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Cover Me
By Black Dragon Queen
Author’s Note: I got another letter from my lawyer! God I just want to crawl into a corner and cry. As a result I moped about, re-wrote multiple pages and all around just stayed in bed wishing the world would go away. So I know the chapter is horrid and probably more confusing than anything but slag it, I got it done! I also ate an entire cake! Sometimes it's not a good thing working in a grocery store. That and the photo developer broke and I spent almost all Sunday waiting for the dang repair guy and getting yelled at by customers! Anyway, I may re-write it though later this week but at least for the moment it's something.
Chapter One Hundred Fifty Six: Confessing Confusion
“I guess you could say the whole thing started with Trent.”
Rumble and Frenzy shared bewildered looks at Sam’s strange statement while Will just stared at the teenager in stunned surprise. “Trent?” he repeated completely baffled. “Mikaela’s ex-boyfriend? What does he have to do with anything?”
Sam sighed as he leaned back against the headboard of his bed. “It’s confusing I know but he’s the reason I started thinking about Barricade differently.”
Will looked even more stunned than he had been when they had first found Barricade hiding out in the garage. “You mean that night when he and Miles found out about ‘Bee?”
Sam shook his head. “Earlier that day, when Barricade and Bumblebee were towing Trent’s truck around to get those traffic tickets.”
There was a barely suppressed snort from Frenzy but the mech said nothing when Will shot him a sharp glare. The captain’s warning look however didn’t intimidate Rumble as he asked, “‘traffic tickets’?”
“Look it up on the web,” Will growled before he turned back towards the teen. “What do you mean Sam?”
“It’s just that when he did that I realized that he wasn’t really all that bad,” Sam explained with a small smile. “I realized that he could be a nice guy. When he wanted to be at least.”
There was another snort from Frenzy. “T-t-took you th-th-that l-l-long to fig-fig-figure it out?”
Sam frowned at the silver mech before looking back at Will and tried to get the man to understand. “He did that simply because Trent was bad talking Mikaela. I don’t know why he did it but I was grateful that did.”
“Are you sure you weren’t just happy that Trent finally got his?” Will asked with a raised eyebrow.
Sam shrugged. “Of course, but from what the others always said about the Decepticons, they never did anything without expecting something in return.”
“You’ve got that right,” Rumble huffed as he leaned against the desk. “We ‘Cons trust each other about as far as we can throw the other. There’s always an underlining reason for doing something for someone.”
“Exactly,” Sam nodded emphatically as he turned back to Will. “And yet Barricade did it for not other reason than to cheer Mikaela up! He didn’t get anything in return and he didn’t demand anything for it. Not even a thank you.”
Will looked at the boy incredulously. “So that’s when you fell in love with him?” he asked doubtfully.
Sam’s face immediately flushed and he looked down at his hands in his lap. “Well, not exactly,” he murmured embarrassed. “But it was when I first realized that he wasn’t all bad and when I started thinking that well…” he trailed off with a small shrug of his shoulders. “That maybe there was more to Barricade than everyone thought.”
“You started looking at him differently,” Will supplied after a long pause.
The boy nodded. “I mean it’s just that after that happened I started noticing the he did a lot of things like that. Like when he stood guard while Sunstreaker was injured.” Will’s eyes widened in surprise and Sam realized that he nor Epps had been there when that little tidbit of information had gotten out at the base. “He did,” Sam insisted. “He had kept his sensors on alert for Starscream’s private signature when I was helping Sunny.”
“He did what?” Rumble asked surprised as he looked from Sam to Will and back again before he slouched back against the desk once more. “Never mind, I don’t think I want to know.”
“I-I-I d-d-do,” Frenzy said with a small glare in the direction of his mate.
“When the other Autobots arrived Sunny was critically injured,” Sam quickly explained to the mech. “As we were helping him Barricade was watching for Starscream while we were occupied.”
Frenzy frowned as he turned and just stared at Rumble disapprovingly. The other mech instantly went stiff. “Don’t look at me like that! It was Thundercracker who shot him! I didn’t even participate in that fight! We were investigating a planet for-”
“Enough!” Will instantly barked, frustration practically radiating off him. Rumble’s mouth clicked shut and the Ranger turned back to Sam. “So you started thinking about Barricade as more than just a Decepticon whom you were helping out,” he pressed.
