I hope that you liked the last chapter. I wanted to bring out Kiki's character in the last chapter. I also wanted to set up the peace talks. This chapter I am hoping to show more of what Allie and what she does in the Realm and why it would be nice to have the support of the mechs with her.

I don't know if I will post right away like I normally do because I have to work a school sock hop, yes I am one of those chaperones!

Please leave a review so that I know if you like it or not. Also sometimes it inspires me in which directions I want to go. Thank you and enjoy!

She woke up with fluorescent light blaring overhead. Kiki blinked her eyes as she tried to focus on something. Everything was a blur to her and she had a processor ache as if she had been drinking high grade all night long. Her auburn brown hair fell in messy waves around her head as she tried to think of where she was. She slowly turned her head so that the ache would not intensify and she saw a blur of red and white. As she tried to focus more on it she realized that it was a mech and she started to tense until she remembered that it was Starscream. He had saved her life when she had fallen out of the transport and he had been the one that had been protecting her when the patrol stopped at the falls. He was sitting in a chair beside her and she wondered how they had found a chair in a cave.

"Good, you are awake." A voice said and she turned to the other side and saw Doc and her mate as they walked towards her. She blinked her eyes as her vision became more and more clear and she turned back to Starscream to watch him.

"Hey, you gave everyone a fright." He softly said as he smiled at her.

"Have you been…?" Her voice sounded hoarse and weak and her head ached more as she tried to speak.

"Don't speak. Allie did a mental probe on you and that probably gave you a splitting processor ache. Am I right?" Ratchet stated then asked as he checked her eyes with a light to watch for any delayed reaction. Her reflexes seemed sluggish but normal and he leaned back to give her space.

Kiki nodded slowly, her head killing her and her hands going to her temple. She saw Doc pick up a syringe and take a step closer.

"Kiki, I am going to put this into your I.V. so that it will help ease your processor. I'm letting you know because I know you don't like to take pain killers but you really need this one." She said as she bent over the machines and began to ease it into her I.V. It didn't take long for the pain killer to work and Kiki felt like she could talk once her head eased.

"What do you remember?" Starscream asked her gently.

"I… I… the cave… and the patrol." She said. "You had me… you laid me down." She whispered so softly that Ratchet and Starscream had to strain their audial receptors to hear her.

"Kiki you can stay another night here in the infirmary or I can let you go back to your quarters. You seem fine, but I don't want to rush you." Doc said in her kindest voice. No one wanted to startle Kiki as she lay there so pale and still.

Kiki thought about what she had said. She didn't want to go back to her quarters but she hated anything that reminded her of hospitals. "I would like to go back to my quarters, please." She said a little stronger but still quietly.

"Starscream, why don't you help her walk back to her quarters. Take your time getting up. I am unhooking the I.V. now but that medicine will make you feel light headed and queasy so take it easy." Doc had finished unhooking the machines as she smiled at Kiki and finished talking to her. Starscream stood up and moved his chair out of the way. Kiki slowly rose up with Ratchet's help and both he and Starscream helped her to the edge of the bed.

"How long?" Ratchet understood her question.

"Just a day. We brought you in last night. It's just after lunchtime now." He said. Ratchet sat next to her as he let her get used to her feet touching the ground once again. Starscream hovered on the other side of her as he waited for her to signal when she was ready to stand. She looked at him and he could see a small pale blush grace her cheeks and it made her look divine like a human's porcelain baby doll with her full lips barely parted in anticipation, but then she cast her eyes down and the moment lost as he waited for her to let him help her.

"I think that I am ready." She said as she looked at Ratchet. Starscream took her elbow as Ratchet placed his hand on her other arm and they helped her to stand. Once she was steady, they assisted her to the door and they stopped just for a moment to let her catch her breath. Starscream smiled as he gently coaxed her out the door and they walked to the elevator.

"I hate these contraptions." She said as they waited for the door to open. It seemed forever but then the door finally opened. They slowly filed in as Kiki felt relief. She may hate elevators but it was better than attempting to climb the stairs. When they filed out the same way they had filed in Kiki showed them where her quarters were. Starscream secretly filed them away in his memory so that he knew which door was hers. She unlocked the door and they helped her in and to the berth room. Starscream gently laid her down.

"I will bring you some energon in a little bit. Do you need anything else?" Starscream asked.

