Hidden Spark on Earth (TFP)

Chapter 7

Saphira didn't even know she had fallen asleep when she had sobbed in the bathroom. She was just too upset to want to leave the bathroom and she had remained there the whole, and she had not realized it. However, she had needed the sleep, even though she was currently not having a good dream.

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"Laura! Please stop!" Saphira pleaded, cowering before her stepmother and stepsister against a wall of the house. "I won't do it again! I promise!"

Laura grabbed her hair, yanking harshly and forcing her to look at the woman, her icy blue eyes glaring back at her. "I know you won't, that's why I am making sure you don't do it again. Ain't that right, Samantha?"

Her stepsister snickered coldly. "That's right! We rule this house, so you do what we tell you." Saphira yelped as she felt a stomp on her right calf muscle, the foot pressed down hard. "Will you forget doing the laundry again?"

Saphira shook her head. "N-N-No I won't. I-I just finished vacuuming..."

She yelped again as she is backhanded by her stepmother. "We don't want to hear excuses! You're good enough only to clean and cook, it's not even worth sending you to school. We only do it so we don't get in trouble!"

"I-I know..."

"Good girl." Laura threw Saphira down onto the floor. "Now get up! The laundry isn't going to clean itself! We expect it to be dry before sundown. Do you hear me?"

"Yes ma'am..." Saphira whimpered out, Samantha was still pressing down on her leg. "I will do it now."

She felt a sense of relief when the foot lifted from her leg and Saphira was able to limp away. "What a stupid girl...daddy should have put her up for adoption years ago."

The two laugh coldly as Saphira limped away. She looked up as the walls around her seem to grow, and the windows grew bars of steel along them. She felt panic rising and she limped to the laundry, only to find Xavier in the room.

"There she is!" Xavier spat poisonously. "I can't believe you didn't tell me about Samantha. When she came to me and told me the truth about you, I realized I was wasting my time on you."

"Xavier...I'm sorry..."

She yelped as she shoved into the wall behind her, crying out as a metal pipe dug into her back upon impact. "You should be sorry! Sorry for being alive! Your green eyes and boobs are the only good things about you. Everything else is ugly! You should do everyone a favor and die like a good little girl."

Saphira stood up slowly, looking at him as she trembled. "I...I won't..."

"What did you say?" Xavier chuckled loudly at her. "Not even your new friends want you."

Saphira turned her head, the wall behind her had gone and it was replaced with a darker lit lobby of the autobot base. There stood the autobots, they were all grinning deviously at each other and Ratchet glared at her.

"Look, she is so clumsy!" Ratchet mocked in a colder voice than she had heard from him. "I bet those bruises were just for attention. She did it to herself and made herself look the victim."

Arcee sneered venomously at her. "Playing bodyguard is one thing, babysitting is another. Especially for someone like you!"

"You should not be here. The decepticons will welcome you with their open arms." She stared at Optimus, watching his eyes suddenly turn red. "Or...you have simply been sheltering with them this whole time, allow me to ease your pain..."