Ava stood at the precipice. Behind her was a mile high drop. In front of her, a phaser aimed between her eyes by smugness personified. There was nowhere left for her run, not that she could run anymore. Her bare feet and the being in her womb wouldn't let her.
The bounty hunter scanned her body from head to toe. The eight-month pregnant woman was busty, buxom and bodacious. She was wearing just a white tunic that hugged her belly and barely reached halfway down to her knees, and probably panties, but he wasn't sure yet. What he was sure of, as his eyes stopped at her massive tits, was that she wasn't wearing a bra. He grinned.
Ava was used to having her breasts stared at, and that was before the pregnancy made them even larger. However, this particular stare seemed... hungry. And then she realised why. Her nipples had leaked milk, making parts of her top virtually transparent.
Hunter holstered his phaser and cuffed her hands behind her back. He walked her back to his spaceship, and barely spoke a word during their mile-long walk across the pink desert flats, especially when she complained about being exhausted and unable the walk any further. She clearly was able to walk further, as they did reach the ship. The phaser prodding the small of her back did help a little.
Once on the ship's cargo hold, Ava collapsed onto her knees. She was glad that the climate regulators began to cool down the ship, but then the hunter started talking, and nothing he said made her feel better.
"Ava, you don't know my name, and you don't need to. You also know that there is a bounty on your head, and I very much intend on collecting it."
"Who sent you?" asked Ava. Based on the answer, she'd know how much longer she had to live.
"Now that's where things get interesting. Some want you alive, so that you can be brought to justice. Some want you dead. And the choice is yours."
Ava gulped. She had known that people wanted her dead all this time, but she wasn't sure what to make of this situation.
The man who had impregnated her did so under a very unique circumstance. He was a prison guard at the camps on the second moon of Relppek. She was a prisoner. He belonged to the tribe of the colonizers, she to the tribe original settlers of the planet.
It wasn't what one would call love at first sight. Far from it. One night, something that she had done, she didn't quite remember what exactly, pissed him off. He dragged her out of her cell and into a service chamber. In there, he stole a lot of things from her: her pride, dignity, self-worth and virginity.
With a baton in his hand, he forced her to strip naked. She had obliged after a whack to the back of her knee. Other than the tattoo on her wrist that marked her as one of the colonised, her skin was perfect. Her dark hair stopped just above her perfect boobs, and her pussy was covered by an unkempt bush. She had lost some weight at the camp, but her ass was just as round as before, during the better times.
Then her raped. First with the baton, and then with his cock. Once he was almost done, he pulled out and made her swallow his cum. Back in her cell, she cried herself to sleep. She wasn't sure if it was because of the pain in her pussy or her mind.
The guard had felt sorry about it. The next day he tried to apologise to the prisoner. She was in her cell, staring at nothing, quiet. When she did not respond, he dragged her back to the service chamber. As he tried apologising again, she broke down and began sobbing.
Trying to console her, he took her face in his hand. And kissed her.
Despite herself, she kissed him back. She couldn't explain it, still can't, but it had just felt right. That kiss marked the beginning of their affair that they were desperate to keep secret.
He would brag to his colleagues that had found his "bitch" and that he would ruin the person that tried to touch her. She would try to "piss him off" whenever she got a chance. Then he would drag her to the service chamber, cheered on by the other guards, where they made love.
After a few weeks of this, she was pregnant.
While the authorities encouraged the rapes and humiliation of the prisoners in all but words, they would never tolerate love. And so, they needed to escape. He snuck her onto a supply ship on its way back to Relppek, on which he hitched a ride.
On Relppek, they managed to get off world on a smuggler's ship, and had been on the run ever since, hiding on various outback planets. Until the bounty hunters started showing up. When she five-months along, her partner was killed, back when the bounty was only on his head, and his body was taken back to Relppek. That hunter must have reported to the government that he was with a pregnant woman. That's when the bounty was placed on her head.
By that time, her relationship with her partner had gone really sour. They had stuck together out of necessity, not love. The only thing they cared about was the child, not the other person. So when he was killed, she mourned him, but did not miss him.
Evading detection for further three months, she ended up on the backwater planet Rubble. She lived in an abandoned pueblo, sourcing her food from a settlement just beyond the horizon. One morning, when she was getting some water from the well at the bottom of the cliff, she had felt someone standing behind her.
Now, that Hunter was giving her a choice between life and death. She knew which one she wanted to choose, but something told her that death might be the better option.
"Alive," said Ava.
"I was hoping you'd say that. The bounty for you dead is higher than you alive. But I can think of a few ways in which you can make up the difference."
"What do you mean?"
The man said nothing, turned around and headed up to the cockpit. A minute later, the ship took off as Ava sat on the cold floor of the cargo hold, wondering what was going to happen to her next.
Once the ship was in space, she felt the ship's hyperdrive activate. The hunter returned with an empty bowl which he set aside.
"We are enroute to the location from where I will make contact with the client. You have time until then to prove that you want to be alive more than dead. Oh, and we are taking the longer hyperlane, just so you know."
"What do you want me to do?"
The man glanced down at the pregnant woman. The wet patches over her nipples were long dry, but the cool temperature ensured that her nipples were hard and poked out.
"Are you thirsty?"
"Sorry?"
"Are you thirsty?"
"Yes."
"Good."
He grabbed her by the hair and pulled her up to her feet. Ava winced but did not resist. She didn't want to risk getting hurt, not that it would matter if he did decide on killing her.