I hope that you are enjoying the story. I feel like I am planing right now so I may move the events further along. One more night just after the concert though and then I will move the plot along.

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Raynie had enjoyed herself despite being tired and even falling into recharge during the middle of the concert. She had chosen to wear a red gown with gold highlights to compliment to colors of her lovers. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe had cat whistled as her efforts and Sunny had even fingered her gold and ruby headdress. In all she was happy that they had appreciated her efforts to dress for them and she was glad that her efforts were not disrupted by morning sickness.

Sunny and Sides had stayed right next to her, one on each side, to make sure that she wouldn't get sick or in case she needed them to assist her. Raynie had felt bad that she was so sick the night before and even had to have Aura cover her patrol in the early morning because she had had too little sleep.

The twins assisted her to their quarters after they arrived at the hall. She was tired and a little sore from all the upheaval of the night before. Sunny soothed her with sweet kisses and unpinning her hair and taking out the headdress as Sides helped her out of her dress and shoes. They were trying to be sweet and Raynie appreciated their efforts. They both led her to the berth as Sunny crawled in first. Sides positioned Raynie on her side between them as he kissed her face and hair tenderly as he wrapped his arms around her waist and spooned against her backside. He could feel the tension ebbing away in her as Sunny turned and placed his arm under her neck as he placed his other hand over her spark.

"I love you, Raynie." Sunstreaker told her.

"As do I, love you bro." Sideswipe said.

"Love you too." Sunny said as he fell into recharge, his systems powering down. Raynie didn't answer. Her eyes were shut before her head hit the pillow.

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Chelsea was on a music high. She loved the orchestra especially the children's because she worked a lot with Cassie and enjoyed the children. Though she did not speak on the way home but Barricade could feel the animated excitement radiating from her and smiled as he kissed the top of her hand on the way home. He had firmly established himself within her apartment because where others had quarters, Chelsea had her own three berthroom, a living area, kitchen and dining, and an office. Barricade liked that she was separated from the others even if she lived in the temple of the hall. Her apartment was also designed where if she needed more space, she could have another room built. In all, it was designed where a family could expand. Chelsea had told him that the temple had once house a large group of beings that lived in the area that her apartment was now located at.

"Chelsea, do you need any energon before we recharge?" Doc had informed Barricade to get Chelsea to take in as much energon as he could get so that her body was working at optimal levels.

"I don't want any but you are going to make me drink anyways." She smiled as she stripped her soft blue gown off and then kicked off her heels as she walked across their berthroom and slid into Barricades arms as he sat on the edge of the berth.

"You were beautiful this evening." Barricade said as he nuzzled her hair and palmed her rounding abdomen. "Did our sparkling disturb you too much?" He asked her as he felt light movement beneath her skin.

"A little, but I think he is going to like music because the once the concert started he settled down." Chelsea said as she curled up in his lap. This was her favorite time of the evening before they went to bed. She liked it because it was a time that they could talk before the loving. The sparkling began to move against Barricade's hand and Chelsea could feel a deep swell of pride and love through their bond. They stayed like that for several moments as Chelsea sent telepathic images to their sparkling preparing him for his life.

"Are you happy here?" Chelsea asked Barricade.

"I am happy where ever you are." He replied.

"No, what I mean is would you be happy here with your life?" Chelsea asked again."

Barricade thought about it for a moment. Tomorrow he would be sitting in on the negotiations. He wouldn't have much of a say however, being an officer, though a lower one, he was entitled to have a seat while Optimus and Megatron iron out details. If everything went smoothly then he would be training for patrols, learning the terrain, and Aura had told him if he did well then she was moving in up to be a relief commander which would give him more responsibility but steady work.

"I could like living here very much." He said after looking at Chelsea. "I am just glad to have you in my arms after all these years." Chelsea smiled as she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled up to kiss him on his lip plates. Barricade returned the kiss with a deeper more passionate one as he pulled her into his embrace and slipped his glossa into her mouth. Chelsea loved to feel him in her mouth as she moaned and pushed back with her own glossa. They kissed and petted, Chelsea loving the feel of her mate both physically and mentally as he continued to kiss and touch her. She loved his firm touch on her abdomen as if he was inviting their sparkling to participate with his family. She knew he was fascinated with feeling the little light touches that the sparkling did against the malleable metal beneath her skin.

