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Chapter 21
Optimus stayed silent and hugged his legs to his chest squeezing his eyes shut.
"Alright you have two options; you climb down and we talk or I climb up and we still talk, the option is yours" Bee said softly when she didn't get a response.
"I don't plan on coming down" optimus finally said.
"Then I'm coming up" Bee declared, she had spotted him during his hesitation and made her way up, he didn't move and she sat on the branch running parallel to the one he sat on.
He wasn't looking at her. He didn't know if he even could at this point. He couldn't stand rejection.
"Why'd you run?" she asked softly.
"Why'd you follow?" He replied.
She didn't like that he dodged her question, "why wouldn't I?" she asked, "Optimus, look at me, why'd you run?"
"I... don't like rejection" optimus muttered "I was rejected once before. Though, to be fair, she did try to kill me afterwards"
Bee bit her lip, finally she spoke, "I'm not rejecting you"
Optimus finally meet her eyes and he tilted his head like a puppy. "You're not...?"
Bee smiled slightly and shook her head, confirming what she had said.
"Cool" he said with a grin.
Bee laughed at how quickly his mood changed and shook her head, with her own grin on her face.
"So, what now?" Optimus asks.
Bee shrugged, she had no idea.
"Well that's helpful" optimus muttered.
"Well sorry, but like I said earlier, I have no idea what I'm doing" Bee said.
"Well... how bout we get out of this tree first hmm?" Optimus hops out of the tree and lifts his arms to catch bee.
"Hahaha, probably best" she said as she slipped off of her branch and landed in his waiting arms.
Optimus caught her and kissed her quickly and then pulled away.
Bee giggled and blushed at the action.
Optimus laughed as a com link connected "that was cute. Really it was. Now I formally ask you to get you asses back to base and stop Arcee and smoke from making me offline them" soundwave suddenly started talking.
"Do you think he wants us back at base?" Bee asked as they could hear yelling through the comms.
"I think that's the general idea" optimus replied the same tin knockout yelled "ratchet! Grab him!" Through the com.
"Do we want to know?" Bee asked, "maybe we should just get back to base" she suggested.
"Yeah that sounds good" optimus said.
back at base.
KO was attempting to restrain Soundwave, while others were yelling, no one had noticed Bee or Optimus had entered the room, "what the pit?" Bee asked at the chaos seen.
"Soundwave is attempting to offline smoke and Arcee for purposely fragging in the training room full of cameras" ratchet said suddenly popping up beside her.
Bee jumped a little at the sudden appearance, "right... um... what do we do to calm everyone down?" she asked the two mechs either side of her.
The crash was the next thing heard. When they looked over knockout hat soundwave pinned with his thighs either side of his torso and sitting on him stomach.
KO was red in the face but it was the only way to keep Soundwave from off-lining Arcee and Smoke.
"Get. Off. Me." Soundwave says. "Did you ever notice he had fangs?" Asks a shocked optimus to ratchet. "No" replied ratchet, looking like he wanted to observe them more.
"Not until you decide to calm down you murderous mech!" KO insisted, keeping Soundwave pinned. "He has fangs?" Bee asked, standing on her tip toes to try and see.
Soundwave snapped his fangs at knockout and knockout shoved a piece of leather between them. "There is no way I'm getting between them again. I still got the scars on my upper thigh from last time." Knockout hisses, not realizing that the others were in the room.
"Awkward" Bee said.
"I gotta wonder what how it happened" optimus muttered as he tilted his head again and wrapped an arm around bee absently.
"Yeah no let's not think of that" Bee replied shaking her head and leaning a little into Optimus' side.
By this time soundwave had spat the leather and had gotten his hands-on knockout and wrapped one around his shoulder and one in his hair. Knockout screamed as soundwave bit him between his shoulder and neck and refused to let go.
"Should we stop it or leave them alone?" Bee asked as KO yelped in pain.
