Sam doesn't wait, Ratchet just finish to said "Bee is going to be ok" and Sam is already running inside the medbay.
The bigger berth still hosting the offline body of his guardian, but on the other berth are sitting Mikaela and a blonde child with huge blu eyes. Mikaela is speaking with the boy, and Sam can see the boy's expression, smart and playful, and his retort makes Mikaela laugh hard.
Sam came closer, until the boy notices him and freeze. He stand up slowly and come closer to Sam who stays still, and rise an hand to touch lightly his cervical collar. "I'm sorry Sam, what a poor guardian i was to get you so injured from a simple, inanimate truck…"
Sam cannot wrap his mind around the fact that this skinny boy, shorter than him by the whole head, was his guardian. He looks so fragile, for God sakes!
"Bee, you are not supposed to leave the bed for the next few days, you know?" Mikaela says while she start to drag him to the berth.
That is enough to rouse Sam, and makes him move to help. "Bee, I'm sorry you got so badly hurt that night! It's was my fault, if I hadn't ask you to drive as to the cinema…"
"Hey, that's my role, and I'm sorry, but seems to me we both needs a new car, by now" Bee answer with a smirk "or we will get sticked with your mum's bike, pink paint, white basket and all the gig"
Oh, yeah, that's Bee for sure, he never let Sam go with that debacle on his first meeting with Barricade…
"Ratchet, what about now?"
"Now, Optimus, I have to study his new body, to be sure that everything is working properly and to avoid the spark's rejection. We will give him the best adolescence, the best life, and we will enjoy every minutes of the years he gets to live."
"But you cannot revive his old body.."
"No, I can't"
"80 years, you said?"
"Yeah, or maybe longer, or shorter, is difficult to predict… and he will be an adult in this body, in less than a decade…"
"But for his coming of age, the real one, he will not survive so long to celebrate it"
"I'm sorry, Optimus, I hope I can do something more to help him"
"Is not your fault, old friend"
"Neither is yours"
Those last three phrases are the same they told each other after Tyger Pax, and Optimus cringes, but also that give him some hope: after Tyger Pax he believed his little scout wouldn't be the same anymore, but the youngling proved him wrong caming on Earth to find the AllSparks and finding also new friends and ally. His brave, sunny Bumblebee, how Optimus is supposed to survive without him?