Til Death Do Us Part

One of the Guys

We made it back to NEST and Optimus allowed me to climb out of his cab, once I did he transformed and looked down giving me a small smile. "I guess I'm going to go walk around the place? I'm afraid to walk away from one of you guys fearing Galloway may just kick me out." Optimus frowned when I saw this and gave me a look.

"He won't be able to do that for he knows that if he does remove you from the base that we will come looking for you and report him to his superiors." Optimus spoke and continued to look down at me.

"But isn't he the person in charge of NEST?" I asked worriedly.

I didn't know what happened after that because all I saw was a flash and then I was sitting in Optimus's hand and being picked up to his level. He continued to look at me and finally spoke, "I would find you no matter what. I would cross the oceans of time to find you."

I felt my heart swell three times its size that day and no I'm not a Grinch about love its just...I never had someone tell me that before and it was too precious. I smiled up at him and quickly hugged one of his fingers that were closest to me. He didn't move his fingers, but I felt sudden warmth spread across my body. I looked up and saw that Optimus had brought me close to his chest.

"Well it looks like Prime has a soft spot." My heart dropped and a sudden panic was left of the emotion that I was feeling earlier. I slowly peered over Optimus's hand to see Epps standing there with Lennox. I gulped and suddenly felt Optimus's hand move beneath me to hold me in his fingers coiled around my body keeping me close to him. The two were looking up at us and I guess Optimus was giving them a look because their eyes grew big and they both exclaimed, "Oh no we would never rat out on you Optimus, we like ya we want you to stay."

I looked up at him to see him nod before he gently lowered me down to the ground. Epps couldn't help but smile and said, "I can't believe it though. I didn't expect a relationship to happen between a human and an Autobot, guess I was terribly wrong."

I beamed seeing my secret was out to two of the NEST men just hoped that they did keep it down. At least it wasn't Galloway. I shuddered at the thought. "You cold?" Lennox asked.

"No just thinking if Galloway found out." I replied with a sad smile.

The two looked at each other and spoke, "He will not know, ever. Your guys' secret are safe with us." I smiled I could tell I could trust them and that a great friendship was going to come out of this.

"Hey Jess." Optimus spoke I turned around and looked up at him.

"Hey Optimus." I simply replied giving him a smile.

I heard him chuckle which seemed to shock the two military men. "I have a meeting with your president over broadcast in a few minutes, you can walk with Lennox and Epps or I can call Ironhide to come and get you."

I looked at Lennox and Epps and then back to Optimus, "I think I'll hang with these two guys, maybe I could learn something from them."

Optimus nodded and went to go to the hanger where he would speak to the president. I watched him as he turned a corner and focused my attention on the two men in front of me and clapped my hands together. "So, what are we going to do now?" I asked.

"Well Epps and I were going to go train if you don't mind watching." Lennox spoke.

"Train? Ironhide and Optimus were training me a little bit before I came here. If I'm coming with you I'm going to train with you as well." I spoke smiling.

"Jessica Witwicky, I do not think that's a good idea." Lennox spoke, "We have been trained to...well you get the picture."

I gave them an evil eye and crossed my arms, then an Autobot; I didn't know who at the time made perfect timing. I looked behind me to find Ironhide there and gave them a smug look. "Hey Ironhide."