I found that no one commented on the little stint that I wrote between Sunstreaker and Sideswipe. I thought it was funny but oh well I will keep writing. I did have one comment saying it was too mushy but I like a little mush. I am trying to end this somehow. I may let it end soon with only wrapping up what happens to Raven and Shockwave. I haven't decided yet. It seems to be getting harder to write especially with me and my son being sick every other week. I have lost more time at work this year than I have in the last three years.

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Gears and Cliffjumper stood by their young friend as he waited for Ratchet to report on his mate and their sparkling. The surgery had begun early that morning and even Prime had come by twice to check on Bumblebee. They stood in the waiting room outside of the med bay and no one could get Bumblebee to sit since he was so anxious to know that Stargazer was okay and that their sparkling was doing fine from the transfer to the gestation chamber.

"Have you heard anything?" Ironhide said as he walked around the corner and into the waiting room.

"No, there has been no word." Cliffjumper said gruffly. He shifted toward Bumblebee as Ironhide looked at the yellow scout with concern and love.

"Let me know when Ratchet comes out. Both Optimus and Megatron want an update." Ironhide informed them and then left with a turn of his helm. Gears sat silently with his friend as Cliffjumper twitched and jerked from lack of action.

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"You are leaving." It was said flat and without inflection as Shockwave walked into the berth room of their quarters.

"Knockout cleared me this morning." Raven told him softly. "I need to go and besides, Lord Megatron has sanctioned it." She looked up from packing her simple black bag. "I will come back."

Shockwave walked closer to Raven and she watched him warily as he circled around the berth to stand in front of her. "I don't want you to go." He said very softly. Raven moved back but Shockwave suddenly reached out and pulled her towards him. She gasped as he brought his hand up and tangled it in her hair while pulling her head close and inhaling her scent of musk, roses, and another elusive smell that Shockwave could not make sense of. "Please don't go." He said as it was muffled in her hair.

"You could go with me." Raven replied just as softly and felt Shockwave tense. She waited for his reaction as his hands flexed against her back side.

"I can't." He finally managed to growl out and Raven felt disappointment flood from both sides. She had hoped that by attempting to meet him half way that it would help their relationship. She hadn't realized that in her spark she was secretly hoping that he would willingly go. "Raven stay, please." Raven realized that he only saw what his master wanted of him. It would do well in that he would always be loyal to her but Raven also saw the complications that would come as they learned to work as a couple.

"I have to do this." She quietly told him. "Megatron said that we would be together and that if my reports are positive then you would join me." She stroked the side of his optic tenderly and felt him shudder. "I need to go so that I can make plans for us."

"I made a commitment to Perceptor today. We are working on ways to store energy from the converters. Our goal is to eventually be able to send it back to Cybertron so that we can make efforts to revive our home world." Shockwave said as he gently turned her so that he could pick her up and walk with her to their berth. He sat down with Raven in his lap. "How much time?"

"I leave tonight on a transport." She replied to his question. He stroked her face.

"II am sorry that I lost control." He finally said as he continued to stroke her.

"No you're not. It is not within you to apologize." She countered and smiled.

"You're right. I don't like to admit that I am wrong." He ruefully replied.

"May I suggest that we start over?" She finally said as she shyly looked up at him.

"We are bonded," Was his only response.

"We still need to learn each other's habits." Raven stroked the smooth metal plating on his arm.

"I will not be coddled." He told her as Raven's breath hitched from Shockwave moving his hands up her thighs. "I will expect certain things from you."

"I can only imagine." Raven breathlessly replied.

"No, I am not a mech that allows his mate to roam anywhere." He growled softly as his fingers moved her undergarments aside and ran the tips of one finger around her valve. Raven clutched at him as she arched into his touch.

"We may have to negotiate that since I do govern a city." She whispered brokenly and then moaning for him to touch her more.

"I don't negotiate." Shockwave growled into her ear as he plunged his finger deep into her valve. Raven bucked up against his hand writhing to create more delicious friction as she panted wantonly against her mate. Shockwave loved watching her flush with wanton abandon as he continued to pump his fingers in and out of her. Raven tried to concentrate. She knew he was distracting her but suddenly she didn't care anymore.

