Stargazing

Stargazing
By Steph


Sam sighed for what felt like the hundredth time that day, today had just gone from bad to worse, piling up the last of his books Sam made his way out of the dingy class room and onto the grey corridor of the school. The young human huffed as he walked with heavy footsteps down the almost deserted corridor, the posters hanging on the wall almost sneering at him and his predicament as he walked by to the entrance.  Sam came to the big double doors of his high school that lead to the outside world, looking out Sam grimaced, the sky was a dull grey colour as masses of clouds formed around the school in a miserable sort of way, the wind battering against the door trying to gain entry. Sam heaved in a huge breath as he hesitantly opened the door, air came rushing in making Sam’s body fly back against the wall, the human let out a painful groan.

Sam pushed back against the flow of air and with heavy footsteps, the teen managed to fight his way through the cruel current of wind battering against his body in a battle of supremacy and out of the front doors of the school and into the parking lot. Sam looked around for the familiar sight of the yellow camero his eyes flickering trying to locate his guardian. His search drew up nothing. Sam groaned as the young teen shivered as the cool, chilly air gripped his body, soon the youngster’s teeth began to chatter, Sam felt something cold and wet hit him on the shoulder, the young teen looked up towards the sky, it had darkened into a black, mass of grey, water soon began to pour from the sky as the earth poured out rain from the heavens. Sam walked over to the main road near the school and stood waiting, getting thoroughly drenched as the rain poured all over the cold teen, Sam’s body began to shiver as the cold precipitation penetrated the human’s clothes easing onto his already cold skin, the wind gripped his body fiercely making the teen’s teeth chatter with more intensity. In a desperate ditch to stay warm Sam hugged his arms across his chest as he waited alone on the road side….

For nearly an hour Sam waited alone in the wind and rain before finally the rumbling of an engine could be heard from around the corner, Sam looked up with slight irritation clearly alit in his dull hazel eyes as the familiar sight of a yellow camero rolled forward to meet the now thoroughly drenched teenager. Without a word Sam trudged forward towards the car as he neared the driver’s door popped open of it’s own accord revealing the warm interior of Bumblebee. The autobot took in the appearance of his charge, clothes stuck tight against his skin, whole body shivering from cold. Quickly Bumblebee turned on his climate control to warm his cab as Sam gingerly climbed into the driver’s seat, Bumblebee flinched slightly as he felt cool droplets of water hit his interior. Once he was sure Sam was inside Bumblebee shut his door and turned from the curb driving towards the direction of Sam’s house.

The silence as the autobot drove was deafening as it was unusual,  normally Sam would launch into a detailed explanation of how his day had been, yet today the teen was quiet. Bumblebee could sense the irritation and anger coming off his charge, trying to break the tension the autobot’s soft voice filled the cab.

“Sam are you ok?” “You have barely said a word since we left school” Bumblebee was met with cold silence, the autobot immediately turned his sensors towards his charge, he could sense the teen was agitated, a sigh filled the cab.

“I’m sorry I was late, Optimus called everyone for an important meeting, I never meant to leave you hanging” the scout’s voice was soft,

Bumblebee did feel immensely guilty it intensified slightly as he felt Sam shiver, the yellow mech just hoped his young charge would not get sick from being exposed to cold.

Once again Bumblebee’s explanation was met with silence, the autobot huffed and Sam felt a slight breeze from the air vents as the autobot let out air from his coolant system.

“Slag it Sam, why won’t you talk to me” the young autobot sighed.

For the first time since entering the car, Sam moved slightly and opened his mouth, he spoke in a low quiet voice.

“It’s funny, I’m used to been forgotten by a lot of people, my parents, friends, Michaela but I didn’t expect to be forgotten by you Bee”

The autobot nearly braked as he lost control over his driving for a second, seemingly shocked by his charge’s response. The hurt was very evident in the scout’s voice as he spoke.

“Since when have I ever forgotten about you Sam?”

Sam just folded his arms and looked out of the window before speaking in the same mono tone.

“Oh I don’t know, quite a lot recently, your never here any more Bee, always this meeting, this patrol or that mission” the teen’s voice said sarcastically.

Bumblebee was taken aback, it was true recently there had been a lot of decepticon activity and the yellow scout had often been called away leaving Sam out in the cold.

“You know that it’s not my fault, I’m your Guardian Sam, I could never just forget about you” he said softly.

Sam snorted, at Bumblebee’s explanation,

“My Guardian, don’t give me that Bee, If you really cared about that you’d be here, allots happened, that you know absolutely nothing about, so don’t go patronising me about you been my Guardian when you have been dumping me at every given opportunity”

Bumblebee fell silent as the hurt of his charge’s words shook right through his frame down to the core of his spark, one thing he never wanted to happen, Sam to lose faith in him, he had to prove to the boy that he really did care.

