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Chapter 20: Rewind
She felt like her brain was about to explode as the back of her eyes thump in a painful rhythm. Her words drifted out of her mouth the way she wanted them to be but there was turmoil in the inside…
Why does she feel so heavy and in excruciating pain? She asked herself, still trying hard not to let the pain get to her. It was better to just focus on her rage because it had made her calmer than out of it.
As she told her fourth statement though, it was then when she couldn't take it anymore. There was the fierce pounding in her head coming in just second as her eyes blurred. It made her dizzier and ready to throw up when she stubbornly tried to keep them open.
This feeling was way worse than the time she had thrown up blood. Why in the pit was this happening to her?! Had he angered someone again and this was their come back?
She kept begging for the pain to go away, not knowing that she was screaming and pounding her head to whatever was hard enough to lessen the it…
It took a while but she then felt herself become groggy with the pain slowly disappearing. She welcomed it all too hurriedly as everything became non-existent to her.
Shein opened her eyes once again, still feeling a little bit out of it. She doesn't know what was happening but as she surveyed her surroundings, at the back of her mind, a tiny voice of hers called out 'Ratchet?'
She blinked at first. She knew that this was Hook's Med Bay… but who was Ratchet? Where had she gotten that designation?
Searching her memory for when she had heard it, she came out with no results. If she can't remember 'the Ratchet' then why had it appeared?
Then suddenly, something bristled and reached her ears. With movement heard from the side, she turned her head only to find that it was Hook who was fixing someone up.
When did the medic get in here?
He was supposed to be still out on the mission, right? Oh well, maybe he had managed to finish it earlier than she had though it would last and maybe Barricade was really wrong about the mission being suicidal so he could get fun out of scaring her that Hook and his team might not come back.
With that all thought about, she smiled and got ready to great the medic back while she was still perched on her own berth.
"Hook!" She shouted to get the medic's attention.
"It's nice to see that you are back! Please give Barricade a smack for me for trying to offline me with worry from telling me that you won't be able to come back to us!" She jumps off the table and then run towards him in order to give him welcoming hug.
Hook was caught off guard again and had tense in shock but she didn't seem to notice it. She was happily clinging onto his leg, trying to hug all of it with her little arms. He took another minute to get his bearing straight again but when he did, he had scanned her immediately.
She felt him scan her as usual and just stood there contented. It was no big deal for her to be scanned since Hook knows the fragility of her kind. He was also, somewhat, her medic...
For her, this situation was a little bit more endearing since the last time she could remember. He doesn't really give her the attention she wants immediately so this was a surprise. Maybe something went wrong for him to suddenly have changed that habit of his?
"Hook, is there something wrong?" She asked as she tilted her head upward to meet his ruby red optics. Her voice was laced with worry making the mech shutter his optics once or twice.
The medic felt his self warm up from the concern she was basking him in as she tried to sooth an imaginary worry he doesn't even have.
"How come you think that there is something wrong with me, little organic?" He asked her as he left his work on Starscream. He then picked her up while she caught sight of the seeker.
Hook was ready for an outburst but that didn't come. He glanced at her face which only had one of her eyebrows raised; looking for an answer that he would knew. He didn't speak about it though and wave it off as a patient and doctor thing but that clearly didn't please her one bit.
With a sigh, she decided to wait for everything to come out. For now, she was glad that their medic was back and Starscream would have to wait in line for her affection.
"Well, you don't immediately respond to me when you are working, you know… It would always take me a few more tries before you snap at me for being annoying." She grinned at the mech as she stated her facts.
Hook hadn't realized that though and found it amusing that it had become a habit of theirs. Was he really that ignorant and snappy towards her?
"So… What happened on the mission you were in? Are the other two alright? When did you get back? Why didn't you even wake me up to help you with this? You should have rested first! I could fix Star myself you know, you were a great tutor in Cybertonian Anatomy 901 with Medic's Guide to Professionalism!" She pouted at the end of her questions and statements.
With that though, Hook had had found her tirade amusing as she mentioned the names she had given to his lessons. He then, did a neural scan while the femme squirmed on his servo but stayed still for him.
"Is that a new type of scan, Hook? It felt different from all of those past scans you did on me…" She stated as a matter of fact. The medic can't help be amazed at how perceptive and analytical she still was in up to this point when her brain is practically partially functioning again.
"Yes, it is… As to answer your other questions though, it is simple. The mission was fine and it was harder than the others than what I had really given credit for. Like what your guardian had said, we were for sure goners but we had made it out with some help. About not waking you up, you needed the recharge so I hadn't. You were keeping it a habit of exhausting yourself with cleaning my Med Bay again when I told you not to!" Hook said as he calculated what could be safe to say to the amnesiac girl.
Shein had at this point looked sheepishly apologetic to the medic as her memory had reverted back to the time when he had left off to that mission.
"I can also handle my job well, thank you. I still can work for I still have the energy to do so." He poked the femme which she squealed at.
"Hey! No poking the organic with sharp claws." She shouted and pouted at him, making him relieve under the smirk he had on.
"Nah, maybe I'll play Shockwave for a while and dissect you." He told her making her glare at him.
"I am not getting in another relationship other than what I have with Shocky, thank you. I tend to be fully loyal to a relationship." She stuck out her tongue and grinned.
"Oh? You have been a naughty little organic then! Hiding this relationship of yours behind your guardian's back, huh? Maybe I should report this to him to tell that you have been cheating on him as you humans say…" He played along with her.
"What?! NO~!" She dramatically said with her good acting skills. They were clearly in the mood to joke around now.
"I love them both that I just can't choose! Please don't make me chose from one of them!" She had light tears gathering at the side of her eyes.
"I didn't tell you to choose from one of them, didn't I?" Hook replied with a raise optic bridge.
There was a pregnant pause between the two of them before the med bay was filled with their laughter.
Hook was the first to cool his systems though and said, "Sap". It was pointed directly at her.
Shein looked incredulously at him showing that she was offended. But then, she grinned at him and cooed, "You know that you love me too, right, Hooky-wooky~?"
"You are just jealous at both of them because I spend more time with them after you had left." She made wrapped her arms around her body while her she made a duck face.
The medic looked thoughtful for a second, ignoring how funny she was being. He then said, "Maybe…". Not bothering the shock expression that had crawled its way on her face. That earned him a smiled so bright and a hug on the face plate from his favorite squishy.
"Aw, Hook, that's too sweet of you!" She grinned then put distance between them.
"I mean, really… That was really too sweet. I like you more as the menopausal Hook." She tried to keep in her mirth as Hook snorted at her.
"Maybe if I become sweeter, you'd leave me alone to work..." He grinned knowing that it would never work out with just that promise.
"Then get sweeter! I don't mind it. You'll always be our Hook!" She ignored his statement and just smiled at him which got even bigger than before as they were thrown in a laughing fit again.
After the pit of a beating she had given him, this was a good consolation for it. And this just means that they had gotten back the femme they had known before everything was thrown in a loop of pure sadness and chaos from her loss.
What do you think? Needs major editing, right? Well... I'll soon manage that after the celebration, projects and presentations...
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