Leaving Triad (16 page)

The human captain threw his laser gun,
furious and ran up to Zor. Zor pulled back his arm, making a fist,
then lunged his fist forward into the man's face. He fell to the
ground holding his now extremely bloody, obviously broken nose. Zor
stepped over him, placed his foot at his throat, and grabbed a
dagger from in his boot. He pushed his foot against Captain Lee’s
throat hard, pissed this man caused him to lose Emily.

“Just remember I was willing to let you leave
here alive,” Zor stated, remaining as calm as possible, trying to
make the point that on this occasion he was the better man.

“My entire crew is on the way here, good luck
taking them all out,” Lee said, barely able to breathe.

Zor slit his throat quickly and turned to
Henry. “Get the main ship down here now!” he yelled glancing around
trying to see if he could see Emily anywhere. He couldn’t believe
he lost track of her and hoped she was all right.

Henry ran over to a pod quickly as Zor and
Curly checked the other humans to see if they were alive or not.
They were all dead or bleeding out.

“They will be here shortly, Captain,” Henry
stated as he climbed back out of the pod and walked up to him.

“I should go find Emily,” Zor stated.

“You don’t have time, Captain,” Curly
started. “The further away from the fight she is, the safer she
will be.”

“That depends on where the human male is,”
Zor returned glancing over the dead bodies.

“She’s a smart lass, Captain, and you can’t
take off now, the ship will be here any minute,” Henry stated.

*****

Emily came awake with a horrible headache to
see Jeremy standing over her. He had her tied to a chair.
She
thought the planet was uninhabited, how did he get this stuff?
“What are you doing, Jeremy?” she questioned, starting to worry
about what was happening with Zor then.

“I don’t know yet, slut,” he answered.

“Zor will find me,” Emily answered, not sure
if he was all right or not, but knowing if he would chase them down
to get her back. “And kill you.”

“What is it about the alien, Emily?” Jeremy
asked, anger sounding in his voice. A sound Emily had become used
to over the years with him. “Is it because his dick is bigger than
mine, or does he allow you to screw every guy on that worthless
spaceship of his?”

“I’m with Zor only. You know I don’t sleep
around,” she spat back angrily. “He treats me like I should be
treated. Nothing like how you treated me. He loves me.” Her head
stung a bit more as she raised her voice.

“That’s the biggest lie I have ever heard.
Tell me, have you done it with more than one man at a time?” Jeremy
answered.

She didn't answer, appalled by the thought.
The only one she ever wanted to be with was Zor. “Nothing I do
concerns you anymore.”

Her face stung as his hand met her cheek.
“Fuck you, bitch!” Jeremy yelled.

“No, Jeremy! Fuck you, and all the things you
have done to me. Why the hell can’t you just stay out of my fucking
life and let me be happy?!” she yelled. She was done putting up
with his shit. She was furious. “For once I was starting to be
happy. I never should have stayed with you. I should have left you
back home.”

“You ungrateful little slut! After all the
shit I did for you!”

“You never did anything for me, I did
everything for you, and you never even lifted a finger for me. You
always took whatever you wanted even if I said no, you fucking
bastard!” she screamed, tears running down her face as she tried to
get her arms free but couldn’t.

Why did tying knots have to be the one
thing he was good at?
She could feel the ropes cutting into her
wrists as she tried to get them off her. She turned her hands every
way possible but couldn’t get free. She started trying very
awkwardly to untie them.

“I stayed with you even though you were such
a whore,” he returned.

“I’m not a fucking whore, Jeremy!” she yelled
back as he started moving closer to her.

She kicked out as he moved in closer, bending
his head to speak to her. Her foot caught him in the side of his
head near his temple, knocking him unconscious. She frantically
started trying to get away then.

Desperate, she pushed herself back hard,
making her chair tip back. As the chair fell chair backwards onto
the floor all she could hope was she didn't break her arms. The
crash was enough to break the chair up into several little pieces
and luckily the top of the chair hit first, softening the blow to
her arms. She pulled on her arms until she was able to finally slip
free of the ropes.
Yes!

