Bruises

New Friend

Ironhide's pov

I transformed after I saw the femme go inside the building that she was in before I got here and looked at my wound. I lifted my servo up to my optics and saw energon cover it.

Grunting, I put my servo back down by my side only to lift it back up at the sound of running. I turned it into a cannon and watched as the femme from earlier gasped at me in shock.

'What? You've never seen an autobot before?' I thought sourly as she started to smile. Her smile faded as she started to look at my wound and her optics started... leaking?

'Humans are weird. I'll give them that.' I thought, lowering my cannons but still keeping them activated. After all it was humans that wounded me in the first place.

???'s pov

I looked at the wound from earlier and felt bad seeing someone else hurt. I started to silently cry as I remembered all the times that I was abused and blamed for other people's pain.

After a few seconds, I remembered what I came out here to do and wiped away my tears as I picked up the tools I dropped. I looked back up at the autobot and saw that he dropped his cannons but still had them activated.

"You're hurt. Can I help you?" I asked taking a step forward and tilting my head. He looked at me suspiciously and then grunted turning his cannons off completely, lowering his hand down to me. I jumped on and tried to keep my balance as he lifted me up to the wound.

I did a quick inspection, trying to see what needed to be done when I remembered that the autobots a have a medic.

"Why didn't you go to your medic?" I questioned turning away from the wound.

"I would but I've lost to much energon thanks to your kind." He said glaring at me again.

"Wait? Humans did this?!" I asked panicking. Last time I checked the autobot were the good guys.

"I just said that kid." He growled. I flinched and quickly turned my attention back to the wound. I did a more thorough examination of it before deciding that I can't do much except stop the... bleeding if that's what you want to call it.

I turned away and motioned for him to put me down so I could get a large piece of metal to seal up the wound. When I came back out, I saw him looking through the tools I left with him. I started walking towards him with the metal piece in hand but kept struggling every now and then.

"I could use your help." I retorted, looking up into his eyes that were filled with amusement. He gently picked me and the scrap up and put his hand back where it was before. "Thanks." I muttered just loud enough for him to hear and got to work.

After about another hour, I was finishing up welding the piece of metal on when someone decided to call me. I quickly glanced at the caller ID and groaned seeing my father's name. I picked the phone up and put it on speaker as I was cleaning up but instantly regretted it.

"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU'VE BEEN YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT?!" He screamed from the other end of the line. I looked at that autobot quickly and tried to come up with a lie.

"I was taking a walk." I stated trying to keep calm.

"WHERE ARE YOU?" He asked as I heard things break, probably from him.

"I'm heading home now." I motioned for the autobot to put me down again as I hung up but he didn't. I turned around and saw him staring at me confused. "What?"

"You didn't tell him about me. Why?" He asked, closing his eyes halfway.

"Because my father would just call the government and my guess is that you're trying to hide from them. Am I correct?" I tilted my head to the side as he nodded. "Thought so." I said smiling. "Anyways, I should get home. I don't want to make Harry even more angry." I looked down at my feet as he grunted.

He slowly put me in the ground and I started running but stopped after a few feet.

"My name's Evelyn." I said turning around and smiling at him.

"Ironhide." He grunted and transformed into his truck mode again as I ran home.

'Well, I made a new friend' I thought, forgetting all about what was waiting for me at home.