"Ironhides gonna have a little sleep over with you in the medbay tonight, sound good?" Ironhide ask. Reflect nods and reaches for him once the mech has sat himself on a berth.

"Ironhide have movie like Jack?" Reflect ask. he chuckles a little.

"I'm sure I can find something while Ratchets getting me all set up." Ironhide snorts.

"Ratchet." Sideswipe calls, running into the medbay.

"Sideswipe?" Ratchet ask, looking confused. "What do you want?" he frowns.

"its Sunny, somethings wrong." Sideswipe says quickly. Ratchet frowns, passing the sparkling over to Ironhide quickly.

"I'll be back to set you up but don't be too surprised if you two end up having company in here tonight." Ratchet says, rushing off after Sideswipe. Reflect squeals excitedly, squirming from Ironhides grasp so he can get down. Ironhide lets him down gently, watching the sparkling run off to grab his toys. he runs back over and lets Ironhide pull him back up.

"movie?" Reflect asks.

"I'm working on it." Ironhide mutters, laying back. Reflect curls up with him happily.

"Ironhide?" Wheeljack asks, worriedly.

"hmm?" Ironhide ask, sitting up to look at the inventor.

"are you okay? did Ratchet find something?" Wheeljack asks.

"no. no I'm fine, just spending the night in here to make him feel better." Ironhide mutters.

"movie!" Reflect squeals.

"and finding a movie." Ironhide mutters.

"oh Reflect are you and Ironhide watching a movie?" Wheeljack chuckles. Reflect nods excitedly.

"movie!" Reflect giggles.

"figured it might help him get to sleep." Ironhide murmurs, shifting the sparkling gently. Reflect yawns and shakes his head.

"no. not tired." Reflect mumbles.

"you're a little tired little one, yeah?" Ironhide ask.

"no. not tired." he pouts.

"well, I'm tired alright? so you're gonna get some rest if you want to stay with me. got it?" Ironhide ask. Reflect pouts a little and cuddles up to him.

"okay." he mumbles sadly.

"its alright, we'll get up early in the morning and go for a race alright?" Ironhide ask. Reflect perks up happily.

"okay!" he squeals. Ironhide winces at the squeal..

"alright, alright, I found a movie, now you lay back and get quiet alright?" Ironhide ask. Reflect nods a little, laying his head on Ironhides chestplates happily. "get your fingers out of your mouth." Ironhide warns. Reflect lifts his head up and growls around the fingers in his mouth.

"he's just being a sparkling Ironhide." Wheeljack murmurs.

"yeah and?" Ironhide ask.

"it won't hurt him, just let him teethe on his servo. keeps him from teething on our armor." Wheeljack mutters. "its a normal part of having a sparkling Ironhide, if it hurts him, he'll stop." Wheeljack shrugs. Ironhide frowns a little.

"whatever." Ironhide mutters. Reflect giggles quietly, cuddling up to him. he casts a movie onto the ceiling with his projector and lays back silently.

Reflects so sleepy he's not even watching the movie, its basically just Ironhide and Wheeljack watching. Ironhide its absentmindedly rubbing his thumb up and down Reflects side gently, like he used to do with Will when he and Will curled up to sleep, generally when Will didn't feel good. the sparkling was terrified Ironhide was going to die so he was going to cuddle the sparkling as much as he could until he reassured the sparklings fears. there was also a faint hope Will would talk to him tonight, though he truely believed Will would still be to pissed to talk to him, but Ironhide needed answers.

Ironhide doesn't remember falling into stasis, but he must've, because he wakes up to screaming. Reflect scrambles up screaming at the top of his voice box. Ironhide jerks up immediately, Ratchet and Wheeljack racing into the medbay, both having been alerted by Reflects screams and the monitor on Ironhides spark going off from the mech being startled awake so abruptly.

"hey hye, whats wrong?" Ratchet asks, walking over scooping the sparkling up quickly. Reflects screams down stop, he's squirming and fighting with Ratchet. "hey, Reflect. shhhh. shhhh. its okay, tell me whats wrong." Ratchet murmurs softly, rubbing the sparklings cheek gently.

