I don't know if everyone liked the past chapter or not but I still say bear with me. I am going to get to Allie's mission soon but that is another story within this story. I want to get Cliffjumper and Waverly rolling along so that I can update other couples and bring them up to status.

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Waverly walked into the quarters that she had waited two days to explore. This was going to be her new home and she was nervous. Already she was receiving gifts from friends for her bonding ceremony that the Prime had graciously announced. They were simple things such as dishes and decorating novelties that any femme would be excited over but she wasn't. Her mother and her sire had come from the northern region to celebrate with her and even her sister had taken time from Moon base 5 to come with Ultra Magnus and Comm. The ceremony would be scheduled for tomorrow and Cliffjumper would be released from the brig that evening. She had not seen him since their meeting in the conference room just off of Prime's office and she was terrified of seeing him again. Not fifteen minutes in each other's company and they had started arguing. How was she going to survive this?

She looked around the simple living quarters and walked to the left to find a berth room done in colors of gray and black. It seemed that Cliffjumper liked the muted colors to offset his red chrome and Waverly walked around and marveled all the simple trinkets that Cliffjumper had collected in his travels.She fingered his pictures and collections that he had left on the dresser and then she turned toward his berth. She wondered if it would smell of diesel and exhaust or if those smells would be long gone since he was staying in the brig. She walked over and sat down as she reached out to pull a pillow towards her. She smelled his husky diesel smell and her eyes closed involuntarily as she remembered being overwhelmed by his smell and the feel of him. She laid down with her head and arms cradling the pillow and closed her eyes as tears fell softly into the pillow. She was so afraid of him because he didn't love her and still she was here and she was carrying his sparkling which he had made plain to everyone that he wanted.

She fell into recharge holding his pillow close steeped in her tears as she finally found some semblance from her chaotic thoughts.

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"Well you have endure over two weeks in this place and now you are free to go. I suggest that you don't make Prime angry again." Ironhide said as he released Cliffjumper. Cliffjumper walked out of the cell and stretched his back strut. After being felt confined so long he was happy to be out but he knew that he had only a day to get ready before his bonding ceremony.

"I would stay clear of any dark corridors. There are still some that are angry that you took such an adorable little femme off the market." Ironhide advised as he slapped Cliffjumper a little too hard on the shoulder. Cliffjumper winced but said nothing as he started to walk toward his quarters. He wanted a good hot shower in his own wash racks and he wanted to lie in his berth and catch up on his recharge. He walked the halls and was very conscious of the open stares and scowls that were cast towards him. It wasn't the first time that he had made everyone angry but he would keep in mind Ironhide's suggestion that he stay clear of the darkened halls.

He arrived at the door of his quarters to see that someone had used his security code. The little femme had taken his suggestion and he was glad that she was trying to take a personal interest in their future. He walked in and noticed her perfume still lingered in the air. He walked purposefully to his berth room and stood in shock as he found her in recharge clinging to his pillow.

He was moved to compassion as he took in the dried tears on his pillow and the look of misery on her face. She was suffering with her situation and Cliffjumper felt guilt well up in his spark. He quietly unsub-spaced his gun and placed it on the dresser as he gently moved her over, careful not to wake her, and spooned around her body. Whether she wanted him or not she needed him and he would be there for her and their sparkling. She sighed in her recharge and Cliffjumper smiled as he stroked her hair and massaged her shoulders very softly and gently.

"Jumper I am so afraid." She murmured in recharge. Tears started to fall again but her eyes never once opened. Maybe she thought this was a dream and maybe it was for the best. He held her close and continued to stroke her hair.

"It will be alright." He murmured and she shivered in her rest. He hoped that it would be right and he would have the chance to make it up to her.

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Megatron was reading a data report when Shalon bounced up to the berth and hopped on it in excitement.

"Should you be doing that in your condition my darling?" He asked never once taking his optics off the data pad.

"I can if I am careful. Besides I will be showing soon so you can announce that we are having another sparkling." She said as she straddled him and kissed his chin plate.

"Has Doc told you what it is yet?" Megatron asked.

"It is too soon. It has only just traveled to my carrying chamber. Storm already senses it. I think she is sensitive to its spark beat." Shalon said idly stroking his armor and making him shiver in reaction. "I know that I promised Doc not to be too adventurous but I still can love on you." She said coyly.

