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tf: dreamwave | starscream (crau)

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[Starscream appears on the screen but he looks very distraught and ... for lack of a better wording ... terrified. Which is very unusual for someone like him.]

Where are they?! I know they're out there! They are coming ...

Who ... Which one of you did it?! Megatron?!

No ... what if ...

[They are on the network?!]

[And just like that he abruptly hangs up]

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Starscream... [At least there was a brief moment where he did relax, so Jetfire doesn't stop the caresses. Rather keeps them up as rhythmically and smoothly as he can, over Starscream's arms, down his thighs, back up and along the cockpit before he repeats the motion... and makes sure he's still keeping Starscream in place.]

I can keep watch for you.

Just a breem, maybe? [Jetfire's pretty sure that if he can just get Starscream to even begin recharge, he'll stay that way for a good while if he has been awake for as long as it seems.]

But if something happens to you, I'll be completely defenseless.

[Which means he needs to go crawl away somewhere and never go into recharge ever again. He can like .. rig himself up to a generator or something to keep from losing power.]

I'm not taking that risk!

If something happens to me, I'll wake you up. [Though that would doubtfully satisfy Starscream in his current state, so what... Ah. Shifting around a little so that he was properly leaning back against the wall, Jetfire let one hand continue up beyond the cockpit on the next pass.]

But if you're... ah, concerned about it and me being unable to... alert you in time, we could plug in.

[Touching the back of Starscream's neck and the hidden connections there, Jetfire hoped Starscream would agree. Besides actually working as a connected warning systems since any greater disturbance in his own processing would carry over to Starscream, he hoped that it'd be another way to make Starscream relax.]

[Starscream looks like he's about to protest, but then he pauses and ... considers the idea. Maybe. Just maybe that would work.]

Okay. I will do this ...

[He pauses again.]

But if anything goes wrong, all bets are off. I am not letting those things get me!

[Those very imaginary things that aren't really there.]

[He's not going to do anything silly like slump in relief, but his next ex-vent after Starscream agreed was, perhaps, a shade longer and deeper than usual or necessary.]

I doubt it will. And even if so, I found some what might be a form of energon crystals earlier that have given me something of an... ah, edge. Injuring me will be hard.

[Even if those piranacons aren't here, at all. As Jetfire speaks, he drops his voice lower, pulling out the cable at the back of his neck first and plugging it in, before he pulls out the corresponding one at Starscream's neck.

He doesn't technically need to plug in Starscream's, but even if he's not going to recharge (he pretty much appears to be unable to at the moment, thanks to, he's pretty sure, those white crystals), it's a... comfortable thing.

Intimate without requiring much of either of them.]

Either way, I doubt they can get through solid construction-grade metal, but I'll keep watch for you. [Keep watch while he lowers his engine to a low, rumbling idling, hands going back to stroking down Starscream's metal and he would rather want to do something more proactive, more research in an attempt to get them (Starscream) back to normal, but the Seeker needs recharge.

So that's what he'll try to make him do.]

You better.

[And he tries to fight it at first, but slowly the need for rest does creep up to overcome him. Jetfire's presence is a comfortable thing and the connection allows for idle stats to display across his HUD.

Everything is all right. Everything is normal. Everything is okay.

Maybe, just maybe he can rest for a little while. Just a few minutes. He can do that, right?

His form relaxes and slumps back against Jetfire, as his optics go from dim to dark. His systems lower and fade into a quiet recharge-status state. He'll probably be out for awhile, but that will be okay.]

Mmhmm.

[He doesn't even reply immediately, rather waiting until Starscream starts to relax before he quietly murmurs against the back of Starscream's helm. Now that he doesn't have to hold Starscream in place to make sure he doesn't flee, it's even more easy to keep up the slow, even strokes and he'll just ignore the flare of relief when Starscream actually relaxes enough to slip into recharge.

He'll carefully just pick through the surface level input and he might not be able to do anything about the effects on himself, but with Starscream's being so localised and the cranked-up threat assessment and response easily visible even now... Well, he'll just work to keep that isolated.

At least for a while, allowing Starscream more recharge than he probably would've gotten otherwise.

Slowly, Jetfire sits back against the wall more properly and rearranges Starscream just slightly, now that the Seeker isn't fighting against him. Like this, he can almost pretend it's normal... either way, Starscream will be out for a while, but that's certainly okay. It's what he wanted, after all.]

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