New Life, New Obstacles

Chapter 18

It's been 3 days and no sign of Strongarm or Steeljaw coming out of her room and no one has gone in there. Magnus was walking around the scrapyard when he walked up to the others, "Still no sign of Strongarm or Steeljaw?"

"No, it may take a few more days," Arcee replied as she walked over.

Magnus sighs, "I hope he doesn't do it too much, there's only so much a femme like Strongarm can handle."

"I'm sure she would let him know when it's enough," Arcee replied trying to comfort the commander.

"But will he listen?"

"If he can stop himself from striking her while under that snake femme's spell, he will listen to her when she tells him when enough is enough. He loves her and would never harm her."

"You're right. I know I need to trust Steeljaw more."

"You have a reason to be weary, but you also need to try to let go of what happened in the past," she replied as she remembered her own fears of a certain femme. "It's going to be hard but you can get through this."

"I know, and I know I need to get along with him and trust him for Strongarm's sake, and since he is my son-in-law now."

"When he comes out next time try to get him to go on a patrol with you, in case Strongarm may need a little break. I'll keep watch over her."

"Good idea."

Just then they see Steeljaw coming towards them, he was heading to the Energon stack to get some Energon for Strongarm and himself.

"Hey, Steeljaw," Arcee greeted, "We were starting to wonder if you were ever going to come out," she teased.

Steeljaw chuckled, "Well, Strongarm and I have been busy, but we're both low on Energon now so I came out to get some."

Arcee gently elbowed the commander causing him to speak up, "Um, I would like for you to go on patrol with me, Steeljaw. So we can talk."

"Uh sure, just let me give Strongarm the Energon," he replies while heading off back to Strongarm's quarters.

Strongarm was already asleep when he walked in. Steeljaw walks over to her and covers her up before motioning for Magnus to come in, "Strongarm, wake up," he says caressing her face.

"Just give me five minutes, Steeljaw," she mumbled tiredly.

He chuckles, "Your sire is here to see you."

Strongarm went to cover herself only to realize that she already was. "Hey," she greeted sheepishly as she slowly sat up, holding the sheet over her.

"Hey. How are you feeling?"

"Better," she replied wishing that she had her armor on, "Is everything alright?"

"Yes, I just wanted to see how you were doing and I want Steeljaw to go on patrol with me so we can talk."

Steeljaw hands her the Energon, "Drink up and go back to sleep, I'll be back in a bit."

Taking the Energon she casts a weary glance at her father. Please don't say anything to get him agitated. She begged him.

Don't worry I won't.

Good, stay safe.

We will.

"I love you," she told both of them before lying back down to get some sleep.

They both smiled, "Love you too."

Steeljaw followed after Ultra Magnus as they left the scrapyard, noticing Arcee heading towards their quarters.

"Steeljaw, for starters I want to apologize for all my actions towards you, for not trusting you."

Steeljaw stayed quiet for a moment, trying to get his thoughts together. "I know about what happened to her mom, so I understand why you're so worried, you don't want to lose her as well."

"Strongarm told you?"

"A little bit, but I mostly got it from her thoughts."

"Yes, the sparkbond, you can see everything she's thinking about."

"We know everything there is to know about each other, and I kind of know all I need to know about you."

"Like what?"

"You're the leader of the Wreckers, you left them to take care of Strongarm. You wanted to keep her safe from the D.J.D, whom you've battled against on several occasions, and that it was them that took your mate away."

"You've been studying."

"If I may ask, how did you become the leader of the Wreckers? Other than someone to keep an eye on them, what made you qualified?"

"My rough leadership skills and being able to handle them."

"You must have had a good teacher."

"The best I know."

They drive on to continue the patrol.

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Arcee walks into Strongarm's quarters and wakes up Strongarm. The femme opened her optics to look at the other femme, "What are you doing here?"

"Just came to check up on you," she replied, "How are you feeling?"

"Pretty good."

"Steeljaw's been keeping you up late?"

"Sort of, but don't worry he still makes sure I get plenty of rest."

"Good," she said with a smile, "And plenty of Energon I hope."

"Yes," she replies with a smile.

"So, what's having sex with a Wolf-Con in heat like?" Strongarm spits out the Energon she was drinking and coughs, "Sorry, I was just wondering," Arcee laughed, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah. Not sure how to answer that."

"Sorry, it was out of the blue. You don't have to answer if you don't want to."

"Well, there's really not much to tell."

"I guess it's not that much different from normal sex, you just have more of it. I bet his tail comes in handy," she responded with a smirk.

She giggled, "Yes it does actually, he used it to pleasure me a couple of times."

"I bet it's a nice little change, and different. I think everyone's wondered what it's like to have a tail. It would be a nice way to pleasure yourself if your mate is away," she sighed. Wheeljack was also on a patrol with Bulkhead and Thunderhoof.

"It is." Arcee looked up to see Metalsound leaning on the door frame, "Now we can have some girl talk now that Steeljaw's away for a while," the dark femme added as she walked into the room, closing the door behind her.

"Hey, Metalsound. How are you doing?" Arcee asked.

"I'm awesome," she replied as she sat next to Strongarm.

"That's good. I'm glad to see you're also making a fast recovery."

"How have you been, Strongarm?" Metalsound asks.

"Pretty good, a lot better actually."

"Considering we haven't seen you in the past few days. Have you tried walking around any?"

"No, when we weren't having sex we were sleeping so no chance really to get up and try to move around."

"We can try now. Should that be okay, Arcee?"

"I don't see why not," Arcee replies with a smile. Metalsound offered her servo to help Strongarm out of the berth.

"Let me get my armor back on first."

"Right."

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We kind of figured that one would be able to communicate with their parents through the parental bond. Thought that they would have a special bond of their own.