A/N: This is a joint POV between Starscream and Megatron before and after the conversation they had with Will over the in chapter 5.

Starscream

Will was here!

That one thought took up most of my processor power as I went through several emotions in the span of 2 kliks. Relief being the foremost feeling, followed up by anger and stupidity at myself and Will; he could have called me, but noooo, he had to call his Stunticons and I had to hear them tell Megatron about the they had gotten from my sparkling.

I was angry at myself for giving into the thought that my Will was dead all this time. I had helped teach him to fight; I should have known that he would not have perished from being lost in space. He would have used that keen processor of his to find some way to survive.

I should have known better than to give into believing he was dead because I should have known him better. Unlike his inattentive Sire.

What had Megatron done when the search for came up empty? He moped. Not in the viewing public, but he kept it well hidden nonetheless from everyone. I would have held it over him had I also been feeling regretful.

It had been our faults he was gone. That we may never have seen him again.

Until now that is.

Learning he was here on this mud ball had been a bigger shock than it should have been. Yes, I was glad he was alive, but also I was worried. Since Will was not here in the base it was obvious he was most likely hiding from us.

Now that I knew he was here though, alive more importantly, I decided to give calling him another try. The Creator-Creation bond had been my biggest fear that he had been dead as it had closed off. Looking back I should not have accepted that he was gone and that he may have just learned to block the bond to keep either of us from finding him.

Oddly; that thought me feel even worse about myself.

The knowledge though that Will had contacted the Stunticons instead of me made me feel angry again, and when the managed to get through I pushed down most of my 'mushier' feelings and let him have.

:WILL! WHERE THE SLAG HAVE YOU BEEN?:

:I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, Carrier.:

Hearing his voice after all this time almost made me wish I could have cried.

It really had been too long since I've heard his voice. Too long indeed.

Megatron

The relief I had felt at my heir being still alive was short-lived when I heard his back talk that reminded me all too much of his Carrier. Why couldn't he have stayed that little sparkling who did what he was told? I blame Starscream for this.

Still, he is my heir and son, and…why has he never shown up before?

If he really was here on this planet, then our sensors should have detected his signal, unless he really was just hiding from us.

The 'family chat' the three of us had still sounded in my processor. Was Will so arrogant to give us that ultimatum and expect us to go through with it? What went on between me and Starscream was none of Will's business.

"…If you ever want to see me again, I suggest you both get over your issues with each other because I refuse to be the scapegoat of your arguments!..."

And what were these so-called 'issues Will had spoken of?

I admit that the relation between his Carrier and I has deteriorated to the both of us sleeping in separate quarters, though that may have happened regardless of whether Will had stayed or not.

Then again, we did become more…'volatile' with each other. I knew Starscream had always blamed me for Will running away, under the belief that I never spent enough time with him. I, on the other servo had felt that Starscream was responsible with his insufferable doting.

"You never spend any time with him so I have to make up for it." He had said that to me when I had called him out on it when I had found out he had helped Will with a solo project I had given him.

The point I had tried to enforce was that Will needed to be more self-sufficient, yet how was he supposed to do that when his Carrier was always there to carry him.

And it's not like I'm the one who left him to fend for himself with the training drones. If I didn't know my second so well I'd call him a hypocrite.

Yet it took my heir's disappearance to realize that I didn't know my sparkling well at all.