"I'm a WHAT!!!" I asked the man.
"Why, you are a terrorist of course. Didn't you hear the man?" a soft, but scary, voice asked. I turned to see where the voice came from, but all I saw was the cutest boy ever.
I mean there is cute, which is the category Jakob says that I fall under, and then there is drop dead cute, where this boy fell under. He had big blue eyes, blond hair that went past his waist, and he was a little taller than me by a few inches.
He looked vaguely familiar so I had to ask, "Have we met before?"
He smiled and said, "Have you ever been raped?" I shook my head no, and then I remembered Blake, and all the others, so I nodded. His smile faded, "By me?" he asked. I shook my head. "Have you ever been murdered?" I shook my head no. "Well then, no, I do not believe that we have met," he said the last line with such enthusiasm that I had to laugh.
"My name is Terry, or Te for short," I told him.
"I'm Marlocushavismrubis," he said, "or I suppose that you could call me Mar for short."
I laughed again, "I like your name. Where are you from Mar?" The reason I asked was because he looked so exotic. His skin was a light red and it shimmered like it was a dancing flame of fire. His blue eyes, almost like navy blue, stood out against his fiery skin. His hair looked like it was on fire with the bright reds, oranges, and yellows that colored it.
"I'm from Shiar'shata," Mar said, "and you are from Earth, from what I hear."
There was something in his voice that made me wonder, "Is something wrong with that?"
Mar replied, "As long as you are ok bottoming, everything will be perfectly fine."
WHAT DID HE SAY?!?!
"Umm, what do you mean?" at least I managed to get out a somewhat polite reply.
"The cute little guys, like us, usually are the ones who get fucked," Mar stated in a matter of fact tone. "Oh, and tomorrow is your introduction to the rest of IGP1. You will be rooming with me until the warriors get back. They get first choice on the cutest newbies."
He walked up to me and looked at my left eye. He brought his hand up making me flinch away. His eyes narrowed at my reaction but he didn't say anything. He then slowly moved his hand towards my face and gently stroked what my blackened left eye.
"What happened to you? Did you walk into a light pole or something?" he asked jokingly although I felt an undertone of anger.
"Uh, something like that," I said as I flinched at the memory. In my life time I've had my fair share of bad things happen: my parents were murdered in front of me, over ten men have tried to rape me, three have raped me, I've had four different boyfriends, and now an abusive boyfriend whom I'm sure was behind the explosion. I started shaking from the memories.
Mar sat down beside me and put his arm around me. "Shhh, little one, no one is going to lay a hand on you anymore."
I looked up at him. "How can you be so sure? I mean I have no friends here, I don't know anyone here, and I'm as weak as a newborn," I said in one breath, my mental state putting my mouth into overdrive. I tried to even my breathing and calm down. I didn't like showing how weak I was but my emotions were all over the place.
Mar looked at me, "Well, I pretty much own this place when the warriors are gone. My lover is second in command of the warriors so I'm pretty well respected. Now, you know me. I don't want to see you die and I think that terrorists are pretty cool. So I guess that could make you my friend. And if you're my friend you could be a chicken on an alligator farm and be safe." Mar said this all so confidently that I couldn't help but relax. Soon I was nodding off in Mar's arms.
I awoke in a wide open room with windows that gave an amazing view of space. I started to sit up when I felt someone's arms tighten around my waist. I threw off the arms, jumped up out of bed, and huddled in the corner as a sleepy, very confused, Mar looked back at me. "I-I'm s-sorry Mar," I stammered out, "I-I didn't mean to wake you. Please don't be mad." When I had felt those arms around me, my first thought was,
Shit, you idiot. You relax and you see what happens. Blake finds you!
Mar sat up on the bed and looked at me still huddled in the corner as I berated myself for acting in such a way. His expression softened and he said, "There is nothing to be sorry for. Why would you think that there was? Do you want to talk about it, Te?"
Like the idiot I am, I answered, "No. No, there's nothing to talk about. I just felt bad for waking you up."
He narrowed his eyes at my obvious lie but didn't comment on it. "You need to rest more, Te. The doctor said that even though you are asleep you aren't really resting for some reason. You won't recover if your body doesn't rest." I couldn't argue with Mar when he said this, so I went back into bed. He got up and left the room. I closed my eyes and drifted into sleep.
Keep running. Just keep running. If you slow down he will catch you.
"Who will catch you," I heard someone ask.
"He will! Blake will! He is going to kill everyone close to me because I tried to leave him." He caught me. Blake caught me and now he is raising his hand to punch me or worse, rape me again.
"-e. TE!!!! Come on wake up little one!! You have to wake up! It's just a dream. Only a dream." Mar kept repeating this over and over to me.
"I-I'm sorry," I said, "Did I disturb you?"
"What?! Oh no, little one, you did not disturb me. I wish I could meet who ever made you so fearful. He would wish that he had never been born!" Mar said, with a far off look in his midnight blue, near black eyes.
Huh, that's strange, I thought they were lighter before,
I thought to myself and then shrugged off the thought.
"Here lay down again, little one, have you been having this nightmare since the explosion."
"Yeah," I responded. But it was a lie. I had been having this sort of nightmare ever since I started dating Blake, two years ago.
"You need not lie to me, little one, I can almost see into your very soul. Here now, I will sing you a lullaby that I was taught when I was younger by someone very important to me."
"Lullaby, bona noctem
Rosa roseo bedlight,
Circuit liliis,
Gypsophila paniculata meus dulce caput.
Ponite vos usque nunc, et ceteri
Somnus tuus benedictus!
Ponite vos usque nunc, et ceteri
Tua somnus sit benedicta
Lullaby, bona noctem
You're matris placent
Ethiopia iuxta angeli