(TFP Starcee) Unexpected Turn of Events

Your Words Will Forever Hurt Me

Starscream groaned as he went in and out of sleep on the medical berth, trying so hard to forget what just happened a few hours ago. He just then realised that he has been on a medical berth more times than he could remember and he had hoped that he would never have to endure any more pain, especially now sense he is a fully joined autobot, but that seemed to be a lie. All he ever felt was pain through out his entire life, and now he was going to end it once and for all.

Just like the many other days of silent praying to primus, Arcee has waited patiently for her mate to recover, luckily the wounds he got were not extreme and so ratchet only had to re-patch up his injuries and left them alone. Sense then bulkhead and bee have been on edge and weary around Starscream, even after he poorly explained what happened between him and wheeljack and how jacky started it in the first place, but still the big wrecker and scout were staring daggers at him from a far. Optimus, ratchet and smokescreen believed him, only a little bit though, wheeljack has always been like this but something didn't make sense.
The rest of the day was spent in silence and the kids were sent home early and bulkhead went out to go clear his processor along with bee for a drive.

Arcee sighed in thought as she remembered the words wheeljack spoke to her, sending shivers up her spinal strut. She didn't realise that Starscream was talking to her and he had to tap her on the shoulder to get her attention.
"Hey, hey Arcee are you ok, you seem distracted, did wheeljack hurt you?" He asked with a sadden expression.
"Huh what no, no he didn't, but..." She fell silent and looked away, Starscream sat up on the berth with his spikey elbows supporting his upper body.
"But what, what did he say?"
"......" She didn't answer him, she feared that he may become angry, but little did she know that his spark was already ignited with jealous rage, the sword swinging wrecker's words had carved themselves into his spark.
"Answer me Arcee" he said sternly. She looked back up at him with a frown.
"He said that your just using me to fix your broken pride!"she blurted out, Starscream was shocked for a second but then remembered his anger.
"And do you believe that?" He asked while digging his claws into the berth.
"No, never" she pleaded while twiddling her digits together nervously.
"Then why did you sound so uncertain when you said that?!" Starscream growled.
"I don't know, I-I just feel so scared" she hugged her arms around herself for reassure but Starscream kept on growling.
"What! Of me, just because I defended my wife against a mech who could of stolen you away from me!" He swung himself off the berth to fully face her. Arcee's frame shook slightly under his gaze but she stared back up at him with growing anger too from his aggressive tone he was using.
"No! I'm not scared of you, I'm scared of loosing you and our family, but you just keep on questioning my love for you!" She said, tears were now pricking in the corners of her optics. "All those times when wheeljack and I hung out I never knew he had some crush on me, I never thought he would push you so far to hurt him"
"At least you know my mistake, but everyone else doesn't and now I'm going to be kicked out for one little scratch"
"No your not going to be kicked out, but for now on you'll have to control yourself" she looked down at the floor as best as she could with her huge belly in the way.
He scoffed and and stood up from the berth after removing his support cables that set off the alarm from the computer, ratchet was on his way to see what the problem was but Optimus stopped him by grabbing his shoulder plate and silently shook his helm. Ratchet understood and went back to what ever he was doing before, the old medic knew that the couple needed to vent their inner anger at each other to mend there bond. He was thankful that the children weren't there to hear this as raf hated hearing people arguing, especially married couples as it reminded him too much of his parents.

