Okay so here is the next chapter. I warn you now that there is extreme OOC but it is explained so therefore it ain't really OOC but anyway. There is a fair bit of info in this chapter so pay attention!

I'm still looking for guesses on the mystery blackmailer!

Sorry for any mistakes!

Starscream glanced around her as her vision crept into focus. The first thing she had noticed was that she was still tied up but she was sitting on a berth and a comfy one at that. The room she was in looked like it had been carved out of rock. The stone walls surrounding her even had chisel marks. What caught her attention next was how the room was decorated. Paintings of differant things covered parts of the walls. Their bright colours contrasting the dull grey rock behind them. There was an energon dispenser in the far corner and there was a desk to her right with a chair on wheels.

Starscream pulled herself up using her legs as her arms were still tied to her neck. The vocalizer disrupter was missing from her throat and she imitated the noise of a human clearing their throat to make sure her vocaliser was working. She looked around behind her and saw a door to her left.

"For a while there I thought you would never wake!"

Starscream jumped and hissed as the voice whispered in her audio. Turning around sharply she saw Sunstreaker hovering in a different door near the desk, a door she had missed as it was behind her.

"What do you want?" She hissed.

Sunstreaker chuckled softly and moved to sit beside her on the berth. She instantly leaned away from him and he frowned.

"I swear I ain't gonna touch ya! Geez!" He raised an optic ridge. "There is a reason why we have you here though but I promise we ain't gonna do nothin."

Starscream snorted. "You are insane."

Sunstreaker laughed, his body bending over itself. "Am I? Look, Me and me bro, we know what you are, well we think we do. We just want to confirm it and then we will go from there."

Starscream tensed, wings rising on her back. "I am not a femme! Where ever you got this foolish notion from I don't know but I am not a femme and I will never share a berth with either of you! Now release me this instant!"

"Whoa Screamer!" Sunstreaker held his arms up in surrender. "You ain't in any position to make demands now are ya? I swear we ain't gonna harm ya!" Sunstreaker took a deep intake. "When Sides gets here then we will prove to you that we won't harm you."

Starscream narrowed her optics and snarled. "You lie no better the you fight!"

There was silence for a long while, in which, Sunstreaker lay down on the berth beside a nervous Starscream causing the Seeker's wings to twitch. Starscream didn't like the way his blue optics roamed over her body like a predator's. She didn't like the way he looked relaxed but the strange thing was the sparkling was eerily quiet. She could feel it lazily swirling within her chamber. Did it know something she didn't?

The silence was shattered when Sideswipe entered the room and Sunstreaker sat up.

"Did you get it?"

The red twin smiled and nodded. "Yep. I even know how to use it!"

Starscream hissed as Sunstreaker laid a servo on her shoulder vent and turned to glare at him.

"Okay this is how we're gonna do things. You either open your panel of your own free will or we force it open."

"Or you could just admit the truth and your panel won't even be touched." Sideswipe added as Starscream's optics widened in shocked anger.

"Why do you think I'm a femme in the first place?" Starscream asked, voice calm even though her own spark was spinning wildly. "What made you want to even consider me being a femme?"

The twins shared a look between them before Sideswipe sighed gently and sat down on Starscream's other side. Starscream didn't flinch away this time as both twins made themselves comfortable either side of her.

"We were going to play a prank on Wheeljack in the lab one day but when we got there Skyfire and him were talking. Skyfire seemed real upset and we quickly learned that he was talking about a femme." Sunstreaker began as he locked his gaze with Starscream's.

"We listened, naturally." Sideswipe continued. "Femmes are rare these days as you well know. Skyfire kep' repeatin' "I can't understand how she can feel safe there, how she has even survived this long." Course, we didn't know who he was talkin about till Wheeljack spoke and said "Starscream is well capable of looking after himself." Now, at that we were confused and this is why you are here now-'

"Well, part of the reason." Sunstreaker cut across.

"We... well you see..." Starscream frowned as she watched Sideswipe struggled with words. The feeling of dread and fear swarming her made her surprisingly calm as the Sparkling began to twirl happily, totally confusing it's carrier. "Well... Eh... I...We...erm...My bro and I...Well we kinda..."

Starscream sighed. "What? You and your brother what?"

