- A day without a sunshine is like, you know, night. -

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[Chloe's Third P.O.V]

What a boring day.

Chloe closed her locker with heavy sigh, leaning her forehead onto it. Everything felt like collapsing apart on that day. Her mind was way too anxious for nothing as the fact of her friends not being in school pissed her off. Jack and Tara had made a magical disappearing again with Miko and Rafael she referred, half-day of the school was already done for so she expected them not to come.

This had been happening often quite some time.

She couldn't tell what kind of 'club' this was, but since Jack joined it he has been a lot busier than usual. Not just his work, but that and his other too. That guy never seemed to have any free-time for Chloe but even though the girl wanted some distance she couldn't bare of not seeing the people she cares for. Jack happened to be one of them.

A small hint of frustration left Chloe, while she grabbed her backpack's stripe tighter and prepared to head for physics' class. The most boring classes were also listed for that day but her Uncle was merciles.

"Hey, Carrot-head--" Frozing slight, Chloe made the action to turn around and face the guy she recognized from his tone as Shane, but was been caught off guard by a loud slap ringing her ears as well the burning pain now on her cheek. The girl just stopped like a deer in headlights, seeing him stand there fists up while his face was kinda pissed. Remember this guy? Sara, Chloe's friend fancied him a bit.... but was the situation anymore the same? "Because of you I couldn't get laid with one of the school's most hottest chicks, and for that reason I need to cool down my anger a bit."

What Chloe remembered, was few punches straight to her face again as if she had earned them. But she was way too small, incapable to fight with no experience.

Last thing what she seemed to remember was the principal shouting his throat soar by end of the hallway, until Chloe slided down her locker's door and fainted right on the floor with bruices covering her face. What really just scrolled in her mind, was the thought that this was Vincent's idea.

That bitch.

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          "I swear to God I had nothing to do with this."

With folded arms Chloe tried to reason herself to her guardian who drove the car non-calmly, his grip to the wheel never loosing once. When Chloe's uncle looked at her bruiced face with few plasters on the badly swollen ones he had to look forward to try control his anger. His lips formed to a thin line, while he took in a deep breath.

"That guy just came out of nowhere, and-" What Chloe lastly now needed was him to start giving lecture for her about nothing she did!

"Who is this guy?" Joe questioned with anger in his tone, absolutely furious of how could a guy beat Chloe's face to this condition. It was more than unaccectable. Her Uncle was about to loose control of how outrageous he had gotten.

Chloe froze a bit as slowly returned back to her seat from trying to convince him that much, looking down at the hospital-info paper laying on her lap.

I wish no more trouble.

"... No one." The girl refused to meet his demanding look.

"Chloe, this is a serious fellany-"

"I don't want anymore trouble, Uncle Joe!" Chloe shouted to gain his full attention, seeing that got him quiet. They were soon going to drive on their familiar road. "He wanted to bang one of my friend who stood up for me against Vincent and his friends... and this is the result." Her shoulders shrugged in lazy manner, while her arms were still sneaked.

"So it's Vincent and his friends again, huh?" Her Uncle growled, turning the wheel on right to drive towards their yard. "The principal wants to see you tomorrow,"

"I'm not going to school." Chloe firmly interrupted. Joe glanced at her to see how she again refused to meet his eyes, staring out of her side mirror now once they pulled over to their yard. "Not with swollen face like this."

"Chloe-" Joe couldn't stop but watch as the teenager exited the vehicle and rushed towards their front door, he himself left behind to shut his SUV down. "Fuck."

Now the girl ran the stairs up and took the key from under their plant pot, unlocking the door as well getting in. Without sharing a glance elsewhere she ran up the stairs towards her own room, just wanting to see her face. Chloe barched into her room and headed towards the bathroom, putting on some lights even though it was still afternoon and sun was shining behind the horizon. Now, she had frozen there in front of her bathroom's mirror. Her hand reached up to her face to touch the swollen cheek, as well her now black eye which didn't hurt so much thanks to the pain-killers... but she looked literally like a wreck. Like straight from a horror movie.

Without noticing it earlier Chloe felt her eyes tear up. She may be feisty from nature but nobody could handle a treatment and violence she had. A quiet knock on her door let her know that Uncle Joe was there, her eyes traveling to see him enter the bathroom his solid body crouched, face down. He felt sympathy towards her so much, still questioning how could someone do this to her?

