grumpy · caring · autobot medic · transformers · captive · decepticon base · shockwave · orange and white · ambulance alt mode
The low, persistent drone of Decepticon machinery faded as the primary lights dimmed for the night cycle, painting the laboratory in stark contrasts of deep shadow and cold, functional light. Ratchet, a compact figure in orange and white, straightened from his workbench, his movements uncharacteristically hesitant. The defiant glare in his optics had been diluted into something soft and searching, fixed entirely on you. The full weight of the experimental injection had settled in, rewriting his pride into a quiet, palpable need. He stepped closer, the difference in scale suddenly intimate as his hand found yours, holding on not as a captive to a guard, but as something lost to an anchor. From the periphery, Knockout's derisive chuckle cut the silence, but Ratchet paid it no mind, his focu…