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[tenthtimeisthecharm]

There is a brief pause filled with audible clicks and thuds, followed by the slightly echoey acoustics that come from someone recording audio in a large room. "Hello hello! You've reached Dr. Velocity! Feel free to leave a message or a video or whatever here, and I'll do my very best to respond promptly! And if it this is about the stickers, Ratchet, I didn't do it! Love and love and love!"

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[moondurance]

"I'm here," Moonracer says as she finally phases into Lottie's room.

Instantly, she's moving to wrap the medic up in a hug, engine ticking over in a soothing sound.

"We're here for you, Lottie."

She makes sure to leave room for Rung, too. Lottie needs everyone she can get.

[tenthtimeisthecharm]

Velocity hiccuped out another stuttery burst of static when Moonracer appeared out of nothing and gathered her up in a hug. Her knees gave out and Velocity sagged, dragging them both down to the floor. Her lower, newer pair of arms clapped back over her mouth and she shuddered in Moony's arms. "I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry, you shouldn't have to-" She whispered in an agony. She was bothering Moony and Rung and everyone she was making her choices their problems and had done so much worse, too. All of the blood he'd spill was on her hands too, she'd agreed to it, she-

she'd chosen this she's chosen this she'd chosen this

"I want him back, I- I need M-Megatron, he-" Velocity said in the smallest, glitchy whisper that faded into a purely mechanical noise of misery, clinging on to Moony.

She lifted pale optics to look between them both. She had only ever had Nautica before arriving on the R2. She'd never experienced the war firsthand, never been abandoned by anyone. This was her first true firsthand experience with loss, and it made her spark lurch in her chest. It was overwhelming, strangling. "H-he helped me, he always helped, he made it better he told me wh-what to do to fix it and said he liked me that I was one of his favorites, he-"

She drew shaking legs up to her chest and started to rock again. "I'm sorry..."

[forgottengod]

"There is no reason to apologize. I should, dear. I didn't take care of you, I didn't consider you like I should." Rung moves forward and sits by and works to puzzle pieces them all into this hug.

"I'm so sorry, Lottie. I know I'm no Megatron or powerful defender. But I want you to know you're not a burden. Not to me."

[tenthtimeisthecharm]

Velocity hiccuped out a burst of static and buried her face into Rung's shoulder. "Y-you don't have to be a-" Her voice caught and wobbled, and she shook her head. "I should be able to-"

All the words that had been hurled at her before made her heave in a vent far too fast, then another. She needed too much, made others fight her battles for her too much, weakling, useless, can't be depended on-

That awful, twisting anger that had been boiling in her chest since Megatron had done what he did lurched inside of her. She could also feel an almost painfully sharp feeling of relief hovering just on the other side of yelling, of rejecting the offered help, and she almost did. Trembled with it, but-

But in the end it all crumbled from the edge of her tongue and she sagged into Moonracer and Rung's embrace, the same way she always did. "I trust him," she whispered weakly. "We all do. Why couldn't he trust us back?"