"Please wait there, I will let you know something as soon as possible..."
Wait is never easy, especially if you are waiting news from a emergency room or a medbay...
Wait gives you time to imagine the worst scenarios, or to remember...
Wait gives birth to strange thoughts, or brain's farts. For example, Sam is ready to write a essay on the relativity of time in the waiting room...
Ok, so probably Sam is trying to avoid to remember, because nothing hurts more that the hindsight...
Yesterday, or maybe two days ago, he is not sure what time is it but seems late enough to be past midnight, he was riding his Camaro, or he was spending quality time with his best friend, if you prefer, enjoying the music from the radio and the rhythmic sound of the rain on said best friend' s hood. In hindsight, running under the rain is not poetic but stupid, but they was enjoying it. Yes, they was enjoying the velocity and the company, since a semi-trailer truck, different from Optimus only for the green paint, didn't stop with the red light.
Sam can remember Bee manoeuvre when he attempted to avoid the collision. He's sure that with that Bee saved his life. But seems his guardian sacrificed himself to do so.
Sam is not sure he can survive with this knowledge... His guardian, his best friend, he turns himself to avoid that that trunk hits Sam side, and takes the hit on his back side... Was that to crack open his spark chamber? Or was the pole of the traffic light they hit after that? Sam was very glad they had already left Mikaela, since the passenger side was pretty destroyed...
Thinking back to that, in hindsight, how he'd believed to Bee when the yellow mech told him that everything was fine? Bee sounded more concerned about Sam status than about his own situation, and begged Sam to go with the paramedics, "don't worry, Ratchet is on his way, just go..." But the damage was extended...
Did his friend still conscious till Ratchet arrived, or did he fall in stasis alone, in the dark, under the rain?
Sam called his mum as soon as he arrived in the hospital, to scared to be alone with all that sickness and death around him, how doctor can stand in the hospital all the day? Did they like there or they are afraid of hospitals like everyone else?
He left his best friend behind, alone, and probably he will never have the possibility to apologise... He didn't say goodbye! He came here to say goodbye but he haven't the possibility!
Tears fulfil his eyes and, when his mum hugs him again, he reacts like a child, crying on her shoulder.
Optimus is waiting, for a millenarian creature few hours are nothing, or at least they should be nothing...
But wait for news about a loved one stretched the time, and make seconds become years and minutes centuries.
He was the first one with Ratchet to arrive one the crash site, and his spark almost stopped when he saw his youngling on the street sideline, surrounded by police cars. He looked barely conscious and completely alone and for a moment Optimus hated Sam for leaving him behind. With the arrival of Ironhide and major Lennox, they managed to get some space and they finally burdened Optimus' trailer with the semi-conscious Camaro. Ratchet rode with them and helped the young Camaro to transform in his bipedal form and meanwhile the scout managed to send them a report about the incident.
His scout is so brave and dutiful, and Optimus is so proud of him, but also he knows that characteristics bring a lot of pain on the youngling, and his spark cringe for that.
This is not the first time the yellow scout sacrifice his wellbeing for their causes, and Optimus cannot avoid to remember Tyger Pax, where his scout sacrificed his own voice to keep Megatron busy. Bee resisted to the tyrant's tortures, and allowed Optimus to save the Allspark.
And he was so young. He STILL too young. In the old times he wouldn't be allowed to join the army for another couple of centuries, but in this times, with the war, every single mech can make the difference. And Bee grew up in the army, with Optimus as his main keeper, even if all the mech contributed to raise him. And when Bee, huge determined optics and rigid vibrant doorwings, came in his office and said "I wanna join you in the combat, I'm sick to stay here and wait for you all to come back, and just count how many of you didn't, I wanna help!" He couldn't say no to him. Jazz and Ironhide trained him, and all together they pray Primus that their youngling would survive to that war.
Seems Primus satisfied their prays, just to let him die by a stupid accident. No Decepticons, no big battles, just a single human and a broken brake, and now their youngling, HIS youngling, his son, is dying...
" Primus, please, no, not that way..."