That night, Ironelle's dream

Everywhere was white. Where was she?

"Mommy? Mommy why are you making me go? Don't you love me?"

"What the pit?" She saw a little femme walk towards her.

"Mommy...why mommy? Why are you going to make me go? It hurts." Ironelle took a few steps back. The femme looked like her and had her shade of jade armor but had white accents instead of blue. Her voice was soft but frightened and she had pools of tears in her optics.

"Mommy why?" she pleaded.

"I'm not your mommy little one. I'll help you find her though."

"Mommy why'd you make me go?" Ironelle knelt down.

"What's your name?"

"Mommy its me. Jade. Don't you remember me? You got rid of me. Why didn't you love me or want me? I loved you." Ironelle looked at the sparkling. Was she crazy?

"Mommy I love you. Why did you not want me?"

"I'm not your mommy little one. Do you want me to help you find her?" The sparkling let the tears finally spill over and she cried.

"My name's Jade! You're my mommy! You extinguished my spark and I never got to meet you and daddy. You didn't love me! I loved you with my tiny spark. I heard you crying when daddy extinguished me," she sobbed. Ironelle felt her spark break. Was this actually the small spark she wanted to extinguish? The sparkling let her chest plates split and no spark glowed.

"I don't have a spark because you made it go away. I wanted to be like you mommy. I wanted to be a big strong femme. I didn't get to because I never lived. Ironelle held back the tears threatening to spill over.

"J-Jade...I'm sorry..." she pulled the sparkling to her chest. The femme held her arms.

"Mommy why did you get rid of me? I loved you and I wanted to meet you and daddy. I wanted to meet you." Ironelle sobbed and held sparkless Jade to her chest.

"I'm sorry. I do love you. I should have kept you. Can I still take you back? Can I make it better?" Jade looked up at her.

"Don't extinguish me and please love me and this won't be my future. Please. I want to live and meet you and daddy. Please." Jade's voice was pleading.

"Ok. I promise I won't. I'll tell your daddy that I don't want to extinguish your spark. I promise I won't let any harm come to you." Jade looked at her with Autobot blue optics.

"Thank you mommy. I want to live a life."

"I'll give you a life. I promise...am I allowed to tell your daddy that we're going to have a femme? Since I know you're going to be a femme?" Jade shook her head.

"No. Go on like you've never meet me before. Until you find out by ultrasound of when I'm sparked."

"All right Jade. I'll make sure you live."

"Thank you mommy."

"You're welcome sweetspark."

"I'll see you later mommy. You need to wake up now."

"I guess I'll see you in 8 months Jade."

"Bye mommy."

Real Time

Ironelle woke up crying. Ratchet looked at her with worry.

"What's wrong Ellie?"

"J-Just a nightmare...Ratchet?"

"Yes?"

"I don't want to terminate out sparkling." Ratchet smiled and pulled her to him.

"I didn't want to do it either."

"M-Mommy?" Ironelle looked over at Red's berth. He was sitting up and rubbing his left optic sleepily.

"Why are y-you c-crying?"

"I just had a bad dream sweetspark." He pushed himself off his berth, ran to theirs, climbed on it and hugged Ellie's waist.

"Don't cry! It was just a dream! It wasn't real!" he said; repeating what Ratchet and Ellie had told him when he had bad dreams. Ratchet chuckled slightly.

"I know Red. It was just really sad. I know it's not real."

"What was your dream about mommy? Daddy said it makes it better to talk about it."

"I saw a little sparkling and her carrier got rid of her and she was calling for her mommy. She...had no spark because her mommy got rid of it. She was crying and she wanted to have a life and meet her mommy and daddy."

"The sparkling's mommy got rid of her?"

"Yeah..."

"Why? Didn't she love her?"

"Not all creators love their sparklings Red."

"Why not? Sparklings are awesome and cute." Ironelle looked to Ratchet.

"Not all bots like sparklings Red."

"Oh...everybot here like sparklings though right?"

"Yes Red. Even Arcee." His optics went wide.

"She likes sparklings? She doesn't like beings around me, Shadow, Nova, or Luna though."

"She does Red. I promise." He yawned.

"Do you want to recharge the rest of the night with us Red?"

"Yeah!" Ratchet picked him up and set him between them. They both wrapped their arms around him and he snuggled into their arms. Ratchet pulled the recharge blanket over their frames and all three fell into recharge quickly and comfortably.

"Thank you mommy. I'll have a life now. I love you." Ironelle smiled.

The Next Day

"I decided not to terminate me and Ratchet's sparkling."

"That's great news Tiny. But what changed your mind?"

"A dream."

"A dream?"

"Yeah. It changed my mind about it."

"Well it's still great that you're not going to terminate it."

"Ratchet's happy. So am I. I couldn't imagine what would happen to our sparkling otherwise."

"I couldn't either. I always figured that sparklings that were terminated went to the Well."

"So did I." Ironelle set her servo over her chest. Wheeljack placed his servo on her shoulder.

"You made the right decision Tiny."

"I know." Wheeljack smiled.

Ratchet looked at Ironelle and Red. Ironelle was trying to teach Red a hand game. He smiled.

"Daddy you should come learn this game!"

"No thank you Redcord. I don't have time to play games."

"But you're not doing anything now," Red whined.

"I'm running calibrations on the Ground Bridge."

"You're not fun daddy! Mama's the fun one!" Ironelle laughed.

"So daddy's the boring one Red?" Red crossed his arms.

"Yes." She laughed again. Ratchet looked upset and he kept opening his mouth to say something but nothing came out.

"You've made him speechless Red." Ironelle smiled. Ratchet glared at her.