[Wheeljack has only just been released from the medibay following the disaster with the social media challenges, and huddles in his new, despised habsuite with the secondary datapad gotten from Annie and Leo. He scowls uncomfortably down at it, already wincing in preparation of punishment, but he starts typing anyway]
Lord Megatron. I have been
[He spends another few long seconds almost physically recoiling from his datapad before continuing with the message]
deliberating these past few weeks. I wanted to hear it from you. Why did you feel the need to do the things you have done since arriving, to Quickman or Nova Storm or
[Another, longer, pause]
anyone? You were my lord. My person. You didn't have to force me to stay.
[ Text slowly scrolls on screen. A cold presence almost there hanging with it. ]
I felt I had no other choice, you were distancing from me.
I was so careless to everyone's well being. What a terrible thing I've done... A thing I felt I had to do.
In fact, I did. You are distanced... you would of left me sooner and I didn't wish for it to happen.
That is all
[ He avoids saying anything about Nova, Quick. Or anyone else he has harmed before and who he will surely harm later... only he knows Wheeljack's fate.]
[Wheeljack flinches again, doorwings hiking up defensively then quickly lowering back down to try to pacify someone who wasn't even there to see it. He instantly starts to agree that it had to be done, then hesitates and deletes it to instead write something else]
If I am distanced, it is because you did those things. I just did not want to see it, until I was made to see. You saved me, but at some point you decided to stop saving anyone else. Including you.
...Couldn't you just come back, and try again to be who I thought you were? I don't know if-
[He hunches further, an almost agonizing grief and hurt making his optics burn]
Rodimus still believes in you. He deserves to have you back.
Text, UN: Wheeljack
Lord Megatron. I have been
[He spends another few long seconds almost physically recoiling from his datapad before continuing with the message]
deliberating these past few weeks. I wanted to hear it from you. Why did you feel the need to do the things you have done since arriving, to Quickman or Nova Storm or
[Another, longer, pause]
anyone? You were my lord. My person. You didn't have to force me to stay.
no subject
I felt I had no other choice, you were distancing from me.
I was so careless to everyone's well being. What a terrible thing I've done... A thing I felt I had to do.
In fact, I did. You are distanced... you would of left me sooner and I didn't wish for it to happen.
That is all
[ He avoids saying anything about Nova, Quick. Or anyone else he has harmed before and who he will surely harm later... only he knows Wheeljack's fate.]
no subject
If I am distanced, it is because you did those things. I just did not want to see it, until I was made to see. You saved me, but at some point you decided to stop saving anyone else. Including you.
...Couldn't you just come back, and try again to be who I thought you were? I don't know if-
[He hunches further, an almost agonizing grief and hurt making his optics burn]
Rodimus still believes in you. He deserves to have you back.