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Dealing to a Stranger A romantic, eroctic, sci-fi thriller

m had calmly walked up and pushed the old style wing window open, the level snapped off the window so hard, it almost broke the widow on the opposite side when it hit there. He leaned over and opened her door. He found an old ballcap hanging on a empty gunrack, gave it to Kim and told her to push her hair up inside the cap. While she stuffed her hair under the cap, he grabbed the steering column and ripped the top off. Next he twisted the ignition key guide till it also broke and came off in his hand. He pushed down a rod and the truck fired right up. They drove at the speed limit going north again on 61. He stopped and made a phone call at a 7/11 store, went in and came back out with a t-shirt that had ?I LUV MEMPHIS? printed on its front. Sam told her to swap shirts and get out of her casino work shirt as they hit the road heading into the southern part of Memphis, Tennessee. Cops seemed to be everywhere, hardly a mile went by without them seeing one, nobody even gave the old truck, with the two guys in the front, a second glance.

?I gave them an emergency code and changed the meeting to the monument mall area, half way down the north side of the pond there. They?ll get the page and at least go in, wary for trouble.? He drove once around the airport departure area, driving slowly like they were looking for somebody. ?I didn?t get any danger signals, doesn?t mean they?re not here. Too many people to be sure. Up to you, you want to go for it Kim??

?I guess Sam.

?When I?m closer I can tell better, at the first sign of trouble, I?ll give your arm two small tugs and we are out of there.? He pulled into the parking lot, took a ticket from the machine, placed it on the dash and found a spot near the exit going out. They walked slowly inside the terminal. They went to the monitors showing arrivals and departures, Sam studied the screen for a few seconds, ?There?s a red eye to Washington leaving in about half hour, American, let?s go.?

?Sam, even I know that you have to check in at least an hour early.?

He smiled, ?Can?t hurt to try.?

They walked by a questioning look from a TSA agent at the empty luggage check-in for American Airlines and approached the lone ticket agent at the desk. Sam reached into his wallet and pulled out a card, he handed the ticket agent the card, also touching her hand. ?We are two FAA Air Marshals, we need to be on the Washington, Regan Airport flight leaving next.?

The ticket agent handed Sam back his Exxon gas card and started tapping at her console. She looked around and then called Bill the TSA agent over to her desk. ?No luggage officers,? she asked them handing them the tickets, they both nodded no, ?Bill FAA security, guess it?s over that Tunica crap, they need to make flight 904 at gate 15. We don?t have anything else till the 4:05 AM to New York. I?ll watch the station, can you walk them through security and make sure they make the flight??

?Will do Polly,? he turned to them. ?Your not carrying are you??

Sam shook his hand, ?No Bill, were just assigned as monitoring, report if seen. They just tell us as much as you, go here, do that. Any idea what this is all about Bill? All we saw were some photos?

Bill walked them around the TSA security check point, explaining to the TSA agent watching the concourse exit that they were FAA Flight Marshals and they weren?t carrying. The TSA agent waved them through his checkpoint. ?All we have heard is a man and woman tried to hold up a casino, killed three security guards and fled. We haven?t even gotten the photos of the perps yet.?

All three hurried down the concourse, Sam said, ?You think they would finally integrate all these agencies and get their act straight. We?ve seen the photos and you guys know the reason, this is no way to run an airline.? All three chuckled as they passed gate 5.

21 minutes later

The landing gears whined into the wheel wells as the L-1011 climbing out of the busiest airport in the U.S. Of course 80 percent of the flights started coming in after 11 PM. One FedEx jet after another and another, 2 minutes of separation between flights for the next 2 and half hours, the process started again with outbound flights starting around 4 AM and went on for another 3 hours, east coast first and then west coast.

Kim had tried to talk to Sam about his being able to manipulate people when he touched them. She wanted to know if she was one of those people he had manipulated, she knew in her heart she wasn?t. He had touched her when he took his chips from her, but she was already well into falling for him by then. They sat two rows from the back with an almost empty plane in front of them. The roar from the jets engines on pods outside carried into the cabin area as a loud, high whine, talking quietly wasn?t easy. She finally asked the stewardess for a pillow and a blanket. The adrenaline surge from their flight from the agents had worn her out. She slipped off into a troubled half-sleep. Her last sight before drifting off was Sam, staring ahead, deep in thought. She reached out her hand and found his.

92 minutes into a 114 minute flight to Dulles Airport

The cabin lights brightened, Sam nudged her shoulder. She had had a fitful dream about being a puppet on silver strings. The audience in front of her all had red, glowing eyes and big, huge, gaping jaws full of sharp teeth just waiting to eat her if the puppeteer made a mistake. The stewardess came by, Sam lifted her blanket showing the stewardess that Kim was safely buckled in, he tucked her back in as well as he could. Kim started to nod back off. She didn?t want to go back to the terrible dream it wasn?t real. Sam nudged her again harder.

?I didn?t Kim.?

She clawed herself up from sleep, stretched and sat upright, ?What didn?t you do Sam??

?I didn?t make you fall in love with me.?

?Dear is that what you?ve been worried about, I know you didn?t Sam. I fell in love with you the moment I saw you, way before we touched. When did you know when you were in love with me Sam??

The plane moved around some, the engines pulled power and then dropped back off. ?When you looked at me the first time Kim. I don?t even know why I came to Sam?s Town, something pulled me there, it was you, Kim. I was just going to go to bed. The flight had been diverted to Memphis because Regan was socked in due to thunder storms. They offered us hotel rooms around the airport. I got a limo and asked the driver where a fun place was, he took me to Tunica. He dropped me at the Resort, I was just going to go to bed. It had been a long flight from Japan, I just couldn?t sleep. I went down to play some games to unwind. I never gamble, it is too much of a temptation to do so. If I wanted to, I would own the place by the end of the night. I don?t need any more money. I have more than I could ever spend in a hundred lifetimes. I didn?t even play there. I just walked out the doors and came over to Sam?s Town, something drew me. A need I had never felt before. I started to walk by your table in a daze, it became a moment of clarity. Here, here was the end of my endless searching. You pulled me to you, you called me and I answered. I couldn?t stop looking at your eyes. Then you grabbed my hand with the ring on it. It flashed Kim, it couldn?t flash. The stones had never mated. What happened was impossible. They are not designed to work the way they did. Your amulet also flashed without the joining. They were designed for us, not your species. I told Ccrsst and Trassaa about the abnormalities, they examined my ring extensively, and I did also, we couldn?t detect a malfunction. Trassaa made a suggestion that it might be because our concept of bonding, love, might be so close to being the same and then even more when joined together.?

The plane jerked some more, the wheels touched down and they were pulled forward as the thrust reversers were engaged. Kim said, ?I don?t care what the damn stones say Sam, do you love me??

?Yes Kim I do.?

And he did.

Kim said, ?I love you too Sam.?

And she did.

They kissed as the plane taxied towards its assigned gate

At the exact time Sam started telling Kim 11 minutes earlier

?What the fuck do you mean they are on a flight into Washington and will land in 5 minutes? Fuck, they?re probably on the ground right now GODDAMMIT!?

Section Chief Sowell didn?t wait on a reply to his useless question. ?Goddammit, if we alert the TSA or the locals they?ll shoot them up because of the cover story. How soon will our agents get there? You did send some agents before you came to me with this steaming pile of horseshit??

Agent Utesch withered under the Section Chief?s glare, ?I have sent three teams Sir, ETA is about 20-25 minutes. We?ll miss them, Sir. We have tapped into the security camera system at the airport. The city is wired Sir, we can watch them most of the time as long as they stay inside the city limits. I have directed the tac and snipers to load and get back here as fast as they can. I have 4 Army Blackhawks, two are powering up now. If we get an idea on the type of ground transport, we?ll find them. I have the second tac team coming in from Maryland. Shouldn?t be much traffic yet, ETA maybe 40-50 minutes. But the traffics gonna change real quick in about an hour, when everybody starts pouring in for work.?

?What?s the total lost in Memphis??

?The Lead Agent on Site is dead, another agent with a concussion. Two agents dead in traffic accident, two more seriously injured. They said the guy tried to kill them, drove straight at them at a high rate of speed with his lights off.?

