Taking The Leap - Jazz X reader Part 1
This is my take on the Soft AU series by revelboo, I highly recommend you go check out her work before reading this.
This fic contains 18+ content, you have been warned. MDNI.
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“Alright, I love you two, remember we won’t be going back to the old place” (Name) said, turning to the two young boys in her van. A fifteen year old in the passenger seat with short, (Hair color), hair and brown eyes. He dragged his school bag up from the floor and into his lap.
“Yeah, yeah, we’re going to that fancy government place. For that new job you got” the boy, whose name is Damien, said before the smaller, thirteen year old who bore a similar resemblance to both the woman and the other boy popped up from the back seat.
“Yeah! You're going to be making lots, and lots of money!” The boy, named Aden spoke, with a large grin. (Name) smiled before a high pitched voice chirped up from the back. The three turned their attention to the small girl in the car seat.
“Toys, toys! (Name) is gonna buy Harper lots and lots of toys!” The small, three year old girl, named Harper, her shoulder length, (Hair color) hair tied into pig tails. She was bouncing and rocking in her seat. (Name) couldn’t help but giggle. Damien let out a sigh while Aden laughed.
“Harper, come on…” Damien spoke with exasperation.
“No, no. I think you all have earned being spoiled a bit. If your big sister can’t spoil you, who will, right?” (Name) said, turning to her brother. They’ve all had a rough go of things, with (Name) having to balance two jobs while having to suddenly become a guardian to her three siblings. When she heard that the government was putting out a high paying job listing, with the promise of a hefty starting bonus, just to wash and care for their new alien allies, she jumped on it as soon as she saw the listing.
Surprisingly there were no certification or degrees that were needed for the job, and since she was hired almost immediately as she applied was both exhilarating and concerning. She finally had a reliable way to support her siblings and keep them out of the foster system, but with how quickly she was hired and with the lack of any proof of skills raised some red flags for her. Like there was a catch with how good the job sounded.
“Sis, you good?” (Name) was brought out of her own thought by Damien, who was looking at her with concern. The woman put a smile on her face, and reassured her brother that she was fine.
“I’m fine, don’t worry about me. Now get going, you both are going to be late” (Name) said, ushering both her brothers out of the van. The two said their goodbyes, shutting van doors as they left. The woman drove off, heading to their new home.
(Name) had found out that the government was offering onsite housing for their employees, and was quick to file all the paperwork that was needed. Today was their move-in day, also her first day of work. A part of her was nervous that she was going to be washing and tending to one of the bots or cons without getting to know them. The woman shook her head, and focused on the road ahead, deciding that she would face the issue later.
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“So Jazz, have you met your Conjunx yet? They’re coming in today from what i’ve heard.” Bumblebee asked, gaining the former spy’s attention. The Mech turned to the yellow and black bot, looking up from the data pad he was reading from, and offered him that signature smile that he had mastered so well. They were sitting at a table in one of the many rec rooms, with other bots that were all talking to each other in the background. Both Decepticons and Autobots were straying away from each other, the new found peace was still new to them and there was little trust between the two factions.
“Not yet, I won’t be seeing them ‘till later.” Jazz said. In all honesty, the Mech was not all that excited to be participating in this whole thing. Being offered Conjunx all for the sake of peace was both odd to him and raised so many red flags for him. He was familiar with the act of arranged sparkmates; a part of him wanted to decline the offer but after finding out that the decepticons were also going to be participating in this in the name of peace he felt it was necessary to make sure that who ever he got wouldn’t fall into decepticon servos, as he didn’t know if a con was going to be kind o rruthless.
“Hopefully you’ll be a good match, I know mine is! They’re everything I could ask for and more!” Bumblebee gushed, going on and on about how well his conjunx is and how they are a perfect match.
“Now that the war is over, we can all just relax and settle down” Bumblebee added, and Jazz nodded along. The best thing that he can do is just play along, for the human’s safety. He wasn’t sure if he would be good enough to be a conjunx, but he would give it his all and try to make whoever he was paired with happy.
