Hi guys here is Chapter Nine. Sorry for the wait.

Chapter 9

To say that I was in shock wasn't true. I was angry. The mother that had abandoned me fifteen years ago just appears at the base and back in mine and dad's lives and I'm not sure on what to think and how it affects dad.

"Karen, calm down," Sunstreaker said, watching me punch the punching bag in the gym.

"How can I?" I asked him. "Sunny my mother that left me and dad just appears for no reason. What am I supposed to do? Let her back into my life when she hasn't been it for fifteen years."

He sighed before wrapping his arms around me. I turned my head to look at him as he nuzzled the top of my head with his chin.

"I know nits hard but give her a chance," he told me. "She might have had a reason for leaving you. She wouldn't have left you by her own choice. The entire base knew that she cared for you and your father and that she wouldn't leave you of her own free will."

I sighed closing my eyes as his word sink in as we listened to the gun shots that were my father's. Hearing someone clear their throat made us both look towards the door to see Optimus. He was watching us, as Sunny deactivated his hologram to salute his leader.

"Optimus sir," he said. "Is there something the matter?"

"None at all Sunstreaker," Optimus replied. "Just that I thought Karen would like to talk to her mother."

"She is not my mother," I growled. "She is nothing to do with me."

Optimus sighed before turning to leave.

"Karen, she is still your mother no matter what she has done," he said. "Give her a chance."

I sighed knowing he meant well as I went to punch the punching bag again.

The sun was setting as I made my way to my apartment. Entering it, I could see

(Few hours later)

That my dad was staring into space as he watched some news.

"Dad do you want to talk about it," I offered as I went to sit by him.

He looked down at me before his hologram appeared and he hugged me. I felt something wetting my t-shirt and pulling away I saw that he was crying.

"Hey, shush," I comforted him. "It will be okay. I'm here and no one will hurt you daddy."

"I lost her once Karen," he said hoarsely. "I lost you as well. I can't lose you both again."

I hugged him; I felt angry that this was what she had done to him. I rubbed his back as he sobbed. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and texted Lennox if he could get Ratchet for a second so that I could go and see someone.

Lennox arrived and took my position to comfort my dad.

"Come on Hide you're the gruffest bot on this base," Will teased. "Wonder what the twins would think when they find out."

I left the room as he was saying that and made my way to the barracks on base. Some of the soldiers nodded and greeted me as I entered them.

"Epps do you know where our visitor is?" I asked as he came out of his room.

"Second corridor on the left and the first door you come to on the right," he replied. "How come?"

"Thanks," I said.

I walked down until I reached my destination. Some of the soldiers were watching me as I knocked on the door with my fist.

"Just a minute," a voice called.

Opening the door, I marched in. Helen looked at me in confusion before she smiled.

"Katherine what can I do for you?" she asked me, still smiling.

"I want answers," I growled. "Where have you been?"

"I needed time away to think," she replied.

"So why not do that before you got with dad and had me," I said. "Instead of hurting him and abandoning us both? Or, did you just thought about yourself while cons tried to kill me and dad? And have you even tried to talk to him? I bet not because he is crying in our apartment and I want you to know. If you are here to hurt us again leave right now or I will find a way to kill you that makes it look like suicide."

"That is no way to talk to your mother," she snapped.

I felt anger boiling in my blood as I looked at her. My fists clenched inwardly as I stared at her.

"You are not my mother," I growled. "My mother would never leave her husband and child to do whatever the fuck it was you was doing. My mother would have tried to make things right and not turn up here when she left fourteen years ago."

She looked at me and I hated the fact that her eyes where shaped much like my own and she looked hurt.

"I didn't mean to hurt anyone," she whispered. "He said that it was for the best."

That confused me but I didn't show it as she walked away from me.

"Just stay away from me and my father or I will show you what a Hide can do when angry," I threatened before I left the room.

A couple of soldiers moved away from the door when I opened it. I knew that they had been eavesdropping on me but I didn't care. Right now, I had a father to care for and no one was going to hurt him like that again.

Entering the apartment I could see that my dad was in the kitchen making me some dinner as I went to help him.

"Where did you go?" he asked.

"I wemt to see her," I replied, not hiding my disgust when I said her.

"Karen do not let her bother you," dad said as he stirred the sauce for a curry. "She left once before she will again and I will not let her close to me again."

"Dad while I was talking to her she mentioned that a man had said that it would be for the best. Do you know what that means?"

He shook his head as Sunny came in with some bags that I recongised as Annie's.

"The little terror is here," Sunny said. "where should I put this Hide?"

"In Karen's room," dad replied. "By the way you want to stay over tonight or kidnap Karen?"

"Dad are you trying to get rid of me?" I asked, pretending to be hurt. "I would never believe it. My own father."

"Watch it missy," he teased as he prodded me with the wooden spoon he was using.

I laughed before I went to set the table. I laughed again when Annie came to hug me. Her blonde hair was up in two plaits and I pulled one making her giggle.

"Dad I'll go with Sunny," I called before I disappeared into my room.

Midnight

I had to giggle as I made my way back to the apartment. I had just pranked Red Alert with both sets of twins and I was heading abck to my bed to sleep. I turned the handle and was about to go in when I heard voices coming from the corrider ahead of me. Frowning I went to see what was going on and kept to the shadows as I texted Sunny to come and hear this as well. I felt a hand curl with mine and I looked to see Sunny as he pressed a finger to his lips as we went to hear this.

"The girl has a fiery attitude," a male's voice said. "We will have to be careful on what we do around her."

"Of course sir," I heard her reply making me growl. "But if she finds out that I'm not her mother but a pretender, she could ruin everything."

"Then don't screw up," the males voice said. "Now go and get that stupid Autobot to believe that it is wife that is before it."

Sunny pulled me back down the hall and pushed me in the apartment as we looked at each other in shock.

"We tell the others," I said.

"Karen we do that and who knows what happens," Sunny said. "That Pretender might harm you."

"And if I don't it will harm my father," I said. "Either way Sunny I get hurt. Either physical or emotional and I want it to be physical then watch my dad get hurt."

He sighed before he carried my bridal style to my room and placed me into bed.

"Fine," he said. "But I'm staying with you tonight."

I smiled as I snuggled up to him and fall to sleep.

End of Chapter Nine R&R