Chapter 15

When I woke up I was on my loft bed again, covered by my blanket. This time though all the devil wires were gone and the curtain that kept me hidden from the rest of the room wasn't there either. I could see the others going on about their morning routines of mainly chatting with each other. Now that Ironhide was back up and running, there wasn't as much tension going around everyone – ergo me and Boss man— so they were relaxed.

I yawned loudly as I stretched out on the bed of hay releasing an involuntary guttural groan. Not one of my most graceful moments, but it's morning so who cares. After rubbing some sleep off my eyes not enough to wake me up but enough to get the gritty fogginess out of them, I got down from the loft and made my way to the bathroom.

I didn't bother to open my eyes while I walked, since it's not that far, so I completely failed to notice that tall dark figure in front of me. I gave out an audible 'oof' when I walked straight into the figures chest. The impact made me stumble back a few steps to regain my balance. But I didn't have to as my upper arms were quickly grabbed by a pair of strong hands.

I blinked at the person's chest a few times, disoriented for a second. Until I looked up and my mood changed from sleepy and hungry to embarrassed and only slightly turned on, for two reasons.

One was the fact that my newly identified intended's holoform was glaring at me and; two, his impossibly blue eyes that just sucked me in without warning. Damn those eyes.

"Good morning" I said, after a silent few seconds of both of us just glaring/staring at each other.

"Look where you're going. You could get hurt" he rumbled and released me from his hold. I nodded and rubbed my arms where he had been holding me, only half aware that I was doing it.

Silence settled between us but instead of striking up a conversation with the sinfully handsome alien; I moved my way around him and ducked into the bathroom after remembering that I had just woke up. And I am almost positive that I do not look as attractive as usual at the moment.

After breakfast with the family, I dedicated my day to playing with Annabelle. During the past few weeks since she began ballet classes, she had been doing little else. Apparently the school was going to put up a winter recital and all alumni were to participate.

So here I was, practicing leg extensions with a five year old, and I am completely not embarrassed to say that the little Barbie doll is doing better than I am.

In my defence, I am being indirectly distracted by a certain alien robot that was placed under my supervision by Optimus so he wouldn't push too hard. Honestly, I'm not sure what would possess Optimus to see me as a qualified supervisor for someone who was recently in a coma but I won't complain. For now.

Ironhide wasn't too thrilled about being babysat, but he didn't put that much of a fight either. So now he was just sitting by the tree in his bipedal mode watching as Annabelle tried to make my leg go over my head. Quality entertainment…

He seemed amused, chuckling at my pain. The jerk. I did my best not to be embarrassed and tried to ignore his existence.

"So did Optimus give you a babysitter for when I'm not around?" I asked after Annabelle announced we were done for the day.

Hide scowled at me, crossing his arms over his metal chest defensively. I smirked at his pouting slightly, and walked over to his tree. "I'm supposed to stay on the property" he said.

"Which one?" I asked "Will's or mine? Because there's a difference"

"Will's" He muttered glaring slightly at the building where his fearless leader was.

I smiled lightly and patted his knee in comfort. I revelled in the tingling feel that ran up my arm at the contact. Whether or not he felt them to be still up for debate seeing as he was made of metal. But he looked at me curiously, watching my every move. Eventually I realized I was taking too long and blushing, I retracted my hand, folding my arms over my chest.

"Anyway, I should get going. It's getting dark. I should be back before morning. Don't wait up" I said, not meeting his gaze and scurrying in a random direction.

As I transformed and started off towards the plains, I completely missed the soft, longing look that came on the IronHide's face as he watched me go.

I sniffed the air warily, pawing at the rock covered ground absentmindedly as I tried to gauge the strange feeling that hung in the air.

The sun had hours ago the sky was clear of clouds, showing off the twinkling light of the stars. The dessert was quietly coming to life with all the nocturnal creatures that recited in it. Everything looked like it usually did.

I still couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. Haven't a clue that it could be though, that is until I felt a loud boom sounding in the distance. My head snapped in the direction thinking it might have been a deception making trouble somewhere.

Instead, my eyes found something else. A fire enveloped sphere was roaring through the air, heading straight to the ground. An asteroid. My eyes widened in surprise and a little curiosity when it seemed that it would be crashing somewhere close by.

As it passed over me to its destined landing spot I debated with myself on whether I should check it out or not. On one hand, I wanted to be back at the house soon to see my intended. But on the other one, it would be so cool to see a meteorite up close. Even if it will probably still be scorching hot and untouchable.

My curiosity won out in the end when it finally touched the earth and skirted to a fiery stop. As I approached it, I noticed that it gave off a familiar feeling. Shrugging it off I got as close as I could without having to feel the scorching heat, noting that the red hot meteor was only slightly larger than me.

The feeling intensified.

It was as if it was alive, but that was pretty much impossible since it just did a nose dive straight to pure solid ground. A barely audible hum was coming from it, as well as the sound that hydraulics make when they move around. But it could be the sound of the earth under the hulking rock burning. I don't know.

It dawned that it might not be just a lump of space rock and I took reversal steps back to a safer distance. My eyes narrowed at the dark lump and I let out a brief growl, trying to see if it would gain a reaction.

Everything was still for several moments. But thankfully, nothing happened so I relaxed.

"Good. It's not an alien." I muttered in relief. Dealing with a possible decepticon was not on my 'to do list' tonight. I turned and took note of the area so I could talk to Optimus about it in the morning. Maybe the Autobots would find some use to it.

I was taken out of my thoughts by the sound of shifting metal behind me.

Heeyyy... That's the new chapter. Pretty under whelming, I know. I'm just trying to get the ball rolling with writing again.

Let me know what you think

-With all my love

Karybear1