Chapter 2: Star Child
Pain. The throbbing of my face stung even through my dream. It felt as though a wasp had been jammed into my mouth and it jabbed me over and over injecting its venom in the same place. The butterfly of black, green, red, and blue shattered like glass. My eyes twitched and I became aware of a soft sensation rubbing against me. Groggily I sat up in my bed. How did I get here? The mirror on the far wall tinted with my movement and I saw my bruised face. It was then that I realized that I really had been raped and that it was not a dream. But then that woman, where is she?
My eye scanned the room but there was no lady. Looking back to the mirror something shiny caught my attention. It was a light blue color. A strand of the hair dangled down from the ceiling. Slowly I looked up. There she was that creature who was too beautiful to be human. Her eyes were shut but those things in her hair waved about. Her curled body somehow held itself to the roof. She saved me didn't she? I should thank her.
"Excuse me, umm miss alien? Are you awake?" I asked flustered.
Her eyes snapped open and she dropped atop me. I did not realize she was so big. Her face stared into my own. Her menacing approach made me recoil. I retreated to the edge of the bed, only being stopped by the wall. She sat there a look of confusion glanced back at me. Her fingers crawled along the bed as her eyes never left my own. They danced up my legs and I cringed away.
What is this fear that I feel towards her? Is this just my human nature urging me to reject and disdain something that is different, to be scared of something new? But she saved me why should I fear her? I need to find out if she really is an alien.
"Are you a nice alien or a bad one?" I asked.
Curiosity filled her manor as she pulled my hair. She looked so deeply at the clump in her grasp I swear she could have read my mind. Her smooth hand touched my face gingerly on the side of my swollen cheek. It was almost as though she had never seen a woman before. Maybe I am the first human that she has met. This is like a dream come true. An alien, a real alien. She seems nice enough. I wonder if she can talk?
"Do you understand me?" I asked while her feathery feelers scurried along my face.
Slowly she nodded. I don't believe it, she understood me. "Say something." I blurted out.
She made a clicking sound but that was not speech, or maybe it was to her people. Perhaps she can't talk like a human. The poor thing she must be frightened. She must want to communicate. I wonder if she is lonely.
My smile grew and she looked at me strangely. It hurt a little bit, smiling that is. She noticed that I winced. My foolish grin was ripped from my face as she forced me down. Her tongue emerged it was long and slender. I could feel her drool, dripping on my skin. A terrifyingly warm sensation spread wherever it touched me. The tip glistened sharp as a needle. I felt the pressure then the pain as it stabbed into my cheek. I could only scream as her lips suckled around where her tongue dug and swam through my flesh.
The agony faded oddly enough. It was warm, almost pleasurable. Her tongue wormed into my mouth having made its way through my cheek. Slowly it played, tasting me before it retreated back into her. My face had become numb and my head spun. Her hands petted me softly and sweetly. She wasn't so bad after all. I embraced her and she coiled around me. Gently I drifted back into sleep's embrace. Her warmth surrounded me.
***
Oh how fun, this is definitely what I wanted to spend my evening doing. Sitting in a patrol car eating donuts with numb nuts over there. The police scanner switched on, it buzzed while I flipped through it. Another two eighty-eight, two sixty-one, oh look at that a four eighty.
"You wanna get this one?" Asked Richard, stuffing his face.
"Not in the mood for a car chase." I replied, staring at the concentrated fat sitting in my hand. "Why in the hell did you get donuts anyway? Have you ever heard of dinner?"
"What is wrong with donuts?"
"And you wonder why I dumped your ass. Women are just better, they understand. Donut equals cottage cheese thighs you dumb fuck. Get me some Chinese food or something. I want a real dinner."
"What the fuck crawled up your ass?"
"This fucking case did." I sneered, tossing that sugary hell out the window. "Look I had plans today movie, dinner, the works but then this shit happened. I should be getting pounded into a coma right about now or doing just that to my woman alright."
"Hey don't take it out on the donuts. So what is this new one like anyway you always cut me off about the details."
"She is not your type. If you saw what was under her bed you would scream and run away crying."
"I don't care what is under her bed tell me about her." Replied Richard with a frown.
