Hello dudes and dudettes! Low and behold, Chapter eleven! This is where it gets exciting!
More so than now! Not to toot my own horn....:HONK!:
So in this chapter, we finally see what kind of horrors Tai see's when she is sleeping...and what makes her different than the other humans.

Once again, I own nadda...except Tai and Psyche!
Onward and so forth!

Chapter 11

Spooky, huh?

The meeting between Blurr and Sam's parents went way better than they ever could have hoped. Tai wasn't really worried about Judy accepting him, it's just who she was...it was Ron she was worried about. She was incredibly worried that Ron would hate Blurr because of him not being able to prevent her father's death.

But he didn't.

They just stood there and listened to him explain about the junkyard, being there at Rob and Rowan's wedding, being there for Tai through the ten years in foster care, and being her Autobot guardian like Bumblebee was to Sam. After he finished, Judy had tears in her eyes and Ron was very quiet. Sam and the two girls watched anxiously as Blurr reached a finger down for a handshake. Than to their relief, Rob shook it.

Tai let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. Blurr also looked immensely relieved, along with Bumblebee and Sam. Mikaela stared at Tai in amazement. She thought she had it rough with her Dad being in jail but her life seemed like a walk in the park compared to what she's been through.

'Hey...' She said in a soft tone, so not to interrupt the conversation that was going on between Blurr and Sam's parents. Tai, who was listening to the conversation, turned at the sound of Mikaela's voice. 'Hmm?' She asked.

'Sorry to hear about your Dad and you Mom...that must be really hard.' Mikaela said sincerely. 'If you ever wanna talk...'

'Aw thanks...but I'm fine really, but I'll take you up on that offer.' She winked good naturedly at her and turned back to her guardians.

Mikaela smiled and turned back to Sam. 'Did she meet the others?'
'Yep...that's why I couldn't hang out earlier...' Sam explained. 'Introductions and all that rot...yea, but man, was it eventful!' That earned him a smack on the back of the head.

'Ow!' He yelped, causing everyone to look at him. 'Why is there so much head smacking today?!'

'Next time something eventful is happening..Call me!' Mikaela snapped at him, smacking his arm with every word. Blurr glanced at Bumblebee. 'Dothosetwoalwaysactlikethis?'

'Oh yeah...all the time now.' Bee sighed, picking up Mikaela and Sam, in separate hands. Mikaela crossed her arms and pouted jokingly. 'How dare interrupt my smacking of Sam!' She said, pretending to sound angry but her huge smile really gave her mood away.
'Now children..no violence!' Bumblebee lectured them jokingly. Sam kicked his legs, being held upside down was making everything he ate earlier feel very unpleasant in his gut.

'Bee...gonna be sick...put me down..' He didn't trust himself to speak in full sentences, fearing he was going to spew up partially digested ribs and shrimp salad. Bee immediately put him down.
'Please don't spew in my direction!' The silver-blue eyed teen laughed. 'Aim at him!' She pointed to the yellow scout with a laugh, who immediately 'eep'ed and hid behind Blurr, which looked quite comical.

Sam, who was laying on the grass, laughed soundly. He sat up with Tai and Mikaela's help and snuck around Blurr to poke Bumblebee in his large foot.

'Alright kids alright...' Ron brook up the charades, he himself chuckling despite the fact that his front yard was being stepped on. 'Let's get her stuff inside!'

Meanwhile back at the base:

Stupid reports...stupid Cons...And just stupid...stupidness! Jazz was way too distracted...too distracted even to concentrate on the report Prime and Lennox gave him to be done...by the next morning.He couldn't stop thinking of Tai...her sense of humor...her looks...her everything. He never felt like this before. Sure he had plenty of Femme's in his day, but he never met the one that made his spark pound.

He was so lost in thought he didn't hear the door to his own quarters open. Optimus decided to see how Jazz was fairing. He noticed he's been acting oddly ever since Sam and Tai left. He didn't even react when Ironhide 'accidently' shot a huge hole next to him as he walked by. That was shocking!

'Jazz...got a nanoclick?' He asked. Said mech jumped and nearly fell off of his chair. When he saw it was just Prime, he relaxed.

