A typical day...

Well, here's another one for your reading pleasures... More free writing, should've called this one I hate you most x3

HOLY CRAP THERE'S SLASH~! No I'm kidding. xD someone puts a stop to it.

Pairing's still Lockdown and Prowl, and Taboo's still as cute as ever..

And Bumblebee's a jerk.

Hehe there's a line that sorta foreshadows events to come in the future, if you can find it, I will I dunno, do a short drabble for you? _{depending if I can work with the requested idea..}


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What he observed as a typical morning for the sparkling was as followed… followed by a typical afternoon, and a typical night… there seemed to be no variation in how she acted, she always did it one way, and acted in her certain way…

Enough he swore he could tell the time just by this routine he had found himself in… well, it was more Prowl…. Well, he had to help so he supposed that, that meant he counted as well in this…

Their morning would start with a small cry, followed by clicks and other small sounds… Taboo announcing that she was awake now… Prowl would be the one who would slide from the berth to go and retrieve her, lifting the small sparkling and taking her back to the berth where he and Lockdown rested.

And she would give a dirty look to her father… just for good measure and to show that she knew he was there.

From there she usually went back to sleep, curling up against Prowl who would hold her against him and rock her gently, while Lockdown would watch… and then be sent to prepare the energon to feed her with.

Lucky… lucky him…

He would bring it back and set it down, Taboo at this point would either be already awake, or she would need a few small nudges from her mother before her day would officially begin with her morning feeding.

At this point she would be comfortable enough to let her father feed her if he chose to… which he usually didn’t in favor of watching Prowl doing it.

“She’ll never get used to you holding her if you don’t hold her…” Prowl said looking over at him, Lockdown shrugged and leaned back. “You always say that… and you know that she bites me when I hold her...” Lockdown muttered, “Well I’m sure she would stop once she gets used to you holding her more.”

Lockdown grunted and looked at him, “Fine I’ll hold her.” He didn’t miss the triumphant look that passed over Prowl’s face as he handed the sparkling to her father. Lockdown looked down at her, and she looked up at him. “Already planning on where to bite me next?” Lockdown grunted, and she made a face chewing a bit on her bottle.

“Now you’re just getting warmed up...”

She gurgled at him and he gave her a flat look and she giggled at him, knowing on the tip of her bottle. Lockdown glanced up to see that Prowl had moved, sitting in the middle of the floor, taking on his favorite stance of meditation and Lockdown smiled a bit. So that’s why the kid wanted to pass her off…. Gotta restore that inner balance of his I guess…

Taboo shifted and moved more to rest on her father, having finished her breakfast she looked up at him before she threw her bottle aside and gurgled, clicking more to get his attention back on her. And it worked as his gaze went right back to her and she made a noise, shifting and moving around in his arms and sucked on her fingers.

“Hey… you gotta be quiet…” he said softly, lightly stroking the sparklings helm, and she watched him, “Your mom’s meditating…” he chuckled softly seeing the look that Prowl gave him. “Hey, I’m just telling her to be quiet.” Lockdown said, Taboo began to move around and squeal, and Lockdown looked back down at her, before he sighed and stood up. “We’ll be… somewhere else...” he snorted as he carried the squealing sparkling from the room to let Prowl have some time by himself.

He walked from the room holding the sparkling against him, “Yah we’ll go have fun somewhere else…” though he was having a difficult time seeing just how much fun he was having carrying the sparkling around while Prowl decided he wanted to meditate.


Their walk brought them to the rec room, which at this time in the morning was empty, more because no one else had any reason to be up this early.

Lockdown wouldn’t be surprised if Prowl took this time to go back to sleep himself. Slagger if he did though…

Taboo went quiet as she busied herself with looking around at everything in the room, occasionally deciding she needed a closer look as to get a feel for everything sticking things into her mouth. And Lockdown sighed, not really knowing the reason for why, but deciding not to think too much into it… figuring it was something he didn’t really need to know. But that was what she did and she… did it frequently, wanting to be put down, or picked up to better look at something and then putting it into her mouth.

Eventually he just gave up and set her down, letting her crawl and experience things for herself, she crawled and looked at everything, sticking whatever she could in her mouth with Lockdown always a step behind her watching her.

He crossed his arms as he walked behind her, the sparkling was babbling to herself as she examined everything she came across before moving on to the next thing to catch her optic.


Optimus was the one that got up next, stopping by to speak with Ratchet, and the two walked down the halls, outlining their concerns with Lockdowns presence there and the constant threat that he would turn them all over to Megatron if the price was in fact right… they paused midsentence as they saw what was going on.

Ratchet chuckled softly as he crossed his arms, watching the sparkling crawl across the floor with the bounty hunter shuffling behind her.

“And though I can’t believe I’m saying this…” Ratchet said looking at Optimus, “There’s the reason that he won’t turn us over.” The medic looked back at the sparkling who stopped having found something of interest and they watched her pick it up in her little hands and stick that in her mouth. Lockdown crouched and she looked at him, making a noise as he reached out and took it from her mouth and then she made a sound and reached for it.

“Nope, mine now kid.”

Taboo stared at him before her bottom lip quivered; she then made a face and crossed her arms. “Yah that ain’t gonna work on me…” he chuckled as she continued to pout, looking up at him, making several sounds reaching up to her father demanding he give her back what she had found. When he didn’t she started to sniffle, threatening to start bawling.

That was when he gave it back to her. Finding it really hard to say no, and then rolling his optics as her mood lightened just like that as she happily played with her treasure.