“Excuse me, I’m looking for Jazz. I was told he was in this room?” The bot turned his head and saw that there was a human approaching him. dressed in a suit and tie, holding a data pad of his own as the room fell silent.
“I’m here” Jazz said, getting up from where he was sitting, leaving his data pad on the table, and kneeled down to get closer to the human.
“Your caretaker has arrived at the base, she is currently getting settled in and will be ready to care for your needs in three hours. Here is her profile of everything you need to know” The man said, before playing around with his data pad, and Jazz heard his data pad ping. The man then turned on his heel and left the room, once he was gone, the other bots in the room erupted in a roar of delight and congratulations. Some came up to pat him on his back once he got up from keeling and he made his way back to his table to see that bumblebee was looking over his data pad.
“Jazz she’s gorgeous! You got paired with a real looker!” bumblebee said, as other bots were trying to get a peak. The Mech picked up the data pad and looked over who his future Conjunx was.
[ Name: (Name) (Last Name)
Description: currently acting as guardian to her three siblings ages ranging from fifteen to three, has been described as a dedicated and hard worker.]
He looked at the picture that was provided and sure enough she was beautiful, both by human standards and Cybertronian. When he first arrived on this planet, he found how similar humans looked to Cybertronians to be unsettling; but after spending time with them he saw them as his equals. Based on this woman’s face alone she was a real knock out, and with how her (Hair color) hair frames her face adds to her beauty as well. Her (Eye color) eyes from the picture alone sparkled with life.
Jazz re-read the description, taking note how she was acting as guardian of her three siblings. That both piqued his interest and raised some red flags; she was clearly working to provide for her family, but now he really can’t say no to this arrangement as he didn’t want her to risk being paired with a bot who wanted nothing to do with children, or worse a con with ulterior motives. He has heard through the grape vine that there were single carriers and sires who were here for similar reasons, his spark ached for them as primus knows who they’ll be paired with. This fact cemented his resolve to be a dedicated Conjunx and do his best to provide for his newly assigned Conjunx and her siblings.
“Soooo, what do you think? Are you getting excited to meet her or what?” Bumblebee asked, leaning his helm on his servo waiting for Jazz’s response. The other bots in the room gave him similar looks. The Mech let out a sigh and put on that fake smile he always wore and gave bumblebee a thumbs up.
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(Name), with Harper on her hip, followed the woman that was leading her to a town house in a neighborhood that was within the compound. She was surprised to find out that the compound was the size of a large city, considering that it was the current home to a bunch of huge Cybertronions she really shouldn't be surprised. The woman opened the door and all three entered the fully furnished house.
“This is where you, and your family will be staying” The woman said, Harper looked around excitedly and squirmed around in her sister’s grasp.
“It’s all fully furnished, and we’ve sorted everything out with your landlord. Everything that was on that list to retrieve from your previous place of residence will be collected and moved here. Also a corporate owned vehicle and driver will be picking up your brothers from school today so you can focus on getting to know your bot.” the woman said before, she played around with her data pad she had on hand. She turned the device around and offered it to the woman who took it and looked it over.
Description: Formally an Autobot spy.]
‘Huh, not much about him here, surely he’s more than just an Autobot spy’ (Y/n) thought as she placed her sister down to scroll to find a picture of the bot she was going to be caring for. He was beautiful. The Black and white paint paired well with the blue of his visor, and that smile he had, even though she couldn’t see his optics she did think that he was rather handsome in a weird way.
“Wanna see, Harper wanna see!” Harper begged, pulling at the woman’s clothes. (Y/n) kneeled down to lift her sister one handed and allowed her to see the bot’s picture.
“Ooooh! He’s so cool! Harper likes, Harper likes!” Harper cheered, eyeing the bot on the screen. (Name) smiled at her sister as the woman in front of her cleared her throat, gaining her attention.
“There’s something else that you should know, it’s on the next screen” The woman said, approaching (Name) and sliding the data pad’s screen to another page.
{What you expect with caring for your bot}
The woman scrolled down to a section below.
