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“So you, uh, forgot your things,” the brown-haired young man chuckled, lifting up the box held in his hands. Catherine, her arms folded across her chest, grinned and pushed off the railing of the house’s porch to saunter over and relieve her friend of the cardboard box. Behind them, Bumblebee’s gears whirred and clicked as he shifted and changed into his bipedal form. His wings flexed along with his limbs, and he chirped happily.
“So I noticed,” she chuckled, and then looked beyond him at the yellow Autobot. “Sideswipe and Jazz are out in the fields if you want to go see them.”
“Roger that,” he replied, giving her a salute.
“Now, now ‘Bee. You have to talk normally with me, alright? You promised!” she replied, pouting, and the Autobot’s optics brightened with a smile.
“I suppose I did. My apologies, Catherine,” he stated, laughter lingering in his tone. “You and Sam enjoy yourselves in the meantime.”
Both young man and woman nodded and watched the Cybertronian trot off, and then Sam looked at the redhead with an expression that made her raise a brow in return.
“What?” she asked and he put his hands on his hips.
“Why you got to mess with me and “bee’s mojo, Cat?”
She laughed, “C’mon in, Sam. The parents are out and they took Annie with them, so we’ve got the house to ourselves for a few hours.”
“Don’t mind if I do,” he chimed, moving into place next to her as they ascended the porch steps. “I take it the ‘parents’ couldn’t stand being away from their little girl after last night?”
“Oh, well, actually, they decided to have their date tonight, instead,” the redhead laughed, and continued on when Sam gave a loud, emphatic “what”. She imagined his face was one of quite a lot of shock and possibly disappointment, but she didn’t look back as she led him through the door and down to the kitchen.
"Yeah. They ended up figuring last night was too soon, so they pushed it to today,” she finally stated once she’d set the box onto the counter and sat in one of the bar chairs. “We just have to put Annie to bed and then tend to her if she wakes up. No big deal.”
“Tsk… Oh, alright,” he sighed after a moment, throwing his head back in exaggeration. “It can’t be as bad as taking care of Mojo… And it sounds like someone is getting all cozy with the family, giving them nicknames.”
She grinned at his teasing as she nodded, “Well, I am part of the family now, so it’s only natural Annabelle’s big sister figure gives her a cute nickname. We’ll have code names soon enough when we want to pull one over Lennox.”
“Oh, geez! Poor guy! You’re going to ruin him!” Sam laughed, the redhead smirking mischievously all the way. “My Mom’s going to get jealous, y’know, hearing you’ve got yourself a new set of parents. They were pretty keen on adopting you after I told them what happened.”
“Well, you can tell her I appreciate the offer and would jump on it right away if Sarah hadn’t claimed me a year ago and if I wasn’t dead according to my official file,” she chuckled back, and Sam folded his arms thoughtfully.
“Yeah, I guess that does provide a problem. I can’t rightfully have a zombie-sister. I think there are some legal issues. Maybe. I think? I dunno—are there laws against having zombies in a family?”
“Somewhere, probably. I mean, they have ‘no-sex-with-a-moose’ law somewhere in the U.S. I think. Maybe Canada. Regardless, it’s there, so there’s bound to be a zombie one.”
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These Paths We Tread (Autobot x OC)
FanfictionCatherine Wolf has been friends with Sam Witwicky for as long as she can remember, and been in love with him for the past two years. Unfortunately, Sam has been in love with Mikeala Banes for even longer. To make matters worse, an alien race of tran...
