[Ratchet stops, agitated, his mouth pressing flat for a long moment before he looks up at Drift, his optics hard and intent.]
Every time I looked at you I used to see every single person I knew who might be alive if I hadn't scraped you up and poured you back into your own head in the middle of that gutter in Rodion. After a while--after Delphi--I started seeing every person I knew who might be dead if you hadn't saved me the way you did, if I still had my old hands. The people I watched you save with your own two hands, too.
Now... to be honest, I lost track on both counts, and I think if we continue keeping score like this we'll never be done. I came to get you because I want to look at you and just see... you. I didn't do that before, and I wanted the chance. ...you deserved that much from me.
It's going to take some getting used to--especially since I apparently missed actually, y'know, coming to get you and bringing you home--but I don't want to keep score anymore. Friends help each other, that's all. It's even without having to dig back and count. Simpler.
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[Ratchet stops, agitated, his mouth pressing flat for a long moment before he looks up at Drift, his optics hard and intent.]
Every time I looked at you I used to see every single person I knew who might be alive if I hadn't scraped you up and poured you back into your own head in the middle of that gutter in Rodion. After a while--after Delphi--I started seeing every person I knew who might be dead if you hadn't saved me the way you did, if I still had my old hands. The people I watched you save with your own two hands, too.
Now... to be honest, I lost track on both counts, and I think if we continue keeping score like this we'll never be done. I came to get you because I want to look at you and just see... you. I didn't do that before, and I wanted the chance. ...you deserved that much from me.
It's going to take some getting used to--especially since I apparently missed actually, y'know, coming to get you and bringing you home--but I don't want to keep score anymore. Friends help each other, that's all. It's even without having to dig back and count. Simpler.