{The Cybertronians have come to believe that the caretakers are interested in pursuing a romantic/sexual relationship and possible future marriage. Playing into this has become integral to keep the Cybertronians happy and at peace, you will be required to bathe, provide energon, and get to know your bot on a deeper level. While you are free to reject any advances, know that it will go on your record and your time here will be called into question}
(Name) felt her face burn hot, as her sister looked at the page questionably, not quite yet getting the hang of reading large words. She knew that there was a catch to all this, and it’s far too late to back out now.
‘What the hell did I get myself into?!’ (Y/n) thought.
“Yes, there is a reason why this wasn’t mentioned in the job description, we can’t have word getting out that both the Autobots and Decepticons are looking for interspecies relationships, it would cause an up-roar. We hope you understand” The woman said, her face burning hot as well from sheer embarrassment.
“This is fine, I can work with this” (Name) said, causing the woman to let out a sigh of relief.
‘I don’t have a choice do I?’ (Name) Thought bitterly, as Harper could care less about what’s going on, just babbling on about how cool the Autobot looked.
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(Name), dressed in her new water proof uniform, was pushing a card full of energon, cleaning supplies, metal polish, and wax down a hallway, passing by doors each with numbers on them. Some were in use with the sound of running water and chatter, while others…. had other sounds coming from them. The woman looked up at the numbers watching them climb.
‘Sixtey-seven…sixtey-eight….sixtey-nine…seventy… there!’ Room seventy-one, the room where Jazz was supposed to be in. From what she remembered there were two ways to get in, human sized doors and large cybertronian sized doors. There were several buildings within the area she was in, some of them were connected and varied in size. The bathing area was one of the many ways the buildings were connected and how they met.
(Name) took a shaky breath and knocked on the door, she waited for a moment before she heard a voice from inside.
“Come in” a voice called from inside.
(Name) pressed a button that was near the door allowing it to open. She pushed the cart inside and the door automatically closed behind her. She looked up to see a sixteen foot tall Cybertronian stand up from the bench he was sitting on and slowly approach her.
“You must be Jazz, it’s nice to finally meet you in person!” (Name) said, with a nervous smile. Jazz smiled back, his masked smile hiding just how equally nervous and unsure of himself he was. The autobot stopped right in front of her and kneeled down to get closer to her height and he slowly reached out a servo to the woman, which she gladly took one of his digits to shake.
“Like wise, nice to finally meet you in person, (Name) (Last Name)” Jazz spoke, pulling his servo back.
“Please, (Name) is just fine! Now then, what would you like to start with first? Your Energon, or a bath? We can get to know each other as well if you’d like?” (Name) gestured to the cart. Jazz pondered for a moment before opting for some energon. Figuring that would ease the tension before she had to give him a washing.
“Energon would be good” (Name) nodded and turned to her cart, she struggled to lift the barrel up and off from the cart for a good few seconds before Jazz stepped in and lifted it for her. He popped it open before noticing her look of embarrassment.
‘Damn, I forgot how heavy that thing was, this is not a good start…’ (Name) thought, as she watched Jazz take a swig from the barrel.
‘Must be thinking of how she’s not doing her job correctly, I need to reassure her that I can do the heavy lifting from now on’ Jazz thought, turning his attention fully to (Name).
“Don’t worry about the energon, I can handle all the heavy lifting, you don’t need to worry about it” Jazz spoke softly. (Name) gave the bot a thankfully look as she quickly started to prepare a bucket and whatever soap she thought he might enjoy. She ended up going for an earthy scent, and got the water running, waiting for it to run hot.
Jazz watched as (Name) filled the bucket up with water and started mixing the soap in, a sudden thought came to mind as he finished off the barrel. He was FAR bigger than her in his current form, it would take her a while to get him completely cleaned and washed off. His mind went back to the three siblings she had under her care, assuming that she wanted to get back to them as quickly as she could.
(Name) heard the sound of metal shifting, she looked behind her and saw that Jazz had shrunk down from sixteen feet to seven. (Name) blinked owlishly as she quickly turned off the water, picked up the bucket, and made her way over to the bot.
