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Soundwave entered the code on the key pad before walking through the opening door. Arcee looked up from the chair she was sitting in as Soundwave walked to his terminal to key in the events of the day as well as engage the night security from his quarters.
"Did the data pads suit you?" Soundwave asked formally as he finished the data input for the day and then turned to his mate.
"They were fine for someone who likes to read." Arcee said boredom tingeing her voice and her optics dim and flat. Soundwave sent out a pulse of concern and she snorted back in disdain.
"Until I have established you as my mate I cannot let you go unescorted because there are those that would take advantage or harm you." Soundwave told her.
"I know that. I am a prisoner here." She snapped back in sudden anger.
"No, you are now part of the crew and hopefully you will come to accept your position as my mate." Soundwave stated back forcefully. "In time you will have rights, within reason, but until I am sure that no mech harms you I have to use precaution." Soundwave walked towards her as Arcee looked up at him from her seat. He knelt down so that he would not tower over her. It was not his intention to harm her. "This war has gone on long enough. You have value as a femme, a carrier, and as a bot. I cannot give you back your freedom as an unbounded femme, nor will I apologize for what I did; but this war must end, and the oilshed with it."
"You gave me no choice!" She exclaimed.
"You could have been executed!" He countered back at her.
"I would have died a war hero among my faction!" She snarled back.
"And I would have never had the chance to know you." He quietly answered her anger with such soft longing that Arcee rebooted her audials to make sure she had heard him correctly.
"Again I must ask why me?" Arcee asked him after a long moment between them. She fiddled with her hands in her lap but held his gaze despite showing her nervousness.
"You are brave, strong, fierce on the battlefield, and courageous when you need to be. Optimus holds you in high esteem and you are an officer among his team. What more could a mech want in his mate?" Soundwave spoke softly, his monotone voice hypnotizing her as she listened to his beautiful words.
"You see me like that?" She asked softly before shaking her helm and then stating. "Of course you would say that; you are trying to romance me and manipulate me." She shoved past him and walked into the washracks trying to get away from the shaky feeling that his nearness inspired in her.
"I am stating a fact. If there had been no war and I had met you on a Cybertronian street I would have pursued you." Soundwave insisted as he followed her. She turned suddenly and not realizing how close he was to her bumped up against him. He caught her hands as she settled herself against the armor on his chest. He held them there over his spark as he retracted his mask. Arcee looked up at him, the air hitching in her vents as they looked at each other.
"This can't work." She finally whispered. "Optimus will never accept Megatron as a Lord High Protector. I have seen your thoughts, I know what you are thinking, and it will never work. They have fought against each other for so long."
"There are concerns but Prime wants peace." Soundwave once again countered her concerns.
"He will not bow down to Megatron just to achieve peace." Arcee said as she tried to pull away but Soundwave did not let go of her.
"Soundwave please." She said quietly trying to get away.
"No, I have worked all day and even into the night. You will attend to me now." He said as he gently took her and walked her back into their quarters.
"What are my duties concerning you?" Arcee asked as she looked up at him. Soundwave guided her over to a work table along the far wall.
"Laserbeak needs a diagnostic. I need you to hold her gently by the wings as I run scans on her." Soundwave sent the mental command to his symbiote and Laserbeak disengaged from Soundwave's armor. The silent communications officer gently laid his creation down and directed Arcee to stand in front of him. Soundwave guided Arcee's hands and showed her how to stroke the bird gently and pet him along his dorsal wings. Laserbeak trilled and shivered against her touch and Arcee gasped.
"I thought he was a drone." She stated in wonder.
"No, she" (emphasizing she) "is a symbiote and completely dependent on me to protect her." Soundwave replied to her as he began the scans. Arcee wondered what her mate was looking for as she gently held down Laserbeak and watched the youngling respond to his care.
"You love her." Arcee stated quietly. She looked up at him suddenly as she began to see the dangerous communications officer and Megatron's most loyal, right hand mech with new optics.
"She is mine to care for, yes." He replied to the unspoken wonder that warmed their bond. Arcee continued to look at him a moment longer before turning back to care for the symbiote until Soundwave was satisfied that all repairs and diagnostics were completed. Laserbeak trilled once again in appreciation and Arcee laughed at the youthful exchange, like a father-daughter relationship that would never before be displayed in front of anyone that would be considered the 'enemy'.
"I never knew." Arcee said quietly.
"She would be more of a target if my enemies knew how much I care for her." Soundwave stated. He looked at her and Arcee gasped as she felt his spark pulse in reaction to her gentleness and care for Laserbeak. Arcee tried to step back but felt the end of the table press against her back strut. He leaned over forcing her to arch back against the table until she couldn't get away, and Soundwave pressed a gentle kiss at the joint of her shoulder cup and arm. He looked back at her, his cardinal optics so close as they bored into her beryl optics, until Arcee had to look away before becoming too uncomfortable.
