Authors note: Hello people, Here is the next chapter thanks to all those who review the last chapter.
Summary: It's the autobots first Christmas and Sam, Will and Maggie decide to spend Christmas with their new friends and family
Warning: Swearing and Human/Autobot romance
Pairings: Sam/Bumblebee, Will/Ironhide and Maggie/ Ratchet
Disclaimers: The plot I guess that's really about it! What a shame.
15th of December
8:30am
Maggie sighed as she lifted her mug of tea to her lips and took her time in taking a long sip, lowering her mug her eyes moved slightly over to the metal toaster sitting on the kitchen bench before she moved them away not wanting to see the large bags under her eyes in the reflective surface. Maggie glanced to the left where Sam looked as though he should still be asleep his head dropping slightly as he tried to remain awake, to her right Will was fairing a little better the bags under his eyes were not as prominent and he looked more awake but not by much. All three of them had stayed up rather late the night before talking into the early hours of the morning with Ratchet, Ironhide and Bumblebee.
At 4:30 it the morning when Ratchet finally noticed the time the three humans slowly made their way to their respective rooms and promptly collapsed, unfortunately any hope of sleeping in that morning were quickly dash as Mudflap and Skids early morning brawl ensured that they were awake by 8:00am. After dragging herself from the shower 20 minutes later Maggie stumbled into the kitchen where a sleepy Sam and Will were already up and staring down at their morning coffee's.
"So any plans for today?" Maggie started trying to break the silence
"Well is I thought the twins would behave for 5 minutes I would try and get some sleep but what are the chances that happening" Sam muttered bring the cup of coffee to his lips
"What comes before zero" Will muttered staring down at the murky liquid making no attempt to pick the drink up. Maggie sighed the lifting her cup of tea and taking a long sip, as tempting as it was to get up and go back to bed the chances of getting any form of sleep was as Will had described highly unlikely.
The exhausting silence was finally broken by a loud and shrill ring emanating from Will's back pocket, taking a moment to remove his hands from the untouched beverage; Will moved to remove the device from his pocket and stared down at the screen.
"Sarah" Will breathed eyes widening, on either side of him both Maggie and Sam sat up a bit straighter both feeling wide awake.
"Are you going to answer it?" Sam whispered, not responding to the question Will stood up and moved over to lean against the kitchen counter, before taking a deep breath and pushing the answer button.
"He...Hey Sarah" Will stutter out looking at the others anxiously.
"Hello Will...How have you been?" Sarah responded sounding as nervous as he was
"I am well and yourself?" Will answer quickly wishing this conversation wasn't so hard considering they were still husband and wife.
"I am well...look Will I have been thinking and we need to talk and as much as I hate to say this it might be easier if we do this over the phone instead of in person..."
"Oh...ah...ok sure if you want...um...just let me leave the base and I will call you back in 10 minutes and we can talk without interruption" Will responded quietly trying to avoid bring attention to himself
"Sure...Talk to you soon" Sarah responded before hanging up. Will placed the phone in his pocket before looking over at the others
"I am just going out for a bit...talk things over with Sarah somewhere quiet" He paused glancing down at his watch "If I am not back by lunch..."
"We will send Ironhide out to look for you" Maggie answered getting to her feet and walking over and placing her hand on Will's shoulder, Sam quickly nodded I agreement getting to his feet and giving Will what he hoped was an encouraging smile. With a final glance Will turned and headed out of the kitchen for the nearest exit missing the worried look Maggie and Sam shared on his departure.
15 minutes later
Will took a deep and steady breath as he tried to calm is racing heart, he wasn't sure if his pounding heart was attributed to nerves or the sprint he had just done in order to try and put as much distance between him and the base, whatever the reason Will made a mental note to work out more.
After one last breath and a quick lick of his lips Will dialled Sarah's number before bring the phone to his ear in time to hear the soft click letting him know she had answered.
"Hey" Sarah breathed out her voice letting through a slight quiver
"Hey...so um you wanted to talk" Will said finding the ground under his feet interesting
"Yeah we need to talk about us...I understand that the last couple of months have been hard on you with what you went through, meeting the autobots and everything else, and when you got back we agreed that you should have some time away just to get yourself back together... but it's been over a month and I have only heard from you a couple of times"
"I am sorry I have been busy" Will replied quickly
"Have you been busy or have..." Sarah's voice broke and for a moment neither spoke before Will let out a breath he hadn't been aware he was holding
"Sarah..."
