More mechpreg angst! Because I’m feeling sadistic 😊
As Ratchet’s oldest friend and longtime Amica, Orion always believed they could tell each other anything, embarrassing secrets, crushes, datapads, you name it. That’s why Orion is at a loss when Ratchet starts developing all the signs and symptoms of a carrying mech but absolutely refuses to talk about it. Everytime Orion brings it up, Ratchet shuts him down, telling him he has no idea what he’s talking about. Which is complete and utter bs, Orion has carried before, Ratchet helped him deliver his bittie in secret and forged his documents to protect him from the Senate!
Then it happens. Ratchet calls Orion for help in the middle of emergence from the Dead End and the truck rushes to his friend’s side. There, Orion does his best to support Ratchet, tearfully thinking about how Ratchet did the same for him when he delivered Orion and his beloved Senator’s bittie.
Once they’re both cleaned up and biotic is feeding from Ratchet, Orion has to ask. Why? Why keep it a secret? Ratchet grumbles before finally confessing.
While Orion was on the run with the Outliers (+Roller), Ratchet was lonely. So very lonely. But a former patient of his needed his help hiding from enforcers and Ratchet obliged. They got close and against Ratchet’s better judgment, started courting. But then Ratchet found out exactly what his courtmate had done to warrant running from enforcers in the first place and that he’d been recruited by the organized crime bosses as a hired gun. Ratchet broke things off and went into denial about carrying because he felt so foolish, getting involved with a former patient like that.
Orion’s stunned by this but immediately goes into reassuring Amica mode, promising to help Ratchet and his bittie.
Ratchet you stubborn idiot let orion help lol
Poor ratchet
