I guess I may leave this one running for a while. I haven't decided yet. I do enjoy writing it. If you want me to keep it running like a soap then let me know. I can if you want me to or I can pick one of several plots that I am working on and end it. Regardless I will keep a little of it open so that you can imagine the characters the way you like. That is one of my favorite ways to do stories so that they are not just my own but my readers as well and since this is the transformers world then there are endless possibilities.
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Tia was putting the crib together that she had seen in the city when she and Sarah had gone shopping the day before. They had also stopped by Aura's and Thundercracker's house to check on her and to give her flowers that they had bought as a gift to help cheer her up. After a week she seemed better but one could tell that she still was grieving. It made Tia nervous being around her because her sparkling was very visible and Aura's gaze kept wondering back to her stomach. They hadn't stayed long but Tia could tell that Aura was glad they had visited.
Now she was trying to put together a crib and the more she read the more she wished she could speak directions because everything seemed like a foreign language. Prowl walked in from patrol. It seemed that he was doing more and more of it and it worried Tia that he was out there with only one partner to back him up.
He walked in and laughed as he observed Tia sprawled out on the floor with all the pieces scattered on the floor in their freshly painted nursery.
"Would you like some help?" He asked her as she looked and smiled sheepishly.
"I hate to ask because you have worked so hard today." She replied. Prowl smiled and sat down next to her on the floor. "I don't mind." He pushed a lock of hair out of her eyes and she smiled back.
"Well since you are offering, do you speak directions?" He asked laughing at herself.
"Pardon me?" He said blinking at her.
"Directions! It seems that I don't speak directions very well." She stated laughing. Prowl smiled as he figured out what she meant.
"I am pretty good at putting things together." She smiled and they started working to put the crib together. Tia found that Prowl was interesting to be with and as they worked they talked about their work and friends and Tia learned that under that stoic personality was a mech with humor and had interest in crystals as well as enjoyed a good game of chess or any type of analytical game.
Tia told him stories of what she remembered of Cybertron and her family just as the war was breaking out. She liked that he took an interest in her and she enjoyed telling him about her life. If they were bonded then he would instantly know just as she would, but he had not asked or said anything about love or romance and she was scared to show her true feelings because she didn't want to know if he didn't love her.
"Prowl, may I ask you a very private question?" She finally asked. She was nervous about asking her question and Prowl sensed it.
"Tia, what do you want to ask?" Prowl returned.
"You loved Jazz with everything." She whispered. "What was he like?"
Prowl looked off in the distance as he stopped working. He didn't say anything for the longest time and then he looked at her, "he was the life of the party. He was sociable, he was the one that everyone liked going to even though he was special ops." Tia smiled at that for in a sense that was what she was before she found out she was carrying. "Everyone liked him and it was me that he picked. I felt so special and then I found out that he loved me." Prowl looked at her. "I lost everything that I knew when Praxis was destroyed and here came someone who filled that lonely void and I grabbed at the chance." Prowl looked off in the distance. "I felt him pass but was too far away to realize it until I landed on earth and Optimus and Ratchet took me aside to tell me. I was devastated."
Tia felt his sorrow and tears pooled in her eyes as she looked at Prowl. She reached out her hand and laid it on his shoulder in silent support. He looked at her and she realized that he was sad but something was different.
"I didn't think I would ever get over losing him and then last week I felt our sparkling move. If he was here we would have been ecstatic. We talked about having one many times but Jazz wanted to wait until the war ended. It's ironic that it took Aura and Shalon as well as Cassie carrying to make Megatron realize that there was more to power and fighting." Prowl said softly. "I don't regret our sparkling Tia. I don't regret you but I understand that you feel insecure but I will strive to do what is right for you and our sparkling."
"I know you will and I am glad that you are here. I just can't help but fell scared about the future." She said softly.
"You're afraid that you might fall in love with someone else. If that happens I won't hold you back." Prowl told her. "I have felt love and I want you to know what it is."
Tia looked at him. She wanted to say that she had found that someone and that was what she feared most. He didn't love her. His spark belonged to someone long gone and she was afraid that he couldn't give her what she wanted most.
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"I suck at this!"
"What are you fussing about?" Bumblebee walked over to his mate and kissed her on top of the head.
"This! I can't keep anything alive. How does Kiki do it? Her plants are beautiful and so vibrant. Mine are brown and dying." Stargazer wailed. She was crying because her flowers looked so pitiful.
"Why don't you ask Kiki to help you? I know she would love to help and she may be able to teach you how to care for them." Bumblebee suggested trying to soothe his mate. He leaned down and hugged Stargazer as she sat in the middle of her brown dried up flower garden. "It is not too late to replant since it is only the beginning of the summer."
"I should but then Starscream is so protective of her. I'm glad you don't smother me like that." She said as she wrinkled her nose at Bumblebee.
"He's protective because Kiki is the type of femme that brings out his protective nature. You, I know you can handle yourself. If I tried to be protective like that you would probably smack me around and put me in the infirmary." Bee smirked as Star swatted his arm playfully.
"So if a mech comes and hits on me you would make me protect myself?" She asked playing with him as he wrapped his arms around her.