?Still have your doubts this guy isn?t one of them.?

?No Sir, not after watching the casino?s surveillance. It?s like he knew we where there. Agent Dupree made no outward signs before he was killed. He was watching the woman and monitoring their conversation apparently. Stranger stuck so fast, even under slow motion it is difficult to see the strike. No human could have moved and hit like that. It shattered Dupree?s skull like an egg dropped from 10 feet.?

?And another report from the ?on sites? Sir, they said right as the chase started they experienced communication diffuculty, like some sort of jamming attempt. It wasn?t total but it did interfere with the operation.?

?I?ve been telling these idiots for 20 years, these things may look human, but they ain?t. I have shaken this fuck?s hand, celebration party about 7 years ago. Right after the new systems went online, I?ll bet the alien bastards are looking up under our dresses right now as we speak. We?ve got to get them and get him alive. We have to know how badly our systems are compromised. Shit, he?s been a government contractor for over 20 years. Damn near all our telecommunication systems are his, we?re fucked.?

?What are your orders Sir??

?Find them, follow them, see if they will lead us to the other two, God I hope there are just two more, I don?t want no fucking, running gun battles through the damn streets of Washington. We monitor and see if he tries a meet with the other two. He has to know we are watching his credit accounts. I want those shut down now, that just leaves the bastard pocket money. That ought to slow them some, make them go to ground. He?ll have to meet with his buddies to get out of this city. I want you to call in local troops, station them 50 miles out, full load outs, every road out, even a damn goat trail. If they try to leave, we take them. Other than that, we watch, follow at distance, total emcom, the bastard might be able to monitor our communication systems somehow. Stay to fuck back away from them, I mean next county distance, NO close contact. When the meet goes down with the other two, if it does, we take the group out. Do what you can to keep this fucker alive, we need to talk to him, the other three, terminate if they attempt to resist or flee. And for God?s sake, brief the teams personally to stay out of their reach. We pretty much know Collett is human and a collaborator, but if the other two are out there and still alive, then they are like him. Extremely fast and very deadly.?

CHAPTER 25

7:04 AM

The Yellow Cab dropped them off in front of the Holiday Inn Express about five miles south of the Memorial Mall. Next door was a shopping mall. Sam paid the driver and gave him a tip. They waited till the cab drove away, strolling slowly towards the front door. When the cab was out of sight, they turned and left. They walked up three blocks to an I.H.O.P and had breakfast, neither ate much. Sam asked the waitress if he could borrow a phone book, handing the lady a 5 dollar bill, she came back in about a minute with one. Kim sipped coffee and poked at her uneaten food, she still felt sleepy. She watched as Sam looked up hotels close by.

?There?s a Marriot Embassy Suite about 5 or 6 blocks west of where we are. One of those places that have rooms with kitchens and the such. Does that sound OK Kim??

?Just as long as I?m with you Sam.? Kim looked at him, she knew he didn?t sleep on the flight. She felt like she had been run over by one of those pieces of road equipment that flattens pavement. Stretched out, smashed. Sam looked like he had just gotten up from a resting 10 hour sleep. His spiky semi-short, light brown hair didn?t look mussed up even after being in the hurricane of wind from their first escape car. She had gone to the restroom and took her dirty ball hat off, she had grimaced at the horror her hair had suffered. She quickly stuffed her hair back into the hat. She tried to do something with her face. She finally just scrubbed it good. She had a sour taste in her mouth. Some water swished her mouth helped some. And, she thought she could detect a slight smell of dried fear over the last of her perfume. She was a woman and she wanted woman stuff. She didn?t even have a bag or purse, it was like walking around naked.

After coming back to the table, ?It?s not like this all the time is it Sam??

He gave her a sad smile, ?It?s never been like this before Kim, they think they?re getting close. When we get to the island, they?re going to be back at step one. And if they really piss me off, I just might shut down half the world?s telecommunication?s system. After all I designed and built them. Heck 25% I personally financed, through outside companies and contracts, into orbit. If they keep this up, I?ll take out third of the birds in orbit, it?ll take a decade to rebuild their systems. And then they wouldn?t know if it wasn?t me rebuilding them just so I can take them out again. I?ve been designing and building most of the in-use systems for the last 40 years.?

?SOBs ought to be giving me a damn medal instead of trying to put a bullet in me, idiots. If they tried to contact us instead of kill us, we could push the Earth?s technology a hundred years maybe two ahead of where they are today. I sort of understand the ship?s propulsion system?s design. I am very familiar with the life support systems we had. I have a very good understanding of the computer systems, and some design options that would increase your people?s speed and programming complexity by about a million or so. I have been helping here and there with those.? Sam sighed, ?I?ve not been sitting on my hands since we crashed on this rock. That?s where all that money came from, things I have done helping your people for the last 40 or 50 years, a guy needs a hobby.?

?How old are you Sam??

Sam looked around, ?Earth years??

Kim smiled, ?No silly make it in Martian years. Yes Sam, Earth years please.?

Sam sort of squinted out of one wonderful eye with the other closed, doing the math, ?220, maybe 230, I?d need a calculator to give you an exact number.?

?That?s close enough Sam,? Kim said in awe. ?My God Sam, you don?t look that old!?

?Sam?s not that old Kimberly. Sam?s only 61 years old, I?m 220, Sam?s not.?

?I don?t understand Sam??

He did a quick scan around them again, ?Look we are not human, we don?t even look human. We are closer to what those jerks always portray as those little gray looking space creatures. We?re more of a bluish because we have copper based blood, only gray when we are dead. When we crashed here, we had to change to fit in. Ccrsst and Trassaa salvaged some of the medical stuff while I recovered from the injuries I had gotten during the wreck. Veettaa was dead from the impact. I was very badly damaged. Four days later I was at least able to walk thanks to their skills. Then the cowboy found the crash site. We played dead. He got close to Ccrsst and she tried to touch him, he was quick, pulled a pistol on her. She acted hurt and he didn?t shoot. He did pee himself though, jumped on his horse and took off. We packed what we could and left. A day later we came upon this old prospector sleeping at night. Trassaa pushed him into thinking we were just your average ole human and he helped us for about a year. Nice guy really, Frank Hildebrand, genetically I?m his son. We had some maps Veettaa had made of your planet, mineral and geological maps. We lead him to a gold strike, he helped get some of the stuff those two needed and they made me Sam. They used his biology to grow me, They did some stuff to speed up the development and make me grow faster to an adult. We took a couple of million off Frank, said our goodbyes and moved to a sleepy little watering hole called Las Vegas. Ccrsst and Trassaa changed also, the rest, they say, is history.?

?How long will you live Sam??

?If I stay here, maybe another hundred, if I?m lucky one fifty, if I get back home I could stretch it out 200 maybe 300.?

Kim looked and felt sad, even if the Good Lord smiled on her, she?d be awful lucky to get 70 more.

Sam must have seen her look of sadness, ?Kim, we can help you, the other two are like genetic geniuses. And since coming here, there is not another two people smarter at it on this planet than they are. I can do some pretty amazing things myself.? Again he did a quick sweep around them, ?You haven?t asked the most obvious question even after all the stuff I told you the night we met.?

Kim gave him a questioning frown, ?What question should I have asked you??

?I said I make people happy. Happy for the rest of their lives, right??

?Yes Sam you did. Course you forgot to mention to me about the people trying to arrest me and shoot at me. So, what was the question??

?Remember Mrs. Parsons, the lady that won the two jackpots??

?Yeah, you certainly made her night. She was pretty damn happy.?

Sam just sat staring at her with a half grin, his eyes looked like a mischievous 10 year?s old. Kim looked back at him pondering. What was the question? Mrs. Parsons was happy, pretty damn happy that night. Then it came like a bolt out of the blue, yes, she was pretty damn happy, THAT NIGHT, but what about the rest of her life?

Kim grinned back, ?What did you do to her Sam??

?Let?s just say, at her next chemo treatment, her last chemo treatment, she is going to be asked a whole lot of questions she will not be able to answer.?

?Good God Sam, you cured her cancer?? Kim said in total awe.

