I DO NOT OWN TRANSFORMERS

Lumina hummed to herself as she walked through the base adding decorations to surprise everyone when they got back from shopping and other errands. Prowl was on a drive with Lightrunner, Bumblebee was with Sari finishing up the Christmas shopping, Bulkhead was in his art studio doing who knows what, Optimus was working in his office/room and Ratchet was in the medbay. Other than that, it was relatively quiet. So the femme was enjoying herself as she strung lights up in the rafters and applying tinsel to the walls. Lumina smiled at her progress and went to fetch ornaments to hang on the tinsel.

Making sure Lumina was gone, Bulkhead snuck into the living room carrying a giant metal tree and he headed for the closest corner to set it up there. The Christmas tree had been Ratchet's idea, but not being an artist, the doc bot asked Bulkhead to do it. The old bot was getting tired of being called a scrooge so he was determined to show some Christmas spirit with the whole tree thing, but he didn't want the others to know, so Bulkhead promised not to tell. So when Lumina came back in, Bulky started to panic and he was startled by her, resulting in him swinging the tree around by accident and hitting Lumina, which knocked her over and the ornaments spilled all over the floor.

"Bulkhead!!!! Watch what you're doing," Lumina said and shook her head.

Optimus heard the racket coming from the living room and he ran into the room to see.

"Is everything alri-woah!!!!" Prime yelled as he slipped on a pile of ornaments and crashed to the floor and landed near Lumina.

The boss bot leaned up and Lumina asked, "Are you alright?"

He nodded and tried to stand without slipping on the ornaments and was helping Lumina up when the front door slid open and Bumblebee and Sari came in carrying presents. Bulkhead whipped around in panic trying to hide the tree and whacked Optimus in the back, which in turn, toppled over onto Lumina. The two lay tangled on the ground as Sari stared.

"Do we even want to know?" she laughed and BB said, "What? What's going on? I can't see over these presents!!!"

The young mech tried to see, but couldn't around the mountain of gifts in his hands. "Never mind, lets get these wrapped already, I can't wait to see what I got!!!"

Sari skipped off and Bumblebee followed and ran into the wall twice before making it into his room.

Lightrunner picked up a camera and turned it over in her hands.

"Man, it's hard trying to find presents for the others," she said and looked at a small computer.

"Let's see, I have a present for Lumina, Bulkhead, Optimus, Bumblebee, Sari, and Ratchet said he didn't want anything. What the heck can I get Prowl?"

She sighed and left the electronics department at the outlet mall. Lightrunner had been stewing over this for at least three days, still unsure until it finally hit her.

"Duh, something to do with nature. It's really all he talks about....(am I really that slow?)" She headed to the art square, seeking out a painting of nature.

Prowl walked through the cascade of small shops carrying a wrapped package. It was a CD of the band "Polysics". The ninja bot had gotten it for Lightrunner, figuring she would like it. He waited outside at the street corner when he saw Lightrunner coming, carrying a rectangular shape under her arm. She smiled as she came up to him.

"Ready?" the femme asked and Prowl nodded, still staring at the thing Lightrunner was holding. "Well we better hurry, I still have to help Lumina with the decorating."

Lightrunner transformed into her Suzuki motorcycle and drove down the street with Prowl in his motorcycle mode close behind.

Optimus and Lumina were still trying to untangle themselves when Prowl and Lightrunner came back. Prowl looked at the two strangely and Lightrunner smirked at Lumina. Lumina on the other hand, glowered at the femme's expression and motioned for her to stop. Lightrunner shrugged and pulled Prowl away to finish the gift wrapping with Bumblebee and Sari. By the time they were gone around the corner, Lumina's face was already burning from embarrassment. Optimus finally succeeded in untangling himself and helped Lumina to her feet.

"Um...are you alright?" Prime's face flushed red as he realized they were still holding hands and he let go.

Lumina nodded and reached down to clean up the ornaments.

"Would you like some help?" Optimus asked, leaning down.

"No thank yo-ow!!!!" she gasped as she rammed heads with Optimus.

Lumina cringed as she rubbed her forehead. Prime tried to keep himself from laughing. When Lumina looked up and saw Optimus' strained expression, she burst out into laughter and Optimus joined in with his own. This was definitely going to be a good Christmas.

Later that night, everyone was gathered together to celebrate Christmas Eve. Sari and Bumblebee were near the tree, shaking their presents and making wild guesses as to what they were and Bulkhead laughed as he chugged down another drum of Oil Nog. Prowl sat on the couch, while Lightrunner chatted with him and Ratchet. Optimus stood off to the side admiring the decorations, while Lumina kept an optic on Bumblebee and Sari, making sure they weren't going to try and use Ratchet's x-ray scanner to peek at the presents. Sari jumped up and down, begging Lumina if she could just open one gift. While Lumina was distracted, Bumblebee snuck over to Lightrunner and whispered something to her. She smiled and nodded. The two snuck off to who-knows-where obviously up to something. Sari squealed happily as Lumina gave her the go ahead and she dived into the massive pile of gifts. The silver femme chuckled lightly and noticed BB and Lightrunner were gone.

"What could they possibly be up to now?"

At around 11, Optimus decided to turn in, but stopped to chat some with Ratchet, who stood near the hallway entrance. They talked and laughed, while Lightrunner sat with Prowl joking around and Sari lay in BB's lap asleep after her energetic burst had worn off.

Lumina got up from the couch and was heading to her room for a much needed recharge when she stopped in the hallway entrance and turned back to say good night when Bumblebee said, "Hey Boss bot, look up!

" Optimus did and saw an odd plant hanging in the doorway.

He stared at it oddly until Prowl intervened, "You do realize what this means right Prime? That's a mistletoe and according to human culture whoever is caught beneath it's leaves must kiss."

Optimus shrugged and didn't think anything of it.

"Look who you're next to," Lightrunner added.

Optimus did and his spark seemed to stutter in complete shock at who is was., Lumina.

The silver femme glanced at him oddly and then gasped. "You don't mean?!"

Bumblebee and Lightrunner nodded. She glared at them. Lumina looked back over when Prowl cleared his throat.

"Well?"

Optimus turned his head from Lumina to them and back again. He felt trapped. Lumina wanted to so badly, but she was hesitant. No one really had a clue about how strongly she felt for Optimus and this one kiss could reveal it all when she wasn't ready. They both just stood there.

Minutes passed and Lightrunner was losing her patience and she stood up and marched over to them. She claimed she was going to bed. Lumina waited until she was past and then leaned forward a little for the inevitable kiss. When the two were really close, Lightrunner pushed Lumina, who fell into Prime's arms and into a quick kiss. Optimus blushed and broke the kiss. Lumina was stunned.

"Optimus, I-"

He smiled and kissed her again on the forehead. There were a few muffled gasps and Lightrunner smiled.

"There, was that really so bad?" She laughed when Lumina glared at her.

The silver femme sighed and smiled. "No, it was perfect."

Early the next morning, Sari was running around screaming, "It's Christmas!!!! It's Christmas!!!! Everyone wake up!!!! It's Christmas!!!!!"

The autobots joined together in the living room, exchanging gifts. Bumblebee beamed as he tried on a pair of chrome spinners, Bulkhead was excited when he got his art set, and Sari raced around on her minicar she got. Lightrunner squealed at her gift from Prowl and glomped him. The poor ninja bot struggled to get out of her vice like grip. Lumina gasped as she opened her gift. It was a picture of all the team and her on the first time she had joined so long ago.

She smiled and Optimus said, "Merry Christmas".