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A/N: Thanks for all the reviews and sorry for the long wait. I'm also slowly fixing the previous chapters. I got to chapter 6.

A Promise to you and a promise to myself

Mikaela wondered if there was an easy way to say 'I know you're having an affair with an evil giant alien robot because my arguably less evil giant alien robot told me so.' The girl knew this meeting was going to be extremely awkward and, if anyone ever learned of it, dangerous. If she was honest with herself, she didn't know why exactly she needed to have this conversation. She vaguely hoped for Maggie to be here with her, but the analyst had to return to Washington for her job and she doubted the Australian would be of much help.

She didn't know what sleeping with the enemy felt like… What seeing past the Autobot's ideals (that was all the humans knew about them) and actually looking at the other side was like. What falling in love with one of them meant…

No, Maggie couldn't sympathize with them.

The dark-haired girl sighed and knocked on the door. Shuffling her feet nervously as she heard the approaching footsteps. For a second she was reminded of the time she came to talk to Sam after everyone found out she had repaired Bonecrusher. Back then she would've never imagined she would fall in love with the Decepticon she was defending, let alone that she would have a conversation with her ex-boyfriend's mother about her very own Decepticon lover.

Her hand unconsciously rubbed her belly as she bit her lip and the door opened.

"Mikaela! Sweety, how nice to see you," Judy cried happily, ushering the nervous girl inside, "My, look how big you've gotten! How far along are you, sweetie?"

Mikaela smiled as she found herself being led to the couch. A pang of envy towards Sam took over her. If only her mother had been this happy for her…

"Twenty four weeks."

"Oh, dear, you're almost six months pregnant!" Judy said, rubbing Mikaela's belly.

The teenager was still unsure how she felt about that particular gesture, but she decided that Mrs. Witwicky could be allowed to do it.

God knows her mother wasn't going to and Mikaela was selfish enough to admit that she would enjoy the motherly attention for as long as she could get it.

"Is it moving already?"

"You have no idea," Mikaela laughed, momentarily forgetting the reason she had come to talk to the older woman, "Sometimes I think this baby's practicing gymnastics or something."

Judy laughed and whispered to her, in a secretive tone, "I remember thinking that Sam would be born ready to join the circus with the amount of somersaults and flips he did while in my belly."

Judy let out a contented sigh, "Oh, my God, I totally forgot to get you something, darling."

"No, don't worry! This isn't going to take much t…" Mikaela stopped talking, watching the woman disappear inside the kitchen.

She could hear the woman moving things in the kitchen and she couldn't help but look around the room. There were several pictures of the Witwicky family and the happy faces that looked back at her reminded the teenager of what she came here to do.

Her eyes stayed on an older picture. A wedding picture. Ron and Judy looked so young… so in love… There were no other words to describe the emotion that was captured in that photo. The kind of love that every girl dreamed of. Looking at it, Mikaela was tempted to believe Bonecrusher had been lying to her.

Only… Bonecrusher didn't lie. He got his laughs by making the people around him aware of the truth as he sees it. The more shocking the truth; the more hilarious it was for him. It was one of the things she loved about him. She always knew where she stood with him. He never tried to impress her.

She wasn't stupid enough to believe he couldn't lie. She knew he chose not to lie. Probably because he preferred tearing limbs and beating the others to death with them rather than crafting lies to destroy those he hated. As he would say; where's the fun in that? Besides…

"Here you go!" Judy proclaimed, startling Mikaela away from her thoughts. The woman placed a tray with sandwiches and juice for them.

"Eat up! You're eating for two now."

The dark haired girl smiled and grabbed a sandwich. Judy watched her, taking a small sip from her glass. Mikaela couldn't help but look back at the photo.

"You look so happy in that picture."

Judy blinked, eyes straying to where Mikaela was looking. The teenager watched as the older woman smiled sadly, "We loved each other so much back then."

"Bonecrusher knows," she said and she watched as the older woman placed her glass down, hands shaking slightly.

"He told me."

Silence followed her words. Mikaela wished for inspiration to strike, but it was Judy that broke the silence.

"Does Sam know?"

Mikaela had never heard such a broken tone before.

