[Cliffjumper twitched and then froze as Starscream paused, because all that fidgeting and twitching is doing nothing for his confidence and he can sort of feel a sullen growl begin somewhere---]
Starscream--! [The mech doesn't have to laugh at him! Cliffjumper hisses and curls up tighter, right hand tightening into a fist and then cuts himself off as Starscream actually starts to talk again and...]
You--- Stop that! I ain't--- anything amazing. At all. [His field flexes and flares fitfully as his optics does as well, giving Starscream a rather vicious glare - from flustered embarrassment rather than hurt.]
Just had to say something.
[Even if something still feels... odd about this whole thing, but the fact that Starscream apparently reciprocates is a warm, fluttering tingle in the circuits around his spark chamber.]
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Starscream--! [The mech doesn't have to laugh at him! Cliffjumper hisses and curls up tighter, right hand tightening into a fist and then cuts himself off as Starscream actually starts to talk again and...]
You--- Stop that! I ain't--- anything amazing. At all. [His field flexes and flares fitfully as his optics does as well, giving Starscream a rather vicious glare - from flustered embarrassment rather than hurt.]
Just had to say something.
[Even if something still feels... odd about this whole thing, but the fact that Starscream apparently reciprocates is a warm, fluttering tingle in the circuits around his spark chamber.]