Angel From A Dream

Chapter 19

Steeljaw walks past Strongarm, he can't believe what he's hearing. Did his carrier really set this up so he would find a mate that would set him on the right path? Once he makes it out of the woods he walks over to the cliff to look out over the ocean.

"Steeljaw?"

Steeljaw looks back to see Strongarm standing behind him, "I think I know who set this up."

"Who?"

"My carrier, she's the only one I can think of that would do something like this."

Strongarm was a little surprised but she had heard of some Wolf-Cons being good, "Was she one of the Wolf-Cons that was good?"

"She was. She grew up in a criminal family that caused so much harm to others but she just couldn't follow in their footsteps. She wanted to be different."

"What about your sire?"

"He was a full-on criminal, he became one of Cybertron's most wanted."

"How did your carrier end up with him?"

"He knew her family, they ran in the same circles. Her sire wanted her to mate with him and he was in love with her the moment he saw her. She refused but he wasn't taking no for an answer, he forced her to mate with him. Even though she didn't want to be with him she still kept to the Wolf-Con biology of staying faithful to your mate and she stuck by him. Eventually, she came to love him."

"What happened to her?"

Steeljaw looked back out over the ocean as he thought back, "She was killed when I was a cub. My sire took me out of the city one day for some training, he wanted me to follow in his footsteps and be a criminal like him. When we returned we found the whole city completely blown up. We found her body under the remains of our house. My sire was so sparkbroken that he almost died right along with her, but he chose to keep living for me."

Strongarm's spark sank, she couldn't help but pity him. He lost his mom when he was a cub, that had to have been traumatic for him. Then his criminal father raised him to be a criminal just like him, "Do you know who did it?"

Steeljaw clenched his servos as he growled, "Autobots! We were told Autobots blew up the city!"

"That can't be, Autobots wouldn't just blow up a Decepticon city like that. Autobots stopped doing that when the war ended."

Steeljaw turned to look at her, "You're an Autobot so of course you don't believe they did it!"

"I don't believe it because it's a fact that Autobots have stopped blowing up cities. They storm cities and arrest the Decepticons not blowing up their city and killing them. You were lied to."

"Autobots blew up the city, I was shown proof!"

Strongarm stayed silent as she looked at him, she knew there was no arguing with him. But she also knows that there is no way Autobots blew up their city, she needs to find a way to prove it to him. She's now starting to understand him, he's a criminal because he was put into that life by his father, it's the only life he knows. And he hates the Autobots so much because he believes they killed his mom.

"Even though my sire lived on to raise me I could tell my carrier's death really pained and broke him. It's what killed him, the pain got too much for him and he couldn't live on without her anymore so he let his spark give out. I don't want to go through that, I can't lose you." He places a claw on her cheek and caresses it, "I don't want to lose you. That's why I've been holding onto you so tight and won't let you escape and why I marked you to make you my mate."

"I can understand that but you're doing it all wrong. What you've been doing is not the way to get my love."

"My sire never showed me the right way, he made me believe I had to do it the way he did."