He woke up when she came out of her room, heading towards the kitchen. She was wearing some sort of jogging clothes, along with hiking boots and looked lovelier than ever. Her hair was combed in a tight ponytail and swung behind her back in a tempting way.
He took a deep breath and summoned all his self-control. “Good morning. I don’t think you’ve mentioned your name,” he greeted her, jumping to his feet.
She glanced at him and ran a hand through her red hair. “My name is Sabrina. Sabrina Myers. And you are?”
“I’m Jarcor.”
“What’s that? First name or surname?” she asked, furrowing her eyebrows.
He shrugged. He hadn't been called by his given name for so long he had almost forgotten he had one.
“Surname. My given name is Lucas, but no one uses it anymore,” he explained, as he watched her prepare coffee. The fresh scent filled the room and he sighed. He hadn't had a good cup of coffee in a long time. The food at the military base was dreadful.
“Why not? Lucas is a lovely name,” she said, handing him a cup of fragrant coffee.
“They always call us by our last names in the army. I’ve been with them for so long, I’m no longer used to being called Lucas.”
“I see. How long have you been in the army?” she asked curiously, as she prepared eggs, ham, and bacon with bagels.
“Eighteen years now. I joined the army as soon as I left high school,” he explained.
“How’s that possible? Cyborgs were only conceived ten years ago,” she asked, frowning.
“I wasn’t born a cyborg.” With a few words, he explained what had happened to him, leaving out all the darker details.
“Was that the reason you decided to escape?” She asked as she put the food on the table.
“Yes, it’s one of the reasons. They treat cyborgs as if we are machines, with no feelings or needs, and that’s not right.”
She sighed. “The human race has often made that same mistake, they enslave those they find useful and eventually end up with a rebellion on their hands,” she commented, taking a seat at the table.
“You seemed to know a lot about that.”
“I must. I’m studying archeology and anthropology.”
He looked at her surprised. “I thought nobody studied those things anymore. Is there something left to explore on this planet?”
She chuckled. “Not much, but knowing your past prevents you from making the same mistakes, repeatedly,” she explained. “And what we learn can be used anywhere in the universe. The arrival of the Taucets brought war and slaughter, but it also opened up a whole new vision of the universe we hadn't seen before.”
She was right of course. Humans hadn't yet ventured out of their own solar system. So far, they had a few colonies on Mars but, other than a few probes they had sent out into the galaxy, they hadn't done much more space exploration. Their vessels weren’t fast enough to take them much further, either.
“Yes, I guess you’re right.”
Once more, they cleared the kitchen together and after that, she turned to look at him. “Well, Lucas, I didn’t come up here to be locked up inside the house. So, I’m going out for a walk. You can either join me or trust I won’t try to escape.”
He looked at her with a sardonic smile. “I could also tie you to the chair and go back to work.” Her eyes sparkled so much he was sure he would be on fire if she could use her eyes alone. “But I could use a bit of fresh air too.”
She nodded and watched him put on his boots.
A few minutes later, they were following a trail up the mountains, surrounded by tall, green trees. The sun was warm enough to make the walk pleasant and soon they were quite far from the cabin.
At some point, at the top of a hill, she pulled her another cell phone out of her pocket and frowned when she realized she still didn’t have any signal.
“I’m using a signal blocker. You won’t be able to use it as long as I’m around.” He warned her as he enjoyed the view from the hill.
“Why? I’m not calling the police.”
“I have tracking devices implanted in me and I still haven’t found the way to deactivate them. So, the signal blocker helps me to keep the bad guys away.”
“They had no right doing that to you.”
“And yet, they did. It’s useless to cry over spilled milk.”
She nodded and put away her cell phone before she resumed their walk.
After a while, they started hearing water falling.
“There’s a waterfall not far from here. We can get some rest there before we go back. The water is too cold but it’s still an amazing sight,” she told him, with a smile.
“Show me the way.”
The location really was amazing and he wished he was alone, so he could dive into the pristine water of the small pool that formed at the bottom of the waterfall. But although she kept telling him she wouldn’t try to escape, he would be a fool to trust her blindly.
They took a seat on the grassy shores of the small pool and he turned to look at her. “How come your family let you come here all alone with a war going on?”
She let out a sad sigh. “I don’t have any family left. I already told you my parents died, and I have no other relatives,” she explained.
“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that.”
“It’s life, as I’m sure you know. Do you have a family?”
“No, I don’t, and I guess that’s becoming more common than ever. There are too many innocent people dying in this war.”
“More than killing, the Taucets are abducting men and women to enslave them. We have no idea what they do with all the people they have been abducting, but people suspect they are building colonies around the world,” she replied, with a slight frown.
“Yes, I had heard something about that, but I thought they were only rumors.”
“The government wishes they were just rumors, but the Taucets have abducted entire villages. I know that for sure because I have lost a few friends like that.”
