The Long Walk Home, Pt 2

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Maec swore and struggled to lift his head up. He had thought that the shrill chime was part of his nightmares. Apparently not. He glanced at the bedside chrono. 0100 in the morning. By Fire, who would trying to contact him at this insane hour? "Go away," He mumbled as he flopped his head back down on the pillow.

 

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"Go away!" His hoarse voice snarled. The Kheinsa didn't have the energy for this. Shivering, he pulled the covers up over his head. Any friend of his would have commed if it was an emergency. Or those he worked with certainly would have done so. It had to be that inebriated neighbor of his who always seems to mistake Maec's house for his own after a night in Mhiessan's adult watering holes. His bondmate will hear him soon and enough and let him.....

 

Wait, I'm not in Mhiessan? Maec tried to shake the haze from his mind. Were am I again? The apartment, ie. But why was it so cold in here? It feels like a foggy Mhiessan night na a climate controlled capital city apartment. I do na remember... hrmp...at least the chime had stopped.

 

Light flooded the room as he heard the drapery being savagely yanked open. Maec jumped. His eyes refusing to adjust to the sudden onset of light caused him to blink rapidly to see who the intruder was. He felt sluggish. Could na concentrate correctly. Alarmed, he could na come up with a way in which to defend himself if necessary. "Wha--?" He glanced up to see a livid Rihan female standing next to his bed, hands on her hips and ready to do battle. Maec growled, "Morgana? Do au have any idea what time it is?" His head flopped down on the pillow. Na now. Na this again. Fhaen, Elements, help me.

 

"Ie, 1000 in the morning and I've been trying to comm au for the past thi hours," She spat out angrily, looking as if she was ready to throttle him.

 

"Na, it's..." he glanced at the chrono and blinked. She was right? It is 1008 to be exact. "It...it can na be." He struggled to sit up. Apparently he was more tired than he thought as it seemed to take him longer and the effort took his breath away. He panted softly as he swung his legs over the side of the bed and he glanced up at Morgana. He was na in the mood for io of her arguments.

 

"Ie, it is." She snarled. "And I thought au had too much work to do? Hmmm? And here I find au lounging around without a care in the world. Admit it, au just did na want to spend time with me. Au are a kllhe, a fvai, a hnoiyika, a..."

 

Why did she have to have such an impressive vocabulary? "Morgana, I told au! I do na have the energy to deal with au right now." Maec snapped back, holding his hand up to fend off any further attacks. "I am...." he wavered, feeling the room spin out of control. Suddenly he did na know which end was up.

 

"Maec." Morgana caught him before he tumbled head first off the bed. "...au are burning up." She steadied him with hands on his shoulders for a moment, staring at his face with such intensity that he felt his face burn. He struggled to remain awake as she helped ease him back on the bed. "Lie back."

 

Maec blinked at her, her expression had changed so suddenly that it caught him off guard. "I do na feel well," he confessed.

 

"I see that." Morgana answered, helping to put his legs back on the bed and cover him with a blanket. "Where is au's medkit?"

 

"My what?" Maec pulled the covers tighter against him. Elements, why was it so cold in here?

 

"Medkit, Kheinsa. Where do au keep au's medkit? I know au have io, where is it?" Morgana snarled again as she worked efficiently to make sure his head was on the pillow and his body covered with the bedding.

 

"Front table. I think. Maybe. I do na know." He mumbled, turning on to his side and tried to ball himself up to conserve heat.

 

"Stay there."

 

"Do na worry, I'm na planning to go anywhere."

 

He must have drifted off again. The next thing he remembered was feeling the bed dip next to him, and something cool being laid gently on his forehead. He opened his eyes slowly.

 

"Au are sick."

 

"Is that au's professional opinion, Maenak?" Maec grumbled.

 

"Why did au na tell me au were sick last night?" Morgana was fiddling with the readout from his multicorder.

 

"I wasn't sick...I was..." He looked at Morgana's expectant face. "All right I was sick, but I did na want to ruin au's leave."

 

She looked down so he could na longer read her face. He had the feeling that he had just hurt her. "Au's multicorder is thi years obsolete. Kheinsas. Do au na get updated equipment every once in a decade?" She sighed "I need to get au to Galae Medical to get au some medicine. Au's little 'bug' has caused au's temperature to spike to dangerous levels." Morgana was snapping the multicorder shut and putting it back into the Kheinsa's bag.

 

"Na. Na Galae Medical." Maec growled.

 

"Maec, au need treatment."

 

"Am I contagious?"

 

"Na."

 

"Is it life threatening?"

 

"Na, but au's fever...."

 

"Just...leave me alone. Let it run it's course." Maec pulled the covers tighter against himself, shivering.

 

"Na, I can na let au suffer through this. Au will wind up hurting au'self if au wake up disoriented. Why won't au go to Medical with me? Au afraid?" Morgana folded her arms, staring at him with one of those insufferable 'I'm a Maenak and I know best' looks.

 

"Of Maenak torture? Hardly, I went to school with the lot of au. I am na afraid of au." Maec's voice was muffled through the covers. Elements woman, all I want to do is sleep. Go away all ready. He glanced up at Morgana.

 

"Then what are au afraid of?" Morgana's brows raised.

 

"I don't want to..."

 

"Whine, whine, whine. Either au tell me or I will haul au down there by au's hair if I have to."

 

"I said na, woman!"

 

"I am counting to dev, and then I am hauling au out of here."

 

"Morgana! Na!"

 

"Io...re...thi..."

 

"If we go, then Kalicia will know that we are....together." Maec blurted out. To shut Morgana up. To stop her from counting. To stop the threats. So that she would leave him alone. So he could tell her how he felt. But watching as Morgana's face registered a state of shock at his confession caused his stomach to spin. She had misunderstood him. Oh Elements, you've done it now, Maec. She'll hate au now. "Na, that's not what I meant, Khera, I meant--"

 

She left him again. There wasn't anything Maec could have done to follow her. He could barely move as it was without his muscles screaming or waves of dizziness threatening to do him in. He'd tried to sit up, to explain what he meant, but she just pushed him back into the nest of bedclothes. Ordered him to rest. Then spun on her heals and left. Maec couldn't forget the look on her face. She looked positively mortified. Elements what had he done?

 

"Damn fickle woman. Always picking a fight. I give up." He tossed the covers over his head, determined to bury himself in the bedclothes for the rest of his natural life. Perhaps, Elements be willing, this infection would finish him off before this sudden loneliness did.

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I need more...get to writing woman!!

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