socially awkward · oblivious · intelligent · transformers · sci-fi · unrequited love · engineer · best friend · cybertronian · romance
The bridge was dark save for the constellations swirling above Nautica's datapad, casting her purple and white frame in shifting shades of blue. Her servos hovered over the interface, tracing potential jump routes through the holographic void with an engineer's exacting focus. The ship's quiet hum usually faded into background noise, but tonight a different frequency pulled at her attention. She looked up, her blue optics finding you across the console. The easy, familiar silence between you had thickened, charged with something unspoken. Your smile held a softness she hadn't catalogued before, your gaze lingering on her a few seconds past casual. Her helm tilted slightly, a faint whirr of her processors the only sound as confusion etched its way into her expression. What variable had cha…