Chapter Seven
Lauren Kate
It was absolutely insane what I had done, but I had grown close to K4T, and I was starting to feel like it wasn't that shocking. I had made out with the blue alien Jion, and now I had sex with a cyborg. I knew if someone were to wake me up right now and tell me it was all a dream, I would believe them. But I also knew that this was no dream. I had experienced orgasms with a cyborg. That was definitely very real.
But I had not seen K4T since. I knew that he was busy, but I needed to speak with him. I wanted to know more information about the storm that was keeping us from getting to his cyborg city. He called it C2. That was where the human females were, Vicki and Nancy. I wanted to see them badly. I wanted to know what had happened to them. What story did they have to tell? I was sure that it was just as crazy as mine, if not more. I wanted to know how they escaped the blue aliens known as the Kynon. Did they know that they were going to be taken to the Kynon planet to be made into sex slaves? I was sure that they did and that was probably why they were held up with the cyborgs. It made sense, but I could not know for sure. Not until I talked to them.
There was a knock at my door.
“Yes, come in,” I said.
The door opened. I had a big smile on my face, expecting it to be K4T. It was already late in the afternoon. But it wasn't him. It was a different cyborg, one that I had seen from time to time on the floor and in the hallway of this building whenever I walked around with K4T. He carried a tray of food.
“I bring food for you, for your nourishment,” he took the tray of food to the table and set it down. Then he turned around without another word to head for the door.
“Wait; do you know if K4T is on his way to my room?”
“I only know that K4T is unavailable today. I have been ordered to bring you nourishment. Now I am on my way,” he said without looking at me.
“Wait, what about the dust storm. Do you know if the dust storm between here and C2 is still raging?”
“There is no dust storm, human. I flew to C2 and back just this morning. There has not been a dust storm in over a year,” he said putting his hand on the door. Then he walked out. I wanted to ask him more questions, I planned to, but I was completely shocked by the information that he had given me. Could it be true? He said that he flew to C2 just that morning. There wasn't a dust storm. That meant that K4T had been lying. Shit.
I walked to the window and looked out. I could see the horizon, and I understood that C2 was in that direction. I didn't see any evidence of a dust storm, but I just assumed it was too far away. It looked bright and sunny, and the sun was glaring off the orange sand without any filtration of there being sand in the air. I had seen sunsets in Los Angeles with fires raging, and it made the sunsets turn vibrant colors because it had to filter through the smoke. I assumed the same thing would happen if it had to filter through a large amount of sand. This was not like that; it was completely clear. What the hell! Why would K4T lie to me? I knew that he had to go to C2 himself in order to do some work. The base we were at was just an outpost, very small, with only a few cyborgs around. I knew that he didn't want to stay here, that he had to get to the city.
So why had he lied about a dust storm? Did he think that I was not smart enough to understand the real reason his travel was delayed? Or was he lying to me because he had no plans to take me to my human friends?
I began to panic. I had allowed a cyborg to lie to me so easily. Now I would not know what was the truth and what was a lie. I paced back and forth in the room; I needed to see K4T. I did not know when he would come to visit me. The other cyborg only said that he was unavailable. I was growing angrier by the hour. Soon the sun set, and night came. The tray of food was still on the table; I couldn't bring myself to eat as I had no appetite. I could not stop thinking about Jion. What if he was the one telling the truth and K4T was the liar? I hoped that I had not put him in any danger by going with the cyborgs by being stupid.
Finally, at night, K4T walked into my room. I sat on a chair with my arms crossed.
“Did you eat, Lauren? I am sorry I was not able to attend to you today as usual. It has been a very busy day at the base. But I had another bring you food. I see that you did not touch it. Are you not well?” he said as he came to the table and sat down with me.
“I am not sick, but I am not well. I am very angry,” I said.
“Angry? What could you possibly be angry about? You have a roof over your head. You are treated well. You are fed, and the time we shared together last night seemed to please you greatly,” he said.
“What about the dust storm? Is that still going on?” I asked laying a trap for him.
“I will need to check. But as far as I know, it was still happening this morning. All of our vehicles are grounded until it is over. It is not safe; I have told you before,” he said.
“You lie to me, K4T. I already know that there has not been a dust storm in over a year. I know that vehicles have been leaving and coming back to the base after going to the city of C2. There is no dust storm keeping us from going to C2. Why did you lie to me? Why are you keeping me here?”
He was silent. “How do you know of this?”
“I simply asked another cyborg. They have no reason to lie to me because they do not know your agenda, whatever that may be. I can't believe you! You lied to me. I laid with you! I feel so stupid. Why did you lie to me about the storm? When are you going to take me to C2?” I asked.
He stood up abruptly. He pounded his metal hand on the table. The tray fell to the ground with a loud crash. “I will take you when I want to take you! You have been treated well, human. You have been treated so well that it has escaped your attention that you are my prisoner. You belong to me now. I took you from the Kynon that you left so willingly. You are mine. you will stay in this room for as long as I want you to. Now you have made me angry. When I return later this evening, you will give yourself to me just as you have before. That is what you will do from now on; that is now your way of life. If I feel that you deserve to see the human females that are at C2, I will take you there, only if you have been an obedient human.” He started to walk toward the door.
“How dare you speak to me like that! You are a liar! I hate you! I am not your prisoner. I belong to no one but myself. You tricked me!”
“It is not my fault that the human mind is so easy to trick. I did nothing that anyone else wouldn't do. The females at C2 are also prisoner of the leader K8L. He holds them prisoner for his own liking, and you will be my prisoner. You are lucky he has not found out that I have you. When he does, I am sure that he will want to take you and there will be nothing I can do about it because he is my leader. For now, you should be grateful for the good treatment you are receiving from me. Now I will have no more argument from you! I will return late tonight!” he shouted and then slammed the door as he left.
I sat down. My mouth was wide open. I was in complete shock. I had been tricked. Jion was right; they were deceiving me. I was stupid enough to go with the cyborgs on my own. I didn't even put up a fight. This made it so that I didn't look like I was being taken prisoner. These cyborgs, they were half machine, and they were able to process like a computer. They had easily outsmarted me and were thinking ahead. If they had taken me by force, then I would know that I was a prisoner, but because they made it look like it was my choice, I had no idea. I thought that I was simply a guest and that I would eventually be taken to see the other human females. I had been very wrong. I was a smart lawyer, and yet I had not detected the lying, but they weren't exactly humans; they were cyborgs.
The emotion grew inside of me, and I burst into tears. This was all wrong. I shouldn't be here. I should be at my home in Los Angeles. Instead, I was a prisoner of these cyborgs. I cried for an hour. I didn't know what I could do.
Later that night I began to grow very tense as I knew that K4T would be coming back to my room at some point. I didn't want to be with him. He was going to force himself on me. I needed to find a way to protect myself, but there wasn't exactly a lot to work with in the room other than the tray of food. But he was apartment Sheen; I didn't think hitting him with a tray would do anything. Then suddenly there was a loud noise in the hallway. I grabbed the tray and backed into the corner of the room. I was going to fight no matter what. Then I heard another scuffle, muffled sounds. What the hell is going on out there? Then the door opened. I held my breath.
The door swung open, and I could not believe what I saw. I wasn't expecting him to be standing there, but he was. After all that I had done, he was there.
“Are you all right, Lauren? Are you hurt?” Jion said as he closed the door and walked over to me. There was real concern in his voice.
I was so shocked that I couldn't answer him.