"I don't know. She has green hair, a dimple on the side of her sweet smile and a serious kink for the freaky. It takes a little bit to get her going but once she does we go all night. Last time she let me blind fold her and handcuff her to the bed. Then I fucked her ass, no lube or nothing. She was crying so loud that night we woke the neighbors."
"Well good to know you hooked up with somebody you can get along with. So as I was saying—" He said before a car swerved right in front of us. "Shit!"
He flipped the sirens on and the coffee in my lap exploded. Fuck! That shit burns! I squirmed, padding napkins at the searing liquid. The car jerked into full motion and the cup lurched. I hurled it out not wanting to take a chance. The patrol car blared down the intersection. The suspect swirled wildly. There was something on the roof of the car.
I leaned in to get a closer look. Ovals spread flapping in the wind. No fucking way. It is that god damned alien! "Hey you see what I see?" I shouted at him.
"Yah it looks just like that video. What the fuck is it doing in the middle of the street? Doesn't this thing only hunt in the alleyways?"
What looked like an arm reached up before slamming back down. Through the back window I saw the limb, roaming around within the cabin. It grappled the driver, tearing him from the seat and through the hole in the roof. Suddenly it leapt into the sky, leaving the car to its own devices.
He stared out the window as he said. "Did you see that? It can fucking fly. No wonder we can't find this thing!"
"We have a five ninety-five on Everest road be advised suspect of the skinner case has been spotted fleeing the scene." I, as calmly as possible, said into the intercom.
"Advised will you need medical help?"
"I do not know." I replied.
What the hell is this city coming to? An alien is just running loose and doing what ever the fuck it pleases. Thank god I started smoking again. I slipped my hand into my pocket and shakily pulled out that pack. I tapped it twice but it was empty. Shit already gone through a pack.
"Hey I need some more smokes." I said.
"Did you see where it went?"
"It is long gone by now. You saw how fast it was. So about those smokes."
"Here." He said, handing me one of his nasty menthol cigarettes.
Better than nothing I guess. My mouth twisted at the taste but soon the nicotine kicked in and it was tolerable. The car in front of us came to a stop. A wall kept it from coasting any farther. Slowly we approached the still running vehicle. I drew near the passenger seat. My eyes fell on the roof torn and bent out of shape. The door slammed open. My stomach churned from the blow and I staggered back out of breath. A little girl ran away crying.
My head jerked and Richard gave chase. She did not get very far. He came back child in tow. She kicked and screamed, biting his arm. She babbled. "Papa... Papa the big fairy took Papa!"
"Big fairy?" I asked, my hand gently touching her face.
Her mouth snapped and bit into my fingers. Fuck! This little bitch. I know that she is freaked out but damn she doesn't have to bite me. I drew back my hand and slapped her. She seemed to calm a bit, being reduced to sobbing.
"Tell me about this fairy that took papa."
She shook her head sniffling with her terrified eyes. Fanfuckingtastic the first real witness is a scared little girl who just lost her father. No way in hell are we going to get anything usable out of her.
"Lets get her down to the station." I said already, placing her in the back of the cruiser. "Maybe she will calm down enough to let us hear what happened."
"Alright you do that I am going to stay here and secure the scene. Those pencil pushers will want their hands all over it."
"Well I guess somebody is getting to ride up front." I smiled. But the girl blubbered away while I strapped her in.
I sat in the seat, rubbing my eyes. How long has it been since I slept? Somewhere around eighteen hours I guess. Fucking alien. I pulled a grin from the glower that hung over my face, "So who wants Chinese food?"
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The white room shimmered all around, leaving only the dark camera staring down from the corner. I sat in the folding chair, my legs up on the table. I leisurely ate out of the box of Tai City. My lips snacked as the noodles and orange chicken melted in my mouth.
"You sure you don't want any?" I asked the solemn girl across from me.
She sat broken and empty. Her father must have meant a lot to her. Finally she spoke up, "Papa is gone. Is the big fairy going to come for me next?"
"You are in the safest place in the city right now." I grinned, actually believing what I said.
"That doesn't matter if she wants you nowhere is safe."
"Well if that is so why don't you just tell me what happened. Give me something so that I know what I am up against."
"It won't matter it is not as though you could kill her. It is my fault that Papa was taken."
"What do you mean? Wait start at the beginning." I said, my confusion clearly showing through.
