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“Blurr, do you know where I put today’s mail? I need to make sure there aren’t any important papers in there...”
Blurr didn’t turn around to answer Bee, he was currently watching over Radio wobbling around the living room. The tiny minicon was recently learning to walk and after she started taking her first steps, Ratchet said that soon she would be saying her first words. However, Shockwave's attempts at teaching her ‘papa’ and ‘daddy’ didn’t seem to even hold the sparklings' attention…
“I thought they were in our room, on the nightstand.” Blurr replied, watching Radio play with the tv remote.
“Hm alrighty, thank you sweetie! I love you!” Bee purred, giving Blurr a kiss on the cheek and blowing a kiss to Radio, who was excitedly turning the brightness of the tv up and down. Blurr smiled and after turning to Bee and giving him a peck on the lips, he watched the minibot walk away.
“I love you too!” Blurr called to him, he then looked over to Radio and called out to her. “Hey Radio, I love you.” He purred.
One of Radio's antlers twitched and she turned to Blurr, giggling and waving to him. The blue bot laughed softly, he was hoping on some level she would at least try to repeat the words back to him but oh well, maybe she just wasn’t the talkative type.
Radio then turned around to the sounds of footsteps approaching, looking over, Blurr saw Sunstorm stretching his arms and yawning with a big grin on his face.
“Good morning, Radiowave! Good morning, Blurr! It’s a lovely day today don’t you agree?” He asked, giving a friendly flutter of his wings.
Blurr nodded, “Looks like a great day to go flying, at least I can only assume so considering the lack of clouds and broad daylight is something you’ve said in the past feels great for your wings. But perhaps it would be a bit hard to see with sunlight shining down so hard on you, I can’t speak from experience since all my information on the topic has come from things I’ve heard and… Oh my bad I was rambling wasn’t I?”
Sunstorm chuckled and gave Blurr a peck on the lips, petting his helm gently. “It’s alright! I like your rambles, your voice is lovely and adorable.” He said, his smile growing wider as Blurr leaned into the pets.
The two bots suddenly jumped as the tv was turned on with the audio volume high, the obvious dark purple culprit now frantically wacking the remote to turn it back off. Smiling softly, Blurr took the remote and deafened the noise before turning to Radio.
“Is this a trouble-making day for you?” He asked, picking her up, Radio only giggled in response, poking Blurr’s cheek with a claw.
Sunstorm chuckled and took Radio from Blurr, giving her a forehelm kiss. “Are you trying to cause trouble for your father Blurr? Is that it? you adorable little thing.”
Laughing, Radio poked Sunstorm in the optic and he flinched back. Blurr quickly took her back, inspecting his conjux’s eye for any damage. “Oh primus are you alright? I’m sorry we’ve been trying to get her to not do that, but she’s a sparkling and she doesn’t like to listen to us a lot.”
The bright seeker just smiled and shrugged. “It’s okay! She’s just trying to cause a little trouble.”
Blurr looked to Radio and chuckled nervously. “Yeah, you can say that again…”
He put down the sparkling, watching her stumble away before turning back to Sunstorm. “So, is it true Bumblebee’s expecting your sparkling?” The seeker asked. Blurr jumped at the sudden inquiry.
“Huh-well yes, yes he is but it won’t be for some time. I mean we just found out and we have a lot of time to prepare so we haven’t done much. Even though I really, really wanted to, Bumblebee claims I get too manic when thinking about it, but I don’t think I can be blamed for that, I’ve never had a sparkling before and while I would like to think I am a kind and caring bot, I fear the idea of mistreating them even a little. If I’m too harsh, they may lock me out forever and resent me, but if I’m not harsh enough they will never learn right from wrong. I mean my own mother-”
Sunstorm gently put a servo to Blurr’s mouth, silencing the blue bot. “Oh Blurr, you’ll be a wonderful father! You’re already so good with the kids and besides, you spend a lot of time with Radio especially and I think you’re her favorite out of all of us.”
“The favorite? Out of all of her parents?”
Blurr turned to Radio, the little sparkling was chewing on a building block, which Blurr was very quick to take away from her. Earning him a sour look from her.
“No I don’t think so, I don’t even think she’s paying much attention to me… At least when I’m not actively taking away her toys- hey no biting!” Blurr could hear Sunstorm laughing as Radio, either throwing a fit or trying to get her chew toy back, bit Blurr on the leg.
“I think you underestimate her, but alright~ You have a wonderful time with her sweets, I’m gonna go check up on the others.” Sunstorm purred, chuckling as he walked away.
Blurr playfully narrowed his optics at the jet before giving him a friendly smile. He turned to Radio then picked her up and placed her on the couch. Blurr then gently placed his hand on her forehelm as she whined and attempted to bite him again.
Letting out a sigh, Blurr smiled at Radio, as he easily kept her from attacking him. “You are so much work to keep an eye on you know that?”
Radio let out a string of angry beeps.
“Yeah, I said it! I love you but I need Shockwave to wake up soon, or I’m gonna go insane!” Blurr replied dramatically, picking Radio up and twirling her around. Delighted Radio began to laugh and beep.
“I know right? He’s been sleeping all day, you would swear he takes all day to recharge.”
She clapped and beeped.
