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The sun had set by the time sam woke up, the red and orange replaced by black, though the air was cold sam was still warm thanks to bumblebee, his large hands were wrapped around sam's body keeping him warm,when sam shifted bee moved his fingers aside so he could look at the teen, sam stretched and said grudgingly "we'd best head back now, before it gets to late", bee's only answer was a slight whirring of gears as he gave a small nod. The trip back was quite sam drifting between awake and asleep the whole way, when bee pulled into the parking lot outside dorm he opened the door and shuddered a little to wake his passenger fully, sam got out running his fingers along bee as he went, one last touch before going inside, bee ran one more scan before sam left, the readings were mostly normal but he was still worried for sam.
Inside the dorm most of the other student's were either studying or out at some party or another, sam walked into his room only to find leo getting ready to leave, "have a good ride?" leo ask with an air of sarcasm, "I just needed to get away for a little while" sam blankly answered, while leo finished putting the last touches to his look for the ladies, sam slumped down in front of his computer, their jerk professor had handed out an assignment that could only be finish with a gruelling 50 page essay with more details than most people would normally want, sam looked at the computer like it was a decepticon mocking him, looking over what he had to do sam didn't notice leo talking to him until leo gently tapped him on the shoulder, "what?" sam asked, "I said I was going out do you want to come?" leo repeated, as much as sam wanted to turn his back on the computer and papers in front of him he couldn't, this had to be done by morning, so his only answer was "I gotta get this done leo", leo just shrugged his shoulders as he went out the door. Turning back to the computer sam rubbed his tired eyes, though he had spent the past few hours asleep he still felt like sleep had eluded him for days on-end, staring at the screen his eyes closed once, twice, then shut tight as he dropped off to sleep again.
Dark clouds and jagged rocks filled sam's vision, a cold blew past him as he stood alone in this place, then voices filled the empty air "you have done well", "you saved optimus prime", "and in turn saved your world", "this gift of life we give to you so that you may do so again when fate calls upon you ", with that sam bolted awake, it was past midnight and he had done nothing, reaching for the keyboard he stopped, the screen was full of text, looking over it, he found that there was a complete report, everything he needed, nothing was missed, not wanting to foul his luck sam decided to print off the report ready for morning, he wanted to see that jerks face when he handed it over, if it was heavy enough maybe even drop it on the guys foot by accident, just as the printer stirred to life the door opened and leo came back in, he looked at sam, then at the computer, then the printer working hard on sam's report, "how'd you finish that?" he asked shocked, he'd seen sam when he left and sam looked like he was ready to fall asleep at any moment, not really want to or having an answer sam just said "hey I do my best thinking when I go for a drive with bee" that was partly true he did think well with bee around just not about college, leo flipped through the report while sam stretched the kinks out of his back, "man, you write like this after one little drive, maby I should go next time", the words left his mouth and leo regretted it more than anything he had ever said in his life, sam was looking at him with a death glare that would have made megatron proud, leo's face took on a look of fear that shouldn't have been possible for some one, sam felt something inside him boil up the moment he heard the words, how could leo even think of going for a drive with him and his bee, no-one was to share that, no-one, leo backed out of the room like he was facing a deceptcion, fumbling for the door handle he opened the door saying "I-I think there's another party startring right about now and I should go", sam nodded slowly, dangerously, leo tore out of there feeling lucky to be alive, with leo gone the thing inside sam settled down when thoughts of just sam and bee heading down the road to some quite spot filled his mind, he let out a breath that he hadn't realised he'd been holding in and calmed down, his eyes shifted to the parking lot where bee sat, waiting for him, protecting him, sam smiled and put his hand to the glass, the dull ache that was always with him lessened the more he thought of bee.
