A growl escaped Steeljaw's throat as he glared at the mech that dared to interrupt them. He was starting to get somewhere with Strongarm and this mech had to come and ruin it. Primus knows he so badly wants to rip him to shreds, but before he can do anything Strongarm positions herself between the two. She could sense that Steeljaw was getting ready to attack him and she didn't want any Energon spilled tonight, not at this celebration.

"Revo, you don't have to follow me everywhere and watch me like I'm a sparkling!" Frustration was evident in Strongarm's voice indicating that she was fed up with the mech always being around her.

"By Magnus' orders, I must watch you. You shouldn't have committed those crimes if you didn't want to be watched over like a sparkling."

Steeljaw stopped growling and paid close attention. Does that mean she was caught? How? She was so calculated and thought everything through, she was even smart enough to outdo him which was the main thing that attracted him to her. How could she have gotten caught? That must be why he couldn't find her anywhere, part of the reason anyway.

Strongarm rolled her optics as she got ready to come back at him, but before she could, Arcee approached them and placed a servo on Revo's shoulder. "It's alright, Revo, you can get off your duties of watching Strongarm for the night. Let her enjoy herself."

"Are you sure, ma'am?"

"I'm sure. I trust her not to do anything to put herself any further into trouble."

"If you say so, ma'am," Revo turns and walks away to enjoy the celebration. He's actually relieved he doesn't have to watch over her for the entire celebration as he wants to have his own fun.

"Thanks, Mom."

"Anytime, dear. Just don't do something to make me regret it."

"I won't."

Arcee smiles at her before walking off to find Wheeljack. Strongarm looks back to Steeljaw who had a questioning look on his face, intrigued to know what that was all about. Strongarm just turns to walk away, "Follow me."

Steeljaw follows her without question as they head out of the room and down the corridor. The pair walked through the corridors in complete silence, though Steeljaw kept looking over at Strongarm as he wondered where they were going. But mostly he wondered about the conversation between her and the mech. When they get to a door, Strongarm stops and punches a code into the pad to open the door, he's supposing that she just wanted to go somewhere private so they could talk.

Once the door opens they walk into the room and Strongarm closes and locks the door while Steeljaw looks around the room. Strongarm turns to face him and he turns to face her with a smirk plastered on his face, "Is this your room?"

A tint of blue appeared on her cheeks, "Don't start! It's the only place I could think of where we could talk in private."

Steeljaw chuckled, "I don't mind at all."

Strongarm rolled her optics, "I'm guessing you have questions."

Steeljaw stops chuckling as his smirk vanishes, "Yes. About what that mech said before. Does that mean you were caught?"

"Yes."

"How? You're probably the most calculated criminal I've met. How could you have gotten caught?"

"All criminals slip up at some point. I was foolish in thinking I could step up my game and hit something big besides just museums and other bots' houses. So I decided to rob a credit depository."

Steeljaw's optics widen, "You really were foolish. I mean it was a good idea but not something you do alone. To be successful in that kind of robbery you need a team."

"I came to understand that later, I now get why you do things in a pack. But I thought I was good enough to pull it off, I even scouted it out and learned the routine of the guards and how the security systems operate, everything. But I didn't study enough, I didn't know there was an invisible security line right in front of the credits. So when I went in to steal them I walked straight into the line and set off the alarms. I was surrounded by guards before I could comprehend what was even happening. The officers arrived a bit later and I was arrested, and one of them just so happened to recognize me and knew who I was. So Ultra Magnus and my parents were contacted and told everything. Later when I was being interrogated by Magnus I went ahead and confessed all of my previous crimes, given my relation to him and Team Prime, he couldn't lock me up so instead he put me on probation and assigned a bot to watch over me when he or my parents were busy with other stuff."

"You told him everything?"

"Nothing about you if that's what you're worried about. I left you out."

"So, that mech you were with earlier is just a bot that's supposed to watch you and make sure you don't break probation."

"Yeah. Who -? Did you think I had something going on with him?"

Steeljaw looked away, "Maybe..."

A smirk formed on Strongarm's face as she realized, "You were jealous. That's why you were looking at him so menacingly when he interrupted us."

