When we think a friend is lost By Linksfangirl.

Elizabeth stood outside the hanger looking towards the air strip her long hair flowing about her face , it had been only two month's since she had first meet the autobots, Ratchet had meet her first , she was a tech with some skills Ratchet had been impressed with. And the autobot's leader Optimus Prime had been badly damaged during their last battle she had helped the medic bot fix him, so Optimus had invited her to work with them.

She looked up at the sky as she awaited the teams return with Lenox's men . She hoped that all of them man and machine came back safe from their mission, Megaton was still out there and still as normal lusting for power. She heard the planes before she saw them, she turned "Get the hanger ready they are coming" she said as she run off the strip to give the planes room to land.

Soon they landed and the Autobots drove off , followed by the human soldiers , Optimus parked, and yelled at the twins to stop messing around and let Ratchet check their damage out. Elizabeth shook her head the twins where fun to be around sometimes but she knew they needed to take things more serious. She helped Ratchet will repairs "Mind replacing the glass and Primes tyres he blew 3 of them out' Ratchet asked her.

"No problem" she said walking over to Prime who was already backing himself up to a repair bay, so she could change the tyres " They shot your tyres out big guy" she asked as she got some others to help bring the new ones over. "Starscream was actually aiming for my axel but missed completely always knew he was a bad shot" Optimus chuckled. Elizabeth smiled and got on with her work. Soon she was up on his hood fixing the broken glass, once she was done she smiled "There you go Optimus all done" she slid down off his hood and landed on the ground.

Optimus watched the human girl as she helped Arcee with a joint problem, she was less stuffy then all the military that was on the base, being a civilian with special clearance to be there she was a breath of fresh air, always telling the auto bots jokes and just spending time chatting to them. He also noted she was kind to her human counterparts as well.

The humans left to get food while the auto bots recharged, later that night Optimus sensors picked up the movement of the hanger door, a figure walked in it was Elizabeth. For the last month the girl would come back and spend hours talking to the auto bots telling them about Earths animals and plant's she made her way over and went to Optimus, she let him know she was there by running a hand on his side.

He greeted her " You can sit in your usual spot" he tells her, she nodded taking a step back she took a light jump up onto the platform and then lowered herself onto Primes hood, this allowed all the auto bots to see her as she talked to them, she laid down taking out the book " You wanted to know about another animal tonight right, so I am going to tell you about the horse, one of the animals humans used for Transport before cars where invited".

Lenox chuckled as he entered the hanger the next morning there was Elizabeth still on Primes hood sleeping soundly book still in her hand " She feel asleep again on you big guy" he asked.

"Affirmative, thought I would let her sleep" Prime answered he'd used his engine power to heat up his hood slightly enough to keep the seeping girl warm but not burn her, Lenox leaned up and tapped Elizabeth on the shoulder "Wakey wakey we need the big guy here, and he can't drive with you on his hood' Her response was waking up and blushing she apologised to Optimus he told her it was no problem.

Elizabeth left to shower and change, prime moved out of the hanger with Lenox ' What is it ?" he asked after he had transformed, Lenox stopped staring at Prime, he would never get used to the autobots transformation. " We have to be on high alert there's been a decepticon spotted near here A team lost it , but I have a feeling they know where we are" Lenox tells Prime. Prime nodded and radioed the auto bots to be on guard.

Elizabeth was just walking back to the hanger from the barracks, when starscream attacked , Prime transformed and speed towards her, transforming while still moving he covered her from the firing , he picked her up turning he was using himself to shield her the others attacked the decepticon, Elizabeth screamed as bullets and explosions sounded prime had her covered up she couldn't see anything , just then a solider fired scarscream reflected the ammo it hit prime though the back.

Prime felt it rip though him he stayed standing, he ran a check only minor damage done, he heard a cry and looked down, blood was dripping he then realized the ammo had gone straight though him. "Lenox I need a medic now" Prime yelled taking off into the hanger to cover himself and the girl.

The medic arrived Prime put Elizabeth down, he then realized a part of his chest component had been pushed out and into her chest, ripping it open there was blood pouring out the medic fought to stem it, Ratchet got to Prime who looked on, as they worked on the girl. He heard her say his name he bent down "Please don't blame yourself Optimus it was an accident" she whispered after that the machine flat lined they medic worked for over Thirty minutes before stepping back "she's gone" he said

Prime just stood there, Elizabeth their friend was dead, he had tried to protect her and failed. He moved towards the hanger doors transformed and drove off, Bubble Bee went to follow "Just leave him be, he needs time to think and grieve" the medic bot said.

Prime speed down the deserted roads around the base trying to make sense of the feelings he was having. He was feeling lost , like he had lost something important and knew he couldn't get it back.

He stopped and transformed , he knew why her death was hitting him hard, he had tried to keep the feelings down , as it could have never been, a human could never love a machine back, and from a humans point of few well some humans machines where not capable of love. He slumped down, facing the regret he had not a leased told her even if he had rejected his feelings, at leased she would have know, but she was dead.

He slowly got back up , the sun was setting , he looked at it and slowly transformed, before heading back to base. Ratchet saw him come in and shook his head " He should not have developed those feelings he has for her, organic and robotic should not mix there was no way they could have been anyway, due to her size" he told himself before transforming back to vehicle mode and taking his spot in the hanger.

Prime drove in turned around putting himself a distance away from the others he shut down for the night, Ratchet knew it was best to leave their leader be. Elizabeth's body now lay in the military morgue waiting to be sent back to her family. But unknown to the humans and autobot's not all was what it seemed.