"I don't think so." She replied.

"The energon will help settle you from the pain killers. I will come and check on you in a few hours." Ratchet said. With that he left and let the two talk.

"Thank you." She told Starscream.

"You're welcome." He returned just as softly. He helped her to lie down on her berth and then left to go get her some energon. When he returned she was sitting up against the headboard of the berth reading through her messages. Starscream sat down next to her and handed her a cube of energon.

"Do you need anything else?" Starscream asked her. He watched her with concern as she fidgeted with her hands.

"No, thank you." She said. "I think I will down for a while a while."

"I'll leave you to rest. I need to check with my trine so I will see you later." Starscream asked it as if it were a question.

"Maybe. Thank you again." She said. Starscream could tell she was nervous in his company. It seemed as if every step he took forward with her they seemed to take two back.

"No problem." He said as he stood to leave. "I'll be by later to check on you with your permission."

"You don't have to. I have Doc and Ratchet." She looked up at him as she said this her fingers still playing with the edge of her blanket.

"I want to." He returned softly. Starscream turned and walked to the door. Kiki never said anything to his desiring to return to her and he left it at that. Maybe he was wasting his time but each time he would think that her face would appear in his CPU and he knew that he would be chasing her skirt again. He drawn to her like a moth to a light and it irritated him that he had to play this cat and mouse game with her because she was so delicate.

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"Hey Bumblebee, Racine was wondering if you wanted to go with us into the city tomorrow night. Racine wants to go dancing and we both have the early shift tomorrow." Stargazer looked us from her report she was reading over and looked at Bee as he walked into their quarters.

"Sure, I'll let Optimus know what we are planning. They may want to come with us." Bumble bee said as he leaned over the their couch and kissed her passionately.

"I don't know." Stargazer said as Bumblebee let her up. "Allie is pretty busy the first few weeks when she gets back from a break. They may want to stay in and snuggle after a hard day of work."

"And what about you?" Bumblebee asked.

"I want to go dancing with you." Stargazer murmured. She reached up and wrapped her arms around her mate. Her last visit to Diego Garcia they had officially became spark bonded mates. Stargazer loved her little scout and she was thankful that he loved her. They were both young and enjoyed the same things and since Allie and Optimus had helped them get over their shyness with each other they had been inseparable when they were together.

"Okay then, we go dancing." Bumblebee told her. He walked around the couch and slipped in next to her. Bumble bee cuddled her close as Stargazer licked his chin playfully.

"Yeah! We have never done that before. It will be so cool." Stargazer said as she continued to nuzzle his face and the cables in his neck. Bumble bee shivered as his mate's fingers flicked the circuits under his armor.

"Star?" Bumblebee murmured.

"Yes Bee?" She purred.

"Have you thought about sparklings?" He asked her as he held her close.

"I love sparklings, but don't you think that we are a little young?" She countered.

"Yes, but there are so few of us left and if something happened to me I would want you to have something that only I could give you." Bumblebee held her close as she teased his circuits and nipped at the cables in his neck. Bumblebee moaned as she began to gyrate against him. He loved that she had become so passionate and playful but seeing Barricade palming the tiny bump that was his sparkling today while Chelsea cradled his helm had made Bumblebee realize that the longing in his spark was that he wanted a sparkling of his own with his mate. To watch it grow inside her chassis, to see her magnetic field glow with happiness from the them expecting was so powerful a longing that Bumblebee couldn't even put it into words. He wanted their love to take on a physical connotation in the form of their sparklings. He thought about this all the time as he watched Chelsea and Aura glow with expectation and their mates group together as fathers to be as they talked with expectation. He loved to watch Soundwave carry around his little sparklings even if he could see the stress that it placed on Soundwave's mate he still loved to watch them together.

As Autobots they had feared the powerful Decepticon communications officer due to his prowess and competence that he could bring to his work. He may have been Megatron's TIC, but to many he was the glue that kept Megatron's army together. Since they had come to the Realm and were now assisting Allie's team, he had seen that Decepticons were not the monsters that his faction had made them out to be, but were in fact Cybertronians who had wanted to change the horrid conditions that the senate and caste system had placed upon them. Bumblebee had been a sparking caught in the war that Optimus and Ironhide had found in the rubble from one of many bombings. He would always be grateful for them raising him, but the war had been long, tiring, and unrelenting. Finding that the femmes had survived, though their appearance altered, had brought salvation to their dying race. Now Bumblebee wanted what his fellow Cybertronians were having.

