Survival of the Loneliest

Sexual Healing (Major smut warning)

Big Red was quiet, which as many of the Teckfolk know is unlike him. He was perched up on a gantry in core form near his Titan frame just thinking about some things. The other two Titan's were also in core form but were down on the ground of the hangar letting the eighteen engineering youngsters have some fun throwing them against a bare wall, out of the way of the engineering crew currently working that morning.

He was thinking about something he'd seen in Vex's mind from a couple of weeks or so ago. He wanted to help take the pain from at least one of the memories in there but with the fact Vex was still healing, he couldn't quite do what he was planning to...yet. But he could however help by talking with Vex, cuddling, being a clown, whatever they needed him to do. He also remembered his promise to let Vex have a look at his mainframe inside his Titan frame and that gave him an idea. Going into his core chamber he made sure he still had the pillows and blankets to make a nest in there, like they used to in the early days when they all had one on one time rather than the bonding they did now. He'd quite like some time one on one to be fair so maybe getting Vex in here would be good for him too he thought to himself.

After lunch, he reminded you about his promise for you to look into his mainframe and why don't you do it now while it was quiet and he wasn't active in it? So, you took him up on the suggestion, put a jet pack on carefully and zoomed up to his core entrance with him in your arms. As you put Red down so you can climb down the hatch and travel further into his frame to his central chamber, Red stays behind briefly to close the hatch then flicks the inside lock so the two of you wouldn't be disturbed.

"You know Red, I wasn't going to push to look at this for a while yet. But I'm happy you remembered, thank you." Hauling out the laptop and connecting it to the mainframe that was facing his core platform, You started downloading the information you needed. At some point, quite recently, one of the engineers that knew human tech quite well made some additions to the laptop, giving it a lot more space on its hard drives as well as making it quicker and more responsive to server enquiries. They had also at that time copied all of Vex's data so it could be backed up on their mainframe too, stuff like the movies and the music library.

You've just got to wait for the transfer now right? You can't sift through it while it's copying over?

"Yup, that's right and there's a lot stored here from the looks of it. Going to take a while, at least a couple of hours to copy over, even with the upgrades my laptop has now."

Red starts hauling out the pillows and blankets that were stashed, you noticed this and laughed but also started taking your boots off. "Vex cuddle time?"

Vex cuddle time!

After about half an hour of cuddles and little kisses, Red pulls back to just look at you.

"What's up Red? You look like you have something serious on your mind."

I want to say something but I don't know if I should. I don't want to spoil the mood.

"Can't be that bad. Just talk, I'll listen."

It is that bad but ok. Remember when you first met me in here?

"When you were rampaging after the parasite was dead yeah, I remember. You still having nightmares about that?"

Sometimes, but that's not what I was going to say.

"Not sure where you're going with this Red."

Look, I had a meltdown over that damn skib taking me over. I went on a rampage and it took a week and you to get me to calm down. Even when I got back to base I still had a panic attack in Titan form because you weren't there to help me. Then you were and you just accepted me despite everything, even getting really hurt because of me. You helped me through every panic attack since too. I know I haven't had one in a while but that's all because of you and the rest of the Collar Group. But... and I really don't want to be saying this and hurting you more, but you haven't processed all the shit to do with Henry yet. You haven't had a meltdown, or cried, or much of anything really. Yeah you've been really hurt physically but you keep ignoring all those mental triggers as your mind is hurting too. The asshole fucked with your head badly and I don't know how you're not a complete sobbing mess all the time.