"Dunno but it's fascinating to watch" replied ratchet. Knockout was trying to get him to let go without hurting him and soundwave apparently was swallowing the blood because there wasn't as much as there should be going down his neck.
"Your definition of fascinating is majorly disturbing" Bee said to Ratchet. "Would you stop biting me Soundwave" KO whined trying to pry the mech off.
Soundwave stopped then bit further up on knockouts neck. "Frag!" Knockout screamed again.
"Are you trying to make me pass out from energon depletion?" KO asks wincing... "YOU ARE ARENT YOU?!" KO shouted.
"Maybe but I'm getting free energon" soundwave mumbles against his skin.
Before he could latch on again KO covered his mouth with the leather again, this time keeping it down, "You're sick" KO told Soundwave.
"Mjhdbr" soundwave mumbles.
"Okay, I want to know what you said but I'm not risking becoming a living energon dispenser again..." KO said.
"Mu aster od" soundwave says a little clearer.
"Not still not understanding" KO stated.
"He says you taste good Dumbass" says Bee.
"Gross" KO says, "Are you calm now and not going to offline anyone? I don't care about petty revenge as long as you don't offline" KO said/asked.
"Imf fime" soundwave mumbles.
"Good" KO said as he got up and went to the med bay with Ratchet to get patched up.
Later ~
Soundwave was sulking on the roof when the door opened.
It was Bee, she had seen his mood after the whole ordeal and thought he better have someone to talk to, "Hey" she said.
"Hi" soundwave says flatly.
Bee sat next to him, "What's got you all sulk-y?" Bee asked.
"Knockout won't talk to me" soundwave pouted.
"Perhaps because you bit him? and drank his energon?" Bee dead-panned.
"Well technically us and ratchet are the only three that still need to drink it" soundwave admitted "my instincts kind of took over for a while" soundwave says as he looks at the sky.
"Then maybe if you explained and apologised he'll talk to you" Bee suggested.
"I tried" soundwave said sadly "I even slept in my own bed, hurt my neck doin' it".
"hmmm" Bee hummed, "do you want me to talk to him? I'll put his helm straight" Bee asked.
"I don't know" soundwave says.
"I'm doing it" she said as she stood up to head inside.
Knockout was in the med bay getting his bite marks redressed when bee came in, soundwave following behind telling her not to do something, he didn't know what.
"Don't! Don't! Don't!" Soundwave kept saying trying to stop her, "Don't tell me don't" she whirled on him with a pointed glare and he stopped. "KO why are you not talking to Soundwave?" Bee asked, at least now KO knew why Soundwave was saying don't.
"Frag!" Soundwave muttered and bolted from the room. "I have no idea what you're talking about" knockout says stubbornly.
"Stubborn mech stop being stubborn" Bee demanded, she pointed at him saying "talk now!"
"He bit me! Twice!" Knockout yells and swats at ratchet who was trying to check the wounds.
Ratchet glared at the mech and KO sat still immediately. "He told me he apologised, did he?" Bee asked.
"Yes..." Knockout replied. "Most flyers mark their mates when they find them, each model differently and as soundwave is the only flyer with fangs and the only one of his model I think it's safe to assume that, that is what this is" ratchet said. "He still could have asked! Maybe I didn't want to be marked!" Knockout yells forgetting that soundwave can hear every word they say.
"Wait, what?" Bee asked having missed that part, "Okay he didn't tell me that" she said, there was silence, "KO? do you really mean that you don't want to be marked?" she asked, she remembered that Soundwave would hear it and thought that the mech might just being blowing off steam and not actually mean it.
"No, I don't mean it but it would have been nice to be asked!" Knockout sulked. "I don't think soundwave would have shared that Bee. It's only known in the flyer community and to the medics, which is why Knockout knew" ratchet says as he put a bandage on knockouts wounds.
"Oh! makes sense! And KO, Soundwave would've heard you saying you didn't want to" she reminded him.