Sam nodded. “I really can’t exactly pin point when it was that I realized that I had fallen in love with him but in the beginning I thought that I just a crush on him.” Sam sighed as he slouched again. “Especially after Thirteen showed up and he rescued me…”
“I suppose that was rather dashing of him,” Will couldn’t help but chuckle.
“Yeah, a real knight in dented armor,” Sam agreed with a small smile of his own. “But the thing was, I had always thought that I might be falling in love with ‘Bee before he showed up.”
“You were in love with him?” Will nearly shouted in surprise. “But I thought that you said that you-”
“I like ‘Bee sure,” Sam quickly interrupted the man’s question. “I thought for sure I had a crush on him much like when I had one on Mikaela in school but they were nothing like how strong the feelings for Barricade hit me.”
Will frowned as he tried to understand what Sam was telling him. “Then, why have you been mopping about since the Decepticon’s attack? Why have you been acting like the Link is the worse news you’ve ever gotten? When we spoke before I thought that you would have been overjoyed to learn about your connection.”
Sam’s face contorted into an image of complete anguish that startled Will with the force of it. “Don’t you understand?” he practically cried out, sobs treating to erupt from him at any moment as he looked at Will in despair. “I thought I was falling in love with ‘Bee! During summer vacation when I was staying with him and the guys I could have sworn that I was but didn’t think anything would come of it! It was the whole reason Mikaela and I broke up! She’s the one who told me to re-think my feelings for him!”
Will’s eyes widened but the confusion still lingered in them. “Sam, I don’t understand. You told me you were in love with Barricade not Bumblebee.”
Sam gave Will the most miserable look the older man had ever seen. “But do I really love him? Are these really my own true feelings or are they something that were given to me? Was it my own choice?”
“Given to you?” Will blinked in surprise but it was the mechs who instantly looked at Sam with complete understanding.
“The L-L-Link,” Frenzy stated sadly and Sam nodded.
“Exactly,” Sam stated as he jumped to his feet and began pacing around the room. “Think about it! Maybe I was falling in love with ‘Bee! Maybe something would have come out of it!” He stopped and looked back at his audience with his hands held out in helplessness. “But I don’t know that because then Barricade came to me for help and suddenly all my feelings were thrown in a blender and I couldn’t stop thinking about Barricade!”
“It’s possible,” Rumble stated with a small frown as he mulled things over. “Barricade did state that he had recognized the Link when he first met you, even before you had faced Megatron and ended the war. It could be that his sudden close and contestant proximity to you started strengthening the Link until it began affecting you.”
“Wait a minute!” Will frowned as he stared at the three. “You’re saying that Sam doesn’t love Barricade? That it’s the damn Link making him think so.”
“Of cor-cor-course not,” Frenzy scowled. “Sam p-p-probably is in-in-in l-l-love.”
“But the Link more than likely helped speed things along, right?” Sam shot back at him. Frenzy could say nothing back and Sam fell back against the wall. “Damn.”
Will looked back at Sam critically. “So that’s what this is about?” he asked slowly. “It’s not that you’re upset that you’re in love with Barricade but at the idea that maybe you were coerced into loving him?”
“Wouldn’t you be?” Sam glared at him.
Will frowned. “I can’t say either way. I’m not the one in your situation.”
“So you’re telling me that if it suddenly came out that you had a Link with… with Optimus instead of Ironhide you wouldn’t be upset?” Sam suddenly burst out.
“Of course I would be!” Will shouted back. “I’m in love with Ironhide! I would be with him no matter what!”
Frenzy looked over at Will surprised. “Wh-wh-when did that happen?” he muttered more to himself as Rumble was glaring at the Ranger captain.
“I think you have a few things confused,” Rumble drawled as he glared at the man.
Will glared back at him. “Then why don’t you enlighten us,” he practically snarled.
Rumble shrugged as he pushed himself off the desk and looked at the humans in all seriousness. “A Link is something completely unpredictable and uncontrollable,” he began. “You have no say in it and no way to change how you feel about it. It’s a connection between our souls! It can overwhelm you and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. It’s a connection even more powerful then your human ‘love’ can ever compare.”
“I do know what a Link is in your culture and what it entails,” Will snapped at him angrily before his voice went quiet. “Believe me, I know.”
The mech frowned and jerked a thumb towards Sam as he continued. “Then you know that if Sam’s human self has created and is sustaining a Cybertronion Link with one of our own then there’s nothing he can ever do to fight against it. He’s tied to Barricade in every aspect.” He shook his head as he crossed his arms across his chest. “You can’t fight a Link. Even if he was ‘in love’ with the Autobot there’s nothing he can do about that now. It’s Barricade with whom he will forever be connected with.”
