Pieces from the music meme.
So I caved and did it. I wrote in various continuities(some that include movieverse and TFA), so I'll post the G1 and Armada here. Note: I type fast so there's quite a bit per drabble. The only editing I did was to run spellcheck because I can NOT stand to post something with typos. But if there are missing words or something, they're gonna stay missing because adding is cheating ;P
The theme I used was "Relationships" and there is SLASH inside.
Song: Chicago - "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9cNYlmXEY
Pairing: Armadaverse OptimusxMegatron
"...and after all that's been said and done,
You're just a part of me I can't let go..."
Optimus never would recall who moved first. It was all a blur of them falling, his own tears leaving an oily taste in his mouth to mix into the leathery smoothness of his former lover's lips. No, not former anymore.
Their war had ended in a kiss. All of it, all those years, ended in a desperate lip lock where neither knew whether they'd pull away alive.
They were on the dusty ground surrounded by explosions. Dust motes glowed when their Sparks appeared like ghostly eyes in the darkness. Optimus took Megatron like it was their first time all over again. Kisses, caresses, eyes glowing in painful memory and disjointed pain slamming back and forth between them. Many tears were shed. They moved together for what seemed like hours.
"I'm sorry...I'm sorry for all of it," Optimus whispered.
Megatron always purred right before overload. Optimus loved watching him because the evil in him seemed to fall away like a shell. So he listened to that purring, listened closely to how it rose slowly to soft, breathy moans as round lips drew off gleaming fangs and Megatron's face clenched in ecstasy. Spasms wracked his frame, his optics were glistening rubies and fragile words hung on the end of his purple tongue.
"I'm sorry, too..."
And Optimus kissed him, swallowing his cry as he joined him in bliss.
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Song: Sophie B. Hawkins - "As I Lay Me Down" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN8RNeT9mLE
Characters--father and son relationship: Armada Unicron and Welder(OC from "Ambrosia") Note: Italicized dialogue is translated Mini-Con speech.
"And I will see you
when the sun comes out again..."
His giant body was almost complete. Soon, he'd be mobile, huge and safe from the one who hurt him so long ago. All around him were little beings he created, but one in particular seemed closer than the rest.
"Father! Father! I found a shiny! A shiny!"
The shout was like chaos of dial up modems all going off at once. Unicron's avatar turned to the sound's source--a white figure whose azure eyes and radiant smile lit up his little face. He did not smile back, though his dark brows lifted in veiled curiosity. Seating himself on a ledge, he invited the Mini-Con to sit on his knee.
"Wow, Welder! You found this?" he wasn't really that surprised, but he pretended to be because it made the little one happy. Welder found diamonds almost every day, and each time he acted as if it was the very first. Shiny objects always excited him. He even had his own bucket full of nothing but crystals.
"Uh-huh! Uh-huh!" Welder tended to repeat himself when excited. "See, see!" He thrust his discovery at Unicron's nose. It was a lopsided diamond with facets chipped into one side.
"It's beautiful." Unicron said. He patted Welder's head and they looked the diamond over together, his huge hands cupping Welder's smaller ones while the diamond sparkled between them. "Can you count the natural facets?"
"Um...one, two...uh--wow, more than two. That's a lot!"
"Two is a perfect number."
Blue eyes tilted, flummoxed. "Why?"
"Because a pair is never lonely. You have two hands and two feet. A hand and a foot by itself would seem incomplete, don't you think?" He shifted his own left hand and foot to prove his point.
"And you got lonely, so you made me and now there's two of us, right? And then you made more like me so there won't be lonely people in here. Right?" Welder's head bobbed, "Right?"
"That's right," Unicron's mouth curled in a slight smile at his first Mini-Con creation. Welder was getting so smart...even though his intelligence was basic, he still had the capacity for curiosity and love.
"Ooh." Welder's mouth puckered. He somersaulted out of Unicron's lap like the little acrobat he was. "Be right back."
Welder was gone less than five minutes. Unicron watched him scramble back--he found himself trying not to laugh when he ran in a circle with his arms outstretched before reaching his destination. Welder placed another diamond on Unicron's palm, right next to the first. Then he tipped himself into a handstand and giggled, waving at them with his feet. "Now it won't be lonely."
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Song: Josh Groban - "Let Me Fall" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny95F3rEDPk
Pairing: Armada, "Ambrosia-verse" StarscreamxUnicron
"There's a moment when fear
and dreams must collide."
Starscream knew that wounded sound the moment he heard it blast from the walls. He forgot about the galaxy he was so busily painting and transported himself quickly to Unicron's core. His fragile little lover writhed in the throes of a nightmare. Sometimes he had them--and more often than not they were too terrible for words.