"No. Only me and Maggie know"

"Maggie?"

"She works in Washington. She was in the whole Sector Seven, Mission City thing. We met her there."

"Are you going to tell him?"

"I… I don't…" Mikaela hesitated, her heart going to the sad woman in front of her.

What was she doing here? Besides confirming Crusher's words, what did she wish to accomplish with this meeting? Judy's secret love affair with a Decepticon wasn't her problem. It wasn't up to her to spill the woman's secrets.

"Please don't tell him," Judy pleaded, "I know I should be the one to do it, but I haven't quite figured out how I'm going to."

"I won't tell him anything. Promise."

Judy's bright smile made her wish she never had to break that promise.

"I… I don't know how to thank you."

"Don't worry about that, Mrs. Witwicky," Mikaela replied, daring to continue eating the food the other woman had made for her, "I'll take these sandwiches as a bribe for my silence."

"I can show you how to make them," Judy offered, but Mikaela shook her head.

"Nah. They won't taste as good. You're an awesome cook," she told her as she finished eating and drinking her now slightly warm juice.

"So," Mikaela started, giving in to her curiosity, "Crusher says you're dating his superior officer."

"Superior? Oh, Starscream." she said, as if suddenly realizing who exactly she was having a relationship with, "Well, there's no point in denying it now, is there? But that's not what you want to ask me," the woman finished, giving her a knowing look.

"Well…"

"I'm having an affair, Mikaela," Judy began, "His other… peculiarities… Well, they're not as important as that, I guess," she finished with a shrug.

Mikaela couldn't help but wonder at the woman's logic. How could she say that being an alien robot… The Commander of an entire enemy army of giant alien robots was not as important as her affair?

But before she could ask that, Mikaela took the moment to think back if she truly thought any different with her own relationship. Was Starscream any different from Bonecrusher? She couldn't hide behind the idea that Crusher had been following orders. He wasn't afraid of voicing how much he enjoyed… still enjoys…

Better not think about that right now. Besides, Crusher had promised to not destroy her planet. She knew better than to ask for anything else.

"What happened with Ron?" she finally asked and Judy sighed sadly, eyes straying to one of the many photos in the room.

"I don't know," she finally said.

"I hope you believe me when I say that I loved him. I loved him so much, Mikaela," the woman trailed off, probably lost in her memories, "And then he changed… We changed and I was too comfortable with him to notice that… that every day I loved him a little less."

She gave Mikaela a long look, "It's not completely true, you know. It's not over when you stop talking to each other. Ron and I talk all the time and…" she sighed again, "it's when you stop listening to what the other is saying."

"And Starscream listens?" she hoped she didn't sound as judgmental as she thought it sounded.

"Does your boyfriend listen?" Judy asked her back.

"He won't show it, but he does listen," Mikaela smiled, "He says he hates it when I start talking about useless stuff."

"Starscream just gives me this look that says 'why are you telling me this crap?' He'll still be able to recite everything I've told him if I asked him to."

"Recorders!" Mikaela exclaimed with a smirk, "Gotta love the perks of dating a robot."

Judy laughed and changed the conversation back to the baby. Apparently, she had been dying to tell her a few recommendations. They debated the benefits of people believing the sty-in-the-lie myth and later tried to convince Mikaela to give up her cat.

And it was then that Mikaela had a realization. They were both with Decepticons and they were happy. Sure, Mikaela had to deal with her ongoing studies and unplanned motherhood. Judy had to deal with an illicit affair and a broken marriage. But they were both truly happy.

She now knew why she came to see Sam's mother.

All this time she had, deep down, thought that Bonecrusher had been a fluke. That she somehow managed to sort of erase some of the 'evil' programming when she repaired him. She loved him… She wouldn't fall in love with him if he was the evil monster the Decepticons were supposed to be. Yet here she was, looking at one of the sweetest women she'd ever met in her life (even with the odd comment or two) and she finally realized she'd been the one wrong…

They were both good and bad. Like everyone else. There had never been any fluke.

She now had all the proof she needed to start her campaign to convince the Autobots to get the Decepticons out of the ocean. She vowed to do everything in her power to do it. She only hoped she could keep her promise to Judy too.