?Nope! She cured it herself. I just sort of directed her body a little. Telling it what to do. I gave it instructions, just like I can when I touch people, it?s not magic Kim, we just think a little differently. Even micro-chipped machines we can influence some as long as they are not shielded. Your dealing machine had an optical scanner built into the unit, it used it to count the cards and ensure the proper amount were dealt. I sort of reached out and use the signal to manipulate the deck. I don?t have to touch chipped devices, just get about 6 or so feet from them. If I try really hard, I can effect their functioning out to about 100 feet, make the chips malfunction. I hear radio signals, usually I just ignore them, but if they are transmitted from close by it is like a person yelling in my ear. I can sort of ?yell? back, screw up the signals somewhat. People?s thoughts work along the same lines, sort of a signal produced by the brain. If I touch someone I can hear them, affect them.? He gave the famous Sam quirky smile, ?I should have really pissed off the casino, walked in the middle of the slots and have everyone of them being played hit a jackpot at the same time.?

?Wait a minute Sam, what about the swapped queens, I saw that, after they were dealt by the machine??

Sam smilingly shook his head slightly, ?Yes Kim, you did see that didn?t you??

Kim now looked around casually, ?OK there ET, explain that one away.??

?I did, YOU saw it. How come the security cameras didn?t see it??

It was Kim?s turn to look at Sam with a thinking look on her face, ?You made me see something that didn?t happen. You did whatever you do and made just me see that the cards had changed. But, you didn?t touch me.?

?But we had touched, it was like what happens when we are bonded. Whatever pulled me to you bonded us right then and there, that I have absolutely no understanding how it happened, it was magic. Your signals to me are like a warm, bright light, I can see you in a way, even when I am far from you. You are like a lighthouse in a stormy ocean. Then when you grabbed my hand and the ring flashed when it shouldn?t have been able to do that without being mated to the other gem, pure magic.?

?It wasn?t magic Sam, it was love. Love brought you to me. It bonded us. We both had the same needs, we both needed to be a part of each other. Together we make a whole.?

?Good enough reason to me Kim. Now, how about hitting a drugstore??

?Are you reading my mind Sam??

?I told you, I can?t do that Kim without touching you. Even then I wouldn?t do that, your mind is your mind.? He pointed behind her, ?I?ve been staring at that damn CVS pharmacy for the last 40 minutes and I really would like to go and buy a toothbrush.? Sam helped her out of the booth, laid 30 dollars on a 17 something dollar bill and they walked out happily, together.

10 minutes later

Kim browsed the make-up aisle, just picking a few things she needed. Sam rounded a corner pushing the ridiculously small shopping cart, he looked like the Jolly Tan Giant pushing a kiddy?s toy around.

?I hope you like a soft one,? he said when he got close.

Kim dumped the stuff she had picked up in the cart, ?No Dear, I like big, hard ones.?

?Not me silly,? he said, ?toothbrushes, I couldn?t even find a medium bristle. Did you want me to get some conditioner,? he started to pull the brim of her ball cap up.

Kim stepped back and readjusted her dirty hat. She looked at the Pantene in the cart, ?That?s good Sam, maybe some Jergen?s soap, hotel soap is hell on the skin.?

Sam turned, leaving the cart with her, ?Your wish is my command, My Queen.? He stalked away looking in the aisles for her dragon to slay.

Kim finished getting her bare essentials, ending by finding a hairbrush she thought both her and Sam could use. She started to move towards the check-out when her knight came back caring the slain dragon?s head in one hand and a blue and green tote in the other. He pushed back some on her cap?s bill and gave her a nice kiss.

?Sorry Princess, no Jergens, I hope Dove with face cream will work. But, I bring other treasures from a far off land called China, a thing called a book bag, Your Highness.?

Kim smiled and shook her head, ?You will be forgiven for your ineptitude this one time Brave Knight. Later I might have other functions you may be asked to perform, naughty tasks.?

He gave her a big wide grin, ?I am yours, you have but to ask, I will be more than happy to pleasure my Queen.?

They checked and paid for their stuff, quite happily.

After leaving the check-out bags behind and with a semi-full tote, Kim started to feel more human and less sought. Still, any movement, a beeping car?s horn, someone yelling for another, drew her attention like a iron filings to a magnet. She never let her eyes rest. She looked and looked hard at everything, assessing each as a possible threat to her future happiness. Sam seemed to just stroll along with her, but she knew he was equally observant, just in a different way. She trusted Sam?s observations way more than the limited one her eyes could see, he saw things un-seeable.

After another 5 blocks, they found the Embassy Suite and checked in. Sam pushed the counterman about their names, but paid for the room in cash for a three night?s stay. Kim played the game like a pro, she casually mention she was tired from the drive and she wanted to lay down, they could unload the car later today after a nap. They strolled off to find their room, holding each other with her leaning her head on his shoulder. They kissed hard the whole elevator ride up to the 8th floor. They were safe and so close to getting away together.

27 minutes later

The counter agent Sid, looked up as the two men entered. One sort of browsed the pamphlet section about sights and services in the D.C. area. The other came over to him. The man pulled out a FBI ID and some photos, ?Excuse me Sir, have you seen this couple??

Sid took the proffered photos. He recognized the man instantly because of the eyes. The lady with him sort of looked the same as the one that checked in with him, but she had had a ballcap and different shirt on when he had seen her. ?Yes Sir, they checked in about a half an hour ago. Are they in trouble??

Both of the men sort of snickered, they were getting good at this, it was their sixth time, ?No Sir,? the one in front of him said. ?He?s just one of those silly, eccentric designers that hates us having to hold his hand all the time. They drove up for a meeting. These two are always pulling this crap on us,? the guy by the rack pulled out a couple of pamphlets and snickered again. The man in front of Sid went on, ?We just get assigned to keep an eye on them for their own safety, They spend a great amount of time trying to give us the slip. They think it?s pretty funny to outfox us. It has sort of become their hobby when they aren?t working for us. We lost them when they stopped for breakfast,? at least that part was true, the camera surveillance hadn?t showed where they went after leaving the International House of Pancakes. He looked at the other man pulling out another pamphlet, ?Looks like we get to go and sit in the damn car again Bill. For our records Sir, what room do they have??

Sid checked the register, ?807 Sir, she said they were going to lay down before they unloaded the car.?

?Guess we better go find us a spot and watch the dang car till they do. Any fast food joints within walking distance??

?There?s a Mickey D?s, sorry a McDonald?s about a block west of here Sir.?

?Thanks,? he turned to the other man. ?See I told you they jimmied the tracker again. Thanks Sir, don?t let them know we found them again, it was hard enough finding them this time, I?d hate to spend the next two days searching Washington for them.?

Both men headed for the door, the one carrying the pamphlets snicked again shaking his head, ?Dang scientists, why can?t we ever get a good old spy, be a hell of a lot easier to follow.? Both men laughed as the doors closed behind them.

Sid snickered also after they left, it was nice to know that at least someone was making the government work for his tax money.

Within ten minutes, 20 well armed men were watching the hotel closely, from as far as they could and still see good. A code and an order for strict radio silence was in force. If they came out, follow them, but not too closely, monitor and follow anyone they speak with. A military helicopter circled about 4 miles distant, its? long range cameras kept the hotel locked on its? internal monitors and weapon?s systems. Two men took turns, from either side as the chopper race-tracked through the morning?s air, aiming their 30 caliber mini-guns at their location.

23 minutes earlier, before their death had found them

The room was nice, twin queen sized beds. Sam checked the hallway, turning his head looking with his eyes closed, mapping the normal responses into his senses. Kim dumped out the tote on the kitchen table and started opening and unsealing their purchases. A refuge. If even for just half a day. Sam came too her, picked her up and gave her a big smooch, holding her tightly. He put her down, picked up two of the chairs at the table, jammed one under the knob for the entrance door, the other he kicked under the connector door?s knob for the next room.

?Who gets firsts in the shower and which bed do we trash first??

?Is that all you guys think about, damn alien, your more human than you think.?

Sam smiled as he kicked off his shoes and flopped down on the closest bed, ?I think about food sometimes.?

?If we get out of this shit Sam, I know this guy, you two might be long lost brothers.?

