This story has a few scenes of forced sex. Please do not feel that my other stories are at all in any way like this one, the real story is of the romance between Katherine and Gerald.
Thank you, enjoy!
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Baltar the King asked me.
I didn't want to.
He commanded me....I still didn't want to do as he wished.
With forced steps, I walked towards the front door. Each step was growing harder and my legs ached with the force. He commanded me...his power was now unstoppable. With each command he gave me, I always did his bidding. He could tell me to slit my own wrists, and I would.
I raised my leg and climbed the first step up the small porch and got to the door. I raised my hand to the crimson red metal storm door and grabbed the knocker. I wrapped it twice and took in a deep breath as my hand went back to my side.
I heard footsteps and then the door opened. She peered around the side of the door and when her lovely blue eyes caught sight of my dark black ones, she smiled. "Gerald!" she almost screamed with joy. She opened the door wide and wrapped her arms around me. "Oh, Gerald!" she said again with tears staining her cheeks. She held me close and I must admit, I held her just as tight. I knew we were being watched, so I pressed inside, not waiting for her to invite me in. She didn't notice and closed the door when we were fully inside.
"Katherine...." my voice was low, I didn't recognize it at first. "I...I have missed you so!" I exclaimed and held her to me again.
"Oh Gerald, how did you escape?" she asked. "What happened to the others?" each of her questions burned a hole in my heart, I knew I had to lie.
"I took my chances and ran when the guards brought me to town to get medical supplies." Once again, I didn't recognize my voice. "Mary-Beth, Quadrene, and Michael are all well. They send their regards." I couldn't bring it to my self to tell her they were all dead...or at least thought to be.
"Oh thank the lord above," she placed her hands together and sighed towards the ceiling. "I pray every night, and here you are!" she once again took me to her arms and held me.
"You must come with me though....." I stammered. "I need you to come with me tonight, at once!" I felt my eyes burn through hers as she stared me down in confusion and fear.
"What...why....Oh Gerald, does he know?" she was trembling now. "Does he know?"
I nodded. "Baltar knows of Jonathon." I whispered, afraid of the King hearing me use his name to an outsider. I know of his power, and even with my twenty-eight years of knowledge of the world, I'm still deathly afraid of the Unknown.
"When should we leave?" she asked.
"Now!" I said, moving to the door. "Where is Jonathon?" I asked.
"He's upstairs...." She ran to the stairs and called up them, "Dorothy! Oh Dorothy!"
A plump woman came to the top of the stairs. I recognized her as Katherine's nanny when she was a child. "Yes, miss?" she asked. She eyed me, I could smell the distrust waiver down the steps.
"Gather a few change of clothes of Jonathon's and a few blankets. I need to leave tonight, I'll come back in a few days to gather up the rest." Katherine headed up the stairs.
I watched her run up the stairs, her dress weighted her down but she still moved quickly. I remember what it was like watching her as we were children, she'd scamper up the stairs after church or school and get to her marbles set. Then, a few minutes later, after she'd thrown off her dress and changed into her outside clothes, she'd slide down the railing. I fell in love with her back then, in our youth. The love still beats strongly in my heart, even though now my heart is heavy with fear and worry over the King and the others.
I want to help her run away...but to where? She has been hiding for so long, and now we know she's here. She can't stay...he ordered me to bring her and the child back. I must....I must bring them back.
You pitiful fool! I curse myself inside my head. You coward!
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It had been almost two years earlier when he came into town. He brought his traveling group of performers and dancers and the shows mesmerized the whole town.
I was out of work, saving up to buy the ring that I knew would be take Katherine's breath away when I would propose some day. I needed only forty more dollars. Baltar promised me work through his group and said I'd be able to earn that much and more in less than a month. I was ecstatic!
I ran home to tell mother, rest her soul, and she cheered me on. I packed a suitcase and went to live with Baltar and his workers in one of the extra tents they had been able to set up on one of the fields that had not grown crop in more years than I could remember.
Our town was becoming dead as year after the death spread through our fields. We were worried of what was to become of our town, but with Baltar and his traveling group of performers, our spirits had been lifted. He had all day shows and rides for just a penny! A penny! The children came and played after school, on Saturday's they came and played all day, and Sunday, the minute the preacher dismissed us, they'd run home to change to get to the rides and tents as fast as possible.
I didn't care for the rides, but I loved to see Katherine's face as she screamed on the roller rides and I enjoyed holding her tightly by my side as we went through the haunted house. It excited her so that when I took her home at night, I'd sit with her in the den and kissed her softly until she felt safe again.
Weeks after joining the performers and working for Baltar, I had earned a whopping fifty dollars! I bought the ring that I'd been eyeing and asked Baltar if I could leave early to take Katherine to a special spot in the forest outside of the fields to propose to her. I had a picnic ready for us and I ran to her house to get her.
Baltar had asked where in the woods had I set up the picnic and when I told him, I asked why he wanted to know. He smiled and replied, "So I know where to keep my employees from using the woods to relieve themselves, I don't want them to come upon you two in your most private moment." He chuckled and I didn't think anything more of it.
When Katherine and I walked through the brush, she giggled as we came up on the blanket and picnic basket. "Oh, you romantic." She turned around and held me closely as we kissed deeply. I kissed her forehead after we parted our lips. We had set out through the woods before dusk, and now it was almost dark. I quickly made a fire and gave us enough light to enjoy our evening picnic.
She sat lady like on the blanket and before she opened the basket, I couldn't hold back any longer. I pulled from my pocket the ring and held it out to her as I stood down on one knee to her. She immediately began to cry as she took the ring from my fingers and placed it on her ring finger. I held her tightly in my arms and we kissed for what seemed like hours. I couldn't wait for her to be my wife, to feel more of her skin than ever before.
Suddenly, a rustle from the bushes behind us made her jump. I turned around to make sure it wasn't a wild dog as the woods were filled with them. Instead, Baltar came from the brush and stood tall at the end of the blanket. He sneered down at us and I felt the heat from Katherine's skin as she grew scared. Baltar had on nothing but a black cloak, his skin shinning from the moon's light and the gentle flicker from the fire.
"Thank you for putting the ring on her finger...." Baltar's voice had changed and was now a low, evil tone. Other members of his performers, many whom I had become close friends with in the past month, came through the brush. Baltar looked to the others, then back at us. "With the full moon tonight, together, the ring shall bring me luck."
I heard struggles from the brush behind him and two girls Katherine and I knew from school were pushed through the brush, Mary-Beth and Quadrene. They were accompanied by Michael, my friend's brother. All three were pushed down by two men that were behind them.