Lost (Optimus Prime x Reader)

9 - Confusion

"You're completely stabilized. It's amazing." Dad said with a shake of his head.

"Yeah, I no longer feel the need to pass out or throw up, I feel great," I said humorously.

"I'm sure you do. Now, from the testing I did, my guess is you need to eat energon or at least something infused with energon. Your body tends to attack almost anything else so how about we play it on the safe side?" He asked and I nodded.

"Yessir. Now that that's over, I have school work to do." I groaned. Agent Fowler had come by yesterday after our Christmas party and given me everything I need to do online school. He seemed to understand the importance of me staying at the base. One thing I noticed though was how he acted towards me. Sometimes I catch him glancing at me with a confused yet curious look on his face. I hadn't confronted him about it, but it still bothered me a bit. Not in a creepy way though.

"You best get to work. I'm sure you have a bit to catch up on given you haven't been to school in two weeks." Dad said slyly.

"Yeah yeah, whatever. See ya later." I said and slid down the stairs to go out to the main room. In the human area sat the new backpack full of school supplies and a new laptop. I sat down in front of the couch and pulled out the laptop before opening it.

The large apple logo shone on the screen before it faded into a login screen. I rose an eyebrow and dug through the backpack to find a notebook with my name on it. Inside there was a list of websites with usernames and passwords. All of them were school oriented so I figured they were for the computer and school software. I used the one labeled "Mac" for the login and it instantly opened for me. I sighed and opened the shortcut labeled "OnlineEd" before starting my work.

It was hours before I got done and I molded into the couch after I finished. My stamina hadn't come back quite yet from the whole internal bleeding thing so I get exhausted easier than before. The others hadn't arrived yet so I packed up my stuff and put the backpack next to the couch. One thing I've been anxious and scared to ask is where I'll stay. I'm sure Dad wouldn't want me in the infirmary all the time and I don't think I'd be able to sleep on this couch. They hadn't assigned me a room or anything so I just sat around the main room most of the time. In my daze of exhaustion, I failed to notice the groundbridge open and the two bots come in. Only when I heard Dad's nagging did I look over. In the medbay, Bulkhead and Bumblebee sat with defrosting cables attached to their chests.

"Bulkhead, you know it can cause permanent system damage if you don't go through the defrost," Dad said. Bulkhead groaned and sat back down on the gurney. I shrugged and curled up on the couch with my hands tucked into the sleeves of my sweatshirt. It had gotten cold in here when they went to the Arctic earlier and my lack of energy seemed to affect my ability to change body temperature. I shivered and sniffled a little since my nose was running. When something bumped my shoulder, I about jumped out of my skin.

"Oops, sorry Y/n didn't mean to scare ya." Miko apologized.

"It's alright Miko. Oh, I'll go so you guys can have the couch." I said and quickly got up.

"You can sit on the couch with us Y/n, we don't own it." Jack chuckled.

"I-It's alright. I've got to work on my physical therapy anyways. I'll see you guys later." I said with a small smile and a wave. They waved back with odd looks in their faces. I walked down the stairs and looked around at what everyone was doing. Everyone seemed to be talking over by the groundbridge controls so I steered clear so I didn't disturb them. Usually, I can walk ten to fifteen miles without a break but today I could barely make it five times around the base. I decided to call it quits when it got hard to breathe and sat in my pile of blankets that had been moved to the floor next to Dad's workstation.