Try (TFP Optimus Prime/Orion Pax x reader)

The Predicament

Orion Pax.

That was his name before the war.

I learned of this when he found me aboard the Decepticon ship.

Megatron begrudgingly let Orion have me as a "lab partner" (Translation: lab rat) while trying to crack the scripts.

Luckily I had my music with me, so I wouldn't go too insane. And Orion was actually very sweet and kind. He wanted to know more about the humans living on this planet. There were never any experiments run on me, even when Pax was indirectly told to.

I never did say to him I was being held against my will, as a prisoner. I had my reasons.

Though, something surprised me. Even though he had lost his memory for the most part, he could still sing word for word along with me on most of my very long tracklist. I never knew he listened that intently to my music back at the Autobot base when he was Optimus. I never knew that OP had a matching singing voice to mine ether. Well, for a unique voice like his.

We quickly formed a very close bond.

After the little run in with Starscream, Megatron permanently confined him to the room, and was ordering my caged self out when..

"Wait, Megatron. Please don't take her."

Orion pleaded to keep me by his side.

"She needs rest away from you."

Even with Megatron trying to take the human out of OP's ecosystem.

"No, please, I want her to stay. I.. need her to stay. She's a big help to me."

That surprised me. He said that about me?

Megatron went quiet for a minute, before he reluctantly let it go. "....Fine." He didn't want to, but anything more and Orion would have left right then and there. He talked to the guards as he left the room. "Make sure she never leaves this room."

Everyone left, and the door closed, leaving Orion and I in solidarity. I was astonished he advocated for my stay. I was sure the Decepticons were about to get a lot scarier. I gazed over to him.

"Why did you..."

He was modest with his answer.

"I-I couldn't let you go. You're too precious to me."

"Really?" I was surprised again.

"Yeah.." Orion went suddenly quiet. He was thinking about saying something. He turned away from me.

I took in a breath through my nose. "If I could ask.. Why?"

He was being shy. Too shy for Orion Pax at least. Or maybe not. I hadn't seen him like this before.

I heard him intake, and he turned back to me. He took a few steps toward my optic-level cage. He looked away from me.

Then the secret came out.

I.. love you, that's why."

My eyes widened, and my heart unexpectedly skipped a beat. I never knew he could feel like that for me. That they could feel this for another species.

'Is this just Orion? Could Optimus have ever grown this feeling? Is he being true?

? Could I see him the same way?

Do..'

"Y/n?"

His voice interrupted my thoughts carefully, and I snapped put of it. I blinked several times. I reached a hand out of the bars to beckon him over.