I hope the last chapter wasn't too bad. I wanted to bring Allie back but I didn't want to take my reader's into the field. I want the final action with the terrorists to be at home and Optimus forced to deal with it but I haven't decided how to play it out. Well back to the story, oh and I hope that Shalon having Megatron wrapped around her little finger humors my readers. He has turned from a warlord rake and terror to a devoted father and mate.
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"I can't do this!" Waverly looked at Kiki and Aura as she stood nervously in her long white dress. The ceremony was taking place in the temple chambers, the same place that they conduct their ceremonies for the oracle at Chelsea's insistence. Kiki, Aura, and Shalon were the hand maids or maidens attending to Waverly as they dressed her in the simple flowing gown and weaved lavender and gold flowers into her hair. It made her features look stunning as wisps of red gold hair dangle around her face and ears. Her hand maidens would walk out first announcing that Waverly was ready and then Cliffjumper's chosen friend would stand as witness as Waverly would meet Cliffjumper to stand before Lord Prime and the Lord High Protector as Optimus Prime would conduct the blessing.
Waverly hands shook and Shalon was concerned that her friend would pass out or faint before she would make it to the dais in the east for the blessing.
"Waverly, this is not different than when we stood before the oracle for the first time and this won't hurt like that did either." Shalon tried to tell her but Waverly jerked away from her in agitation. "Waverly…"
"No! I am being bonded to someone that barely looks at me!" Waverly cried. She was still shaken from spending the night with Cliffjumper and waking again to have him feel her up as if she was some possession. He had turned away without saying anything to her and left her to leave in silence and therefore utterly confusing her more before she ran from his quarters and holed up in her own for the first time since the awful night of the rape. After tonight she would no longer have her own privacy but would be sharing with a mech that did not communicate with her. How was she to live like that?
"He has made a claim and you must accept your place." Shalon said patiently. Chelsea chose to walk in at that moment to check on them. She took in Waverly's panicked face immediately and shooed Shalon and the others into the ante-room.
"Waverly I will walk out there and tell them right now that you have changed your mind if you want me too." Chelsea said vehemently. She took Waverly by the shoulders and directed her to a chair before the young femme collapsed from the emotional stress of the day.
"What about my agreeing to this?" Waverly asked brokenly.
"To hell with that and to hell with Prime and Megatron!" Chelsea said as she held the femme.
"I can't disappoint them." Waverly said into Chelsea's shoulder.
"They only care for the laws and doing what is best for our society but Waverly you do have a choice. We can fight this!" Chelsea informed her.
"How?"
"I have a friend that will hide you. You will be safe but you have to make the choice." Chelsea whispered. Neither femme heard a door open and close or saw Allie walk in quietly. She took in Chelsea and Waverly and waited until they saw her. Chelsea started when she saw the commander and pulled back forcing Waverly to do the same.
"Chelsea, you're excused." Allie said coldly.
"But…"
"I'll deal with you later." Allie dismissed her and Waverly shivered as she looked at the taller commanding femme before her. Chelsea bowed and walked out shutting the door behind her.
"Waverly if you have cold feet I will understand. I get that." Allie said as she approached the femme. "I will not let you walk out though and Chelsea's advice will cause irreparable damage and cost you your sparkling's life. Do you want that?" Waverly looked at Allie with shock and anger.
"What do you want me to do?" She demanded of her commander.
"I want you to fulfill you side of the bargain." Allie stated.
"He won't even look at me!" She cried.
"Then seduce him. He does care. I have felt it within him or I would have stopped this before you ever agreed to this!" Allie said.
"No! I will not do something like that." Waverly wrenched away from Allie and stalked to the farthest wall. "I stayed in his quarters last night." Waverly whispered more to herself than to Allie. "I accidentally fell into recharge and woke in his arms and I was afraid. All he seemed to care about was the sparkling." Waverly turned and faced Allie. "I can't live with someone who doesn't love me and I can't say yes to this." She cried as tears fell down her face.
"You don't have to say yes. You just have to stand there before Prime and witnesses and your presence will say it all." Allie said. "Waverly he is doing this to protect you. If he only cared for the sparkling then he would not be bonding to you." Waverly looked at Allie through her tears.
"You read him." She finally said.
"Yes and I believe he cares for you and I believe he will eventually love you. He is so lonely Waverly and he desperately wants a family. It is not that he is looking for a replacement but another chance to show that he can love but Waverly he is hurting too."
