Their walk down the corridors was an oddly silent one. It was late, most were in recharge or out on patrol. For some reason, the halls being so empty made Swindle feel a bit...haunted. Despite the fact them being crowded wasn't exactly ever good news for him either. He stumbled back and forth, Starscream's hands on his back, both making him walk and keeping him from falling. The Seeker had a bemused expression as they made their way towards his Quarters. Most mechs would be uneasy or excited about such a thing.
Swindle was pretty much treated like a sparkling by the whole Trine, he didn't have much to look forward to other than possible TC cuddles and treats. Which only really made him feel more like a sparkling. And Skywarp? Skywarp cuddles too. Cuddles of death, anyway. The mech just hugged too tight...even Starscream ran at the sight of Skywarp wanting a hug. It could be amusing, sometimes Skywarp just needed a hug.
He'd hug anyone unlucky enough to get near him. Thundercracker, Starscream, Swindle, Onslaught, Vortex, Brawl, only Blast Off had managed to go his entire life as a Decepticon without getting a hug. He hadn't gotten one...yet. It only made Skywarp want to hug him more. The crazed Seeker even got Megatron once. Got shot in the aft for it too. Oddly enough it wasn't any serious damage despite being a direct hit. So either Skywarp was about to make a get away and Megatron needed to get a hit quickly, so didn't get to charge his weapon fully. Or he took it easy on the Seeker. Maybe he was going soft.
Maybe he needed a hug, too?
Swindle pushed that thought aside. He smiled when he recalled Skywarp hugging Hook once. Hook shoved a hook in Skywarp's left optic. Left it there. Starscream ended up having to fix it. And Skywarp ended up having a blue left optic for a while. They didn't have replacements. They did have an Autobot prisoner, though. Ouch. It kind of surprised them all Starscream done it. Surprised them more that the optic fit. And even more so that Skywarp went back and hugged Hook again afterwords, once the medic replaced his optic with a proper red one.
He didn't learn his lesson that time either. Hook eventually stopped bothering.
No one else could get away with hugging the Constructicon, though.
Scavenger would happily hug Skywarp any time the Seeker wanted. It kind of creeps everyone but the two of them out. TC had once suggested it was a fling or something. Neither really denied it...the rest of the Constructicons did, though.
His smile grew into a grin as he recalled the time Soundwave got too close to a needy-hug Skywarp. Poor TIC never seen it coming. He'd come to give orders to Skywarp from Megatron. No one quite knew why they didn't just use comm.s, Soundwave said Megatron said to tell him in person. That pretty much gave everyone an idea...
Megatron's a prick.
The moment Soundwave uttered the first syllable of the first word, Skywarp turned and pounced the Communications Officer. Rumor says that Skywarp didn't let him go until two hours later. Soundwave had a twitch after that, and still does his best to avoid contact with the violet Seeker. Any Seeker, really. Except Starscream. One, he couldn't if he wanted to. And two, Starscream is probably the last mech that would ever, ever willingly hug someone he didn't practically consider family.
Almost everyone was secretly trying to get Starscream to hug him, just to see if the Tape-deck would fry a circuit.
Of course Swindle and his Gestalt pretty much counted as Family to Starscream. He hugged them all the time, so he had to consider them something close to family. Even Brawl got occasional Starscream cuddles. Starscream's cuddly when he wants to be. Sometimes when he doesn't want to be. Even Megatron thought so. Seriously. He'd stated it once. Though he wouldn't admit to have ever gotten a Starscream hug or cuddle.
He would always get somewhat angsty after mention of it, actually.
Starscream said he's jealous because he's never gotten a hug form him. Thundercracker...agreed with Starscream. Skywarp...well agreed too. It's the reason he ever even gave Megatron a hug in the first place.
Swindle blinked, shifting his view from the floor to the open halls, he smiled as a Thundercracker and Skywarp appeared from around the far corner, Skywarp waved, Thundercracker was slouched, dragging his pedes behind him. Looking about as awake as Swindle felt. Swindle blinked, and suddenly Skywarp was right in-front of them. He jumped back, pressing into Starscream's hands, the Seeker made a face at Skywarp. "Where are you two going in such a rush?"
