Alien Romance: Celestial Angels Complete Set: A Scifi Alien Abduction Romance (Alien Romance, BBW, Alien Invasion Romance)
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The man held up something that resembled a black, metallic, spiraling seashell, and in a quick movement, he forced it into her right ear. Vivienne yelped in startled pain and lashed out with her free arm, hammering ineffectually at his chest. Her ear popped loudly, sounds dulled, and with a noise like a vacuum cleaner, everything got louder once again.
“How about now?” the man asked in a baritone that could have shaken the ground, though at the moment, he sounded a bit like a petulantly irritated college student.
Rather than answer, Vivienne demanded, “Where am I, and who the fuck are you?”
Chapter Two
Vivienne could have run. She could have tried to escape. But where was she going to go?
The mutated raptor creature would just track her down once more, and the way the pod had steadfastly refused to wake up before it left her with the uncomfortable feeling that she had been sent to this planet on purpose, though she didn’t know why she had been sent in blind.
With no way off the planet, no real weapons, and no idea of what was edible or even what was an herbivore or a carnivore, she knew she would only last about forty-five minutes before she either got eaten or accidentally poisoned herself. Or possibly even cooked, if the weather decided to get even warmer. Or Hell, she might even freeze, if the temperature dropped while she was running around in next to no clothing.
As much as she didn’t want it to be so, the reasons to play along and cooperate out numbered the reasons to fight back, at least for the moment.
Funnily enough, that knowledge didn’t actually improve the situation at all. As two men set about gathering up her pod, Vivienne’s wrists were bound together in front of her and the man who had spoken to her led her along with a chain attached to her bindings, as if he was leading a misbehaving dog along.
Vivienne tried to ask questions, she tried to figure out something about where she was, what was going on, where she was being taken, but she was largely ignored. Only if she stopped walking or slowed down was she acknowledged, and then it was only long enough for the man to pull on the chain and get her moving again.
For at least a mile, they walked through the tall grass until it gave way to a road paved in cobblestones in various shades of red, each one as evenly flat as a piece of slate. For miles they followed the road, until it met up with a more traditional road, made of something clear and transparent, almost like glass but as strong as steel as Vivienne watched some sort of vehicle veer around the group and continue along the road.
For a few more miles, they followed the road, until they came to a transport parked off to one side of it. Two of the six men climbed into the cab, and the hunting beast immediately vaulted itself into the elongated back of the vehicle, where it hunkered down in one corner, feathers rustling and fluffing out. Three of the men inelegantly hoisted the pod into the transport before they followed the beast in and sat on benches along the edge of transport’s walls.
Vivienne stood her ground, staring into the vehicle dubiously, until the man holding her leash—the others had said his name a few times at that point, but even with the translator, Vivienne couldn’t parse it, beyond the first syllable being ‘Que’—gave it a tug and shoved her up and into the transport before hauling himself in behind her.
Her leash was hooked to the wall on the transport in the corner opposite the beast, and she pressed herself against the wall, as far away from the creature as she could. It rustled its feathers at her and regarded her with irritable but apprehensive interest, and Vivienne could only imagine that it was thinking of how she would taste.
Her hands slammed against the walls of the corner as the transport rumbled to life and abruptly lifted off of the ground entirely. The men either snickered or stared at her like she was crazy, or both in the case of Que.
The transport had no windows, so she couldn’t gauge how fast they were going or how far. She could listen to the transport hum and glare at the men as they stared at her like she was some sort of freak show, and she did both activities vigorously.
She listened for any change in the transport’s hum, any way to tell if it had turned or sped up or anything, and she glared at the group of men viciously, as if she was preparing to bite them if they came near her.
Until, at last, the transport slowed to a stop and the hatch opened. Once again, Vivienne was pulled along like someone’s mutt, but she did her best to take in the new setting as they walked.
In the distance, she could see the silhouette of a city that looked like it consisted entirely of towering spires and streamlined edges. The more immediate surroundings, though, were a bit less elegant.
Hard lines, sharp edges, jagged corners, and everything was the same mottled shades of black, green, and brown, faintly glimmering in the dimming sunlight. The only conclusion Vivienne could come to was that maybe they were on some sort of military base.
“Where are we?”
Que spared her a glance, one eyebrow arched, but he said nothing and continued to lead her, into one of the slightly less hostile looking areas of the base.
She was led to a bedroom, where at last her wrists were freed as she was pushed into the room. Que stood in the doorway for a moment, watching her contemplatively. And then he lifted one hand, caught her chin to tilt her head up, and kissed her.