"Shalon, you wanted to be carrying again and I will not put you or our sparkling in danger." He said growling softly as her head dipped down and her glossa flicked over his chest armor.

"I know but you can be gentle." She breathed out as she tickled and pulled at the seams of his armor.

"I am never gentle," His hands threaded through her gold hair and she purred as she wrapped her legs around him and he rolled her under him.

"You are a minx…"

"…but you love me." She smirked up at him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled herself up to kiss his chin and he grabbed her by the hair and thoroughly ravished her mouth.

"II can't promise you but I can try to be gentle." He growled softly and she laughed.

"But not too gentle or I will think I came to the wrong berth." She said and then screamed and laughed as Megatron tickled her until she cried for mercy. He turned her around and placed her on her hands and knees as he proceeded to enter her from behind. Shalon sighed as her mate filled her and began to move in her and she bucked and arched as they found their rhythm and moved together. Megatron brought his long massive hands around and rubbed her stomach just outside of her carrying chamber and Shalon moaned. She loved how he rubbed her body and how he could make her want him all of the time. Even now that her body had filled out from their first sparkling she loved that he never tired of loving her.

"You know that I never show mercy." He moaned as he sped up his rhythm and Shalon's breaths became short and erratic. He bit down on her shoulder to still her quivering movements and Shalon loved being pinned and caught by her mate. Megatron pulled her up against him as he thrust harder and faster and then he slapped her aft and she cried out as she went into overload. Her valve quivered and tightened around him and Megatron roared as he spilled his fluids into her valve and carrying chamber.

"My lord, I do love you and I will follow you anywhere." Shalon said as he turned her around.

"And I adore you and Storm. I am almost scared of what another child will do to our little family." Megatron said. "But I can never deny you." He nuzzled her neck and shoulders as she sighed into his loving embrace.

"Another sparkling won't change this family too much. It would just give Storm someone to argue and fight with." She laughed as he pulled her against him and proceeded to spoon her against his armor.

"You know, we have been together now over a year and I have never taken all my armor off to show you my protoform." He commented casually. Shalon looked over her shoulder at her mate.

"But I thought…"

"… I have never shown anyone not even you since I was old enough to have complete control of my life." Megatron said seriously. Shalon realized that she had finally earned his complete trust and was over whelmed with emotion that Megatron picked up on through their bond. She would be the only person to see him this way and it proved beyond all doubt how much she loved her. He slowly raised up from their berth as his optics never left her shocked and breathless ones as he slowly took his outer armor off. She laughed nervously as he peeled another layer of armor off.

"You sure like to be careful and safe." She murmured and laughed as he smiled at her.

"I have a reason to be careful now. I have a mate to come home to." He said as he placed the last piece of armor on the floor and looked at her. He was beautiful but in a different way. He was all smooth and strength oozed from the fluid way the softer malleable metal molded to his circuits and Shalon reached up to touch him. His face was completely exposed to her and it glowed with his love and adoration of her and Shalon felt as if she was the only being that mattered, the only femme to ever know him in this way.

"I love you my lord."

"As I do you," He said and began to show her again how much as he took her to the heights of passion.

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Waverly felt warm and content since she had gone into recharge which seemed different from the last few days. She slowly opened her eyes to feel a heavy arm draped across her body. She looked at it trying to figure out where it had come from as the surroundings around her slowly come into focus. She realized that she did not recognize her surroundings and alarm shot through her systems as she turned in agitation to see Cliffjumper behind her resting peacefully in recharge.

Waverly looked at him as she carefully turned so that she wouldn't disturb his recharge. He seemed so different lying there quietly and she felt the stirrings that she had first felt when she saw him in the corridor that day when her supervisor had sent her to check on the dispensers. She wished he wasn't so stubborn and helm strong but then maybe she hadn't been the easiest to get along with either. She had teased him thinking that her light humor would be contagious but instead he had been abrasive and brutal and now she was carrying his sparkling, their two parts of themselves created into a new being, a part of her that would remind her forever of her first time with a mech. She still couldn't quite get that to settle in her head without trembling from reaction and it humbled her that Primus was gracious enough to trust her with one of his sparklings but why had it had to be in a situation such as this? Why was she in this situation now? She took his advice and came here to just look around and now she was lying in his berth with him!