"what happened?" Wheeljack asks confused, looking at Ironhide.

"your guess s'good as mine. we were both in stasis." Ironhide mutters. Reflect finally manages to squirm his way free and takes off.

"his screaming is gonna wake the whole base." Ratchet grumbles, running after him. "Reflect come back here!" Ratchet calls. Reflect ignores him. he has to get to his target. why was he having awful dreams like this?

the sparkling wastes no time slamming himself against the door, screaming as loud as he can.

Optimus looks utterly confused when he opens his door and Reflect immediately latches onto his leg.

"what..? Reflect what are you doing?" Optimus mutters.

"Prime. sorry. I don't know whats gotten into the slagger." Ratchet frowns running over. he crouches behind Reflect. "let go squirt. come on, back to bed." Ratchet mutters, grabbing hold of him to pull him off. Reflect immediately screams, digging his fingers into the seams on Optimus leg. "Reflect let go!" Ratchet snaps.

"whats going on?" Jazz mutters, walking out into the hallway.

"Reflect." Optimus frowns, looking down at his leg.

"noooo!!!" Reflect screams holding as tight as he can.

"let go damn it!" Ratchet growls.

"no!!" Reflect shouts.

"everyone stop." Optimus orders. Ratchet frowns a looks up at him. "Reflect what is wrong?" Optimus ask.

"Reflect stay with Optimus!" Reflect screams.

"why?" Optimus frowns.

"Reflect stay!!!" the sparkling repeats.

"Reflect you can't stay with Optimus. you're supposed to stay with Ironhide tonight." Ratchet frowns.

"stay Optimus!" Reflect screams.

"fine. fine. if it'll put an end to this I will allow you to stay with me tonight Reflect. understood?" Optimus asks. Reflect whines, finally letting go of his leg and throwing his arms up into the air for the Prime to pick him up. Optimus sighs and does so.

"I'm really sorry Optimus, you can just hand him here if you want. I don't know whats gotten into him." Ratchet frowns. Reflect growls quietly, hugging Optimus' neck as tight as he can, wrapping his legs around the Prime as best he can, refusing to let go.

"That won't be necessary old friend. if it will make him feel better, Reflect can stay with me tonight." Optimus assures. Ratchet nods a little, watching the Prime retreat to his room with his sparkling. Reflect drops his head onto the Primes shoulder, sniffling. the door closes behind him and Optimus sighs a little. "alright little one, tell me what is going on." Optimus frowns.

"no want Ironhide and Opmis to die." Reflect mumbles. Optimus looks confused.

"little one, I'm am not going to offline and neither is Ironhide." Optimus murmurs.

"Will said." Reflect mumbles, hugging tighter. Optimus frowns, Will never told him that.

"its okay Reflect. its alright." Optimus murmurs gently, hugging him. "I will let you stay in here the night alright?" Optimus assures gently. Reflect cuddles to him. "okay." Optimus murmurs laying back onto his berth.

he's content to let the sparkling spend the night with him, but the next morning, the sparkling refuses to let go. Optimus spends 20 minutes trying to get the sparkling off, before deciding its better to give up, he doesn't want to hurt Reflect.

"okay Reflect, since you won't let go, I guess we're getting energon together." Optimus murmurs. "but then you have to go back to Ratchet, I have things I need to do today." Optimus frowns. Reflect tightens his hold on the Primes neck, making him sigh. he shakes his head and heads out of his room.

he has every Autobots attention, walking into the rec room 30 minutes later than normal. Optimus had a schedule and was almost always on time. he's never been this late.

"Optimus? what are y'doin' with the sparkling?" Jazz snorts.

"he won't let go." Optimus says. "and I'm afraid to pull him off and hurt him." he adds.

"he did the same thing to Ironhide yesterday." Wheeljack frowns.

"he is having bad dreams that Ironhide and I are going to offline." Optimus frowns. Reflect whines a little, hugging tighter.