Vivienne made a sharp, muffled noise, somewhere between a gasp and a squeal, and she thrashed away from him. She suspected that it was only because of his surprise that she managed to wrench herself away. She backed up several paces to watch him warily as she scrubbed the back of one wrist over her mouth.
Que stared at her for a moment, eyes slightly widened in shock. He recovered his composure quickly, though. His eyes narrowed and one corner of his mouth ticked up in a smirk. And he laughed.
“Sleep well,” he bid her, before he stepped back into the hallway, and the door slid closed almost immediately. It refused to open again no matter how Vivienne shouted or pounded on it.
After twenty minutes, she gave the door a final, fervent kick and gave up. Finally, she turned to take in the room.
It was small: maybe seven feet from the door to the back wall, and maybe five feet across. A narrow bed and a small table took up all of the wall space to Vivienne’s left, barely leaving room for the bathroom door in the back corner, and to the right there was a dresser and a mirror.
They all looked fairly normal, though the bed’s blankets seemed to ripple like water, but she couldn’t tell what any of them were made of. Even the mirror looked slightly off, as if someone had decided to make it out of crystal, rather than glass.
The walls were grey. The floor was grey. The ceiling was grey. Vivienne felt a bit like she was getting sensory deprivation just staring at the room. The view out the window—slightly odd, just like the mirror—wasn’t helping, as all she could see was the side of a different transport.
Nothing in the room was light enough for her to be able to throw it at the window, and trying to break it with her fists would most likely only result in broken knuckles.
She dropped down heavily on the edge of the bed, and shifted awkwardly as she adjusted to the strange cloth. With a heavy sigh, she scrubbed at her face and ran her hands over her hair. She was exhausted, hungry, and emotional wrung out. With a final huff, she lay down on the bed, her arms tucked close to her chest and her knees drawn in close.
At first, she thought that surely she would never be able to get to sleep that night, but she was proven wrong within a few minutes.
She dreamed of him that night. Of Que. Of the way his skin seemed to shine in the fading sunlight. Of the way his eyes gleamed. Of touching him, kissing him, being touched by him. Frantic movement and panting breath, grunts and gasps and growls because there was no room for words between them.
Vivienne woke to find a damp patch on her shorts, and despite her isolation, she found herself blushing. Whether it was from embarrassment, excitement, or some combination of both, she couldn’t tell, and she wasn’t looking
forward to analyzing it too closely.
Someone had been in the room while she was sleeping. She didn’t know if it was Que or someone else, but they left a change of clothing, a glass of water, and a plate of food on the dresser.
Considering the state of her shorts, Vivienne got dressed first. The clothing was enormous on her, and she felt like a small child playing dress up in her father’s closet. The shirt’s short sleeves came down past her elbows, and the pants encased her feet and came past her toes by several inches. To preserve some of her dignity, she tore the pants off at her knees, ripped the excess fabric into strips, and knotted the strips together into a belt, keeping the pants from falling off and cinching the shirt in at her waist.
She still looked like she was practically drowning in the clothing, but she at least didn’t look ridiculous. As an after thought, she used the left over fabric to wrap her hands as a kick boxer might. After all, she had no idea what she was going to encounter.
From there, she investigated the food. The water, at least, was simply water, and she drank it quickly. She supposed oxygen and hydrogen couldn’t exactly change, no matter where in the universe she was, and that thought was more comforting than it probably should have been, but she held onto it regardless.
The actual food, however, was another story. It resembled a sandwich in the same way a hockey puck resembled a slice of bread. The “bread” was round, doughy, and thickly crusted, and the meat between the slices was thinly cut and an abnormal, pale gray-green color, and Vivienne found herself wondering if she shaved or plucked any of the animals if they would all be that color underneath. But it smelled innocuous enough, other than the smell of some sort of spice she couldn’t identify.
Her first bite was slow and hesitant, and then her stomach reminded her of how hungry she was, and she devoured it in a few bites.
She sat on the bed for a few minutes, just long enough to be sure that the food wasn’t going to cause her to spontaneously drop dead. Once she was sure that she was fine, she got to her feet and tried the door. Unsurprisingly, it failed to budge.
“Hey!” She pounded one fist on the door.
“I know someone is out there, and you need to open this goddamned door, or I swear I will cut off your—“
The door opened abruptly and her fist collided with a muscular chest. Blinking, Vivienne stared up at Que.
“Do you ever stop yelling?” he groused.
“For fuck’s sake, you’re like some sort of monster shrieking in heat.”
Chapter Three
His name was Que-norr-hey-my-at-nee. Or…something to that effect.