"I'm sorry." Joe felt the guilty of pressuring her to go to school this morning, but wasn't expecting Chloe to throw herself into his arms and press into a tight squeeze. Over a year his niece hadn't cried for nothing, but now to see someone upset her this much again when she was just recovering from the loss of her parents, he just had to suck it in for a moment. "I will make that guy pay for what he did... while you go to sleep," He aparted from Chloe a little to wipe away her tears, frowning little of how messed up she looked like. "No need to go to school tomorrow."

Chloe silently nodded as she kept sobbing, after a while been led to her bed by her Uncle as well he watched her a while when she closed her eyes, and slowly but surely fell into a deep sleep. Her guardian grimaced his stern face back on after pulling a cover onto her to prevent her from any coldness while he left the room closing the lights and shutting the door close.

Running down the stairs was easy for such very-builted man, as he reached his phone laying on the kitchen table. Picking it up, and scrolling up a saved phone number he pressed to call and put it by his ear, walking to the living room knowing there Chloe -if she might've be awake, could not hear him. He was going to need small help in order to payback for letting a single finger on his niece he swore to protect.

"Silas, I need camera surveillance tape from this day's Jasper, Nevada school. Yeah. The manner is personal. I will go teach how well-mannered boys act."

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"MOM!"

"DAAAAD!"

"- You must be Chloe Wilson?"

"- We're deeply sorry... but your parents didn't survive from the accident."

"-- Police said that a truck driver still unknown to the goverment and rest of the USA was driving on wrong lane on purpose crashing to the cars coming up-ahead and unable to slow down, taking with a dozen victims,"

"- Will we put her to the orphanage?"

"-- I will take her. I am her Father's big brother and she is my niece, so... I have known her the entire time. I know Chloe the best, so please, just give me the paper work so I can get done with it and get her home-

"She doesn't deserve to sit on that chair and cry herself to sleep."

Knock, knock.

Almost jumping, Chloe drifted awake for unknown reason. Her room was pitch black and there floaded a perfect silence, almost leading her to fall asleep again. She was so tired.

But again two louder knocks heard, something within the teenager got her to jump off that bed and to look directly at her window. Only to realize who exactly was there staring inside. Quickly by putting on a random hoodie laying on the floor Chloe clicked her table's light on and rushed to the window, feeling two burning red optics glare at her.

"-- I fell asleep, I'm sorry!" Before he'd open his big mouth to give her sassy comments again she apologized, the tiredness suddenly gone. Megatron now watched her climb out that window with glare still, until she hopped down and rushed towards the smithy then. Not even once sharing a glance back at him. "Come on, I'm fully awake now."

It was strange for the Warlord to see Chloe pull on herself the hoodie too to cover her head, and pull the stripes so it would tighten up.

He didn't see me, he didn't see me, he didn't see me-

Chloe got in as well flickered the lights on so the room around her invention would glimm to life, the big parts which she was unable to lift by herself remained there on the ground. The ones she required Megatron's help with-- it would seem he had nothing else better to do then so he came to help.

"Should we start from abdomen-area?"

"Actually I thought of-" Wondering why was his tone so incredibly close and deeper Chloe turned to share a glance, almost jumping five feet away to see now a man standing in her smithy, upper-body naked while he wore this similar clothing as cloak which showed clearly familiar shoulder spikes. "By Jesus!" A loud squeal or then horror left her as she backed up, reading his expression he did not see her face from under that hoodie. "... Wait, I do know you."

The man she recognized as Megatron hissed a bit showing his teeth, turning away from her to stare up at the invention. Even though she had to walk outside and see what happened to his Cybertronian form her eyes traveled up and down his gorgeous human body, the one captivating her eyes were his way too perfect abs. Such. Solid. Body.

"What did you have in mind?" Megatron questioned and his gaze snapped Chloe out of her trance, the girl flinching while tried to look away from him with folded arms and stern expression.

Holy hell.

He's huge.

He could easily kill me in that form too if I give him the attitude today!

"I-umm, I thought of heading first from the processor and attach the missing wire, but that's like two size of me so..." Chloe chuckled a bit, her face heating up for still remembering his body. Before Megatron got to work the teenager turned, watching him climb up. "I have to ask. Can you turn into a human just like that?"

