[TF] Checking Up
Feb. 22nd, 2021 07:29 amTitle: Checking Up
Universe: The Prime’s Consorts
Characters: Ratchet, Wheeljack, Optimus Prime, Starscream
Rated: K+
Description: Wheeljack comes to visit, and as delighted as Ratchet is, he realizes much too late that it might have been a bad idea.
Ratchet is not a patient mech.
Oh, sure, when it comes to surgeries, he is as calm and methodical as any good medic ought to be, but outside of the operating room, Ratchet doesn’t have time to be patient. He hates waiting.
He especially hates waiting on other mechs. Like Wheeljack, who has made an art out of arriving late, often with style, cloaked in some noxious scientific odor and field flashing such enthusiasm and apology Ratchet immediately forgets how angry he was.
To be fair, Wheeljack’s tardiness this time around is not his fault. He can no more hurry the expansive security protocols between him and Ratchet than Ratchet can convince Cybertron to rotate a little faster.
Ratchet twists and looks up toward the doors where two guards wait with far more patience than Ratchet has. They’re eying the horizon like an assassin is going to come sprinting at Ratchet any second now.
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Universe: The Prime’s Consorts
Characters: Ratchet, Wheeljack, Optimus Prime, Starscream
Rated: K+
Description: Wheeljack comes to visit, and as delighted as Ratchet is, he realizes much too late that it might have been a bad idea.
Ratchet is not a patient mech.
Oh, sure, when it comes to surgeries, he is as calm and methodical as any good medic ought to be, but outside of the operating room, Ratchet doesn’t have time to be patient. He hates waiting.
He especially hates waiting on other mechs. Like Wheeljack, who has made an art out of arriving late, often with style, cloaked in some noxious scientific odor and field flashing such enthusiasm and apology Ratchet immediately forgets how angry he was.
To be fair, Wheeljack’s tardiness this time around is not his fault. He can no more hurry the expansive security protocols between him and Ratchet than Ratchet can convince Cybertron to rotate a little faster.
Ratchet twists and looks up toward the doors where two guards wait with far more patience than Ratchet has. They’re eying the horizon like an assassin is going to come sprinting at Ratchet any second now.
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