Melting a Heart of Ice (Beast Wars Dinobot AU x Female Reader)

Road Trip (Part 1)

*Y/n's POV*

It was about eight in the morning when Y/n and Dinobot left for their road trip to South Dakota. Y/n let Dinobot drive her Ford F-150 since she was still a bit sleepy from all the food she had for breakfast earlier. She looks out the passenger side window, watching the scenery zoom on by. "We'll be stopping at a hotel or motel for the night. Not wise to drive two days straight with no rest."

"What makes you say that?" Dinobot asks.

"Really bad sleep-induced hallucinations. Really bad ones. Made the mistake myself one year and ended up seeing spiders and moving shadows..."

Dinobot laughs a bit. "Sleep deprivation sounds pretty bad for humans. Even though I may appear human, I still need sleep but not as often as you do."

Y/n decides to play another game of twenty questions with Dinobot to pass the time. Eventually they both get bored of the game and Dinobot decided to teach Y/n some Cybertronion. After about an hour of trying to learn a few words, Y/n admits defeat, complaining that learning Cybertronion is just as hard as learning Latin. Dinobot encouraged Y/n to keep trying. Even he decides to help her out by breaking down each word and helping her sound them out. By the time they pull into the parking lot of the first rest stop, Y/n managed to learn 'hello' and 'good-bye' in Cybertronion.

Y/n gets out of the truck and stretches, hearing a pop come from her right elbow and left knee from being in the cramped conditions of the Ford F-150 for about three hours. She heads inside the rest stop to use the restroom as well as grab a snack from the vending machine. She heads back to the truck where Dinobot was waiting. "Don't you ever get tired?"

Dinobot just shrugs his shoulders. "I don't tire out as fast as you do. Ready to go?"

"Yeah...not really looking forward to this long trip anyways. I like visiting my family and all but it's still tiring even if I am not the one driving."

"Would you rather be the one driving?"

Y/n shakes her head. "Nope. I'm still tired from that big breakfast you bought me this morning."

"I did say order what you want."

Y/n gets back in the truck. Soon enough they were back on the road, heading to South Dakota. It was about ten o'clock at night before Y/n and Dinobot stopped at a motel to rest for the night. Y/n heads inside to buy a room for the night but much to her dismay, there were only rooms with single beds available. Y/n knew she didnt have a choice in the matter and just accepted the fact that her and Dinobot will have to share a bed for the night, even though they just had their first date earlier that day. Y/n heads back outside, with keys in hand for their motel room. She tosses the keys to Dinobot, who barely managed to catch the keys before they could fall to the ground.

"I take it that there are only single beds available?" Dinobot asks.

Y/n only nods her head before grabbing the suitcases from the back of the truck. She heads inside.

*Dinobot's POV*

Dinobot watches Y/n head into the motel. He could tell, even without the spark bond, she was mad. Last thing Dinobot needed to do was make Y/n even more mad. He knew she was still trying to get comfortable just being around him but sharing the same bed....that's a whole different story. Of course there were a couple times she used his shoulder as a pillow when she had fallen asleep while watching a movie with him. But that was different. Whether he wants to or not, he'd have to sleep on the floor. "This isn't going to be easy," Dinobot mumbles to himself before he heads into the motel. He heads upstairs to the third floor where their room was and unlocks the door. He sees that Y/n had already unpacked what they needed for the night. A change of clothes for the next day, pajamas, toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, and towels so they could take a shower if needed. "Go take a shower. I'll see if there is anything on TV for us to watch," said Dinobot.

Y/n rolls her eyes before she gathers up what she needed before going into the bathroom. She locks the door behind her.

Dinobot sits down on the bed, feeling defeated. Even though the spark bond with him just formed the other day, the desire just to be with Y/n was becoming overwhelming. "How the hell am I going to seal the spark bond between us without alienating Y/n?" After a few minutes, Dinobot's thoughts were distracted when his cellphone starts to ring. He answers it, knowing it was Rattrap that was calling him. "Yes, vermin?"

"I have some good news for both you and Y/n. I may have found a way for you both to seal the spark bond between you and Y/n with out resorting to sex or exposing her to your spark. I talked it over with the others, well mainly Rhinox and Optimus Primal, and we have come up with a solutuon," said Rattrap.

"Out with it, vermin," snaps Dinobot.

"We just need a processed energon crystal with with a high quality quartz crystal along with a tiny fragment of your spark."

"How in the hell do you expect that to work?!"

"Easy there, chopperface. Give me time to finish telling you. Rhinox found a way to fuse an energon crystal, processed of course and not in its raw form, with a high quality quarts crystal."

"Where do you expect to find such a rare quartz crystal?" Dinobot's head started to hurt, trying to understand what Rattrap was telling him.

"We bought a lot of quartz crystals off of Ebay, sorted though the ones that had very little imperfections, and melted them down to form higher quality crystal. It's not going to be completely flawless but the end result should give us a way to have you give Y/n a piece of your spark."

"Vermin, you are giving me a migrane. How soon can we get this crystal you are talking about?"

"By Christmas by the soonest we can have it ready. Rhinox is working on the best combination to use between energon and quartz crystals."

After talking to Rattrap for thirty more minutes, Dinobot hangs up. He falls back onto the bed, dealing with a migrane. "Christmas is going to be one hell of a wait..." He turns his attention to the bathroom right as Y/n steps out, dressed in her blue pajamas, with her hair still dripping wet from taking a shower. She turns to look at Dinobot.

"There should be enough hot water to take a shower, Dinobot," said Y/n.

Dinobot gets up off the bed and hands Y/n the TV remote. "Maybe you can have better luck finding something for us to watch." He heads into the bathroom and shuts the door. He proceeds to strip himself down of his clothing. "Here I was hoping that Rattrap would have a temporary solution to our problem," Dinobot thinks to himself. He turns on the hot water and steps into the shower.