Ironhide had been acting...suspiciously, for the last few days. I'd barely seen him at all, and it was beginning to worry me. Had I done something wrong? And if his recent weirdness weren't stressful enough, it was finals week. I'd been studying for my classes for the last few months, and even still I wasn't sure if I was capable of passing. And this was it. If I didn't pass these, I would have to repeat the whole year in some classes, and I didn't think I could manage again. It was hard enough the first time.
I needed some serious time to unwind, and I knew that it was going to be difficult to do so. My muscles and my mind alike were coiled like a spring. My last final was in only a few hours, and I was so, so sick of studying. I decided that if I wouldn't pass after so much work, it wasn't meant to happen. So I slipped my headphones over my ears, and turned the volume up. Music blared, but I couldn't care less. I began to sing lowly to myself. I wasn't worried about waking any of the Lennox's-they were all upstairs in their rooms, and I wasn't singing loudly.
I saw a figure in my window, and froze, scared lifeless for a moment, before I realized it was Ironhide. I sighed, my heart hammering, and slipped the headphones off of my ears, slowly standing and meandering to the window. I unlocked it slowly and slid it open.
"What's up, 'Hide?" I asked, tiredly. I hadn't been so tired until I'd thought about him again, and gotten stressed and angry all over again when I'd just begun to relax. Whatever his problem was, if he wanted-and was allowed-to tell me, he would. No matter how much I just wanted to know where in the Hell he'd been for the last few days. He smiled softly, and some of the stress melted away.
"Still studying for exams?" he asked quietly.
"No, I decided I was done a few minutes ago," I replied. Music was still blaring from my headphones. He chuckled.
"May I come in?" he asked. I returned to my bed in reply, leaving my window open for him to enter. I fell back on to my bed, wincing as I plopped onto text books. I flung them unceremoniously to the ground.
Ironhide, meanwhile, was clambering through my window like a teenager, and I laughed a little. I'd never had this in high school. Now that I was going to Community College, however, it was common for the giant-ancient-alien-robot-posing-as-a-33-year-old-man to climb through my window late at night. Well, he claimed that his Holoform was thirty-three. I thought it was way too sexy for that. Regardless of the white hair(which oddly suit him rather well, even though his face looked young), he looked no older than twenty-five. I was hoping that that Holoform would begin to age, soon, though. Because I was coming up on those years, myself, and I really didn't want to be on of those creepy women that was seen as a cougar.
He laid next to me in the bed, wrapping his arms around me and placing a kiss on my temple. I sighed and closed my eyes. Due to his mysterious behaviors, I hadn't been able to spend this kind of time with him recently, and I had really missed it. The music was on shuffle, and a song that I really liked came on, and I began to sing along with it.
"I don't mind where you come from,
As long as you come to me.
But I don't like illusions,
I can't see them clearly.
I don't care, no I wouldn't dare
To fix the twist in you.
You've shown me, eventually,
What you'll do.
I don't mind.
I don't care.
As long as you're here.
Go ahead tell me you'll leave again.
You'll just come back, runnin',
Holding you're scarred heart in hand.
It's all the same.
And I'll take you for who you are,
If you take you for everything.
And do it all over again.
It's all the same."
"I love it when you sing," Ironhide whispered, "This song reminds me of us."
"However long as you stay, is all that I am," I whispered, and pressed a kiss to his lips.
"I love you, Ramona," Ironhide promised me, "You're my everything." It was the first time he'd said it, though I'd known it to be true for a long time. And I'd known I loved him since the moment he kissed me, months ago.
"I love you too, 'Hide," I whispered, "stay with me?"
"Forever."
Installment numero dos. I don't know why I like writing song-fics so much...but I do try to annoy them, because they annoy me to read. Hope you like the interaction between 'Hide and Ramona.
I don't know if anyone was expecting a second chapter, but here it is. Hope everyone enjoys.
Thanks for reading,
Dev
