I can figure out the point of anything [OPEN]

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WHO: Rewind and You!
WHERE: Liege Maximo's altar
WHEN: A day after Chromedome's death/body has gone missing
WHAT: One half waits for the other.
WARNINGS: N/A

It'd been twenty-four hours since Chromedome's death.

And the feeling was still numb--Rewind kept trying to process it, to make sense of it. But all that he could do was continue on, almost on autopilot. It was like his brain wouldn't do anything other than what was necessary. He was angry, at a great number of people. Angry at Chromedome for not keeping his promise, angry at Prowl for instigating him. Angry at Tarn for killing him in such a way.

Rewinds warnings were far too ironic. He'd always told Chromedome that injecting could kill you. He just didn't mean it quite so literally. When he saw it over the feed, he could feel his spark sink like a rock. It sank into a rut that it couldn't escape from, and despite knowing that Chromedome would eventually come back...

It didn't make the pain of losing him go away.

He sat by the alter in Liege Maximo's temple, where Chromedome would eventually appear, as he'd learned on the Link. All of those who died would appear there, in their respective temples. As he sat, he fiddled with something he found in the junkpile. A tiny cassette, nothing too out of the ordinary. But something about it had Rewind quite interested.

Fiddling with it.

[ooc: feel free to sit with him or bug Rewind on this! He'll be here until Chromedome comes back.]

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It wasn't often he walked by the room in Liege's temple where everybody aligned to him had woken up after the first group of them that had woken up in the junk pile had appeared. But he did it this time, intending to get a look at the fractal in the deeper corridors, and even if Rewind was small, it was still impossible to miss him.

"Rewind. Waiting for Chromedome?" It seemed the most obvious option, given what glyph Rewind carried and where he was. Walking slowly up to the altar and the minibot, Jetfire considered the scene quietly. It was obvious Chromedome meant a lot to Rewind, even just from this angle.

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After being addressed, Rewind slowly turns his head. He didn't seem surprised by the sudden visitor, but then again, maybe he was just too numb to really act surprised in the first place. His gaze tilts up, to Jetfire's face, his fingers idly twirling the cassette in his hands.

"Hit the nail on the head with that one. He's got to come back. Any day now..."

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Squatting down beside the altar like it was the most natural thing ever, Jetfire nodded slowly, expression sober.

"There are, indeed, enough pointers and circumstantial evidence to support that he would. I believe the First forged have said simmering to that effect as well." Pausing, Jetfire looked down at the empty slab Rewind was sitting on. "He meant a lot to you, then."

Not a question, but rather a statement, because by now it seemed obvious.

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"He's an idiot."

Not...exactly the answer one would expect from someone waiting so diligently for him. But he didn't seem to be done just yet. "But he's all I have. Everything that's happened to me, he's been there for it. He'd do anything for me, I think."

A pause, as he looks at the cassette.

"Like I'd do for him."

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Really, Rewind wouldn't necessarily have had to elaborate for Jetfire to understand; while he wasn't stellar with reading emotion, he did have experience with a particularly aggravating individual. Though Chromedome would still be better than the one Jetfire had gotten said knowledge from.

"There's time to be angry later," murmured Jetfire with a tilt of his helm and dry understanding in his voice, following the movements of Rewind's hands over the cassette.

"You have what you need while waiting, or someone to bring you that, at least?" Because running yourself into the ground while diligently waiting wasn't a good idea either.

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"Don't worry, there's plenty more for when he actually returns."

Aggravating was a good word for it. And the worst part was, Chromedome was a good guy. He was charming, funny...everything you could want. Except this. This...unraveled all of that at times. And it brought Rewind to a screeching halt.

"I assume so...I mean, some others have brought stuff. Really, I could go without too. I'm not exactly the most active one here. I don't burn through it as fast."

that's a rude icon to use, you know, with this topic! XD

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"Luckily, yes. It's not often you get second... and, ah, more than that, chances at life." Jetfire paused, frowning slightly as he remembered the strange... dream he'd had at the Keep. Sometimes, you might get second chances you wouldn't want.

Shaking his helm, he focused his attention back at Rewind.

"It would be interesting to see how the Firstforged does it, if, indeed, they have a direct hand in it, or if it's yet another effect of the Lambda on the space surrounding Cybertron. And point, you're not." Sitting still and hardly doing anything would, of course, bring down the fuel requirement for any of them, and refuelling wasn't needed as often as, say, humans would need to.

"I'd say something about that it would probably be better for you if you didn't wait the whole time, but almost all of us have someone we'd what you are doing for, so that'll remain a... token suggestion."

what are you talking about its completely fitting ;D

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"Chances we shouldn't take for granted, too. Who knows if they're limited, or if the Firstforged will even get tired of resurrecting us. Odds I'm not going to bet against, not when this place is still pretty much unknown to everyone around Haven and even outside of it."

He sighs, leaning forward on his knees.

"It's appreciated, Jetfire. I know you're probably just thinking of my best interests. But...I can't leave him. It just wouldn't be right."

...

"He's important enough to wait for, despite everything."

8| you are terrible

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"They seem to be reasonably invested in our continued living existence, even if we technically shouldn't be here, so if they have a hand in it, tiring of it is probably a lesser possibility." But, well, a possibility nonetheless. Circumstances change, and while they'd said they were against the refugees killing each other, it wasn't as if it didn't work to do it, still.

But then, hindering free action wouldn't be very nice, either.

"If only so you can continue to wait, yes." Shifting his stance slightly to redistribute the weight, Jetfire raised a hand to briefly rest it - well, part of it, given the size difference - against Rewind's back. "But like I said, I certainly understand. If I were in your place..."

He shrugs, letting his hand drop back to rest between his knees again. It wasn't so much the absolute necessity of being present if Starscream ever died, so much as not letting him wake up (come back to life) alone.

Both because of what he meant, and because it'd been quite... disorienting to come online to an empty room where he had definitely not been when the avalanche buried him.