I know the last chapter was a fantasy of mine (well Allie's). What can I say, she likes big powerful mechs. I hope you like the story. Please take a moment to review. I would like to see at least three so that I know that you are alive and kicking. Enjoy!

The noon day sun was bright and cheerful in the forest. Kiki had always loved the waterfall. She had scouted the area and found no enemy movement so she had quickly stripped down to her sport shirt and boxers and stepped into the spray of the falls to get the oil out of her hair and wash the black camouflage paint off her face.

"That look nice and cool in this heat" Starscream said to her as he watched appreciatively. He stepped closer making sure that she was aware of his presence. She watched him watch her.

"Are you making sure that it is safe?" She asked him.

"It is. I have run my scanners for any life and there are none so far except the forest creatures that pop up." He said and smiled. He was washing out the outer rim of his thruster that had taken shrapnel and was repairing the outer part that his systems had not repaired yet. Kiki walked over to him, her dark wet hair sticking to her neck and shoulders as she knelt down in front of him.

"Do you need help with that? Allie makes us all learn basic engineering in case it should come in handy in the field." Kiki asked him.

"Can you clean the shrapnel out? I don't want my repair systems to embed it into my protoform because then it becomes a pain to dig out." Starscream told her. She smiled as she held out her hand for the laser scalpel and Starscream held his ped out for her to clean. Her touch was very gentle as if she was afraid to hurt him but as she began to dig the shrapnel out her hold became firm and steady to keep him from jerking or causing her to unnecessarily hurt him. She focused on her task and managed to get all of it out. While she worked Starscream took a moment to look at her profile. She was such a quiet femme but that could be because she had been damaged so severely. He wondered what they had done to her because he sensed her empathic abilities but he wondered if she had some of the telepathic ones like Shalon or Allie. If she didn't that may be why they were able to keep her so long.

She was ethereal to him. She embodied calmness like Aura had but where Aura was independent and strong, she needed a champion who would protect her. Maybe that was her appeal. He had never felt this desperation to possess a femme like he did toward her, but he also wanted to protect and cherish her. When she was close he could feel his spark reaching for her and he wondered if she felt the same feeling.

She looked up at him and said, "I have some cooling salve that should help prevent infection in my first aid kit." She reached back over to her bag and withdrew a blue box and opened it. Starscream could see bandages and different first aid needs as she pulled out a tube of cream. She spread it on her fingers and took his ped and began to rub it into the smooth warm armor. Her touch felt wonderful as he realized that the cooling gel had nanites to help heal his scrapes from the shrapnel.

"Thank you, that feels wonderful." He moaned as her fingers massaged the gel into his cuts and scrapes. His hand reached down and cupped her face as he turned it toward his.

"I want to kiss you so bad." He said very softly. "I just don't want to scare you." He told her as he intensely looked in her startled eyes. His voice became raspy as desire took over and he wondered if he would be able to control himself with her. His hands began to shake as he tenderly cupped her face and her hands wrapped around his wrists, but he could tell if she was resisting or encouraging him. He came closer, ever so slowly, and her eyes widened as his face a blur to her. Her eyes started to close and he could feel her lips that almost touched his but then she startled and pulled back. He felt it too and realized that they were not alone anymore. He quickly scanned the area and found a patrol of three beings heading in their direction.

"Come on!" Kiki grabbed everything up in a hurry and looked around to make sure nothing was left that would give them away and then Starscream grabbed her hand and ran with her to the entrance of the cave. He pushed her behind the wall that concealed the entrance, but held back to listen to make sure that they had not been discovered. He held Kiki close to him as they waited. In the distance they heard the patrol stop as the three beings got out. On closer inspection, they were Jung ho and as Kiki peeked over Starscream's shoulder she saw the red arm bands on their uniforms and began to shake. She recognized them as the soldiers that had captured her over a year ago and she had to clamp her hands over her mouth to keep from whimpering in fright.

Starscream looked down at her and realized what was happening. He drew her in close as they watched and listened to the men. It seemed they were stopping near the falls to take a break from patrol. He could hear their chatter and laughter as they sat by the falls to enjoy their lunch. Starscream held Kiki close as she shivered with reaction. She didn't dare take her hands away from her mouth for fear of giving them away. Starscream wanted to tell her that it would be okay and the noise of the falls would help disguise them but he could tell that it wouldn't do any good; she was lost in her own world of fear and so he held her as comforting as he could.

It seemed that they would stay there the rest of the day but then Starscream heard their communicator go off and with a sigh of relief they walked back to their vehicles and turned to go. Starscream held Kiki for several more minutes as he felt her systems calm and the shaking stop. He looked down at her realizing that the mood of earlier had been broken and his desire to protect her overruled his desire to possess her.

"Are you okay?" He asked her very softly.