“That’s terrible.”
She nodded and jumped to her feet, walking to the water and sinking her hands into the cold water.
He followed her, feeling an urgent desire to take her in his arms and comfort her, take away her pain.
He kneeled next to her and grabbed one of her hands under the water sending her some of his heat. As a cyborg, controlling his body temperature, despite the outside temperature, was quite easy.
She smiled and looked at him.
She looked so beautiful he couldn’t resist the desire to claim a kiss from her full lips.
She closed her eyes and fully submitted to the passion his kiss reignited in their bodies.
He gently lowered her into the soft grass, covering her body with his, his hunger for her stronger than anything else he had ever felt.
He covered her face with kisses, while his hands were busy removing their clothes, eager to feel her warm skin.
She was the first woman he touched since he had been turned into a cyborg, he felt things differently. All his senses were enhanced, and he sensed things a lot deeper than he ever did. It was mind blowing and he was relishing every second of it.
When he had her completely naked underneath him, his hands cupped her perfect breasts. He gently squeezed them before kneading them and playing with the hard tips, capturing them between his fingers. She moaned out loud when he pulled and rolled them, encouraging him to go on. He lowered his head and added his mouth and tongue to the game, combining kisses, sucks, and licks on the delicious buds with pulls and rubs.
Too eager to have her, to make her his, he slid one hand between her legs, cupping her mound for a few seconds before he slipped a finger between her folds. She was wet and as eager as he was.
Her hips rocked up to meet his touch and he growled his pleasure. He thrust a finger inside her, loving the way her walls clenched around it and after a few moments of playing with her, he thrust in a second one.
“Lucas.” She moaned and squirmed underneath him, mumbling her craving and after a few thrusts, he replaced his fingers with his big, hard cock.
Aware of his size, he intended to slide inside her, inch by inch, but she seemed to have other plans in mind. Wrapping her legs around his waist, she pulled him closer and made him go all the way inside her in one hard thrust.
His growl of pleasure echoed her moan and soon they were lost in the oldest dance known to mankind. In and out of her, he guided her down the path to paradise and in no time, they were flying over the edge, right into the swirl of pleasure and bliss their passion had conjured.
When the waves finally subsided, he rolled over and stayed there, lying next to her, lulled by the sound of the waterfall.
“God! I must have lost my mind,” she chuckled and despite her words, there was no hint of regret in her words.
“It’s a contagious kind of madness, I guess,” he said, with a smile on his face.
They stayed there for a while longer before they decided it was time to go back to the cabin.
It was around noon when they arrived at the cabin and Jarcor was feeling better than ever. It had been quite a while since he had enjoyed a walk through the woods, and making love to Sabrina had been the best thing that had ever happened to him in a long time.
“It’s my turn to cook,” he offered when they entered the cabin.
But she shook her head. “I never have time to cook when I’m in college, so when I come up here, I cook as much as I can. It’s like a relaxing therapy for me,” she explained, as she rejected his offer. “Go do whatever you want. I’ll call you when lunch is ready.”
“Are you sure?” he asked, feeling relieved. He wasn’t much of a cook, but he was able to manage the basics.
“Yes, I’m sure.”
He nodded and went back to her computer. He had been working on ways to hack into the chips inserted in him and though he had found them and had been able to see all they could do, he still needed the main access codes to make any changes.
The security system around the chips was complex. He had been able, though, to establish secondary databases, hidden from the other ones, where he started storing all his findings of cyborg programming. He would transmit that information to all the other cyborgs as soon as he could since he was creating the same databases on every one of them.
Humans wouldn’t be able to find those databases, and even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to access it without activating a mechanism that would destroy all information stored on it.
Pleased with his work, he went looking for Sabrina, just to find her setting the table for them.
The scene was so cozy and familiar, for a moment he felt he didn’t belong in it. He had lost his family at a young age and he had long forgotten what it felt to belong to a family.
Of course, he knew whatever he had with Sabrina was temporary and wouldn’t last much more than a few days, at tops, a few weeks. The Taucets attacks might be delaying his search but he was sure the military were going to find him.
“Lucas, I was about to call you. Lunch is ready,” she announced, when she saw him in the doorway.
For a moment, his dark thoughts threatened to ruin the atmosphere, but he was able to pull them to the back of his mind. He deserved to live a moment like this. He deserved to know what happiness felt like, even if it wouldn’t last.
Hearing her call him Lucas only made it more special.
He forced a smile on his face and took a seat at the table.
That day set the tone for the others that followed. They would go hiking in the morning, come back to the cabin for lunch and spend the rest of the day talking and making love.
Of course, he had spent a lot of time working remotely on the chips and circuitries of all the other cyborgs, installing the secondary databases and hiding all vital information he already had on them. He would add the main access codes to it as soon as he got them.