sleeping so close to them. Optimus rolled himself off of Arcee after a few minutes, laying on his side and spooning her body into his, her back to his chest. Hesoftly as she fell to sleep and Optimus knew that this, lying with the love of his life while their newborn sparkling soundly slept just inches from them, was thehis life.9 weeks is all the time it took for Optimus's joy to turn to ashes."Don't go. Please, don't go. Just because you have done everything you promised; please don't leave me. You are everything I need. The light in my dark, darfeel tears beginning to build in his optics, the block in his throat feeling as if it would choke him, "Please Primus, in your mercy, don't take her away from me!"feel his voice-box closing as he spoke, "My son needs his mother! And I need her." Optimus flinched as he heard a groan of pain, and he saw her optics openeagainst the bright lights; the pain in her optics was spark-breaking."Optimus..." She weakly pushed the word out, her head tilting to the side so that she could see him properly, taking all of his features in and memorizing them"I'm here. I will never leave you. I promise." Optimus whispered back at her as he brought her hands up to kiss them again."I love you." Tears began to slowly leak down out of her optics; they both knew that this was it, neither wanting to voice it out loud though."I love you too." He leaned over to kiss her forehead softly, the grip he had on her hands tightening as he brought his free hand to wipe away her tears."Look after them. They need you." Optimus nodded to her, finding himself unable to either find the words to say or operate his voicebox."But we need you too!" The sound of the Miko's voice reached their audio receptors, causing the pair to turn to where the whole of Team Prime stood looking aOptimus's attention was drawn away from the team and back to Arcee when she lightly squeezed his hand, opening up a private comm-link to Arcee he once acontinue fighting.'You can do this, you can pull through. When you are better, we will finally spark-bond, raise our son and end this war; Together.' Optimus restehers, waiting for her reply, praying that it would come. Everyone felt themselves tense when they heard the spark-rate monitors spike, making loud bleeping ngrip tightened on Arcee's hand as everyone came closer to her, circling around the berth as the beeping began to get slower and longer."Don't go." Optimus pleaded with her again."I love you." Arcee's whisper was weak as the beeping stopped and gave way to a long drawn out whirring of the monitor. Arcee was gone. Kissing her foreheaoptics closed tightly to keep the tears from being able to freely leak from them, "I love you too. I always have and always will... I promise." end.