“You guys can shrink?” (Y/n) asked, setting the bucket down and made her way over to her cart to grab a rag, sponge, and brush before making her way back. Placing both the brunch and rag down by the bucket.
“Yep, It’s called mass dissiplation; to keep things short, I’m converting a portion of my mass in a pocket dimension of sorts. It does cost some of my Energon reserves so I try not to do it often. I read from your file that you have siblings that you’re taking care of. Figured you’d want to get back to them as soon as possible” Jazz explained. (Name) was touched by the consideration and smiled at him gratefully.
“That’s very sweet of you, Is there anywhere you’d like me to start?” (Name) asked, dipping the sponge she was holding into the hot soapy water. Jazz moved to sit down and offered the woman one of his arms.
“Let’s start with the arms, and tell me a bit about yourself. I want to know more about you and your siblings” Jazz said, and Name gently grabbed his wrist and gently started to wash his servo before moving up his arm.
“Well, without getting into my little sob story, I have primary custody of my siblings as their home life is a bit ‘messy’” (Name) spoke, as she paid close attention to the details of the paint on Jazz’s arm.
“Messy how? If you don’t mind me asking?” Jazz asked, as (Name) moved up to his shoulder plating, noting how through she was being with him.
“Both our parents were drug addicts, my mom ran off to who knows where and our dad was more interested in getting high than taking care of my siblings. I’ve been fighting with both of them for years trying to get my siblings out, I’ve only been granted custody of them around six months ago.” (Name) said, as she started to clean the tires on Jazz’s shoulder before working her way down his other arm. Jazz’s spark clenched at the fact that (Name) was fighting for years just to get her siblings to safety.
“That’s awful, I’m sorry for bringing that up” (Name) shook her head, and smiled at the bot.
“No need to apologize, It’s fine really! Now tell me about yourself, I wasn’t given much on your file. All I know is that you were an Autobot spy” (Name) said, just as she moved onto Jazz’s back.
“Sure thing, little lady” Jazz spoke, getting more comfortable around (Name).
“Before the war, I was a musician and I used to do security work for Kaon before it fell into deception rule” Jazz spoke. (Name)’s interest was peaked when Jazz brought up being a musician.
“A Musician huh? My younger brother, Aden, has an interest in music” (Name) mentioned, pausing her work to go redunk her sponge.
“He does? You didn’t really mention your siblings when I asked” (Name) felt her face heat up when she realized that she glossed over them and went into her long legal battle.
“Oh whoops, yeah you're right. Sorry, guess I’m still getting over the stress of the legal battle” (Name) said, Jazz assured her that it was fine as she returned to scrubbing his back plating.
“Well, The eldest of the three is Damien. He’s fifteen and a smart kid. He wants to be a doctor one day so that he can help people. I’ve already put some money aside for his college fund” (Name) started as she made her way down his back, getting on her knees.
“Then there's Aden, He’s thirteen, and as you already know he’s interested in music. He loves listening to music and he’s writing his own songs, He’s been really into listening to songs that focus on the bass guitar, so I want to get him one at some point” (Name) said, peaking Jazz’s interest.
“I play something similar to a bass guitar, it’s called an Aghartan electro-bass, a couple of buddies of mine managed to get me a replacement after I lost my original one when I brought it to earth.” Jazz said.
“Oh really? You’ll have to play for us sometime, I’m sure you and Aden would get along great!” (Name) said, before she got up and moved in front of Jazz. She got down on her knees, as Jazz made room for her between his legs. Both felt awkward with how close they were to each other. (Name) started to scrub Jazz’s chest plates as they sat in silence for a bit.
“Ahem… then there’s Harper, she’s three” (Name) begin, breaking the awkward silence as her scrubbing slowly started moving down.
“She’s a total sweetheart, when she saw your picture she couldn’t stop going on and on about how cool you looked.” (Name) spoke, earning a light hearted chuckle from Jazz. It’s happened before, where young kids would freak out over him and his fellow bots whenever they saw them. It warmed his spark every time it happened, happy that he could be a source of joy and excitement. Jazz was about to say something when he felt (Name) inching closer to his pelvic area, the bot flushed blue and immediately grabbed the woman’s wrist causing the woman to freeze.
