07 || [Video; Locked from Chromedome]

[flashdrive]

[The Link kicks on, to show Rewind in his quarters, sorting out some datapads he'd found in Trion's library. His shoulders are pretty slumped, and he carries a certain fatigue about him. Something very unlike the bouncy little flashdrive.  But there's a reason for this broadcast, as he turns to it.  This isn't an easy thing for Rewind to come out on the feed and say, so bear with him.]

Has anyone seen Chromedome as of late? He's hardly in the temple, at least to my knowledge and...


I worry what he's been up to.

[It was a bit shameful to admit, not trusting your Conjunx Endura. But this was a bit more personal than he'd like to admit.]


It's like ever since I told him to break his needles he's been...distant. He won't tell me anything, either. Just...'busy'.


{OOC to CD: Despite it being video, it's totally okay for Chromedome to walk in on this}

Comments

[raceme]

I haven't seen him mostly because I've been outside the headquarters patrolling and looking for Ratchet.

[locked]

Did you had a fight? About the claws or maybe about something else?

[flashdrive]

No no, not fighting. We'd have to be in the same room to be doing that...


[He really just hasn't been around. Then again, Rewind's been busy too, so he can't completely fault Chromedome.]

..wait.


His needles are gone anyway. Told him to break them ages ago.

[raceme]

He's that distant?

[Blurr wishes he could help, Rewind. He might be suspicious about Chromedome after the Warning Rung and Barricade gave him but he likes you.]

Yes that I know. But I was wondering if that's when he started to behave like this.

[flashdrive]

...Yeah, now that you mention it. A little while after that. He seemed happy when he broke them. Like a huge weight off his shoulders.


And then he...


got distant.

[raceme]

Perhaps something happened and he changed his mind about them.

[flashdrive]

I...

[Admitting this feels awful. He doesn't want to be naive, but--]



I'd like to think he cares about me enough not to.

[raceme]

[Rewind, buddy, you are breaking his spark.]

Ey ey eye...we don't know if he did it for sure or if he did it of his own free will.

[flashdrive]

I know. It probably isn't even something that happened.


[But now he can't shake the thought, and that upsets him.]

Most I can do is just...hope he chose to stick by it, and that I'm worrying over nothing.

[raceme]

I know you are really important for him Rewind, whatever this is he will eventually come back to you.

Do you want to go somewhere? Do something to distract you?