She struggled to get to her feet and made her
way out of the makeshift hut that Jeremy somehow had found. She
stopped just outside and thought about all the shit Jeremy had put
her through over the years. Was it fair to leave him free and
unpunished?
Hell no!

She stormed back inside and picked up the
rope. She turned Jeremy over on his stomach so she could tie his
hands behind his back. She tied it tighter than she probably needed
to but she really didn’t care. She reached for the laser gun Jeremy
had grabbed right before he dragged her off, then she turned him
back onto his back and slapped his face until he sputtered
awake.

“What the hell?” He tried to move his arms
but couldn’t.

“Get up, Jeremy,” she ordered, standing and
moving away from him.

“I can’t, you tied my hands, dammit!”

She shrugged her shoulders, it felt good to
be the one in control. “Get your lazy, good for nothing, ass up off
the ground or I’ll shoot you and leave you to bleed to death.”

Jeremy rolled over till he was able to get to
his knees. He got sand in his mouth when his face was pressed down
into the ground. He spit it out as he slowly rose to his feet. He
glared at her and attempted to move toward her. She raised the
laser gun up at him and turned it on.

“Don’t even think about it. I would rather
kill you just to be done with you, but I am better than that—I am
better than you. I am taking you back for judgment by the Galactic
Peace Patrol. I am pressing charges for abuse, attempted rape,
selling me into slavery, and kidnapping.”

“Come on, I never attempted to rape you. You
were playing hard to get so even if I had fucked you, no one would
have believed it to be a rape. You are a slut that puts out for any
dick available. So why not me?” he walked past her through the
door.

“I said no, Jeremy. I begged you not to hurt
me. You abused me and if I hadn't fought you off you would have
done more,” her voice shook a little when flashes of what he'd done
to her ran through her mind. She shook her head. She didn’t want to
think about it or she would break down and cry. All the years she
spent with him. Why?

She stood outside under the hot sun looking
for their footprints. Unfortunately, a wind had come up and erased
their tracks while they had been in the hut. There were no
landmarks to go by.

“Which way did we come from?”

“Don’t you know? Stupid bitch.”

She kicked him and made him fall to his
knees. “Next time I’ll shoot you. Get up.”

He did, falling a couple of times before he
managed it. Then he turned to her smugly. “Which way?”

She pointed to the east. He started walking
in the direction and she followed a few feet behind. It took about
an hour before she realized they had been going in the wrong
direction. The terrain shifted and changed. It looked more like the
old pictures she had seen of the
Grand Canyon
back on the
planet they once called Earth. There were large rocks and cliffs.
They were heading toward a ledge now. They were lost.
Fuck!

“Hold up, Jeremy.”

*****

“Where the hell is she?!” Zor yelled over the
communications. He, Henry, and Curly were in the pods. Each one
took a different direction trying to track down Emily and
Jeremy.

“It’s a good sign that we haven’t found a
body yet,” Curly commented.

“That does not make me feel any better,” Zor
growled over the communications.

“She’s smart, Zor. That human ass always
underestimated her. She’ll get the upper hand. You watch. We’ll
find her safe and sound.”

Zor prayed they would. He didn’t know what he
would do without Emily. She had become his whole world. The moment
she walked on board his ship, she had captured his heart.

“Hey, Zor, I think I found something,”
Henry’s voice broke into his thoughts.

“Where are you?”

“I’m sending you my coordinates. I found a
small hut. No tracks that I can see, but the wind is strong
here.”

“On my way.”

Five minutes later he landed his pod beside
Henry’s and Curly’s. They were standing outside of the hut. “What
did you find?”

“Looks like a struggle took place. No one is
here now though. It may not have been her,” Henry told him as Zor
ducked down to enter the small hut.

He saw a chair broken apart on the floor.
There wasn’t much in the hut. It had been abandoned for quite a
while. As he knelt at the chair, his eyes caught on something.
There, caught on a piece of the back of the chair was a strand of
dark hair. He lifted it up to his nose. The one small strand
carried her scent. He could detect it.

“It was her. She was here,” Zor
confirmed.