"Shockwave, please I need you now." She cried and he only smiled as he refused to give in to her. He wanted her completely submissive to him, panting only for him before he would finally take her, but Shockwave also wanted her to know that only he could do this to her. He stroked her close to overload many times only to ease up when she was close. As he started to stroke her again Raven began to cry earnestly as she felt the charge start to build within her again. "Please, no, no again, I can't take it." Tears started to fall as Shockwave gentled his strokes but still he did not stop.

"Raven look at me." He told her as he dipped his fingers in her over sensitive valve.

"No, you are punishing me." He cried out and arched against him as he stroke sensitive nodes deep within her.

"No I am not punishing you but I want you to remember that I am the only one that can make your body sing with pleasure." He gently rebuked her as he readied her for his spike. Raven clutched at him helplessly controlled by his whim to pleasure her and then his fingers left her and she cried out as she felt her lover shift and then swiftly enter her. Raven mewled and cried as Shockwave set a fast and aggressive pace as she clutched at him trying to keep pace with him but to no avail. Shockwave rode her with a fiery passion as he growled and grunted her name slipping from deep within his vocalizer as electricity coursed between them.

Raven cried out again as she felt herself climbing higher and higher towards overload as Shockwave pounded roughly into her valve, his hands picking her up by her aft so that he could slide in deeper. She screamed as overload suddenly took control, her fluids rushing to meet him as he roughly shouted her name and spilling into her filling her with his fluids. Shockwave shook as he carefully maneuvered her where he would not crush her and they lay there panting as fans slowly cooled their bodies and Raven's focus slowly came back from the inky black depths that were trying to envelope her as Shockwave's intakes worked overtime to cool him.

"Stay with me." He commanded softly. "I need you too."

"I can't. I made a commitment before I met you and I have to see it through." She replied sadly.

"Would it mean anything if I told you that I care for you deeply?" Shockwave looked at her flushed skin, her over bright green eyes, and how her damp shoulder length hair clung to her head and skin.

"I can feel that through the bond that is strengthening between us. I still have to leave but I promise to return and soon." She told him. She cupped his face plates with her hands as she tenderly looked into his bright red optics. "I have never felt this way with another and I will return to you." She kissed him softly and pulled back with a sudden thoughtful expression. "Why do you wear a mask with only one optic?"

Shockwave smiled at her. "I wear it because no one can determine my expressions. It is the same reason Soundwave wears a visor."

"It is intimidating." She said ruefully.

"It was very effective during the war." Shockwave added. They laid there in each other's arms not saying anymore as Raven listened to the pulsing of her mate's spark.

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"Hey Baby!" Shalon said as she sauntered out of the nursery. Galvatron had been fussy as if sensing Shalon's unease while waiting for word on Stargazer. She had not gone to see Allie this morning because she knew that it would only make the older femme more tense while awaiting word on their friend.

"Bumblebee is with her. The operation was a success. The little mechling is secure in the chamber and Stargazer is responding well and is stable." Megatron said as he walked over to his mate and pulled her to his chassis. "Are the sparklings down for a nap?" He asked her with a glint in his optics.

"Yes they are." She purred back as she nuzzled and then licked the plates on his neck.

"I have a little down time right now." He told her wickedly and Shalon growled back as she jumped into her waiting arms.

"My you are an eager pet." He smirked and she hit him playfully as he swung her around until he could comfortably hold her as he strode purposely toward their berth room.

"I am not a pet!" She hit the berth with an oomph and Megatron pulled her under his massive frame.

"You are anything that I want you to be." Megatron snarled and Shalon smiled coyly up at him as she reached for his chassis to tease the circuitry beneath it. He pried her hands from his chassis as he held them securely above her head and Shalon laughed at him as he began to tear the clothing away from her body.

"My aren't we patient today." She purred seductively and Megatron tightened his hold on her. Shalon mocked gasped pretending that she was in pain though her eyes sparkled with mirth and she arched against him rubbing herself against the panel that protected his spike. She wrapped her legs around his waist and pulled her lower body up in the air against his and Megatron gasped and growled at her wantonness. "Oh come for me sweet spark. You are so tight with tension." She mewled and Megatron almost lost control as his spike painfully pushed against its casing. Shalon pulsed him with her spark and Megatron's arms buckled as his weight pinned her down.