(Name)’s eyes went wide, taking note of how his face turned blue like he was blushing. She then looked where her hand was and felt her face grow hot, she pulled back her hand and apologized repeatedly.
“I am so sorry! I was so caught up with talking about Harper!” (Name) sputtered, feeling a mix of embarrassment and mortification. She couldn’t believe that she was scrubbing near his junk on her first day with him, she can only imagine the kind of signals that she was sending him. Jazz let out a shaky vent and allowed himself to calm down, He offered her a smile and assured her that it was all fine.
“It’s fine dollface, you just got caught up in the moment. I’ll handle cleaning that part of myself, just move on to my legs” Jazz said, gesturing to one of his thighs. (Name), avoiding eye contact, got to work on his thigh plate.
‘That was awkward’ They both thought.
“So… tell me more about the songs you used to play back in your homeworld” (Name) asked, gaining Jazz’s attention. The bot let out a relieved sigh, thankful to finally move on from the almost pelvic scrubbing. The two talked for a while, getting to know each other more and more, eventually (Name) had Jazz stand up so she could get to the backs of his legs and then hosed him down.
“Would you like an oil rub? I have some in my cart” (Name) asked, Jazz shook his head telling her that that can wait for tomorrow.
“Youd should probably get going, your siblings are waiting for you at home” Jazz said, (Name) smiled and started cleaning up. She got everything put away in her cart, with Jazz placing the empty barrel on her cart. She was about to leave when Jazz gently grabbed her hand, soming it to hold in his servo. (Name) looked up to see that Jazz was looking down at her with a soft expression.
“I want you to know, I’ve enjoyed our time together. I think it’s best that we take things at your pace, as I'm still unfamiliar with your customs. I can’t wait to get to know you more (Name)” Jazz spoke softly, gently rubbing his thumb digit on the back of her hand. (Name) flushed, and suddenly remembered the digital pamphlet that she read before meeting Jazz.
‘That’s right, he thinks that I’m interested in him… I guess it’s not all that bad, he’s a sweet guy.’ (Name) thought, before offering Jazz a smile of her own.
“I look forward to that as well, Jazz” (Name) said, as Jazz released her hand. The two bid their goodbyes as (Name) left the room, the door closing behind her. Jazz vented, happy that things went semi-smoothly. He turned and left for his door and when it opened he was greeted with both Bumblebee and Prowl standing there.
“How long were you standing there?” Jazz asked as the door closed behind him.
“We just got here, we were curious how things went” Prowl said, as bumblebee nodded.
“How was she? Was she as amazing as she looks?” Bumblebee asked, Jazz took a moment the ponder and thought back to everything he’d learned so far about his gifted Conjunx. She is kind, loving, hard working, and dedicated to getting her job done. A little ditsy but he had to admit it was a cute quirk of hers. She was someone he could honestly see himself with, a genuine smile crossed his lips.
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(Name) opened the door to the smell of Mac and cheese and bacon coming from the kitchen, she walked in to find both Aden and Harper eating bacon Mac and cheese, with Harper in a highchair and Aden sitting not far from her. The toddler noticed (Name) and cheered.
“(Name) home!” The girl cheered as Aden looked up from his plate and greeted his sister, as Damien walked over and handed his sister a bowl of her own.
“Hi kids, how are you all?” (Name) asked, taking a seat at the table, with Damien taking a seat next to her. Noticing that Harper was making a mess of herself, she used the napkin from the little dispenser on the table to clean her up.
“We’re good, how was work?” Damien asked, as he watched (Name) clean their sister. (Name) powdered for a moment, thinking back to the time she spent learning about Jazz, he was kind and how he didn’t jump her like she was expecting. Perhaps being his wife wouldn’t be such a bad thing, if it meant keeping her siblings safe and happy. She as more then willing to take care of the nice bot, just for her siblings sake. (Name) smiled at her brother.
