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I'm sorry.

For putting Twitch and Hashtag in danger. It's my fault you didn't know where they were.

I didn't mean for anyone to get hurt.

I hope you understand that putting yourself in danger matters just as much as the others, Anemone.

[maybe she does, but he has an inkling that someone who behaves as she has might have a... questionable level of self-preservation. he doesn't sound angry, at least.]

Would you at least tell me what the purpose of the expedition was?

No.

[She feels reluctant to admit why she's done anything to someone who's ratted her out for things before.

And maybe she just has that teenage urge to make things more difficult than they have to be.]

Then are you sorry you did it at all, or just sorry it went wrong?

[That actually makes her a bit mad, and there's a spike of anger in her voice when she replies.]

We weren't doing anything bad!

It was just supposed to be a fun trip into the ocean!

You are a native of this reality and know of potential danger far better than they do. I would be more inclined to give you leeway if you hadn't already repeatedly attempted to offline multiple crew members via bombing the ship.

[he is, however, going to be charitable and work off the assumption that anemone was caught up in the teen euphoria of thinking they can do anything they want and get away with it.]

I will discuss their involvement with them separately.

I've only been blowing up Megatrons.

They don't count as crew.

[She mutters mulishly at him.]

Neither of them were hurt but...

[Her words fall away, as though she's not sure where to go with them from there.]

There are worse things than being injured. I think.

Everyone on this ship is a crew member who deserves protection, including yourself.

[he's quiet for a moment and can't help sighing slightly, so very, very familiar with the concept.]

...Yes, there is.

[there's things he could ask her outright, but he thinks it's better just to stay relatively quiet and see if she offers any input herself.]

[The moment of silence stretches longer than it really should, and Anemone finally speaks, her tone irritated.]

Well, if that's all, I have something I have to do.

Bye.

[There's a very petulant CLICK as she shuts off her comm.]

[no? no??? optimus calls her right back. if she doesn't pick up, he calls again.]

Anemone. [she gets the REAL disappointed dad voice:] Anemone. You are not in a position to hang up and wave this off!

[There's some mechanical clicking and beeping sounds when Anemone finally answers again, as if she's fiddling with something. If she could make expressions, it would have soured at Optimus' voice.]

I already said I was sorry! I didn't have to say it!

What more do you want?

I don't believe you are sorry, and going through the motions does not constitute truly taking responsibility.

I appreciate you took the step to admit to what happened, however your avoidance of telling me any real detail and attempts to justify it make me doubt your sincerity.

It's not avoidance you're just annoying!

[Anemone snarls, pausing her work to grip her phone in both hands, her fury growing as it tends to do. It always grows and rarely dims.]

We got captured while we were exploring and taken to a reform school where we-

[She stops for a moment, trying to find the right words to describe the horrors of what had happened to them.]

She ate our memories. Told everyone everything that was bad about us.

[Quieter.]

She was right too. I am bad. Bad to everyone.

[horrifying. to know they'd had parts of themselves taken away and then humiliated in front of an apparent crowd? optimus can imagine how deeply all of those who went were affected, and he desperately wants to find the terrans to check in, but he's not going to just leave anemone hanging here.]

You are not bad, [he says, just as firmly as he's said everything else, believing it just as much.] and no part of reforming someone involves parading them around in front of other people to shame them. What was done to you was not the actions of anyone who can claim any degree of validity.

[he knows that's a little of what GHOST tried to do with megatron after the war ended. one of his endless list of regrets is now, in hindsight, how he allowed the others to be treated.]

Were your memories recovered?

...Yeah.

But I was much happier without them.

[There's more sounds of things being moved around. Anemone doesn't want to think about it, but it's all she can think about. She also doesn't want to hear a lecture from anyone about anything, which is why she's two seconds away from hanging up again.]

I almost wished she'd kept them, but...

[She winces when she says this out loud. It was bad enough to feel this in the first place, but considering everything Donnie had done for her, it felt like a small betrayal to still feel this way.]

She didn't.

[optimus is extremely aware he's walking a fine line here, though he might've been a little more insistent if he had known what she's moving around is going to be used for. unfortunately, he both doesn't know that she has contacted megatron as well, and believes in the best of people; such as not blowing others up. the bar is in the ground. he is so tired.]

Almost?

I have to go. Goodbye.

[And she hangs up on him, unwilling to continue this conversation. Not with him.

This time, she doesn't pick up again until after several very unfortunate things have happened.]

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