"He interrupted our conversation, I don't like being interrupted." He turned towards the patio and walked to it as he looked at the blue lights that surrounded it. "When I was looking up at you from down on the ground and I saw him come up beside you and talk to you my spark filled with jealousy and rage. I thought he was the mech you told me about that had captured your spark already."

Strongarm walks toward him like she's being drawn to him. Her feet move at their own will until she stops beside him, "You remember that?"

"Of course. Do you honestly think I would forget that the femme of my dreams, the femme that has captured my spark, tells me that she's in love with another mech? I've been nothing but sparkbroken and outraged since that night, ready to kill the mech that took your spark before I could." Steeljaw continues looking at the blue lights in front of him as he speaks. He doesn't want to look at Strongarm and let her see the hurt inside him and how vulnerable she has made him. Though he's sure she can already sense it in the way he's talking, "Please tell me who this mech is."

Strongarm looks at him in complete shock, she was not expecting this, especially not from this mech who is highly known for toying with femmes for his pleasure and never committing to taking any for his mate. Does this mean he was really sincere about his confession of love?

She closes her optics as she prepares herself for his reaction, "There is no mech."

Steeljaw growls as he turns toward her and slams his claws into the patio frame above her helm, "Don't toy with me!"

Strongarm flinches slightly at his outburst but when she opens her optics to look into his she doesn't see only rage, she sees hurt. She can see the pain and anger that's been building up since the night she told him... this lie. She didn't once think that her lie would pain him so much. "I told a lie that night, there is no other mech. The only mech that has captured my spark is you."

Steeljaw was taken aback by this, "Why did you lie then? Were you trying to hurt me?"

"No! I had no idea it would pain you this much. I was falling for you and I was scared because I know how you are with femmes and I didn't want to become one of them. I didn't want to be another one of your toys that you just played with and then dumped after you were done. When you made that confession I didn't believe you so I decided to lie and make it seem like I wasn't into you. I was hoping you would see that you wouldn't be able to have me and just leave me alone, just forget about me. It broke my spark to tell you such a lie and then leave you when I really wanted to confess back and take your offer to join you and your pack. But I thought your confession of love and all that talk about wanting me to be your mate was all talk and you didn't actually mean it. I wasn't going to take the risk of getting hurt by the first mech I ever fell in love with."

Steeljaw looks deeply into her optics as his rage begins to subside, he never thought about that. He knew that she knew of him and his reputation, especially his reputation with femmes, but it never occurred to him that she would be scared and hesitant to do anything with him because of it. But it's all making sense now, of course, she would lie instead of confessing her love in return if she believes he's gonna do the same thing to her that he's been doing with other femmes. He places his servo on the side of her helm and he lets a digit carefully caress her cheek plate as he gets even closer to her where there is barely any space between them.

Strongarm vents out an air cycle as her spark begins to pulse rapidly. Her temperature rises slightly as Steeljaw's face gets closer to hers. She watches him as he leans in to lick up the black fluid that she didn't know had escaped her optic before he places his forehelm against hers. "I wasn't lying or playing, I was serious about everything I said. I love you, Strongarm, and I want you to be my mate."

He moves his helm over where his cheek touches hers as he gets closer to her audio receptor, "You have no idea how much I want you..." He sniffs at her neck and gets so intoxicated by her scent that he can't think of anything else, "How I desire and long to make you mine."

His left servo comes down from its resting place on the frame above her helm to rest on her lower back as his right servo goes from the side of her helm to the back of her helm so he can pull her closer to his body as he starts licking and kissing her neck. Her servos fly up to his chest but end up sliding down to his abdomen and over to his sides. She wanted to push him back and stop this, but how could she after she confessed to him that she loved him?

This is so wrong and she knows it is, she's about to go back to the police academy to finish her training and become a cadet. That was the one thing Magnus made her promise to do in return for not locking her up, to finish her academy training and become an officer. She wants to tell Steeljaw this, tell him that it would be impossible to have anything happen since she'll be leaving soon to officially become a police officer while he'll remain a criminal. They're gonna be on two different sides which means she might one day have to lock up this mech that she has fallen so deeply in love with.

She wants to tell him, Primus knows she wants to tell him so badly, but she just can't get it out. Whenever she opens her mouth all that comes out is a moan. When Steeljaw's fangs sink into her neck to mark her, she just loses herself, she gets lost in the love and passion this mech is pouring out and she can't help but feel obliged to return it.