Life always empty, but I will never change [OPEN]

[aircommanderp]

WHO: Starscream, [OPEN] To all! He's taking visitors.
WHAT: Starscream faces down the idea of being one of the first Decepticons to suffer a slow death, rather than a quick blaze of glory. He's waiting his last few days.
WHERE: Starscream's apartment.
WHEN: All day today and tomorrow.
WARNINGS/NOTES: Soundtrack start.

Comments

I like the appropriate music.

[dontasktrix]

Slipstream had been around since she brought Starscream and Isaac to the apartment. She'd given them space. It isn't just that it makes sense to let the engineer tend to his work; she doesn't want anyone to get the wrong idea, if she hangs around too closely. It isn't like she is waiting like some salvage-bot for the Commander to offline, or she wants his job that badly, but it's isn't like she cares, either! Well, not in a personal way.

She does find it distressing that any of them may fade in this manner. She'd seen it before, when she'd found Starscream's gray shell on the street in Detroit. That had been a rather short time before she found herself in Axiom Nexus. Something around six lunar cycles have passed - depending on the calendar in use - but it isn't like she's forgot! She hadn't cared then, either, except, maybe it had distressed her that the Cyber-ninjas hadn't faced Starscream in combat, but just...accidentally caused him to offline. It- this isn't the way a Decepticon is supposed to go!

The whole thing does bother

[dontasktrix]

"Mission acknowledged," Slipstream says coolly. Sticking to military protocol means not falling into an emotional response. Not that there are warm, fuzzy emotions, or some kind of pathetic grief, that any Decepticon would wish to hide. She just doesn't see the point in being angry and disappointed, anymore, over something that obviously isn't in her control.

She pouts momentarily, wondering if Starscream actually seems pleased about something, while dying.

"You probably don't want me here, any longer," Slipstream says, the same attempt at dismissive tone. She doesn't know that, but she feels the need to avoid watching Starscream fade entirely, if at all possible.

[aircommanderp]

"You are dismissed." He mercifully relieved her of the duty of staying with him right now. Watching the very image of yourself fade and die isn't easy or pleasant. She's forcing it, and he can tell.

Which in a way shows that at the very least she's making an effort for him.

Meaningful, coming from her, but he's not the type to search out sentimentality on anyone's part. It just seems much more pronounced when they come to bid him off, one by one.

They could have just let him rust.