"I want us to have a sparkling, Star. Do you want one?" Bumblebee looked at his mate with all the longing and hope filling his face plates.

"I do want one, but we are so young, Bee. Do we have to be in a hurry?" She asked as she nipped at his audial receptor. "I mean we just bonded and I would like to get used to that first besides raising a sparkling can strain a relationship. Can we just take it one day at a time and get to learn each other first?" She kissed and licked at the delicate receptors in his face causing Bumblebee to moan as his spike strained against his interface panel. Bee couldn't take her teasing any more as he took control of her and laid her out on the rug below the couch and pinned her wrists with one hand while his other went to work on driving her wild.

Star loved when she could rev up Bee's engines and she laughed playfully as she squirmed and tried to doge his wicked hands that were trying to drive her wild. Soon they were in a wrestling match to see who could drive the other wild as Stargazer squeezed her thighs a tight around Bumblebee's waist. She tried to roll them but the little scout was too strong for her and as he cupped her between her legs she bucked up as she cried out her surrender to him. Bee quickly divested her of her little dress and underwear as he moved down and began to lick at her valve teasing her with his evil glossa.

"Bee, don't tease. Please my lord I need you so bad." She moaned as his fingers entered her valve and he stretched her to accommodate his girth. It never ceased to amaze him to hear her call him that even if it was just a title used to show respect to their mates and superiors. He moved back up, his fingers never leaving her valve, as he slipped his glossa into her mouth.

Star could taste her fluid on his glossa as he proved her mouth, exploring every part of it as his interface panel pulled back to reveal him very ready and willing to engage her in interfacing. He was tempted to turn off his procreation safety mechanisms, but he didn't want to start a family with her based on lies and deceit, so he resigned himself that he would talk to her more about the possibility of a sparkling. She was right after all; they were young and had plenty of time.

Bumblebee slid into her valve and she arched up into him as he quickly established a rhythm and pulsing his spark energy into her. Stargazer cried out as he raised up and took her by the hips and began to pound into her. Star's valve twitched and gripped him tight and Bumblebee growled out as he tightened his hold on her. He pulled her hair to expose her throat to his dentals as he nipped and grazed at her neck leaving a trail of little pink marks to mark her delicate skin. Star cried out as she submitted completely to her mate and he quickened his rhythm, gyrating his hips to graze across all of her little sweet spots inside her valve. He pushed on her pelvic area just as Optimus has taught him to do and Stargazer began to whimper and give off little mewling screams as she threw her head back and her body jerked in reaction with every rhythmic thrust that Bee did. He knew by her reaction that she was close and he picked the pace up as he pounded into her hard and swift.

Stargazer thrashed as her mate rode her hard and a scream began to build within her vocals as she felt the first surge of overload begin to course through her. As the energy became higher, her mouth opened and a piercing ear splitting scream erupted as her body convulsed. Bumblebee joined her as he roared his satisfaction and his overload washed through his systems. They both lay panting as they tried to regain their senses and gain control over their systems.

"Do you think we will ever make our first round of interfacing in our berth room?" Stargazer asked and laughed weakly as she cradled her mate between her thighs.

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"Are you ready for this?" Megatron asked the commander and Prime's mate as they watched the galactic transport bring in the one that Allie had been avoiding. Sentinel rubbed everyone the wrong way and Allie knew it. She couldn't stand the mech and now he would be here and possible influencing Optimus and Allie couldn't help but worry that it would cause friction between her and her mate.

Megatron sensed her unrest and as much as he hated to admit it, he had come to respect the feisty femme who led this small band of femmes until they had become a powerful force in the Realm. If he and Prime could iron out a peace treaty then he would be happy to take over for Prime's mate. She had built a strong empire and given it the best of what he and Prime had wanted for their own planet but failed. Megatron felt that maybe Primus was giving him a second chance and humbling him to realize that true power was not in guns and fire power but in family and community. His mechs were tired of fighting and they wanted families so he would find a way to give them what they wanted while maintaining their dignity.

