TF: Innocent
Rating: PG-13 - it’s vague
Series: Movieverse
Pairings: Ironhide/Jolt
Summary: Ironhide really doesn’t want to ruin Jolt’s innocence - something that in wartime, is hard to retain.
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: As per usual, the good things in life are not mine to have, but belong to someone else... in this case Hasbro, Takara and IDW and anyone else I’ve forgotten…
Authors Notes: For the tf_rare_pairing June Challenge prompt - Innocence
Feedback makes friends. Flames dealt with by the masters of paranoia and fire, Red Alert and Inferno.
The first time Ironhide had seen him, he’d dismissed him as an overeager, innocent young recruit. But over time, he watched as Jolt grew into his role as a scout, gaining the experience that he shouldn’t have had to gain, but that all young mechs and femmes these days gained. Yet, somehow, Jolt retained that youthful innocence of his; still managed to be all smiles and laughter when not on the battlefield.
And Ironhide didn’t want to do a thing to ruin that innocence, as much as his systems demanded it.
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“Ironhide?” The black mech looked up from fiddling with his cannons to meet overbright blue optics.
“Jolt?” The blue mech seemed to have entirely too much energy crackling across his plating - partly a side-effect of the electro-whips he’d had installed, and partly due to something that his systems were screaming he do something about.
“Can we spar?”
Later, Ironhide would realise that it had all been a set up. That Jolt, a ranged fighter, would have little need to practise the up close and personal fighting he insisted on trying with Ironhide. But Ironhide, systems warring against his processor, had given in to his systems demands; any chance to get his hands on that pristine blue plating.
It was as they were coming down from a processor-blowing overload that he realised that perhaps Jolt wasn’t quite as innocent as he thought he was.