"We kinda always-"

"Yeah we sorta-"

"Ever since-"

"Stop!" Starscream growled as their words began a muddled mess. "Now one of you talk." Starscream looked over at Sunstreaker with narrowed optics.

The golden twin gulped before saying "Wehavealwayshadacrushonyou!"

Starscream offlined her optics in frustration. "What?"

"We have always-" Sunstreaker began.

"Had a crush on you." Sideswipe finished.

Starscream sat silently for a few minutes to let the information sink in before she nodded and asked. "What?"

The twins sighed loudly before throwing themselves backwards on the berth and covering their optics with their servos.

"Who knew this could be so difficult!" Sideswipe wailed.

"Yeah! I mean, don't they always tell ya to admit your feelin's for someone?"

Starscream, still shocked at their declaration just looked down at them with a blank expression as her sparkling literally danced around her spark chamber. The red twin lifted a servo and peeked out from under it.

"You haven't laughed or sneered at us. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"

Starscream just stared at him. "If you had a crush on me then why do you admit to it now when you think I'm a femme?" A familiar feeling stirring made a growl rise in her throat.

Sunstreaker smirked as he sat up again. "That's the funny thing about all this, you remember the last battle we didn't so much as aim at you?" Starscream didn't reply as she never really watched to see who exactly was aiming at her. "Well, we had decided before that battle that we were gonna some how corner ya and tell you the truth, so during that battle we just observed your moves and such."

"About a week after that battle was when we found out about you being a femme." Starscream pouted at that. "And we then decided that we had to check it out."

"So... what? You're going to force me into a relationship? Why would you think that I would actually accept this?"

The twins frowned. "No... you being a femme means that we can court you. You know the rules of courting right?"

Starscream actually paused at that and began to think things through. Old programming activating as she recognised the long lost word. Scenarios and images flashing across her vision she shook her helm and asked gently. "Can you take this off?" She lifted her arms, gesturing to the rope and cuffs. The twins shared a look, each frowning. "I promise I won't do anything. If you are courting me then I can't object."

The twins turned to her, optics glowing brighter as genuine smiles spread across their faces.

*O o O*

Starscream purred as a servo messaged her wing. She had quickly learned that the red twin was good with his digits as he rubbed her wing panels. His chin rested on her shoulder between her vent and neck. She could hear him chuckle lightly as a shiver ran through her.

"These really are sensitive." He whispered as his other arm slid under her other wing and came up to wrap around her chest. "Did Sunny do this?" He asked, running his digits over the dent on the edge of her wing.

"Both of you have done worse." She gasped out as he began to bend the metal back. "Ooh! Primus!"

Sunstreaker chuckled from somewhere to her right and she onlined her optics to look over at him. He was drawing the pair of them while they sat on the berth and proceeded with the first step of courting; proving that they could touch their lover in the right way and remain in control of their hardware. Sideswipe wasn't even hot against her and she had to admire him for his control. Her Trine mates were never capable of keeping such control. It felt good to have someone give her pleasure without asking for an interface session in return.

Starscream shifted in Sideswipe's lap as his servo moved down her side, tickling sensors there before coming back up and repeating the process.

"You have no idea how long I have dreamed of this." His whispered huskily as he nuzzled the side of her helm. "Just to simply touch you."

"What about the other Autobots? Do they know what you are doing?" Starscream asked as she suddenly remembered about the twins comrades when she spied the Autobot symbol painted on a far wall.

"Don't worry. We have it all planned out. " Sunstreaker began, optics focused on the canvas in front of him. "You will have to go to the brig though, for a while at least. Then you will have to defect."

Starscream froze at his words. Of course! How could she have been so stupid? What the slag was wrong with her? Sideswipe seemed to notice her tensing and drew circles on her wing.

"You don't like it."

"I have been a Decepticon for so long now, Your comrades will never accept me. All the things I have done." She pulled away from Sideswipe's warm embrace and stood up on the far side of the berth. "What about Powerglide? How'd you get him to bring me here? What did you bribe him with?" She asked bitterly, suddenly feeling betrayed even though a voice told her she should have expected something like this. To her surprise the twins smirked at each other.