“Do you really think it’s because he’s so big? That he needs lots of energy to even get up? Then why doesn’t he just drink coffee like the rest of us?”
Radio suddenly seemed to be waving to something just behind Blurr, but regardless of losing her attention he continued with his ramble.
“It just doesn’t make sense, by all accounts Shockwave should have been up by now, maybe he’s just pretending so he doesn’t have to keep you from turning on tvs and biting people. Maybe he just doesn’t feel like doing his part of the chores today or maybe just maybe-”
“He’s tired of little blue bots putting silly thoughts into his daughter’s head?”
Blurr jumped and made a very embarrassing squeak as the tall purple con behind him spoke. Radio however just continued to wave to her papa as he crossed his arms.
"Do you have something to say for yourself sweetie?" Shockwave asked, tilting his helm.
Blurr just awkwardly held Radio out to Shockwave who took the giggling sparkling. "Good morning darling conjux of mine who I love so much! I’m so glad to see you’re up! aheh… Want me to make you some coffee or some eggs or… "
Shockwave narrowed his optic at Blurr before his expression shifted into one of amusement. "I love you too, sweet spark." He purred, walking past blurr and looking to Radio. "Alright this time are you actually gonna try to say papa? Come on, paaaaapa."
Radio giggled and clapped her servos in response and as Blurr walked away he could hear Shockwave sigh.
"Oh, one last thing Blurr."
Blurr turned to Shockwave, suddenly very nervous about him telling the others about him gossiping with a sparkling who couldn’t even speak yet.
"Good morning." Shockwave said with a chuckle.
"Oh good morning to you too sweetie!" Blurr said, shuffling away, face red in pure embarrassment.
Blurr loved the earth a lot. Its culture, its wildlife, how strange it can be sometimes… but his favorite part of it was the way the nights here were. The muted sounds of the city, the beautiful lights and the coolness in the air. Everything about it was wonderful and it made Blurr oh so ready to call it a night.
"Goodnight my darlings." He purred looking over to his conjuxes… only to see they had both long passed out, likely from exhaustion, and Blurr couldn't blame them. Today was wonderful for sure, but it was also quite tiring and he was ready to recharge for the night.
However... Blurr couldn’t help but give a few glances to Bee’s chest piece and as he did he felt anxiety build in his spark... Just inside Bee’s spark chamber was his future child... The future child he’d be responsible for caring for and not mistreating... Perhaps he should stay up a little longer and do some more reading on those parent guides he bought or-or...
Who was he kidding? He was exhausted... It’d just have to wait until tomorrow...
As Blurr snuggled into Bee and felt his processor grow fuzzy, he closed his optics… His anxiety fading into a gentle warmth and peaceful feeling as he fell asleep.
Suddenly, Blurr felt something tugging at his arm. Mumbling something under his breath, the blue autobot simply turned away from it. He was still mostly asleep and he didn't feel like waking up just yet.
He then felt something small climb on the berth and shake his frame, but once again he resolved to just turn away and ignore it.
"Blurr! Blurr!"
Was it one of his conjuxes? What on earth do they want at a time like this? His internal clock was informing him it was 6 am.
"Yes dearest?" Blurr grumbled half asleep.
"Bluurrr!"
"Shockwave? You don't sound like your usual self, do you feel…"
Suddenly, Blurr realized who it was. He sat up quickly, looking to the purple sparkling for confirmation of what he had heard.
Radio smiled seeing Blurr and called out his name even more. Though it sounded a bit more like Blaire or blah than Blurr, he knew what she had been trying to say.
"Radio! You said your first words! it's… your first words were…" Blurr in that moment he felt like his spark had expanded to fill his entire frame. Warmth and love and affection filled his spark and his optics filled with coolant.
"Blurr Blurr!"
"Yes! yes dear, that's me! I'm here! Your dad is here!" With a big smile Blurr scooped up Radio and twirled her around happily. He paused as he heard Shockwave and Bumblebee sit up, both of them looking half asleep.
"What's going on? Can Radio not sleep right now?" Shockwave mumbled rubbing his optic.
As Blurr opened his mouth to reply Bumblebee interrupted him. "Oh dear, is everything okay?” He whispered looking over to Radio who whined and shifted in Blurr’s hold.
“Blurr! Burr! Blurr!” She whined and as Bee and Shockwave’s optics shot open with shock at hearing their sparkling speak, Blurr turned back to look at her, only to have Radio wrap her arms around him and snuggle into him.
For Blurr emotionally, that was the straw that broke the camel's back as while holding his daughter as close to himself as he could, he felt the tears in his eyes travel down his cheeks and he had to shift his hold on Radio to free one of his arms to wipe them away.
“Oh Radio... I l-love you so much...” He whispered, sniffling as he beamed at his adorable sparkling. The way she looked to him and smiled snuggling into his side made Blurr almost sob as he walked back to his bed and gently laid her down in it, tucking her in and laying beside her.
She snuggled into him humming gently and affectionately as her arms extended around him and Blurr happily wrapped his arms around her. Holding her close to his spark.
“Now do you feel prepared to be a father?” Bee asked quietly and Blurr looked to his conjux, wiping away the last of his tears and happily whispering back.
“I already am a father...”