"FRAG!" Knockout yells and bolts out the door in search of soundwave.
"I WASNT FINISHED!" Ratchet yelled but KO was already gone, "Sorry Ratch but he needed to know" Bee said shrugging. KO couldn't find Soundwave though.
Soundwave had heard knockout and had climbed the mountain behind the base. He didn't know when he had started crying but now he couldn't stop.
KO had searched the entire base before circling back to the med bay - panicked, "I can't find him" he said. "I'll try him on his comm, also have you searched the bigger parts of the rafters? he goes up there sometimes" Bee suggested/told KO, she walked a little away and tried to speak to Soundwave.
Soundwave had blocked his coms though and didn't hear her try.
"Okay no luck" Bee said "He turned his comm off". "Ugh! why did I have to open my intake?" KO cried. "Okay you can still make this right, just think where does he go when he's upset?" Bee asked.
"Somewhere high usually" knockout replied slowly.
"Okay, not the rafters, not the roof, he wouldn't have gone into the city - its too loud..." Bee listed off the places he could be and wasn't.
"Were else would he be!" knockout said concerned.
"What about the mountain behind base?" Ratchet suggested cleaning his tools, "There's a mountain?" Bee asked curiously as KO bolted out of the base and headed towards the mountain.
Soundwave had started sobbing in that time and his hands were grasping his blonde hair.
KO was fast so he made it part way up the mountain in no time but had to stop to catch his breath, the mountain was bigger than he thought and he couldn't see Soundwave so KO started to call out for him, "Soundwave!"
Soundwave couldn't hear anything over his sobs as he sat in the cave at the top of the mountain.
KO kept shouting as he climbed higher.
soundwave had heard knockout and had tried quieting his sobs hoping not to be heard.
But he was heard, it tore at KO's spark because it was his fault that Soundwave a crying. KO spotted the cave and headed straight for it.
Soundwave had gripped his hair so hard that a trickle of blood had slid down his face and stained his fingers red.
KO found him and saw the blood and became even more panicked. "Soundwave let go of your hair" KO demanded
Soundwave just whimpered and tightened his fists, making the blood run faster.
"Soundwave seriously stop, look I didn't mean it, okay I didn't mean what I said, okay please just stop hurting yourself" KO talked quickly gently trying to stop Soundwave.
"You said it...I heard you say it!" Soundwave sobs but releases his hair, his fingers crimson.
"I know, I know, I'm a stupid, stupid mech, I didn't mean it" KO said kneeling next to Soundwave.
Soundwave latched onto him in a heartbeat and covered his white shirt with red.
KO didn't care at that point, "You need to go to med bay please" KO begged.
Soundwave just shook his head and held on tighter.
"I won't leave you I promise, but you're bleeding, please?" He asked again, "I promise Soundwave"
"OK" soundwave muttered.
Later down in med bay.
Soundwave was sitting on the birth still clinging to knockout as ratchet tended to him.
KO held onto Soundwave not letting go, only moving when he was in Ratchet's way - not letting go though.
Suddenly the doors opened and in came.
Bee, who else did they expect?
soundwave didn't let go of knockout but did spare her a glance.
She sent a little smile his way before asking, "what happened?"
"He heard me" was knockouts reply.
"Figured, I meant with the blood" she said gesturing to the red in Soundwaves hair and on KO's shirt.
"He pulled his hair to tight" knockout replied.
"ah" Bee replied, "so you made up?" she pushed.
"I hope so" knockout said. Soundwave still hadn't said anything.
"right well, good luck with that" Bee said as she left the med bay.
ratchet declared him done and knockout took him back to his... well their room really.
"Soundwave I understand if you don't want to talk, but I need you to know that I'm very stupid and did not mean what I said" KO told him again sitting him down on the bed.
"I know" soundwave replied as he got comfy in his nest, yep you heard it it's his now.
"Good" KO said still standing.
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