Hey there guys! How are you doing? I think I've got that dreadful writer's block finally off my case and I'm ready to spruce up more chapters from my worn out brain! (It's worn out because this story has been going on for a year and half XD)

And now, we're going to continue this story as we always do. We're just going to fast forward one month. Mel is five months pregnant and it's July now. (in the story)

Legend:

Dreams

'Song in dream'

Here we go then!

One month later…

"Drink this."

"It's disgusting and I'm not going to do it."

"You need this for the baby."

"Is there something else I can do?"

Ratchet glared at me. I needed to drink one tablespoon of fish oil to keep up the iron levels in my blood. "You need the Omega-3 supplements and I don't want to hear another word about it." He sternly said, handing me a bottle and a spoon. "Now, drink one tablespoon." He ordered.

I groaned as I opened the bottle, poured the fish oil into the tablespoon and held it in front of me. This was going to have such a foul taste. I shoved the tablespoon into my mouth, swallowing immediately.

I closed the bottle and handed it and the spoon back to Ratchet. The aftertaste was horrid.

"There, much better?"

"In your dreams, perhaps."

"Don't be so negative, it's only for your wellbeing." He scoffed, putting the items in the pockets of his med coat. "How are you feeling?" he asked, slightly leaning forwards while keeping his hands in his pockets.

"I'm doing pretty good. I miss seeing my toes, though." I said, moving around my toes as I was standing.

"You'll see them again eventually." He said. "You are 20 weeks pregnant, Melissa. The sparkling should be due around the 40th week."

"Where does that leave me?"

"It seems the sparkling will be born somewhere around November." And it was July now.

"That's not a lot of time left." I said, putting my hands over my stomach and caressing it.

"True." He said, nodding.

I cringed. The baby was kicking. "It's kicking." I said. And I was glad it was. It made me feel proud.

"That is a sign of a healthy sparkling." He said with a smile.

"Here, feel it." I said as he extended his hand. I took it and brought it on my stomach. "Wait for it."

A couple of seconds later, I could see Ratchet's face form a smile. "This is good."

"All that fish oil has been paying off." I remarked as I grinned. He took his hand back. "So I'll see you sometime soon, I guess?"

"I'll come back on Monday, which should be the day after tomorrow. If anything occurs, have somebody com me."

"Will do." I nodded. "Bye Ratchet." I said as he disappeared. I sighed with a smile as I gazed down at my stomach.

"You okay?" Nicole said, emerging from the kitchen. She was rummaging through the fridge up until now. "What did Ratchet say?"

"Everything's good, he'll come back on Monday." I reported. "Want to feel the baby kick?"

"Of course." She said earnestly as she brought her hand towards me and I led it to my stomach. We stood this way until she and I both felt the baby kick under our touch. "Wow…" she said, looking at me with a bright smile. "Can I ask you something? In private?"

"Sure." I said as she helped me climb up the stairs and into my bedroom. I sat on the bed heavily as she closed to the door. "So when did this happen?"

"What?"

"You being pregnant with Ironhide." She said softly, sitting on the chair in front of me.

"Well, it happened five months ago. Just before he," I paused. "passed away." It wasn't easy to say that without feeling a sharp pain in my chest, escalating all the way to the depths of my throat.

"Did you plan on it?"

"Honestly, I didn't even know I could become pregnant. He never told me the holoforms has spermatozoids and all that human stuff, so I thought I couldn't get pregnant. Turns out, our dear medic Ratchet perfected the holoforms."

"I see." She said, fiddling with her fingers as her forearms rested on her knees. "Well… Bee and I were thinking…"

I waited for her to respond, but it seemed as if she was caught between two worlds now and couldn't decide what to say. "Thinking about what?" I asked, forcing myself to lean forwards and touch her knee gently.

"Seeing you all like this, happy," I was anything but happy, but I let her continue anyway, "and we kinda want to start our own family."

"Really? That's great, Nic." But she didn't seem too thrilled about it.

"Yeah…"

"What's wrong?"

She sighed. "It's just… he's a robot and I'm human. What's the baby going to be like? Is it going to be grow up like one of them, a 20ft robot? Is it going to be normal, just like you and I are? Is it going to be techno-organic?"

