at her and smirked.

"Following a half insane isn't so bad."

"Only when it gets someone important -" Thundercracker bit her shoulder and cut her off. A low moan came from her. His mouth traveled upwards to her jaw and kissed her skin. Setting her hand on his chest she pushed him away.

"I'm not going to interface with you. It's already bad enough that Nightbird thinks I already have slept with your trine."

Pinning her arms above her head, he smiled down at her. This was actually the first time he had genuinely smiled at her, and in all honesty it was beautiful. Could make anyone's spark just stop, including hers.

"Well according to what I've heard you put her in her place."

"Almost, like this close to doing it," she scrunched her thumb and pointer finger together almost making them touch.

His smile broadened and he leaned down and bit her shoulder again. His hands started to run across her wings. She ran her claws down his spine onto his hips.

"Nothing seems to be kept a secret around here," she murmured into his mouth. "Seems like mechs around here can't do anything better than gossip."

He chuckled, the sound rumbled in his stomach vibrating into her.

"I found something better than gossiping." He started to unlatch her armor and threw it onto the floor. She started to do the same with his, both unlatching their armor until nothing but their proto-forms stood. He kissed her stomach once before going up to kiss her neck and then her lips.

"Glad you came," he whispered.

A/N:

Success! Got to chapter 13! This chapter bothers me, well only one part. Thundercracker and Shadowblur, it seems too frilly to me. I don't know why but it just does. While writing this I was listening to Pandora and I was looking for a way to end this chapter and the song, "Glad you came" by the Wanted came on and I suddenly imagined Thundercracker singing this :D but if you listen to it, for some reason it suits him. Or, maybe it only seems like that to me. I'll put some lyrics below and you judge this for yourself or go find it on YouTube. Review.

"Glad you came" – The Wanted

The sun goes down

The stars come out

And all that counts

Is here and now

My universe will never be the same

I'm glad you came

You cast a spell on me, spell on me

You hit me like the sky fell on me, fell on me

And I decided you look well on me, well on me

So let's go somewhere no-one else can see, you and me

Turn the lights out now

Now I'll take you by the hand

Hand you another drink

Drink it if you can

Can you spend a little time,

Time is slipping away,

Away from us so stay,

Stay with me I can make, Make you glad you came.