The yellow bot quietly in a low voice contemplated his charge’s words

“Perhaps your right”

Sam said nothing as he quickly exited the yellow camero and headed straight into the house without even looking back. Bumblebee watched his charge leave the ruminants of their argument weighing heavily on the scout. Sighing Bumblebee settled into a light recharge as he contemplated on what to do, some how he had to earn Sam’s trust back…..

It was night, the sun had finished setting enveloping the land in the blackness of night, the sky was very clear and the brightness of the stars could be seen in all their wonder and beauty the moon shone brightly across the sky lighting up landscape in a ray of beautiful silver light.

Out on the drive way Bumblebee came online, the scout’s systems slowly began to warm up, The yellow mech’s optical sensors looked up towards the sky, it was the clearest the scout had ever seen it, nearly the whole galaxy was viable tonight, an idea began to fill the yellow autobot, scanning the area to ensure no one was around Bumblebee transformed into his robot state, his blue optics lit up in the darkness. As quietly as he could muster, the yellow scout walked up to the house and stationed himself right besides Sam’s bedroom window, with one massive finger, Bumblebee gently tapped the window.

Inside the bedroom Sam had finally succumbed to sleep, his head buried in his pillow, the teen was deep in sleep, until a faint banging could be heard outside, Sam mumbled slightly to himself as he felt the encroaching awareness of the outside world call him away from his slumber. Groggily Sam opened his eyes, he blearily looked over to where the somewhat quiet banging noise was coming from, the teenager felt his mouth open in shock, outside stood Bumblebee in his robot form crouching slightly, his artic blue optics peering curiously into the room. Using his guardian’s optics as a light, Sam swung his feet over the side of the mattress and carefully padded over to the window. In a smooth motion Sam opened the window feeling the cool night air drift in from the outside, he shivered slightly before staring up at the yellow autobot.

“Bee?” the teen questioned his voice slightly croaky from just waking up.

Sam brought a sleeve up to his eyes as he tenaciously rubbed the sleep out of them as if to try and clear his vision to make sure he wasn’t dreaming.

“What are you doing here?” Sam enquired, there was a slight bitter twinge to the young human’s voice.

Bumblebee noticed this, his door wings drooped slightly at his charge’s tone, he ignored the question and held out a hand to Sam,

“Come with me, I have something to show you” the yellow scout clarified, he moved his hand slightly nearer the window.

Sam looked at the hand being offered to him and then back to Bumblebee’s face, he sighed feeling as though Bumblebee would just pucker him out of his room anyway if he refused. Sam hesitantly climbed onto the yellow hand holding the thumb of the autobot for support as he felt himself being lowered towards the ground.

Bumblebee lowered his charge carefully onto the grass before stepping away, in one fluid motion he then proceeded to fold into his camero form. The driver’s door swung open

“Climb in” the voice sounded out from the cab, Sam walked over to the familiar yellow car and hopped into the drivers seat, the door shut with a thud and Bumblebee’s engines hummed to life and the vehicle began to back out of the driveway. Neither one spoke as Bumblebee drove through the nearly deserted streets, turning this way and that, and Sam wondered if his guardian was merely driving around or he had some location in mind. His curiosity was answered when Bumblebee came to a stop on a hill looking over the dark city. Sam despite himself smiled, one of his favourite places, the overlook….

Sam stepped out, hands firmly lodged inside his jean pockets as he turned and watched the yellow Camero unfold and twist in incomprehensible ways until a bipedal mechanical robot stood in its place, electric blue eyes staring down at the smaller human at his feet. Wordlessly Bumblebee paced over to a nearby oak tree and settled down next to, leaning against the tree in a reclined position, the tree shook slightly as it bore the autobot’s weight, the yellow scout’s head stared upwards looking at the night sky. Sam stared at the yellow mech and sighed, he followed in his guardian’s footsteps towards the tree. Bumblebee looked down at his charge and wordlessly offered him a hand, Sam took the silent invitation and clambered onto the smooth metal palm, he once again felt himself being lifted, now use to the sensation Sam looked down at his shoes, the guilt of their previous conversation tearing at him inside.

Bumblebee’s blue optics regarded the miserable position of his charge before he gently set the boy on his shoulder and once again lent back against the tree. The air was peaceful and calm and the sky clear allowing the brilliant light of the stars to cascade down from the heavens, the moon was full and it’s silver light just added a sincere beauty to the landscape.

Bumblebee turned his gaze from the sky to the boy sat upon his shoulder, Sam didn’t notice the stare of his guardian until that is when the yellow scout began to speak.

“Sam, look up, over there” the yellow mech said in a soft encouraging tone one of his huge metal hands pointing to a particular star that was considerably brighter then the others, Sam followed his guardian’s hand before his eyes laid on one of the most beautiful stars he had ever seen, It was bright blue with white circling around it in a sparkling orb, all around it patterns of gold and silver crossed over each other following in the path of the star,

Bumblebee watched with a smile as Sam’s hazel eyes alit with awe and wonder, for the first time, longer then Bumblebee could remember a smile spread across Sam’s face, as he gazed at the twinkling beauty in the night sky, the yellow scout turned his gaze to join his charge.