Not the acid. Please... Unicron groaned.
"Unicron," Starscream reached out, "Hey. Wake up. You're dreaming."
My leg...he took it!
Then Unicron flailed, propelling himself right off his dais. He would've crashed to the floor had Starscream not dove to catch him in both hands.
"Shhh," he cradled him in his palms, petting his back with his thumbs. "It's okay. Shh...he isn't here."
Soothed, Unicron stilled without waking and Starscream set him back down. Then he turned around to be faced with Unicron's larger, more angular avatar. Unicron's silver and black face was absolutely deadpan while his clenched fists trembled. This was the adult bearing his youth's pain. Just the sight of his beloved that way sent heat swelling in Starscream's throat.
"Starscream," Unicron rumbled, his voice a monotone despite the emotion bubbling underneath.
"It was the disassembly nightmare again, wasn't it?"
Nodding, Unicron tried to keep his face hard, emotionless, but the shadows and torment churned in his lifeless eyes.
"Your optics are getting dusty again," Starscream told him, cupping his cheek as a golden teardrop slipped free. It was icy cold, the temperature of his inner ocean. "Better clean them so you don't get lost."
"And if I do?"
Starscream smiled, "I'll find you."
Then he kissed Unicron's full lips, hugged him and gazed over his shoulder while the mighty silent god's tears fell upon his neck like sacred rain.
.o
Song: Celtic Woman - "The Voice" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqQnhBtxaI
Character: Optimus and Primus(who exists everywhere, so let's say he's looking at G1)
"'Listen my child,' you say to me,
'I am the voice of your history...'"
Every departure was sorrow to his children. He knew because he knew them all. Every Spark he gave birth to, he knew, and every Spark remembered him. So he sensed deep down that this Spark was reluctant to leave its life now, and it did so with great sadness.
"I still have so much to do," he heard Optimus lamenting.
Primus revealed himself in the Matrix and admired his child's tenacity. He watched Optimus' optics open wide at the sight of him in all his blue, ornamental glory. Awe was always their first reaction to seeing his face.
"No, my son. You've done enough." He said it because he knew it. He could see both ends of time like a yard stick and all possibilities were super cluster filaments drifting as a cosmic web through his consciousness. Then he held out his hand. "Come, rest now."
The sigh Optimus let pass was sorrowful.
"Let go, child."
"It's so...painful..."
"I know," he stroked the dying Prime's face mask. "It won't be for long."
"Then answer me this--did I do any good? Did I matter?"
Primus looked down at Optimus and smiled, loving him despite his broken, battered state.
"Yes. Yes, you did."
Gently, as a parent does a child, Primus held Optimus to his chest. He heard his creation's last corporeal breath escape.
When it was all said and done, Primus walked away with a Sparkling in his arms. He did not look back as the broken body faded to gray on the table.
The room, now empty of one occupant, burst into the sounds of mourning.
.o
Song: Fleetwood Mac - "Little Lies" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ekSojGeVc
Pairing: G1 StarscreamxSkyfire
"No more broken hearts.
We're better off apart."
Skyfire stood tight-lipped and silent while Starscream paced the floor before him. For so long they'd been lovers. Starscream could be almost tender when he wanted to, though more often than not he only acted that way until Skyfire gave in to whatever plan he hatched. He gave and gave and gave--selflessly--sacrificing happiness and even his own safety to protect him. Because--
"Are you even listening?" The Seeker shrieked. His red optics narrowed to slit on his dark face. "You weren't. Primus, Skyfire! Get your empty head out of the clouds!"
"I don't think joining the military is a good idea." Skyfire replied calmly, despite his anguish. Once more he would give and receive nothing but more verbal abuse. "You would be hurting people." Like you always hurt me...
Starscream looked as if he'd been struck. "Have you no sense of adventure?"
"I do. But taking pleasure in somebody else's pain is wrong, Starscream."
He watched a metallic lip curl. Next thing he knew, a fist clanged against his midsection. "You're a fool. If we don't act, we die. Besides, whoever wins this war will rule Cybertron. It's the claim to fame. The ultimate power!"
"Ultimate power for what?" Skyfire found courage welling in his fuel tanks. "The power to hurt people weaker than yourself? The power to attack those who don't fight back because they respect you too much?"
At that, Starscream sucked in a sharp intake. Rage boiled all over his shadowed visage. Then it slipped away behind a wall and those tense lips relaxed in a gentle smile. Starscream's voice became sweeter as he stroked Skyfire's cheek, "Ah, Skyfire...whoever rules is on top, and whoever is on top has the best view."
But as much as Skyfire wanted to believe him, he heard himself asking, "Where will I be in all of this?"
