Alone (5 page)

'Okay.' Said Anna moodily. She then took a bundle of food and water packages and proceeded to leave the kitchen area. I couldn't help but watch her do this now, particularly watching her wet and shiny legs moving back and fourth. They really did catch my eye for some reason. They looked good. And then for the first time I noticed her small but firm little breasts and now very pointed and erect nipples. The cool water had soaked thoroughly through the front side of her gown revealing her small naked breasts underneath and most noticeably of all, her hardened nipples, probably made hard I thought by the cold water on her skin. I found it hard to take my eyes from them. They were fascinating. They made my loins stir again and much more than before. They were beginning to ache for something, something that she had and something that I couldn't quite understand or put my mind to. Anna plonked herself down in silence at the first dining table she came to in the next room. I broke my lingering gaze away from her and began scratching my head. Too many thoughts and emotions were racing through my mind again. I approached the cooling cupboard and took a handful of my own food and water packages and when I turned back to face the dining area I was suddenly confronted by Ian.

'So tell me young David? Would you give her one?' Said Ian instantly and still wearing that annoying, ridiculous grin.

'One what?' I replied very confused, but feeling that there was some kind of hidden sinister agenda to his meaning. Of course he never answered me directly though.

'You know she really does like you David.' Said Ian.

I glanced over towards Anna as she turned and smiled giddily back at me, her playful mood returning. I then turned back to face Ian with a stern look.

'Look, if you don't have anything useful to say then please... just leave us alone, all right.' I said harshly. I was grateful for everything Ian had showed me so far regarding the food and water, but he was really beginning to get on my nerves and was beginning to feel very uncomfortable to be around. Ian was silent and just smiled out smugly at my rant. But I was in no mood to hear his reply anyway and quickly walked away from him to sit down opposite Anna in the dining area. Anna smiled as I sat, but said nothing as she was too busy occupying herself sucking and devouring her way through her liquid food and water packages. I bit off the top of my own food package and took a quick slurp. It was a thick substance that had a strange smell to it, like bad breath, but it tasted okay and was strangely filling. I turned my attention back towards the kitchen area only to see if I was still under the watchful eye of Ian, but once again he had vanished.

CHAPTER five

I was alone for the first time since Anna had awoken and found myself now curiously making my way around the main square corridor once more but this time double tapping all of the small, sealed door panels that I could find. Behind most of these sealed doors were just storage rooms filled with various weird and advanced equipment, Rubber suits that could fit a man inside, strange looking pipes, tanks, wires! It was never ending. I could only guess badly what these odd devices could be used for. I also found another two bedrooms and then eventually a strange little room with one single flat high bed directly in the middle and surrounded by lots of sharp objects, like knives, scalpels, needles and jars of different liquid substances and pills of various sizes and colour. Consume these liquids and pills at your own risk I was guessing.

Back along the kitchen corridor I double tapped another door panel. The door opened to reveal a dark square box room inside containing a couple of oddly shaped buttons and a leaver which read up/down. Looking around the small space I gathered that you could probably fit around four to six men inside at a push. I entered and began pressing and double tapping at the different array of buttons inside, but nothing happened. I pressed the up and down lever but still nothing happened. I then left the strange box room and continued further along up the corridor towards the next doorway, which I again double tapped.

Inside this dim but fairly large room I found a toilet which I could remember how to use no problems... I think. There was a couple of showers too right against the back wall with a draining area close by, so I guessed again that the entire tiled floor inside was to be used as one giant big drain. I made my way inside to take a closer look and took a brief moment to scan around. Then as I stepped further inside, the lights suddenly switched themselves on. I approached the first of the three showers at the back and found a small silver thin panel to the left side and double tapped it. The first shower came to life immediately and began spraying water out at an incredible rate. It looked amazing and when I ran my hands underneath the water it felt nice and warm too. For a long moment I just stared hard into the running water, hypnotized as I watched the shower water disappear down the nearby drain hole, and then suddenly, as if something triggered in the far back regions of my mind, another full blown memory returned to me. I was hiding inside the dark shower room, over by the open doorway and I was wearing a casual grey uniform, top and bottoms. I could hear footsteps coming along the corridor when all of a sudden I quickly pulled a woman walking by outside into the shower room with me while locking the door shut with a series of taps. The woman was the blonde woman from my previous memory and she let out a playful yelp as I pinned her to the wall.

