Please note that these characters belong to their original creators as do any songs used in this fiction, not me, this is just my take on what might happen enjoy and let me know what you think.
also i am trying to fix any mistakes that i might have missed in past chapters (i.e spelling, grammar)
For uncounted minutes they stood there in silence Sam trying to find some words that would explain things to Miles, but nothing came and all he could do was hold on to Bumblebee who seemed to be very calm about all this. Bee was the first to speak "hi I'm benjamin bombus but everybody calls me bee" a very confused Sam commed and asked "benjamin bombus?" Bumblebee replied back across the com "ben as in ben kenobi and bombus which means bee genus". Sam was a little stunned at how exactly his lover had managed to put those two things together and give him self a name but if it worked on Miles then he would have one less thing to deal with right at this second. "since when have you?" Miles asked as he pointed at Sam and Bee, "we sort of met about two years ago right before mission city and we sort of started out as friends but over the years we kind of feel for each other" Sam tried to explain "so that's why the evil jock concubine is out of the picture" the venom was back in Miles words. Bee let go of Sam and put his book down before turning to Miles and saying "mikaela is our friend miles, she was there for sam even when things started to drift apart between them and was still our friend when we got together so drop the bad attitude towards her!" the suddenness of Bumblebee's statement took Miles by surprise and for a second he stood there just as stunned as he had been when Bee was kissing Sam.
"yeh, well she didn't take your best friend away from you did she, you guys were all together having fun weren't you, while I was on my own and I bet that sam told you everything about mission city while he just ignored me!!" Miles was red in the face and almost looked like he was trying not to cry "miles it's not like that, we were all there in mission city, we went through all that together", Sam was trying to calm his once best friend but Miles didn't even seem to be listening anymore he just looked like he was letting more and more pent-up emotion boil to the surface. Slowly Miles hands clenched into tight fists as his knuckled turned white "so I'm just supposed accept that I a guy I thought was my best friend for most of my life has been keeping all this from me, I just supposed to smile and be happy and hang from a tree while you guys go for a drive in your car just like before when you went away with that evil bitch" Miles had started shaking and he looked ready to explode any second "and now that you have your little boy toy here I'm supposed to just wait at the side of the road again until you want me, well guess what sam I'm through waiting for you to remember that I'm still your friend because from now on I'm not".
Sam was hurt by what Miles had said, he had never intended to forget about his friend but they had just drifted apart, the events leading up to and including mission city had changed his life forever and while he didn't regret any of it he could never go back to the person he had been before and now things had changed even more so that who he was now bore little resemblance to the guy Miles had known. "miles I didn't.." but Sam never got to finish what he was saying, Miles punched him hard in the mouth and ran out the door; the impact had taken Sam by surprise so that now he was lying on the floor the corner of his mouth bleeding. "I'm so sorry sam I should have stopped him, I never expected him to act like that" Bumblebee was almost panicking at what had happened "it's ok bee" said Sam, as he wiped the simulated blood from his face, both it and the damage that Miles had caused vanished into his Avatars skin "I should have see this coming, miles was never happy about mikalea and I should have known that he would take this even harder, but I never thought he'd punch me and I was building up to telling him about us".
"sam I..." "I know bee, you thought it would make telling miles easier if he just saw that we were together, but I think he might have reacted the same if I had just told him, he's been holding all that in for years now and judging by the right hook I received I guess he really blamed me all along for the way things have turned out" Sam looked at Bumblebee and smiled gently "after all did you think that I wouldn't notice how you scanned the room before you entered" Bee just blushed at the words. "what the hell is going on here?" Ron asked, "miles wasn't to happy when he found out that I had broken up with mikaela and was now in love with bee, he thought that I should have told him sooner so expressed his opinion with his fist" Sam explained as Bumblebee helped him off the floor "oh my god are you hurt?" asked a very concerned Ron "a little stunned but there's no damage, he couldn't have hurt me if he had a machine gun" Sam said smiling weakly.
"do you think I was a bad friend to miles bee?" this was the first thing Sam had said about the subject in hours; after the incident he had just gone back to flipping through channels on the T.V while Bumblebee had just pulled him close fearful that something else would happen. It was now night and Bee had thought that Sam wasn't going to talk about what had happened; now he was faced with a question that had seemingly come out of the blue "no sam, I think that you were there for miles but it was hard for you to connect to him after what you had been through, after-all you couldn't even tell him about any of it so how could he have understood how you felt or what you were going through" Bee paused as Sam shifted awkwardly "but still bee I should have at least tried too.." "you did sam, remember, but there was so much that you could not say and for a long time all he could ask you was "what really happened in mission city sam?" and you couldn't give him the answers he wanted, even if you had then his life would have been placed in danger just by knowing the truth, you did what was best at the time" Bee paused once more before he continued "it wasn't what you wanted but it kept your friend safe and out of harms way". Bee's words made sense in one way he had kept Miles safe but in another way it made Sam feel bad that he had really kept so much from his former best friend. True it had started with the information about Bumblebee and the other Autobots but it had grown so eventually that Sam told Miles less and less and as time went on they barely spoke at all about anything.