"I think so." She said quietly.

"We can go back to the cave and rest if you need to." Starscream told her as he watched her vitals. Her breathing was still a bit uneven and he worried that she was more affected from the encounter than she was allowing him to see.

"I think that would be a good idea." She said after a moment of thinking. She stepped back and Starscream allowed her to leave his arms fearing that she would panic if he insisted on holding her. He gently guided her back into the large entrance and then producing a light her guided her to the smaller room that they had shared the night before. He walked in and lit one of the lanterns and tenderly laid her down on the cot. She whimpered a little as Starscream knelt down and rubbed her back. When the muscles began to relax he slid in behind her and held her as he had done the night before taking care not to frighten her. Starscream continued to rub her back as her eyes drooped and her breathing evened out and she fell into recharge. She let out one final deep shuddering breath as her systems winded down and she was coherent no more.

Starscream continued to hold her. His CPU was quickly processing her reaction to the men that they had seen. Her fear was so strong that he could feel it in his spark even without them being bonded. He wanted answers to that fear. He wanted to know why she shook so violently and why she had kept her hands over her mouth. It angered him that a femme that could be so strong be robbed of her confidence and pride and he vowed that he would destroy anyone who tried to hurt her like that again.

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"You're sure that you don't mind going with the twins?" Doc asked her darling mate.

"No, I don't mind at all. As much as they annoy me I love them as if they were my own sparklings even if they can get into trouble like you have never seen." Ratchet replied. Doc smiled at him as she swatted his aft and he laughed at her playful antics.

"Good Raynie is going to fly the transport. She had a viper ready and waiting for you three." Doc's hands went into the sides of Ratchet's armor and he shivered. "If you are good, I'll reward you." She purred into his audial. "And if you are very good, I'll go down on you." She whispered wickedly as her glossa snaked out and licked his chin. Ratchet laughed and lifted her up into his arms as her legs wrapped around his broad waist. The hummer's engine revved as he pushed his mate against the walls of her office in the medbay.

"You do realize that the twins could walk in at any minute on us." She said with a twinkle in her eye.

"So? Maybe we will teach them a new technique." Ratchet growled back at her. Doc laughed as she stroked his interface panel.

"You're sure you want to do this?" She asked one more time.

"Hell yeah, Doc. You are so hot when you are covered in energon and guts and you smell divine when you are wet and ready for my possession." He rasped out as he quickly retracted his panel, hiked up her skirt, tore away her panties, and slid into her.

"Oh honey, why so horny?" She purred and licked at his face plates as he established a rhythm to drive her wild with passion.

"I have watched you save lives all night and now I want to pleasure you with my body and spark." He panted into her ear. "I want to frag you until you scream. I want hear your pleasure reverberating through this office."

"Oh, baby, I didn't know you like dirty talk." She panted out and laughed but then the laughter turned to a moan as Ratchet found her sweet spot deep inside her valve and began gyrating his hips to hit it over and over. Doc began to steadily whimper as she felt the energy build within her but it was Ratchet sending the pulse that made her scream. It was sudden and intense and Ratchet began sending strong rolling pulses to his mate just so he could hear her scream over and over.

"You sadistic fragging…."She couldn't finish as a low howling scream began to emanate from her vocals. Ratchet loved it and sent another wave of pulses. Doc stood no chance against him as she was forced to ride out his possession of her. She arched fiercely into their union as her body went into overload, her systems feeling as if they were being blown away.

"Damn you!" She panted out when she could finally control some of the shaking. "You did that on purpose."

"Yes, but you loved every bit of it." He smirked as he grabbed her hair and forced her head back and up then kissed her hard and passionately biting her lips as he gently pulled out of her valve. She clutched at him and moaned as he pulled her from the wall and then sat her down in her chair, their lips never leaving the other. He didn't let go of her until her heard a cough and looked over his shoulder to see Prime standing in the door way.

"I hope I am not interrupting anything." Prime smirked at his CMO, clearly smelling the transfluid that had seeped out of his mate.

"Well you are now so what do you want?" Ratchet yelled back at Prime.

"I just came to tell you that the transport is ready and the Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are ready to go." Optimus said and Ratchet could tell that he was trying not to laugh at him for being caught in a compromising position even if his battle mask concealed his features.

"Good I will be there in a moment." Ratchet said as he held his mate to make sure she was okay. He had been rough with her but knew that she could take his passion and as her eyes regained their focus he smiled at her.

"Go, I am okay, but make sure you clean yourself up so you don't embarrass yourself." She laughed as he looked down and realized that his interface equipment was still exposed and Optimus laughed as a light blush stole across his face plates.

"We'll don't just stand there gawking, get out!" He bellowed at Prime who immediately complied to his order.

Ratchet could still hear the Prime's laughter bellowing through the infirmary.