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Jasper, 3rd POV

Jack stared out the window next to his desk, head propped up by his hand.

A migraine throbbed at his temples, making him see white spots now and then. He was used to it by now, knowing it was Shadowdusk, exploring through his memories and learning more about 'her sparkling'.

Jack scowled at the very thought.

He didn't know what changes Shadowdusk was bringing, all he knew was that it was extremely painful and he couldn't eat (as well as to never mention his real mom, or face even more exruciating pain as punishment).

"Mr. Darby."

Jack turned his head, staring at the teacher with emotionless eyes.

The teacher hesitated for a moment, unnerved by the blank, dull, blue-grey eyes of Jack, but then spoke.

"Mr. Darby, would you please pay attention? I-"

The rest was drowned out as a buzz sounded, growing louder and louder. Jack flinched, looking at everyone else, they couldn't hear it? It was so loud, so high pitched!

It felt like nails were scraping across his skull, a new part of his slowly growing insanity that Shadowdusk was bringing?

The noise sudden became a shrill shriek. Jack stood abruptly, eyes wide in panic, hands cover his ears. His chair clattered to the ground and everyone jumped, the teacher backing up a step.

Jack ran out of the room, so quick that he seemed to almost vanish.

Jack ran down the hall, desperately trying to escape the noise, but even with his hands so tightly clasped over his ears, the noise continued to wail, making his head pound unbaribly, and his heart to beat fast, feeling as though it was torn by burning metal.

Jack burst out the school doors, heading towards the cool, dense forest down the hill behind the school.

He entered the cold shadows the tree's cast, continuing to run until he was far into the coverage, then collasped to his knee's, clawing desperatly at his ears.

"S-s-stop! PL-PLEASE!" He begged, voice hanging in the still air.

"Hush, sweet spark. It is simply the change, it is progressing quicker then I thought at first."

"I d-don't w-w-want to be ch-changed into wh-whatever th-th-this is!" Jack whimpered as he continued to tear at his ears.

"Now stop that, Moonsoul, it aches for you to cause yourself harm."

Jack continued his actions though, until they were paralyzed by the now familiar feeling of numbness. His arms fell limply to his sides as he stared at the ground, eyes wide in terror as bloody tears dripped onto the ground.

"I-I want m-m-my mo-mom." He whimpered helplessly, and Shadowdusk chuckled lightly.

"But I am already here, my little sparkling."

Anger boiled through Jack.

"M-My real mom!" He snapped, head lifting to stare at the canopy off trees.

A growl echoed and sudden pain engulfed his mind along with the shrieking wail. Jack gasped, trying to make his arms move to grab his head, but he couldn't. He could do nothing but wait for the pain to cease, while Shadowdusk yelled angrily.

"I AM YOUR MOTHER! YOU ARE MY CHILD! THAT HUMAN WOMAN IS NOT! YOU ARE MINE!"

Jack trembled as the shrill buzz ended, but the pain remained, coarsing through him. Then Shadowdusk forced words through his lips, despite his desperate strugle to keep silent.

"I-I-I am s-sorry...m...m...m-mother."

The pain vanished, and Jack collapsed forward, barely catching himself with his now free arms. He panted, as the last bloody tears trickled off his face.

"Why...why do you have so much power...? Even Optimus-"

"Because I was once the guardian of Vector Sigma, before I lost you brother, Starcrest."

Jack remained silent, waiting for his breathing to return to normal before he slowly stood, wiping away the trails left by the tears of blood on the inside of his sleeve. He was seething on the inside, Shadowdusk really took this too far, calling her lost real sparkling.

Pushing that aside, Jack finally realized what he'd done.

He'd run out of school.

In the middle of last period.

He was screwed.

Autobot base, Jack's POV

I sat on the couch, watching Miko and Raf play a video game. In the back of my mind I could hear the faint whisper of Shadowdusk, who was humming happily to herself.

'Glad she can keep herself occupied' I thought dryly as I looked to the enterance of base. Mom drove in, and by her face, I could tell the teacher had called her.

I heard Shadowdusk growl lightly, but I shrugged it off before standing and going down to meet her.

"Uh, hey mom, whats up?" I asked hesitantly. She raised a brow, frowning as she crossed her arms.

"Jackson Darby, don't even give me that. What were you thinking, running out of school in the middle of class? I know high school isn't the funnest thing to do, but you're already having trouble keeping up your grades!"

Everyone was staring at my mom and I, effectively making me flush in embarassment.

"I...I know, and I'm sorry, mom, really. I promise, it won't happen again!" I quickly said, flinching slightly as I a small yet sharp pain pricked at my mind.

I couldn't even approach my mom any more without pain from Shadowdusk's anger.

Mom sighed anrgily.

"Just...really. What was going through your mind? Just running out in the middle of class? That's not like you!"

I shrugged with a heavy sigh, I couldn't tell her that an insane femme who thought I was her child was changing me in such an extremely painful way.

"I...I wasn't feeling so good, I felt nausious." I said, though I immediately regreted it.

Mom pressed a hand to my forehead, her face twisted in concern as Arcee moved forward quickly.

"What? Why didn't you tell me in the first place!" Mom chided. I smiled sheepishly, shrugging off her hand.

"Didn't want to worry you, I'm fine! Really, mom." I assured, offering Arcee a smile to ease her concern. She hesitantly smiled in return.

After a few more minutes of reassuring mom, Arcee and a polite refusel of Ratchet's offer to run a scan over me, I went back up onto the cement deck.

Shadowdusk was still angry, and my head now throbbed with a painful headache. She seemed to realize this.

"Oh! Moonsoul, I am so sorry, little one." She murmured softly. To others, her voice would have been soothing.

To me, it was anything but.