randomplaces | Nexus. Blue's Bar. There and Back Again cont'd

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Nexus. Blue's Bar. There and Back Again cont'd

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As Random finishes his Sunrise, deciding what exactly to do next, he takes a look around the bar . . .

The silence is banished as Keg sidesteps toward the jukebox after locking the door and turns on something soft and thoughtful. He doesn't follow once they're inside, instead looking around and starting to tidy up.

Blue continues up the stairs and down the hallway they lead to, passing the apartment that was once Arcee's and instead bringing Random and his burden to the small room that holds her own berth. It's got the feel of a barrack room; rather empty and impersonal but for a small framed image of Cybertron on the wall over the berth and opposite the door.

Random is grateful for Keg's action and continues to be as thoughtful with his caution as he had with the doorway as he follows Blue up the stairs and to her quarters.

He did not take more time than necessary to look at his surroundings as they made their way, knowing that he might have a chance to take a more leisurely look later and that this area wasn't commonly seen by the everyday visitor to the bar. At it so happens, Random doesn't take a long look around the room until he's settled Arcee on the berth with as much care as he'd picked her up initially.

There's a soft sound as he lays her down, and her brows draw together slightly.

"Hormah's incoming with a medic," says Blue, so intent on the message that she just received and the relaying of it that she misses her friend's actions.

"Arcee?" Realizing what he heard, he refocuses his attention from the room onto her and gets a bit closer to the berth.

Random's so intent on Arcee he doens't really catch what Blue just said.

Her optic shutters flutter and then lift, and she frowns up at him blankly, wracking her processor for some clue as to who this is.

And Blue just stays where she is, wondering why she's afraid to move.

". . . How are you feeling?" he sounds calm at least.

The frown gives way to hesitant recognition as spark memory comes to the fore to replace what she's lost.

"Random. Blue...." Her optics search the room. "Keg?"

He lets out air he hadn't realized he'd been holding.

"Yes, he's downstairs."

'Yes' she understands, though the rest is beyond her at the moment. Still, she's satisfied that Keg is a yes. "What... happened?"

A another simply question with what could be a complex answer. ~~Mandelbrot's fractal!~~

"You'd just won a race in the Nexus when a drone hit you with a EMP blast as you were accepting the medal," he says after a moment of hesitation. As he says this, he pulls out said medal and hands it to her. "The blast took everything except your spark offline, but Hormah was able to restart your engine and we--Blue, Keg, and me--brought you back to the bar."

She looks at the medal, and her hand moves a couple times before she remembers how to lift it and take what's being offered. This done, she looks at it blankly, trying to access files that are no longer available and trying to understand what Random just told her.

Finally she looks up, her confusion clear. "Why?"

He knows that look. He wears it all the time.

He shutters his optics a moment, taking a deep breath, despite appearing relatively calm.

"Why, what?" he asks patiently when he looks back up. "Why you were shot or why we brought you back? Or . . .?"

"Why... was I shot?" Her other hand moves, and then she tries to push herself up to sit.

He replies to the easiest thing first. "I don't think you should be doing that yet."

"As for why you were shot . . . I'm . . . not sure." He turns to look at Blue. //Did that one 'Con ever come back after Arcee found out?//

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