"Thank you," Soundwave tells Loki, more than happy to look him in the eye now that he's managed to get his high-beams turned off.
There are so many thoughts and feelings jumbled around in his mind right now.
Loki is almost certainly feeling the spark-call, just as Ravage felt it from him, even though Loki is an alien being and hasn't a spark of his own.
Which is interesting to think about, but leads to dangerous paths, because Loki is everything dear sweet Orion once promised to be but was wholly unable to be.
Which is dangerous, because dear sweet Orion once terrified Soundwave, until he gave in to that cloyingly bright fascination, knowing better each step of the way, not failing to notice that Ravi was often too much of a challenge for Orion to ever have meant some of the things that he said, and then the betrayal came.
And he will not think about how things could be once more what they never really were before. No, he will decidedly not think about that, even though Ravage and Megatron were kinder and gentler and not at all toxic together when Orion was there in the middle beside him.
Let it stay as it is. Two and two do not have to be four, especially not when the other two are not yet done with being one and one. He has Ravage all to himself now, and he's wanted that far longer, and he'll savour that as long as he can have it, which is, hopefully, forever.
It's rare for him to be attracted to anyone other than Ravage, but if Orion taught Soundwave anything, it was that being attracted absolutely did not mean he had to act on it, no matter how rare it was, no matter what Megatron or even Ravage said.
"I wonder," he says conversationally. "Do you think that when we finally sign the treaty, someone will tell dear sweet Orion he needs to stop dressing like me, because with two of us on the opposite sides of a table for posterity, and Ravage beside me, people other than Ravage and Jazz will finally notice?"
After all, if he can manage never to kiss Jazz again, he can certainly manage not to kiss anyone else that he shouldn't.
"It also strikes me as amusing. Even though Orion didn't take Megatron back after Megatron joined his tribe of idiots, Megatron tried to court Ravage, and Orion tried to blackmail me into joining them. I wonder what Orion would have tried to do if they had actually got both of us to stand with them under that banner."
Soundwave would curl his lip in distaste if he could. Instead, he just laughs.
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There are so many thoughts and feelings jumbled around in his mind right now.
Loki is almost certainly feeling the spark-call, just as Ravage felt it from him, even though Loki is an alien being and hasn't a spark of his own.
Which is interesting to think about, but leads to dangerous paths, because Loki is everything dear sweet Orion once promised to be but was wholly unable to be.
Which is dangerous, because dear sweet Orion once terrified Soundwave, until he gave in to that cloyingly bright fascination, knowing better each step of the way, not failing to notice that Ravi was often too much of a challenge for Orion to ever have meant some of the things that he said, and then the betrayal came.
And he will not think about how things could be once more what they never really were before. No, he will decidedly not think about that, even though Ravage and Megatron were kinder and gentler and not at all toxic together when Orion was there in the middle beside him.
Let it stay as it is. Two and two do not have to be four, especially not when the other two are not yet done with being one and one. He has Ravage all to himself now, and he's wanted that far longer, and he'll savour that as long as he can have it, which is, hopefully, forever.
It's rare for him to be attracted to anyone other than Ravage, but if Orion taught Soundwave anything, it was that being attracted absolutely did not mean he had to act on it, no matter how rare it was, no matter what Megatron or even Ravage said.
"I wonder," he says conversationally. "Do you think that when we finally sign the treaty, someone will tell dear sweet Orion he needs to stop dressing like me, because with two of us on the opposite sides of a table for posterity, and Ravage beside me, people other than Ravage and Jazz will finally notice?"
After all, if he can manage never to kiss Jazz again, he can certainly manage not to kiss anyone else that he shouldn't.
"It also strikes me as amusing. Even though Orion didn't take Megatron back after Megatron joined his tribe of idiots, Megatron tried to court Ravage, and Orion tried to blackmail me into joining them. I wonder what Orion would have tried to do if they had actually got both of us to stand with them under that banner."
Soundwave would curl his lip in distaste if he could. Instead, he just laughs.