A/N: I know that this song has religious attributes, but I'm not using it for that. I'm using this song for more personal relationships. I'm sorry if that offends you. R&R. Enjoy!
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Optimus/Cade
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"My hands are searching for you
My arms are outstretched towards you
I feel you on my finger tips
My tongue dances behind my lips for you
This fire rising through my being
Burning, I'm not used to seeing you
My hands float up above me
And you whisper you love me
And I begin to fade
Into our secret place
The music makes me sway
The angels singing say we are alone with you
I am alone and they are too with you
I'm alive
I'm alive
I can feel you all around me
Thickening the air I'm breathing
Holding on to what I'm feeling
Savoring this heart that's healing
Take my hand, I give it to you
Now you own me, all I am
You said you would never leave me
I believe you, I believe
I can feel you all around me
Thickening the air I'm breathing
Holding on to what I'm feeling
Savoring this heart that's healed."
All Around Me by Flyleaf
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Optimus was in his veins. In his mind. In his heart. In his very soul. He was the blood that flowed through his heart and made it beat. He was the fire that made his soul burn fierce and bright. He was in the air that filled his lungs. He was anywhere and everywhere.
Cade had never expected this.
He knew that things would change when he became Optimus' spark mate. The sex alone – which had been amazing before – was now indescribable, the pleasure so intense that he would come multiple times, and his body would remain sensitive for days, literally days, afterwards. However, the sex wasn't the biggest change that came with the spark bonding that they had shared, which Cade still didn't remember entirely – Optimus had forewarned him that that might happened and sure enough, it did.
The biggest change that had occurred was…hard to describe. Cade could feel Optimus everywhere. It was like…like they were now sharing a soul, like they were literally carrying a piece of each other inside of them. Every time he breathed, every time his heart would beat, he would feel Optimus. If he reached out to the empty air around him, he could feel him there too. If he closed his eyes, he could feel him. Whenever he slept, regardless of if Optimus was in his holoform beside him or not, Cade could feel him.
When Cade said that he was everywhere, he meant it. His touch lingered every time he placed a large, robotic finger on his back or caressed him in his human form. Every kiss that he placed anywhere on Cade's body tingled hours upon hours and left an invisible scorch mark that was etched permanently into his skin like a tattoo, forever marking Cade as his. And every time they shared a gaze those brightly glowing blue optics saw into his very soul, into the fiber of every molecule that made up his entire being. Cade was being torn down to the bear minimum with that gaze and he allowed it, relished it, his trust in his spark mate absolute and just and pure.
This wasn't a feeling he was used to. In his wildest dreams, he could never imagine something like this. Yet, it wasn't unwelcome or unwanted; quite the opposite, as a matter of fact. He didn't need time to get used to it, either; he already was. Long before this, before Optimus had even left Earth to deal with the seed or whatever the hell he did with it, Cade had known that he trusted the leader of the Autobots with his life, with his very soul. Whether either one of them wanted or not, Optimus owned him now. He owned everything that Cade was, everything that he is, and everything that he will become. No one needed to tell him that; Cade already knew it, felt it.
And he was more than fine with that.
If he could pick one to own him, Cade would pick Optimus. There was no doubt about that. Now that they were spark mates, Cade felt more alive than he had ever felt. He had felt that way before, when they were fighting their battles against Attinger, Lockdown, and Galvatron. The fighting itself wasn't what made him feel that way; it was the fact that Optimus was there and that they were together. Although, at the time, they were just friends, comrades, Optimus had still made him feel alive, important, as if he was actually useful for a change against from being the man who could, if he was lucky, fix things.
But Optimus made him feel important, like he could be helpful for once. Not only that, though, but Optimus made him feel like he mattered and as more than just an ally or friend on the battlefield. Cade didn't need to tell anyone that Optimus mattered to him; that much was obvious. And it was nice to know that someone cared about him, someone as incredible as Optimus Prime. And now, he belonged to Optimus in every single way imaginable.
And Optimus belonged to them.
They belonged to each other.
Now that Optimus was back, he wasn't going to leave. Not again. Not ever. Earth was his planet now; this farm, his home, Cade, his daughter, Shane, and his Autobots were his family. Any threat that came their way, they would fight it, and they would win against it, beat it, even if they odds were stacked incredibly high before them. That was what they would do; they would do anything to protect the peace they had found, the family they had found, together, with each other.
And even if things got bleak or dark or hopeless, Cade knew that they would figure a way out of it together. Whatever pain or torment came their way, they would handle it. Optimus had brought him to life again, had saved him, and was now a part of him just like Cade was a part of Optimus. He couldn't ask for anything more; he had no right to, really. Everything that he wanted, he had now.
With Optimus flowing through his veins and lighting his soul ablaze from within, Cade saw a brighter, fuller future for all of them. And, really, that was all he needed and wanted.