hsv, Autobot Base, Clearing the Air
Nightwish and Airwolf: *curled on Skywarp and Nightwish's berth, watching an animal documentary with no trace of fight scenes or high speed chases*
Skywarp: *Boooored, to the point of almost falling into sleep mode*
Airwolf: *perks* Ohhh, there's the femme creator goose!
Nightwish: *intent, nearly deaf to everything else*
Skywarp: -_-;; *gets up and stretches*
Nightwish: -See you, love.- *loves but doesn't look up or even really notice what he's doing*
Skywarp: -Laters...- *loves, and then teleports out to the main hallway*
*which is very quiet. From the rec room in the distance comes the sound of another documentary*
Skywarp: *makes a face, until his tank reminds him that he hasn't refueled yet* ...*sigh* *grumbles about documentaries as he heads to the rec room*
Perceptor's family: *sitting there, enthralled*
Skywarp: ...*mutters something about nerds, before going to get some mid-grade*
Aria: *hugging her papa's hand as she watches the very scientific documentary about human mitochondria*
Perceptor: *making notes in order to quiz Aria and Kia about the documentary later, and for his own research*
Kia: *leaning against Perceptor and nearly in his lap, listening to his thoughts as she makes her own mental notes and strokes Aria's head*
Skywarp: *making a hasty exit*
*back into the empty hallway.... What can he do now?*
Skywarp: *Sighs, and decides to see if he can't find someone to pester...preferrably someone with wings* ...*Then he remembers the young Starscream and realizes he hasn't seen her at ALL since she came*
Huffer: *bored and insomniac, pacing the halls. Gives the Seeker an absent hairy eyeball as he goes past him*
Skywarp: *heeeeey waitaminute* Oy! You know anything about where Starscream's quarters are?
Huffer: Down inna bottom of the ocean. *huff! Sneeze*
Skywarp: *rolls optics* Not THAT Screamer...the one who landed here the other day...the femme.
Huffer: Oh. *snerf huff hack* Way down at the other end of the base, in the part stuck in the mountain side. Around the corner from Ratchet's 'n by that other Seeker's.
Skywarp: *nods, and then teleports to just outside Thundercracker's door, perking as a slight noise comes through the door of the room next to it*
Starscream: *inside her room, bending over Fireflight. The Aerialbot is laying on her bunk with his chest compartment open, watching with wonder as she very very carefully probes at his spark with an implement*
Skywarp: *Pings Starscream's comm with an invitation to come fly, and a comment about being bored out of his processor*
Starscream: *freezes, her optics going to Fireflight's face and then to the probe with his spark code stored in it* //Er... Skywarp?//
Skywarp: *Perks* //Yeah?//
Starsceam: *frown* //Why are you asking me?//
Skywarp: //Nightwish and Airwolf are watching something boring, Thundercracker told me to %&#@$ off and bother someone else, and I don't wanna hafta listen to the Aerialbots complain...oh, and Powerglide's an aft-head...plus, I haven't seen ya since ya got here...//
Starscream: *carefully putting the code away with all the rest of her scientific tinkering tools* //I was told to stay away from you. So I'm doing it.//
Skywarp: *pouting and it's almost tangible in his response* //Whaaaat?//
Starscream: *snipey with hurt feelings* //You have your family, and I'm not to interfere with it.//
Skywarp: *SULK* //They didn't even ask me about it....//
Starscream: //Why are you fussing? You weren't that interested anyway.//
Skywarp: *Still sulking* //Just 'cause I'm bonded...Doesn't mean I don't wanna be friends...//
Starscream: //Oh... you want to be friends. *big hurt in her voice* That's why you were hiding; why it was Thundercracker who kept me from falling apart?//
Skywarp: //*hurt tone* I thought you were mad at me.//
Starscream: *finishes putting everything away, then tells Fireflight to close his chest and that he can sit up. Pauses till he's finished doing so, and then opens her door to scowl at the taller male Seeker* I was grieving.
Fireflight: *waves to Skywarp from where he's sitting on Starscream's berth and hugging a big stuffed animal that belongs to her*
Skywarp: *absent nod to Fireflight, still sulking a bit* How the heck was I supposed to know? It's not like I get to be around grieving people all the time...Only time I really did get to see someone grieving was when I found Thundercracker when he first got upgraded to the protoform he's got now...and he was beating the slag outta some uppity glitch.
Starscream: Oh, and of course it's usual for someone to lose their home and everything they've ever known and to be ecstatically happy about it? *arms folded across her chest*
Skywarp: I wouldn't know. I never had a home to begin with. *Turns to go*
Fireflight: *sounding very unhappy and worried* Starscream? He sounds sad....
Starscream: *was all steeled and angry, but that gentle voice cuts through her armor and she leans against the doorframe and cries*
Fireflight: :O Starscream? *puts down the stuffie* I'm sorry. Please don't cry. Do you want a hug?
Skywarp: *listening, but pretending not to, until he hears Fireflight ask Starscream if she wants a hug, then he's whirling around and punching the wall* [Some slagging friend I turn out to be! Ow...]
Starscream: *in a crouch, her claws extended and her optics wide as she shields Fireflight with her body*
Skywarp: *shaking his hand out and wincing* oh yeah...that hurt...
Starscream: *wary, startled, and uncertain* ...You did it.
Fireflight: :o
Skywarp: .>_o yeah, and it was dumb for me to do that...your point?
*silence*
*and then*
Fireflight: *uncertainly* Do you want a hug?
Skywarp: ...O_o;;
Starscream: *gently* Why don't you give me the hug, Fireflight?
Fireflight: Huh? Oh. Okay. *hugs*
Starscream: *arms around him as she looks over his shoulder at Skywarp. Her expression says she isn't sure what to think of what he just did*
Skywarp: ...*taking this in* ...heh...You really are different than the guy we knew...for one, you're less of a high-strung glitch...*shakes out his hand again* If you ever wanna go flying sometime with Thundercracker, Nightwish, Airwolf and me, just ask...
Starscream: *quiet and polite, but reserved* I'll remember that.
Skywarp: If you're bored enough, Perceptor and his fellow nerds are watching some boring documentary in the rec room...*rolls his optics a bit, before shrugging* What're ya gonna do though?
Starscream: ...Gonna... do? Fireflight and I were talking. *rubs the Aerialbot's back and then lets go of him*
Fireflight: ^_^
Skywarp: *chuckles* 'kay... *moves to head back to pester Nightwish and Airwolf*
Starscream: *has NO idea what he was talking about with that line she repeated, but shrugs and turns to go back inside*
Fireflight: *happily* Good night, Skywarp!
Skywarp: *Absent wave, teleports back to quarters to harass snuggle mate*
((co-written with random_xtras))