Til Death Do Us Part

NEST

The next morning came and when it did I was definitely not prepared for the awakening I was going to get. "Jess," a male's voice spoke. It was like a dream, but I could sense it wasn't. "Jess, it's time to get up." I slowly opened my eyes and saw a blurry face in front of mine. I let out a blood curdling scream and pushed whoever was in front of me away and went to get out of bed only to succeed in falling out of it.

"Not how I planned the morning out." I moaned. I heard someone run over to me and saw Ironhide.

"Are you okay?" he asked as he gave me a hand and helped me up to my feet.

"I'll survive, just let me change and I'll be ready to hit the road." I mumbled and went to go to my suitcase but found it missing.

I turned around to look at Ironhide, "It's already in my cab. You can sleep on the way to NEST it's going to be a long drive. Optimus, Sideswipe and I made sure all your belongings were packed so you have nothing to worry about. You can go downstairs and say goodbye to everyone." Ironhide spoke.

I looked at him and nodded still half asleep and started to walk out of the room, but didn't make it far before hitting a wall. "Ouch...when did they put that there?" I asked groggily.

I heard Ironhide grumble and picked me up over his shoulder. "Ironhide, I can easily walk myself."

"Of course, that's why you keep walking into walls." He replied.

"It's early and I'm tired, I'm sorry." I grumbled. Ironhide just chuckled and continued to go downstairs. Once he walked down the last stair he gently sat me down on my feet. I looked up at him and looked around the room to see everyone up and ready to say their goodbyes. I felt my heart fall and wanted to cry. I quickly ran to Uncle Ron first and gave him a very large hug. At first he didn't do anything but stand there with his arms up, but felt him slowly wrap his arms around me. "I'll miss you Uncle Ron."

I pulled away and saw he was blinking rapidly, "You haven't seen the last of us kid. There's still holidays and the next summer."

"That's true." I replied and gave him another quick hug. I then looked at Aunt Judy who was already crying and before I could give her a hug I was already being squeezed to death.

"W-We're going to m-miss you s-s-s-so very m-m-much!" she sobbed. I wrapped my arms around her the best I could since being squeezed wasn't helping me at all.

"Judy, you're killing her, let go." Uncle Ron spoke and started to pry her arms off of me. Once he got some space between her arms and my body I took in a deep breath and watched as Uncle Ron pulled her aside and hugged her tightly so that she wouldn't try to get away. I shook my head and looked at Sam and Mikaela.

"We'll, knowing Sam he'll be seeing you soon. He's always in tons of trouble since the Autobots came down." Mikaela stated.

"Hey, I am not." Sam defended himself. I laughed at this and gave them both a large hug. As I did I heard Ironhide walk over. I looked up to see him right next to us looking down.

"We can't help that the Decepticons want Sam all the time." Ironhide growled then looked at me, "I'm sorry to break up the little goodbye ceremony but we need to start heading out."

"Okay, we'll...I'll see you guys later." I spoke and started to walk off with Ironhide.

"R-R-R-R-Ron! Do something!" I heard Aunt Judy cry out.

"Good luck Jess!" He called out. I couldn't help but laugh, and then heard him yell out in pain and Aunt Judy yelling at him.

We exited the house to see everyone transformed and ready to go. "Who am I riding with first?" I asked.