Transformers Prime; LAST HOPE

Few minutes is enough

Nova had ended up turning a resting eye to falling asleep with Campy in her hood despite how chilled the wind had turned, despite it barely near evening, she mumbled to herself as she twitched now and then, she hadn't slept well until then so despite the wind she consciously didn't want to wake, her sleeping form groaned from time to time frowning to the ambient sound of a thumping sound as she tried to hold onto dreaming.

A metal hand lightly rested on her back as it curled its digits around her torso, careful not wake the scraplet. She was lifted from the ground, she moaned as though she knew she was being moved, the being that picked her up lightly placed her at the crook of his neck as she nuzzled into the barrier trying to get comfortable again, he cupped a free hand around her form as he sighed silently to himself, making his way back to the hangar.

His body was in a terminal condition that was the reality of it, to join with the Allspark he could not even protest, though he did not fear it, he had no choice if he did so or not, he did not have that kind of power, he had his concerns for his Autobots, the Matrix, the new candidate Prime, how she would manage without him, but despite his fears, they had all managed it seemed, but what he saw, what could have been, if he hadn't been pulled away from death. "I do not ask forgiveness for my choice back then, I ask on every occasion where I or a contributing factor causes you distress or potential harm; was I wrong to intervene back then?"

Campy woke up and saw Optimus before nudging Nova's  to wake up. "Stop that Campy..." she groaned quietly lifting her head, "Oh H-Hi, Sire." she shyly said, weakly smiling only realizing now that this was reality and snapped to a wakened state.  Campy went straight to her shoulder as Optimus bowed his head slightly in exchanging greetings.

"You can keep thinking about it but your not getting rid of me nor can you change that. So don't start with the regrets." She then grinned to herself as she put on a face of pity, "what are you saying anyway? You don't want me? A humans only for Christmas?"

"Hmm, you're going to have to improve an attempt to get the desired response you want from me." He said poking her in the shoulder.

"Oh gee you got me I'm an attention seeker. But in all seriousness, I think if you didn't take me in, I would've only grown, angry and bitter, and even felt it then even though I kind of knew loss I never understood the concept of killing someone, I just wanted to hurt someone and that was it." She looked down slightly from the stare she knew to be getting, "I'm sorry, but that's what I thought then, what i thought with Silas and i thought it again when you were...gravely injured. I wanted to hurt them, but I..."

"Why can you not look at me?" he asked interrupting her.

"I, can't look at you...I tried to be calm, but I just get really angry it's like I can control it but I can't...I'm just, a being of chaos as it will always be." she said without tone.

He shook his head lightly "There is always a limit with control, and I have made choices that ultimately lead to consequence be it good or bad, how many times must I reinforce this?" he said lightly as she thought that he would still have to remind her a thousand times more. "You re-call my, recent outburst? Though rare I am still a sentient being and come with emotional and mental limits" he added.

"Y-Yeah but that's not for the same reasons all these years you..."

"You have only wanted for our War to end, because as long as it still raged on you only saw failure, some victories but for you personally mostly failure and that frustrated you, especially the events you could not control. You are no different for feeling this."

She tilted her head lazily to one side, "And for you losing Cybertron, technically twice. I guess it just builds up." She lifted her head up to him looking at his face more clearly since the base evacuation, she felt teary to his 'non-expressive face' no judgement whatsoever. Though she wanted to reach a hand out, just to be sure.