'David, stop it, What are you doing?' Said the Blonde woman playfully resisting. I began tickling her up against the wet room door as she tried to resist me even more in a fit of giggles.

'David. Stop it, please.'

I paid no attention to her pleas and continued to tickle her, playfully pulling at her hair too until she slapped me softly on the side of my face.

'David, you're hurting my ribs, stop it.' She giggled louder. Finally I stopped tickling and she smiled wildly.

'I need to get back to work.' Said the woman as she tried to open the exit door but quickly I placed my hand hard up against the panel, keeping it from her grasp.

'David! Come on. Stop messing about. Let me out.'

I looked her in the eyes with the most serious of stares.

'Close your eyes.' I said firmly.

'Why?'

'Just close your eyes? I want to give you something.'

I rustled my free hand deep inside my trouser pocket, pretending to have some kind of gift inside.

'No. I don't want it.'

'Come on.' I insisted. 'Just close your eyes and I'll give you this gift.'

'What gift? What is it?'

'Just close your eyes and you'll see.' The woman tried for the door panel once more, but even with just one hand hovering over it, I was still too damn strong for her. She let out a deep sigh and closed her eyes over, finally giving in.

'Okay, but make it quick, Ian's expecting me with the landing sample results.' She said and with her eyes still closed she held out her hand. I grinned out as I gently moved my face towards hers and kissed her with a cheeky kiss right on her lips. The blonde woman smiled and opened her eyes immediately while trying to resist for as long as she could before finally kissing me back, but after a few seconds she broke away.

'You sly bastard.' She said grinning wildly.

'I think I'm falling in Love with you Steffi.' I said bluntly. 'I think about you all the time. You're on my mind every waking hour.'

The blonde woman, Steffi, turned sadly away from me looking deep in thought.

'Please don't say that David. You know my situation.'

Trying to be spontaneous now I pushed Steffi back up against the door and began kissing her neck, chin, cheeks and luscious juicy red lips with a fiery passion. She tried to resist me again, but even though her mind wasn't there yet, I could feel that her body was as her thighs rubbed gently against my own inner thigh and throbbing groin.

'David... David we can't do this anymore.' Steffi said trying to push me away again. I continued to kiss and caress her face and neck with my lips and darting tongue as I ran my hands and fingertips all over her gorgeous, tight, toned body, finally slipping my free hand underneath her blouse to caress her stomach before taking a pinching hold of her goose bumped skin around her hips.

'David... we can't.' She continued, kissing me back and sticking her wriggling tongue further into the back of my throat with such lustful passion that I throbbed even harder against her. Suddenly I let my wild animal instincts take over and lifted her up into my arms as my swelling hardness dug even more against her own trouser covered groin. Finally I carried her over to the showers.

'...You animal!' She whispered into my ear as she playfully bit my ear lobe and scratched at my neck with her sharp fingernails.

Back in the present I was brought crashing out of my hypnotic state by someone shouting my name. Their voice was barely audible through the sound of the ferociously running shower water against the tiled floor below. For a moment I just stared at the water running into the nearby drain as I gently shook my head, trying to process these new memories and emotional thoughts. Then a hand grabbed my right shoulder and in a knee jerk reaction I finally broke free of my trance and turned in a flash, grabbing the mysterious figure with their hand on my shoulder by the throat and forcing them with great strength and rage, right up against the shower wall. Anna screamed out wildly from in front of me and for the first time I was able to see who this person was who had just snuck up on me. Anna struggled wildly, desperately trying to gasp for breath as I continued to grasp her in a choke hold up against the wall with an insane rage in my eyes. For some reason I was still caught up in my trance like state and new memories. Finally I released my grip of Anna's neck and she fell onto her knees with a thud gasping for breath and clutching at her bruised throat. What the hell did I do? What the hell did I just do? I didn't mean this. I did not mean to do this at all. I put my hands to my head. I was getting more and more distressed by the second and I was so confused. I began backing away. I was feeling so upset at my actions, but at the same time I felt like I had to blame Anna for sneaking up on me and grabbing me so unexpectedly, what the hell was she thinking?