"Shalon," he growled as he tried to gain leverage but Shalon smiled wickedly as she turned the tables on her mate and pulsed him again before he could get his hold on her. Shalon laughed in his audial as she rubbed against him. Megatron suddenly reared back and spread her thighs wide apart as he retracted his panel and plunged deeply within her. Shalon screamed as pain flooded her sensors before pleasure rushed to sooth it. Though she was wet with anticipation Megatron had not prepared her enough but after the initial thrust he slowed to allow her to adjust. "You started this you little vixen."

"Yes but you want it as much as I do." She seductively replied as she squeezed his spike with the walls of her valve and Megatron grunted harshly. Two could play this game. He stopped thrusting and held still as he unlocked her thighs from around his waist. Shalon growled as she was thwarted by his hands as he repositioned her where she didn't have any control. She smiled wickedly at her mate. "Your pleasure is all I want my lord. You can do what you will with me."

Megatron growled as he lost control. No matter how he dominated her she always surprised him. He began to thrust harshly into her and Shalon reveled in his brutality. She mewled and gasped as Megatron grunted her name with each thrust until all that was left was their panting bodies as he overloaded violently into her.

They lay there; their CPU's blown to the pit and back as Megatron fought to keep from off lining. He rolled off of Shalon dragging her on top of him and he heard her whimper. He fought the fog of recharge as he began to check his mate for injuries.

"I hurt you." Megatron finally said regret flowing through their bond.

"I am aching but I wouldn't have stopped you if it meant losing my life." She replied softly.

"If you don't feel better in the morning go see Ratchet." Megatron slowly shifted careful not to hurt his mate as he settled them for recharge.

"I rather see Doc and I will wait when she is alone. I don't feel like explaining this injury to the Hatchet. He might finish me off." She shuddered delicately and Megatron laughed at her scrunched expression.

"He is not as bad as you make out. He just doesn't like stupid injuries." Megatron said as he began to stoke her back.

"I know but Doc doesn't wield a wrench like he does."

"Yes, but they both know who you are bonded to."

"Oh, I'll make sure to use that to my advantage but the Hatchet would probably come after you for hurting me." Megatron laughed again at her words.

"I'll make sure to oversee a patrol tomorrow then."

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Ema was off today and taking a day to lounge around her quarters. Jolt had chosen to be the one to move in with her since she had the better quarters with a second room. She shared the wash racks with Raven that came in and out of the Hall and now it seemed that she and Jolt would be sharing with Shockwave as well since he had decided to take up residence with Raven. Jolt was not happy about that since he found it hard to forgive a mech for torturing his comrades during the war.

Ema heard the door open and knew that her lover had returned from checking on Stargazer and Bumblebee.

"Hey," Jolt said quietly as he took in Ema's form in their berth. She smiled coyly at him still shy after the weeks of being with him and Jolt smiled at the pink that tinged her cheeks.

"Hey, did everything go well with Star?" Ema shyly asked.

"It did. The sparkling is in the pod and Stargazer is recovering and Ratchet said her vitals were already settling. The sparkling's spark is still somewhat weak but both Doc and Ratchet said it has a good chance of survival." Jolt sat down and began to stroke Ema's arm as she snuggled closer and placed her face against his leg armor. "Ema, have you thought about what I asked of you last night?"

"I have. I am still scared of losing you but I don't want to wait any longer." She told him as she suddenly looked up into his optics.

"Are you sure?" He asked again. "I don't want to pressure you into anything you don't want."

"I lost someone I loved because I wasn't sure about bonding with them. I could still lose you but I don't want to wait any longer." Ema told him as she held his gaze.

"I don't patrol until late tonight." He said softly as he ran his hand over her arm and then down her body only to return back up.

"Then I guess today will be the day." She whispered suddenly nervous. Jolt sense it. He didn't have to be bonded to her to see how shy she was.

"I will cherish you forever." He whispered back.

"I know." Was the shy reply.