64-Fall (Curing Acrophobia)

AN: So, little number took third place in Mecha Erotica's March challenge. Special thanks to Okamichan for betaing this.

"C'mon! I want you to come with me just this once. It's so much fun!" Sideswipe turned a somersault mid air for emphasis. "And you can see everything from up here. It's amazing!"

Mirage could see the beautiful Helix Gardens, the Celestial Temple, and the brilliant lights of Iacon by simply stepping onto the balcony. He didn't have to fly over them to appreciate their beauty.

"No thank you. If I were meant to be airborne, my creator would've crafted me wings," Mirage replied curtly. The jetpack was Sideswipe's most annoying and least enjoyable upgrade. It wasn't enough that he wanted to fly around like a reckless Seeker. He wanted to do it while juggling his own bond mate.

"You're afraid of heights aren't you?" Sideswipe's mouth plates morphed into a maniacal grin.

"Of course not," Mirage fidgeted clenching and unclenching his fists.

"You are! Just fly with me for a little bit. I'll hold you real tight, and I won't drop you."

"That's...so comforting. No." The blue mech edged away from the red twin.

"You are afraid of heights! We'll just have to fix that won't we?" Sideswipe glided to the place where his bond mate stood and scooped him up in one fluid movement.

Mirage kicked and struggled against Sideswipe instinctively. "Sideswipe! Put me back." Mirage caught a glimpse of the ground below then cried, "Primus, don't drop me!"

Sideswipe tightened his grip on the panicking mech, and pressed him closer to his chest plate. "I won't if you keep still."

The realization that he could fall to his death made him stop struggling instantly, and his body went tense against the mech that held him. "Are we really flying?" Mirage finally whispered.

"Yeah," Sideswipe chuckled. "It's not that bad is it?"

He was terribly afraid of falling to his death. There was this nervous fear induced churning sensation in his fuel tank. It took every ounce of self-control he possessed to not purge his fuel tank. "Worse," he murmured

Sideswipe cradled Mirage in his arms. One arm was hooked underneath his legs; the other supported his back carrying him bridal style. "What are you so afraid of? I've got you." Sideswipe kissed his lover on the helm.

"I'm not just afraid of an error on your part. Your jetpack could malfunction or run out of fuel. We're so high, and I feel so helpless..."

"You make it sound so awful."

"It is," Mirage pouted.

"Nuh-uh. Being in the air is nice."

"How could you possibly think that?"

"Well," He bit his bottom lip in concentration thinking of ways to justify his love for the sky. "Everything looks so small and neat when you're up here. Like right now we're over the Crystal City. It looks so beautiful...well look for yourself!" He tilted Mirage in his arms so he could see the city below.

"Sideswipe!" He tightened his grip around his lover's neck, whimpered, and shuttered his optics. The city lights of Iacon below were not a welcome sight; it reminded Mirage of the great distance that separated him from the safety of the ground.

"Shhh! You're fine Raji," Sideswipe chuckled.

"You've had your fun terrorizing me. Now will you put me back on solid ground?"

"What's glitching your processors? Just let me show you what I like about it. Maybe I can change your mind."

Mirage parted his lip components in an attempt to protest.

"Shhh. Now in addition to the view, there's the wind. It feels good blowing against your plating doesn't it?"

Then Mirage noticed the powerful wind blowing all around him. It was cool against his dermal plating, and it tickled the bottoms of his feet. It flowed through every gap in his plating, and it made the most interesting howling noise flowing over his audio receptors.

"And the sky. It looks so pretty," the red mech added.

The entire time he'd been in the sky he'd done nothing but keep his face buried in Sideswipe's chest. He hadn't even bothered to look at the sky. Mirage cocked his head.

First he noticed his captor's gleeful expression. Sideswipe's optics shone brightly, and his mouth components crooked into a huge grin. In Mirage's opinion that was much nicer than any skyline view. Then he looked to the dark nighttime sky. Bright stars twinkled in the distance, and he felt completely lost in the vastness of the sky. The moons looked so close he felt as if he reached out he could touch them.

