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( He gets a similar look in return. )

Just-- take care of yourself, okay? I don't want anyone looking for another excuse to come after any of you.

[Shakes his head.]

It's too late for that.

Edited (reading comprehension, hello >:c) 2014-07-08 23:44 (UTC)

Too late for-- no. No it's not.

It's Krok or Misfire next.

[He clutches his head, fingers tangling with his chevrons.]

You don't know that. ( She frowns, looking at her own hands where they're clenched together off screen. ) If you give them a reason to think Chromedome was justified in what he was doing - and I want to be wrong, I do - but I don't think anything else is going to matter much.

You look out for your own, after all. It's -- well, I'm sure you understand.

It's waiting for someone to do something when they haven't then.

[The stakes were too high to be waiting. Too much to lose. Time was not on their side and his options were running out.]

That was old before the war and it's real old right now.

Edited 2014-07-10 06:50 (UTC)

They should have taken action, I know. But he's their crewmate, you can understand the reluctance. Although perhaps your hesitance in that scenario would be owed more to the fact you would be handing them over to the Autobots than a reluctance to see a comrade face justice. ( Nautica, now is not the time. ) Sorry, I just--

( Ramble. )

The Autobots-- they used to work for the Primes, didn't they?

[Spinister tries desperately to keep up with the flow of words but his mind is an anxious mess right now and all he hears is a garbled gibberish until Nautica slows down. He stares helplessly at her for a long moment before quietly answering.]

Yeah?

Do you still see them as representing the old regime? I've never had a chance to ask a Decepticon before.

( She's just trying to figure out how this could happen here. The war is over, after all. )

They don't act new.

[The war had been started with the old regime and continued with the new. Spin's not had much of a chance to deal with Autobot policies again until, well, these past few days really. Not a good first impression so far.]

Maybe not here, but they're - we're - better than this, Spinister. I won't blame you for not trusting them when they've given you no reason to, but--

( A sigh, and she seems to curl in on herself. Helpless, she feels so helpless. Chromia can punch and Windblade is, well, Windblade - all she can do is talk and do things with a wrench. Nautica doesn't think that's very useful in this situation. )

The war's supposed to be over.

[He's not sure why Nautica looking so sad affects him like this, but it does and he's not entirely certain what to do.]

... Well, a Decepticon would've just killed Fulcrum. [Possibly after a lot of torture. That was comforting, right? Spinister's not exactly claiming the moral high ground for the Decepticons here unfortunately.]

Bad stuff happened before the war. Figures bad stuff'll keep happening after it. It was... a lot of fighting.

[ Is that his attempt at cheering her up? She doesn't know, but somehow it makes her smile slightly, even though she knows it's true. ]

Some would say that death is easy, that destroying one's self is a far more cruel fate.

[ But right, they're not here for a philosophical discussion. She'd need Megatron for that. ]

Yes, so I've read. I just--

Take care of yourself, Spinister. I'm sure they'll do something, they have to.

[Spin wasn't about to bet on them but...

She'd smiled. Just a bit. And he didn't really want to make things worse than they already were.]

Yeah. Alright.