Chapter 8
Stop to Smell the Flowers
The next morning again Optimus woke before Adrianna and saw her sleeping right next to him with her cat already awake trying to wake her up. Optimus chuckled seeing this and gently picked up Luna and said, "Let her sleep."
Luna just let out a huge meow trying to wake up her owner. Optimus saw Adrianna stir in her sleep and open her eyes and look up at Optimus. "Good morning Optimus."
"Good morning…I tried to keep this little thing quiet so you could sleep, but couldn't keep her quiet." he replied.
Adrianna chuckled a little bit. She couldn't help but think that Optimus was a very sweet guy and if he ever did want to date her she wouldn't have second thoughts, but she was now a school teacher…she never taught in her whole life. Adrianna looked down at her self and she stared sending off vibes. Optimus caught on quickly and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Optimus….when I become a teacher…..I don't know how to teach. I know how to drive fast and give tickets and do other stuff…..but not teach." she explained.
Optimus chuckled a little bit scooping her up in his hand. He had put Luna down on the pillow who was now trying to get back up on him. Optimus held Adrianna close to his face and said, "Didn't you have to teach new comers?"
"I didn't do that though…….we taught them how to use a gun….."
"It's like that except you're dealing with little kids." he explained.
Adrianna looked up at him and said, "I'm defiantly going to need help with that."
Optimus chuckled and got up and walked out of the room. Luna quickly following behind them, Optimus gently put her down in the little kitchen the humans had made in the base. Once she was on the ground she looked up at Optimus and asked, "Where are you going?"
"I was actually going to stay here if you didn't mind."
"Sure that's fine." she replied. She walked over to the refrigerator and got out some milk and then walked over to cabinets and got a bowl and cereal. She sat back down at the table seeing Optimus sitting down a few feet from it so that he didn't wreck anything.
Optimus looked down at her with some fascination. Adrianna looked up at Optimus seeing that he was staring down at her. So she asked, "What's the matter Optimus?"
"You humans are so unique…having to consume other organic nutrients to survive…eating other animals." he replied.
Adrianna shrugged a little and said, "It's a part of life."
So as Adrianna ate she and Optimus talked about many different things. Out of the corner of Adrianna's eyes she saw Mikaela and Sam coming to the kitchen, but seeing Optimus and Adrianna talking they slowly decided to move away quietly.
"Did you to want something?" asked Optimus.
Adrianna started laughing at Optimus's bluntness. He was just talking about something and then turned to something totally different. The two slowly walked over to the kitchen walking under Optimus's bent legs and sat next to Adrianna.
"So whatcha guys talking about?" asked Mikaela.
"Nothing much really. Just chatting and stuff." replied Adrianna.
"I see." replied Mikaela and looked at Optimus. She then looked back at Adrianna and said, "Well…we need to get you a job somewhere so that you can start your new life."
Adrianna leant back in her chair closing her eyes and asked, "Why did they need me to be a teacher?"
"Because America need more teachers." answered Sam.
Adrianna looked over at Sam and then looked up at Optimus and asked, "Could I get a different job?"
"Nope."
"Why not?"
"Because you're supposed to be dead." replied Optimus.
Adrianna quickly got up and started walking towards Optimus and her room. Optimus got up and went after her leaving Mikaela and Sam alone.
Mikaela sighed and Sam looked at her and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Isn't it obvious? The two obviously like each other." replied Mikaela.
"They do?" asked Sam.
Mikaela just rolled her eyes and walked off. "What did I say!?"
Adrianna looked behind her and saw Optimus walking behind her. She stopped and looked up at him and asked, "What?"
"I was curious….since you don't have a car or anything. If you needed a ride to work I can drive you." he answered.
Adrianna smiled big and replied, "I'd like that."
"You would?" he asked in disbelief.
"Yes."
With that Optimus bent down to her and picked her up and walked to their room and he put her down. He looked at her and asked, "So how are you going to get a job?"
"Well I need to start filling out applications and then hope they call me to accept me as a worker." she replied.
She sat there right next to Optimus and laid down and said, "I miss my old job." Optimus chuckled a little bit which caused Adrianna to look up at him and asked, "What's so funny?"
"Oh….nothing. Just thinking." he replied.
"Thinking about what?"
