A/N: PLEASE READ!
Before everybody decides to get mad at me for starting a new story, I'd like to blame this on my Beta: Everon Prime. Now that is out of the way, time for the technical stuff. This is yet another drabble story! I wanted to try a more tragic approach at romance, everybody seems to think I do these well enough, and I find them fun, so ta-da! For those of you who are unfamiliar with my other works or just don't what a drabble is, here's Wikipedia's definition:
"A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length, not necessarily including the title. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space."
That means 100 word chapters, with the exception of Acts, then those are just there. (Or unless I'm type happy. Then it's however many words I want.) Got it? Good. This is a tragic-ish-I-dunno-what-to-call-it-romance-with-a-healthy-dose-of-family-ish-stuff (there's also probably going to be some sort of "GK Humor" so be warned) for a Ratchet/Oc story. *Points to summary* Read that thing for a better explanation. As for the Universe... There isn't really one. I would say it's G1, Prime, and War for Cybertron all crammed together. Why those three? They're the only ones I'm pretty familiar with. I still haven't finished season 2 of Prime, nor have I played FoC yet, so dangit people NO SPOILERS IN THE REVIEWS. :[
THIS BE THE REALLY IMPORTANT STUFF:
This story/drabble/strabble will be set up in Acts, which will act as prologues to the next segment of whatever-dribbles-out-of-my-brain – and they will not have author's notes on them, if you haven't noticed - and this plot will be jumping between Flashbacks and Reality. I'll mark each Flashback chapter as F(Insert number here). You'll see what I mean below. v_v
ONWARDS TO THE STORY THING!
Special thanks to: Mist Howler, who got a surprise message from my Beta asking for her opinion on this thing because I talk a lot and hit my PM limit for the day. I'm sorry you had to suffer through our banter. XD
Beta: The amazingly wonderful Everon Prime, who had sit through me trying to figure out what to do with this plot bunny (I'm not sorry about making you suffer). Feel free to check my profile for links to her FF page~!
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers, just the OCs and plots I barf out in colorful literary rainbows.
Chapter One: F1 – The Ache
Ratchet ached.
Staring down at the rubble where a femme was sprawled out face down, he knew at first glance that she was a lost cause, that there was nothing that could be done to save her. A frame that had once been pristine white with accents of pale pinks and lavenders was charred and marred, revealing destroyed wiring and fuel pumps that would have been more protected if the armor had been just an inch thicker. He wanted to rush to the femme's side, start repairing her, something.
But he couldn't move. His keening spark was hurting too much.