"he must get it from Ratchet." Wheeljack frowns a little.

"who gets what from Ratchet?" Ratchet snaps, walking in behind them to get himself a cube.

"Reflects fear of Ironhide or Prime offlining." Wheeljack frowns, motioning to the sparkling.

"is that why he wanted to stay with you? he thought you were going to offline?" Ratchet frowns. Reflect whimpers, turning his head to bury his face into the side of the Primes neck.

"yes and he still won't let go." Optimus frowns.

"he'll cling to you all day like he did yesterday to Ironhide." Ratchet frowns a little.

"I cannot hold you all day Reflect, I have things I must do." Optimus frowns.

"like?" Ratchet snorts.

"meetings, Ratchet. meeting and paperwork." Optimus frowns.

"he'll be quiet. he always does good when I have to do paperwork." Ratchet shrugs. "and I had that 'virtual' meeting with one of the military doctors about Sams arm, I carried him the whole time. he slept through the whole thing." Ratchet shrugs.

"its not professional to carry around-" Optimus starts.

"stop" Ratchet warns. Optimus frowns, raising an optic ridge. "do not stand right here and tell me, while looking me dead in the optics, that having a sparkling and taking care of that sparkling, is unprofessional." Ratchet snaps.

"thats not what I meant-" Optimus tries.

"its exactly what you said." Ratchet snaps. "are you telling me, that if I have to go into a meeting with you and the humans with Reflect on my hip, because he wants me specifically to hold him, that I'm being unprofessional? taking care of my sparkling is unprofessional?" Ratchet snaps.

"no Ratchet. it is not unprofessional, he is your sparkling." Optimus frowns. "but he is not my sparkling. I am a Prime, the Prime. it would be unprofessional of me to bring a sparkling, that belongs to someone else, into a meeting with me, Epps, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of National Intelligence." Optimus frowns.

"and? whats more unprofessional, him standing outside the office screaming and beating on the door, or worse climbing through the vent and clinging to you during the meeting, or coming in and explaining that my sparkling is terrified you're going to offline and just wants you to hold him for a few hours? hmmm?" Ratchet snaps. Optimus frowns, staying silent. "fine whatever. come on Reflect." Ratchet mutters, reaching for him. Reflect immediately started screaming as loud as he can, clinging to Optimus.

"REFLECT STAY OPMIS!!!!" Reflect screams.

"Optimus has things to do come on. I'll take you back to Ironhide." Ratchet sighs a little.

"NO!" Reflect cries. Ratchet sighs a little.

"alright. he's your problem to deal with." Ratchet mutters, shrugging. Wheeljack snort and follows after Ratchet when his bonded leaves. Optimus sighs and looks down at the sparkling.

"fine, I guess it won't hurt to have you come with me." Optimus murmurs. he carries the sparkling to his office with a cube for each of them. "but you must be good sparkling, got it?" Optimus ask. Reflect whines. "okay." Optimus mutters, rubbing the sparkling back with a small sigh.

he walks into his office with a small sigh. Epps is already waiting for him.

"oh, there you are, running a little late this morning Optimus." Epps says. Optimus motions to Reflect.

"he woke me up around 2AM. he hasn't let go since." Optimus frowns. "I'm working on it." he sighs a little.

"he won't let go?" Epps asks.

"he screams if anyone tries to take him, digging his fingers into my seams. I'm pretty sure he's ruptured my audio receptor. I was going to get Ratchet to take a look but, he won't let anyone get close to us." Optimus frowns, shifting the sparkling to his other hip. the sparkling doesn't resist, but turns his head to bury his faceplates back into thte Primes neck.

"hey little man whast up?" Epps calls. Reflect chirps at him quietly, hugging Optimus' neck tighter.

"I intend to sit Reflect, are you going to ingest your cube or not?" Optimus asks.

"you sure you want to have this meeting today? you know that Mearing bitch isn't the quietest person, nor the nicest. he'll probably hear things he doesn't need too." Epps frowns a little.