The phone rang just pulling sam from his thoughts, he picked and answered not really paying attention. |Mikaela dialled the number she had called so many times before, the last time she had called sam harsh words had been spoken, by her and her alone, she felt like sam was ignoring her like he didn't care, but that wasn't true, she saw that after she calmed down, sam was just distant, not just from her but from everyone except bumblebee, the two of them had gotten even closer in the past weeks, she had found out from ironhide when he gave an update to wheelie about autobot movements world wide, the phone rang but sam didn't answer, looking at the clock she wondered where he was, his classes should have finished by now, hours passed but still no answer from sam just a quick word with leo who said that "sam had gone for a drive with bumblebee again", the tone from leo was one of boredom, he hinted that this was all sam did when not in class. It was late to late to think this call was normal, she needed to talk to sam just this once to say sorry, to ask what was wrong, to find out if he still loved her, the sound of ringing filled the reviver again mikaela looked over at wheelie, he rolled over and put his small hand on his warrior goddess trying to comfort her, just as she had given up hope sam answered "hello"said a tired, dreamy voice, "sam" mikaela said as warmly as she could, hearing mikaela's voice caused sam to have feelings of guilt for the way he had treated her lately, they both tripped over each others words trying to apologise first, after a few awkward moments sam said "so, how are you", not "I miss you" or "I'm sorry I love you" just "how are you", it was then that mikaela accepted what she had feared, it was gone, what ever had been between them had vanished and sam still didn't really know, he just kept talking about things, every day stuff, he still cared but the way he was talking it was like he was chatting to one of the boys over lunch, there was nothing about him there, it was like that part of him that showed love and passion was somewhere else and it was trying to pull the rest of him with it, mikaela started talking back now, again biting back the tears, sam really didn't know he couldn't pick up anything from her, it wasn't like he was great at it before, but now it was gone that connection had snapped and he was just some friend on the phone, a friend who couldn't pick up what was wrong.
The conversation went on for a while all the time sam kept stealing glances out the window at bee, every now and then he was sure he could see lights flickering inside of bee but he put it down to his feeling of exhaustion. Out side there were lights inside of bee, points of light flickered around inside him trying to take a shape and then fell apart, bee let out a curse in Cybertronian, he calmed himself and tried again the lights danced around took shape the form shook and shuddered until it settled and the light faded, sitting in the drivers seat was a teenager about sam's age his build was bigger than sam's but his height was the same, a hand moved up to the rear-view mirror turning it so this unknown teen could see him self, blue eye's widened in shock as if seeing something for the first time, the face they belonged to had soft rounded features, blond spiked hair with black streaks and a single ear ring on the left ear, as his gaze moved down the sleeveless yellow and black jacket caught his eye, the dim light outside showed it poorly, but it looked great even in that half light below the jacket were a pair of black pants that looked way to tight to be real, for a few moments the figure just sat studying his reflection, then a small smile, spread across the soft lips, "it worked" said an all to familiar British accent, bee had done it, this was more than just a hologram, this was a telepresent avatar, something few autobots had managed to make, he saw and felt everything like he was human, "yes" he said as he punched the air hitting his own roof, the yes was followed by "ouch", just as bee was celebrating he felt his avatar fade and fall apart, he had used to much energy in his attempts and needed to rest, feeling stasis take over bumblebee drifted off waiting for morning when he would have a surprise for sam. The call from mikaela had just about finish when sam caught sight of bee settling down into stasis for the night, though mikaela had managed to hid what she was feeling from sam there was still a slight trace of something in her voice that unsettled him "are you sure your ok?" again his voice had the tone of a friend not a lover, "yeh" she replied holding back every thing she was feeling "I have to go now sam talk soon ok" were her last words before hanging up, everything that mikaela had been holding in rushed out as soon as the receiver hit the phone, tear filled eyes turned to wheelie, "I've lost him" was all she could say running out of the room, wheelie followed close behind, he had never seen his goddess like this.
A little unsettled by the call sam gathered his now printed paper into a neat pile and headed over to his inviting bed, the day had taken its toll on him and he wanted to rest, the pain in his arm had returned and he wanted the dull throbbing to be washed away by sleep, his eyes scanned the dark room one last time checking that everything was normal then fell shut, as sleep set in, sam's face showed signs of pain but he did not stir, the dark room began to lighten as a faint blue light flickered into being, it traced a pattern down sam's right arm then back to his chest, small pulses at first then more until a steady stream had formed following one of the veins in sam's arm, then another pulsing started down a new path following one of the other veins, this kept up until only energy flowed in and out of sam's arm, the room glowed with is light until sam turned over pulling the arm under neath him.
