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[angleofscience]

[Because of this. Jetfire is patient enough to have dragged it out this long, both because he would rather either Starscream did the right thing, or he managed to get out himself, but as he hasn't...

Well.

Have Jetfire looking impressively blank as he leans against the workbench in his lab, arms folded over his chest.]

... If someone [since the mech who should be doing it isn't doing it] could help me unlock the door to my lab, I'd be... grateful.

[Briefly, the thin line of his lips tighten slightly and then he just sighs, static loud, before rubbing a hand over his faceplates.]

If you can do it without destroying the door, that would be preferable, but if not, I'll deal with it then.

[Have some coordinates to a building on a terrace on Liege's mountain.]

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[sciencetank]

What you've stated simply tells me your affection for him has either blinded you to his faults, or caused you to make a gross error in judgment, enabling you to overlook them.

Or, you're simply in denial about his true nature.

[Short, and to the point, for once. Fondness in this situation is clearly a step in the wrong direction.]

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[angleofscience]

[Jetfire looks up and just stares for a moment, and then laughs. It's dry, but there.]

I know all his faults, Perceptor. I've seen them firsthand, been subjected to most of them, and I've seen him change from a sharp and hard-to-deal-with individual to the extreme of murderous with no care at all but his own goals, which, no, he wasn't until later, and then... softening a bit again.

I know both him and the Decepticons' goals, and I left when I realised things had gone too far.

[He's not laughing any more, just... staring at the floor, optics dim.]

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[sciencetank]

Then you also must realize he's fully capable of reverting. Or, I daresay, altering his behavior in order to suit the current situation. If he's capable of such radical change, evidence suggests it could swing from...

[He says the word as if it were dirty:] ... softened ... to murderous once more.

[Fortunately, the Jetfire he's familiar with had a similar incident with defecting. That barely seems to register.]

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[angleofscience]

Perhaps. But given that he would never have "stooped" to rescue Bumblebee earlier in the war, and he did do that before we were pulled out of our reality...

[Spreading his hands, Jetfire's not sure if he should be amused or not at the way Perceptor said "softened".]

And he could just have left Bumblebee where he was, no one would have known. I had no way of enforcing what I was asking as the situation was... dire.

[Until you ask him how long he was a Decepticon! Then it'll look a lot more incriminating...]