“I’ve been thinking of you as Que,” Vivienne informed him flatly.
“If it’s all the same to you, I think I’ll just stick with that. I mean, I’m assuming my manners here don’t really make a difference to what happens to me.”
He rolled his eyes and motioned for her to follow him.
“If you are to be here, you will know something of our world,” he stated.
“Considering I’m being held hostage and I don’t want to be here, why does it matter?” Vivienne asked, emphasizing the word hostage. Perhaps that wasn’t a big deal to Que, but to her, it was a rather important detail.
Que scoffed. “You don’t know your own importance,” he replied.
Vivienne’s stomach clenched, and she thought back to that last, fuzzy memory of mission control.
“Your mission is so much more important than you know.”
She knew for a fact that Earth had never had any contact with extraterrestrials, at least none that anyone was consciously aware of.
So how was it that she was so important to both worlds? Was it all just some horrible coincidence? She almost felt like laughing at the idea.
“Then explain my importance,” she snapped, her hands on her hips as she glared up at him.
He sighed in exasperation.
“If you would stop making noise for a few seconds, you would know that I intend to. There are other things you must know first, for any of it to make any sense.”
They passed other people as they walked, and each and every one of them made Vivienne feel as if she was drowning in testosterone.
“We are mono-gendered,” Que stated simply.
“Not just my people, but every creature on this planet. Males, to your people, though the words male and female have no true meaning to us.”
…Well, that explained a lot. But despite that rather odd bit of biological trivia, there was another part of that statement that stood out to Vivienne.
“Wait. You know about Earth?” she asked.
“About humans?”
Que scoffed incredulously.
“Of course,” he replied. “We are not as limited as your people. We first began observing Earth decades ago.”
Vivienne wanted to say that it was impossible, but she couldn’t. They all looked exactly like humans. Eerily attractive humans, but still. While people might swoon if Que walked down the street in New York, no one would start shouting at him that he was an abomination.
“Why?” she asked instead. “Why bother, if we’re so limited compared to you?”
Que snorted. “For the same reason you Earthlings shoot messages into the stars and strap golden records to space crafts. We were curious. We didn’t bother to make ourselves known because we would gain nothing from it.” He sighed.
“Or so we assumed. It wasn’t until after we discovered Earth and left that the prophecy came to be.”
Vivienne’s eyebrows slowly rose.
“Prophecy,” she repeated flatly.
“We do not reproduce as you do. For us, it is known as replication. Any average inari can manage it, but it is not birth as you know it.” He shrugged.
“The prophecy itself is more easily explained by someone other than me.”
He led her into a room lined with consoles and monitors, and he keyed in a quick command. One of the monitors brightened, and a recording of an aged man began.
His skin was pale and smooth, with only the faintest of crow’s feet around his eyes, and his hair was only just beginning to go grey. But his eyes were clouded with age, staring blindly past the camera. He spoke in an even, monotonous tone, as if he wasn’t fully aware of what he was saying.
“From one inari comes another, like stagnant copies, steel soldiers marching in a line. But it is not the only way. He who takes a female bride, he who implants in her the seeds of a natural birth, shall rise above the tides of rigid masses. Like mighty Uthenarilini above, he who achieves a natural child shall rise beyond.”
The aged man fell silent and then shook his head quickly, an expression of confusion settling over his face. He opened his mouth, as if to ask a question to the man behind the camera, but the image cut out before he could.
Vivienne stared at the blank monitor for a very long moment until Que broke the silence.
“I could be king with your help,” he said, remarkably casual.
Vivienne laughed before she could help herself. It was a sharp, humorless sound that ripped harshly from her throat, and she bit out, “You mean you could be king if you fuck me.”
“Yes,” he replied, nodding once. “You would be queen.”
Vivienne laughed again, harsher than before.
“Oh, yeah, that’s a great consolation prize, coming from a man who’s already acknowledged that the word queen has no meaning on this planet.” She dragged her hands over her hair.
“I wouldn’t be your queen, I would be your fuck toy. Especially since you’re utterly clueless!” Her voice rose to a shout by the end.
“Clueless?” he repeated, clearly affronted. His eyes narrowed and his brows drew together.
“You would do well to watch your tone,” he warned her. “Besides.” He gestured to the monitor.
“What else is there to know?”
Vivienne groaned. “Shit, it’s like talking to a fourteen-year-old boy.” She covered her face with her hands.
“Besides, on Earth, we have this word. Rape. And…”
“I know what it means,” Que interrupted sharply.
Vivienne’s expression closed off, evening out to neutrality.
“And you don’t care,” she guessed. “What happens if I…”