Grace woke up on a white bed, not her bed but a bed none the less. She ran her finger along the cold metal watching her own reflection. She touched her face realizing the mouth cover allowing her to speak was still there. But smaller. Tears started to run down her cheeks, feeling devastated. 'They changed it!' she whimpered to herself thinking, feeling crushed. She let out a small wail of sadness. She touched her throat feeling a small decepticon insignia in the metal. She smiled a bit, then tried sitting up but only feeling pain making her gasp out and fall back again.
As if on cue the autobot commander ran from behind the door frame, got down on his knees and looked at her frantically, "Everything alright?" his eyes shot around thinking of everything that could be wrong at once. Grace only shook her head, "I'm fine." She looked at him, Optimus' eyes widened hearing her voice for the first time. Clearly not gurgled like before. "I... " He sighed then slowly picked her up, Grace gave him a pity look at touched his stubbed finger, seeing scrapes and markings on them from fights, she ran her hand down the seams feeling the creases and uneven paint.
She looked at him, "I'm fine.. for now." she gave him a small smile, Optimus gave a long strong sigh of relief, "You don't know how much you scared us all." he brushed a piece of hair out of her face. Something what Jack said he had 'fatherly instincts' take over. Instantly optimus looked it up seeing what most human fathers did. Grounding sounded painful, he thought 'why would humans do that. Tie their younglings to the ground?' he saw another seeing physical punishment. His optics widened then shook his head, "Did they hurt you at all?" he thought again,"I mean besides your side and.. collar? And your side?" he looked at the metal around her neck.
Grace sighed, "Hes gonna come back to visit you know that.." she looks at him knowing Optimus was secretly furious,
"Yes... I know..." he pinched his nose. "I do not like the idea of it, although... I can see why..." he chuckled with a hint of worry, She looked and saw the pulled dent on the wall,
"Worried huh?" she looked down in guilt,
"Yes... Papa Smurf was worried," he gave a small smile, Her eyes widened,
"So you read my journal huh?" She crossed her arms,
Optimus chuckled sitting down and sat her on his shoulder, "Yes... Yes I did..." Grace leaned against his head and sighed covering up more,
"You are a big smurf you know that right?" Grace smiled,
Optimus smiled up at her, then looked out at the purple sky turning into night again. He could only think of what Megatron had in store, from here. And his human.