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[ex_dishonestly997]

my robotic angel of the east

i had planned to write a very long and passionate letter detailing my ardor for you, but all words are insufficient to encompass all that i have felt for you in this very short time

to everyone else you are only drift, a robot without a home and with a mysterious past and a mysterious smile and a mysterious ... (i'll fill this in with something else later, maybe that crest?)

but to me, you are everything. you are the light of every star that i see reflected in your hull, and every time i see you i long to tell you everything, but the thought of being rejected is unbearable to me. so i make excuses to see you often, and hope that you will take that first step, instead.

please, i beg you, don't reject me because of my organic state. don't turn away from me in my hour of emotional need. i want you more than i have ever wanted any other being, organic or otherwise, and i could not bear if you didn't at least entertain the possibility of making me yours, and you mine.

in this brave new world so in need of terraforming, drift, you have terraformed my everything.

forever yours,
V.

Comments

[sword_redemption]

I want her to be happy.

[Simple. Except not.]

[ex_dishonestly997]

[this isn't working exactly like he thought it might, but he'll roll with it.] Okay.

But do you feel anything for her?

[sword_redemption]

I...of course I do.

[Aaaaand suddenly thinking it's a bad idea to elaborate.]

locked

[ex_dishonestly997]

Am I good, or am I good. [He's good.

He's also surprised and hiding it pdw. He's also abruptly locking this to Drift alone]

So you recognize she's the self-hating type, who needs a serious recalibration of ego and personal esteem, obviously.

: locked

[sword_redemption]

[The jury's still out on that over here, Starscream. Very, very much.]

I...uh. I'm not sure I have a right to talk about her past.

[Which is a 'yes'. Except with a bit more gallantry.]

[ex_dishonestly997]

Course not. She's so closed-paneled about it I'm assuming there are some real monsters. [oh Starscream you have no idea.]

You could really make her future happier, you know.

[sword_redemption]

[He narrows his optics.]

That's not your business. This place is a fresh start for everyone, including Vandal.

I am trying, Starscream.

[ex_dishonestly997]

Uh huh. And a fresh start's going to do exactly nothing to stop stasis-nightmares and acting cagey and trying to get herself killed from survivor-mech's-guilt or whatever else she's carrying around.

Good.

[sword_redemption]

...what are you talking about?

[Because she hasn't told him anything like this.]

[ex_dishonestly997]

You mean you haven't brought up a completely innocent subject and had her--[well.] ....Never mind. Like you said, it's not for us to gossip about, right?

[sword_redemption]

....

[He is really unhappy with you right now. And he knows he can't even blame you.]

[Well played, Starscream.]

_{leave her alone, Starscream}

[ex_dishonestly997]

She's as safe with me as she is with any Autobot. [a dubious hesitation] All right, maybe a little less. I think she hates my spark right now.

Take care of her.

[sword_redemption]

Very reassuring. [But honest, at least as far as Starscream probably gets.]

After this, you think she has a right?

[He glowers--is that a threat, Starscream?] Nothing better happen to her.

[ex_dishonestly997]

Of course she does.

[Screamer is crossing off "good with humans" on his list of talents. But mission sort of accomplished, at least he forced them to talk to each other for a while and Vandal totally got mad, which he thinks is fascinating.]

Cool your actuator. And--in future, please don't make it so obvious that it's easy to hurt you through her. Not everybody is as generous, charismatic and magnanimous in victory as I am.

[sword_redemption]

[Ooooooh.]

Well. Now that you know that, I shouldn't need to tell you that if anything happens to her I'll know where to start looking.

[Is that a threat? Only if yours was, Starscream.]

[ex_dishonestly997]

Are you being dense on purpose or does it come naturally.

[sword_redemption]

How is that dense?

[ex_dishonestly997]

Why would I warn you to take better care of your asset--an asset that I actually know the location of, if I wanted to hurt her--instead of doing a flyover and bomb run?

Drift, I don't particularly care if you want to parade around as a hypocrite or not - I don't have any business calling anyone out about their past. But don't risk Vandal on your pride, and actually listen to what I'm trying to say to you.