?Lost maybe Kim, but the long part is going to be about 218 trillion miles, and that?s a pretty long way. That?s how far out we were from our closest system.?

?What?s it like out there Sam??

?I don?t know if I have the words to even start to describe it Kim. First we sort of sleep during the transit phases. Stars every possible shade of every possible color, countless. Worlds where death would come at a first footstep outside, others filled to overflowing with life. Places with two, three, or more suns in the sky at the same time. Others with moons and rings, like being on the surface of Saturn, if it had a surface, stretching from horizon to horizon. Each place different from the last, you could live a million lives and never even come close to starting to make a start. And that is just this galaxy, billions upon billions of other galaxies are out there. Places where there is no night, the sky lit brightly by thousands of stars, others, empty, nothing, just darkness.?

?Could I go Sam, could I see these things with you.?

?Damn Kim, we?re stuck here, I can?t even go. And now if I had the chance, I wouldn?t unless you could also go with me. I am happy here Kim, I wasn?t till I met you, I couldn?t wait to leave this place. Now, nothing will take me from you. I love you Kim.?

?I love you too Sam. Want to join me in the shower? I need someone to scrub my back. If you do mine, I?ll do yours. Deal??

Their line of shed clothing would have led a blind man to where they now hid with each other.

CHAPTER 26

Next

They both reached the shower, at the same time, with the same amount of clothing on, none. Kim technically lost because hers was a bit more complicated to remove. Sam beat her by being able to move at a speed that would make Superman look like molasses, in January, in the Artic Circle. He was naked by the time they reached the bathroom?s doors. You just have to love a guy that knows when to go very fast, and when to really take his time and do the job right. He even went way out of his way by scooping her up so she didn?t run into a door on the way in, such a gentleman. Of course, working around his arms to get the bra and panties off were just a bit difficult, but Kim did muddled through as quickly as she could. He even politely turned his back as she used the facility, he adjusted the water?s temperature. He climbed in, waiting on her, she tested the temperature before climbing in to join him. Steamy, hot Sam kisses and water awaited her there.

Kim shed the sleepiness as fast as her body shed the water. He was back in her arms, her lips were back on his. The harrowed flight, the close bullets were gone. Nothing matter but the man in her arms. He even went so far as to abandon her briefly while he went to get the soap and shampoo she had left on the kitchenette?s table. Sam was back and she waited on her soaping. He sort of disappointed her on that part, sort of. Sam put the soap in the soap holder in the shower, the shampoo in the corner. He picked her up, Kim wasn?t disappointed at all with what happened next. This time she wrapped both hands around the shower?s head as he slide inside her body. The top of her shoulders and her head touched the back of the shower as the end of Sam?s cock touched the back of her. He filled her with slow easy thrusts. Kim purred in pleasure. They both watched each other as they made love, neither one taking their eyes off the other through the curtain of falling water. Hot water pounded down between the union of their bodies. Whether Sam?s magic, or just plain old magic, they came together calling each other?s names, magic. Sam pulled her away from the wall and pipe, he just held her tightly till the blissful moments passed for both of them, magic. Then he did his manly duties by giving her a wonderful, soapy, body rub. Not magic, heaven. The shampoo was also a very relaxing head massage, the last of the weariness washed away with the lather as she rinsed.

She felt so refreshed, squeaky clean, needed, loved. Even surrounded by a city searching for them, intent on killing them, she felt safe with Sam. Sam would get them out, there was nothing he couldn?t do, she knew it with all her being. Kim squeezed around his body, pushing him into the falling water, she soaped the back of her superman. Sam helped her do the hard parts, shampooing his own hair as she worked over his broad shoulders, thin waist, tight butt, thighs each almost as big as her waist. Kim?s gentle giant, able to kill with a single blow. Kim asked Sam to turn around.

Kim washed Sam? feet, then his calves, she looked up. He was letting the water pound into the back of his neck with his eyes tightly closed. Poor Sam, he looks tired. Kim decided to wake him up, she let fingernails lightly scr*pe up his thighs. She dropped from her squat to her knees, grasped his thighs and took his semi-erect cock in her mouth. It didn?t stay semi-erect long. Kim pushed her head slowly to him till her lips touched his body, her mouth felt his increasing heartbeat. She gently clawed his hips and thighs as she sucked hard, pulling slowly away from him. She pushed in fast, forcing her face hard against his body. His erection ran along the top of her mouth before bending, going back down her throat. Sam shook with pleasure as she pulled away slowly again. Kim jammed herself hard on him again, holding his butt, she heard his gasp over the sound of the shower?s water. This time he didn?t shake, his body twitched from the sensual onslaught. She could feel the racing, pounding of his heart with her tongue rubbing along the bottom of him in her mouth. She slowly brought him to a climax. His hands gently rubbed her head, not directing, just caressing her. Kim moved faster, his thigh and leg muscles, under her stroking hands, went rigid. She heard her name being gasped, one of her hands gently cupped his balls. Sam moaned her name loudly as he jerked in orgasmic pleasure. Kim pushed her head in hard, feeling the pulse of the orgasm enter her mouth around tight lips. Her tongue felt the flash of his release down the length of her tongue pressed hard against the bottom of his cock. His heat poured into her throat. Another pulse came, Kim jerked her head back quickly, letting him jet into her mouth. She sucked hard as he gushed again in her mouth, she swallowed his sweetness. Kim let her tongue play over the head of his cock as a smaller gush poured hotly over her tongue. She held him still inside her till she felt him soften. Pulling away, she grasped his cock with a hand, squeezing tightly, she forced the last of his cum into her mouth. Kim kissed the end of him and rose back up to her feet. She kissed his lips, using her tongue to push his last drops into his mouth, letting him taste himself.

They held each other tightly for a few more moments before Kim started soaping his chest. She dropped some to do his waist as she reached behind him and twisted the shower?s control to the coldest position. She used the shower?s last few moments of hot water to rinse herself before pushing aside the shower curtain and fleeing.

?Bastard!?, Kim thought as he stayed in the cold shower and started singing George Thorogood?s ?Bad to the Bone?, he whistled the sax parts. He was pretty good, she listened as she toweled herself off. He was on the second verse when she came back from the kitchenette with her new hairbrush and started working the tangles out of her hair. Kim shook her head as he started on Bon Jovi?s ?Someday I?ll be a Saturday Night?. She walked over, yanked open the shower curtain, he stopped singing and smiled at her. Sam twisted slightly letting the cold water deflect off his chest and onto her. He started up the tune where he had left off. Kim reached down and slammed the shower?s lever off, ?Prick!?. Kim went back and started toweling off herself again as Sam climbed out of the shower.

?Hey,? he said after grabbing a towel, ?I had a couple more songs to sing.?

?Prick,? Kim said again with a smile as she finished her hair.

He scooped her up, holding her tightly against his cold skin, kissing her, ?That?s Mr. Prick to you young lady.? He put her back down, giving her another sharp, sweet kiss.

Kim held him tightly despite the cold skin, she gave him her warmth, ?I love you so much,? she whispered to his chest. His arms dropped lower around her, lifting her up, he carried her out of the bathroom and to bed.

Sam laid her gently on the bed and crawled over to lay beside her. They embraced tightly.

She clutched him deeply, like a lost person adrift in an empty ocean clutches a scrap of anything that floats, ?Will we get out of here Sam? Will we ever have a moment of peace? Please Sam, tell me the truth.?

His eyes searched hers, her soul, inches away, they were so deep, bottomless. ?Yes Kimberly, I promise,? he said to her.

Kim sighed, she pushed herself closer trying to push herself inside him. She felt something unknown, unknowable, a touch without being touched.

Sam came to her. Kim was in heaven and an angel was making love to her, something no other human woman had ever experienced on this planet, she knew this in her soul now inside his. She found another level, she happily pulled herself up there. Sam joined her there. It wasn?t physical, their bodies were somewhere else, doing whatever bodies were inclined to do at this time, happily together. Kim pushed into him as he pushed into her, they joined completely, they strolled over the universe, as one. Feeling life everywhere, all around theirselves. They walked as one, in-twined in each other?s souls, totally together.

?I love you.?