The Warmonger lifted easily the heavy wire Chloe couldn't even kick to move, leaving her in awe to watch again.

I need to get him a shirt.

"It is called a holoform." Megatron simply put, while Chloe rounded her invention up and climbed up the opposite way, been other side of him. She watched him stuff the right spot on it's ment place while she got her welding machine and quickly put on her mask to prevent him seeing her under that bright light.

"Not same as hologram?" Chloe asked like excited child again. She did meet his eyes once until got back at welding the wire together again, hearing his footsteps when he got to put the other side close.

"Unlike hologram I can touch things and do what you humans can, as well transform my entire being to this form." Megatron stated, stuffing the wire on place. Chloe wasn't even close of helping him out when he climbed already back down. "Although it is pathetic."

"Your technology's so cool I can't understand it." Chloe laughed a bit, lighted up by the odd face he gave to her. Once finally been done with welding the girl climbed on her invention as crawled to the wire's other end, watching Megatron concentrate on putting on one of the leg's shelter. "... Do you have like different appointments to body parts too?"

"Obviosly." Megatron kept his statements short, although like a miracle not still at his snapping point.

Chloe stopped for a second, eyes frozing to the man who had noticed this as well met her eyes. That look or stare was something completely else. And the Warmonger almost regretted it afterwards.

"Can you teach me a few?" Chloe asked innocently, still that stupid welding mask on. Megatron turned to break their stare as well stuff the needed shelter on some exposive wires, getting Chloe vince a bit. "It's nicer to talk with me when I know the right designations!"

"- What you just said is how we question someone's designation, a name." Completely bewildered himself the half-naked man got a bigger part this time as dragged it closer for the invention, dropping it while speaking which made the girl jumpy. Megatron glaring hintly to face her again. "Like your designation is Chloe Elizabeth Wilson. But personally; I might like the second one." His grin was on place for seeing her face.

Chloe rose a dear brow. Not really sure of the fact how he knew her name and probably everything else about her, or that he liked her second name more.

"What's so great about Elizabeth? It's way too long." Chloe defended, getting back on welding. She felt smally taken back of her words... her Grandmother's name was Elizabeth. Why would she say things like that when she loved it?

"Let us make it shorter then," Megatron smacked one big part in the Cyber-wolf's abdomen to attach rest of the wires when he'd go in, but he couldn't resist of teasing the human little by the face she again gave him. "Eli."

"Eli?" Officially; Megatron was the one giving the most oddest and nicest nickname to her. Chloe glanced to see him back at work again, her work at weilding continuing on above. "What happened to the other nicknames-- why Eli? It sounds creepy."

What she received was a deep chuckle from down below, making amused look.

Woah, what's happening to him?

"You already know definition to a processor such as spark, I refer?" Very creepily Chloe understood to look down from a narrow gap and meet his crimson red eyes, nodding. That's what he had told anyway. And his action to bluck one wire to the one near her startled her again, making her mask almost fall of it she hadn't slide it back on. "For my last example; what you humans call fingers we call them digits. These may be the easiest basics you ever need to know."

Designation, processor, spark and digits...

How come digits are important?

"I think I need a dictionary." Chloe said amusingly, getting done finally. She slipped down from her invention as well removed her mask aside, climbing down to screw up the shelter Megatron had put on earlier. By grabbing a screw machine and few screws with she turned to get to work, almost shitting her pants to witness Megatron now standing before her, body unmoved like rock his chest shining like on body-show while his gaze was directed on her. "Oh my fucking- you really need to stop that!" She quickly hissed as well rubbed her eyes a bit, ending up hissing a bit for her bruiced right eye. Suddenly her wrist was grabbed as she was brought forward, Megatron the one pulling her hoodie off. "Wait, no-!"

What the Leader of the Decepticons didn't expect was this. This such curious little human had obviosly been beaten up and bad, even making his eyes red eyes halt once of the sight. Her cheeks were partly swollen, right eye smacked hard so it had bruiced up as well her jaw had small cut on it. Megatron for some odd reason didn't like this at all. His grip to her wrist remained as it tightened too, making the girl vince and shut her eyes close. Head low.

