Star of something wonderful By Cocky, gypppomc1@gmail.com A brief taster to see if my kinda thing is liked here, A short scene between Her and him. A love story written in blood. I raped her with my eyes. She was the moon. She was lust. She was the sound that wakes you, the breath you take before prayer, and the sigh you release when you go limp. My gaze fled from her's when she turned, Her short hair framed her, like streaks of blonde silk it crowned her face, tousled, alive - a confident shock of gold, like a natural tiara. Her eyes stung me. They cut to my soul, they stole my will. Two bold, azure thieves, they took from me. And I could not of been more thankful. Her voice rolled over my ears, a passing spring wind that soothes the man in the desert. "What" she cooed "What, is the password" I mentally shook my head, She had the wrong man sure, I had no idea what she meant, no idea why I had been dragged 2000 miles by boat and a company of mercernaries, no idea why I had been brought into her spartan office, not one clue why I had been bound to the wooden chair I now find myself upon, and why, just why this collusion of lust, perfection and danger stood before me. She drew herself to her full height then, and my eyes, unbidden by my mind turned to watch. She stood 6,1. She wore a knee length green greatcoat over her scarlet business suit, like a cape. Her sinewy, firm arms gripped both a cigarette and a shot glass in perfectly manicured, yet unpainted fingertips. I noted the polished lines of her hips that seemed to sway even when still, Her shoulders werewide, muscled, exposed by both the opening of her overcoat and her low cut suit, and i saw a blemish, no, nothing could be described as an imperfection upon her. I saw a mark. A burn, maybe two inches wide of discolouration that ran from beneath her suit, up her neck and onto her cheek. A tiny movement from that porcelain neck jolted me back from my musings, as a slight sound was coaxed from her. "Ahem." "Well?" What could I say? Should I lie? But what would be the point? I knew nothing, and if I lied ... just what would be the consequences? No one who can afford to pay for a mercernary group and an entire building in this city would let me get away for free. Besides, I wasn't sure if I wanted to be taken from her just yet. "I dont know" My voice, hoarse from not talking in 4 days rattled from my mouth, and into the air, where it seemed to shrink before her glare. No movement at all. Her face still, and her mouth a rock. Taking a pack of smokes from tyhe inside of her jacket she offered me one. I didn't smoke. My mother died of lung cancer, and years of propaganda from my school years screamed at me. I didnt care, I took the proffered cigarette from her fingers. A lighter burst into flames in front of me. And sucking deep on the flame, smoke filled my mouth. "Last chance" She mouthed, opening a drawer at her rosewood desk. I hesitated. Whether she took that for admission of guilt I would never know. She picked up a small, black, cut-off glove from the drawer and placing her cigarette in her mouth, where it perched, its red light flickering, she pulled the smooth leather over her fingers. And the smoked curled to the heavens as she walked towards me, her lips quivering, as if she enjoyed some private joke. She smiled. The first punch made my cigarette fly from my lips into the wooden wall, where i watched it roll to the floor on its effort to make it back to me. At the second my nose exploded. I watched gobbets of crimson fly up from me onto her face as her jacket fell to the floor. The fourth hit me as I was falling backwards from the third. I saw her rise up and out of my vision, and I saw the mural on the ceiling of a kneeling man with a halo, Then I landed. Hard. The wind knocked from me, I felt a dizzying rush of light batter against my vision even with my eyes closed. I coughed, and a spattering of blood hit the floor like paint from a brush. I opened my eyes to see a boot heading towards me in slow motion. I saw her face, her eyes sparkling, Ash fell from her cigarette as her teeth bit into her lips. I felt the army-esque boot connect with my solar plexus. One second. Two Second. Three... then the pain. Agony exploded from my gut, and I cried out, I cried into the varnished floor. But the polished mahogany held no saviour for me. She stood over me. Each leg to one side of my body. Her face a pictureboard of pure, ecstatic rage. A trickle of my blood dripped casually from her chin. I realised i had come free from my binds to the chair. I squirmed away from her, using my elbows to propel me backwards. But she dropped to her knees. Her legs intertwined mine holding me, her calves pinching my waist, and I realised my struggling would get me no where. My Blood fell like rain from her chin to my face. i felt her hand reach behind my neck, holding me still. Her fist arched backwards, her body a cruel homage to the figure of Hercules on ancient greek statues before it fell. I saw black. Then I saw red. I flowed in uneven streams over the ground. And again. I felt myself claw hamfisted at the thread of consciousness, before i saw her forehead descend, like a guillotine towards me. The ecstatica of unconsciousness held me for a minuite, maybe two. Before once again I found myself staring at the Mahogany floor. The swirling patterns it made, peppered with blood, my blood, Jarring my eyes fully open once again. I felt hot air upon my neck. My arms would not move, neither would my legs. I heard a laugh. Seemingly far off, it bounced from the walls before it reported back to me. Then I felt skin upon skin. Her face rubbed against my neck. Lust wracked my body, arching my back, yet it moved not an inch. She ground my face into the puddle of crimson I had made. And whispered into my ear "Bleed for me" The velvet blanket of her voice stopped my writhing, just as her lips touched my neck. I felt no pain as her teeth touched my skin. No pain as a giggle belieing her years muffled itself against me. Then I felt her. Her teeth fought my skin. I felt it rip, I felt myself give way to her. And my neck was filled with the dual warmth of my blood and her will. She held me there. Her teeth straining against the tough fibres of my neck. I heard before I felt, she overcame my bodies struggle. My skin parted fully. And the sound of Me, myself at the most basic level, giving in to her, it resounded upon my ears like a child tearing cotton. The trickle became a stream. And I felt her leave me, just before the world turned grey, and my eyes became interminably adjusted to darkness.