No answer was forthcoming. Starscream's face descended, lips parted for a kiss, and Skyfire decided he could pretend things were okay for just a little longer.
.o
The theme I used was "Relationships" and there is SLASH inside.
Song: Chicago - "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9cNYlmXEY
Pairing: Armadaverse OptimusxMegatron
"...and after all that's been said and done,
You're just a part of me I can't let go..."
Optimus never would recall who moved first. It was all a blur of them falling, his own tears leaving an oily taste in his mouth to mix into the leathery smoothness of his former lover's lips. No, not former anymore.
Their war had ended in a kiss. All of it, all those years, ended in a desperate lip lock where neither knew whether they'd pull away alive.
They were on the dusty ground surrounded by explosions. Dust motes glowed when their Sparks appeared like ghostly eyes in the darkness. Optimus took Megatron like it was their first time all over again. Kisses, caresses, eyes glowing in painful memory and disjointed pain slamming back and forth between them. Many tears were shed. They moved together for what seemed like hours.
"I'm sorry...I'm sorry for all of it," Optimus whispered.
Megatron always purred right before overload. Optimus loved watching him because the evil in him seemed to fall away like a shell. So he listened to that purring, listened closely to how it rose slowly to soft, breathy moans as round lips drew off gleaming fangs and Megatron's face clenched in ecstasy. Spasms wracked his frame, his optics were glistening rubies and fragile words hung on the end of his purple tongue.
"I'm sorry, too..."
And Optimus kissed him, swallowing his cry as he joined him in bliss.
.o
Song: Sophie B. Hawkins - "As I Lay Me Down" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN8RNeT9mLE
Characters--father and son relationship: Armada Unicron and Welder(OC from "Ambrosia") Note: Italicized dialogue is translated Mini-Con speech.
"And I will see you
when the sun comes out again..."
His giant body was almost complete. Soon, he'd be mobile, huge and safe from the one who hurt him so long ago. All around him were little beings he created, but one in particular seemed closer than the rest.
"Father! Father! I found a shiny! A shiny!"
The shout was like chaos of dial up modems all going off at once. Unicron's avatar turned to the sound's source--a white figure whose azure eyes and radiant smile lit up his little face. He did not smile back, though his dark brows lifted in veiled curiosity. Seating himself on a ledge, he invited the Mini-Con to sit on his knee.
"Wow, Welder! You found this?" he wasn't really that surprised, but he pretended to be because it made the little one happy. Welder found diamonds almost every day, and each time he acted as if it was the very first. Shiny objects always excited him. He even had his own bucket full of nothing but crystals.
"Uh-huh! Uh-huh!" Welder tended to repeat himself when excited. "See, see!" He thrust his discovery at Unicron's nose. It was a lopsided diamond with facets chipped into one side.
"It's beautiful." Unicron said. He patted Welder's head and they looked the diamond over together, his huge hands cupping Welder's smaller ones while the diamond sparkled between them. "Can you count the natural facets?"
"Um...one, two...uh--wow, more than two. That's a lot!"
"Two is a perfect number."
Blue eyes tilted, flummoxed. "Why?"
"Because a pair is never lonely. You have two hands and two feet. A hand and a foot by itself would seem incomplete, don't you think?" He shifted his own left hand and foot to prove his point.
"And you got lonely, so you made me and now there's two of us, right? And then you made more like me so there won't be lonely people in here. Right?" Welder's head bobbed, "Right?"
"That's right," Unicron's mouth curled in a slight smile at his first Mini-Con creation. Welder was getting so smart...even though his intelligence was basic, he still had the capacity for curiosity and love.
"Ooh." Welder's mouth puckered. He somersaulted out of Unicron's lap like the little acrobat he was. "Be right back."
Welder was gone less than five minutes. Unicron watched him scramble back--he found himself trying not to laugh when he ran in a circle with his arms outstretched before reaching his destination. Welder placed another diamond on Unicron's palm, right next to the first. Then he tipped himself into a handstand and giggled, waving at them with his feet. "Now it won't be lonely."
.o
Song: Josh Groban - "Let Me Fall" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny95F3rEDPk
Pairing: Armada, "Ambrosia-verse" StarscreamxUnicron
"There's a moment when fear
and dreams must collide."
Starscream knew that wounded sound the moment he heard it blast from the walls. He forgot about the galaxy he was so busily painting and transported himself quickly to Unicron's core. His fragile little lover writhed in the throes of a nightmare. Sometimes he had them--and more often than not they were too terrible for words.
Not the acid. Please... Unicron groaned.
"Unicron," Starscream reached out, "Hey. Wake up. You're dreaming."
