Sam is Samantha. Starts out she is 17, first part of her Junior year when she gets Bumblebee. Mikaela Banes is her friend. They have been friends for some time, though run in different social circles.

William Lennox is not married in this story.

Will go through first and second movie and a little beyond.

Please note I DO NOT OWN Transformers are any other media

Samantha Witwicky sighed tiredly as she finished the final paragraph of her genealogy report. Why Mr. Hosney chose to make them complete such a detailed project this early in the school year she would never know, but as a Witwicky she refused to back down from a challenge. Then again as reports go this one was pretty basic. Choose a relative, research and write up a fifteen to twenty page paper on them and their accomplishments which would need to be posted to the class website and prepare a presentation for the class.

Much to her parents chagrin she had chosen her great-great grandfather Captain Archibald Witwicky, probably the most fascinating member of their clan. Sure he apparently went insane and ended up in an asylum, but before that he had done what many people in his time period couldn't even contemplate. He explored the Arctic Circle.

So using that as a focal point for her paper she dug through the attic, pulled out his old maps and a diary along with his personal glasses, though why he kept a pair of broken glasses she would never know. Regardless they added a certain historical affect to her paper and the presentation she planned. Sam had no doubt that she would earn an A on this project which is exactly what she needed to uphold her deal with her dad.

Ron Witwicky had set forth a fairly reasonable deal. If she got A's on 3 major projects and/or tests and earned $2000 on her own he would put forth the other $2000 to buy her a car. Granted $4000 wasn't a lot for a car, but it would get her a decent used vehicle and she had no doubt she could get her friend Mikaela to help her fix it up if needed.

To date she had earned a little over $2000 from baby-sitting and other odd jobs she had performed around the neighborhood. Seriously, who knew that lawn work could prove so lucrative? The grades were a bit harder as the school year was only in the first nine weeks. Most teachers didn't have them do projects or tests until the second quarter at least. Thankfully, or not depending on how one looked at it, this year the teachers decided to jump right in. She had already had a major test in science, which she aced, and a large project for her English class, which again she aced. Now she just needed to score high on this project and she would be driving her very own set of wheels in no time.

Proofreading the paper one last time, and checking that all of the photos uploaded properly she connected to the school web site and downloaded her project to Mr. Hosney's class site. Then she printed a copy for herself and placed it with the items she planned to take into class with her for her presentation. Checking the bedside clock she sighed. Sam had worked through the entire afternoon again thus missing out on the joys of the 'weekend'.

Chuckling to herself she muttered the old Witwicky motto. "No sacrifice. No victory."