Yo my peeps!
I have been full of ideas for this story lately for some reason, so I'll be updating this more often hopefully!
Hopefully you guys are still there, seeing as I kinda abandonned this for a while. Anyways, as usual, happy reading little ones!
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Your optics come online slowly. Taking in the bright gleam of the sun above you as you raise one servo to block the blinding light.

A familiar red catches your attention as you turn your helm to look aroung the familiar surroundings, to find Sideswipe leaning boredly against the wall beside your helm, his arms crossed as he watches the humans messing with Fixit a couple feet away.

"Sideswipe?" Your voice is weak, and you mentally curse yourself as you realise how pathetic you sound.

"Hey you." He breaks into a grin as he pushes off of the wall.

"Bee! She's up!" His call echoes slightly throughout the junkyard, and he kneels next to you on the sheet of metal as you pull yourself to a sitting position.

"How you feeling? Ready to be taking out cons again?" His touch is gentle as he helps you to your pedes, and a pattering of tiny feet makes you look down.

"Miss Dallas, Denny, Russel. Are you all ok?"

"Yeah. We're good!" Russel enthusiasticaly spins around to show he isn't hurt, and the memories of what had happened in the cave come rushing back at once. The offline of the con', the fight with Steeljaw...

At the thought of the wolfcon, your mid section burns, and you look down, expecting to see ragged scars, but instead, only four thin lines show.

"Yeah, Fixit let me use the buffer to clean up the marks left over. Hope you don't mind..." Sideswipe's awkwardness sends a burst of warmth to your spark, and you manage to flash him a smile.

"Thank Red."

A slight blue makes it's way the mech's faceplates as you thank him, and he shuffles on his pedes.

"No problem. Uh, Strongarm's waiting for me! We have to patrol so see you later!"

He stumbles off, nearly tripping over his own pedes as he transforms and follows the waiting cadet out of the junkyard.

"It's good that you're awake now Y/n. It was pretty boring without you here. As much as we all hate to admit that." The team leader finally appears, and shoos away the humans as he checks you over.

The former Prime is there now too, and he offers a smile as Bumblebee ensures that you're ok.

"How are you feeling Y/n? Are you well enough to talk about what  happened?" Drift's smooth voice practically purrs as he approaches, and his two minicons excitedly run to hug you.

"I'll talk when everyone is here to listen. For now let me just think." You gratefully accept the distraction of the minicons, as the gazes on you turn questioning, and you sigh in relief as Fixit comes over in a hurry.

"All of you shoo! I need to run some final scans, and she needs more rest!" 

The orange minicon manages to force the other bots away, and you inwardly sigh as he rolls up to you with a scanner.

"Look, Fixit I-"

"-Thank you." The Autobot interupts you with a wave of his servo as he runs the scanner up and down on your mid chassy, checking to ensure of no internal damage

"Wait what?" Confusion rockets through your processor as you try to think of reasons why he would be thanking you, but you find none.

"For not allowing those brutes to get at the others and pie. My. I!"

You look away in embarrassment as he thanks you, and blue tinges your cheeks as you try to cover your embarrassment.

"Don't mention it.. Just doing my job."
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"So wait wait wait. You? Were a... An assassin?" Sideswipe's awed voice makes you snicker as he looks at you like you're some sort of hero, but the faces of Strongarm and Optimus are unnervingly solemn.

"I kinda figured that it was something like that. Based off of the con that came after you, the style you offlined that mech and the fact that you were on the alchemor. Of course your fighting skills were another giveaway. But the name Coil is really familiar. I used to know a Coil." Bumblebee seems the least surprised, but it's Grimlock who you love the most at the moment.

His optics are shining, seemingly with tears as he picks you off of the ground to engulf you in a crushing hug.

"Grim! Please! Fixit just finished fixing me!"

"You're not alone anymore Y/n!" The large dinobot rests his chin on the top of your head as he fiercly glares at the two disapproving bots, and Strongarms raises her arms in acceptance.

"Alright alright. But you do know that she'll probably have to be imprisoned for a couple vorns when we get back to cybertron right? No matter what good she does here, all of those bots that she offlined add up to a lot of prison cycles."

The dinobot switches his protective gaze to Optimus, but Drift speaks first.

"You were trained by Ironguard yes?"

Your helm snaps over to him, and confusion hits you again.

"I never mentioned his name. How do you know him?"

Drift smiles softly, his gaze far off. "Before his battle with Megatron on that battlefield, he had ordered you to take my mother away."

The pieces fall into place. And your world feels like it's shattering.

"Phase's missing son..." Tears well up in your optics as you look at the son of your best friend through a new light, and you lunge out of Grimlock's grip to bring the samurai into a warm embrace.

A couple awes rise from the others. Mostly Grimlock and Bumblebee, but you could almost swear that you heard a growl from around where Sideswipe and Optimus are sitting.

Sideswipe POV

Hugging Grimlock was fine. I know it's impossible to escape his hugs. But when Y/n launched herself into the arms of Drift, something in my spark lurched. As though it wanted to burst out and grab her.

Confusion and annoyance makes him release a low sound from his dermal, and from beside him, Optimus looks at him worridly.

But why do I care? It's cool that she's an assassin, and it's awesome that she found the son of her friend. So why am I feeling this way?

Back to you-
Finally releasing the fellow autobot, you flash a jittery, yet happy smile to the rest of the team before moving back to your spot.

"Could you perhaps tell me about her some day?" His soft inquiry makes your gaze shoot back to him, and you quickly nod.

"Of course!"