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1. Promise Me by lowqualitydriftjpg

   Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   11 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Drift | Deadlock/Ratchet
   • Drift | Deadlock & Ratchet
   • Drift | Deadlock
   • Ratchet (Transformers)
   • Tarn (Transformers)
   • First Aid (Transformers)
   • DJD
   • Froid (Transformers)
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • tmi about the rust virus
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Aftermath of Torture
   • Torture
   • mostly implied or off screen
   • Panic Attacks
   • Whump
   • Angst
   • no beta we die like the table in prowl's way
   • Canon Divergence
   • Mention of attempted suicide
   • Medical Trauma
   • Hallucinations
   • Nightmares
   • duplicate lost light
   • Kind of an au?
   • Memory Loss
   • warning for djd doing djd things
   • Not super Graphic
   • but still
   • hurt to comfort ratio leans more to hurt
   • drift is suffering a lot in this
   • Fainting
   • ratchet's trying his best
   • Prophetic Visions
   • drift is going through the horrors I'm afraid
   • Kidnapping
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • some horror/ suspense themes
   • Blood and Injury
   • emphasis on whump
   • there's a lot
   • Heavy Angst
   • Trauma
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • Major Character Injury
   • Physical Disability
   • lots of yearning in here
   • Dissociation
   • PTSD symptoms

   Summary

   They were going to be fine. He had the antidote. They had help just a few floors down. The DJD were most likely not even on the planet. They would be up and out of there in no time and he would personally make sure they never touched down on this frozen slag-pit planet again.

   But Drift’s mind was elsewhere. Somewhere terrifying it would seem. And no assurances Ratchet could offer would help him at this point. Except one.

   One he had no intention of following through.

   “...Okay.”

   He accepted the sword and set it down beside him.

   “I promise.”

   [Tags added as the fic goes along]
   

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   68,188

   Chapters:

   22/?

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