He yanked her back to the real world they were trapped in. Suddenly, she didn?t want to ever leave where she had been, he still filled her soul, she was him. It was impossible to describe what she had felt, still felt. No human words were there to draw on, no one human had every experienced what she now felt.

She tried to go back. ?You haven?t completed the journey Kim, I will show you the way, what we have has never been known. I have never been so complete. I have never even thought this could happen. Yet, I have craved this. I have never been so in love Kim, it hurts me too know that I have wasted a single moment out of your arms. Touching you, being you. I must change you, I must make you us.?

?I love you Samuel,? she said in his arms.

?As I do you Kim,? he said back.

?Kim, you have no conception of the world I will show you. Something that you didn?t even know was possible, I will be you, you will be me. You will never be you again, you will be me, We will be each other, forever.?

?Make me you Sam.?

?I will Kimberly, I promise.?

CHAPTER 27

Over the Arizona Desert, August 1947

Translated

?Trassaa get up here, we have major malfunctions across the board.?

?On my way Slaa, Crrst,? the rest was cut off as the intercom was shutdown.

The ship fluttered again in the violent thunderstorm outside, it dropped 500 feet in seconds, throwing the two pilots against their restraining straps. The engine controls showed in the red, the ship cut in with prerecorded announcement saying containment was now at 50% and unstable, backup systems were now being engaged. The forward monitor blued out and stayed that way, as the ship was struck again by another bolt of lightening, half the systems didn?t come back online. Again the ship was struck, the exterior, now polarized, attracted the stored energy in the clouds like a magnet. Another half billion volts at unknown amperage of raw energy, flickered across the falling ship.

?Veettaa, were are losing control,? Slaammu said to her.

?I love you Slaammu,? she replied calmly as her hands blurred across the control panels, desperately trying to restore failed systems.

The propulsion system went offline, the ship started tumbling as it dropped the last 3000 feet to the ground. At a preset distance for their speed, the stand alone, emergency, backup system tried to engage the secondary, safety systems and slow their rate of descent. Slaammu slammed the emergency communication, message release. As his hand reached for the release, the secondary safety systems drained all available power trying to slow the ship. All interior systems, lights, everything went dead, the cockpit went pitch black. She could feel the G forces, the safety systems had engaged, the ship was slowing. Moments later, another bolt of lightening played across the surface of the ship. Every remaining system on the doomed ship went offline, it fell.

?Veettaa, I,,,?

The belly of the ship struck an embankment of a ravine. The ship bounced ¾ of the way across the ravine, striking the torrent of water rushing down it before plowing into the far embankment at 161 miles per hour. The scattered remains, the blasted bank of the ravine were the only signs of the impact, both lit brilliantly, briefly in the continued flashes of the storm?s lightening.

Somewhere Different

She looked down at the amulet, the red contrasted sharply with her blue skin, it was lovely. She had waited so long for this moment, now she had to wait even more. ?How long will we be gone Slaammu??

?60 years, maybe 70, mostly in transit phase, if you don?t want to go, tell me Veettaa. I told Trassaa and Ccrsst that it was your decision.?

?They are the ones our scientists have been monitoring??

?Yes Veettaa, the Council asked Trassaa and Ccrsst to do a preliminary exploration, no contact, just a basic bio sampling.?

?Will you go without me Slaammu?? she asked.

?No Veettaa, I would not.?

She handed the amulet back hesitantly, ?I will go with you Slaammu. We will bond upon our return. I do not wish to be with child in transit. Will you wait with me Slaammu??

?Yes Veettaa, I will wait for you.?

5 hours and 19 minutes later

The alarm clock set for three PM went off right on time, she had fallen asleep in his arms as he did in hers. Sam slapped the pesky alarm off, both stretched together, then kissed, going back to each other?s arms cuddling. Sam reluctantly broke the embrace, he scooted till he was propped against the headboard of the bed. She did the same.

?I was her Sam, Veettaa.?

?What? How Kim?? Sam looked shocked.

?It was a dream Sam, I was in the crash, I died there. I was her when you asked her to go with you Sam.?

A tear crawled down one cheek, Sam sobbed, ?I killed her bringing her here,? He turned away from her, hiding his tears with his hand. Kim held him as he cried about his lost love.

?OK, we should, more or less be good. If they knew about us they would have at least taken a room next door or busted in by now. If they had gotten that close I would have felt something. The meet is set for 7 PM tonight on the north side of the Memorial Mall?s reflection pond. I saw a Ruby Tuesday?s and a shopping mall. We?ll go get something to eat, do some cloths shopping with the money I have, since we shouldn?t need it now for the flight.?

?Now your talking Sam, a girl?s favorite hobby, shopping. And food, it just doesn?t get any better.? Kim patted her flat tummy, ?Now I?ve hooked you, it?s time to start packing on the pounds. If we keep this up, I hope your friends have a doctor on your island, my birth control pills are at home or I?ll soon be eating for two.?

Kim smiled sweetly at Sam, ?Can you have kids Sam? Do you want kids Sam, would they be normal??

Sam gave her that quirky sideways half frown half grin, ?Yes Kim you can have kids, I?ll have to help. I?m not sure if I can, being male and the such.? Sam stood and poked out his belly, ?Wouldn?t look good on me anyway, it would wreck my figure.?

Kim chucked his abandoned pillow at him, ?I hope they at least get their mommy?s brains.? She ran to the bathroom with him in hot pursuit.

27 minutes later

They nodded at the lady working the counter and exited the hotel arm in arm. The November air was crisp, Kim suggested they add jackets to their shopping list, Sam tried to reach out and feel the tenuous thoughts around them as they walked to the Ruby Tuesday?s. There was a tickle out there, a very distant, faint twinge. It just might be a collective thought of hundreds of police offices and other agencies as they sought the couple. He had no doubts what so ever, that they had been tracked to Washington by now. Sam mentioned to Kim as they ate lunch, they should make the shopping trip as quick as they can. Then go back to the room, try and find some local news or CNN and see if there was anything about them on the TV. He said they should stay inside till it got dark and then take a cab to the Lincoln Memorial and access the Mall that way. It would be dark, but still early enough for other people to be about and give them some cover, safety in numbers. He promised her a real shopping trip in any and all the cities she could think of after they got out of this one. They both ate their lunch happily and left, walking over to the shopping mall.

342 yards away

Cliiiiiiick, pause click, click. The code for targets are on the move, try and keep them insight, but don?t get close.

79 minutes later

Click, click, click. The signal that the targets have returned to the hotel. The Lead Agent noted the sun dropping lower in the sky, he requested night vision equipment for all agents assigned as movement monitors. He also called in from a pay phone and reported that it just appeared that they only did some shopping. No other contacts reported except to sales personnel, those were all being checked out now. He also requested for a Blackhawk equipped with night optics in case they go out for the evening.

Back in their room

Sam fiddled with the new hat as Kim stood half dressed modeling her jeans in a mirror. He was glad they were back in the room, he still felt twinges, but they were very faint. He knew that there should have been more. The mall had been filled, it had been impossible to narrow in on a person with so many around. It wasn?t really mind reading, it was sort of sensing emotional outputs, like trying to listen to a very distant radio station that keeps fading in and out. Only when he got within ten or so feet of a person, could he interpret the emotions. Only by touching could he influence someone?s thoughts. He had explained how he did some of his tricks to Kim when she asked him what she was thinking now. He had showed her exactly what he was thinking of as he helped her out of her old clothes. Now he fiddled with the hat, naked on the bed and watched her watch herself in the mirror. He put the hat on and called her over to see what she thought of it, after all she was the one that picked it out. Now he knew exactly what both of them were thinking about as he had helped her out of the new jeans, panties and bra. He watched her, she had his hat on as she rode his cock slowly moving her hips back and forth, she watched him from under the brim of the hat till the orgasms caused them both to fall together in a heap, breaths heaving. It was a very happy way to spend time waiting till night came.

