C.M.D: Yes there are times when I get carried away with some ideas... This would be a prime example. Having hit 50 chapters in Ears and Tails, I'm hoping to sate the last of my muses in this (please be final!) installation. Fingers crossed that it won't exceed fifty chapters!
Just like in Ears and Tails, each chapter title proclaims who the story's about; ratings included with every post, and there's always the full version available on any of the links in my profile.
Originally posted January 14, 2013

Chapter 1: Blades
Rating: T

He watched him from afar...

White plating, so pristine. Glowing in the sunlight, striped with red, here and there. His adorable, smiling face -bared for once, instead of hidden behind a visor or mask- allowing the very sky to kiss his blushing cheekplates. Laughter, cute and warm, bubbled out from within; shimmering in his baby blue optics, even as they half-shuttered with his delight.

Primus... he was beautiful.

His brother: young, free, unmarred, perfect. Innocent... full of life and love...

The mech gripped the hilt of his knives, the grooves and dips in the steel biting harshly into his palms. His leathered palms... He was not innocent. He was not unmarred. There was nothing young or free left in his spark any longer. He was just insane; out of control; a killer; a monster. So much stained his servos.

But First Aid...

He sighed, taking a step back further into the shadows of his roost. The little australian shepherd was so... good. He had such compassion and warmth in his spark; more than enough to give to the whole world! Slaggit, the younger autodog even went and became a vet and everything!

How then, could he ever dare to think he should be near his baby brother?

Knowing how crazy he was, he was bound to probably taint First Aid in some way or form.

...but... Watching that little autodog, walk about so peacefully and merrily, always with a bounce in his step and kindness in his optics, made the stranger realize just how much there was to protect... and how much more there was to lose, if he didn't.

So what if he wasn't worthy of being near the other mech?

"Aid..."

At least he'd keep him safe. Even if it was from the shadows. And from mechs like himself.

"I...I love you...," Blades whispered, stepping back and fading from sight completely.