"I love just to feel him inside you. I thank Primus every day that I have you and our sparkling." Barricade whispered across the skin of her neck and Chelsea shivered. She wanted so bad for him to touch her valve but knew that Barricade liked to take his time especially since she was carrying and it drove her insane with longing. He slowly licked along her neck over and over until Chelsea was moaning and writhing against her mate. She tried to wrap her legs around his waist but Barricade stopped her much to her chagrin.

"Barricade, please I need to feel you in me." The sparkling made her so sensitive to his touch, her skin felt on fire, and her valve soaked with her fluids. Barricade could smell her heady scent and his spike began to throb against his interfaced panel as he continued to tease his mate. Chelsea began to whimper as Barricade held her against him but wouldn't touch her where she wanted. He teased her ear and neck as he listened to her pleas, he very slowly and tantalizingly moved to her breasts as he began to kiss and lick her nipples.

"Cade, please! You're teasing me." She wailed as she clung to him. He ignored her as he licked and suck and then would give her an occasional nip or bite just so he could hear her cries. He teased and licked over and over until he had to lie her down on her back so that she wouldn't fall off the berth from mindless pleasure. Once he had sated himself with her breasts he licked and nipped at her navel. Being this close and having sensitive hearing, for he needed it as an infiltrator, he could hear the spark beat of his precious little sparkling and he pressed his audial sensors closer. Chelsea bucked up and Barricade could strongly smell her so he placed his hand between her legs. Chelsea cried out as she felt his warm hand cup her and then she whimpered as he slid a finger inside her.

"Cade, please I need you now." Chelsea cried as he slipped another finger and prepared her for his pleasure. When she was nice and slick he moved between his legs and positioned himself for entrance into her. Chelsea panted and moaned as she clutched and pulled for her mate. She was so far gone in the pleasure that he had given her that just thinking about his first thrust had her almost to the point of overload and being swollen from carrying didn't help. Barricade was panting as he thought of how swollen and wet she was.

"Chelsea, I won't hurt you will I?" He asked.

"No, but if you don't enter me now I will kill you." She panted back. Barricade pushed in very slowly as Chelsea arched and began a keening wail. Her ear splitting wail could have woken the dead and Barricade, despite running hot, had to laugh at his mate. She was glorious underneath him as he pushed in until he was buried in her body. He couldn't lean over her since her abdomen was swollen with his spark so he lift her legs and aft where he could thrust in her without hurting her.

"Cade!" She cried out his name as he pulled back and waited anticipating the first thrust and opening their link wide so that he could feel her first overload through it. He could feel her intensity, the sheer overwhelming desire she had for her mate and Barricade's energy field flared out to encompass her as he suddenly thrust fast into her.

Chelsea screamed as her body went into an all-powerful overload. Her head thrown back and the circuits beneath her neck protruded out just under her skin as Barricade began thrusting into her. Chelsea whimpered as the energy began to build again. Barricade could feel it even though he had almost overloaded from feeling her but he stayed it off so that he could send pulses. The first was very soft and faint but Chelsea was so highly aroused that even the slightest feel of it cause her to buck and arch against her mate. The sparkling also moved to show his eagerness as feeling his father's spark pulse since it was the first time Barricade had ever done it before. He had asked Doc and she said it was good for bonding the sparkling to both of them and so as he sent another he also smiled down at his mate as she whimpered and keened at the feel of both of her loves responding to each other.

Barricade loved it. It was his way of bonding to the little mech or femme before it was even born. Chelsea arched again as Barricade sent a third pulse, stronger than the first two and Chelsea cried out as he spark lit up her chest in response to him. Barricade's safety protocols shut down and his chest opened as his spark responded to her glowing orb. He couldn't lean over her without mashing the sparkling into her back so he gently lifted her up and brought their chests together as best as he could. Even with the obstacle of the sparkling in her belly he was able to bring them together and merge their sparks. Chelsea screamed as the intensity of the overload hit her hard. Barricade held her firmly so that she wouldn't hurt herself or the sparkling but it was hard as his overload came upon him and his cries joined hers as he held on to her and trying not to let her hurt herself or the sparkling.

Later, both panting, Barricade's cooling fans overworking as his systems slowly powered down, they lay on their sides spooning together as Chelsea gently stroked his armor. Barricade once again had his hand on her swollen belly as he pressed and rubbed their little treasure. It was their second chance as love and he was so humbled and grateful that Primus had given him both his love and another sparkling.

"I love you, my darling Chelsea." He whispered and leaned over to watch her smile up at him.

"As I love you, Cade." She breathed his name and it was ambrosia to his audial receptors. He kissed her love swollen lips and gently nipped at the bottom lip that made her growl back and reciprocate his actions.