"Don't worry, it's going to turn out just fine, Nic. The spermatozoids are human and the baby will be human." I assured her.

"But what if Bee doesn't want a human baby?" she said, putting her head in her hands.

"Nicole…" I said, trying to put on my softest voice possible. "He loves you. He'll love the baby however it turns out to be. Don't worry. Talk to him if you have something on your mind. He's your boyfriend after all."

"And what if I say something wrong and ruin everything?"

"What can you possibly say wrong?" I asked.

"I blurt out something and he gets pissed off, drives away and never comes back."

I couldn't believe she actually said that. or even thought about it."Do you really think he would do that to you? After you saw him explode to pieces when Starscream shot at the Xanthium? After you had to see the live video of Soundwave almost decapitating him? Do you really think he would put you through something as horrible as I am going through right now? I'll never get to see Ironhide again, Nic. And I didn't even get to say anything about it." I said.

"I'm sorry about that, Mel, I really am." She said honestly. "But I just don't want to mess something up."

"I'll go with you if you need the support."

"No, no, you rest. I don't want you waddling around like a duck." She said, grinning.

"I'll make fun of you when you're like this." I pointed to my stomach.

"You wouldn't dare." She said, bringing up a small energy ball from her index finger. She was taunting me.

"Try me." I smirked as she laughed. "See you around, Nic. And don't forget to tell me what he said!" I reminded her as she nodded and went away, leaving the door open ajar.

I sighed and laid on my back on the bed.

I wanted to talk to Ironhide. I wanted to tell him my worries, how my day went, how much I loved him. How I still do.

So I took a breath and looked at the ceiling. "Hey Hide." I said, imagining him talking to me. Perhaps he could hear me. Maybe. "What's up? I hope you're going good up there. Maybe one day I'll come around." I said, chuckling as I reminisced on our time together.

I closed my eyes. "So Ratchet came by today… checked up on the baby. He says he can scan me to get a look on the gender, but I didn't want to. I wanted it to be a secret up until the moment I give birth. I hope it's not as painful as they say. But I guess I'll…" I yawned. "have to find out on my own, huh Hide?"

I felt myself fading into dreamland. I let myself go.

It was much easier.

XxXxXxXxX

I was in Will's house. My home.

Everything was at ease.

I looked around, trying to figure out where I was. I was in the front yard and it was empty. Void of everyone and everything. "Will?" I called for him but got no reply. He was probably in the house or somewhere else.

But then I heard a rumbling sound. It was a deep engine growl, but it wasn't of a sports car, like Sunstreaker's or Sideswipe's. This was deeper and not as exotic.

I turned my head towards the sound. I saw nothing, so I started walking towards the source of the sound. I realized I had my baby bump from when I was only three months pregnant. I knew I was six months pregnant now, and I knew I was dreaming at this point.

As I continued to walk, I could see a black object at the end of the road I was walking on. The object was coming closer to me.

And when it was about 20ft away from me, I knew it was a truck.

An all too familiar GMC Topkick truck.

I could feel my heart race at the sight. It was still coming closer to me. And then it stopped, only a few feet away from me. I wasn't afraid. I was thrilled and very excited.

I heard the driver's door click open and then it opened all the way. Behind the door, I could see two feet come out, standing on the ground behind the door. The person was wearing black pants and boots.

I knew that outfit all too well.

I couldn't repress myself from just standing around, so I walked towards the truck and the person behind the door.

Just before I reached the door, the person shut it. I could fully see him.

It was Ron.

It was Ironhide's holoform.

I felt my lips twist into a grin and my eyes fill themselves with tears. I really wanted to say something, anything, but nothing would come out. I felt relieved and relaxed… safe. I wanted to touch him, to just feel his touch. So I walked up to him as I saw him bear a smile on his face as well.

"Hey." He said casually. I couldn't hold it in anymore. I lunged at him, embracing him in a strong hug. I began to sob. He was here with me!

"I've really missed you…" I managed to cry out.

"I've missed you, too…" he replied, hugging me back.