Optimus looked down at her and then started scratching his head. Then he replied, "Well….you humans in my optics work too much than what you really should. You should really enjoy the time you have off."
Adrianna looked up at him, "We work because we have to provide a house, and food for our families!"
"I understand that Adrianna, but you should really and stop to smell the flowers." he replied and got up from the bed and walked over to his computer and turned it on. He then turned back to her and said, "Just enjoy the time you have off…your not Natasha Blake yet. You're still Adrianna Barlo."
Adrianna looked up at Optimus and smiled and said, "Well I guess I could start going to schools and filling out job applications…but that can wait until tomorrow. Optimus chuckled and said, "Its still day light outside….what do you want to do before night falls?"
"I don't know…..um…we could go outside since it's safe for me now since I've changed and even fooled you." she replied.
Optimus sighed, "Okay."
Adrianna waited for him to come and pick her up from the bed. When he did he gently set her down on his shoulder and he walked outside together. Mikaela and Sam watched as they left the base and Mikaela had a huge smile on her face. She looked at Sam who looked at her like she was crazy. "What's got you so happy about?"
"They're slowly falling for each other. It's so sweet!"
Suddenly there was a dark shadow that covered both of them. When they looked up they saw Ironhide. The two let out sighs of relief. Ironhide started laughing seeing them relax from the tension and asked, "What did you think I was a 'Con?"
"Actually yes." replied Sam.
Ironhide rolled his optics and asked, "Do you think that a Decepticon could get in here with me on duty?"
"No."
"Then there you go." replied Ironhide and pulled out his cannons and said, "I would advise you to not follow our beloved leader understand. Let him have his……..what you humans call 'alone time'." With that he picked the two humans up by the collars of their shirts and carried them off the two ranting and raving as he did so.
Optimus stopped for a second which made Adrianna ask, "What's the matter?"
"I thought I heard something…oh well." he replied and looked at her which made her blush. He couldn't help but chuckle at her embarrassment. The sun was shining high above their heads and Optimus looked up. He closed his optics and felt the warm rays of the sun shine down on him.
He felt Adrianna get up on his shoulder and lean against his head and said, "Well…what do you want to do?"
Optimus slightly turned his head toward her, careful not to throw her off of his shoulder. "Well whatever you want to do."
Adrianna then looked at him and then at the ground. Back at him and then the ground. She kept doing this for a while slowly making Optimus nervous. Then without warning she jumped off of him. He quickly caught her and when he did he saw her laughing. He was quite confused. It had looked like she had tried to kill herself and yet she was laughing.
She looked up at him and said, "That was fun."
"I don't understand…you tried to kill yourself." he replied sad.
"No I didn't. I wanted to go sky diving, plus I knew you would catch me."
Optimus quickly did research on sky diving and found out that it was a thing where humans jumped out of airplanes high up and fell through the sky and then let out a parachute. He then looked at Adrianna and gently put her down and asked, "Now what are you going to do?"
"Well since I've been locked up for a while. I plan on smelling the flowers and actually feel like a kid today." she exclaimed and started running off. Optimus chuckled and went after her carefully making sure he didn't step on his human friend. She ran through the woods where Optimus could not go through because of the thickness.
"Adrianna come back. I don't want to make it look like something huge came in there."
"But something big is walking is he not?"
"Right now he is not. He is waiting for you to come out." Optimus replied.
Adrianna slowly came out of the thick woods and walked into Optimus's hand. Optimus stood up and started walking, but a pond caught Adrianna's attention. "Optimus, I want to go swimming please."
Optimus smiled and walked over to the pond and let her jump off his hand into the pond water. He watched as the bubbles came up and then came up rapidly then died down. He suddenly got worried. She hadn't been up for thirty seconds. He quickly put his hands in the water and when he couldn't find her and quickly went in the water and did a scan search and found her foot caught between logs.
He quickly moved them and grabbed a hold of her and stood up out of the water. He did a scan and it showed she wasn't breathing. He quickly put her on the grass and gently started pushing out the water out of her. She suddenly started coughing and water came out of her mouth. Once seeing she was okay Optimus quickly picked her up and held her close to his spark giving her a hug, but not squeezing her too tightly. Adrianna was quite shocked at first catching her breath.