'Huh? Oh yeah...sorry 'bout that...' He muttered, picking up the scattered data chips clumsily. 'Oh sorry...' He smacked his head, forgetting he was under his large desk. 'Ow...oh that hurts...ow...' He hissed, grabbing his head in both servos.
Optimus pinched the bridge of noseplate in annoyance.

'Jazz...just, just...just sit there!' Optimus had enough, it seemed whenever Jazz tried to move or do anything, he'd hurt himself. 'What is happening to you?' He tried, hoping this might bring some explanation as to why his first lieutenant was acting so strangely.

Jazz let out a sigh. 'I don't know, Optimus.' He tried, drumming his claws on the floor. 'I feel weird...my spark is pounding...my fuel tanks are acting up...and my knee's feel like jellified energon.' At that moment, his processor made him remember Tai's toned stomach and pretty smile...which caused him to gaze off over Optimus's shoulder dreamily.

Optimus looked closely at him, before waving his hand before his optics. He saw Tai do that to Sam when he got that distracted look on his face. 'Jazz...you in there?' He felt very ridiculous but he'd try anything at this point. No response. Now he was getting worried. 'Ratchet?' He said over his comlink. He knew he would regret waking him at this hour, but this was desperate times.

'This better be good Prime.' The CMO's voice grumbled. 'In case you had forgotten, I was recharging.'

'I apologize but you better get in here...it's Jazz.' Prime tried to explain himself.

He heard Ratchet sigh, he sounded annoyed, which was never a good thing. 'Alright...I'll be there in a breem. Ratchet out.'

'Well I don't see anything wrong with him.' Ratchet had just finished examining the unresponsive Jazz. At first he was afraid of a malfunction with his repairs, but he checked everything. His spark, his energon pressure, his processor...everything. Nothing was wrong with him. He was perfectly healthy.

'There has to be something...he's not responding to anything.' Optimus couldn't stand the thought of losing his old friend again just after getting him back.

'Prime, it's nothing to worry about.' Ratchet placed a hand on his leaders shoulder. 'However, I do have an idea of what could be the problem.'

Optimus slumped his large shoulder panels in annoyance. 'Well...what!?' He didn't mean to shout, but he was getting very impatient.

'How do I put this?' Ratchet pondered. 'Jazz has found his sparkmate.'

Okay, he wasn't expecting that. 'What?' Optimus made sure his audio receptors were working properly. 'I wasn't aware they were Autobot femmes on Earth.'

'Oh my friend, if only it were that...' He leaned against the examining table, drumming his large fingers. 'He has fallen in love with none other than Miss Tatyana Witwicky.'

Optimus's optics widened. 'Tatyana?!' He exclaimed. 'But...she's a human...how could he...he couldn't...he really shouldn't...' For the first time, he was at a loss for words. 'He just met her today...!'

Ratchet shrugged. 'Love takes on many strange forms...be they human or autobot...thankfully not decepticon.' He than reached behind Jazz's head, and turned on a switch. 'Ever heard of 'Love at first sight'?'

Jazz immediately jerked back to reality...which sucked because he was having very good (but very naughty) thoughts about Tai. He looked around in confusion.

'How'd I get in here?'

He was answered by a wrench hitting him in the face.

Back at the Witwicky residence:

It took nearly two hours, even with everyone's help, to get all of Tai's possessions upstairs into her new room.

And of course, she took the dolls down. 'Stop staring at me!' She had yelled at them before packing them away in a box. Luckily, Judy was downstairs having some brandy with Ron.

Tai was taking inventory of everything in her room; Skateboards, laptop, her phone, c.d.'s, her zebra printed chair, her various trinkets, her clothes, Blurr's car keys (she didn't really need them, but she had to keep them for the illusion that he was a car and not a alien robot), her accessories, her make-up, her hair products, and so on and so on.

'Okay...' She leaned out the window so she could talk to Blurr better. He was kneeling carefully next to the house. 'So we need to head to a few stores tomorrow...is that alright?' She handed Blurr the list of things she would need.

He carefully took the tiny piece of paper in between his large metal fingers and looked it over. 'IthinkIcanseethathappening...' He said to her with a smile. There was a knock on the door, and Sam walked in.

