The Incident (TFP Book 1)

Chapter 10

Rachet was still working on his project when June walked in. Optimus was still getting things sorted out with Agent Fowler, they had moved on to trying to locate the Desipticons, so they could figure out why they had done this.

June walked over to Rachet and watched him work for a moment, she admired how careful he was with each tool, and how he was so gentle with his work.

"What are you building?" She asked quietly.

Big mistake, at the sound of her voice he jumped, dropped several tools on the floor, and he knocked over his project. He caught it just before it hit the ground, and carefully set it on the table again.

"Mrs Darby, please don't scare me like that." Rachet said trying not to sound irritated.

He crouched down and started picking up the tools, June knelt down and helped. They reached for the same tool, and his hand landed on top of hers, they looked up at each other and locked eyes. They stared at each other for a moment, before Mrs Darby blushed and pulled away. Rachet looked at the floor, and remembered what Fowler had said about blushing.

They both stood up and put the tools on the table, then stared at nothing in particular, unsure what to say.

"Mrs Darby, are you ashamed of me?" Rachet said without moving. He wasn't even sure why he cared, but he did. June turned to him with shock on her face.

"What makes you say that?" She asked glaring at him slightly. Rachet picked up a tool and started working again.

"You blushed when our hands touched. Humans blush when they are ashamed." Rachet said. 'Honestly,' he thought 'Didn't she know her own species?' June felt the color rise in her cheeks again, but then it slowly faded as she read the concern on his face.

"We don't just blush when we're ashamed." She said, he continued working on his project. She wondered if she should say what was on her mind.

Suddenly she heard the roar of an engine, when she looked towards the entrance, she saw a black and yellow car. She walked over to the rail and watched as the car screeched to a halt. The driver jumped out, when he saw her, he waved frantically before opening the back door. He carefully helped another man out and supported him as they walked to the berth.

"Bumblebee, what happened?" Rachet said making June jump, he was standing behind her, his left shoulder touching her right. She felt herself blushing again, but the spell was broken when he took off running down the stairs. Rachet helped Bumblebee get Smokescreen onto the bed, and then tore open his shirt.

"By the All Spark." Rachet felt himself freeze for the first time in a while, he wasn't sure what to do. There was blood everywhere. He realized just how different humans and Cybertronians were.

Bumblebee looked at June and motioned her to come quickly. She ran down the stairs and took in the situation. June quickly told Bumblebee to get the medical supplies, and hooked up an IV to Smokescreen. She turned to Rachet who seemed slightly lost, and she set both her hands on either side of his face.

"Rachet I need you to focus, and perform surgery on him. I can help anyway you need me to, but you have to keep your head on straight." June said keeping their eyes locked.

Rachet nodded and grabbed some tools from Bumblebee, while June put some anesthesia into their patient so he wouldn't wake during surgery. Rachet cleaned the wound the best he could and prepared to extract the bullet. As he brought the tools closer to the wound, his hands started shaking badly, and he closed his eyes for a moment. He felt a hand on his, and the shaking stopped. He opened his eyes to see June's hand on his and he felt something. He turned and their eyes locked for a second, then he started performing the surgery.

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