6 PM, going to meet Sam?s friends

At first the lead agent was worried about losing the couple in the rush hour, jammed streets of Washington. It seemed every other car was a cab. The brief report from the Blackhawk helicopter, via cell phone, helped ease his mind. Due to the gathering darkness, the chopper had moved in to about ¾ of a mile. The numbers painted on the roof of the Yellow Cab were clearly visible in the night vision monitors. The weapon?s system, used to track heat signatures of war machines, locked on the cab guiding the cameras. A net of agents surrounded the cab, at a distance, as it slowly made its? way to the Lincoln Memorial, where the couple got out.

6:18 at the Lincoln Memorial

Sam looked in the direction of the noise the chopper was making. He could make out the running lights, but not the type. He did remember seeing the military one in the distance when they left the hotel earlier. And the same one or a different one when they came back from the mall after shopping for clothes. Both of those had been very distant. After they strolled through the memorial to the 16th President, then going out the back, the slight noise it made grew more distant. He dropped his defenses just a notch, now concentrating on the groups of people and the couples and families out strolling the Memorial Mall. The Washington Memorial reflected clearly, the reflection pool totally still, a perfect mirror. Kim was so thrilled that she was getting to see the wonderful sight. He had bought and paid for a cell phone with programmed minutes on it at the mall. He paged the contact number letting his friends know they were at the location and everything appears safe. His phone didn?t ring back. It only would if they detected problems as they approach the rendezvous set for 7 PM, now 30 minutes away.

?You know Kim, I think I might have figured out how they got wise to me.?

?How?s that Sam??

?I was trying to develop and go public with a type of communication system like we had on our ship. The technology level here was just reaching a point when the proper systems could be manufactured. Our ship was pretty trashed, but they might have been able to salvage some of the systems. They might have had an idea about how the communication systems works, but unable to develop or restore the system. Then just so happens, some smart, rich communication expert ups and starts developing systems that resemble something they found in the desert 60 years ago at a UFO crash site. They just might have put 2 and 2 together and come up with something close to 4. Then you called my office when they just happen to have our systems tapped, and Bingo, now you get to play also. I?m sorry I dragged you into this mess, but in a way I?m not. We would have never found each other and they would have had me by now. Of course, whatever they tried on me wouldn?t have shown anything but Mr. Plain Jane Human. Now, with all the stuff we?ve done, they pretty much know we are at least doing something very wrong. You can bet they are crawling up the ass of every one of your family and friends by now checking you out.?

Kim chuckled a little, ?It?s going to be hard finding family, my parents died 10 years ago in a car wreck and I?m an only child. So were my Mom and Dad. I worry about Missy and Bernie and their kids, but Missy didn?t tell Bernie even your right name. You said you blanked her memory of you, looks like tuff shit for them on that trail.?

Two men walked by talking about what some senator was scheduled to vote on the next day. Sam waited till they went another 100 feet before pulling out the cell, and sending the danger code to his friends.

He leaned over and kissed her cheek, ?We?ve been setup, it?s a trap, just act normal, let?s see if we can just sort of find a place were we can get lost,? he whispered in her ear. He walked around a couple of sawhorses with ?Do not Enter? yellow tape stretched between them. It was the construction site for a new memorial.

The Lead Agent on Site

?Who authorized those assholes to do a walk-by?? He watched the couple turn and head up into the new war memorial construction site. He saw the lady?s head pivoting around, looking. she dropped the tote bag she carried next to a dumpster. ?They made us goddammit,? he jerked the walkie-talkie up, ?All agents move in, following is scrubbed move in now! Try and take the man alive. Get that chopper over here! Go! Go! Go!?

They all did.

Kim and Sam

?Freeze!? yelled the man that came around the corner of a stack of equipment pointing a rifle with a big scope attached at them, ?National Security Age..? thud.

Kim couldn?t believe how fast Sam could move. The site was semi-lit with construction lights, Sam had blurred in front of her. Letting go of the arm he pulled her with, he stooped, picked up a piece of wood waste and threw it at the man striking him on the side of the head. The man dropped like a sack of potatoes. Sam pulled her towards the man and his dropped weapon. About three or four cinder blocks in a stack beside them, exploded and more whines could be heard in the air as a torrent of bullets sought them out.

The Lead Agent on Site

?Goddammit! Check your fucking fire! I want the man alive. Aim for the lady. I don?t care about the agent, just stop them from getting his weapon!?

Kim and Sam

Kim gasped as something ripped at her arm, the ground around the fallen agent started to patter smoke spots as the bullets shifted from them to the weapon Sam wanted so desperately. Sam yanked Kim hard, pulling her away from the dropped weapon and sure death, into an aisle of supplies.

?I?ve been shot Sam!?

Sam pulled her deeper into the aisle, they both squatted down in a patch of darkness. Kim had a freely bleeding ugly gash down the middle of her left arm, the bullet had to have gone between them. Sam laid his hand on her neck, the pain dropped away like a bad dream, still there in the back of her mind, but no longer a bother.

?Kim I?ll fix it as soon as I can, but we have to go now or we?ll never leave this place alive, can you make it??

?Yes Sam.?

?Can you run??

?Yes, but not as fast you can Sam. You go, they want you. Blank my mind, leave me here Sam. You run, please??

?WE both go, or I stay, I?m not leaving you, ever. Want me to carry you??

?I can run Sam.?

Sam and Kim heard the thumping approach of a helicopter, two bullets whined off some pipes behind them.

?Run Kim!? Sam pulled her with him to their feet, they started a footrace, with death going to the losers.

The Lead Agent on Site

?They?re heading up the hill towards Congress Avenue. Get that chopper in front of them lay down a suppressing fire. Don?t hit them. The mini-gun will chop them to pieces.?

The gunship came in cherry tree, top high, right over his head as he ran towards the construction site. The civilians around the mall knew something was going on. The silencer suppressed weapons didn?t make much noise when fired as the men converged on the running couple from all points of the compass. The chopper went right over their heads before splashing them with its high intensity search light. The people in the mall and the surrounding blocks figured out something was terribly wrong when one of the 6 barreled, 30 caliber, chain guns started spitting 1200 rounds a minute in front of the fleeing couple.

Kim and Sam

Kim dodged left with Sam as the ground erupted 20 yards in front of them like some psycho farmer was trying to plow up the Mall?s grass. Kim was awed, the sound was as though a 50 foot bee was buzzing in front of them. A ?Luke Skywalker? lance of fire came from the side of the helicopter now 50 feet over their heads and about 150 feet in front of them. She could clearly see the lance of orange fire come again, even over the blinding glare of the spot-light pinning their running forms to the ground. Something tugged at her right thigh, she looked down and saw the hole there in her jeans where the bullet punched a hole through her thigh, blood started flowing, she didn?t really feel any pain. She ran with Sam.

The Lead Agent on Site

He heard, ?Got her in the thigh,? from one of the snipers thru his earpiece.

?Check your fire, stay on him incase he abandons her. Can you bring her down??

?Only take a second,? the sniper came back over his earpiece.

Kim and Sam

Both dodged left as the mini-gun opened up again and a loudspeaker blasted from the helicopter in front of them, ?Freeze, you are under arrest!?

They swerved again to avoid the deadly lance of fire from the chopper as it backed up, easily keep its? distance and giving the door gunner a clear line of fire. Another 200 feet and they would be at the street, traffic was at a standstill as people climbed out of their cars, watching the spectacle unfolding in front of them. Two men sprinted at them from the left, another 3 from the right, all armed. Kim pushed herself as hard as she could. Her leg started to hurt from the abuse of the high speed run and the bullet hole punched through her thigh. Blood squished in her new tennis shoe. Something whizzed by her head yanking at her hair. The chopper backed over the street, hundreds of hot, spent shell casings started dropping on the cars and drivers standing in the street. Most panicked and fled from their still running cars. The helicopter?s door gunner unleashed another burst of death at them as the chopper backed to the other side of the jammed street, now filled with fleeing people. A lance of orange fire left the grass and found the sidewalk. The air in front of Kim came alive with buzzing death as the bullets ricocheted off the sidewalk. The bullets chewed the concrete to powdered ruble before the gunner could stop firing his weapon. Sam was no longer at her side. She tried to stop, her leg gave way. Two tractor-trailer trucks, doing a hundred miles an hour, slammed her in the right hip, Kim went down hard.