'Hey Tai...I brought you some...Jesus!' Sam exclaimed, the sight of Blurr so close to the house nearly giving him another heart attack.

'You brought me some Jesus?' Tai asked excitedly. Blurr let out a chuckle, he was making sure to be quiet so he wouldn't disturb any of the other humans.

'Oh ha ha very funny...' Sam said with a smirk. 'No...I brought you a gift is what I meant to say.' He handed her a box, wrapping in a paper bag with a yellow bow on it. 'I wrapped it on my own.' He added sheepishly.

Tai chuckled and opened it, Blurr looking over her shoulder. He was so distracted by what Tai was doing, he didn't notice a certain small Chihuahua sniffing at his foot with interest. Tai lifted off the lid of the box and laughed. 'Aww Sam...' She held up a silver flask. For some reason, she liked collecting them for fun. This one that Sam got her was one she didn't have yet. 'A Quagmire flask?!'

Blurr smirked, he knew his human really liked those silver do-dads...and the show Family guy. He did as well. Such an amusing species humans are.

'Saw it...bought it...thought of you...blah blah..' Sam laughed. He let out a loud yawn and checked his watch. 'Hey Cos, I'd love to stay up and catch up...But I need to head over to base early with Bee.' He gave her a hug, which she returned along with a loud wet razberry on his cheek.

'Night Sam.' She said, giving him a playful shove. He grumbled jokingly, before leaving the room. Psyche had hopped up onto Tai's bed and was waiting for her owner. She headed back to the window to say goodnight to her guardian.

But before she could even get to the window sill, Blurr let out a yell.

Sam poked his head back in along with Ron and Judy.

Bumblebee meanwhile, was sitting in his carmode in the driveway. He chuckled at the sound of Blurr's yell.
'Welcome to earth my friend.' He muttered before falling into recharge.

Later that night:

Blurr was fighting to stay awake. He needed to stay awake in case his little Tai had a nightmare, but he was finding it quite difficult. He has known about her night terrors since day one...but he didn't exactly know how bad they were. He just assumed they were about the day her father was killed in front of her. So turning up his audio recpetors, he listened into Tai's room. To his relief, she was breathing softly and evenly...not a hint of distress as far as he could tell. So with that, he fell into a deep recharge.

It hours later that Tai started whimpering. Her hands were above her head as she slept, swatting at an invisible force.

Inside Tai's dream:

She opened her eyes...she didn't know where she was...all she could see was sand. Miles and miles of sand, she squinted as the blazing hot sun barreled down on her. Looking down at herself, she realized she was completely naked...how did that happen? What happened to her tank top? What happened to her boxers?

'Hello?' She called out into the vast desert. A whisper in the wind caught her attention...it sounded a lot like Optimus. After figuring out which way the voice was coming from, she broke out into a run.

'Wait...what's going on?' She yelled, running up a sandy hill and tripping. After tumbling down a few feet, and getting sand in very uncomfortable places, she looked up.
Her eyes widened.

Should I end it here? :ponders: Nahh...I won't do that to you guys! hahaha

'What?'

Than as quickly as they appeared, they vanished. The next thing she knew she was back in Tranquility...but something was wrong. It was way to quiet. What was going on?

'Sam?' She called out. 'Blurr?' Nothing, she heard nothing. 'Bumblebee? Mikaela? Optimus? Somebody...anybody!'

The still quietness of the empty street was driving her mad. She was about to take another step when she tripped over something solid on the ground. Hissing at the pain in her knees and her hands, she looked behind her to see what had tripped her. Her breathing quickened and her hands starting shaking so violently she could feel her bones vibrating.

It was Sam, lying on his stomach...and he wasn't moving. 'Sam?' She asked in a shaky voice. She crawled over to him slowly and turned his over.

'No...No!' She yelled. He was dead, his face torn into bloody ribbons of flesh and muscle...his neck sporting a gaping, bloody wound. 'Oh my god...oh my god...oh my god...' She than looked all around her; bodies were strewn around the street...Uncle Ron, Aunt Jude, Mikaela, Bumblebee, Jazz, Ratchet, Ironhide, Optimus, Psyche, and...

