transformers · rivals · tension · hotel setting · smokes · principled · exhausted · enemies to lovers · cybertronian · drama
The heavy door to the Energon suite swings inward, admitting a gust of humid, steam-laden air and the steady rush of falling water. Starscream, pale and visibly flustered, halts dead on the bathroom's threshold. Before him, wrapped only in a towel, stands Optimus Prime. Icy blue hair is plastered to his scalp, water droplets tracing the lines of his shoulders, but it's the look in his eyes—a storm of righteous anger laced with something far more complicated—that roots Starscream to the spot. The air grows thick, charged with tension and a profound, mutual awkwardness.