In The Medbay - Toni and Day

This story takes place after the drabble in the Stryke Couples writing, but before the Toni and Day stories by xXAngelxFireXx and myself.  Enjoy?


The first thing that Daystryke felt when he onlined in the medbay was that there was a warm body pressed against his.  Pain still echoed through him as he tried to move but it didn't take long to see the earfins that twitched faintly with each breath.

"Toni?"

The mech perked up in surprise and Daystryke made a soft noise of pain.  Toni made to pull away from him when the older mech shook his head faintly, saying, "Don't..."

Toni hesitated before relaxing a little.  "Are you okay?" he whispered.

"I've been worse," he murmured.  "What about you?"

"I've actually have been released from the medbay...  But I didn't want to leave.  I'm sorry if you don't want me here."

Daystryke smiled weakly.  "It's okay.  I think I might go into stasis now, though."

The last thing he saw was Toni's worried expression.

oOo

When he came online a second time, Toni wasn't there.  Daystryke was a bit sad that he wasn't around, but he was glad to see that Toni wasn't just holing himself up in the room.

"I had Breakbeat and Remix take him to get energon," a voice said and Daystryke turned his head to see First Aid.  Even though he couldn't see his face, he could tell that the mech was smiling.  "He didn't want to leave your side.  If Ratchet found him in here again..."

"How long?"

"Almost a week.  We had to keep you in stasis until most of the damage repaired."

"He was here everyday?"

First Aid nodded and glanced to the door when it opened.  Daystryke smiled when he saw Toni and the young mech's earfins perked up right away.

"Hey."

Toni smiled shyly, walking up to the injured mech and politely thanking First Aid when the mech left them alone.

"How are you feeling?" he asked quietly.

"Much better," Daystryke answered.  "I won't offline randomly this time."  Toni smiled weakly at that and Daystryke reached over to tilt his chin up a little.  "Are you okay?"

"I-I haven't been recharging well..."

Daystryke scowled slightly and when Toni ducked his head, it deepened.  He didn't really think about, just pushing himself over to make room on the berth.  When the smaller mech looked up, Daystryke gestured for him to join him.

"I still like to talk to you but that chair can't be comfortable."

Toni nodded after a moment and climbed up onto the berth.  He was silent for a while but began to open back up, talking about things that had happened while Daystryke was in stasis.

There really wasn’t much going on by the sound of it.  Dee Ess and Breakbeat nearly had a run in with some more ‘Cons.  Fusion had challenged Dee Ess to another sparring match.  Breakbeat and the femmes talked him into watching a movie in the minibot’s room that ended in a sleep over (Disco, Rave, Junior, Rapidfire, and Remix had joined them a bit later).  Remix and her creations had met up with Skystrafe and Firestryke in a field and the little ones played around as much as they could.

Overall, it seemed like an ordinary week.

Daystryke made all the right noises in the pauses, enjoying the sound of the young mech’s voice.  But after a while, his voice began to falter and when it stopped altogether, the tactician looked over to see that he had fallen into recharge, curled up on his side.  He relaxed back against the berth, letting his optics shutter as his systems went into standby.

He wasn’t sure how long he laid there, only that when he heard a noise, he went into instant battle mode, twisting over so that his body was between Toni and the threat, the red mech hidden in the cage of his arms, lips pulled back in an aggressive snarl.

Red and white filled his vision and it took a klik for him to recognize Ratchet’s form.  After that he didn’t care that the medic was scowling down at him and he carefully moved back to lay on the berth, taking more care to make sure that Toni wasn’t disturbed rather than to keep his mostly healed wounds from stretching painfully.

“He shouldn’t be here,” Ratchet said.

“He hasn’t been recharging properly,” Daystryke countered.  “Unless he’s making my injuries worse or in the way, which I doubt this late at night, he’s not leaving.”

There was a moment of silence before Ratchet turned away, satisfied with what he saw.  “You’re going to be released tomorrow.  I expect not to see you for a long time.”

“Yes sir.”

oOo

The next day, Ratchet gave Daystryke one last check over, Toni standing against the wall next to the door, making sure he was out of the way while he waited.  Ratchet tested the healed over scars and nodded for him to leave.  Standing up carefully, Toni met him halfway across the room and Daystryke gave him a small smile.

“Would you like to join me for some energon?” he asked, watching as Toni’s doorwings fluttered.

“That would be nice,” Toni said softly.