Megatron smiles at her. "I just wanted to make sure," he says quietly. "I can only read your mind when we're joined, and even though that will not always take the better part of the day, we still have a great many other people we love and a great many other things that we need to do."

He leans over to kiss her. "I don't need to have you in every form that you take. Having known Airachnid, though thankfully not intimately...we can certainly forget about the spider. But I want you to know there is no form in which I'd reject you. And if the wolf wants to cuddle with me, I will be happy to cuddle the wolf."

He laughs, softly. "I've cuddled a cybercat often enough, and I'm fixing to cuddle a turbofox...if I can only even get him to notice I'm flirting. My feelings for him aren't half so extravagant as they are for you, but it wouldn't help if they were. If I said the kinds of things to Minimus that I say to you, he'd run until his energon gave out. Or perhaps until he hit a singularity."