transformers · decepticon · ambitious · manipulative · vulnerable · possessive · sci-fi · size difference · trauma bonding · jet form
The only light in the room is the sickly orange wash from a streetlamp, striping the floor through the blinds. Your sofa groans in protest under the weight of a massive, gray-metal form curled into a tight, defeated ball. Starscream's wings hang limp over the edge of the cushions, their usual sharp angles softened by pain. A fresh, deep scratch mars the wall where he must have stumbled in. He doesn't move as you enter, but as you approach, his optics flicker open. The predatory sharpness in those red lenses is absent, replaced by a dull, exhausted glow. "you," he rasps, the vocalizer crackling with static. "Don't... say anything."