"That would be different. I would probably put him on the ground and pound him into scrap." Bee stated. Stargazer laughed as she wrapped her arms around him, pulled herself up and, kissed him on the lips.
"So I am worthy of protection." Stargazer said.
"Well if a mech is going to try to take you away then yes." Bumblebee said smugly. Star just rolled her eyes.
"So, I suck at gardening." She said after a moment.
"You said not I." Bee said and laughed as Stargazer jumped up on her feet.
"Okay, that's it. Where's the hose!" Star grabbed the hose and started chasing Bee around their yard with it. The couple was shrieking with laughter as Stargazer nailed him with the water but then Bumblebee grabbed at the hose and wrenched it out of her hands as Star ran inside their house and locked him out. She then ran through the house and locked the back door and then ran into their berth room and hid under it trying to catch her breath. She heard Bumblebee use is lock override and come through the back door slowly.
"Come out; come out where ever you are." Bee said as he used his heat signature to track her. He easily found her under the bed as he reached down very quickly and pulled her out by her ankles. Stargazer shrieked and laughed as she swatted at Bee's hands as he tickled her relentlessly and then picked her up and threw her on the berth. Stargazer did a back roll and slid off on the other side as Bee tried to grab her. She laughed playfully as each time he took a step she took one in the opposite direction. He finally lunged as he pinned her against the wall and berth. Star jumped and tried to run across the berth as Bee catches her as he pins her down on the berth, it gave away on one side allowing the mattress to tilt and slide off with Stargazer going with it.
Bumble was shocked. He quickly threw the mattress to the side and began pulling at the bed linens to find Stargazer. She was trapped in the sheet laughing her fool head off and Bee became angry since he thought she had hurt herself.
"That wasn't funny! I thought you had gotten hurt." Bee said angrily.
"It did scare me for a moment but it was too funny." Star said. She kept laughing and Bee huffed away.
"What about our berth?" He finally said as he stopped at the door.
"We'll have to fix it." She said. Bee turned back. They silently put the berth back together as Bee fixed the broken leg. Every time Bee looked at his mate she would start laughing and he finally had to laugh with her.
"It was a good joke even if you did scare me." He finally conceded.
"I didn't break it on purpose but it was funny." She said.
"Yeah, it was."
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Kiki lay in her berth. Unfortunately Doc had started making her take at least three hours at a time in the berth because her systems were running at a stressful rate. Her energon flow was higher than normal and Doc was concerned about her losing the sparkling. Doc had explained that sometimes this occurs and that there is no medical explanation for it. Some theories were that the sparkling was giving off a certain type of energy signature that was not compatible with her body; some said it might be the energy contribution of the sire, and some theories led to that some carriers were not meant to carry. There was no medical proof for these theories and Doc said the only way to help increase the chances of a healthy was to rest three hours with only an hour up between.
Starscream, true to his word to Doc, made sure that she followed orders and he had made sure that he and Skywarp had worked out a plan where at least one of them would be there to sit with her so she couldn't disobey orders. It was frustrating because they did everything for her and she felt smothered but Starscream knew that if she lost the sparkling then she would be devastated. They had already seen Aura and Kiki knew that she was grieving, hurting for the life that she was denied and Kiki rally felt for her friend. She also knew that it would be harder on Aura if she lost her sparkling because they were close and to lose another would hurt both of them.
"How are you feeling?" Starscream asked as he brought her energon.
"Cranky." She replied. "I know that I have to stay off my feet but this is boring."
"Can I bring you something?" He asked her as she began to sip her energon.
"A pass to interface with my mate?" She asked as a brow went up. Starscream laughed at her expression.
"You know what Doc said but if it will help I have the afternoon off. Would you like me to snuggle with you?" He sat down on the edge of the berth.
"You know I will never miss an opportunity to snuggle." She replied. Starscream moved next to her on the berth and she scooted forward so that he could bring his legs around her. She leaned back careful not to place too much pressure on his cockpit. Kiki loved it when he wrapped his arms around her. It made her feel so loved and protected and he had given her so much since he had come into her life.
"Doc wants you to come in for a checkup tomorrow. She also says that she will need you to start coming in daily since you are high risk. She says that there may be a chance that the sparkling will come early but it should be able to sustain its life in another two weeks with the help of an incubator." Starscream told her. He was worried for her health but he held back his thoughts because he didn't want to scare her.
"What about Pickles and Gummy Bear?" Kiki asked concerned for their gato and dog.
"I brought home a pet cage and we will take them with us tomorrow. Allie assures us that we can use puppy pads and put Bear on the balcony and Pickles will be able to share a bathroom with the other gatos that live at the Hall." Starscream still hadn't figured out where she came up with their names. She had named them after human food which just did not make sense.
"Oh good. Gummy Bear had been so good to keep me company and Pickles sleeps with me during the day." She smiled as she looked behind her shoulder at her mate. "I love that you think of everything. I love you so much."
"And I love you." Starscream replied. He missed the physical intimacy but her health was more important.
I managed to spit this out and before ten o'clock. Woo hoo, two chapters in one day. I hope you like it and again don't forget to leave a review!
