Oh thank you so much for not hating me everyone!

I had to do it..I didn't want to...but I had too! R.I.P. Blurr! T.T
But it does get happier. it just takes time!

Onward!

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Chapter 24

How do you pick up the threads of a old life?

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No one knew what to say to Tai over the next several weeks. She hadn't smiled or laughed in such a long time, and everyone...even Sunstreaker...missed her cheerful laugh and contagious smile and her sharp sense of humor.

Jazz really hated it. She hardly ever danced around with him and the twins anymore, and whenever they would go on what the humans called a date, she would just insist on being held...which he was happy to do, but it made him very sad. Because everytime he would, she would start to cry and talk about how much she wanted Blurr back.
Optimus was equally, if not more, worried for his little girl. There was much less laughter around the base because of her depressed mood, not even the twins were pulling any sort of prank or bothering any of the others. Psyche, the usually very active Great Dane, would just lay about with a sad look on her jowly face. Not even Ratchet tossing her her pink ball seemed to work.
Ironhide wasn't fairing any better. He just couldn't seem to concentrate on his aim at all, Tai wasn't there to cheer him on even when he missed. She spent most of her time either in her apartment or at her job.

Ratchet had no idea what to do with Blurr. He couldn't find it in his spark to take him apart, everytime that thought popped into his processor...the image of Tai's broken hearted face appeared in his memory circuits. That look will haunt him for the rest of his vorns. But Blurr had made the ultimate sacrifice, his life for hers...he would always be remembered among the Autobot soldiers for going above and beyond the duty of guardian.

Blurr had loved Tai with all of his spark...so now his spark was a part of hers.

Tai had managed to do put together a beautiful painting of Blurr, it turned out bigger than she planned but that was totally acceptable. Everyone was incredibly impressed with how realistic it looked.

Optimus had hung it up in the Recreational room so everyone could see it and pay their respects to their lost comrade. Tai had stayed quiet through out the whole little ceremony as she clutched Blurr's silver Autobot insigna in her hands. Jazz sat by her side the whole time, his large clawed hand on her back as he gazed down at the small robotic fingers that stroked the silver ordament. He still couldn't believe she was one of them...he knew she was different but this...he was amazed.

'Hey.' He said softly, getting her attention. She looked up at him with her amazing blue human eye and her bright blue optic. 'You okay?'

'I...I don't know...' She said softly, her voice shaky as she flexed her robotic fingers and staring at them in awe. 'I don't know what to feel anymore...I lost my mom, than my Dad...' She closed her eyes tightly, her optic glowing undeneath her eyelid. 'Now Blurr's gone...everyone keeps disappearing!' The last bit was sobbed out as she curled her knees up to her chest and buried her face in them, her hands pulling at her now bright pink and black streaked hair.

Jazz couldn't stop himself. He gently picked her up like someone would a child and held her against his shoulder, hoping it would bring her some comfort. Tai buried her face in the warm metal of his shoulder paneling, her own small human shoulders shaking slightly, her hand covering her mouth to muffle her sobs.

'Don't disappear Jazz...' She sobbed out. 'Don't leave me...'

Jazz leaned his large head against hers gently and shushed her gently. 'Babe...I'm not going anywhere...I promise...'

'Cross your spark?' She whimpered out.

Jazz grinned slightly. 'Cross my spark...and you know something?'

Tai swished her hair from her optic and stared up at him. 'What?'

He gently placed his claws under chin and smiled a cocky grin. 'Blurr wouldn't want to see his lil' sis all depressed and un-Tai like...don' you think?' Tai shifted her gaze down to her pink zebra striped boots. She had to agree...even though all she wanted to do was curl up under a rock and hide from everything. But the Jazz's grin, she finally admitted he was right...Blurr wouldn't want her to be so down all the time. 'Besides, I hate seeing Psyche so depressed...she won' even play wif the Hatchet anymore...'

Tai's eyes and optic widened.

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'This is depressing...' Sunstreaker muttered. Everyone who was in hearing range let out a sigh of agreement. Ratchet was currently trying in vain to get Psyche to eat a dog treat.

'Come on, Psyche...eat something.' He gently pushed the tiny dog bone over to her. 'We can't lose you too.'

The beautiful Great Dane just stared up at her big friend before giving out a small whimper and hiding her face under her giant paw. Frankie and Mojo just laid next to her, both of their ears drooping.

'This sucks.' Mikeala sniffled out. She and Tai used to have so much fun, now...well, it was depressing. 'Sam, can I use your t-shirt as a tissue?'

'Knock yourself out.' He muttered back, his head resting on his palm, blowing out a stream of air.