“Well,” Ratchet began as he stepped into the room, “Looks like she’s got you wrapped around her little finger too.” Lockdown cast a dark look in his direction, and the medic was surprised to see the sparkling looking up at the bounty hunter, before looking to him, glancing once more at her father before she gave him a dirty look as well.

Prowl’s soft chuckle had them all turning their heads, “You see… you do have fun when you spend time with her.” He said softly stepping around Ratchet and Optimus to go into the room. Taboo smiled and cooed reaching up to her mother as he drew closer, clicking as he picked her up and held her against him. She snuggled against her mother still holding on to her treasure and looking at the medic.

“Well, at least she’s got someone other then me to not trust anymore…” Lockdown smirked as he looked over at the sparkling; Taboo continued to watch Ratchet who walked off with a grunt.

Prowl seated himself on the nearest seat and lightly stroked the little femmes head as she chewed on what she had found. Lockdown sighed and walked over and dropped himself down beside them and stretched. Taboo clicked and peered at him, tilting her head as Lockdown glanced over to her. “Yes?” she looked away resting her head on her mothers’ chest. Prowl sighed softly and glanced at him, “I think you scared her.”

Lockdown only shrugged and put his hand behind his head, “I have that effect on bots.”


Her afternoons were no different. After a short nap to recharge her batteries she was ready to be fed again and entertained for the next several hours. Thankfully by this time Bumblebee and Sari were both awake at the time and both seemed rather capable of getting the sparkling to smile and laugh.

Which worked for Lockdown since such things weren’t his forte to say the least.

Taboo sat on her fathers lap, holding on to his hand as Bumblebee and Sari sat beside them. They began with their regular routine, making sounds and faces that would catch the sparklings attention and have her laughing as they tried to see what warped position they could get their faces into next.

And while Lockdown didn’t see the sense in it, Taboo loved it and who was he to deny her, her fun. That and it saved him having to do it himself, and that was something he was never really keen on doing in the first place so… better there was someone else to do it.

And when things got quieter it was her and Prowl’s designated tv time, and Lockdown could watch them from the doorway. Prowl would sit with Taboo resting comfortably on his lap as they would watch whatever nature program was on at whichever time they managed to get the tv from Bumblebee. Which was, usually when Lockdown would sit up annoyed that the yellow bot was testing Prowls patience, and he would back off quickly and leave the tv for Prowl’s uses.

And Taboo was absolutely amazed by the pictures on the screen and would sit there quietly with her mother and take it all in. Not that she really understood what any of it meant but she would be there watching it all happen. Prowl enjoyed the time spent with her, keeping an arm gently around her as he gently stroked her head with his other hand, the sparkling being at complete ease sitting with her mother as they both watched television. It was a relaxing setting, until Bumblebee would change the channel suddenly and startle Taboo to the point of tears. And that would leave it to Lockdown to deal with the yellow menace as Prowl set about trying to calm the sparkling.

Now that was teamwork. Prowl handled the sparkling, and Lockdown handled the one who made Taboo cry.

Bumblebee didn’t seem to learn either so that only meant that Lockdown was able to re-teach that lesson and was looking forward to it until the day that Bumblebee did learn not to do that…

It wouldn’t matter too much if he did or not, even then he’d still find something to smack the smaller mech about, and insult here and there… he learned quickly not to bother him since Prowl had full mobility now. And Lockdown was always there when the yellow bot tried his luck to see how far he could push Prowl…

It was a simple choice for him during moments like that. Threaten his mate and his kid, and you’re asking for trouble that’s for sure. Even though Bumblebee wasn’t doing anything harmful to either of them, he was still annoying Prowl, and did things to scare Taboo and that didn’t make him happy at all.

That Bumblebee learned quickly.


Nights were definitely easier, Taboo was tired and therefore more relaxed at that point, content to lay between her parents, well… closer to her mother then anything else, looking up at the them and content to play until Prowl decided it was time for her to go to sleep. Which she was never happy about but she fell asleep rather quickly when that time came.

And Prowl would get up carefully holding her and walking the very short distance to her little bed and set her down into it where she would move a little before going still. Prowl would watch her for a few moments before he would return to the berth and lay down with Lockdown, watching him carefully.

While he was well aware that nothing was allowed to go too far, it didn’t stop him from a touch here and there, pulling the smaller mech against him, letting his fingers slide across the armor seam of the ninja’s hip. Prowl watched him, the corner of his mouth tensing at the touches… of course his own hands were not still either, the thumb of one hand lightly stroked one of the spikes adorning the larger mechs hip.

Of course, when they moved to pull the other closer, the sniffle coming from the sparkling sounded far louder then it really was.

And as quickly as that mood came on, it was gone just like that as Prowl pulled himself away and moved to check on the sparkling.

Taboo held her arms up to him and he picked her up, cradling her against him as he walked with her back to the berth and crawled on. Lockdown felt his mood ruined laid back in a huff as Prowl tended to their sparkling.

“I think it would be best if she slept with us tonight… since she doesn’t seem to want to be in her bed…” he said softly, and Lockdown sighed and agreed, knowing he’d get double the look from them both if he said no. Taboo knew what no meant, and she also knew how to get around it. So in the end Prowl curled slightly on his side and held Taboo against him, and she would curl up in the warmth of her mothers body, and would actually go to sleep that way.

And while it annoyed Lockdown that his time with Prowl was essentially tossed out the airlock…

He kinda liked how peaceful it was, watching the two of them sleeping…