'NO!' She wailed, breaking into a sprint. Blurr was laying in pieces on the ground, his arms ripped off, his spark casing completely obliterated, energon pooling around his gray and dead frame. She was sobbing brokenly now...what monster did this?!

She lifted up her hand to touch him, and her eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. Her hand wasn't her hand...it was a clawed, robotic version of her hand. She caught a glimpse of herself in a stopped car's windshield.

A pair of blood red eyes looked back at her in the reflection.

She screamed.

With a loud gasp, she shot up in bed, breathing heavily, her hair caked to her sweaty forehead. Fighting to control her breathing, she placed her aching head in her palms as she tried to calm down.
'Just a dream...' She whispered to herself. 'Just a dream.' Psyche placed her huge paw on Tai's leg in a form of comfort. That got a smile out of Tai as she stroked her dog's head. 'Stay here girl...' She ordered, as she got up. Slipping on her pink converse, she snuck out of her room and down the hall.

She quietly snuck downstairs, walking quietly when she passed Mojo, who was passed out on the kitchen tile. After reaching the front door, she quickly hacked into the security system so it wouldn't go off. She stifled a snort, those things were way to easy to disarm.

She smiled when she saw her Dart, her best friend, sitting there quietly. She hated to disturb him in his recharge mode but she really needed his comfort really badly.

'Blurr?' She poked him the side panels. 'Blurr...wake up.' He immediately jolted awake, his lights going off and on in alarm.
'Shh...shh...it's okay...it's okay...it's me!' She whispered frantically. Blurr stopped and than very quietly, transformed into his true mode.

'Tai...what'swrong?' He asked with brotherly concern. 'Whatareyoudoingupsolate?'

Tai took a deep shaky breath. 'I had...I had a...terrible dream.'

Blurr held out his hand, and she, without hesitation, climbed up onto it. Holding onto his thumb as he brought her up closer, she had tears forming in her eyes. She hated being so weak...but that dream seemed so real.
'Caretotellmewhatiswasabout?' He asked, holding her against his cheekplate. Tai shook her head vehemently. 'PleaseTai, talktome...Ican'thelpyouifoyoudon'ttellme.'

Tai finally gave in and started crying, the memories of the nightmare still fresh in her head.

'Everyone I knew...everyone I cared about...they were all dead.' She managed to get out through her sobs. 'Sam...Mikaela...Uncle Ron and Aunt Jude...the others....you...you all left me, I was all alone!'

She decided not to tell him about the pyramid...now wasn't the best time. Blurr simply made a shushing type sound, which sounded more like a metallic hiss but still Tai found it soothing. 'OhTai...thatwillneverhappen..I'mnotgoinganywhereandneitherisanyoneelse...' This was not what he was expecting; he was expecting the same dream about her father. This one was a different one but it sounded much worse.

'But the red optics...they were in it!' That made Blurr's spark pound in worry for his charge.

Tai meanwhile, had her face buried in the warm metal of her guardian's cheek plate. As much as she wanted too, she couldn't tell him about the metal version of her hand or that the red optics belonged to her. She didn't want to worry him anymore than he already was.

'Tai...lookatme.' He waited patiently until she finally looked at him in the optics. 'Soundwavecannothurtyouanymore...he'soffline,Imadesureofthat.'

That statement, no matter how true it was, calmed her down. She finally composed herself and leaned her head against him. Blurr, once again showing amazing gentleness and care, placed his big metal lips to her forehead and kissed it affectionately.

'Sleepmylittlesister...I'llbehere.' He whispered softly. The large mech stood up carefully, and stepped over the still form of Bumblebee and approached Tai's bedroom window. Reaching in, he placed the now sleeping teen on her bed and smiled at Psyche curled up around her owner, acting like a protector.

After folding back into his Dart form and taking his place beside Bumblebee, he had one last thought before slipping into recharge.

Could there be more to this dream than she was telling him?

Wow! I got this done quicker than I had expected. Okay I know the dream sequence was brutal, so let me explain that. After my mom died, I had nightmares that everyone I cared about were dead and I was all alone. So I decided to put that into Tai's character...she may act all funny and tough but on the inside, she's just afraid to be alone.

Anywho,

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