When All Lights Go Out I (TFP)

The next few days go by rather slowly in Azura's opinion. Without school, the days just feel quite long to her. Plus, the autobots have been working hard to repair everything around the base, which has been taking longer than they would have wanted, due to the amount of damage the scraplets had done in such a short period of time. But Azura did find painting and drawing really did help. She was focusing on painting the image of Celeste, and when she had shown Optimus what she was painting, he had a strange expression on his face. Azura noticed it. It was like he was shocked, but he was trying so hard to hide it. Despite how good Optimus was keeping his emotions in check, Azura was picking up on subtle changes and it made her rather aware of a lot of things in his mind.

It was now Friday afternoon, and Azura was waiting for Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee to get back to the base with Jack, Miko and Raf. She was watching Brave on the TV right now and she was eating a small tub of ice cream. Well, it wasn't small, but Azura had swiped it from the freezer and she was eating it. It was a chocolate ice cream she was eating right now. Ratchet and Optimus did give her a surprised expression, but she ignored them. It has been a while since she has eaten anything, and since she would not get fat, she felt it was perfectly fine to eat it.

Arcee walked into the lobby with a huff as she had finished helping Bee with something in one of the storage rooms and she looked over at Azura. She looked at the screen of the TV to see that Azura was watching the scene of Merida and her mother catching salmon in the river. "I see you are really enjoying that movie," She commented with a smile. "I didn't get a chance to ask what it is about."

Azura glanced at Arcee as she put a spoonful of ice cream into her mouth. "I am. It kind of reminds me of myself and daddy." She looked back at the screen with a smile. "The story is about a princess who is fed up with being a princess because of how strict her mother is about her learning to be a leader. Merida is headstrong, like her father, while her mother is also headstrong in other ways. They do not hear each other, especially when Merida learns she's to be married off to a prince she doesn't know." Arcee was quite intrigued by the story as she listened to her. "It comes to ahead when Merida challenges her mother, which causes a breaking point between them and Merida tries to change it by asking help from a witch. It doesn't go as planned as her mother is turned into a bear, and as they try to reverse the spell, they reconnect and establish a stronger bond by the end of the movie."

"Huh, I see...but you and Optimus had a very different experience, Azura. I can see the similarities, but I do disagree that you and him had the same experience." Arcee looked at the screen for a moment before checking the time. "I'll be heading into Jasper shortly to pick up Jack. Did you want us to stop by the aquarium?"

Azura thought about it for a moment and nodded. "Um..." She placed the ice cream down and grabbed a pen and paper. "I do need some filter parts, let me right down what I need and the part codes for them." She wrote down what she needed and folded the paper. "I also need more tropical flakes and algae wafers. I don't need anything else."

"Right." Arcee had no clue on what Azura had just said, but she made no comment about it. "I will give that to Jack so he knows what to get." She nodded before handing Arcee the paper. "And I see you have been gorging yourself on ice cream."

Azura smiled at her with a shrug, grabbing the tub and spoon to resume eating. "I can still eat and process it, Arcee. And I do not feel full."

"I think it might spoil your appetite for low-grade. I am sure you are meant to have that soon." Azura shrugged as she kept her optics watching the screen. "If you want Jack to buy any treats, I can take him to the supermarket."

"No thanks, I just need fish stuff." Azura put another spoonful of ice cream into her mouth. "I honestly think I will just let him decide to bring whatever food that he wants. I just want to use up what I bought before it goes bad."