#consider this preAutobot megatron

[eloquent-music]

🌿.

Send 🌿 to accidentally get caught under the mistletoe with my muse.

Now many would believe that Tarn would be thinking every cycle about something like this. However those rumors would be wrong. Loyalty came in many different forms but perhaps others took his definition of loyalty wrong. What he had for Megatron could never be faltered by anything. Dedication. Allegiance. Devotion. All of it was held within Tarn and to him, it was that unbreakable bond. It was what he held with the uptmost care after being gifted everything he'd once lost. Not many would understand that kind of loyalty.

This cycle though, he wasn't the one to plant the little branch around for them to accidentally went into. Tarn was much too busy to dabble in such things, not when Megatron needed his work more than anything else. So it had to be some cruel ploy that someone around had planted.

No. He didn't want to test Megatron's patience. Nor did he desire to have Megatron question this even though it was likely he would. At least he wasn't Starscream here. His punishment would likely be far different.

A sigh left Tarn as he unlatched his mask from his face, setting it aside on top of his datapad. He couldn't remember the last time Megatron had likely seen him without his mask on. "Don't take this as any of those rumors you might hear of me. Their definition of loyalty is far different than mine."

Tarn leaned up, not showing the bit of hesitancy, even though he might feel it within him. Lord if the others knew what he'd done. But Megatron-- if only briefly got to experience the slight bit of what another form of what loyalty could offer perhaps. However one might describe this. Before it could be interpretted into anything, Tarn pulled away so that he could go grab his mask once more and put it back on.

That data pad that he'd set aside earlier, he left there for Megatron's viewing. "You'll find every bit of information you asked for on that data pad. Let me know if you need anything else on the contents."