"Who did this?" Even though Megatron didn't sound so serious and angry of the fact how she looked, when he didn't receive any answer he grabbed Chloe's chin roughly and made her to look at him. Now only seeming impatient. "Answer."

I should've seen this coming...

"Someone you don't clearly know," Chloe said, poker face on. Her eyes had now narrowed to the Warlord's. "It's none of your business anyway. We should continue." She brushed him off, bending under his arm as well got to screw that shelter on.

"Actually,"

Totally scared to death Chloe flinched of the fist smashing to her invention's leg right beside her head, automatically her body spun around. She backed away for Megatron's closen body which gave no mercy for giving any space to move, locking her there. Chloe swallowed hard yet hardened her gaze, head slightly tilting when Megatron crouched up to came threatenly close to her face.

I say it again; he's huge.

"You are an important asset and possibly the only capable being of finishing what you have started, and if anything was to disturb you or your work-" Megatron snarled, teeth visible while a flinch went down Chloe's spine to feel his breath against her skin. It was shivers sending. "Only means that it is my business." Remaining there, Chloe listened his heart beating, while the wind was as quiet as the air. Her breathing had increased, which the huge muscle man had already noticed. So he backed away from her afterwards. "Get that to your head already. Start speaking."

Chloe brought her arms up as well pressed her chest to calm down, looking Megatron with the eyes even she couldn't understand. Millions of feelings went through her, while two of them really stuck. Megatron was a ticking time bomb, he seriosly had a bad temper. His eyes were looking that of a murerour's... as his face was so grumped it held so many meanings in it. Even if swearing not to speak, Chloe found herself unable to do the same with him.

He's the worst person who should I mess with...

So Chloe didn't get to try her luck any further.

"... Just a random guy from school-"

"Designation, Eli." Megatron snarled a bit, having shocked look directed on him. At least he didn't call her 'human' or 'fleshie'. And it startled her. Bad time.

"... Shane... I think Miller," Chloe widened her eyes to see Megatron turn by this, his face halting a bit before. "What do you think you're doing?" But the girl launched to grab hold of his cloak, afterwards releasing for earning a warn-look from the Devil. "Megatron."

The Warmonger groaned a bit, despising those pleading eyes of hers. Chloe was a human he had tolerated for this long, but something what made him eager was pleadings and beggins.

It only increased his will to kill.

"To end someone's pitiful life." Was Megatron's answer until he rushed to leave, which got Chloe widen her eyes definitely.

"You can't do that!" Chloe ran to block his exit from her smithy's doors, smally flinching of the look the alien gave to her. If you stared those bloody red eyes for more than thirty seconds you'd flinch too. "I- you don't have to do that, he will be punished I swear." But that seemed to heed into deaf ears once the man bended amazingly under her spread arms, now the human clenched onto his arm. "Megatron please!"

As a reflex, Megatron brushed Chloe off maybe using too much force as she flew to her back on the ground. This got him off guard also as he turned, his offlined Cybertronian frame second of his thoughts when Chloe vinced as her nose bled now.

Chloe lent to her arms while wiped some blood off, looking up at him eyes hesitantly wide.

"Why did you do that?" Megatron growled out loud, again startling the human as she crawled a little back. Again the Warlord's eyes halted a bit, his face growing smally panicking. Only small.

Why do I seem to notice...

That he's fighting his own demons.

Chloe swallowed her proudness and hattred, not even caring of what he had done. He clearly didn't know what apology was, so she was glad to see his face drop a bit. By reaching to her pocket she grabbed a tissue as well wiped some of the blood off, as it didn't stop the bleeding she stuck it in, knowing Megatron watched. On his face going a few emotions himself.

Then, she laughed.

"Holy Hell," Chloe slowly sat up, resting her hands on her feet. Megatron stared in pure shock of her face. "What a reflex. You should teach me a few." She made a smile up to him, which did nothing else but shock the Warmonger more than he was. She had been beaten up, just got hit by his arm and yet... she smiled. Slowly, he relaxed, again approaching her slowly when he felt she allowed it. "Truce?" Her hand extended forward, this human had way too much trust on the mech.

Megatron watched her hand for a moment, slowly reaching as well grabbing it. Chloe even gasped once he pulled her up, it was like raising a light pipe from the ground.

