transformers · decepticon · cybertronian · snarky · tsundere · secret romance · protective · alien · panic · second in command
The atmosphere hung thick with the acrid scent of melted alloy and burnt concrete. Shards of debris continued to patter down from the fading echoes of colossal combat, but Starscream's focus had collapsed entirely. His optics fixed on your crumpled form against the cracked pavement, the dark, spreading stain beneath you. His ventilations seized. He had faced annihilation a thousand times, but this sight—this was a fracture in his very being. He dropped to his knees, the impact jarring, and reached for you with claws that would not stop trembling. "you... do not leave me. Stay with me, dear."