Elizabeth Kivana
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Chapter 10 A
Sewer
Slowly Rath opened his eyes, at first he didn’t know how he got back to the sewers. Last thing he remembered was walking through the park with Zan and then a sudden need to go to bed. Rath sat up on the couch and closed his eyes again; he tried to piece together the missing twenty minutes it took to walk from the park to the sewers.
At first all he could see was blur, but before long the picture began to clear. The girl in the park, he and Zan saw her levitating benches and blowing up street lamps. Jesus, she’s an alien…could she be Dakeri? It certainly would make sense but why did he remember so soon after? Mind warps only wore off if someone was very weak, dying weak, or they wanted the mind warp to wear off.
Rath clung to the word ‘dying’ no, she couldn’t be dead, that was not possible. Grabbing his jacket he raced from the sewers and ran as fast as he can back to the park. His reaction to the possibility of her dying was enough to make him believe the girl in the park was Dakeri.
He stomped up the stairs and onto the busy street of New York, he had to find her. Almost an hour later he still hadn’t found her and he’s pissed. The searching and worrying for sixty minutes had quickly changed his demeanor from scared to the desire to shake Dakeri till she explained why she fucked with his brain.
Another thirty minutes ticked by and he finally found her car, she had to have been using some power to hide the car because he passed by here and checked here three times and found nothing. Either she’s weaker or she’s ready to bail. Rath didn’t waste time to think about what he’d say once he did reach her, he just took off running toward the car.
Before he could stalk up to it the driver’s side door opened and Dakeri climbed out and stretched out. The shirt she wore rode up revealing a skinny stomach, she hasn’t been eating. He felt himself begin to soften till he forced his thoughts toward her less endearing hour of last night.
“Ya know you gotta a lot a nerve fucking with my head likes that.” Rath startled her. Good she deserved to be on edge after her performance last night. “I should teach ya wat it’s like ta fuck wit someone.” He threatened staring down at her. Got to give her credit though—she didn’t cower like others would if he were glarin’ at them the way he was with her.
“Hmm—maybe if your brain wasn’t so easy to fuck with I wouldn’t do it.” She hissed out. Dakeri may come off like she wasn’t afraid of Rath but she was. Oh, this wasn’t information she’d allow him to know, that’d only stroke his ego but it’s something she’d admit to herself.
Rath smirked and trapped her body between the open car door and his arm. “You’re right that does stroke the ego.”
Dammit, she forgot about that connection they had. Why the hell couldn’t she sever that thing? “Don’t let it go to your head,” she crossed her arms glaring back at him. “If I wanted to I could throw you to the other end of the park with only a flick of my hand.”
“If you were this feisty back on Antar I’s can see why we hit the sheets.”
Feigning disinterest Dakeri sat back in the driver’s seat, shoved her keys in the ignition and started the car. Rath narrowed his eyes in confusion, was she going to leave and if so where—why. Didn’t she want to talk—all right that doesn’t sound like him at all but dammit he wanted answers and she’s the only one that can give them to him.
“Where the hell are you’s going?”
She slowly rose her eyes to meet his light brown ones. “Figured I’d go get a hotel room, want to come?” She knew what that sounded like, but really all she meant was for them to talk.
“Why not stay here?” He may remember her from a previous life but he knew nothing about her from this one.
Dakeri chuckled. “Don’t really wish to have this conversation out in the open like this. Anybody could be listening in and I really don’t feel like turning some human’s brain to mush so they don’t remember.” She lifted her legs into the car and shut the door. “Are you coming or not?”
Rath let out a breath and stared off into the park where kids start to play soccer or baseball. Lovers curl up on blankets feeding each other fruits. Yea, definitely not the place to have an alien talk. “Fine.” He slid on the hood of her car reaching the passenger side and climbed in. With the skills of a professional race car driver she zigzags around the crowded park avoiding people till she’s back on the busy streets of New York.
“And you learned ta drive like that where?” He wanted to know.
“I’ll tell you later.” She smirked before pulling into a nearby hotel. It wasn’t as nice as the one she stayed in before but it was better than nothing. “Shall we?”
TBC
A.N. I have a poll in 'My Fics' section (link is in my sig) where I need help figuring out what stand-alone I'm going to post next since I can already see ends to three of my stand-alones. Summary's are on the 7/14 post. Thanks.
