Soundwave puttered around the small apartment on his off-cycle, cleaning up after his and his partner's young symbionts. He had allowed them to play with youngling-friendly paints earlier and had been left with a mess when they had finished and demanded a bath. If they had been mini-mechs, it was unlikely they would have done so, but being animal-framed meant that they were more particular about anything near their joints. They had finally decided to bed down not long before, which he was grateful for as it left him alone with his thoughts. The time he had available for that was becoming less and less with a recent addition to their small host of symbionts and his recent promotion to the Head of the department. He kept long joors anymore and almost regretted the fact.
The door to the apartment slid open near soundlessly to admit his long-term sparkmate. He turned a grin on the red and yellow mech before finishing the quick clean and tossing the rags in the small basket they were kept in. "Query: energon?"
"Yeah. Thanks," his sparkmate said dismissively, allowing his frame to flop back on the couch.
"Query: something troubling Blaster?" he asked a short klik later as he returned with the cube of energon and handed it to the DJ.
"Oh, no. Nothing special. I'm just trying to figure out tha logistics of tha move ta Kalis for the next half vorn." He drank half the cube in one long swallow before continuing. "I got an offach that I can't turn down since it's gonna set mah designation highest in tha industry. I'm sure ya don't mind, do ya, Sounders?"
"Soundwave: unaware of agreement," he stated with a frown as he looked at his sparkmate.
Blaster glared at him for a long moment before tossing back the rest of his cube and quickly standing. "Well if ya don't wanna support me movin' up, then ya can jus' 'charge out 'ere on tha couch! I'm leavin' when I get up this comin' light cycle so ya can jus' wait 'til then ta have tha place ta yaself!" He threw the empty cube at the blue mech and stormed back to their berth room, leaving Soundwave staring after him in blatant shock and confusion.
"Soundwave: only meant that Soundwave was not asked," he whispered, monotone falling too flat to convey what he was actually feeling to the otherwise empty room. "Assumptions: made. Full information: unknown."
With a deep sigh, he moved to the larger couch and pulled the blanket from the back to drape over his frame. Perhaps he could fix the damage at the beginning of the light cycle before he had to leave for work and before Blaster left for this job opportunity. He sighed deeply, releasing as much tension as he could as he slipped towards recharge. After all, he had never understood the other's determination to have his designation known across the entirety of Cybertron and its moons, even as far out as only recently explored space.
What he was unaware of was that the red and yellow mech would be gone before he cycled up the next light cycle and that he had been determined to leave Soundwave behind. He would find that the Kalis contract had been accepted deca-orns before and negotiations had just ended, which was the reason Blaster was leaving then. He would not even look back on his way out of the apartment.