"yes, today is the best day. he'll be alright." Optimus assures gently, sitting down in his chair. Reflect refuses to turn around or let the Prime feed him. "oh come on, surely you don't intend to go all day with out eating Reflect. Ratchet would make you stay in the medbay for the next week." Optimus frowns. Reflect whines but finally turns around, leaning back against the Primes chest.

"he's getting big." Epps murmurs. Optimus nods a little feeding the sparkling his cube. Reflect settles against him, engine purring quietly. "we're got about 20 minutes until the meeting, we heading to the main N.E.S.T. floor?" Epps ask.

"main N.E.S.T. hall, but we have 10 minutes before the meeting. I'm hoping to get him back into stasis before then." Optimus frowns. Reflect pulls back from his cube to glare up at the Prime with a growl, before going back to his cube. Epps snorts.

"got all that Ratchet attitude in that little bitty sparkling body." Epps laughs.

they sit and let the sparkling finish his cube, before heading to the meeting. John and Charlotte are already waiting for them when they get there.

"Optimus, about time." Charlotte snaps.

"we're on time." Epps grumbles.

"knock it off Charlotte. Optimus has a whole base to run." John frowns at her.

"Mr.Keller, Miss.Mearing." Epps greets shaking their hands.

"Technical Sergeant Epps, good to see you again. don't think I've seen you since... well, probably since Sergeant Lennox died." John frowns a little.

"Secretary Keller, Director Mearing. welcome back to the Autobot base." Optimus nods at them.

"and, who is this?" John asks, motioning to Reflect. "I've never seen an Autobot that small." John adds.

"he's a sparkling." Epps shrugs.

"he is an allspark sparked sparkling. he appeared shortly after the main destruction of the last sliver of the Allspark." Optimus explains.

"sparkling? what the hell is a sparkling?" Charlotte frowns.

"the Transformer version of a baby." Epps says.

"and what? they can just appear?" Charlotte asks.

"they spark from the Allspark." Optimus explains. "not very common anymore, but it did happen." Optimus adds.

"and he belongs to Ratchet and Wheeljack." Epps says. "he formed a bond with them." he adds. Reflect turns his head to look at them a little, before hugging Optimus' neck tightly and turning away, Optimus frowns a little, shifting the sparkling back to his hip with a huff.

"you can have children? thats not in our files about your kind." Charlotte glares. Optimus frowns a little, rubbing the little sparklings back gently.

"Reflect is the first sparkling in thousands of millennia. it never crossed our processors to alert humans it was possible. with the Allspark destroyed we assumed it wasn't anymore." Optimus explains.

"well, hello there Reflect, you said his name was?" John asks.

"yes Reflect." Optimus nods.

"well, it's nice to have you hear for this meeting." John smiles. Reflect pulls back some to look at him and chirps at Optimus before dropping his head back down.

"why is he here?" Charlotte frowns.

"if you want Optimus here, you'll have to accept Reflect. he's no different from a baby, Miss.Keller. sometimes babies, or sparklings, have bad days." Epps frowns.

"Reflect is having nightmares about his friends and family dying, unfortunately for us, last night he thought I was dying. so now he wants to stay with me. if you would like to continue with me at this meeting, then you will have to get used to Reflect, if not, I will be happy to leave and reschedule for a different day." Optimus says. there's an awful scraping sounds when Reflect slips a little and tries to push himself back up with his foot, by pushing up on Optimus's armor. everyone but the sparkling winces. the sparkling squeals, digging his fingers into Optimus transformations seams.

"god thats an awful sound." Epps winces.

"I slip." Refelct whimpers, gripping the Primes armor.

"thats because you're heavy." Optimus frowns a little, pulling the little sparkling back up gently. "and I'm not Ratchet or Ironhide so I'm not used to holding you. you're going to slip Reflect." Optimus adds, shifting Reflect carefully. the sparkling whines at him.

"you know, this doesn't seem like a good time for you how about we reschedule?" John asks.