"Do you love me?" Sarah asked quickly cutting Will off
"What... yes Sarah of course I love you"
"Yes you love me but you're not in love with me are you, not like you use to be" Sarah whispered, Will's heart dropped as he heard a soft sob at the end of her sentence.
"Sarah" Will tried to say something, anything to prove that he still loved his wife but nothing came nothing that wouldn't be a lie.
"Don't Will... even if you're not ready to admit it I know it's true. When you came back I noticed it immediately they way you looked at it...him...they way you spoke and the way he treated you... I almost wished that it was the girl you met not that creature" Sarah sobbed the tears evident in her voice
"Ironhide...his name is Ironhide" Will whispered back tears slowing making their way down his face
"So it is true... You are in love with him"
"Yes I am...I am so sorry Sarah" Will continued
"I know you are Will...um perhaps we should finish this conversation later when we are both feeling up to it"
"Yeah that would be a good idea" Will murmured his gaze moving up to look at the sky as he tried to hold back the tears
"Good-bye Will...we will talk sometime next week"
"Yeah... Good-bye Sarah" Will whispered disconnecting the phone.
1 PM
"RATCHET" Maggie called as she and Sam ran into the garage where all the autobots were currently in discussion
"Maggie we were beginning to get worried have you just woke up" Ratchet moved to walk over the young women
"No we have been awake since 8am" Sam said glaring in the directions of the twins who shrunk back under his gaze.
"If you have been awake so long why did you wait so long to come find us?" Optimus questioned standing at his full height
"It's Will... he got a call from Sarah this morning and he left the base so that they could talk privately, he asked that if he wasn't back by lunch if we could send Ironhide out to find him" Sam continued looking up anxiously at Bumblebee who moved to pick up the distressed human.
"I'll find him" Ironhide spoke quickly already on his way out of the room
The soft sound of tyres moving across gravel alerted Will to Ironhide's presents but the human made no effort to move from his spot on the ground, after a moment the sound stopped was replaced by a quieter noise of human footsteps, Will turned his head and watched Ironhide's holo form moving towards him.
"Are you alright?" Ironhide questioned as he moved to lie down next to Will
"I think so" Will replied moving his head to watch Ironhide who in turn moved his head to watch Will.
"What did she want?"
"A divorce" Will finished moving his gaze back up to the sky
"Will if you need anything" Ironhide responded holding his right hand out, Will turned studying the outstretched limb before moving his own hand forward and entwining their fingers
"Thank-you" Will smiled at his guardian tightening his grip
"Do you want to head back or would you like to stay out hear" Ironhide questioned shifting closer so that their shoulders brushed up against each other.
"Can we stay here for a while" Will whispered allowing his eyes to close as he enjoyed the heat of the day.
"We can stay for as long as you want"
6 PM
Will walked into the kitchen to find Maggie mixing a pot on the stove while on the other side Sam was pulling wine glasses out of the cupboard.
"Hey" Will spoke up and watching in amusement as both turned on the spot to look at him
"Where the hell have you been?" Maggie snapped placing the wooden spoon down on the bench with more force than necessary.
"Ha well you see Ironhide and I were talking and then I kind of fell asleep"
"Fell asleep" Sam questioned rolling his eyes
"Y...yeah" Will stuttered his cheeks slowly turning red as he remembered the way he had woken up in tucked into Ironhide's side his head leaning on the holograms chest. Maggie snorted as she turned back to the pot.
"Dinners almost ready we found a couple of bottles of red wine and we decided you needed it" she continued pointing to the kitchen table where two bottles stood.
"Thank-you your right I do need it" Will smiled as he took the wine glasses of Sam and filled all three of them, within minutes the pasta was done and the three humans were sitting around the table.
"So while you were sleeping Sam and I spoke to the others and they want to test out the holograms tomorrow make sure they can hold up for long periods of time and stay solid so we are all going out" Maggie spoke as she put her wine glass back down
"Where are we going?" Will asked looking from Maggie to Sam when they shared a smile
"Ice-skating" both chimed large smiles covering their faces
"Oh come on I just got over the first set of bruises" Will exclaimed
"Hey man it was their idea, they want to test out their abilities to have physical and be able to maintain the holo forms" Sam chuckled
"Trust me they can maintain physical contact" Will muttered lifting the glass to his lips
"Oh and how would you know that" Maggie smirked
"Ok new topic" Will replied reaching out to fill up his wine glass
"You're not getting off that easily" Sam laughed
Major writers block but hopefully I am back, hope you like it. Going to have the first kiss in the next chapter but who should it be? Let me know what you all think... Darkprincess64