She watched him and soon heard systems booting up and Waverly quickly tried to scoot away out of his arms but he woke before she could get away. He watched her watching him and both said nothing for the longest time and then Cliffjumper pulled her closer as she tried to squirm away from him but he was stronger.

"Jumper no!" She stated letting him know in no uncertain terms that she did not want what his optics were telling her.

"I am not going to hurt you Waverly." He replied very calmly but still he pulled her closer. "I have been in a brig for two weeks and I just want to hold you and know you and feel my sparkling…"

"I'm not showing yet." She interrupted.

"I can still feel its spark if I concentrate hard enough." He countered very softly. "Please Waverly all I have done is have fluxes about you." Her spark tripped in double time at his words. He was being so different from the first time and she was afraid it was a trap but his words moved her spark. Was it a trick to placate her and to keep him out of trouble or could she hope that he was indeed sincere. She remembered sensing the pain that she felt within him when they had merged and wondered what a bond would bring when the time came. Maybe she could understand him if she was patient. She slowly moved forward and felt him loosen his hold to allow her against him and then they stayed liked that as he listened to her chest and the tiny extra spark beat that he could faintly hear at times.

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"It has been a very long time since I have been to a bonding ceremony." Allie said as she sat down on the couch next to Optimus. He was reading a copy of the same data report that Megatron had been sent when she sat down.

"It has been a few since I performed one. You will be standing at my right as my consort and mate." He said as he laid the pad down to pull her close. They had not discussed her going out in the field in the seven days that she had returned and Optimus very seldom touched her and it hurt her spark to know that he was conflicted by her actions. She had done her duty and the secret report that only Optimus, Megatron, Soundwave, and Prowl knew about had been submitted by her. What they didn't know is that she had delivered the head of Lord Stephano to Saraphina who had cried in relief when Allie had presented it to her. She had been very careful to make sure no one else saw it. She had been presented an opportunity and she had gone in and destroyed everything that she could in warning of what would happen if the terrorist attacks continued. It was not her finest hour but it had given her great satisfaction that one person could instill fear of retribution when her way of life and family was threatened.

Things had settled but Allie knew that they were not over. Megatron and Optimus still had to address who had been the insider. Soundwave had increased security and once Prowl had investigated every mech then Megatron would consider lifting the ban on families and couples adventuring outside of the bases and Hall for social recreation. She knew that many were tired and ready to get away but Megatron would not allow anyone out until he was sure that all were safe. There were too few of their race left to risk it but now her processor turned toward her own problems.

The boys were fine and ecstatic that she had returned. Her energon flow had returned since Roddy just couldn't let go of nursing and even Orion had been clingy as she joined them once again. Only Optimus had seemed reserved concerning his feelings or maybe it was her because she did feel some guilt over what she had to do to keep their way fo life secure.

"Optimus are we ever going to talk about this?" She asked softly.

"What is there to talk about? You are not going to change and I am going to be over protective. If I talk about it, it makes me angry that I can't be there for you and if I try to protect you then you resent me." He said. "Maybe it is better that we don't talk about it."

Allie looked at him as he picked up the data pad again and began looking over the report. She opened her side of the bond completely up and let him feel the loneliness and anguish of what she was feeling as she sat there on the other end of the couch not touching him. He finally expelled air from his vents and laid the pad back down.

"Allie if I touch you I am afraid I will hurt you because of the insecurities I feel toward this whole situation." He finally admitted.

"I can take a lot my lord." She whispered as she inch toward him until she was straddling his hips and looking him in the optics. "I need you and I need to know that you love me no matter what." She palmed his face plates with her hands as tears welled in her eyes.

"I am your mate Allie, of course I love you, but it is hard to love you sometimes because I feel that I am smothering you. I know that you are a leader. I know that you have twice as much responsibility as I do because you have to balance what you are to me and what you have become living here in the Realm. If you want my blessing to kill and murder then we will continue to struggle but if you want me I will never deny you." Optimus pulled her in close. "I need you tonight but I am afraid that I will hurt you if I see what you have done. I can't help that."

"I love you Optimus. I will take whatever you give me but don't shut me out." She whispered against his lips and he groaned as he took her mouth and ravished it. They had to lot to endure but at least he was touching her again.