The three men went back outside. They looked
up at the horizon. The sun would be setting soon. Once it was dark,
it would be nearly impossible for them to find her. Not to mention
what dangers in the dark would arise for a mere human.

“We’ll split up again.”

“Zor.” Henry was going to say maybe they
should wait till morning.

“No! I will find her.” Zor stormed over to
his pod.

*****

“Well, what now, bitch?” Jeremy sat down on a
nearby rock. It was going to be dark soon. He would be able to make
his escape then. Right after he busted her upside her head while
she slept. He hated her with a passion. Why couldn’t she do
anything he asked of her without always putting up a fight? She
should have listened to him and remained on their home world.

“We’ll head back to the hut. I am sure Zor
will be looking for me by now. We’ll stay there until he finds
us.”

Jeremy snorted. “Your alien lover boy is
probably dead and rotting in the sun as we speak. Captain Lee is a
very determined man. He hates all aliens. I even heard him talking
to human anti-alien leaders about getting rid of the scum. He’ll
start with your dear Captain Zor first.”

“Shut up!” The thought that Zor might be dead
was upsetting. It had her pacing away and turning her back on
Jeremy. Zor was fine. He had to be. He was strong and a good
fighter. There was no way he could be dead.
Please God, don’t
let him be dead.

Jeremy used her distraction to move his tied
hands over his butt, under his knees, legs, and finally over his
feet. He sighed with some relief, he had his tied hands in front of
him now. The rope was still too tight for him to break loose, but
maybe he could find a sharp rock he could use.
There!

Emily glanced at him briefly then turned back
to look in the direction they had come. “We might be able to get
there before dark.” She glanced up at the sky.

When she turned back around, Jeremy wasn’t on
the rock where she had left him. When she glanced around trying to
spot him, she was shoved from behind. She fell and the laser gun
was knocked from her hand.

“Did you think you could pull one over on
me?!” Jeremy yelled as he kicked her in the side.

Emily cringed in pain. She had to get to the
laser gun. She crawled toward where it was laying, and reached her
arm out.
Just a little further
.

“I can’t believe you actually let that alien
vermin touch you. He probably couldn’t satisfy you either. I have
never met a woman as cold as you are in bed. I had to find my
pleasure with other women after we fucked. You never really got me
off. One thing you were incapable of. Even if your alien survived,
he’s probably left you here, glad to finally be rid of you. Just
like I will be!”

That sounded ominous to her. Just as her hand
was reaching for the laser gun, Jeremy kicked it out of her reach.
She tried to stand but Jeremy pushed her back down using his foot
and stepping hard on her back.

She thought she heard the sound of a pod. She
tried to turn over and look but Jeremy wasn’t letting her up. She
tried to crawl out from under his foot. She would go a foot or two
and try to lift up but he followed her and pushed her back
down.

“Emily!”

Both Emily and Jeremy turned at the sound of
Zor calling out for her. Was it really him? “Zor!”

“Shut up, bitch!” Jeremy kicked her side. He
turned to scan the area and turned pale when he saw the hulking
figure of the alien captain approaching. He was no match
physically. He reached for the gun he had kicked aside and raised
it in that direction. Could he hit him from this distance?

“No!” Emily turned over and saw that Jeremy
was aiming the laser gun toward Zor. She would not let Jeremy kill
Zor.

She kicked the laser gun from Jeremy’s hand
just as he fired it. Zor ducked and the shot missed its mark. She
grabbed Jeremy’s legs and pulled until he fell to the ground next
to her.

“You idiot!” he yelled at her as he grabbed
her by the throat. He was going to strangle the last breath from
her traitorous body.

Emily was growing lightheaded. She kneed him
in the groin, which caused his grip to loosen. They rolled closer
to the edge of the cliff.

“Emily!” Zor was getting closer.

Jeremy raised himself up as he landed on top
of her. He looked up in fear at seeing how close Zor was.

Emily used the distraction to push him away
from her hard. The ledge started to crumble and Jeremy started to
slide down the side of the cliff. Jeremy gripped her ankle and
began pulling her with him. If he was going to die, he would take
her too. Emily turned onto her stomach and reached for something to
hold onto.