Maybe Meant To Be

~Chapter 16~

As much as I've enjoyed Optimus being here, or Orion- the designation he's been going by-, I know he doesn't belong here. Not only that, he's too sweet to be here. The vehicon drones and whatnot all were silent, cold, and mostly emotionless; Optimus gave some of the sweetest smiles though when we were alone and hanging out.

Speaking of hanging out, when Orion takes his breaks, we now take them together. We go to the energon storage and eat our sweets together. I've found out different things about Orion but... He seems so different from his other side, Optimus.

I mean, I love them both but... Wait, love? Since when did I love him? I mean, as a friend maybe. Nothing else.

"Y/D? Are you alright? You've been quiet for a little while now. ... Energon for your thoughts?" Orion held out an energon sweet to me, making me finally notice I had already finished my other one.

"Oh, yeah. Thanks OP." I said, letting my old nickname for him slip out without thinking. Scrap. That's his 'Optimus' nickname-

"I see my nickname is one that consists of my designation's initials." He chuckled. I mean, it's true, but that's not- well, whatever. It's not like I was about to explain. Not just yet anyways.

"Ah, I'd better head off to my office soon. I've got some more work I need to interpret..."
"Yeah of course... I'll see you later then?"
Orion nodded, and then as he left, he gently grabbed my servo and placed a gentle kiss on it.

"See you later sweetspark~" he said and left, leaving my faceplates blue. Why does he act so different now? I still have some pieces missing from this puzzle. I need to figure it out soon and get things back to normal. But at the same time, do I really want things back the way they were?

I sighed and finished my treat before leaving the storage room and heading to my own berthroom. As I was on the way to my berthroom though, I heard my brother and his femme-like SIC talking together.

"My lord, have you talked to Y/D at all? She's been snooping around for awhile now about the Autobots. I'm afraid one of the vehicons will slip up and tell her about the war and-"
"The only one most likely to slip up is you, Starscream." Megatron said and started leaving the room, heading in my direction.

I quickly moved away from the doors and pretended like I just was walking down the hall and didn't hear what I did. What war was Starscream talking about? And Megs was def right. Screamy boy really DID mess up! Now I know for sure they're hiding something from me!

The word 'war' also really interested me. Not the part of war that probably had several bots offlined maybe, but just... War in general. I'd never heard about a war... Just that we had to leave Cybertron because of... Some toxic energon type spill or something that would take a while to clean up. It also destroyed half of our planet, making Cybertron dangerous to live on.

Maybe I could get into the ship's computers and do some research for myself. Who knows, maybe I can join Orion in his computer work. Maybe we can find something to help me in my own research.

I decided to ignore my brother's pedsteps slowly approaching me from behind and ran away, heading to nowhere in particular.

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I know for sure I've avoided Megatron for now, but I really need to find-
"There it is!" I slowly entered the room, finding Orion alone and at the computer.

Once I approached him, he slightly turned his helm looking at me.  I saw a small smile poke at his dermas as he looked back at the huge screen. His digits continued at a nice pace, and I sorta watched him in silence for a bit.

"Missed me already, Sweetspark?" He asked with a hint of teasing and amusement in his voice.
"Har har, Orion." I rolled my optics at him and looked up at the screen. "I decided I'd come and join you here, instead of you having to come to me. Besides, you seem lonely." I chuckled.

A small hum was his only reply as he continued his work.
"I'm glad you've decided to visit me. I was missing your lovely faceplate." He said, teasing once again.

"Goodness, such a flirt, aren't you?" I looked at him, and he just gave me an innocent smile. "But then again, I don't fully mind I guess." I slightly shrugged and smiled, observing all of the paragraphs and stuff on the screen.

Not only am I getting information I might need later on, I also get to hang out with one of my favorite mechs.