Sam’s breathed in a breath of air, moving his shoulders slightly,

“It’s beautiful” he sighed as he turned to look at Bumblebee’s face before once more turning his attention back to the star.

Bumblebee moved slightly his optics staring intently at the bright star,

“It sure is” the scout mused, his words seem to hold a deeper understanding then on the surface.

Sam noticed the change in his guardian’s tone and turned to look at the yellow mech’s face, his brown eyes staring questioningly into the blue optics of Bumblebee, The yellow scout noticed his charge’s solemn expression as if waiting for him to say something, Bumblebee blinked before tearing his gaze from Sam and up to the sky once more. Sam watched with fascination ,

“Its my home, or what is left of it, Cybertron” Bumblebee said sadly his voice quiet along with the stillness of the night air.

Sam looked at Bumblebee with a shocked expression, Bumblebee heaved a sigh before continuing

“After we left, there was not enough energon to keep the planet alive, it died and like a supernova exploded leaving nothing but it’s remains. The bright patterns your looking at is the remains of my planet, it’s gone now, we can never return it to what it once was” Bumblebee’s tone was sad as if reminiscing a forgotten memory.

Sam’s eyes went wide for a few seconds as he stared at his guardian, the guilt rising up in his throat feeling as though it was going to constrict him.

“I’m sorry” the young human whispered
Bumblebee stared at his charge, before nodding slightly

“Thank you, it’s not all bad fate yielded a reward for us, a new world to call home, I like this planet, if we had to pick any planet to be our new home I’m glad it is this one”

Sam was surprised at this,

Bumblebee continued the wisdom rang out from his voice

“I would not have changed anything that has happened, if things were different I would never have met you” the yellow scout reminisced

Sam opened his mouth to speak but he found he could not formulate a response instead he just spread his arms around the neck joint of his guardian placing his face against the cool yellow metal in something akin to a hug.

Bumblebee was slightly taken aback by Sam’s reaction, he hummed happily and as gently as he could he placed a hand behind the boy cupping his back, holding him in place.

Sam breathed in a breath, before quietly speaking in a low tone

“I’m sorry about earlier Bee, I never wanted to make you feel guilty” the teen confessed, tears stung his eyes as he remembered the harsh words he uttered to the loyal scout.

Bumblebee was his guardian he always put Sam’s safety first, before his own, going above and beyond risking his life to protect him, he didn’t just do it out of duty he did it out of love. Undeniable love from one big spark, Bumblebee’s.

Bumblebee tightened his grip around the boy encased within his palm slightly before lifting him from his face, and setting him on his chest plating,

“It’s ok Sam, I understand, I wish to apologise also, I have been neglecting you, I promise it will not happen again, you’re my first priority” the solemn promise rang out of the scout’s tone.

Sam’s eyes looked up at Bumblebee, he patted the metal just above his head

“It’s not your fault, you have other duties you’re an autobot, I should have realised I’m sorry Bee”

Bumblebee nodded his huge head in understanding

“It’s ok Sam,” with that Bumblebee held out both his hands on either side of Sam.

Sam looked up questioningly at the yellow mech’s face, Bumblebee just let out a laugh, before happily chirping

“Friends?” the scout asked

Sam looked up and let out an amused laugh

“The best of friends” he agreed before he jumped up into Bumblebee’s hands, the scout caught the young human in two hands, and gently hugged him to his spark, Sam felt Bumblebee’s spark humming almost happily under it’s chest plating, he let a smile spread across his face as he settled his head down on the surprisingly warm metal. Bumblebee’s face plating stretched into a slight smile as he stared down at his human encased safely in his hands.

The warmth of Bumblebee’s spark slowly began to lull Sam into a peaceful slumber, exhaustion finally catching up with the human and before long his body went slump against the yellow mech’s metal. Bumblebee gazed down with an amused expression etched across his fate plating with one finger he gently brushed the loch’s of brown hair away from Sam’s eyes.  He was content with watching his charge sleep

The night air was peaceful and warm it was still quite dark out, Bumblebee turned his attention from Sam back towards the sky. Yes Cybertron was gone but it’s memory would forever live on if those who remembered carried it within their sparks. Bumblebee once more gazed down at Sam resting peacefully within his hands, closing his hands protectively the yellow scout adjusted his charge’s body closer to his spark and he placed a hand upon Sam’s body keeping out the chilly night air. He adjusted his position against the tree, before dimming his optics and joining his human into a blissful slumber. Two friends from two different worlds under the same sky, Stargazing into the memories of those never to be forgotten….

The End