He let her go, moving back to allow her room to maneuver away from him. She chose to sit back down watching him closely as he ordered Laserbeak to return to her perch on his chest armor.
"Come, time for recharge." Soundwave's monotone was back to its usual and Arcee smiled wryly. This was to be her new life now that she was the mate of Soundwave.
"Will you demand that I wear your designation symbol?" She asked suddenly as she unfolded her legs and stood to allow him to lead her to their berth. Their berth, it sounded so strange that just in the course of one day she was already thinking of his quarters as theirs. She shivered as he directed her in front of it and then pulled her down with him. He cupped her helm and gently pulled her into a kiss. It was sweet and tender, so different from what Arcee could ever imagine coming from a decepticon, and slowly opened her mouth to accept him more fully. He stroked her mouth with his glossa as he pushed her back against the berth. His talons came up to pin her arms against the cushion of the berth until he slipped them in her hands. Soundwave released her mouth to look at her while she stared back.
"You know what I want from you." He stated quietly. Arcee gasped as Soundwave opened the bond completely, his desire for her permeating with intensity that made Arcee dizzy with heat and energy. She couldn't form the words by mouth but fear, anxiety, stress, HEAT, desire, and want flowed through her systems. It had been so long and now before her, Soundwave was asking in his own way, and she wanted him. It was wrong. They held different beliefs, fought against each other for so long, and the road paved to peace was wrought with plenty of land mines along the way; but to just let everything melt away and be this powerful mech's equal for the nights that he came to her was too tempting and Arcee gave in as Soundwave once again kissed her with all the passion and zeal that he held back from the previous kiss and Arcee opened herself to her mate for the first time.
Soundwave felt euphoria at the open acceptance from his mate. He had never imagined that Arcee would respond so positively and Soundwave pounced on the opportunity to flood her spark with pulses from his own. He felt her legs wrap around his waist as he gently pressed her into the berth with his pelvic plates. Arcee gasped against his mouth as Soundwave twined his glossa around hers, and Soundwave smirked as she opened her panel revealing her dripping wet valve.
"Please, Soundwave." She gasped out as she pulled away from him just enough and arch her back struts up, tightening her legs around his waist eager for contact. Soundwave moaned low and deep, pulsing her with his spark as he retracted his panel back. He looked at her one last time for the longest moment as they stared at each other.
"Are you sure?" He finally said with quiet authority.
"Yes," was heard after the longest moment and Soundwave lined his spike up, heavy with need and began to push into her. Arcee arch up meeting the pressing force that was filling her valve. Never in her wildest imagination did she imagine that this deadly foe, this massive silent killer, this wonderful passionate lover would be hers. She whimpered as he stopped to give her time to adjust, filling her completely before pulling back to thrust deeply inside her causing her mouth to open in a silent scream.
"So long; too long," was being chanted over and over in her CPU as she tightened her hold on his talons and held on as energy pulsed higher, farther, and stronger with every sensitive node that his spike activated in her valve.
Soundwave could feel her energy and passion rise higher through the bond and he enjoyed the wonder and excitement that Arcee was experiencing. He sent another pulse and then reached out with his own CPU to interconnect their thoughts and feeling until neither could tell which was coming from who and Arcee was panting from her over heating systems while Soundwave fought to control his own.
Soundwave moaned as he thrust faster and harder into her and Arcee begged for more as she held fast to his plating when he let go of her hands to hike her legs up higher to thrust deeper. Soundwave looked into her optics that had darkened to a navy blue and then opened his chest compartment to reveal his spark.
"Sound…wave?" She tried to ask.
"Please, Arcee!" He whispered into her audial before she turned back to look up into his blood red optics filled with desire and need. She nodded jerkily as she shifted the thin metallic plates of her chest to show the bright blue light of her spark. Soundwave barely waited for her to open the casing of her spark before bearing down to merge their sparks together. Just like the previous night, Arcee let out a scream as she arched up into the brightness of their combined spark signatures and overloaded.
Soundwave, not used to having a partner and lover for a long time, followed her almost immediately into overload. He just caught himself before crushing her beneath him as he caught himself with his arms. Arcee gasped for air to help cool her systems before looking up into his face.
"I guess this is what you meant when you said to attend you." Arcee finally supplied into the silence after a long while. Her optics were dimming fast as she fought recharge.
"No, this is a bonus that we both wanted." Soundwave said after slowing his air intakes and switching his cooling fans on high. Arcee looked up at him for a long moment before breaking contact to allow him to shift them to their sides. Soundwave wrapped his arms around her as Arcee snuggled back in against his chest. Another day down, day three mere hours away.