"I know and that is why I am afraid. I am not his dead mate. I don't know if I can live up to his standards or compete with a ghost." Waverly whispered brokenly.
"You don't have to. Just show him your spark and love him. He will learn to set aside that stubborn pride of his or I never would have allowed him this close to you." Allie said softly as she came up to Waverly and hugged her. "I love Chelsea but Chelsea has a way of running sometimes and I didn't want you to make her mistakes. That is why I intervened just now. I love you Waverly and I will be there if you need to talk but please try to keep it together for just a little while longer okay?"
"I will and thank you. I think that I can do this now." Waverly said as she smiled through her tears at her commander and friend.
"Good. I will call the others back to you." Allie said, turned, and walked out. She hated lying to the femme but it wasn't a total lie and there had been some truth in her words but their need to keep this from escalating into a disaster was up most important and Waverly needed to understand that her life took secondary to the life of the sparkling.
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Allie took her place by Optimus' side and waited for Waverly's escort to bring her. Optimus watched her and wondered why she was slightly agitated but then he knew that she had sensed distress in Waverly and had gone to talk to her. He turned back to look at Cliffjumper who was polished and waxed and gleaming from anticipation of the ceremony. Maybe that was all he ever wanted. He could still see the uncertainty in the mech's stance but he seemed a little happier since he had made the decision to bond with the femme.
Optimus then glanced at Megatron who stood to his left. It was fitting that his consort was on his right so Megatron stood to his left in honor of the ceremony. Shalon stood with the other handmaidens and Starscream and Thundercracker stood not far from their mates on the front of the audience. Optimus turned to see Waverly walking slowly from the west entrance of the chamber toward the east. She looked beautiful with her hair softly put up and braided with flowers and the simple white gown. Her peds were silent as she walked slowly towards them. Cliffjumper stood taller, straighter as she came closer and Optimus could hear a sigh from the audience as she passed by. It seemed that many had bets that she wouldn't walk down the 'aisle' but she defied them and now they were standing waiting to perform the ceremonial blessing.
Cliffjumper turned toward her and reached for her hand as Optimus noticed her hesitation before taking his hand. They both turned and faced Prime who stepped forward to conduct the ceremony.
"Family and friends, we are here today to bless the joining of these two sparks together in bonding for all eternity under the optics of Primus." Optimus began as he saw Waverly visibly flinch at the word eternity. He could see her shaking form diminish as his words trailed on and Optimus began to wonder if this had been a good idea. "Cliffjumper you have agreed to take this femme and bond with her, to keep her from harm through all eternity until one or both of your sparks extinguish and Waverly you have agreed to take this mech and provide him a home with a family that will love and care for him with everything that you are." Both looked pale at this point and Optimus hesitated a moment before starting the blessing. Allie stepped forward as Prime raised his arms. "I ask for Primus' blessing upon these two as they start their journey together as a bonded couple and may that he may watch over them and their sparklings."
Allie was moved by his words. She took spark in their meaning and vowed to herself as she watched the two uncertain beings before her that she would be more to her mate than she had been. His loving had moved her to tears the night before and now she felt tears prick her eyes as she watched Waverly pull back a little before Cliffjumper placing a chaste kiss to her cheek. Optimus had finished and now everyone was stepping forward to congratulate them but Allie stood back as she felt the emotion of the ceremony wash over her. Optimus caught her eyes and he smiled gently at her as she realized that he had been affected by it too and was grateful that she was not alone in sharing her feelings.
"Are you okay?" Her mate asked her softly as he joined her.
"Yes, I love you."
"I know. I love you too." He answered. They watched as friends and family greeted and congratulated the couple.
"Do you think they will be okay?" Allie asked.
"I think they will if they don't let their pride hinder the relationship." Prime replied. He walked Allie down from the dais and they followed the crowd out into the ante-room and hallway. There was a banquet set up for the couple and it would be a few hours before the couple would be escorted to their private quarters.
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Waverly was petrified. She had been escorted to their private quarters where her handmaidens had prepared her for berth. She felt out of place and scared as she waited for her mate and after tonight they would be mated in all ways with their spark synchronized to beat together in harmony. Cliffjumper had not touched her in any intimate way except to feel her spark where their sparkling was nestled against. Tonight though both she and the little spark would know their sire and mate and Waverly couldn't stop the quivering that had encompassed her entire body.