My leg...he took it!
Then Unicron flailed, propelling himself right off his dais. He would've crashed to the floor had Starscream not dove to catch him in both hands.
"Shhh," he cradled him in his palms, petting his back with his thumbs. "It's okay. Shh...he isn't here."
Soothed, Unicron stilled without waking and Starscream set him back down. Then he turned around to be faced with Unicron's larger, more angular avatar. Unicron's silver and black face was absolutely deadpan while his clenched fists trembled. This was the adult bearing his youth's pain. Just the sight of his beloved that way sent heat swelling in Starscream's throat.
"Starscream," Unicron rumbled, his voice a monotone despite the emotion bubbling underneath.
"It was the disassembly nightmare again, wasn't it?"
Nodding, Unicron tried to keep his face hard, emotionless, but the shadows and torment churned in his lifeless eyes.
"Your optics are getting dusty again," Starscream told him, cupping his cheek as a golden teardrop slipped free. It was icy cold, the temperature of his inner ocean. "Better clean them so you don't get lost."
"And if I do?"
Starscream smiled, "I'll find you."
Then he kissed Unicron's full lips, hugged him and gazed over his shoulder while the mighty silent god's tears fell upon his neck like sacred rain.
.o
Song: Celtic Woman - "The Voice" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqQnhBtxaI
Character: Optimus and Primus(who exists everywhere, so let's say he's looking at G1)
"'Listen my child,' you say to me,
'I am the voice of your history...'"
Every departure was sorrow to his children. He knew because he knew them all. Every Spark he gave birth to, he knew, and every Spark remembered him. So he sensed deep down that this Spark was reluctant to leave its life now, and it did so with great sadness.
"I still have so much to do," he heard Optimus lamenting.
Primus revealed himself in the Matrix and admired his child's tenacity. He watched Optimus' optics open wide at the sight of him in all his blue, ornamental glory. Awe was always their first reaction to seeing his face.
"No, my son. You've done enough." He said it because he knew it. He could see both ends of time like a yard stick and all possibilities were super cluster filaments drifting as a cosmic web through his consciousness. Then he held out his hand. "Come, rest now."
The sigh Optimus let pass was sorrowful.
"Let go, child."
"It's so...painful..."
"I know," he stroked the dying Prime's face mask. "It won't be for long."
"Then answer me this--did I do any good? Did I matter?"
Primus looked down at Optimus and smiled, loving him despite his broken, battered state.
"Yes. Yes, you did."
Gently, as a parent does a child, Primus held Optimus to his chest. He heard his creation's last corporeal breath escape.
When it was all said and done, Primus walked away with a Sparkling in his arms. He did not look back as the broken body faded to gray on the table.
The room, now empty of one occupant, burst into the sounds of mourning.
.o
Song: Fleetwood Mac - "Little Lies" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ekSojGeVc
Pairing: G1 StarscreamxSkyfire
"No more broken hearts.
We're better off apart."
Skyfire stood tight-lipped and silent while Starscream paced the floor before him. For so long they'd been lovers. Starscream could be almost tender when he wanted to, though more often than not he only acted that way until Skyfire gave in to whatever plan he hatched. He gave and gave and gave--selflessly--sacrificing happiness and even his own safety to protect him. Because--
"Are you even listening?" The Seeker shrieked. His red optics narrowed to slit on his dark face. "You weren't. Primus, Skyfire! Get your empty head out of the clouds!"
"I don't think joining the military is a good idea." Skyfire replied calmly, despite his anguish. Once more he would give and receive nothing but more verbal abuse. "You would be hurting people." Like you always hurt me...
Starscream looked as if he'd been struck. "Have you no sense of adventure?"
"I do. But taking pleasure in somebody else's pain is wrong, Starscream."
He watched a metallic lip curl. Next thing he knew, a fist clanged against his midsection. "You're a fool. If we don't act, we die. Besides, whoever wins this war will rule Cybertron. It's the claim to fame. The ultimate power!"
"Ultimate power for what?" Skyfire found courage welling in his fuel tanks. "The power to hurt people weaker than yourself? The power to attack those who don't fight back because they respect you too much?"
At that, Starscream sucked in a sharp intake. Rage boiled all over his shadowed visage. Then it slipped away behind a wall and those tense lips relaxed in a gentle smile. Starscream's voice became sweeter as he stroked Skyfire's cheek, "Ah, Skyfire...whoever rules is on top, and whoever is on top has the best view."
But as much as Skyfire wanted to believe him, he heard himself asking, "Where will I be in all of this?"
No answer was forthcoming. Starscream's face descended, lips parted for a kiss, and Skyfire decided he could pretend things were okay for just a little longer.
.o