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except instead of getting super worked up, all the orgasm denial just results in rodimus losing like all interest in interfacing right now. he ends up ringing up drift like "hey bby i'm really fucking bored right now and magnus isn't letting me cum, can u come jailbreak me" and drift responds with "👍👍👍💦👀🤤"

Drift practicing stances and manoeuvres on the little space on his ship he deemed his sparring area. Doing well on one manoeuvre and turning around to look at Wing for praise- only to be met with an empty spot. Or messing up and turning around to be faced with encouragement, only to be met with that same cold spot to the wall.

He’s ended many training sessions curled up on the floor.

When he’s talking in a group, sometimes he’d look to the left or right of him expecting Wing, only to face another. It ends with him stuttering through his sentences, and many mecha looking at him oddly, but Drift doesn’t care. He’s putting all his effort into not crying in front of them.

Or when he’s talking to someone, Drift would would tell an inside joke made between him and Wing. Wing was there with him most of the time in Crystal City, so he was expecting a laugh. When there isn’t any, or there is only an awkward chuckle, Drift realises who he’s talking to, and that there is only the two of them. No Wing. He then has the sudden realisation that the jokes between him and Wing will never exist again, will never be joked or laughed about.

Cleaning dirt from his plating normally, only to reach a spot on his back he can’t reach. He puts out his hand to pass the brush/cloth to Wing, but when no one takes it after a few seconds, the fact that Wing isn’t here, that he’s gone, rushes back to him.