Prowl's Tragic Love Life

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Continuity: IDW1

Rating: General

Relationship: Past Prowl/Chromedome, Past Tarantulas/Prowl, background relationships

Characters: Chromedome & Rewind

Summary: In which Rewind informs Chromedome of some most excellent gossip.

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Fic below cut.

“I don’t believe it,” Chromedome said, pointedly not looking at Rewind.

He was used to Rewind bringing him bizarre, upsetting, or even downright disturbing information. That was just par for the course being conjunxed to a journalist who spent years watching snuff footage to track down a missing partner, but this was new in a way he couldn’t have anticipated.

This was about him.

Well, it was about Prowl, which meant that it was about him by proxy.

And that didn’t sit well. Guilt by association was already pooling in his fuel tanks.

“What do you mean you don’t believe it?” Rewind snapped.

Not to be deterred, the minibot scaled the desk Chromedome was sitting at to stand right in front of him.

The only escape would be physically leaving their habsuite, which wasn’t exactly a good solution in the long run. Rewind would just come after him, accusing him of not caring about the Truth and the concept of a complete, comprehensive narrative.

It would be embarrassing.

Yet another thing to feel unrelenting guilt about.

“Prowl had the worst rebound with a mad scientist guy who turned himself into some kind of spider mutant and you don’t want to know about it?”

Rewind put his hands on his hips, head tilted in judgment.

“No, I don’t!” Chromedome threw his hands in the air.

“Oh, come on!” Rewind grabbed Chromedome’s face by the mask, preventing him from moving away. “It’s the perfect gossip material for vindicating your life choices!”

Vindicating? Vindicating?

All Chromedome felt about it was shame, a pervasive, all-consuming guilt, as though Prowl’s awful choices somehow reflected on him, despite the fact that they had separated before the war had even in full force.

He said nothing.

“How about this? After that imploded, Tarantulas had a worse rebound.”