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

Being with You (Part 1)

*Y/n's POV*
*time skip one month to Christmas Eve*

Snow covered the ground outside. It had been snowing all day. But Y/n didn't mind that it was snowing. She knew in an hour Dinobot would be home from work. She glances at her phone to check the time. It was eight o'clock at night and she was getting anxious. It wasn't long before Y/n gets a text message from Dinobot saying that he was going to be coming home late, not by too much. Y/n texts him back, telling him to try and be home before midnight. She couldn't help but worry about him. She loved him, she will admit. She just hated worrying about him. Over the past month, after the whole incident with Icebird, both the Maximals and Predicons had taken their turns making sure that Y/n and her family were safe from Rampage, since it was he that had seriously injured Icebird in the first place, causing Icebird's death. Y/n was finally able to meet the rest of the Predicons, or at least the only one she hadn't met and wished she didn't, when she found out that Tranchulas Beast Mode was a giant taranchula. She ended up having nightmares for about a week.

Y/n wasn't arachnophobic, it was just scary knowing the fact that the crazy scientist could transform into a giant tranchula.

It eventually gets to the point where Y/n was beginning to fall asleep from boredom. She heads downstairs to the living room and sits down on the couch. Not far from the couch, sitting in the corner, was a decorated Christmas tree. The tree lights were light up with all sorts of colors and the assortment of decorations brought a smile to her face. It was mostly animals, well in fact an animal, dinosaur, dragon, or insect that represented all of her friends she had made with both the Maximals and Predicons. Despite their pasts and the wars they had fought, they kept the peace during the holiday season but more so now since Y/n has proven to them that they would end up finding their spark mate. Y/n's gaze traveled down to the bottom of the tree were a good number of presents sat, decorated in brightly colored paper and bows. She had gotten gifts from everyone in both the Maximals and Predicons. But it's not about the gifts or the presents, it was about spending time with your loved ones. Y/n's thoughts were returned to reality by the meowing followed by a chortle from her cat Hamilton, who was wearing a sweater knitted by Waspinator. It was a cream colored sweater with the Predicon's insignia on it. It wasn't a perfect sweater, since there was a hole or two showing in the knitting, but it didn't matter. It was a gift that came from the heart, but in the case of Waspinator, it was a gift from the heart and from the fact that she wanted to see the Persian in a cute outfit. "Getting impatient too, huh?" Y/n scratches Hamilton on his head, earning herself a purr.

Y/n knew that Hamilton was worried as well. She patiently waits for as long as she could before she starts yawning from yawning. She had to find a way to stay awake. She decided to watch a movie on her phone but even that fails and in the end, Y/n ends up falling asleep from boredom.

*Dinobot's POV*

It was ten o'clock at night by the time Dinobot had finished closing down the coffee shop. It had taken a bit longer to close since Dinobot and the other people who work at the coffee shop made sure the place was ready the day after Christmas with the influx of giftcards and coupons that customers will be using that they got on Christmas day. Before leaving, Dinobot texts Y/n to let her know that he was on his way home. He knew she would be upset from coming home late but it wasn't really his fault. It was more on the line that the people that he was closing with didn't want to do their job and rather have him do the work for them. Unfortunately for them, since he was the assistant manager at the coffee shop, they might not have a job much longer st the rate they want to do things their own way. "I need a vacation," Dinobot mumbles to himself before getting into his car. "I'd best hurry home. Most likely Y/n fell asleep from boredom." It takes him about fifteen minutes to get home because of the road conditions with the snow and ice. Dinobot didn't want to take a chance and rush home, ending up in the ditch or worse. By the time he had gotten home, the snow fall was falling a bit more frantic. "There might be a blizzard tonight."

Once inside, he was greeted by Hamilton. Dinobot reaches down to pet the fluffy cat. "Did she fall asleep?" Hamilton responds with a chortle before dashing off into the living room. Dinobot follows the cat into the living room and finds Y/n asleep on the couch. "Hey it's time to wake up. Sleep any later and you won't be able to fall back asleep." He shakes her on her shoulder, rousing her from her sleep.

Y/n rubs the sleep from her eyes, trying to wake herself up. "You had taken too long, Dinobot," said Y/n while yawning.

"I did say I'd be home late." Dinobot sits down next to Y/n on the couch. "I tried to bback home as soon as I could but with the road conditions the way they were, I had to take my time."

"I'd rather you be home safe then finding out you hurt yourself," said Y/n. "Anyways now that you are home, how about we open up a gift? Since hou did agree to opening one gift on Christmas Eve. It's how my family's tradition went."

"Sure why not. Go pick out a gift for me to open," said Dinobot. He looks over at the Christmas tree and was surprised to see how many gifts there were. "Looks like everyone came over while I was at work."

"Only Blackaracnia didn't show up. She ended up getting stranded in the next town over because of the blizzard that hit over there." Y/n grabs a gift that wasn't as neatly as wrapped as the others. She hands it to Dinobot. "Not exactly easy to wrap something that isn't in a box."

"It's alright. It's not about the wrapping paper or the colorful bow. It's about spending the holidays with someone you care about." Dinobot takes the gift from Y/n and unwraps it. Inside the wrapping paper was a handmade scarf. Dinobot could tell it was handmade since there was a couple loops sticking out. The scarf was made out of blue and green yarn. "Did you make this?"

"Had to find some way to bide my time while waiting for you to come home on the days you worked. Plus I needed to occupy my time with something to do last month with the whole Rampage scare still going on."

"Speaking of which, did Silverbolt find anything about Rampage or Eric? Not trying to open up old wounds or anything."

Y/n shakes her head. "Nothing. Silverbolt told me earlier today when he came to visit, that Rampage's scent has gone cold near my parents house. As for Eric's, he is still in the area."

"Just checking." Dinobot gets up from the couch and goes over to the coat rack where his coat was hanging. He reaches into one of the pockets and pulls out a small silver box. He walks back over to Y/n and hands it to her.

Y/n opens the box and inside it was an crystal necklace. A rather decent sized one too. It was a purple and green crystal, the colors were swirled together, which Y/n found odd at first since she couldn't recall any crystal like that. But the one thing that caught her attention was that there was a faint glow coming from the crystal. "Dinobot?"

"That crystal is the energon crystal that Icebird gave you. I had Rattrap use it as a catalyst to hold a piece of my spark so that way I can always be with you no matter how far apart we are." He walks around the couch and kneels down so he could look Y/n dead in the eyes. "I assume you know what I am going to ask you, am I right?"

"Dinobot do you mean..."

"I'm asking you to be mine, my spark mate, so that way we can form the spark bond and be together forever."

Y/n takes a moment to think before pulling Dinobot into her embrace and kissing him fully on the lip, feeling him melt into her. "You are the best thing that has happened to me," said Y/n as she breaks away from the kiss.