Okay so this is the long waited request for my dear friend Bubblicious Genius. She absolutely adores Ratchet and so here comes a brand new RatchetxOC fic. I hope you and Bubblicious Genius enjoys the first chapter! Enjoy.

Chapter 1

A Job Out of College

Harley Max had just graduated from the East West College, a Trade School of Massage Therapy one of the top schools for the art of healing. She had lived in a small town in Oregon with her father and was now soon to be on her own out into the real world. The job market was very low during the state of the economy which worried her. She was hoping she'd be able to get a job, but it would take time like everything else. "So where are you going today?" her father asked her.

"Applying for jobs around the area and hope for the best," she replied smiling big and walked out of the door. Harley was around six foot tall, her hair was jet black and when the sun shined on it in a certain angle her had a purple to blue tint to it. Her eyes matched her hair, very dark brown nearly black and along with that she had deep curves. With the body she had she could definitely do something with it, but everyone wanted her to get surgery to make her bones smaller, Harley's frame was not small like some women, but was big boned, as she put it she was not fragile like some women were. She could actually take a punch and not break to pieces.

She had turned everyone of the agencies down and yelled at them for even thinking that she would even go through all that to become what they thought was 'beautiful'. She smiled thinking about the past and how far she had gone from then and now then got into her car. "Okay let's get this party started!" She yelled and started up her car and as she did 80's music started blaring through the speakers.

As she drove around the Portland area looking for little businesses chiropractors had. She stopped a few places filled out applications and they'd let her know if they'd be hiring soon. It was what she was expecting a lot of turn downs right now. Then as she was coming to her last stop she saw a sign that read: Darby's Chiropractor Service. Shrugging, she pulled into the parking lot and picked out a spot close to the building and had just gotten out of her car and started walking up when someone came bursting out. "I'VE BEEN HERE FOR YEARS! WHY GET RID OF ME NOW!"

A male's voice replied to the woman as calm as he could but the woman was already out the door and running past Harley growling. She watched but continued to walk up to the door and inside. When she came inside she noticed there were items thrown everywhere. Glass was on the floor and picture frames were broken with the picture cut a little bit from the glass, then she saw a middle aged man cleaning up the mess in the other room.

As she walked forward she made one of the wooden boards squeak and he looked up quickly and slowly stood up to his full height. "Hello ma'am, sorry for the mess…former massage therapist did this…" he trailed off then asked, "May I help you with anything?"

"Yes, my name is Harley Max and I just graduated from East West College licensed massage therapist and I was looking for a job, I didn't know if the owner of the business was here or not." She replied politely.

"Oh! Hi!" he exclaimed and put down his cleaning materials and walked over to shake her hand, "My name is Dr. John Darby, I am the chiropractor here. Do you have a resume at all? As of this very moment I am hiring."

Harley looked at him smiling and then made a little face not knowing what to say, "Honestly sir, I don't have one, I was expecting to fill out an application…"

Dr. Darby smiled and replied, "You know what, since I do have patients today and my one massage therapist is actually now gone…I'll hire you on the spot and I will watch how you work to make sure you are doing your job. After a while I'll determine whether you will stay here permanently or not.

Harley was dumbfounded. She truly didn't expect this. "You're just going to go ahead and give me the job?"

"Yes until I see how you work and that will determine everything else." He replied.

Harley smiled and exclaimed, "Is this okay or should I go home and put something new on to wear or is this fine?"

Dr. John Darby was looking at Harley who was in nice dress pants and a very nice shirt. He gave her a look and laughed, "Go home and put on some comfy clothes."

Harley laughed and replied, "Yes sir, I shall be back before you know it sir. Thank you so much for this opportunity." She walked out of the small building and once she was out of site she jumped up in the air, clicked her heals and went running to her car. She was filled with so much joy she couldn't even express how she felt inside. All she knew is that she got a job and that she started that very day. She couldn't wait! She put her car in reverse and then drove out of the parking lot and was on her way to her house.

Jack and Arcee had arrived at the base, Miko and Raf were already there hanging out with their bots. Jack slowly got off of Arcee and watched again how she transformed. "So Jack, what's this trip your mom was talking about before we left?"