Sentinel would pose a problem for both the Autobots and the Decepticons because he had his own agenda and he felt that Allie knew more than she was letting on. Megatron did indeed hold a lot of respect for her because she was balancing everything and being telepathic and empathic she was balancing her own inner emotions. Prime was good for her. In the beginning she may have been just a femme commander on Cybertron, but in the Realm she had become a political symbol and leader that all the planets and cities looked to for help and aid.

He hadn't told her about Sentinel's aspirations, but he would have to tell her and Prime soon. He just hoped that it would not hinder his own agenda on providing good positions within this new territory for his mechs. They deserved something for their efforts and commitments to the Decepticon cause and he would see to it that his own goals would not be hindered.

They took the stairs down to the tarmac where Optimus met them. He leaned in to kiss Allie as she placed her hand in his and they walked toward the platform of the transport to await Sentinel's entrance from it. The three of them stood waiting as Ultra Magnus first walked down followed by Jammer, Shia, and last Sentinel Prime.

Shia was as delicate in her humanoid form as she had been in her Cybertronian form. Megatron would have known her in any form since he had been her guardian, a promise that he had made to her creator when he had been destroyed in the retaliatory bombings against the cons on Cybertron. He could see where Shalon received her petit frame and both shared the dark honey blond hair.

"Lord Megatron, it is good to see you after all these years." She said as she bowed with respect to her lord and former guardian. Jammer bowed in respect as Megatron took his hand in greeting.

"Jammer, it has been a long time. I haven't seen you since the beginning of the war." Megatron said as he released his hand. Jammer bowed once again in respect and stepped back. Ultra Magnus stepped forward.

"Allie, it is good to see you again. Prime, I hope that you are enjoying your stay. Allie has done very well keeping these bases organized and operational. Megatron." Ultra Magnus said the last hesitantly.

"Ultra Magnus." Megatron returned. Both mechs looked uncomfortable as they sized each other up.

"Thank you for piloting the transport Magnus. We do need to discuss some details and I appreciate you coming here." Sentinel Prime stepped off the ramp onto the tarmac as he waited for the pleasantries to end.

"I trust that you received my report." He said to Allie with no greeting or acknowledgement of her title and Allie gritted her teeth.

"I did, thank you." Allie wouldn't acknowledge what was in the report so the mechs present let it go. Shia had an idea because she could sense her commander's mood but kept to herself.

"I am here to voice my protest that I have to be watched. I am older than you are girl, and I will not be disrespected in this manner. I was Prime of a planet and we were considered gods among our colleagues." Sentinel kept spewing his propaganda as Allie only listened with half a spark. Her focus was centered on her mate as was Megatron's gaze. Both were wondering if Prime would be influenced by Sentinel's arrogant words.

"Sentinel Prime, it is good to see you once again. How are you old friend?" Optimus said as he stepped forward to embrace his mentor. It was good to see Sentinel again but a long war and watching changes come and go through his mechs and his adversaries had taught Optimus to be wary and watchful and right now he was feeling strong emotions emanate from his bond with his mate. He would tread carefully because he knew that the wrong move or saying the wrong thing could have fatal consequences with a chance of peace knocking at the door.

"Sentinel Prime, I have your quarters here ready for you and I hope that your stay will be most positive." Allie told him as Optimus stepped back to place his hand in the small of his mate's back. Both saw that Sentinel registered the small gesture though chose not to mention it and all of them turned to head into the main area of the hall.

Allie kept her posture stiff and formal as she led the mechs toward the main entrance room and grand stair case. It was late in the evening and her femmes would be gathering in the dining hall to reflect on their day's activities. Maybe if she kept quiet she could have everyone there and Sentinel would choose to go to his rooms. She hated when he chose to sit with them because he never kept his mouth shut, but only time would tell as she stopped and they gathered around her.

"Will your femmes be gathering?" He asked her pointedly.

"We always do Sentinel unless we have been on a mission. As you can see, some are already in the dining hall. Would you like to go to your rooms now or later?" Allie asked.

"I prefer to go later. I will sit in with you. Optimus?" Sentinel has still to recognize Megatron who stood seething at Sentinel's arrogance.

"Don't feel bad. When Ultra Magnus found him, he treated me the same way. This is the most he has said to me since we have brought him to the Realm. Just be patient. He will soon find out that his word is not as powerful as he would like to believe." Allie told him telepathically. Megatron smirked and Allie winked back. Optimus witnessed the exchange but chose not to comment.

It was going to be a long evening.