Yay! :) First of all, I am so, so happy to be seeing all these fast updates lately! This fic is without a doubt one of my all-time BxS stories, so I'm really excited to see that it hasn't been discontinued and left to languish in the depths of fan-fiction oblivion for all time.
Also, as usual, your characterization is just amazingly wonderful. All the characters are just so much fun to read and I think I've slowly but surely fallen in love with all of them. You are so gifted in your writing - most authors tend to let the more minor characters stay in the background almost like cardboard cutouts, where they all seem flat and one-dimensional unless they happen to be interacting with the main character(s) - and it's simply a joy reading any of your stories (but this one in particular!)
I do have to say that I do have one story aspect bothering me at the moment, and that would be with Sam's most recent actions. It's really starting to bother me, the way that he can't seem to open more direct lines of communication between himself and Bee. I admit to finding that a bit odd and frustrating, since Bee is supposedly Sam's 'best friend,' lover notwithstanding, and yet he's been keeping an awful lot of important information from him recently. And, of course, with some of the foreshadowing at the end of this chapter - the line "What could possibly go wrong?" - it's getting more and more obvious that the situation is most likely going to blow up in his face. I really wish he would 'man-up' and start sharing some of his fears with Bumblebee instead of constantly looking to everyone else for advice. It smacks of real emotional immaturity and makes me think that Sam honestly isn't ready for any kind of permanent, committed relationship right now.
Also, planning to cheat on your partner - even if it's worded as simply being for 'experimentation' purposes - is simply not cool. Infidelity is just flat-out wrong, in my opinion, no matter what the reason. I felt the same way when Bee thought it was appropriate to do something sexual with Ratchet, even when it was for medical reasons. Sam's been skating on some pretty thin ice with all the sexual antics he's been getting up to with the spark-twins, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, lately, and even if it could be argued that he wasn't entirely in control of his actions during his moments of intimacy with them if he actively goes behind Bee's back to start macking on some human to find out if he's attracted to guys in general and not just due to his new receptors then there's a whole new level of intent there that will definitely put his actions into cheating territory. I don't know, but that's just kind of shitty, to me, considering how good Bee and forgiving Bee has been of Sam. I think if anything Sam should be honest with Bee and then go from there...
Anyway, long comment is long, and so I shall leave off for now. Sorry if I started heading into rant territory and by all means feel free to ignore my last two paragraphs altogether. LOL! ;-)
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Also, as usual, your characterization is just amazingly wonderful. All the characters are just so much fun to read and I think I've slowly but surely fallen in love with all of them. You are so gifted in your writing - most authors tend to let the more minor characters stay in the background almost like cardboard cutouts, where they all seem flat and one-dimensional unless they happen to be interacting with the main character(s) - and it's simply a joy reading any of your stories (but this one in particular!)
I do have to say that I do have one story aspect bothering me at the moment, and that would be with Sam's most recent actions. It's really starting to bother me, the way that he can't seem to open more direct lines of communication between himself and Bee. I admit to finding that a bit odd and frustrating, since Bee is supposedly Sam's 'best friend,' lover notwithstanding, and yet he's been keeping an awful lot of important information from him recently. And, of course, with some of the foreshadowing at the end of this chapter - the line "What could possibly go wrong?" - it's getting more and more obvious that the situation is most likely going to blow up in his face. I really wish he would 'man-up' and start sharing some of his fears with Bumblebee instead of constantly looking to everyone else for advice. It smacks of real emotional immaturity and makes me think that Sam honestly isn't ready for any kind of permanent, committed relationship right now.
Also, planning to cheat on your partner - even if it's worded as simply being for 'experimentation' purposes - is simply not cool. Infidelity is just flat-out wrong, in my opinion, no matter what the reason. I felt the same way when Bee thought it was appropriate to do something sexual with Ratchet, even when it was for medical reasons. Sam's been skating on some pretty thin ice with all the sexual antics he's been getting up to with the spark-twins, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, lately, and even if it could be argued that he wasn't entirely in control of his actions during his moments of intimacy with them if he actively goes behind Bee's back to start macking on some human to find out if he's attracted to guys in general and not just due to his new receptors then there's a whole new level of intent there that will definitely put his actions into cheating territory. I don't know, but that's just kind of shitty, to me, considering how good Bee and forgiving Bee has been of Sam. I think if anything Sam should be honest with Bee and then go from there...
Anyway, long comment is long, and so I shall leave off for now. Sorry if I started heading into rant territory and by all means feel free to ignore my last two paragraphs altogether. LOL! ;-)