"As much as I would love to do this again, I think that you and the little one need your recharge." Already he could sense through her that their sparkling was dozing, falling into an easy recharge. "You need to recharge while he is still, my love."

"Yes, my darling. You are right bit I may wake and take you later." Chelsea smiled wickedly at him and he laughed.

"Sleep my darling femme." Barricade pulled her firmly against him as he felt her body relax and her eyes droop. Within moments Chelsea was recharging and Barricade watched her ever so grateful to have her and his sparkling in his arms.

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"Shalon, you need to recharge." Megatron said as he slipped in next to her in their berth. Allie had helped her to undress since she could barely hold her head up and Shalon felt weak tears form in her eyes. He had barely touched her the night before and now he was encouraging her to recharge tonight. He said that the sparkling would not hinder their relationship but already she felt lonely from the lack of his intimate touch. Even now he was barely touching her with the exception of his arm under her neck and his other carelessly thrown over her waist. Shalon felt the tears slip silently down onto the pillow but she didn't say anything as she stayed as still as possible. She forced her body to relax but her throat was tight with emotion.

Megatron could feel her distress and wished she would talk to him. He had left her alone last night because he thought she needed time to adjust to carrying their sparkling but tonight he felt the same tension and debated whether he should say something or just let the silence run its course. He was never one to consider another's feelings because being a war lord meant that others came second to the cause. Now here he was in a relationship and he felt so out of depth with himself and his mate and he but he knew he couldn't live in denial so he suddenly decided that tired or not, he would have to find a way to resolve their issues tonight before the stress hurt the baby.

"Shalon, you can talk to me. I said that you could say anything to me when we were in private." He quietly said.

Shalon didn't say anything for fear she would break. She hated this feeling. She hated the fact that she felt no control over her body. She hated that she was changing and she couldn't stop it and she hated that she couldn't stop the stupid tears from spilling. By now, she knew that he could feel her distress but she couldn't put into words how this incapacitation could affect her so deeply.

"Shalon, please. We need to talk about this or it is going to be detrimental for your health and the sparkling's." He felt her shift as if a dam of emotions were released by his words as she looked up at him fiercely and fire burning beneath the crystal blue of her eyes."

"That's all I am to you isn't it!" She fired at him growling.

"What?" He said confused. He tried to remember Allie telling him that Shalon's youth and her hormones being imbalanced may cause some of this but he still wasn't used to being attacked in this way.

"All I am to you is a sparkling carrier. You don't care about me or my feelings at all." She cried clearly distressed.

"Shalon, for the love of Primus, what is this about?" He asked his patience clearly being tested.

"You didn't touch me last night and now you tell me to recharge." She cried earnestly as her tears flowed. Megatron's hand fisted into her hair as he pulled her under him and pulled her head up against his helm. Shalon gasped but kept crying.

"Shalon, stop this now, you are testing me and I don't' appreciate it." He growled at her.

"Then spank me, something but don't make me go down without anything." She sobbed . She pulled at his arms and then tried to tease his seams as Megatron realized that she needed him but he was reluctant to interface with her until he was sure that it was safe. He would never forgive himself if he became the threat to her or their sparkling.

"Please," She whimpered. "Please, I need you inside me. Please, you said that this," she looked down at her still flat abdomen, "you said that it wouldn't change us." She cried and Megatron thought his spark was going to be ripped into pieces.

"Let me hold you tonight and then in the morning, before the meetings begin, we will go to Doc and talk to her about interfacing. Will this appease you?" He asked her as he dipped his helm and caught her lips in a gentle kiss. Shalon still cried but she had softened them to whimpers and little hiccups. "Shalon, I am not trying to change our relationship but we do have to be careful and you need your rest."

"But I need to feel you too. Chelsea, Aura, even Raynie are interfacing. I need to feel you. Can't we just do it slowly and carefully?" She begged him.

"Shalon, I am a large mech and our interfacing never turns out gentle. Let us go to Doc and then we will discuss this together. I am not purposely trying to reject you but I need to know our limits before we try. Okay?" He said.

Shalon looked at him through her tears that were starting to dry. She wanted to believe him but suddenly she was tired form her emotional outburst. "Okay, but can you at least finger me and get me off and can I get you off? I promise that I want tempt you into interfacing, but I am not kidding.. It would not take much to send me into overload. Please?"

Megatron thought about her request and then ever so slowly he lowered his lips to her neck as his hand moved to cupped her between the legs.

"I think I can manage that if you don't fall into recharge." He said as he retracted his panel and her hands eagerly stroked his spike.