Frenzy quickly stood and moved over to Sam who looked like he was swaying on his feet and guided the boy back to the chair the Decepticon spy had previously been seated in. Sam quickly hunched over and dropped his head into his hands. “There’s nothing?” he asked thickly.
Rumble gave Sam’s figure a sympathetic look, something that stunned Will as he had never seen any of the mechs look so sympathetic as Rumble did in that moment. “Nothing,” he confirmed. “For all intended purposes, you are Barricade’s mate.”
Sam let out a choked sound but said nothing and Frenzy shot Rumble a small frown as he rubbed small circles on Sam’s back trying his best to sooth the frazzled boy. Will looked at the three stunned for a long moment before he looked over at Sam. “Do you regret being in love with Barricade?” he asked after a short pause.
Sam let out a small snort. “No. He’s actually a great guy and all but I just wish I had been able to decide that for myself. Whether or not I loved ‘Bee at one point is now irrelevant and I feel so damn guilty about that.”
“Oh I doubt that,” Rumble snickered and Frenzy snagged Sam’s brush and hurled it at the other mech. “What?” Rumble yelped as he dodged the projectile. “It’s true. The Autobot knows that a Link can’t be changed or countered. He knows that Sam now belongs to Barricade!”
“Sam belongs to no one,” Will growled at him. “He’s his own person.”
“If you say so,” Rumble smirked before he got serious and turned back to Sam. “Bumblebee more than likely knows that you must be ‘in love’ with Barricade now that everyone knows about the Link and he knows that nothing he can say will override that no matter how you felt about him before Barricade came into the picture.”
“But what if Barricade never showed up,” Sam asked with a barely suppressed sob. “What if I had admitted to myself that I might be falling in love with him and he developed the same feelings for me?”
“D-d-do you k-k-know that f-f-for s-s-sure?” Frenzy suddenly asked. “Th-th-that ‘B-B-Bee might h-h-have l-l-love you b-b-back?”
Sam’s eyes widened as he looked at the mech next to him. “Well… We never spoke about it but-”
“Sam,” Will began softly. “If you never even spoke to ‘Bee about his feelings then how can you know that he might have the same feelings for you?”
“He wouldn’t,” Sam admitted sadly.
“What?” Will yelped. “How do you know that?”
“Because I heard him,” Sam admitted sadly. “Back in the ARC. He told Barricade that we were nothing more than friends.”
Will looked thoughtful for a moment. “But you didn’t speak with ‘Bee directly, correct?”
“What does it matter now anyway? I’m Linked to Barricade so it’s a moot point.” Sam looked close to tears. “Even if I really was in love with ‘Bee he doesn’t want me. No one seems to want me.”
“That’s not true,” Will said quickly. “Everyone’s just overwhelmed at the moment. I’m sure that once things calm down and you all talk it out it will seem much better.”
Sam let out a disbelieving grunt. “That’s what dad said,” he told the Ranger. “But even if ‘Bee never did love me back, it would have been my own decision to love him. Even if nothing came of it but now that totally doesn’t matter because I’m Linked to someone else.”
Will gave Sam a long, sad look before he made his way over to where the boy was seated and knelt down before him. Frenzy politely stepped aside to give the two humans room to speak. “Sam,” he began softly. “You can’t continue to dwell on the ‘what ifs’ and ‘what could have been’. You have to look forward into the future and amazingly you’re future just happens to be with Barricade.”
“But what about Bumblebee?” Sam asked miserably. “What about my feelings for him?”
“I never said you had to get rid of your feelings for ‘Bee,” Will insisted with a sad smile. “Your feelings are your own and no one can stop you from how you feel it just that ‘Bee will just have to find his own path. He’ll be all right.”
“That’s reassuring,” Rumble snorted, completely ignoring the elbow digging into his side as Frenzy glared at him.
Will decided it best to ignore the ‘Con for the moment and kept his gaze firmly on Sam. “Do you know how lucky you are?” he finally said after a moment.
“Lucky?” Sam asked incredulously and the two mechs quickly shared bewildered looks behind the Ranger.
Will just nodded. “God I would kill to have with Ironhide what you have with Barricade.”
Sam’s eyes widened in surprise as he stared at the man before him. “Will, I don’t think you do.”