"We are Autobots. We don't bribe each other. He owed us a favour. We told him the truth behind our motives." Starscream frowned as Sideswipe shook his head. "Oh we didn't tell him about you! We just told him that you had been with us for a while now and we wanted to spend some quality time together."

Starscream smirked. "And he bought it?"

"Yep!" They declared happily. "Told him that we were gonna try and get you to stay longer this time."

"Your pulling my leg! Nobody would be foolish enough to believe that!"

"Okay maybe we are but he does know of our true feelings for ya so he did agree on the condition that we hand you over after a few days. By then we would have hoped to convince you that we are being serious and you would accept us as potential mates."

"To be honest, we didn't expect you to submit to our advances so quickly." Sideswipe said, scratching the back of his helm.

Starscream frowned. The sparkling! Her codes were all changed. Was this a good idea? She may not be thinking straight? Worry and fear began to take hold as she realised just what she was getting herself into. How had she not noticed before now that she wasn't thinking like she normally did? She would never have agreed to this in normal circumstances!

"Hey, something wrong?" Sunstreaker asked as he stood up and approached. "You look a bit ill?"

Starscream backed away from him and ignored the wave of annoyance the sparkling sent to her as well as the look of hurt on the golden twin's face. "Just thinking. You may not think it but I do have friends in the Decepticons. My Trine. I love them and I am not sure if I want to leave them. I am not even sure if I am myself right now." She moved around Sunstreaker and sat on the edge of the berth, rubbing her faceplate.

"What do you mean by that? You ain't injured or ill are ya?" Sideswipe asked, concern evident in his expression.

Starscream looked up at him. "Yes and no. I can't really say too much." She cringed, realizing that she may have done just that: said too much.

Her fears were confirmed when Sunstreaker narrowed his optics at her. "What? Megatron didn't do anything to ya did he?"

Starscream laughed, short and loud, but whether it was genuine or if it was from nervousness she was sure. "Megatron, as you already know has claimed me as his punching bag. But no, he has nothing to do with this. He doesn't even know. None of the Decepticons do bar a select few."

The twins took a moment to absorb this before they nodded at each other and turned to her.

"Have you ever been courted before?" The red twin asked to which he got a negative head shake. "But you do know about the programming code thing right?"

Starscream's face lit up with realization. Of course! How could she have forgotten? Once a mech proposed courtship of a femme that femme's systems registered it and made the femme submissive and compliant to the mech so that he could court her properly without the femme being biased and deciding from the beginning that she didn't want him. And the sparkling would love this as it meant it's carrier would get better care and so the chances of it's survival multiplied tenfold, especially in Starscream's case.

So what was she supposed to do?

A frown slowly took shape on her faceplates as she considered future scenarios. If the Decepticons came for her. If her Trine found out. If he found out. And what about the sparkling? Would the Twins kill it? Would they try and override the current sire's lines of code and plant their own? Starscream had heard that the process of replanting was painful for the femme as it was for the sparkling though the earlier in the gestation the easier it was...but would they force a replanting on her? She shivered visibly and the Twins moved toward her.

"Hey, you alright?"

Starscream turned to him, optics narrowed. "You... you...," Starscream vented loudly as her emotions swirled in a giant mass of messed up feelings and fears. "What do you actually plan to do with me?"

The twins shared a look and Sideswipe answered. "With you? Anything you want really. We even have jet packs so we can fly with you. But I get the feeling that you don't mean it like that, do you?"

"You won't be our slave. We are courting you because we actually want to bond with you to be with you, not to use you if that's what you are afraid of." Sunstreaker stated strongly, his brow creased as he frowned. "Why would you think that? I mean, it's against the law to abuse a femme's abilities and such. Courting laws are extremely strict you know, and we follow them. Besides, we still wanted ya when we thought you were a mech."

Starscream looked down at the floor, voice flat as she said. "And what about sparklings? Would you want some of them?"

Starscream felt rather then saw the glance they shared. " Well, yeah.. we kinda did. Not now though. And not until we are all ready. I know I defiantly ain't."

Starscream bit her lip as she lifted her gaze and stood up before the Twins. Turning around she felt their confused gazes before she met their optics.

"We may have a slight complication." Starscream flicked her gaze from one twin to the other before Sideswipe's optics brightened.

"You're already carrying."

How do you think they are going to react? How are you reacting?