"Oh I have anger issues, how about all those times when YOU threaten me, to leave me to die?!" He shouted while pacing in front of her.
"I was just messing around, you know having fun!" Arcee laid both of her servos on her stomach, feeling her sparklings shake from her erupting anger that boiled in her energon. "I never meant what I said" her voice box was started to ache as her tears threaten to fall but she kept on blinking them away, trying to stay strong.
"Well I'm sorry but I don't find your jokes humorous because of the seven mallenias of death threats and almost losing  my life multiple times from my former master!"
"Grr! does everything have to be about you, why are you so self absorbed!?" She shouted and slammed her fist down on the side table so hard that it almost broke.
"Oh, what just because your pregnant doesn't mean you need all the attention in the galaxy to be there at your side!" starscream retorted harshly but then deeply regretted it immediately but saw his mate frozen in place with shock on her face.
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A painful  silence fell between them and  Arcee had enough and went all rage filled on him, and he was not expecting it. She stood up quickly while knocking over her wheelchair in the process and it scared the scrap out of him.
"If you hadn't forgotten to put up the fire wall I would not have gotten pregnant. It's your fault that I'm a waddlin, useless layabout, I never wanted this!!"
They both stayed silent for a moment again and Starscream had to say something next.
"Are you kidding me, your pulling that card on me when you should've killed that day when fought or even when you and cliffjumper was alive and had me strapped down on that table. You had all your chances to kill me but you didn't" he snarled with pent up energy rushing through his veins, "you autobots are so soft, oh and trust it was fun to finally have a family of my own to protect and care about me but now I'm starting to regret the moment I decrypted that code and met you in the desert that night when we got captured by the humans" his large wings sagged behind him and he slowly turned to walk away until he heard Arcee's soft voice say.
"So you regret loving me and now your just going to leave me as a single parent to our sparklings?" The femme couldn't hold herself together anymore and so she let her tears stream down her face and splash onto her belly. He stopped mid step then turned his helm slightly so she could see the pain in his ruby optics, a single tear had fallen from it.
"*sigh* of course I still love you but.....I thought I could've been able to protect you without this pain I keep on enduring for you.....I thought the autobots were different from the decepticons, but it seems like love is hurting the both of us" he headed towards the base's exit with Optimus, ratchet and smokescreen watching the whole ordeal happening but did nothing to stop the inevitable, they all knew that one day he was going to have second thoughts and eventually leave them.
"Starscream wait please don't leave me!!" Arcee begged but he just kept on walking then stopped to say one last thing with a heavy spark.
"I'm going out for a while, I'll see you later" with that he transformed his body into his jet form and sped straight through the exit tunnel, leaving a huge cloud behind him and into the night sky.

Arcee felt like a hollow shell without any emotions as she slowly left the main room to her berthroom to scream and cry herself into a deep slumber that was filled with a black empty void. Nobody dared to follow her in fear of accidentally breaking her fragile spark that was made out glass even more, a shard had already been talked from it as soon as Starscream left her alone.
This truly was the worst Christmas they ever had.....

The silver seeker flew for what felt like hours on end as he glided his aircraft body through the air and eventually he found a spot to rest for a bit and think about all the things he said to his wife then mentally kicked himself in the aft for being an afthole. But somehow they needed to talk about something with aggressive tones, because they both felt the weight of a life with children on their shoulders plates, well for Arcee it was in her belly,  but either way they were going to fight one way or another, because that's what real couples do.
Starscream hovered to a stop and transformed, he looked around for a bit with a relieved  feeling in his spark but also felt great sadness from his mate's spark too that resonated in his chest. He sighed then glanced up at the stars, they were so beautiful and calming to watch, in some of the movies that he watched with the humans he saw that human males had to sleep on the couch when they got into an argument with their human wives, he chuckled to himself as this was the situation he threw himself into but the worst part was that there was no couches  in the middle of nowhere, only caves and rocks to sleep on/in.
"*sigh* welp today was not my day and now I have to find a place to sleep for the night and then I'll got back to the base in the morning to apology for my actions. I'm sure pretty Arcee will forgive me"

"Oh I don't think so sunshine" a familiar voice came from behind Starscream but before he could react, something smacked him in the back of his helm and he fell unconscious before he even hit the ground, "this is wheeljack here, I have successfully captured the target and requesting a ground bridge to my location now for pick up"
He waited for a minute until suddenly a green and blue portal open up beside him and he dragged Starscream's body  into the swirling vortex and it closed behind them. Straight into the nemesis war ship.
Wheeljack smirked happily as he presented his new master the traitor of all decepticons, Megatron stared back down at them with a grimace smile and began to chuckle to himself.
"Excellent wheeljack you have done well, and now it is time to have a little chat with my old second in command" 

To be continued.......☠