Prompt 44-Circle

"Here we are again," it was Bluestreak who finally broke the silence.

"Yeah," Mirage replied.

They'd been in the med bay for nearly two orns. Not due to their own injuries, but the injuries of their lovers. Sunstreaker recharged in one berth. Dents and scrapes covered his entire chassis. Wires connected his processors to machines that monitored his vital status. Sideswipe rested in an adjacent berth. Large ugly patch welds spotted his chassis, and his left arm was reduced only to its minimal skeletal form.

"You should get some recharge Blue," he murmured knowing the gray mech was tired.

The pair struggled for words, and they rarely spoke to one another in the med bay. Their energies were always concentrated on their lovers.

"You should get some recharge Mirage," the Datsun retorted bitterly.

"I didn't- I mean...You had patrol, then the attack, and you've been here for cycles."

"You've been here for cycles too Mirage. You know I want to be here for Sunstreaker just as much as you want to be here for Sideswipe." The golden twin stirred in his recharge thrashing his arms and jostling the cables connected to his processors. Bluestreak took Sunstreaker's hands in his own quelling the warrior.

Mirage nodded and tenderly caressed Sideswipe's cheek. "He needs me here. I'm afraid if I'm not here with him, maybe he won't heal."

Bluestreak was unusually quiet. He didn't offer a word in response.

Mirage's optics drifted from Sideswipe's still form to Bluestreak. The Datsun's dimmed then brightened, dimmed then brightened fighting the recharge he so desperately needed. His head bent forward, his optics offlined, and Bluestreak finally slipped into recharge.

Decepticon attack, fighting, injury, worry about their lovers in the med bay, only to repeat the cycle when the twins were fully recovered. Ratchet's constant fussing, never knowing if their lovers would make it out from the med bay, the late nights tending to the twins, it took a toll on their sanity. But they endured it, because they knew Sideswipe and Sunstreaker needed them.