Optimus had gone alone. Ratchet was waiting nearby as backup, and the others were still at base. Optimus wasn't sure why he had come alone, but the primes were whispering within his mind. Telling him that all was not well.

He parked outside the house, the only house in the darkened street with the hallway light on and let his holoform fizzle into life.

He stepped carefully over the threshold of the house, closing the door almost silently behind him as he came forwards. The light allowed him to spot a small trail on the floor.

His spark skipped a pulse when he saw that it was red, but then relaxed when he realised it wasn't blood he relaxed.

It was…ink? Paint perhaps, but not blood. The chemical's were all wrong, it couldn't be blood.

Riptide wouldn't have known that.

Optimus continued forwards, noting the cold chill in the air and the hushed voices of the primes as he did so. If he listened carefully, he could hear one of the primes cackling in mad glee.

He followed the ink trail into the kitchen, where he spotted June.

She was sat with her back to him, on the counter space reading a book.

"June?" Optimus called out lightly, a huge weight lifted from his spark.

No response.

The weight dropped back onto him, and he placed a hand on June's shoulder.

"Dead"

The primes hissed at him, repeatedly.

"Dead"

He walked around her, so he could see her face.

"Dead"

A bone was jutting out of the front of her neck, her skin was white and her lips blue.

"Dead"

Her eyes were half lidded, empty and dead as they stared.

"DEAD"

Slowly, as though she would leap back into life, Optimus reached up to his comm.

"Ratchet, send in your holoform"

Rosestorm thought that it had been very noble, almost like an outdated disney movie that never quite made the cut. Charming, romantic and just damn adorable.

"You…don't mind?" Soundwave queried in a worried tone and she shook her head with a large smile.

"Mind? You can save me any day" She assured, leaning forwards to lean on his chest.

He sighed in relief, many Cybertronian's were protective of their partners and this wasn't unusual really.

Humans? Did they do that? Were they protective like he had just been?

"Soundwave"

Rosestorm's voice demanded attention and he looked down at her, she looked stern but also somewhat amused.

Though what was amusing about his discomfort he just didn't know.

"Some people are like that you know, humans" She told him, both of them were sat on Soundwaves berth with their limbs tangled together.

"As long as you don't start hitting me I don't have a problem" She muttered and his head lurched away, and he stared down at her.

"Do you think…that I'd-"

Rosestorm slapped his face.

It was the lightest, simplest slap that anyone could have mustered. A strong willed human could have hit him harder.

"Don't even go there" She warned, hissing as she did so.

Soundwave didn't want to go there. Soundwave wanted to be as far away from 'there' as he possibly could right now.

"What I meant," Rosestorm started in a stern voice and he listened intently to her "was that in human relationships, sometimes one of them can get violently obsessed"

Soundwave took in this information and digested it carefully, again this wasn't unlike some Cybertronian relationships. He searched some of the terms she had used, and found an article on domestic abuse.

Again, he had heard rumours of such a thing on Cybertron.

Megatron was particularly into that kind of…thing…

"I swear, that I shall never harm you" He told her, and primus did he mean it.

Of course he meant it, he couldn't even imagine hurting her. Or letting others hurt her.

Like Knockout…

His grip tightened unconsciously on Rosestorm when he thought about Knockout, his hands on her. On Rosestorm. His Rosestorm.

Damn that pissed him off.

Riptide didn't want to wait, he wanted to go and make sure that his mother was alright. She didn't have to know that it was him, just that a concerned autobot wanted to help. That was what the autobots did, protect humans. June was a special case, she was particularly involved with the autobots so it wouldn't even phase her if Riptide turned up.

But Optimus said wait. Everybody said wait.

So here he was, waiting.

The primes were getting on his nerves, and he wanted nothing more than to escape from it.

So he did. He lay back on the berth and let stasis consume him.

Short chapter. Hopefully it'll be quality over quantity guys!

Thelegofan, You alright? I know, it's a bit of a shock right? Wait till you hear Primes excuse.

Foxbear, It's something I haven't seen before, but I really wanted to try something a bit more daring.

JazznProwl's sparklingAriaFyre, Don't cry!…Okay, you can cry it was pretty dark, even for Silas. Well…I'd like to say it's get nicer, but it really, really doesn't.

Blackshadow, Oh, she's dead alright. As dead as a dodo. Why should they do anything? They're badass!

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Tulip Out.