She had greeted the well-wishers and everyone who had wanted to hug her and tell her how wonderful her life would be. She and Cliffjumper allowed them. Some had questions in their eyes and optics while others stood there knowing the truth. Ironhide and Mia had been so supportive of her even though she had never been under Mia's direct command. It seemed strange that a couple she knew least had supported her the most. She was also baffled at why Chelsea backed way off after coming to her in the anti-chamber. Waverly couldn't shake the feeling that Chelsea had been warned to stay away and yet Barricade still wished her well while he whispered he would kill Cliffjumper if he hurt her in any way.
She heard a noise from outside of the quarter's door and knew that Cliffjumper and his friends had arrived to wish him off. Her hands trembled as she heard the lock unlatch and then a swell of noise before a deafening quiet. Cliffjumper had walked in and as she turned her head she saw him stop in the doorway of their berth room. He spark felt as if it was lodged in her throat as she took in his shiny smooth metallic form and gawked at his hungry expression. She had seen it the night before but he had refrained from ravishing her but now she knew that tonight there would be no refraining, no hesitation as he slowly stalked toward her. He had never hidden his desire for her and in fact stated quite obviously how much he wanted her in his berth but to see him looking at her with such predatory optics terrified her.
Cliffjumper could not contain his excitement. She wasn't a dream but here in his berth waiting for him to bond with her. It had been so long since he had been part of a celebration just for him and he would have spent a month in the brig doing scrap work just to have this vision of loveliness placed before him. She was scared. He sensed it in the way her body was poised to the large round saucer like eyes that betrayed her nervousness to the smell of her musky odor which permeated the air and yet she belonged to him. She and the sparkling that her body nourished and cared for was going to be placed in his protection and as much as that gave him power it also humbled him as he secretly vowed to love her until the day he died.
Cliffjumper sat down on the edge of the berth as Waverly shied away from him. Her eyes cast down she shivered in the corner of the berth as he gently reached for her.
"Waverly I am not going to hurt you." He said as he pulled a lock of hair away from her face.
"I know." She whispered unconvincingly.
"Really, I will not hurt you. I want this though and I hope that you will not deny me." He told her.
"I agreed to this. I will not deny you my lord." She said but still she quivered at his touch as he slowly crawled closer to her. He laced his hand through her hair as his other arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her into his lap. Waverly gasped as her thighs made contact with his. The thin silky white nightgown doing nothing to conceal her body from his made him ache to feel her against him and he leaned closer as he pulled her towards him. She gasped as Cliffjumper ravished her mouth with his and she felt him pull her legs out so that she was lying on her back with his form covering hers.
Waverly moaned and gasped as Cliffjumper tore off her gown to reveal her sweet form and Waverly twisted her head away to gasp for air as she felt him touch her breasts, thighs and then finger her valve. He wasn't giving her time to protest as she heard his interface panel slide away to reveal his spike and Waverly whimpered as he stretched and prepared her body for him.
"I'm sorry this is rushed but I have waited long enough to be inside you again." He whispered before plunging deeply into her valve. Waverly cried out as he painfully stretched her. He had forgotten how tight she was and instantly slowed his pace to allow her time to adjust. He hands went to his chest either to push him away for to pull him forward, Waverly couldn't decide until pain was replaced with pleasure and she moaned as he moved slowly inside her filling her with his spike and hitting all the pleasurable nodes deep inside her.
"Jumper, please." She whimpered as he increased his thrusts in her. He growled in her ear as he sighed against her shoulder and thrust faster and deeper until she was moaning and gasping and writhing beneath him and he smiled that predatory smile as he lifted her up by her aft and began to pump harshly into her until she was sobbing for him to give her release.
"Jumper… please… I can't take anymore." She cried and then screamed as he hit another sensitive node deep within her and she clenched tight around him and screamed in release. Cliffjumper roared and parted his chest to reveal his spark and Waverly's responded in kind as he merged their chests together and bonded with Waverly.
She went into shock as she saw all his pain and suffering and her spark ached to give him love and all the kindness that he had been denied for so long. Cliffjumper saw Waverly's happy family and friends and all the things she enjoyed in life. They relished each other memories until both were consumed in light and overloaded again only to be met with the dark oblivion of recharge.