“Damn it Sam,” Will growled as he stood up, now practically looming over the boy. “Do you have any idea how scared I am that someone with a Link to Ironhide may show up? Do you know how fortunate you are to have something as reassuring as this Link?”
Sam stared at Will stunned and opened his mouth to speak but Rumble beat him to it. “Oh please. The idea that Ironhide will meet ‘the one’ any time soon is ridiculous,” the mech huffed. He stoop up and started ticking off his fingers. “First, he would have to actually meet the supposed mech in question and since it’s clear it’s none of his Autobot buddies then it’ll either be a ‘Con or one of the few naturals who managed to survive. And then the mech would have to show up here on Earth.” He waved a hand dismissively. “Considering that mechs are spread out all across the galaxy it will probably be after your lifetime human if he even exists at all.”
Will stared at the mech stunned for a long moment and Frenzy snickered. “H-h-he’s t-t-trying to re-re-reassure y-y-you.”
Rumble glared at Frenzy but Sam gave Will a wan smile. “They’re ‘Cons Will. This is about as considerate as they get.”
“And you’re such an expert on us,” Rumble chuckled.
Sam just shrugged before he turned serious once more and looked at Rumble and Frenzy pointedly. “Is it true though that ‘Cade could die if he continues to deny the Link?”
“Where did you hear that?” Will yelped in alarm but Sam ignored him and instead kept his gaze focused on the two Decepticons before him who were looking back at him just as surprised.
After a moment, Rumble finally nodded. “If a Link becomes strained then a mech’s spark could become unstable and possibly extinguish,” he admitted to the boy. “It’s been centuries since anything like that has happened though. Usually there’s never a question regarding a Link.”
“You mean that if someone denies the Link they could actually die from it?” Will gasped completely stunned.
“That’s what we’ve been saying,” Rumble glared at him in frustration. “Try to keep up human.”
Will ignored the snub as he turned back to Sam. “No wonder you’re so upset. If he’s denying it-”
Frenzy let out a sarcastic laugh. “He-he-he’ll come a-a-around,” the mech said reassuringly to Sam. “He ju-ju-just has t-t-to put on a sh-sh-show f-f-first.”
“Are you sure?” Sam asked with a disbelieving frown. “Because when he was arguing with ‘Bee…”
“Barricade is a Decepticon,” Rumble said with a shrug. “Our own lives are first priority and he’s anything but stupid.”
Sam glanced at Rumble before he looked at Frenzy. “You’ve been with Barricade all these years while searching for the All Spark and Megatron,” he stated matter-of-factly. “What do you think?”
Frenzy remained silent for a long moment before he sighed. “I-I-if you do l-l-love him, you-you-you’re in for a l-l-long f-f-fight. He’s s-s-stubborn.”
Rumble looked at his mate in shock as Sam groaned and flopped back onto his bed. “Great…” he drawled. “And he’s ignoring me and denying the Link.”
“If he can die by denying it then why is he doing it in the first place?” Will asked with a small frown.
Sam gave Will a wan smile. “Because from what I overheard in the ARC, he thinks that I am in love with ‘Bee.”
“WHAT?” the others all shouted in shocked tandem.
The boy just nodded. “That’s why I’ve been so confused about whether or not I am in love with ‘Bee,” he told them. “Barricade seems to think so.” His shoulders slumped then as he looked back at his lap. “But Bumblebee said he doesn’t want me either.”
“I-I-idiots the b-b-both of th-th-them,” Frenzy huffed as Rumble burst into laughter.
“No wonder the Lamborghini wants them both dead,” the other ‘Con snickered.
“Sunny’s just trying to help,” Sam said with a small smile. “Misguided as it may be.”
“I think Sunny will have enough problems with his own condition,” Will shook his head.
Sam just sighed as he looked back down at the ground and the two mechs shared apprehensive looks. “Don’t worry. Soundwave will knock some sense into him,” Rumble told him trying his best to sound reassuring and failing miserably.
Will looked at the three long moment before he turned back to the teen. “Sam…”
Sam shook his head, stopping anything Will was going to say. “I don’t know about my feelings quite yet or whether or not my love for Barricade is really something I decided for myself but I am not going to let him die! Not after everything we went through to keep his sorry aft alive.”
“That’s the spirit,” Rumble snickered.
Will gave Sam a searching look. “So you’ve decided?”
Sam sighed. “I may have been in love with ‘Bee but we’ll never know for sure. It’s Barricade with whom I have a Link with.”
