Title: Complete
Verse: G1 AU
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Characters/pairing: Prowl, Jazz, and a deity named Primus
Who is Prowl?
I am Prowl.
What does that mean?
Sometimes even I am not sure.
As I float here I can recall how many times me spark has ventured from the Well since I was created.
I am not one of the first, a spark given life by Primus himself.
But I am one of their first creations.
There are two ways for one to enter life in the other world. A newspark, created through the merging of two sparks, a new life with no history to define them. They are the lifeblood of our kind, and the gift and joy of Primus.
The second way is the life of a 'construct'- those who enter life through Vector Sigma.
What many do not know is not a programmer, nor is it a creator. It is simply a gateway to the Well. The gate finds the best match between those sparks waiting to cross and the parameters it is given and then sends the spark into the waiting, provided protoform.
Those who enter this way loose all personal memories of their past functioning, allowing them to live a new life unhindered by sorrow, regret, or anger.
Memories are returned upon re-entering the well, to be examined, learned from, and occasionally cherished as the spark grows strong once more.
I had already returned to the Well several times before I really bothered to look beyond myself. It was then that I noticed sparks that were always together. Curious, I finally gathered my courage to approach Primus. I could feel the joyful smile as my questions were answered.
"My child, those are sparks that can never be completely separated, for they are no longer many, but one. They had found that which completes them. If one returns to the other world be assured that the other will follow, and when one returns so will the other."
I considered this and found my next question, one for which I was not sure I would receive an answer. "Will I be complete one day?"
"Eventually, my child. There is completion for all of my children. It may be in your next life. It may not be for many lives, but one day you will feel whole." Primus promised gently.
It would be many more trips from the Well for me before my spark would feel complete. But nothing would match the joy in my spark when it found him that made us whole.
Nothing in any of my past lives and nothing in any future one would be better than having Jazz at my side, balancing and completing my spark in every way.
Who am I?
I am Prowl.
What does this mean?
Now I know.
I am Prowl, a spark now complete.