"that would be nice, but I wouldn't ask to inconvience you by making you come back out here, so just let me... let me have a seat. I'm sure he'll settle a little when I sit. he'll be alright." Optimus assures gently.

the meeting, though it was only supposed to last for an hour or two, lasts for nearly six with the sparkling interupting and distracting John Keller. by the time the meeting is finished, Reflects snoring cradled in the Primes arm. Optimus lets out a sigh, still sitting in the floor.

"Ratchet?"

"Prime?"

"I'm in the floor of the N.E.S.T. base, can you please come get the sparkling?"

"in the floor...? are you alright?"

"yes I sat down in the floor during a meeting so he would stop squirming. now he is asleep and I can't get up."

he can practically hear the medic laughing on the other side of the com link.

"Jack and I'll be right there."

"thank you."

Optimus sighs and cradles the sparkling in his lap until Ratchet and Wheeljack arrive.

they both transform with amused grins.

"very funny. please come take the sparkling." Optimus frowns.

"I am." Ratchet snorts, walking over and taking the sparkling gently.

"don't be surprised though, Prime, if he wakes up and wants to come back to you." Wheeljack chuckles.

"thats fine, but first would you mind repairing my audio receptor?" Optimus asks.

"he rupture yours?" Ratchet frowns.

"yes, the same way he did Jazz and Mudflap." Optimus frowns. Ratchet frowns and nods.

"alright Jack, get him up, lets go, before the sparkling wakes up." Ratchet mutters. Reflect shifts a little a whines. he recognizes the body cuddling him is different, he knows its Ratchet and not Optimus. "shhh sparkling. Optimus needs help little one, he can take you back later." Ratchet assures gently, kissing the sparklings head gently. Reflect yawns and cuddles up to Ratchets chestplates quietly. Ratchet rubs his cheek, being as gentle with the sparkling as he can be. if he wakes him up too much, the sparkling will never finish his nap today.

Ratchet leads the other two into the medbay.

"Jack, replace his audio. if I put Reflect down long enough to change it out, he'll wake up." Ratchet frowns.

"I've got it. why don't you see if you can get a cube in him?" Wheeljack asks.

"I'm gonna. probably hasn't had one this morning, has he Prime?" Ratchet frowns.

"he had one this morning when I had one, but it has been a few hours." Optimus replies.

"well, thats better than him not having one at all." Ratchet mutters, shifting the sparkling gently, to try and get a cube down him. Reflect doesn't wake up, but does drink the cube quietly. Ratchet smiles at the little sparkling, rubbing his cheek gently with his thumb. he's carefully watching the not so little sparkling suck down the cube. if he's not careful, the sparkling could choke.

"don't let him drown." Wheeljack teases.

"I swear to Primus, I'll kill you." Ratchet snaps, growling quietly. the sparkling whimpers, pushing the cube away. he struggles with the medic.

"Opmis." Reflect whimpers.

"take it easy little one. its alright. Optimus cannot hold you all the time like Ironhide does." Ratchet murmurs softly. Reflect squirms.

"wan Opmis." Reflect mumbles, sleepily.

"yeah I know but how about you lay here with me and finish your cube, okay? let Wheeljack finish working on Optimus." Ratchet murmurs.

"okay." Reflect mumbles quietly, pulling one Ratchets arm. Ratchet gives the sparkling his cube back.

"so he thinks you are going to die now? first Ironhide, now you?" Ratchet asks. Optimus shrugs his shoulder, careful not to disrupt Wheeljacks work.

"thats what he told me, but he's clinging to me worse than he does Ironhide." Optimus frowns.

"well, you did promise to keep Ironhide safe. if you get injured or die, Ironhide could be next." Ratchet frowns. Reflect whimpers, pulling away from his cube.

"no let Ironhide die." Reflect whimpers.

"don't worry little one. its okay. we won't let Ironhide die." Ratchet assures him gently. "drink your cube." Ratchet murmurs. the sparkling takes the cube back, whining. "finish your cube alright, you should get down and play okay?" Ratchet ask. Reflect growls quietly around the cube. "don't growl at me." Ratchet warns.