"What do you mean you're leaving???" I screamed at the top of my lungs. They probably could hear me at any spot in the surrounding block, even through the walls of both my own house and another, and that caused Rhua to make frantic shushing noises. He always cared more about not drawing attention to us than I did, and this was just another of those situations. But, I didn't really care. I was pissed off, and that's all that mattered at the moment, not whether Rhua didn't want me to be pissed, and not that probably the entire neighborhood of humans around us knew that Rhua had done something to upset his "child" lover.
"Please, Saka, it's not that bad..." he said softly, almost in a whisper despite the fact that even at his normal volume no one would be able to hear them besides myself, as no one else was in the house, and the walls protected against normal sounds, unlike my previous scream. "I'm just going away for a week or two. It's not like I'm leaving you forever. I'll be back as soon as Father's done with me."
"I don't care!!!" I ranted. "Who is he to be ordering you around like that!?! You're mine, not his..."
"Saka, he's my father," he said, a strained smile on his face that indicated that he was trying to stay calm, but that it wasn't working very well. I could feel the turbulent thoughts at the top of his mind, just waiting to be let out, and that was odd, as I usually rarely was able to feel things that he was trying to keep in. We were close, closer than most people I read, but I had found that the closer I was to someone, especially if he had a bit of power like Rhua did, the harder it was for me to get into their heads. And that was a good thing, since when it was harder to feel a person in general, it was also harder to feel them by accident, when I didn't mean to or want to.
The fact that I could feel Rhua then meant that either this was upsetting him quite a bit more than he claimed it was, or that he was seriously pissed off with me. Or both...it could always be both. Either way, I didn't really like it, not any more than I like the idea of him going off to work for his father for at least a week and leaving me alone in the middle of our vacation. We only managed to schedule some time to ourselves about once in a blue moon, so the fact that he was even slightly willing to go off and ruin it meant that it was something serious. But, even serious, his father had no right to take him away from me, god or not.
And that was what I focused on. I was pissed off, a little bit at Rhua for accepting this "request" of his father's, but mostly at his holy father himself for daring to take my Rhua from me during our hard earned vacation time. I had even managed to get Evi away for the entirety of our time, so that we could be alone, by bribing her with a cruise the likes of which someone with my job should never have been able to afford, except that I'd been saving that particular stash of money up since before the country we lived in existed. So this vacation time was our time, not to be interrupted by anyone, not Evi, not work, not friends (the few we had), not even my father, or his.
But, that wasn't what bothered me the most. I wasn't willing to admit it, but I just didn't want him to leave at all. I didn't feel right when he was away, not after having been together for a couple millennia. I was too used to him, and we had melded more and more together throughout the years. I hated it when he went far away, because despite the fact that I could barely feel him most of the time, I could still feel him, a little. When he was far away, I couldn't feel him, and that made me feel...incomplete.
I hated it.