Yay! Chapter 20! XDDD 'Kay, back to see how the others are hadlein' a toddler! (This shouldn't end well...) O.O Enjoy!
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Soulmates; Chapter 20: The Life With a Toddler
Charlotte lied on her belly in the living room, colouring in a colouring book, Luke's chin on her head, lying on her back, his tongue sticking out, his tail wagging. It had been a day since the accident with her parents. Charlotte was, surprisingly, comfortable living with the Autobot's. She wasn't sure about them though... Charlotte shrugged and continued to colour in the animated sun with her yellow crayon.
Wave glanced over from the couch at Charlotte and felt a ping in her spark. Wave knew what it was like loseing your parents; she had personal experinse. Charlotte hummed a tune she heard on the radio, put down the yellow crayon and picked up an orange one.
Luke licked her head with a yipe. Charlotte laughed, sat up, took Luke off her head an nuzzled his head. "Your a silly puppy!" she cooed. Luke yipped again and licked her nose, thus making the four year-old laugh again. Jazz smiled at the scene thoughtfully. "We're back!" Sari called as she and the other girls entered the base. Everyone looked up at them. Sari landed on the round gracefully and unactivated her helmet. Candy smiled at everyone. "And we got stuff!" Candy added, swinging a shopping bag in her hand. Fern strolled over to Charlotte and Luke. "We got some stuff for you," Fern said, putting the bags down.
Charlotte put Luke down and took the bags. She took out some dig toys-Luke immediately started to paly with them-a stuffed doll with yellow yarn hair; blue over-all's, a purple t-shirt, black button eyes, a wire smile, she took out some stuffed animals, bluidng blocks and some othe crayons. Charlotte smiled at Fern. "Thank you," Charlotte said sweetly. Fern smiled back at the toddler.
Cailey couldn't stop smileing at Charlotte. She's a sweet little kid. Cailey thought.
Charlotte stood up, took one of the chew toys Luke got and started to play with Luke. Luke got up on his hine legs and made jumps for the chew toys but always ended up missing Charlotte was laughing her head off.
Finally, Luke jumped up, tackled Charlotte to the ground and licked her face. She giggled at her dog. Luke grabbed the chew toy in his mouth and trotted off. Charlotte sat up with a wide grin on her face. Noah trotted in the base behind Candy. Bulkhead chuckled at the little scene with Charlotte and Luke. She reminded Bulkhead of Sari when she was younger; alaways playing, laughing and not have a care in the world.
Bulkhead shook his helm and went back to his painting. "Whatcha doing, Bulky?" Charlotte asked. Bulkhead glanced down and smiled. "I'm paintin' a picture," he said. Charlotte climbed up his leg, his arm and sat on his shoulder. "Whatcha painting?" she asked. Bulkhead grinned at her thoughtfully. "Ummm, I thinks its called a 'heart'." He said. Charlotte looked at it with a thoughtful grin.
Bulkhead thought she was going to give him grief on how it either didn't look like it or it needed something else. But, instead, she said. "Its pretty, Bulky." Bulkhead blinked. "Real-l Really?" He sputtered.
Charlotte nodded. "Yep," she said.
Bulkhead grinned at the four year-old as she used his servo like a slide to go back down on the ground. Charlotte landed on the ground gracefully. She picked up the bag of goods and took them to Sari's old room, since that's where she was staying at and such. She skipped into the room, closed the door behind herself and put the bags on the tire bed. Luke jumped onto the bed with a graceful leap.
