#s02e11 flying mind

[merlinfromberlin]

trick or treat :3

Treat! You get some Dadchet fluff. <3

This is from a oneshot based on S02E11 Flying Mind and deals with the aftermath of the Autobots being frozen still for hours on end by the Nemesis. Bee especially can't sit still and is driving Ratchet up the walls.

I also hope you don't mind this being longer, I didn't want to splice away the fluffy parts at the end but they made no sense without the first parts. ^^"

During the next decicycle, Ratchet had to remind Bumblebee four more times to sit back down, three times not to touch various medical equipment and five times not to play with either the IV line or the spark monitor next to his berth. On one particularly spark-freezing occasion he even had been forced to confiscate a small knife the scout had un-subspaced in order to fidget with. The medic was certain that the sight of the small yellow bot gesticulating wildly while twirling a small blade way too close to his own faceplates had cost him at least a vorn of his lifetime.

However, even if the medic had turned ever more gruff and grumpy with every additional warning he had directed at the scout, he had done his darn best to remain patient. Restlessness was, as evidenced by his older patients, apparently only natural after an encounter with waking stasis. And Ratchet had some experience dealing with Bumblebee’s particular brand of restlessness. In the end, however, he finally lost his temper when the mech knocked over his spark monitor, shattering its display in the process.

“Bumblebee!” Ratchet sat down the datapad he had been reviewing with a little too much force. As he fixed his most vicious glare on the troublesome scout he stalked over to remove the now useless monitoring line from his chassis. “I needed that! By the pits, you still needed that! For Primus’ sake, you are not only disturbing your own recovery but that of everyone else, too! Now get back to your berth before I magnetise you to it.”

The medic watched as the small bot sat back down, his doorwings drooping heavily in shame while twitching nervously every few nanocycles. He was small enough for his pedes to be dangling in the air as he stared down at the floor in front of him. ::Sorry, Ratchet. Didn’t mean to annoy you…::

For a moment, Ratchet kept staring at the scout. At the way his optics were a bit too dim and cycled sluggishly. At the way his helm kept listing to the side just a tiny bit before snapping back up. At the way his doorwings were hanging low not only in guilt and shame but also sheer, utter exhaustion. With a sigh, his remaining anger dissipated. 

The young bot was not only tired but so fragging exhausted that he would probably miss most of the next Earth day once he finally fell into recharge.

“You know what. Get up,” said Ratchet suddenly, his entire demeanour changing as an idea began to form in his processor. There might be a way to free Bumblebee of his excess energy and get him into recharge without bothering the others too much. “Get up. We’re trying something else.”

While the medic walked out of the medbay in order to fold down into his alt mode, the younger bot froze in place. Optimus shot Ratchet a short, contemplative glance before nodding encouragingly at the yellow scout.

“Come on, Bumblebee,” the medic repeated when he looked back only to find the small mech still perched on his medberth. The ambulance’s passenger door swung open and waved in a silent invitation.

Carefully, Bumblebee got up before nervously following the medic out into the main area of the base. His doorwings were still twitching anxiously. ::I won’t fit inside of you, Ratch…::

At that, Ratchet barked out a single laugh before allowing his door to fall close once again. Definitely exhausted. “Your holoform would,” he replied surprisingly mirthfully.

For a moment, there seemed to be something not unlike panic rushing through Bumblebee’s EM field but it was gone again as fast as it had appeared. Ratchet highlighted the moment in his memory files to review later and added it to his ever-growing list of inconsistencies about their young scout. He would need to work through that again, later. Right now, however, Ratchet had different priorities.

“But no. I’m not driving you around while you are this antsy. We are going for a drive. You need to burn off some energy before you break something we can’t rebuild. Doctor’s order.”

Bumblebee bleeped in surprise, but it took him a moment to fully comprehend the medic’s words. Once he finally did, Ratchet was glad to have readjusted his mirrors onto him. The yellow bot’s doorwings fluttered in excitement and he bounced on his pedes once before letting himself fold down into his alt-mode. ::Thank you, Ratchet!::

Ratchet was also glad that he had already transformed because he suspected that his smile as Bumblebee drove up next to him would have been way too fond. “Don’t thank me yet, young’un. You’re still under medical observation. That means no speeding, no racing and if I even catch you so much as thinking about drifting, you’ll be back in your berth faster than you can comm ‘Iacon 5000’.”

::Yes, of course.” Bumblebee sounded nonetheless chipper for any of the restrictions Ratchet had just put onto him. Instead, he just followed the medic out of the base, his EM field pulsing happily. ::I’ll be a textbook driver!::

“You better be,” answered Ratchet, a certain threat still edged into his words. There was no actual heat behind them, though. Based on the way Bumblebee playfully swerved to overtake him, he, too, knew that. The medic sighed silently.

Then he allowed himself to fall back behind the Urbana, strangely content as he watched his the youngling driving down the dark desert street.

They had not even been out for half an Earth hour when Ratchet had to comm Optimus because Bumblebee had fallen into recharge at the cliffside where they had stopped to watch the stars. The youngling did not even startle when the medic manually triggered his transformation to pick him up  and carry him through the groundbridge. Instead, he just cuddled closer.  

Hope you enjoyed your treat! <3

And sorry it took this long to answer, I was really tired yesterday evening and needed to read through this again because I hadn't touched it in almost two months. ^^"

This was originally supposed to be a scene in Numb Little Bug (Wip that will still take a while to see the light of day) until I realised that they start hunting for the Iacon Artefacts IMMEDIATELY after they get unfrozen, so I removed it from the longer story and now it's a sort of slight AU/companion piece to NLB/insight into Ratchet in NLB.

Which also means that it's edited very little yet. I'll only do that once I get to posting NLB chapter 3. Which will probably take forever. ^^"

[frankiebirds]

HOLLY: (a sex worker): A lot of johns from the Hill stop by on the way to work. RHONDA (also a sex worker): We always say the same politicians yelling about cleaning up the Hill are the ones dropping fifty bucks with us before they make the speech. HOLLY: It's true. And the more important they think they are, the quicker they accidentally finish up with us. It's weird like that. EMILY: No, that's pretty much universal.

HELPPPP. emily my beloved.

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