The Lead Agent on Site

?Goddammit hold your fire,? he screamed into his radio! He had just seen the worse thing possible. The man looked like he just stopped at full speed and dropped to the ground going backwards. The woman took a couple of more steps before going face down. ?HOLD YOUR FIRE, GODDAMMIT!? You didn?t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out what just happed, ?BOTH TARGETS ARE DOWN, CHECK FIRE! STOP FUCKING SHOOTING THEM!? he screamed so loudly he doubted they needed the radio to hear him. He raced to the two as the chopper?s spotlight kept them illuminated. Neither moved on the ground.

Kim

Kim screamed in pain when she tried to move, she tasted dirt, grass and blood in her mouth, she couldn?t feel her right leg at all. She tried to roll over again. She screamed in pain so loud it hurt her throat and her vision grayed. Her hip felt like someone had stuck a blowtorch inside and turned it on full. She screamed again in agony.

She lay there gasping, whimpering in pain she didn?t think was possible for a human to endure. The chopper seemed to get less loud, she heard men gasping for breath all around her.

?He?s dead. Hell, they shot away half his skull, looks like he took a couple of more in the chest, one in the leg, shit, somebody?s head is going to roll over this.?

Kim moaned Sam?s name loudly.

?Damn, it?s a fucking miracle she?s still alive. Must have blown away half her right hip.?

Someone else pounded up, ?Fucking shit,? she heard him say. ?Main target is DOA Sir,? someone else said. ?The woman?s still with us, but I don?t think for much longer, she?s bleeding out.? The first voice said, ?Get that fucking chopper down and get them to Reed. What a cluster fuck!?

Someone came to Kim?s side and casually flipped her on her back. She didn?t scream in pain this time, she thankfully passed out from it.

The pain from her shattered hip and the swaying from the helicopter, pulled her back into the real Hell, on Earth. She looked over and saw Sam?s eyes, he looked at her with half of the top of his head gone, Dead eyes returned her stare. He was just right there, she tried to touch his body one last time. A man, straddling her legs pushed back down on a new bandage after he threw the blood soaked one beside her. He pushed down hard on her destroyed hip, desperately trying to stop her bleeding. Kim passed back out before she could touch Sam.

CHAPTER 27

Date unknown, time unknown, place unknown

A hand shook her shoulder gently, ?Kimberly Collett??

It all came back too her then as a hazy, horrible dream, Sam was dead. Another tear joined the streams already there. She had been crying in her drug induced sleep. Kim opened tear filled eyes. Sam was dead, she had seen his shattered skull. She had tried to touch his lifeless body, just one last time.

The doctor standing beside her bed, gently touched her shoulder again, ?Kimberly??

Her right leg felt funny, she wobbled her head up some. ?Oh that?s why?, she calmly lowered her head back to the pillow after seeing she didn?t have a right leg. Just a big bunch of bandages swathed her hip area. Some tubes running out, and just one leg left. It was pretty easy to see why it should feel funny she thought. She was naked, both arms handcuffed to a hospital bed, tubes running in and out of her everywhere, the incessant beeping of a heart monitor and a sheet half covering her ruined, bruised, mutilated body. Nothing really mattered anymore anyway, Sam was dead. She tried to will her body to also die, to join him.

A nurse leaned over her, ?Give her the stimulate Dan, I hope these things work on humans or Slaammu is going to be so pissed off. At least you made him smaller this time.? The nurse gave her a smile, ?Hope you like being a blonde dear? Did you fix the heart monitor Honey??

?Yes, but it will reset on the hour, it?s an external reset at the main consoles,? he looked at his watch. ?That gives us just under 50 minutes to get her and clear out of here.?

Kim felt a yanking at one of her elbows, something cold flowed into an arm, she wasn?t really sure which arm, ?Kim, you have to be awake. It is going to hurt some at first. I am going to try and control the pain level, but you have to be awake. We?re not sure these will work properly on humans. We are here to help you make the transition, but you are going to need to be awake.?

Whatever the doctor injected into her arm double slapped her mind. She felt blinding pain till the doctor gently laid his hand on the side of her head, the pain went to the back of her mind and clawed the floor of her brain. It waited to pounce on her again. ?Sam?s dead,? she croaked to the world.

The nurse smiled at her, ?Yes Kim, and in a few minutes you will be too.?

?I will be dead with Sam,? she muttered softly. ?Good, I loved Sam and I?m not happy. Will I be happy after I die??

?They must have drugged the living hell out of her, I hope that doesn?t interfere,? the nurse said. She reached into a pocket and pulled out a black bag.

?I don?t think Sam told her what the sloo?s real function is,? the doctor said.

?Probably didn?t have time too Dan,? the nurse reached into the bag and pulled out her amulet, it glowed brightly. She put it around Kim?s neck, centering the stone on her chest. Next, she pulled out Sam?s ring, it glowed a fierce, bright red. She placed it next to the setting on Kim?s chest.

The doctor looked at Kim, ?We?ve never tried this on a human Kim. Sam said it should work. We went to a lot of trouble to steal these from your government. We have to give them your body or they will never stop looking for you. You have to die Kim, it won?t hurt at all. That?s why we are here to help you make the transfer to the storage device.?

Both the doctor and the nurse placed their hands over the ring and the amulet, holding them tightly to Kim?s chest. The very last thing Kim heard was the heart monitor drop a beat when her broken heart finally quit beating for the last time.

Kim, Sam, Ccrsst and Trassaa

Doctor, masquerading as a nurse Mary Ann Yearly placed the ring and the amulet, now both glowing the same fierce red color, back into the thick, black bag and then into her pocket. The heart monitor beeped happily saying its? very dead patient was just fine.

?Same plan, don?t ruin my Gucci?s, I think you scuffed them last time,? Doctor Daniel Andrew Yearly said as he headed to the door followed closely by his ?nurse?.

Mary shook her head, ?What a whiner Dan, I?ll buy you a couple dozen more pairs next time we?re in Rome.?

?But these were my favorite,? he whined again, poised in front of the door leading out of the death room, guarded by two armed guards on the other side. ?Let?s go.? He knocked twice on the door.

The door opened behind the guards, the doctor and the nurse came out. The doctor stopped, looking down at his clipboard. The nurse ran right into him, almost knocking both of them down. The doctor grabbed the right guard?s arm to steady himself, the nurse did the same to the left guard. ?Thank goodness no one fell,? both guards thought at the same time.

?Nurse Goodbody, will you please watch where you?re going? That is the second time tonight, look where you have scuffed my shoes.?

?I?m sorry Doctor Gillespie. But if you would just tell me you are stopping Sir, or step off to the side like a normal human being, I wouldn?t be walking all over you all the time.

One guard pushed open the door to the room, saw the prisoner laying in the bed, the heart monitor beeping happily. He let the door close and then locked it, he went back to thinking about last Sunday?s football game. The other watched the nurse till she and the doctor, still bitching about his ruined shoes, went around a corner. He started to think happy thoughts about the nurse. My she certainly did have a ?Goodbody?. He?d try and find out where she worked in the hospital, maybe look her up or give her a call when he was relieved in a couple of hours.

The doctor was looking down at his clipboard, trying to ignore his scuffed Gucci loafers his wife had purposely wrecked. The nurse fiddle with a bandage she had pulled out of a pocket, also looking down. Both were well aware of the overhead cameras dotting the ceilings. Neither wanted to give the monitors a good facial shot as they walked out of the building.

?So, what did you give him,? the nurse asked as they walked through a parking lot?

?Last Sunday?s game against Cleveland, you??

The nurse didn?t say anything as they left the lot and crossed a street.

?Dammit Ccrsst, you know that makes me so jealous, I?m going to have the pilot stop in LA till I can find some of those big, rubber gloves, welders use. Then I?m going to glue them on your hands.?

?Sounds kinky, I?ll shop for some of those thigh-high, black, six inch, come and get me, stiletto boots, maybe a whip,? she reached out and took his arm after the hospital was blocked from their view by other buildings.

