Take the Backroad
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The accident changed everything for the both of them.
He was just doing his job as part of Wilderness Search and Rescue the first time they meet. She's broken and nearly starved to death under a landslide, and he's trying to get her airlifted to a hospital. That was supposed to be the extent of their interaction. But despite what either of them are "supposed" to do, a strong friendship forms... and unfortunately, an attraction does too.
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- Part 1 of Take the Backroad
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Finally settled in Alaska, Astrid and Hound reflect a little. But just a little. Hound mostly wants to show off something Wheeljack made him.
ETA: This diddy has been pretty much been retconned into irrelevance thanks to the new and improved Body Check. I may decide to keep this around, but I don't really recommend reading it anymore unless you want random Jeep/OFC smut.
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- Part 2 of Take the Backroad
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Sequel to "Bushwhacked".
Astrid's plans for a peaceful new start in Alaska - her life in California all but upended after the accident that Hound rescued her from - get thrown out the window when BREME, the Bureau for the Regulation of Extraterrestrial Machine Entities, a powerful and esoteric government organization that Hound had never mentioned before, makes an offer that she really can't refuse. So now, the two are trying to figure out how to just get through the day as a couple despite the US not officially recognizing that the Autobots exist, all while working for a lawless government agency on a classified project they barely know anything about. But something terrible is in the works: some mechs in the Starscream-led Decepticon ranks are planning a mutiny, and no life is too valuable to get between them and their escape from Earth.
(Oh, and chapters with sexytimes marked with an asterisk, if you're into that sort of thing. Weirdos.)
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- Part 3 of Take the Backroad
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In which Hound reveals that he really, REALLY wants to show Astrid off to another Autobot, and it just so happens that a couple of his friends will be in town for a few days.
Maybe canon, but probably not. I can't imagine where this would have fit in, honestly, though it's definitely after their second visit to the Ark where she has that talk with Teebs about Hound's "fascination". I really just wanted an excuse to write more smut between them because the Jeep is turning out to have a voracious appetite for all manner of human-flavored debauchery. So expect more of these steamy little one-shots in the future.
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- Part 4 of Take the Backroad