Chapter 28: You Lie!
Well, last weekend was a blast! I got to spend it in my cousins' house where all the troll-fun had began and I got to practice my skills in Basketball. :D I am truly sorry for this late Chapter but I need to be getting my head back into my hands right now. SO I won't be able to update till the my workload is gone again. J See you all soon~! Ciao~!
It has been three days since she had been taken to the Gould Residence and there was not a day she found to be the least amusing. Shein had found out earlier that one of the younglings, specifically Lazerbeak, had decided to take her while she was resting in her quarters that night after she had gone with Shockwave to the Medbay to get a checkup with Hook. She had planned to visit them but it seems that they –the younglings- had read her mind and wanted to surprise her with taking her unconscious… That info certainly answered why she had that floating dream before she had woken up with them there already there in front of her.
After that activity they had of messing around in Gould's Mansion-house, they settled for some bonding time the next day, driving around the place in Soundwave or just her and the younglings. The last part doesn't really happen because Soundwave would be in a blink away when some unexpected trouble befalls them… Like when they went to that park and the car they had taken to get there mysteriously sunk into the large lake the minute that they decided that it was time to get home. She had only thought of it as Gould not taking care of his engines and not that there might be someone out there wanting to end her life.
The drive back with Soundwave, that feeling again had came but this time, it was uncomfortable and very alarming. She wasn't let out of the vicinity of the garage which she complied to without a second thought but when the mech suddenly had the idea to leave, she urged him to stay with the help of the younglings, ofcourse. She was as to say, super embarrassed when the younglings stared at her widely as if what she had wanted was not a normal thing.
"Let's just keep Soundwave to ourselves, okay? Don't let him out of our sight and tell me when he plans on leaving." She had said with a little hidden meaning to her words to not worry the sparklings of what she was feeling. Soon, she overheard the younglings speaking in their language when she went up to the mech and tried to get an answer for his change of moods.
"I think Shein is showing it! This got to be it!" Buzzsaw whispered rather ecstatically to his other siblings. Thinking that the femme was showing interest to their mech by the way she was acting so overly worried about the mech and paying more attention to him during their transition from the park to their home.
"You are overthinking her actions, Buzz… Don't expect too much." Frenzy said with all the warbles and chirps as he gave a second glance at Shein's direction. Shein was able to lift her eyes away from their direction in time before the youngling could notice she was listening to them. Frenzy, thinking that she couldn't hear, look down again to his siblings.
"Why are you so contrasting with the idea, Enzie?" Lazerbeak glared at the other, noticing how Frenzy had been acting quite off when the idea of her being integrated into their family as a creator was discussed. She had it with him and wanted to know what was wrong with him. He didn't mean to sound so angry though.
Buzzsaw got in between them to stop a fight that could start any minute. He was sure that if anymore words were exchange, the two could rumble. He didn't want that because they were the only thing left in their family. Like Shein had said, 'It is better to treasure one another because you are all what each other had left.'
They don't need a dissonance with their bonds or even a spark break at this matter.
"I am not! You are just over thinking how the way I react!" Frenzy defended as he glared at the other. His pede came to step forward and his chesplates puff out challengingly as if daring the other to doubt him again.
"Well? What do you think of what she meant with what she said?" Lazerbeak took the challenge he too, stepped up and glared. Buzzsaw was now buried in between the two as he tried to make them understand that both were worsening the situation.
"There is nothing to think about it! She is just concerned with our creator!" Frenzy hissed as he pushed forward, planning to shove the other away but their sibling in between was preventing that.
"Well, maybe there is more! Just admit it! You think of it too!" The metallic feathers of the youngling glinted rather threateningly at him but that only made Frenzy a lot more ticked.
"Come on, don't fight… There is nothing to fight about, Lazer… Enzie…" Buzzsaw tried again as he pushed the two away.
Suddenly, the two tensed up and slowly rotated their heads to their creator standing in his mech form with Shein held in his servos. He was staring down at them while Shein look quizzically at him and at the little ones. The fight seemed to stop when Soundwave transformed in a blink and that disturbing feeling grew more intense.