They were all so deep in their own thoughts, they didn't see a certain cyborg girl and a silver mech standing at the doorway. 'They all look so depressed....even Ironhide.' Her heart-spark broke at the sight of the gruff specialist drumming his fingers against his precious cannons. Her Dad was sitting on the big bot couch, his giant head resting in his hand, a very sad look on his face plates.

'Ironhide hasn't been shooting, Ratchet can't even work on anything, Optimus hasn't been Optimusy, and the twins...' He kneeled down next to her. 'They haven't pranked anyone in weeks!'

Tai nearly choked on her own saliva (she was very surprised she still had some saliva considering the fact that her skeleton no longer excisted) and stared at him in shock .'What?'

'I know...we all need you, Tai-dye...' Jazz smirked and kneeled down even lower so his forehead was pressed against hers. 'I say you pull a Tai moment and cheer everyone up...'

'I got just the way to do it!' She spotted Psyche's pink rubber ball over in the corner and picked it up, it was actually dry to the touch.

Most definetly not good.

She quietly walked over to where Psyche, Frankie, Mojo, and Ratchet were and smiled a bright smile before opening her mouth.

'Hey there silly puppy!' She exclaimed with a laugh. Psyche's reaction was immediate; the giant dog's ears perked right up, her huge tail started wagging and she barked excitedly. Everyone in the room started.
'You wanna go play outside? Huh?' The dog got up and jumped aorund excitedly, her huge tail hitting Ratchet's leg as it continued to wag in double time.

Tai smiled and tossed the pink ball, it went farther than she thought it would, must have been her robotic strength. Psyche barked loudly and bounded after it, Frankie and Mojo scampering off behind her. Sam looked up and his eyes widened in amazement. 'Tai?'

She gave a quick wave. 'Hey guys!' Everyone was amazed at the cheerful tone in her voice. It was as if the old Tai was abducted by aliens and was just returned without getting completely reversed. Despite the fact that she was now part Transformer...but that was completely awesome. Sam snapped out of his thoughts when he felt Tai leap onto his back.

'Whoa...what happened?' Sunstreaker exclaimed in amazement. 'How is it one minute you're all down...now you're back to normal...?!'

Tai smirked up at the yellow twin and shrugged. 'I just know Blurr wouldn't want me to be depressed...I'll always miss him...but I'll always have something to remind me of him for the rest of my partly immortal life...'

'What is that, sweetheart?' Optimus asked, kneeling in front of her. She held up the shining insigna with a proud look. 'This!' She turned to Ratchet. 'You up for some welding?'

The medical officer nodded with a proud look on his faceplates. 'Come with me.'

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Tai relaxed on the big medical table, staring up at the tall ceiling. Her robotic arm tingled with the sensation of the welding as Ratchet worked with expert fingers. He could honestly say he had never worked on such a tiny cybertronian arm, not even when Bumblebee was a sparkling.

'Boom boom pow...I'm a beast when you turn me on, into the future Cybertron...' Tai sang to herself as she tapped her converse on the cool metal.

'You kids with your hippin' and your hoppin'...' Ratchet muttered good naturedly, finishing up the last of the welding and straightening up. 'All done, dear.'

Taking off her leopard print sunglasses, she gazed down at the Doc bot's handy work; it was perfect. It was lined up where her tattoo used to be before Ravage the evil demon robocat used it as a chew toy.

'Perfection, Ratch to the hatch!' She smiled proudly, sitting up and cracking her neck joints loudly. 'You think he would've liked it?'

'I don't have to think.' Ratchet replied with a gentle tone. 'I know.'

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After that, Tai was back to her old self again.

She had officially christened Epps and Lennox as honorary big brothers, especially after they had their crew dig Blurr a proper grave. That alone had meant more to Tai than anything possible. She had practically leapt onto Will when he had told her what they were planning to do.

'You'd really do that?' She had asked in amazement.

'Of course, he was a soldier.' He had replied. 'And all soldiers deserve a proper burial...it doesn't matter if they're human or robot or swamp things from Neptune.' He shrugged at his joke, despite how lame it was. 'After what he did for you...he deserves to have a holiday named after him!'

Tai than shrieked excitedly, and leapt onto him, her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck. But of course, now being part robot...she was much heavier than she remembered.

'Man down!' Will yelled out as he fell backwards with a grunt of pain.

'Sorry...my bad!' Tai laughed, getting up off of him.

She held down her robotic hand to help him up, she smiled as Blurr's insignia gleamed in the light. She rubbed her chest when she felt a warm, brotherly feeling pass through her systems.
Yeah, she was going to be okay.

'Love ya, Blurr-a-rino...' She muttered with a smile.

At that moment, she could've sworn she heard something...his voice.

'Loveyatoo, Tai-dye..'

She smiled once again and headed off to challange Jazz and the twins to an all out prank war.

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Second to last chapter!

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