Skywarp ignored him in favor of grabbing Swindle, snapping him out of his dazed stupor, and picking the Jeep-former up into a hug. "Aww, our little Swindler's back~" Swindle made a groaning sound as Skywarp hugged him close, and tight. Swinging left to right and cooing. Swindle took a moment to wonder why. the pit. did he had all the crazies? Was he a crazy beacon? Just unlucky? Or would this be luck?
Seriously.
Skywarp sat him back down, and the small 'Con stumbled backwards a bit before being secured by Starscream, who quickly snagged him by the shoulders to keep him balanced. Starscream scowled slightly at the grinning Violet. "Where are you two going in such a hurry?" He asked again, frowning at Thundercracker as the sluggish mech finally reached them, and took a position of leaning heavily on the still grinning Skywarp, who seemed as awake and as happy as could be.
"We have patrol in a few minutes...or seconds. Or maybe it's always supposed to have been on way..." He shrugged, grabbed Thundercracker, who made a soft mumbled protest at being shifted, and took off down the hall, dragging the blue Seeker with him. "Sorry, see ya later!" He called over his shoulder, before the two disappeared around the corner. Starscream glared at where they had been, and sighed.
"I have work to do...I was going to have you stay with them...damn..." Shifting his weight to his right, and propping Swindle a bit better so the half-asleep mech wouldn't loose balance, he activated his comm.-link. Swindle shifted to look curiously at it, as best he could from his position. A moment passed before Soundwave appeared on the screen, visor slightly dimmed. He made a mumbling sound, that sounded somewhat like a question. But the robotic voice was a bit too...mumbled?
"Soundwave." Starscream greeted, smiling kindly. And suddenly both Soundwave and Swindle were on full alert, staring at Starscream. The Seeker shifted, and pulled Swindle into view of the comm. "You're going to sparkling-sit for me! Thanks!" And with that, before either party could say anything, the comm. was cut by Starscream. Starscream smiled down at Swindle, who tried his best to glare, despite being tired once again.
"'M'not a sparkling..." Swindle managed, leaning against Starscream slightly as he felt himself nearly fall into recharge again. Starscream patted him on his pretty pink helm. "Sure aren't!" He said far-too-happily before grabbing Swindle, and direction him down the hall once again. The walk, again, was silent and uneventful. Starscream would shake Swindle every now and then to keep the smaller 'Con from falling into recharge, and Swindle would wake up, groggy, and stumble again.
Soon enough they were at Soundwave's door. It was...conveniently...not far from Starscream's. Starscream hit the comm. and the door almost instantly opened to reveal a wide-awake Rumble, and groggy Soundwave leaning lightly against the door frame. "Starscream..." Soundwave's tired, robotic voice managed. Starscream grinned, shoved Swindle lightly, getting him to stumble into the door. "He's needs a wash, some Energon, then let him recharge. He shouldn't be any trouble! I have to get back to my duties okaythanksbye see you Rumble!" And with that Starscream was jogging down the hall, leaving two tired, disoriented mechs staring after him, Rumble grinned.
"SLEEPOVER!"
The cassette declared, grabbing Swindle and dragging him into the room. Soundwave paused, looking at where the two youngling had been, and proceeded to groan. "It's too early for this slag." He muttered, shutting the door and stumbling back into the room.
Authors Notes: Soundwave's not a morning person. Especially on one of the oh-so-few mornings where he actually had a chance of getting some recharge. Hehehe, Skywarp is hug needy. I used to have a friend who reminds me somewhat of how I have written out Skywarp in this story, and he is the type of person who gets depressed without physical contact for a while. i.e Hugs
He used to randomly pop out of nowhere and hug me from behind. Dude did it just to scare me, I swear.
I've always figured that, out of the two, it would probably be Frenzy who wouldn't be a morning person. I don't know why. It just...I don't know. You would think the name would make me think otherwise. I dunno.
SLEEPOVER! Love me. You shall see a Sleepover chapter next! See how their party goes when Blaze Of Glory updates next!
Disclaimer: Transformers does not belong to me, nor do any of it's Characters.