"I suppose it isn't completely unbearable," Mirage confessed. He admitted this in part because Sideswipe managed to note a few positives about being airborne. He also knew his bond mate's way of thinking. If he didn't change his mind, he was likely to be stuck in the air forever.

"Now, I want you to try something. Turn off your equilibrium chips, and I'll turn off mine."

"But," Mirage protested in hesitation.

"Trust me Raji?"

"Yes," he murmured giving in and turning off his internal balance systems. Try as he might he could never refuse Sideswipe.

Sideswipe maneuvered the blue mech so they were face to face. He wrapped one of his arms firmly around Mirage's torso, and the other grasped his hip strut. Mirage's wrapped his legs around Sideswipe's torso, and his arms around the red twin's neck and held on for dear life. "Good." His lip components met Mirage's in a deep passionate kiss.

Sideswipe darted from left to right, gliding over the air gracefully. Then he accelerated forward, then turned a back flip "Feels great doesn't it?"

Everything felt disjointed and incoherent. He was dizzy, blissfully dizzy. He couldn't quite discern up from down. Sideswipe's enthusiastic grin was up, and down...Where was down? Left and right didn't exist at all. Then there were the tingling sensations he felt in his hip strut. Sideswipe's digits pulled against the sensitive wires there, as if he were purposefully trying to stimulate him.

"It's so different -"

Sideswipe cut him off with another demanding kiss and, he propelled them into back flip after back flip. Then he launched them foreword into a front flip. Sideswipe sent a teasing jolt of electricity through his lover's flame, and flipped them foreword again and again. Each time they flipped another jolt of electricity coursed through Mirage's frame.

Each jolt of electricity strengthened in intensity, and soon left Mirage gasping, moaning, and sending his own retaliatory jolts.

When the sensations became too intense, Sideswipe stopped flipping for a moment, and the pair simply hovered in the air gazing into each other's lust filled optics and touching helms. Panting and intakes gasping for air, their breath hot on each other's lips, and static from their energy fields crackled around them.

"Sides," Mirage panted. "Please..." Mirage desperately flared his field against Sideswipe, kissed furiously against his closed lip components, and nipped and sucked at the exposed wires in Sideswipe's neck. "Side-swipe," the blue mech groaned adding far too many syllables to his lover's name.

"Are you still afraid I'll drop you?"

"What?"

"Are you still afraid of falling?" Sideswipe growled in a lust filled tone that made the mech in his arms tremble.

The amazing, if not woozy sensations he felt in his processor, Sideswipe's enticing caresses, he'd nearly forgotten he was hundreds of feet above the ground. "I said I trusted you. I mean it."

Sideswipe accelerated, propelling them higher in the sky. They now hovered far above Cybertron's loftiest buildings. Mirage didn't even have the opportunity to protest. Sideswipe opened his field completely to Mirage's flooding him with wave after wave of energy.

At the same moment he opened a connection between them, he turned the jetpack off, and they began to freefall through the air. Sideswipe covered his lover's mouth with his own muffling Mirage's panicked cries. "Relax." He pulsed through their bond. "I'd die before I let anything happen to you." He sent a reassuring surge of energy to his partner. "Concentrate on how good this feels."

Mirage turned off his higher processors and surrendered. If they smashed into the ground, there was absolutely nothing he could do about it. Instead he focused on the unique yet terrifying sensation of falling. He shuddered against every wave of energy, and reciprocated. He kissed Sideswipe with a fiery passion, and moaned against his lover's mouth every time their fields pulsed.

Upside down and right side up had no meaning as the wind twisted and spun their bodies. With every klik, every kiss, and every flip they spiraled ever closer to the unforgiving ground.

Sideswipe intertwined his fingers with the wires in Mirage's hip strut, and moved his mouth to his lover's neck. Mirage's energy signature shifted from desperate and fervent to one of release as he reached overload. The shift was just enough to force Sideswipe to his own overload.

Sideswipe reactivated his jetpack slowing their velocity. When they were only a few inches from the ground he hovered and whispered into his bond mate's audio, "Are you still afraid?"