'Don't ever sneak up on me like that again okay. You hear me.' I blurted out. Anna remained on the floor, still coughing wildly for her breath. I couldn't think of anything else to do now except to turn and rush away, so I did. All I could hear as I left was the sounds of Anna's sobs as she regained control of her breathing in the corner of the shower room.

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I was sitting in the dark computer room right at the front end where the row of three large chairs were all situated. I was staring obliviously out through the massive viewing window and at nothing in particular. Thoughts of the blonde woman, Steffi, occupied my mind. What did she mean to me? Was she my wife, my girlfriend? If my memories were to be real and true then we seemed to be together and close somehow. And then Anna, the pretty and fragile little Anna. I must have really physically hurt her. But I didn't mean too. I wondered where she was now? Was she still in the shower room or perhaps in the bedroom curled up like a frightened child. I'd have to go back and check to see if she was okay. I broke away from my thoughts to glance down at the skeleton remains upon both the seat and floor beside me. I wondered who this poor soul might be and how long they might've been lying their like this for. There was so many strange and unanswered questions here, in fact all over this place and another thousand or so in my mind. Suddenly I was distracted by a low shadow over by the main exit doorway which caught my eye. I quickly stood to my feet and turned immediately, half expecting to find Anna. There was nobody there so I quickly rushed towards the exit doorway and stepped out into the main corridor. I halted in shock all of a sudden and glanced down to my left at a long red smear of something which seemed to be like a blood trail, smearing along the corridor floor and up around the next one, the black windowed corridor on my left. I quickly followed the trail of blood all the way around the windowed corridor and all the way up towards the white tiled trapdoor where Steffi had been crouching when I had previously followed her. Here the trail came to an end as it smeared underneath the loose trapdoor. I stood over it for a few moments, just staring down at the trail of blood. Where had it come from and who did it belong too I couldn't even imagine. I crouched down and pulled back the trap door covering the laddered black hole beneath. Down the opposite corridor to me, the one leading towards the pod room and shower room, Anna quietly emerged and came to a standstill at the far end, staring blankly and quietly over at me. She said absolutely nothing as I stared back at her, not even knowing what to say myself. After a second I broke my gaze and began lowering myself down into the black hole. Anna watched me disappear in silence. I continued my descent deep down into the laddered hole. I had absolutely no idea where I was going or what the hell I was going to find down here. I couldn't even see the bottom nor hardly even a footstep below me it was so dark. Finally my feet hit a solid base and I could feel a more airy and spacious, but still dark room all around me. In the darkness I could hear faint and continuous humming noises, maybe the sound of distant motors or engines. As my eyes adjusted I began to make out some faint and dim lights further along this dark area, perhaps more computer screens and buttons, but it was just so damn dark. I moved cautiously away from the ladder when I felt my feet crunching down upon something on the solid ground below. Without moving my feet any further I crouched down to feel and grab a hold of one of the crunchy stick like objects beneath me and too my horror I found my hands feeling their way around and clutching a hold of something that felt and resembled the remains of another old, crumpled and brittle skull and bones. Another skeleton! Another dead person. What the hell were these skeletons all about. I lifted the decayed and bony skull up towards my face to get a better look, my eyes were quickly adjusting and I wanted to see this thing with my own eyes, not just feel and touch its bony features. It was hideous with those black hollow eyes, high cheek bones and all its ridiculous teeth intact so that it looked like it was grinning wildly back up at me. I dropped it back to the floor in utter disgust and took in a few deep breaths trying to compose myself at the sight. Out of the surrounding darkness now came a faint but obvious and gentle sobbing. I couldn't place its direction at first but as I finally stood back up onto my feet again and listened more carefully I could distinctively hear the sound of a woman's crying coming from a fair distance deep inside the darkness way out in front of me. I began to make my way further forward towards the muffled sobs. I had to move slowly and cautiously as many large steel boxes and cages of various different sizes appeared to be littered all over the space in front of me. At one point I even ended up climbing over a large steel container as I couldn't feel any other way around it. Regardless the sobs grew louder and as I climbed my way down from the steel container my eyes could just about make out the figure of the ghostly looking blonde woman again, Steffi. She was still wearing the blood stained gown and crouching down with her back facing me, just as I had last seen her in the corner of the brightly lit corridor up above.