The two younglings look up at their creator and bowed their heads when they felt that EMP brush their sparks. Their creator was scolding them for fighting with each other for such trivial things and made it clear to them that if and only if Shein speaks about the topic… He would take action. They shouldn't think more about the way that the femme was treating him that day.
Soundwave telepathically told them that he appreciates what they were doing but they should leave him and Shein's relationship alone. The bonds that she had created are already a great treasure he could ask for in the pit of his life.
He also pointed out that she could be their caretaker even if he and she aren't that kind of bonded. The only thing they should do is to ask the femme away. Maybe by the time they are older, he could give them the deeper lessons about bonds.
The two keened about what they have done but agreed to not do it again. They were left to apologize to each other while Buzzsaw came up to his creator and ask for a lift to meet the one in the other servo. Once he was up there, he snuggled up to the femme and looked at her with a glint in his eyes.
That glint that said the he would like to ask her now but he lacks the courage. This time, Buzzsaw had realized what if she doesn't see them as what they thought she sees them? Would she accept them and never change? All the doubts came raging in him.
Shein didn't know what was happening in the youngling's mind but she did comfort him with all she could. It was alarming now that even the younglings were in a mess of confusion and longing. Yep, she could feel it also.
"Aww… Honey, what is wrong?" She asked as he brushed the helm of the youngling needing some kind of assurance.
Buzzsaw look over her arm that was blocking his view of his sibling. They were still down from the argument they have. Maybe… For them… He thought as he summed up all his courage to ask. Would she accept being their caretaker even if their creator and her doesn't have a deeper bond that they heard Hook say.
"Uhhh… You really like us, right Shein?" He asked as he broke the hug and looked her in the eyes. Those eyes that shine with the truth that others don't really see if they were ignorant.
"No." That was her answer. Even the younglings that were at the bottom were surprised by her answer but Soundwave could only be amused at what she was planning.
"Y-you d-don't l-llike us?" Lazerbeak asked as he flew to them while Frenzy tried to rush his climb. Soundwave gave him the easy access of his other servo and let him up with the others. He decided that standing was now straining his gears so he began to seat back and watch what will happen to this amusing conversation that the femme was creating.
"But you want us around, right?" Frenzy asked as his optics look at her with the same glint.
"No." The femme said again, breaking another spark.
"Then you don't want us! You're a lier! You lie!" Lazerbeak began his rage and glide down at her form. Buzzsaw had to move away quickly to not get caught in the collision that the enrage sibling would make with the once he thought was their perfect caretaker.
He looked up at his creator with sad optics full of apologies thinking that he was right and they shouldn't have form a non-existent bond with her… but what he didn't expect to see was the real face of his mech creator right in front of him, looking down at him with those optics that for once he could see in spite of his many vorns.
He couldn't believe that their creator decided to do that. He can't believe that he was seeing his faceplates of all the cycles! He could have glitched right then but his creator gestured him to see what was happening behind them. It seems that he was not the only one in a daze because Frenzy was gaping when saw him still looking.
They turned back and listened carefully. There was no metal colliding with anything; there was no wailing or even the sound of a struggle. They saw that Shein was on her back with a threathening Lazerbeak on her. The human had cuts on her face and some of her clothes were slashed but she still sported that smile… That smile full of emotion that made their spark skip a beat.
She slowly raised her hands to the metal condor's face plates before she tug it down for their foreheads to meet. Her eyes were now closed as she said the magical words that made them think if they really deserve such more.
"You ask I like, yes? I don't… because I love you guys…" She said slowly with that smile. Those words rang in the air like a prayer as it passed through their audio receptors. Was this for real?
"You ask I want you around… No… because I need you all around…" She said again as she slowly opened her eyes to meet those red rubies shining down at her.
"Don't you guys ever doubt that… because I won't be able to live with myself for still making you skeptical of who I am. I am who I am… What you see is all the truth I can give. I may lie but those things are for a larger reason that I have. Now… why would I say yes when the answer is really no?" She sighed with a smile and was surprised the second she was up.
That second day couldn't get any better. That was all Shein could say. Even though something bad had happened, there was always the good thing that comes after. She couldn't help think that her life was really coming out right.
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