Y/n, once a decepticon prisoner was rescued by autobots but she had no idea just how far they were willing to go to protect her.

Let's be honest, since you were older than Jack, Miko and rafael you should get more freedom than you do now but you were under Ratchet's care, no matter how much he hated being a babysitter he took it upon himself to keep y/n confined inside the base. When you first thought of it it sounded fun until Optimus made Ratchet your guardian or rather... Prison guard. He was a grumpy rusty old piece of scrap metal. A Stick in the mud. A bully. Everything and anything along those lines. Y/n sat there with her feet upon the couch curled up with her knees to her chest going crazy. Normally Ratchet would of complained about footprints she would leave but today he was a little lenient, he wasn't completely oblivious to the fact she wanted to tear her hair out because she was stuck with him inside the base.

But he left his guard down so she saw an opportunity to get away she carefully snuck away towards the doors but she wasn't that stealthy. He noticed she wasn't on the couch in a matter of seconds as he turned away from the computers and walked towards the door seeing her standing there about to open the door, he snapped stomping his foot down infront of her was like the sound of shackles being slapped across her wrists and ankles "y/n!"

She walked back into the main room with a growl "just once can I get out?"

"No. You will remain in here until one of the others gets back."

But that could've been days from then she was all too familiar with the mission that everyone was on, cleaning up the disaster that the cons made a few states over. Ratchet had to stay there in case of any decepticon sightings near by while the children were safe at home because he groundbridged them everywhere.

She groaned and went to her "room" for the rest of the day.

"Y/n." Ratchet walked in a few hours later to find her passed out in her bed with a book covering her face. He left but sighed outside her room. Why couldn't she understand?

2 days later she sat there watching a tv show in the main room, bored out of her mind as she hungupside down.

"I'm going down for supplies, you know the drill."

"No.." She muttered as she flipped upside right and sent him a glare and he frowned back before walking off down the hall.

She sat flipping through the channels but ever minute he was gone tempted her even more until she couldn't Stand it anymore she ran over to the stairs jumping off the rail, landing on her feet before bolting off towards the door punching in the numbers to open the door but it flashed red. Incorrect. She frowned and punched in another code. Red. Incorrect. She moaned aloud her frustration as she hit the door . Ratchet changed the code AGAIN. She glared and started punching in random numbers before yelling out in anguish. Defeat. She curled up on the floor, pressing her head into the cold metal before starting to bump it into the solid metal "I'm never gonna get outta here.." She murmured.

"You know, all you have to do is ask."

she whipped around and glared with shining eyes "That's all I've been doing!!" She stood up and stomped up towards him reeling her fists back before ramming it into his ped. Fury in her eyes. "But you don't care!! As long as I'm still here and Prime is satisfied you could care less!"

she was literally going mad.

He frowned as he watched her rage and pound her fists against his ped, she was screaming at him but he didn't hear A single thing coming out of her mouth all he saw was her crippling down, how much pain she had withheld. She had settled down next to his ped as he looked down at her "are you done?"

She didn't say anything as he moved and plucked her from the floor, her bleeding knuckles required his attention. Carrying her back to the medbay

"I do care.. So much in fact I thought it would be best to keep you in here with me so I could protect you but I failed to add the effect on your mental state.." He muttered in his holoform as he wrapped up her hands, she looked at him with a frown

"Obviously.." was all she said for a few minutes as she watching him, round and round the gauze we t around her hand "but if you truly did care you'd let me go."

He sighed as he ripped the gauze and taped it up before wrapping it up in bandages

"That's what it would seem like but I care too much I know if I let you go and something happened I wouldn't forgive myself." He murmured quietly as he slowly wrapped up her hand.

She stared at him curiously "what?"

He sighed "I can't let you go because I love you, y/n and if anything happened I couldn't live with myself.." he said as he patched it together and disappeared into blue sparks, his mechanical body stood up and looked down at her with a frown

She looked up at him as it made sense but sighed "if I promise to not run away will you let me out for a couple of hours?"

He looked at her before sighing and nodded as the ground bridge whirred up "off you go.."

She smiled a little before running through. She appeared in the woods, humans camping nearby as she ran through and let the air fill her lungs before flopping down in the grass as she sighed in satisfaction. She rolled around happily to be outside and took every precious moment as she climbed up into the tree and sat there for a long time watching the sun fall over the horizon.

But looked over a ways when she seen a groundbridge appear and Ratchet walk through

He looked around a moment before walking around

"Hey, ratchet, up here!" She called as he looked up and walked over to the tree

"What are you doing up there?"

"The view is gorgeous."

He looked over to see the setting sun and nodded "I See.. well we must go, humans are nearby and decepticon signals have been popping up nearby, we need to leave" He said as his servo reached up watching for her as she sighed and took 1 more look at the setting sun before climbing into his servo before walking back towards the groundbridge

"Whoa! Look at that!" Y/N awed

His head snapped in the direction of where she was looking only to see the beautiful view of the sun as it casted shadows over the trees, it was a wonderful view after all..

He paused and looked at it for a few moments before continuing on back to the groundbridge. They walked through as he turned off the portal

She stood there contently "Hey, ratchet?" She looked up while still in his servo

"What?" He looked at her after clicking a few buttons

"Thanks."

He simply nodded

"And.. about earlier?"

He looked at her and frowned

"You will never repeat to anyone.."

She chuckled softly but shook her head "i won't but.. I love you too." She said as she hopped off his servo and climbed up to his shoulder and sat herself there

His armor began to feel warm as his fans lightly whirred

His lips slightly came up with a light scowl as he went back to business tapping on the keyboard and bringing up information

She smirked to herself, he wasn't too bad after all. Even if he did momentarily drive her insane but his intensions were completely innocent. He just wanted to keep her safe. Shs stood up and stepped closer to his face before planting his lips on his a moment before going back and sitting on his shoulder. His face plates darkened as his fans whirred harder before picking her up and setting her down on the catwalk as she frowned a little when he walked down the hall leaving her alone

'Nice, y/n...' she plopped herself on the couch and laid down with a frown as she threw the pillow on her face and groaned into it "stupid! Stupid! Stupid!"

She laid there as she froze when extra weight shift on the couch a few minutes later.

The pillow slightly lifted and lips gently pressed into her own as she yanked off the pillow to see Ratchet's holoform as he passionately kissed her, his hands planted at her sides to hold him up.

She slowly closed her eyes, she reached up and played with his hair as his hands gently grabbed at her wrists and pinned her down, he was very strong but she didn't bother to squirm or move as he slowly pulled back, sitting up and she looked up at him

"As your doctor I feel this is need-to-know information only so I'll ask you.." he said as he leaned in close "Have you ever interfaced before?"

A shudder ripped through her body at the thought of what he had in mind but she didn't move, a smirk ever so lightly dusted across his face and purred at the reaction he got. She was in for a surprise. She uttered a breath when he gently nipped at her neck "Don't let me go.."