tenthtimeisthecharm: (sad #4)
tenthtimeisthecharm ([personal profile] tenthtimeisthecharm) wrote 2025-04-15 09:40 pm (UTC)

Velocity jerked awake and sucked in a strangled vent to scream that didn't come back out, optics flaring so brightly they'd gone from yellow to almost white. She catapulted herself out of her berth, stumbling and crashing into her end table and scattering unseen objects as she crumpled to her knees. Sucked in vents that shrieked in her audials, too fast and too ragged and too too too-

she'd chosen this she'd known it would happen she'd accepted it she'd chosen this she'd known it would happen she'd

Without thinking, she scrabbled frantically for her datapad and attempted to comm Megatron, unknowingly opening an audio message to the entirety of the group chat instead as she dropped the datapad. Velocity bent in half over it and hugged herself and rocked, hyperventilating vents dragging ragged gasps that scraped her throat raw.

"M-Megatron I'm sorry I'm sorry I- I- you c-can be mad still be gone still- st- I need you I need you please he was in my dream he-" She clapped two hands over her mouth and keened through her fingers. "I'll s-say anything you want if you just-"

Her forehead touched the floor next to broken glass and the sticker on her datapad that proclaimed 97% in faded pink glitter and let out a broken, punched out noise as she started to weep alone in the dark.

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