The more Sam thought about it the more he realized that the problem was time, both he and Miles had grown up together they had lived lives that grew at the same rate but after he met the Autobots Sam had been forced to grow up very fast in-order to to save his friends, Miles hadn't so he was far behind Sam now and he felt like the distance between them could not be bridged no matter how hard they tried. Events had changed his life, no choices, his choices and the worst part was that no matter how they might have hurt someone he was close to Sam knew that if he had the chance he would make the same ones all over again, except maybe the ones regarding Bee and Mikaela if he had the choice there then he would have chosen Bee from the start in order to avoid causing his friend and lover any pain.
"Your right I've changed so much bee, I'm not the guy I was back when miles and I were close and I can't go back" the words made Bumblebee's spark quiver for a moment "do you want to go back?" the question filled Bee's mind with images of a life without Sam where he was alone once more on cold empty roads, "no, I don't want to go back, it would mean loosing everything that I have now, it would mean loosing you" the image of the empty road vanished the moment Sam spoke those words and Bee felt happy again ."but I cant help the feeling that I should make it up to miles some how, I know that I can't tell him the truth as he'd feel even more betrayed but there has to be something I can do to bridge the gap between us?" Sam still felt that if only he could find the words then he could make things right between them once more; "sam you want to help miles, you want to be a friend for him, I know that you can't be the same as before but at least your willing to try and be a friend; but that will only really work if he wants you to be his friend again" Bumblebee paused for a second as he pulled Sam closer "you may not want to face this but he may never want to let this go, to my sorrow I've seen friends broken apart by necessary secrets before, sometime they can move past whats been done, other times one can never forgive the other, I would have said that miles was willing to let this go but" Bee paused once more giving Sam time to brace for the rest "I have never seen him so angry before and the look he had on his face was truly something born of hate, all you can do is hope that it dies before he gives him self over to it". Bumblebee feared that it may already be to late for Miles he had seen something gentle die in the teen's and when it did something cold and hard had been born in it's place.
Sam knew that Bee was right, that all he could do was wait things out and try to talk to miles when he had calmed down; but he had this feeling deep in his spark that something had changed that day and it would make things impossible between him and Miles from now on and all Sam could do was hope that the feeling was good old fashioned human paranoia. Something flashed on the T.V screen that caught the attention of both Avatars "three days!!, three days from now out side the town of tranquility we will be holding the most off the wall street race you've ever seen, it's open to anyone with a car there are no speed limits, no rules, the first across our finish line wins the mystery grand prize, what is it, is it a car, is it a plane, is it a million dollars!!!, we don't know it's a mystery!!!! all we know is that if you want to prove your self the fastest on the road you'll be there" the over energetic announcer was replaced by a list of information about the race and how to enter, if Sam and Bee had not been paying attention then even they would have missed it as it flew by so fast.
"sam, can we?" Bee could not hide the excitement in his voice, all trace of the previous conversation had vanished and he was no fixed on the event "it won't really be a race you know, not if we enter" Sam was trying hard to stay level headed about all this even thought the thought of driving as fast as he could against other drivers was really getting him excited to. Bumblebee looked Sam in the eyes and gave him what humans described as the puppy-dog look "we'll only be the best my a little bit if we hold back, come on please it'll be fun and you never really got to let your self go before and I really wanted to see your alt tear up the road at top speed" Sam had lost the battle the moment Bee had looked him in the eyes, how could he deny his lover anything while facing that look.
"ok bee" Sam said rubbing their noses together in an Eskimo kiss "but we need to keep everything looking human through the race and I have no idea how I'm going to tell my mom and dad about this" "leave that to me" Bee said with a small smirk. The worry of the day had been replaced for the moment with thoughts of the future, Sam and Bumblebee settled on their bed ready for a calm and peaceful stasis when one unanswered question made it's way into Sam's mind "hey bee, why did you have a copy of the kamasutra in the garage?" Sam asked his voice tinted with the drawl of on-coming stasis, Bee kissed the back of his neck and gently said "a bot can dream cant he and this dream I never want to wake up from" Bumblebee pulled them close together as both he and his lover slowly drifted off into stasis together.