Jack shrugged and replied, "I have an uncle who lives in Oregon and she wants to go see him. She actually named me after him except I go by Jack and he goes by John."

"I see, I'm going to have to go with you because you never know about those Decepticons." Arcee joked and gently knocked him with her hand.

"You read my mind. You could come with us I mean you could drive me out there. It's an open road, not like we'd be going that far anyway. Here we are in Jasper, Nevada and he lives in Portland Oregon."

"It's a couple of hours to get there probably more, Jack." Arcee replied.

"What are you two love birds talking about over here?" yelled Miko running over to the two. Jack suddenly started to rub his neck as if to tell her to shut it. Miko could tell she was embarrassing the boy and continued, "So are you two planning a runaway trip?"

Arcee looked down at her, then rolled her optics and sighed, "Jack is going to Portland, Oregon to visit his uncle."

"Oooo Oregon! I've never been there. Can I go please!" Miko begged giving Jack big puppy dog eyes.

"How about if you do come, you and Bulkhead and use the ground bridge. That way you wouldn't be bugging everyone to death." Jack snapped.

Miko was taken aback at what Jack had just said. She started to slowly walk backwards and Jack realized what he had done. "Miko, I'm sorry."

Miko turned around and ran in the opposite direction towards Bulkhead who scooped her up concerned why she wasn't her happy self and then looked down at Jack. Jack looked down and walked the opposite direction towards the exit and said, "I'll be heading home to start packing."

Harley made it home quickly got changed into some jeans and a nice shirt. Her father saw her rushing around like a chicken with its head cut off and asked, "What's the rush?"

"I got a job today I have to gather all my stuff and then I'm out of here." Harley exclaimed and grabbed her keys and her purse and was out the door in a second. She jumped back into her car and drove straight to the chiropractor place. Parked the car, jumped out and ran up to the door and rushed in. Dr. Jack Darby had gotten most of the mess cleaned up from the drama earlier. He saw her come running in and looked up at the clock.

"You weren't kidding when you said you weren't going to be gone long." He laughed cleaning up the last few things before walking over to her and handing her papers that he had on his desk. "These are papers you will need to fill out."

Jack was nearly out of the base when he was suddenly tackled from behind. He was pushed to the floor and turned around to see Miko there laughing. "Seriously?"

"Oh! I totally got you! Do you really think that would have hurt me? I mean come on. You're right I would be bouncing up and down in the car wanting to get out as soon as possible. So that's why all of us are going to be ground bridging to your location when you get there." Miko exclaimed.

"All of us?" Jack asked, a little scared to know the answer.

"Yes, all of us, Raf and I, then all the Autobots are coming."

"All the Autobots? Including Optimus and Ratchet?" Miko piped up cheerfully.

"Seriously? You're getting Ratchet to go?"

"He doesn't know yet, but we'll get him to go." Miko laughed.

"We're going where!" yelled Ratchet and then there was a metal hitting metal in the main room.

"Raf move out of the way!" Bulkhead yelled. The two humans went running back to the command center to find Ratchet throwing stuff at Bulkhead.

"Hey Raf, what did Bulkhead do?" Miko whispered.

"We told Ratchet that everyone had to take a day off when Jack go to see his uncle and that we're going there. Ratchet couldn't stay behind like he always does, and he doesn't really want to be with humans the whole time let alone in his alt mode." Raf explained.

Jack looked at Bulkhead and then Ratchet. "This will be a trip we will be very worried about…a cranky old bot, it could get ugly."

"Ratchet! Stop it right now!" Optimus yelled. Ratchet froze with a tool in his hand as he was about to throw it. He dropped it to the floor. "Now we will enjoy this thing that the humans call a vacation.

After Harley filled out the paper gave him contact numbers in case something happened. He started to show her around the place and showed her the items he had for when he had for when patients came in. Harley nodded at everything. She had learned how to use all of the very same stuff in school. Harley also explained to him what she had learned in school.

He laughed and looked at her and spoke, "you really do know you're stuff."

"The school really taught us well, that's why they are number one." Harley replied.

Dr. Darby nodded and replied, "I think this is going to work out nicely."

Harley couldn't help but smile then they both turned around hearing the door open and the bells start ringing. Her first patient ever had just walked in.

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