'Again, those same dreams are torturing me, again I'm dreaming of you. Same thing today, same thing yesterday, I know tomorrow will be the same. After you, I have no more life to live and I have nowhere to find rescue. I'm breathing, but the heart's not beating, everything has wilted after us…'

"Ironhide…" I looked up at his face, the face I haven't seen in six months. It was so clear in my dream. "I love you." I said, the tears falling over my cheeks. I blinked hard as they fell again, I lowered my head and leaned on his chest. "I love you so much…"

"Don't cry, Mel." I shivered at the voice. I missed hearing it. I missed hearing it so much. "Don't cry…"

'And so you come into my dream, so that I can tell you all over again how much this is hurting me and I poison myself with wine, every time I hear your name…'

He took me by the hand. "Let's go inside, Mel." He said. I kissed the back of his hand. It was as smooth and scarred as I remembered it to be. I wished this dream would last forever.

We got into the house and found it completely empty. It was one of those dreams when you somehow just know what is going to happen and what is going on. We sat on the all too familiar couch I had to lie on for months when I had cancer. When I beat cancer because I had support. His support.

I put my leg over his, coming closer to him so that I was eventually lying on top of him. Our favorite pose.

I looked into his beautiful eyes. I missed them. I missed him and everything about him, even though he was right in front of me.

His hand raised up to move my hair from my face. It was my real hair and not the wig I had to wear to disguise my bald head. Cancer left its mark on me.

'You're holding me by the hand and telling me that it's all going to pass. I'm looking at the most beautiful eyes, I'm crying but I'm still trying …'

The same hand trailed to the back of my neck, gently pulling me towards him. "I love you, Mel. I always have."

I closed my eyes. And then our lips met, gently and lovingly.

'… trying not to go mad… and that's when I wake up in tears…'

And that's when I felt myself being pulled into reality. I couldn't stop it. I tried holding on to the kiss for so long, but I couldn't. I opened my eyes to look at him one last time, before I went back into the world of java.

XxXxXxXxX

As I knew I was back into the real world now, the cruel world, I opened my eyes. I found them stinging me, so I closed them, but the stinging didn't stop.

I knew why they were stinging. I groaned as I got up and sat up on the bed. I rubbed my eyes, finding them wet. It was like this all the time. I would wake up in tears after dreaming of us. And I could never stay asleep. I always had to wake up. Always at this moment.

I wiped my eyes feverously. I sniffed as I looked up towards the ceiling. I realized my whole room was dark. It must have been night now, so I looked towards my alarm clock. It read 11 pm.

I sighed as I got up off the bed with difficulty and walked downstairs towards the kitchen. I had to eat something.

I heard some sounds come from the living room. The TV was on. As I walked towards the living room, there was a show on it.

"Mrs. Monroe, when it comes to true love, how do you know it's the end?"

"When it's true love? There is no end."

I found the remote and turned the TV off, flipping the light switch so that I could see where I was headed. Leo was on the couch, sleeping alone.

I walked over to him and put a blanket over him, just in case. Even if it was the middle of July, he still needed a cover. I went back into the kitchen to find something to eat. I took some chocolate from the fridge. I had a sweet tooth and at this point, I could care less about what I ate and how I looked at how healthy it was for me to eat this.

So as I was sitting on a chair in the dining room, I thought about my dream, as I always would. I was really happy that I saw Ironhide, even if it was all an illusion and none of it was real. It would never be.

But then I asked myself; if you could see the person you thought was gone, what would you do? Would you run to them and embrace them, would you stare at them in disbelief or would you just walk away, knowing it wasn't real?

But Ironhide wouldn't be coming back. I knew that was real.

And that is how we end a chapter! I admit, I really didn't know what to write in this chapter, but I guess it turned out alright, right?

I used a Serbian song in here, it's called 'Dodjes mi u san' by Pedja Medenica. (I'm writing this just for the credit) and I translated the lyrics into English. The title of the song in English is called 'You come into my dream', for those of you who are wondering what the hell the title means.

So… only 6 chapters until the perimeter. Things are really looking up. And perhaps you'll see something interesting in the next chapter. It's the 95th one anyway. Review guys, you know those keep me going!