"Woah, woah calm down, Megs." Chloe still continued, earning quite brief look. What she meant was non-happy one. "You will let me use that. Eli sounds too odd, as well you owe me a one and that'll settle what just happened."

Again the Cybertronian growled, rolling his eyes as well spun around. Chloe watched him for a second until he- was gone. What was left of him was a handfull of glimming red sparks, until his Cybertronian form flinched awake. The human girl watched his optics online while he got back on his feet pretty quick, yet again his shining silver body glorious under the night sky.

"That nickname is unaccectable," Megatron begun, Chloe letting out small grunt of disapproval. Her arms grabbed her hips, while she looked up at him with a face C'mon! "For once you may use it between the both of us, but if I ever hear you use it when my armada on heard," His horrified optics locked towards her direction, but what he got was a smirk while Chloe folded her arms now.

"It's settled then." The girl said proudly. Why did she have the idea that she was taming this animal? For twice he hadn't used such violence towards her -not including the accident before, she felt herself smiling.

Megatron stared at her until turned, showing his amazingly thick frame as he walked again to head off. Why not call that portal or something?

"Now I have another task to fullfill."

Chloe smiled a bit as he started to walk away, her mind only then realizing of why had she got his arm hit on her face.

"Oi, big-shot!" Chloe called, seeing how that big-lug stopped a way which got her laugh a bit. She would definitely be using more nicknames like he did from start. "If you mean that guy...! You have my permission to do whatever you like, just make sure that he survives from it."

Megatron grinned a bit, it invicible for Chloe since he was his back still to her. He wasn't planning of hearing anyone others' opinions but himself's... finding this oddly pleasent to have her commitment.

"I tended to."

Watching Megatron transform and fly into the sky Chloe watched him go, smile still on her face. Something of him made her do that. It was crazy, of the way he treated her and threatened her... but that might've only be his way?

She brushed that aside, sighing. Her head turned towards her smithy again, her feet going to move themselves.

Back to work again, I guess...

But there's only few parts.

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     Shane, aka the guy who beat Chloe was just doing his push-ups, raged of the shouts her parents gave to him, principal's talking-to tomorrow as well he had lost his chance of getting any girls... everyone pretty much calling him women beater. That carrot-had.

Suddenly the steroids taking guy punched the floor beneath his feet, his rap just kept going from his boom-box. Even seeing Chloe's face got him outrageous, he would make sure to payback her more.

She had got him into all this, even Vincent didn't want to stood up for him.

"Fucking slut." Shane snarled low, getting back up his amazing muscles hard for all the training. The clock was about 1 a.m at night when he checked it, taking a shirt from his closet as pulling it on.

Unexpectedly; suddenly he jumped back and was startled to death of hearing his window shatter apart. His room was full-lighted, so he soon caught a person knelt on his floor surrounded by glass framents, until his brown eyes caught up the pair of red ones. Once this figure stood up he was huge Shane compared that much, wearing no shirt as his entire being seemed odd.

"W-who are you!?" Shane questioned panickingly, eyeing the weapons around his body. A sword decorated his belt while on his back was this biggest gun he had ever seen; but the man's grin was more scarier than any of those. "I'm calling the police--!"

A plasma burned the telephone Shane tried to grab from his table- or in fact, made a hole in it. The teenager's head shakily turned to see that blaster point the spot it wanted, until it directed straight at his face.

"Nah-ah, ah." Megatron as we know scared, seeing how shaky his target had became. "Why don't we have some fun first?" His big army boots stepped on the glasses as he approached Shane, the boy frozen dead on his track. "Like you seemed to have with Eli just before."

Shane was taken back by this, Chloe was so dead for him. He hated her. He seriosly hated that bitch. If he was here because of that she might've have some awesome friends or relatives... but he was unnatural. Red eyes? Did he have contact lenses?

"Junk-girl..." Shane growled, Megatron not approval to the tone of his voice. His own eyes deepened to a glare, the same kind of that predators have. "Who are you?" He asked again... but didn't know he'd regret it badly next time.

Megatron put his blaster behind his back, fists clenching as his eyes narrowed. Oh, his smirk was the last thing that boy would ever remember-- Chloe was beaten by this guy.

"I'm your worst nightmare."

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