Transformers Prime - Hazy

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (Best Is Yet To Come)

Less than half a minute later, the now holoforms opened their eyes, sparks coming back online. “Babies . . .” Jasmine muttered. “Don’t be giving Angel any trouble now . . .” Smiling, Angel strode over with the twins as Orion came around as well, the couple taking their children into their arms, standing so close their bodies touched.

“Well?” He asked, kissing her forehead. “Any different?”

With a smile and a small laugh, Jasmine shook her head. “Not a thing is different, Optimus . . . I still love them and I still love you and it feels the same way it did before. Only now I can feel my other form just waiting to be used . . .” She glanced over at the large, metal body that remained motionless not fifty feet away. “Do you think they’ll understand it? Do you think they’ll ever get to be in their true forms, too?”

Orion shrugged, but a gentle smile was present on his face as the optics of JewelBlade and Optimus Prime flickered open, a pair of teal and a pair of sapphire optics looking down at their other halves, and their babies. “Maybe someday they will . . . But I think they’ll understand it when they’re growing up with things being the way they are . . . We’ll all be just fine, Maiden . . .”

She gave a nod and nuzzled against him. “I love you . . . I know I’ve said it a lot today but I really do . . .”

With a smile, Optimus, his true form, scooped the small family up into his two, large, metal hands. “I love you as well, Maiden . . .”

She smiled, nuzzling against his smaller form. “You’re the best . . .”

~~~

It didn’t take long before the family was back in their home, comfortable as their holoforms assumed the majority of their living. Their Cybertronian halves sat in the garage for the most part, waiting and watching in case anything negative should take place, however unlikely it may be at this point in their lives.

Orion and Jasmine spent their days and nights caring for the twins and Sunny, with the aid of Angel, which was what led to their meeting in the living room so late tonight.

“So what’d you need, Darling?” Angel asked, relaxing against the couch as Jasmine rocked Scarlett, Ashton already asleep upstairs inside his bassinette, Optimus watching from the top of the stairs just in case the young boy should start to fuss.

“We just, well, we want you to be the godmother of the twins. We don’t know who we want the godfather to be yet, but we can’t think of anyone better to be there for them if we can’t be. And we figured, if nothing else, we’d let you pick the godfather. We don’t want it to be anyone you’re uncomfortable with, and while we were leaning towards Ratchet, he just doesn’t know how to care for a human, or techno organic, child for that matter. What do you say? You’re already their aunt.”

Angel smiled, straightening. “I would love to, Jazz.”

~~~

Not long after, Jasmine and Orion were alone in their bedroom, cuddling close to each other innocently as the night drug on into the deep darkness of the early morning hours. It was nearly silent aside from their breathing, a comfortable quiet, until Orion decided to break it, singing gently into Jasmine’s hair, ruffling the strands with the warmth of his voice.

“Afraid it won't come 'round again, afraid to move on,

Wishing I could go back when, everything was easier and meaningful to me,

Wanting all we left behind, like it's the answer,

An hour glass we can't rewind, holding back the life that I've denied for so long,

Can I find my way to you? And After all that we've been through,

And after all we left in pieces, I still believe our lives have just begun,

Cause now the past can be outrun, and I know you are the reason,

I still believe the best is yet to come,

A photograph's still in your hands, afraid to let it go, the minutes rain like grains of sand,

And time is just a war that's stealing dreams from within, so come and take them back again,

And After all that we've been through, and after all we left in pieces,

I still believe our lives have just begun, ‘cause now the past can be outrun,

And I know you are the reason, I still believe the best is yet to come,

I won't turn around, let it all slip away,

I'm never backing down, ‘cause tomorrow's a new day

And everything can change, and After all that we've been through

And after all we left in pieces, I still believe our lives have just begun,

‘Cause now the past can be outrun, and I know you are the reason

I still believe the best is yet to come,

I still believe the best is yet to come, the best is yet to come,

I still believe the best is yet to come.”

Jasmine smiled at the song. “I love you, Optimus Prime. For now and forever, because you are the most magnificent sentient being I have ever encountered. I couldn’t ask for anything better in any of my wildest dreams. I will love you unconditionally for the rest of my days and beyond. I will love you through the stars and the wars, through the clear days and the hazy. You will never need to give me any reason to stay, because I have so many of my own. We have some wonderful, marvelous days behind us, but we have so many more coming our way. Though the adventures may be different, I will never stop loving them because I will never stop loving you. Through the wonder and wander and the amazing shreds of every moment we’ve ever had and will have, I couldn’t be happier to be by your side and to have you by mine. Thank you for loving me. I couldn’t ask for anyone better. I love you with every beat of my spark and every second I’m alive. You are the best thing that’s ever happened to me, because you’ve given me so much, and I can only hope I do the same for you.”

Optimus could only smile, kissing her gently, though lovingly as he held her close. “Maiden, you do that for me and so much more. I will love you until time stops moving. I will love you for the days we have together and the ones beyond. You have given me so much. You lived with a passion I restrained and showed me how much love goes into living that way. You have been by my side as I have been by yours, and regardless of your past, I adore you and love you. It doesn’t matter who you were, only who you are, because who you are is who I fell in love with. I greatly hope that doesn’t change. You will never be alone so long as I have a say in it. I see you in everything around me. You are what I adore. I will always love you. My spark is yours, Maiden.” Gently, he placed her hand over his chest, his spark pulsing inside.

Smiling, Jasmine repeated the gesture, placing his hand over her chest. “And my spark is yours, Knight.” With a kiss, they stopped talking for the night, content to linger in each other’s arms.