?You?re such a pervert Dear, that and being the only female of my species on this planet, are the only reasons I put up with you? he reached into her pocket and took out the bag. ?Hey, how?re you guys doing in there?? he asked the bag, not really expecting or getting an answer. They and the bag walked happily to their waiting limo 5 more blocks up the street. 38 minutes later the 4 engine Gulf Stream jet made its take-off roll out of Reagan International heading westbound. A few moments later the hospital room they left was a flurry of activity as the heart monitor reset and showed that the patient had finally died from her wounds.

CHAPTER 27

Date unknown, time unknown, place unknown

Kim woke with a start, she started to panic, then stopped, calming back down. She could feel Sam?s warm back against hers. Kim reached out, luxurious 1000 count, cotton, Egyptian linen sheets covered her. She looked over at the folded, dark wooden slatted, doors leading out to a balcony. A slight sea breeze fluttered the off-white sheers. She could see part of a coconut palm, white sandy beaches, topaz blue water. She heard the muted, distant crash of surf pounding on a reef and Sam?s slow breathing as he slept behind her. Kim smelt the fragrance of a saltwater breeze, the overlapping smell of flowers floated in the air. It was like the air was alive with smells she had never smelt before. She rubbed a hand down her right hip to her leg, the hip wasn?t shattered, destroyed. Her leg was still there, she did need to start running more, her hips felt fuller. It had all been a horrible dream. They had made it to the island. She couldn?t even remember the trip here, all she could remember was the terrible dream, Sam had died, her body shattered, it had been so real. Kim carefully rolled over trying not to wake Sam, yet. She just wanted to cuddle him till he woke, let the horrible, so real dream blow away on the soft sea breeze. She slid her hand over the part of his arm she could touch easily, Kim wrapping her hand half way around his arm. She carefully, slowly slid her hand up his whipcord thin body. Her hand found his long, curly, black hair, she pushed it aside to lightly kiss his neck. She freaked out.

She quickly rolled out of the bed and away from the man that wasn?t Sam! She got to her feet unsteadily, naked. Kim turned as the person in the bed stretched from being woken up. She started to run out the open door. Her legs didn?t work right, she stumbled, catching herself on a make-up dresser she went to her knees as the strange man rolled over, looking at her, he smiled at her. She pulled herself back to her feet, the strange, young, blonde lady in the dresser?s mirror, wearing her glowing amulet, looked as shocked as she felt. She raised her hands up to her face, the other lady in the mirror did the same thing. Kim screamed and passed out.

CHAPTER 28

Again, date unknown, time unknown, place unknown

?Laura?? said a man?s voice as a soft hand touched her thigh.

?Don?t call her that,? said another man?s voice, he softly said, ?Kimberly??

Kim jerked her eyes open. A woman sat by her side on the bed, a man stood behind the woman, both were dressed in swim suits. Another man sat naked on the bed, level with her knees. Kim clawed herself backwards, the headboard and wall stopped her from going farther.

?Kimberly,? the naked man said, now at her feet, ?it?s a shock if you don?t know what to expect, it?s me, Sam.?

Kim looked at the stranger she had never laid eyes on before, ?You?re not Sam! Sam?s dead. I saw his body. He?s dead,? Kim started to cry.

The naked man gave her a crooked smile, Sam?s smile, his bright green eyes glowed at her, ?OK, you got me there. Yes Kim, Sam?s body is dead. But, then again, so is yours.?

The lady by Kim?s side said, ?Why don?t you two go bury your heads in the sand or something, give me some time with her. Alone. Please??

The naked man found some swim shorts, both men left as the new Ccrsst tried to explain to the new Laura why she wasn?t the old Kim anymore.

18 minutes later

?Thank you Paiteet, would you ask Miss Estelle to make us a pitcher and bring two more glasses,? Theo asked?

?Right away Mr. Tailor, Miss Estelle wants to know if there will be four for lunch??

?Paiteet, please call me Theo, if you do so, I will double your salary. Yes, tell Miss Estelle that my wife feels much better and will be joining us for lunch.?

?Yes Mr. Tai,,, Mr. Theo, right away,? the boy took off running back to the main house.

?Give it up Theo, I tried for years as Dan to get the boy to just call me Dan,? Trassaa said. ?It?s his father?s influence, the man has worked for us for over 25 years and the best I have ever gotten was Mr. Yearly, your fighting a losing battle. Can you read what is going on??

?Her anxiety level is gone, I sense some confusion but that is falling off also. She?ll be OK with the transfer. Give her a month and it will be Kim Who, my name is Laura. How much did you hype her up??

?Theo, I never even heard of such bonding, I can?t sense anything at all, even from Ccrsst. Can you sense Ccrsst??

?Not a thing from her, but Kimberly is like a laser beam.?

?We did jack her up to our level, you?re going to have to do some very serious mental training to her before you let her off the island. I would suggest starting as soon as possible and staying by her side whenever she interacts with staff. Have you told her about receiving the rescue message??

?I am going to stay with her Trass. I going to stay here, I?m not going back. I?ll ask her if she wishes to endure another change, but this time it will not be into someone else. It will be into a different species. I can already guess her answer. She?ll wish to stay, even though she has a desire to see what it is like out there. Maybe the humans might suddenly discover important ways to create a different power source.?

?Ccrsst said you would Slaammu, I don?t blame you. I think you are finally happy again. We will tell them you died in the crash along with Veettaa. What if she wants to restore you??

?If she has by now, I wish her as much happiness as I have found here. Please don?t tell her about me, us. Tell her I died by her side. I am sad we never bonded, if we had, I would leave and go home. I am bonded, I can?t leave my mate.?

The conversation was switched to stocks, bonds and oil futures as both men saw the houseboy return carrying a pitcher of Miss Estelle?s famous coconut, rum smoothie. Paiteet?s father, Solomon, followed carrying a tray of canapés and the two other glasses. Both men quit talking about oil futures as soon as the two were close enough to hear what they had been discussing.

?Mr. Tailor, Sir, my son said that you would double his salary if he treated you less formally??

?Yes Solomon, I will double it again if he drops the Mr. part. I will quadruple yours, and all the others, if everyone else does so also,? Theo stated matter of fact.

Whatever Solomon Hoi was going to say was squashed like a bug.

?It was tragic that the Yearly?s and Mr. Stranger died in the plane accident. Sam was my best friend, a damn fine cousin and a good man. Mary Anne and Daniel live in my heart right beside Sam, they will never be forgotten. I?m just a country boy Solomon. Every time you guys say Mr. Tailor, I keep looking around for my departed father. Please Solomon, instruct the staff to just call me Theo and my wife Laura, either way, even if you don?t, everyone?s salary is now quadrupled.?

Paiteet topped off Theo?s glass and then Edward?s, ?I told you father, thank you for the raise Theo.? Paiteet smiled at his dad, Solomon cringed somewhat.

?I will instruct the staff Sir.?

Theo gave him a half frown, half smile.

?Mr. Theo,? Solomon managed to force himself to say.

Two women in bathing suits emerged from the beach cabana, one sort of helped the other. Theo said, ?Looks like Laura is on the mend. Paiteet, fill the other two glasses and would you both excuse us please.?

Solomon didn?t want his son to see him beaten at his own game, ?Fill the glasses son. Then go and walk the beach again, not a stick or piece of seaweed mind you, Miss Laura might want to take a swim. If you will excuse us, Gentlemen.? It was going to be an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object.

Theo and Edward watched the women approach, both rose from their recliners as they neared. Nancy let go of Laura?s arm, she went over to stand next to her husband. Laura stopped and looked at the group.

Now

?Is that really you Sam??

?Yes Kim, in the flesh,? he glanced over at the other two smiling people, ?well, less flesh than I had before. Guess I should go for the rock star look now.?

?How do I know it?s really you Sam??

?How do I know it?s really you Kimberly??

Laura smiled, ?Touché.?

?There is one sure way Laura.?

?What?s that Sam??

?My new name is Theodore Patrick Tailor, yours? Is Laura Eleanor Yaden-Tailor.? He gave her a wink, ?You can call me Theo, Laura?

?OK Theo, how do you prove, without a doubt, that you are who you say you are??

Theo walked up to her, looked into her neon blue eyes, bent over and kissed her. She melted in his arms. She brought up her arms and held him tightly, ?Sam.?

?Theo, Laura.?

?Whoever,? she kissed him again, melting back into his arms.

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