She was in cell for a few hours, with her baby as her only companion. Hearing the clanging of footsteps coming towards her cell, she snapped, “Look, I don’t care what you do to me, but please don’t hurt my son. That’s all I ask.”

            “I’ll swear on my spark that no harm will come to you or your child.” Said a very familiar and calming voice.

            Looking up, she saw the last person that she expected to visit her. “What beings you here Starscream? I don’t think Megatron would allow you a conical visitation with me.”

            “Cindy, I’m so sorry. I wasn’t expecting…”

            “Expecting, what? Your leader and fellow Decepticons to kidnap Nathan and me?” she quietly snipped at the Decepticon air commander, “Its all part and parcel of being a Decepticon, Starscream. Kidnapping humans and asking the Autobots to pay a ransom of one form or another. Sorry. I didn’t mean…”

            “Don’t worry about it.” Said Starscream as he bent down to get a better look at the baby Cindy was holding. “So, um, how is he? He hasn’t had anything bad happen to him? I mean, is he healthy?”

            “Yah, he’s healthy. And stubborn,” Cindy said with a quiet sigh, “just like his father.”

            Starscream smiled. He was happy for them, but then remembering the circumstances of Nathan’s creation and that’s when he started to frown. “Are you sure that Nathan is…”

            “Yes. I don’t know whether to thank the Quintessons or kill them all; but all I know is that I have Nathan to show for it.” She said softly as she cradled the baby in her arms. “Why are you asking? Is something bugging you?”

            “Well…” Starscream sighed, “The Quintessons turned me human only for a short time and well I thought.”

“It takes one time Starscream.”

“Yah.”

Then Cindy asked him, “Do the Decepticons know anything?”

“No. Do the Autobots?”

Cindy quietly said, “No.”

“Alright then. See you later Cindy.”

“Bye, Starscream.”

Before living the detention cells Starscream asked, “And Cindy.”

“Yes Starscream?”

“Take good care of our son.”