She looked up at Optimus who had his optics closed and just holding her tightly against him. Adrianna smiled a little bit and leaned into his embrace. She brought up her hand to his chest and started stroking him…she heard a rumble deep within his chest signifying that he liked that.
"Thank you for saving me." she whispered.
Optimus finally opened his optics and looked down at her and said, "You didn't think that I wouldn't save you if you were drowning did you?"
Adrianna looked up at him and leaned her cheek against his chest and replied, "No."
Adrianna felt Optimus stroke her back with his finger showing that he cared for her. He then said, "If you are in any danger, I'll be there, if you need help, I'll be there…you need anything at all, I'll always be there for you."
Adrianna quickly turned her head away from Optimus. She had not cried in so long and she felt so weak when she cried. She didn't want Optimus to see her weak. She suddenly felt a giant finger under her chin making her face him. She realized that he and pulled her to his face. His giant thumb came to her face and gently wiped away the tears she had shed.
He smiled down at her and she couldn't help but smile back at him. He was really, really sweet. She had never met any human guy who was this sweet. Plus Optimus would never hurt her or do anything like all her other boyfriends did…wake her when she was sleeping, or never let her have her alone time…..of course she didn't mind being with Optimus all the time. He was just that much fun to hang out with.
Adrianna looked at his face and smiled and reached out a hand to touch his cheek. He saw this and brought his face toward her. Once she started touching his cheek he closed his optics and just focused on her touch. Her touch was something he had never felt on his cheek before. When Adrianna saw him closed his eyes she smiled and brought another hand to his other cheek and started caressing him…sure they weren't dating…yet.
When she stopped Optimus opened his optics and looked down at her and noticed her heart rate was beating very fast…there was nothing wrong with her….there was no water left in her lungs…he didn't understand why her heart was racing…unless….she liked him. She stopped her movements with her hands on his cheek and looked dead into his optics. She had felt something she had never felt before with him…this was totally new to her.
She slowly leaned back into his hand and looked up at him and smiled. "So…tomorrow I go and get a job…sounds like I'm going to have a great time."
"It's just teaching Adrianna, you will survive."
"Okay you have not seen Kindergarten Cop then." she replied crossing her arms.
"Kindergarten Cop?"
"It's a movie with Arnold Swartzenegger in it…it's when a cop goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher and once he does he finds out that little kids aren't the easiest to teach…they will kill me on my first day."
Optimus chuckled a little bit and said, "That's just a movie Adrianna. Movies do not become real life."
"Optimus you have forgotten there are many movies out there that are based on true events. Like Seabiscuit."
Optimus shook his head in amusement. She always had something to say about everything. Of course there were movies out there based on true events. Some not all true, but some almost all true. Seabiscuit was one of those movies where it was basically all true. He looked down at her and chuckled, "You got me."
"Finally! A human actually wins an argument to a Transformer! I feel so smart now." she exclaimed.
This made Optimus laugh even harder. He knew he liked Adrianna for some reason. One reason was her great personality. Of course he knew Mikaela had been talking to Ironhide lately about moving on to a human mate. Mikaela was basically taking them into her own hands. He had heard Ironhide pick up Sam and Mikaela as they left.
"I think its best we go home right now. Don't want anything else bad to happen to you." spoke Optimus.
"What do you think I am a jinx or something?" she asked.
Optimus shrugged his shoulders like he didn't know what she was talking about. This earned him a stomping in his hand. He started laughing at her, he couldn't contain himself anymore. This made Adrianna even more mad and she actually sat down in his hand. She had full filled her goal today…to act like a kid again…He could defiantly see that. He set her down on the ground and then took a few steps back and transformed. Adrianna got in and the two drove back to the base.
When they got back Adrianna was checked out by Ratchet to make sure everything was okay. After telling him what had happened he immediately did scans on her. After seeing she was okay he let her and Optimus got back to Optimus's room. That's when Adrianna got ready and went to bed directly after getting into her pj's. Optimus smiled as she slept and got in the bed and laid down next to her. He gently picked her sleeping body up and then put her on his chest. Then he slowly fell asleep and dreamt of only her.
Awe! Fluffiness! I hope you guys enjoyed the fluffy moment with Optimus and Adrianna. There will be more to come in the future. I will try and update once I get back. Please press the purple button! THANKS!