Charlotte smiled and sat down next to her puppy. She took hold of the half heart necklace and looked down at it. And her childish smile vanished. She reached into the pocket of her dress and pulled out her mother's half of the necklace. She put the the two together, thus making it say MOTHER & DAUGHTER in bronze. She tired to smile at it, she really did, but she couldn't do it. The memory of seeing her mothers bleeding body flashed in her mind; the memory of her mother's eyes shrunken, her father lying beside her, in the same bloody mess, his glasses all dented, his eyes the same way as her mother's, their skin paler then before, their unmoving bodies, just lying there in a pool of blood, the horrible robot, that was called a Decepticon, loomed over them, a null-ray gun hovering over their bodies, the smell of death flooded the child's nose, thus making her sick to her stomach, the image of...everything. Her whole world had been shattered by that one, single, moment. It was just a passing memory that flashed into her mind for just a second but hot tears rolled down her cheeks and landed on the two half's of the heart necklace.
Luke, sensing something was wrong with her, put a paw on her wrist with a sympathetic whimper. Charlotte glanced briefly down at her dog, then back at the necklace. She wrapped her fingers around it and squeezed it tightly.
The door opened slightly but Charlotte was to sad to notice. "Hey,"Arcee said and knelt down beside her. Charlotte glanced up at Arcee through the wall of her tears. "Its alright, Charlotte," Arcee said, picking her up. Arcee brought Charlotte up to optic level. Arcee wiped the tears away as gentle as she could. Charlotte gave a brief nod at the Autobot and realised the heart necklace from her fingers.
Arcee looked at Charlotte, in the eyes, and smiled softly. "I wish that never happened," Charlotte whispered. Arcee nodded slightly. "Yes but," she said, "we're your family now." Charlotte looked up at Arcee and smiled with a nod. Luke barked happily.
Charlotte wrapped her little arms around Arcee's neck and pulled the femme into a some what hug. Arcee smiled and put Charlotte back on the ground as soon as Charlotte let go of her neck. Arcee glanced at the opened colouring book on Charlotte's tire bed. "What are you doing there?" Arcee asked, kindly. Charlotte grinned, guessing that this was supposed to take her mind off her past away family. "I'm just colouring in a little smiley face, see?" Charlotte showed Arcee the colouring book, explaining to her what the book was for and such.
They were completely unaware of what was happening out of the outskirts of the city...
Moonbeam was cursing a mile a minute as she flew over the outskirts of Detroit. "The damn Ironoide was right there! Right there! Slag it! Slag it!" Moonbeam barked at herself. She landed on an building and punched a satellite pole, causing a huge dent to form in the middle. She sighed furiously at herself. She ran a servo through her helm, transformed and flew off. "Slag it!" She cursed under her breath.
"-Moonbem! Where are you?-" Dark Star's voice come through the com-link.
Moonbeam transformed back to her alt-mode and pressed her finger on the com-link button. "I'm on the next Nebula. Where do ya think I am?" Moonbeam barked back into the com-link. She could tell Dark Star was taken aback by this. "-Yeesh, someone's cranky,-" Dark Star said. Moonbeam growled.
"I'm not in the mood, Dark Star!" she snarled.
She heard X-Fire's scream in pain in the back round. "What's going on? What's Shockwave doing to X-Fire?" Moonbeam demanded. "-Um, nothing!-" Another scream of pain. "What's going on, Dark Star?" Moonbeam was getting slightly ticked off at Dark Star. "-Um your-chhchh-breaking-chhchh-up! I think we should-chhhchh-talk-chhchh-" Another scream of pain. "-Bye!-" Dark Star cut off the com-link. Moonbeam rolled her optics, taking her finger off the com. "Wimp," she mused. Moonbeam thought Dark Star was just to scared of her to tell her what was going on, that is why he hung up with fake static.
"X-Fire's fake static is way better then his," Moonbeam mumbled, flying off.
I gotta catch that Ironoide! Moonbeam thought. Or Dark Star will never let me hear the end of it! Moonbeam kept on flying, mumbleing to herself.
Charlotte was in the living room again, excpet she was playing with her new building blocks. She built up a miniture tower and took it back down again. Luke was playing with his new ball joyfully. Prowl glanced at Charlotte from his medition, not to far from where she was building and unbuilding her structures. "What is the purpse of that?" Prowl asked. Charlotte glanced up at him and grinned thoughtfully.
