Tomorrow he needed to figure out what to do, at the very least try to learn her real name. He needed to convince her to get the language implant without frightening her. Viper didn't relish explaining to her what was happening to her planet. The thought of Lepus' sorrow upset him already. He worried even more about explaining the other reason he felt compelled to take her rather than putting her with her fellow humans.
Viper didn't know when he drifted off, but when he did a deeply erotic dream invaded his sleep, featuring a pale lush female, with eyes the color of the clearest water. Her delicate arms and legs were stretched across his body, her face buried in his neck. Lepus' small body was so warm as she nuzzled him. Her wonderful scent tempted Viper to take a taste. His tongue snaked out and ran up the length of her neck. Her taste was even better than her scent. Lepus' unique heady flavor was sweet and slightly salty. She tasted unlike anything he'd ever known.
"Mine."
Viper reached the base of her ear and teased the lobe. He wanted to bite the tender flesh when he heard her moan. Instead he continued to taste her noting the texture of her smooth soft skin. Viper's chemical lust sank into her and Lepus shifted restlessly against him. Again Viper smelled the exotic musky scent that came from the apex of her thighs. It drove him to lave the crook of her neck feverishly. Lepus pulled her knee up over his leg spreading her thighs and the delicious aroma increased tenfold.
Viper awoke fully as his eager tongue reached her shoulder again.
"Shit!"
Viper hadn't even been fully conscious of what he was doing as he marked Lepus' flesh with his pheromones. Viper groaned as he pulled away and desperately attempted to go back to sleep while the object of his torment lay inches away.
Hope
Hope was incredibly warm as she awoke. That odd tingling sensation had intensified, making her feel incredibly jittery. But all of that was forgotten when Hope remembered where she was.
The light was dim but she could see that she was curled up next to the sleeping alien. She remembered resisting the pull of sleep but exhaustion from the crazy day had crept up on her.
Drogo's breathing was steady, though she couldn't tell if his eyes were closed or not. If she was ever going to escape, now would be the time.
Hope wiggled her fingers, then her toes. Everything seemed to be in working order so she inched towards the edge of the bed and got up painfully slowly.
Hope paused and looked down at Drogo. It was such a shame their interaction hadn't turned out differently. The man was compelling. Too bad he'd abducted her.
Hope shook her head, clearing the strange notion from her brain.
"I need to get the hell out of here and attempt to warn everyone."
Hope instantly realized that would go over like a ton of bricks.
"One thing at a time."
She couldn't find her shoes so she gave up and headed towards the door. Hope was grateful when it opened without a sound. She slipped into the hall and quickly headed the direction she remembered Drogo travelling.
"It must be nighttime since no one is about." Hope mused as she retraced her path back to the spaceship's entrance.
"There's the portal. I'm home free."
Except the damn door refused to open, and Hope didn't know how to force it. She stared at the control pad next to the door, but it was no help. She couldn't read the strange symbols and there was nothing intuitive that indicated it would make the door open.
"Open sesame." Hope pounded on the door in desperation, tears of frustration leaking down her cheeks. "Let me out you fucker!"
A sound down the hall made her panic. Someone was coming! Hope raced in the opposite direction stopping at various locked doors, till one opened.
The massive room was filled with boxes of cargo but thankfully no aliens as Hope quickly glanced around before she ran over to a pallet of stacked boxes. Hope wedged herself between them and the wall. She didn't know what else to do but hide till she could figure a way out of this mess.
In less than twenty-four hours she'd been faced with a series of impossible events. It was all starting to take a toll on her. Hope sobbed quietly as she huddled on the metal floor of the ship.
"Stop crying Hope." She admonished herself as she shook her head frantically.
She was mad at herself for crying. And then she was mad at herself for not giving herself a fucking break considering all this crazy bullshit.
"I doubt anyone would've done any better coping with any of this crap." Hope coached herself as she dashed away her tears.
At the moment nothing could've shocked her any more than she already was, not even if Big Bird followed by the Seven Dwarves walked through the door. But still her emotions were all over the place.
Hope pulled her knees up to her chest to prop her head as she listened to the foreign sounds of the alien vessel. The metal floor was cold, but she was strangely warm all over. Her skin was flushed, and she felt overwrought with adrenalin.