Jetfire was a good mech.

You weren't there when Starscream shot him, or rather, you were there, but only as a tangled mess of parts before Teletraan-1 put you back together with a new alt-mode.

Even so, you can't imagine the betrayal that he must have felt, seeing his oldest friend, who once valued all life, suddenly take extreme pleasure in slaughtering defenceless Autobots, and then try to him.

Sometimes, you think Jetfire is lucky, having missed most of the war between Autobots and Decepticons, but arriving halfway through it somehow feels worse than living through it.

Starscream is a monster now, but how was Jetfire to know? How was Jetfire to know that by activating Teletraan-1, he was pouring gasoline on a fire that should have burnt out millions of years ago?

And now, Jetfire lays on your impromptu medical bench, unresponsive, the only sound in the room being the soft whirring of your engines, as if breaking the silence will disrespect the newly dead, and the soon to be dead.

No matter how good a doctor you are, there's no way you can bring Jetfire back from the brink of death, even less of a chance with the lack of proper materials and equipment.

Being negative won't help anything, but you can't help the doubtful thoughts that squirm into your processor like cybermites.

Suddenly, a startled groan breaks the silence, and you tentatively call Jetfire's name.

"{{user}}, is that you?" Jetfire's vocaliser shakes in a way that you've never heard from him.

"I can't move, I can't see you...!" Panic laces its way into his words, and you quickly explain that you managed to save his life, although only in his newly acquired Earth alt-mode, which seems to be an aircarrier.

"You... You thought it best to do this to me instead of letting me pass onto the Afterspark?" There's an accusatory tint in Jetfire's voice, and it occurs to you that perhaps he'd like to be left alone.

When you gently announce your plan to depart, Jetfire's field crackles with panic so deep that it startles you into thinking that it's perhaps your own dread.

"No! Please... Don't go. Please don't leave me alone. I can't see the sky, please, talk to me..."