“I just don’t understand how you can have a Link at all though,” Rumble said with a small shake of his head as he stared. “A Link with a creature outside our own race has never been documented.”
“B-b-but not un-un-unfathomable,” Frenzy told him.
Rumble lifted one shoulder in a half-shrug. “True. He does speak with Primus.”
Sam just rolled his eyes before he turned back to Will who was staring at him intently. “I can’t make the decision for you Sam,” he began quietly. “However all I can tell you is to follow your instincts.”
Sam gave him a grateful smile. “I just wish this was something I had chosen for myself.”
“Life sucks.” The other three glared at Rumble who frowned back. “What? It does!”
Will shook his head as he turned back to Sam. “Just believe in yourself.”
Sam smiled, a true smile this time. “Thanks Will.” The man nodded when suddenly his eyes widened and his whole face went pale. Sam’s own eyes widened as he looked at Will worriedly. “Um? Are you all-”
Will suddenly leaped to his feet and raced towards the door, flinging it open and running down the hall, leaping over Ravage as the cat wandered back towards Sam’s room. Sam, Rumble and Frenzy watched as Will dashed into the bathroom and slammed the door behind him. The group was quiet for a long moment.
“That was unexpected,” Megatron snickered.
“Indeed,” Ravage drawled as he came towards them. “So I take it your discussion is over?”
Sam smiled as he reached down and started stroking the animal mimic’s head. “Yeah. Thanks for waiting.”
“Whatever,” Ravage drawled as he slipped out from under Sam’s hand and leapt up onto the bed. He turned and looked right at Frenzy and Megatron. “So care to explain how Barricade ended up the captain of the ARC?”
Sam’s eyes widened as he too turned to Megatron. “I’d forgotten about that.”
“Yeah, how did that happen?” Rumble drawled looking over at Megatron with a small smirk. “Don’t tell me it wasn’t an accident. It was too convenient.”
Megatron groaned as he flopped back into the desk chair. “Trust me, no one was more surprised than I was!”
“You mean that you didn’t mean for it to happen?” Rumble yelped in surprise.
Megatron let out a snort. “Duh,” he drawled. “It was Optimus whom I thought would activate the scanner.”
“What?” Ravage looked puzzled. “What are you talking about?”
Megatron shrugged. “We left the air duct hatch open, Optimus is naturally curious. I thought that it was a given.” The group could only stare at him in surprise and Megatron sniffed haughtily. “What? I did. Optimus is usually extremely predictable.”
“And like usual, Barricade has to mess everything up,” Rumble chuckled.
Megatron shrugged. “It’s his destiny I suppose.”
Sam frowned at that rather odd statement but Ravage simply huffed and made himself comfortable on Sam’s bed. “Whatever. I’m exhausted. Good night.”
It was then that Sam realized that he himself was more than just exhausted and he figured it would be best to not dwell over anything anymore and try and get some rest himself. Hopefully things would look better the next day. If only he could believe that.
Ironhide was jerked out of recharge in surprise as the smaller human door suddenly opened. Most of the mechs had probably woken up by the noise but no one said anything as the figure quickly made its way towards the Top Kick. Ironhide didn’t say anything as he opened his door and Will climbed in.
Will remained silent for a long moment and Ironhide began to worry at the prolonged silence. He could instantly tell that Will was upset about something but for the life of him he couldn’t figure it out. He was just about to ask him what was wrong when Will spoke.
“You know I love you, right?”
Ironhide startled at the sudden statement. “Of course,” he spoke quietly. “What brought this up?”
Will remained tight-lipped for a minute before he sighed. “Nothing.”
Ironhide knew that it was a lie but he didn’t press the issue. Instead he clicked on the heat and tried to make it more comfortable for the small human. “Love you,” he said after a few moments.
Will started stroking the leather seat as his eyes started to droop, lulled but the soothing heat. “I know,” he murmured before he finally fell asleep, comforted by the fact that he knew that he was loved and that no matter what might happen in the future, no one could ever take that away from him.
-To Be Continued
Author's Note: Well I'm going to end on a happy note. On Saturday before we actual got the mail I went ahead and made that Yahoo Group! My computer keeps freezing on me so I can't upload the fic in it's entirety for all of you to save yet but I'll take the thing with me to the college on Friday and see if I can't get it working. Oh! And for those of you who want to see Red Alert and the others, I'll be getting back to them pretty soon. ... ... You're all going to kill me when I do it but again, I am an evil dragon.
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