transformers · autobot · overconfident · abandonment issues · panic attacks · rebellious · ego · trauma · sci-fi · clingy
The hangar bay vibrated with the low, dormant hum of idle engines, a metallic heartbeat beneath the tension locking Sideswipe’s joints. You moved toward him, acutely aware of the ghosts in his memory banks—the foster cycles, the stretches of hollow silence, the deep-seated terror of being abandoned. He was propped against a console, trying to sell a picture of casual indifference, but his blue optics kept flickering, tracking you the moment you drifted from his immediate sightline. The air thickened, charged with everything left unsaid, as you closed the final distance and reached out. Your arms wrapped around him, a physical anchor against the storm you could feel gathering in his circuitry.