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As the days passed, and his gut grew sicker, Starscream couldn't even find it in him to fly anymore. So soon as it happened, Skywarp dragged him to medbay. 
"Ratchet, my brother is broken."
Ratchet huffed, and turned to the two, "Set him on the table. What's the issue?"
"He doesn't want to fly anymore. Also he says his spark is sore. How the heck does your spark get sore?"
"It's from carrying." Ratchet responded, grabbing a flashlight and walking over, turning it on and shining it in the grumpier seeker's face. "Yoohoo, Starscream."
"Kill yourself." The seeker grumbled, an uncomfortable look on his face.
"See? He's fine. Move along, Skywarp."
Skywarp rolled his optics before teleporting away, and suddenly Ratchet went soft. 
"Hurting today?"
Starscream frowned, "I've been hurting more than normal the past few days...I..am extremely ready to be done carrying."
Ratchet nodded, "I get'cha kid. But don't worry, it's not much longer, you still have about a month.
Starscream groaned. He had already sat and soaked in his problems for a month, he doubted he could do it another month. But, Ratchet fixed the seeker's attention to something else.
"Want to know the gender?"
Starscream perked up, before sitting up quickly, eye to eye with Ratchet, noses almost touching.
"Yes!"
Ratchet's face twisted to a grin, which was an unnatural sight. "Alright alright. Lay down again and I can probably scan to see what coding they have so far."
Starscream purred loudly, lowering his body back down. Even if he had been dreading having a child that wasn't Skyfire's, he was still having a child. Within the month, spending more time with Soundwave, his siblings, and Skyfire, he found new interest in having a youngling.
An interest that made him truly sit and think. He wanted his sparkling, he wanted it badly. He wanted to finally cool down from war and have the kid him and Skyfire had spoken about in college.
But he knew he'd be crestfallen in the scenario it wasn't Skyfire's.
But, any information about his sparkling would lift his spirits a bit.
"Sooo..." Starscream said after a minute. "What are we seeing?"
Ratchet read through the info of the scan. The different coding that his child would have. Perhaps even plating colors would show in this stage.
Ratchet turned to him, "You're having a femmeling." He said, watching as Starscream smiled hugely, kicking his legs a small bit in excitement. 
"Anything else? Optic color? Plating color? Anything like that?"
Ratchet chuckled softly at the seekers enthusiasm.
"By the readings, you'll definitely have a little winged bitlet. Red eyes, the main color will be white." He said, "That's all we have so far."
Starscream purred loudly. 
A red eyed, mainly white, winged baby. 
He couldn't wait.
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A red eyed, mainly white, winged baby.
Oh he dreaded it.
Megatron had white-ish plating and red eyes. Who was to say the sparkling wouldn't be Megatron's?! Maybe he should've gotten rid of the sparkling. Then maybe his life would be better.
He whined and laid his helm on the counter in the lab. Sitting down next to Shockwave.
Shockwave made a noise of discomfort.
"What?"
"What?" Starscream muttered back.
"You're whining. What's wrong with you?"
"Do you care?"
"Yes. Because you're annoying. So come on, what's up. I'll tell you how dumb it is." Shockwave said in a grim tone.
Starscream paused.
"I don't have to tell you."
"Then don't. Get out of her—"
"So, like,  I'm sparked right? But I don't know if it's Megatron's or Skyfire's."
Shockwave groaned "oh my prim—"
"And so, like, I've dreaded this sparkling, but now I also really wanted it. So when I found out yesterday that they were coded to have Red optics, be mainly white, and that she has wings, I was ecstatic."
Shockwave narrowed his optic.
"But...Megatron has red eyes, and...and he has a white-ish color scheme. What if the baby is his? What if it's not Skyfire's?"
"Are you forgetting you have every single trait you listed?" Shockwave huffed.
Starscream blinked
"You have mainly white colors, red optics, and wings. Not to mention, wings and mainly white lines up with Skyfire, doesn't it? What if she just has red eyes from you? Idiot."
"I'll hurt you."
"Nuh uh."
Starscream rolled his eyes and turned away.
"I just...Megatron has no interest to be with me...but he'll take care of the sparkling. It's bad enough we have these living conditions, but like...I don't want my child to live in worse conditions. Worst case scenario, think that mommy is a whore."
"But mommy is a whore." Shockwave responded.
"You are no help."
"Wasn't trying to be any."
"Fair enough."