It's hard to deny that her relationship with Orion differs from the one she'd had with Optimus. The perspective is all different, the circumstances -- harder still to deny that there's a certain closeness between them that hadn't been there before. She knows that his fear is at least partially justified, knows Optimus was still not quite Orion. She straightens up at the edge of the berth a little more, as much as she can.

"Maybe they're not," Arcee says, "but there's no way to know for sure how you'll feel then, not right now. And...maybe it's how you feel right now that matters."