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Strange Creatures ~ Starscream x Human!Reader

Word Count: 2,736
Summary: Questions arise, and curiosity can't be cured. So the SIC ask for help, even if you're a questionable resource.

"Tell me about humans." The question and the approach had been rather blunt when he approached her. She had been on the Nemesis for months, and not once had he spoken to her in any other manner besides distaste and unimaginable hatred. So yes, when he approached her with the question she hadn't exactly taken the time to think about it.

She questioned him, "Why?" his only response was a glare and then he was walking away. Y/N was left in confusion, before Soundwave returned with her lunch.

That had been two weeks ago, and Starscream had been unusually quiet. It got to the point that even Megatron questioned him, the seeker only stormed off muttering Cybertronian curses. Y/N was left in equal confusion standing on the table beside Soundwave the commotion causing both the mech and human to look up from their data pads. Eventually however after weeks of tip toeing around the hothelmed mech Y/N approached him.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Starscream practically jumped in the air, like when you happen to sneak up behind a cat. At the very least he didn't run like he usually did. Slowly he did turn back around his optics looking at the rebellious little human standing with her arms crossed on the computer desk.

"What do you want?" Acting as if he had never approached her, had never asked her one question and then proceeded to never talk to her again. So yes as far as everyone already knew Y/N was a very easily annoyed human and her fiery nature was why Megatron was fine with having her around. Plus Soundwave had taken the position of caring for her. So the truth of the matter was Megatron wasn't going to be the one getting on the TIC's bad side and bring any kind of harm to the human femme. It was more of a built up tolerance if lacking any actual enjoyment in her presence. Sound wave taught her enough to not render her completely useless and often times she wondered into the medbay to hound Knockout on cybertronian anatomy .

"You want to know about humans?" She reiterated the same question that he had so rudely asked of her, "My question is why should I tell you anything when all you ever do is treat me like nothing more than a bug you could easily squish?"

"But you are a bug I could easily squish." Perhaps his prejudice against other species went to deep, to far imbedded into his coding to actually be forgotten so easily. Except he had been watching the small human, had found her strangeness something so interesting he wanted to know if all humans were like her.

"Ask someone else then." Y/N growled at the mech, turning sharply to go back to the main room where Soundwave was waiting for her to return from a bathroom break. It wasn't as though the silent mech would have actually let her go and confront Starscream on her own.

"I don't know any other humans."

"That's not my problem, I don't see any point in offering help for someone who can't respect me."

"Please?" He feebly attempted a shot at asking nicely, apparently that kind of thing worked on humans. He knew that much at least. It seemed to be no different with Y/N but still she wasn't going to make it so easy for him. It wouldn't be fair if she didn't get anything out of this situation.

"Fine I'll answer any questions you have, I expect something in return though. I'm not doing this for free."

The deal was sealed then, Y/N just would not have expected that her payment of sharing all her knowledge of not just humans but also of the planet earth would end up with Starscream falling in love with her.

It took six months for it to happen, from the moment in the empty hall of the nemesis when the deal was made. Starscream asked questions, Y/N answered without judgment no matter how absurd they may have appeared to her. Considering he got confused on human birth and for a solid week believed humans hatched out of eggs. In fact Starscream did not initially realize his own feelings until he was already far to deep into them.