"Well," she said, rebuilding another miniture tower. "Its fun because, well...you can build what ever you want, I guess." Charlotte shrugged at the last part. "Then why do you need to take it apart?" Prowl asked. Charlotte pondered at that, then her grin returned. "Because then you can build more things, see?" Charlotte said. She built a little castle out of it, then took it apart and built a tower. Prowl was still unsure of why you needed to do that but, he guessed, that he could live without knowing. Prowl nodded and sat back in his meditation pose. Charlotte guessed he was still confuesed but decided to let it go.
Luke trotted over, placed his ball back on the ground and wagged his tail. Charlotte smiled and stood up. She took the ball, got in a throwing postion and threw it. It sailed over Luke's head, flew over to the hall-way and bouced off some where. I'm getting good at this! Charlotte thought with a grin. Luke ran after it, Charlotte followed him. The orange bouncey ball rolled into an room that had an blue shine to it.
Charlotte and Luke stopped in the door-way of the room and Charlotte peered inside. There, sitting in the middle of the room, was an orange, red and blue glowing box. Charlotte stared at it in awe. Luke ran into the room, obviously looking for his ball. "Luke! Come back!" Charlotte called and followed him. Charlotte was about to make a grab for Luke when the box began to glow a brighter blue. Charlotte looked up at it. "Huh?" she gasped. The box opened up and scanned her her. She stood there in shock, confusion and fear. Then it showed her images of other Autobot's, ships. Decepticon's and other things. Then, coming from Charlotte, images of her parents, Luke, other animals, children and other things. Then, just as fast as it came, the glowing stopped. Charlotte blinked. "Umm, did we just...have a conversation?" she said, even though she didn't quite pronounce 'converstion' right. Then a ray of blue light shot from the box and onto her little bead necklace she had made with Arcee earlier.
She glanced down in awe as the box closed up. "That was wierd," she mused to herself. In the beads place, was a gray like key. "What are you doing in here?" Rodimus asked from behind her. The sound of his voice made Charlotte jump a little.
Charlotte turned around to face him as Luke trotted up to her, the ball in his tiny mouth. "We came in here to get Luke's ball." Charlotte said innocently, pointing to Luke. Luke wagged his tail. Rodimus nodded and couldn't help but smile. Then an confused expression came on Charlotte's little four year-old face. "What's that glowing orange box?" she asked. pointing to the orange box.
Rodimus glanced up and frowned. "That's the All-Spark," he said. Charlotte tilted her head to the side slightly. "What's an 'All-Spark'?" she asked. Rodimus sighed. "The All-Spark is the most power fullest thing to us, Cybertrions, it could destroy a whole planet if put in the wrong servos." Rodimus explained. Charlotte's little blue eyes widened. "But that won't happen... right?" She said, a little nervously. Rodimus gave her a reassuring smile. "Nope," Charlotte smiled back and skipped away, Luke behind her. Rodimus watched her leave, shaking his helm with a grin.
He glanced at the All-Spark thoughtfully. Not while we got it. Rodimus added in his processor. Rodimus took one last look at the All-Spark and walked out of the room with a grin on his face plate.
Charlotte sat back in her original spot and played with her blocks again. Sari glanced over at her...then her thoughtful changed to fear. "Charlotte?" Sari said. Charlotte looked up at the techno-organic. "Yeah?' Charlotte said. Sari pointed to the key necklace. "Where did you get that?" Sari asked. Charlotte took hold of the necklace and held it up.
"I think the All-Spark gave it to me."
Cliffy! XD HAHA! You thought I was gonna make Charlotte a total pain in the A-bot's afts, didn't ya? XD And now she has a key like Sari? *Gasp* :O
Y'know, I was gonna have OP explain the All-Spark stuff to poor lil' Charlotte but I realized Rodimus barely had any screen time and this is what I came up with. XP
'Till next time! Review!
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