Bee isn't snooping around, thank you very much, he is testing his scouting abilities in this new form. And ok, maybe he was bored to tears, and the NEST gossip help him to avoid to go crazy for the inactivity, but he isn't snooping around.

It's be a whole month since he woke up in this body, and they still treat him like he in going to break up any second. And Sam wasn't been here except for a weekend, two weeks ago… apparently his parents wouldn't buy him a new car any soon, so they are subjected to said parents willingness of take the boy at the base.

Everyone here is boring and old. That shouldn't be a big deal, since he is the last youngling he always played and sparred with older mech, but here everyone seems prefer to avoid him, the little weird robo-boy.

So gossip…

If someone minds to ask, he knows all about the secret love affair between the Sergeant Epps and the nice cook girl of the NEST canteen. Usually, after she finish her shift, they go on the top of the NEST roof to kiss and to hold each other hands, and if she got the dinner shift, they take advantage of the darkness to go further. Bee enjoy the roof, but they looks so happy so he doesn't mind to leave them the place…

Another good story, if he manages to confirm it, can be the one about Fig, who have a huge crush for the pizza delivery boy. Bee he's not completely sure of it because, geez, Fig cannot keep to speak English to save his own life, or maybe just loves sending people crazy with Spanish language, and Bee misses his wifi internal connection that used to allow him to download and learn all the languages he wanna know, but anyway, gossip…

(Bee cannot let himself thinks about what he lost: he is alive, Sam is Alive and recovering from his injury, and that's all, he doesn't miss his body, his internet connection, his with his family members, his strength, his ability to protect said family, and Sam and Mikaela, that are part of the family by now and he …)

GOSSIP

So, now he's lying on his stomach on one of the beam of the roof, and is going to figure out if Major Lennox (who asks him to simply call him Will, and was nice and spoke with him for a whole afternoon, and that shouldn't be a big deal but, man, he feels so lonely these days… so, if Will) are actually flirting with Ironhide or if that Bee saw before was just a made up by his bored mind.

If he has his own old body, he would had ask directly to Hide, or Ratchet, but he feels like is family his keeping the distance from him… he is an human now, maybe they didn't consider him part of the family anymore? He is too weak and squishy and he is going to die way before them, so maybe they would pretend he wasn't a part of the family at all and… )

GOSSIP!

Right, Hide is sitting on a Autobot-size chair, and Will is, instead of on the perch in front of the weapon specialist, on his shoulder. They've been silent since Bee reaches his strategical position, but now Will seems ready to start. "Come on big fella, tell me what is bothering you… maybe I can help, maybe not, but talk usually help to deal with stuffs…" In Bee opinion this is not the most flirty approach, but again, Sam start with a similar method, and its works for them, maybe the whole we-are-gonna-die-in-an-intergalactic-war thing helps to move the situation, but who cares?

Hide sighs, and Bee is pretty sure he'd never heard his teacher do that sound before.

"I… I can't…. Will, he still alive, and i just wanna hug him and have a cube of energon with him and maybe a sparring session, but I can't… he is so fragile and Ratchet said that he will have trouble to regulate to his new body and his processor, his mind, is not the same as before, it cannot be…."

The weapon specialist hide his faceplate in his servos, and when he speak again is voice sounds so lost that Bee needs some time before the words can be elaborate from his brain (his weak-y, little, squishy brain). But when they do so, his word start to crumbling all around him

"Optimus's thinking about sending Bee away, to give him the possibility of live a normal life as human boy…"

(sending Bee away….sending Bee away….sending Bee away….sendingBeeawaysendingBeeawaysendingBeeawaysendingBeeaway if you repeat something enough time the words will lost their meaning…. they still hurt anyway…)

Hide is still talking ("we wasn't able to give him a proper childwood, with the war and all our world going to the pit…so maybe now he can have it….") but Bee isn't listening at him anymore. No, Bee is lying on this back now, and tears are streaming on his face down in his ears, and it feels strange but he is too concentrate in avoid to sigh loudly to care… he is (or was) a scout, and he used to be good to be perfectly silent, but at that time he used to switch off his vocalizer… he cannot switch off anything anymore, and this is the thought that makes him lost it.

Hide is suddenly aware of the sobbing noises from the celling and, climbing on the chair to better see on the beams (that damned thing are so high, how can anyone get on top of them?), he finds the little boy that used to be his pupil and his pain in the ass for millennia on the Ark.

He's not sure if he can grab the boy without damage him, but he neither can leave him there…

He manages to put him down on the floor without give him any bruise, but he know he cannot comforts Bee, not without squeeze him anyway. Doesn't matter, since Will is already hugging the blond boy, and Hide, even if he like Will very much, cannot avoid that sense of envy and jealousy and of big loss for the scene in from of him…

By the time he com. Optimus and Ratchet to came here and try to fix the situation, Bee had cried himself to sleep in Will arms. He still looks scared and upset even so, and the three Autobot sparks cringe for him.

Morning after goes even worst. Apparently Bee didn't sleep so well that night. Optimus held him on his spark chamber all the night, shushing him to go back to sleep even now and than. So when the boy wakes up in Optimus arms, his first words are "please don't send me away". If this doesn't break Prime's spark, the weak "I promise to be good, I will carry my weight, please…" does so, and leave the brave bot with no words.

And the shit hits the proverbial fan.

Bee misinterprets this silence, and looking around no bot is making eye-contact with him (they are to ashamed that they provoke such a big distress for the recovering boy, but for Bee's tired mind they are just confirming their decision of trow I'm away, like the useless tool he became)

Bee run away, trough a human size door. And after that is like if he disappear in the thin air. They would like to be proud and impressed that he maintain his abilities in this body as well, but they are to concentrate to find him. They ask for the whole military squad designate for the NEST bases to help.

They looks everywhere, but the one expert to follow the tracks is the one they are trying to tracking down, and they know they will not find him unless he decides so.

At the start they are pretty sure he is in the basis, but after three days of searching they had to try every option.

"Hi Sam, this is Optimus Prime speaking.."

"Hi Optimus, how are you?"

"fine… looks, I need to know if you see Bee or get contact by him in the last three days.."

"What's happen?"

"He is there?"

"…No… Optimus, what happened?"

"Please, let me know if you see or hear something from him"

"Wait…"

"And tell him we love him, ok?"

"Wait…" too late…

Sam turns to Bee, sitting on his bed with this lost face as a puppy dog or something…"So, I just lied to Optimus for you, do you mind to explain me why?"

"Can I sleep in your garage this night?" geez, puppy eyes fulfill of tears…

"we will share my bed with you Bee… you know, you are not a car anymore, you cannot sleep in a garage eheh" it was suppose to be a lame joke just to make Bee smile, but the effect was way far from it, as tears start to roll on the little boy's cheeks "Bee! I'm sorry, everything will be fine, it's ok, I got you, you are going to be ok…"

"He is with Sam…"

"Perfect, let's go there and bring him back…"

"No, Ironhide, maybe we should give him some time… Maybe Sam can help him where we failed…"

"Yeah, Optimus is right, but, Prime, you should tell Sam what's happening"

"ok Ratchet, I will talk with him soon"