He pressed her against the side of the tunnel, and as she wrapped one leg around him, he was inside her, kissing her hard on the mouth and fucking her with insistent, driving thrusts that made her make loud, moaning sounds that he could feel vibrating against his face. There was a real joy to fucking her here, a sense of victory that gave an extra intensity and satisfaction to the feel of her hot, tight cunt around his cock, and her heaving, panting breaths, which told him she was feeling the same exhilaration. There was no holding back or slowing down, he held her there, fucking her triumphantly until he felt her legs shaking, and moved his mouth from hers to let her scream just as loud as she wanted to while her pussy clenched around his cock in a powerful orgasm. In the same spirit, he growled emphatically as he pumped his hot load inside her. In his world, they could come as noisily as they wanted.
Panting, grinning, they parted, and Maddy laughed almost coyly as she pulled her dress down, rearranging her cross necklace.
"Well, that was definitely a good use of time! Just hope your legs are gonna be OK to get down the mountain now," Curtis joked, crouching to pull up his jeans.
"Ah, I'll be just fine - nothing's going to stop me getting out there and seeing this new world for myself," she said, her face flushed, her hair a mess, and her eyes shining with delight.
"Fuck!" Curtis shouted suddenly, hammering his fist against the tunnel wall in a disbelieving rage.
"What? What is it?"
He let out a breath slowly, trying to compose himself, though inside he was anything but calm. As he'd put his jeans back on, he'd noticed something very important was wrong.
"My gun. Fucking Sophie took my fucking gun."
Chapter 7
"What? How? You mean while we were just... She could have been..." Madeleine looked terrified now, as she imagined the worst - Sophie going on some crazy killing spree inside Sanctuary while she and Curtis were happily rutting just outside.
"No... I mean, she must have taken it when she was down on her knees like that - I thought she was just being a dramatic fuckwit as usual but I guess I underestimated her... Fuck."
"We have to go back inside," Madeleine said, straightening her dress emphatically.
"No, let's just think about this for a moment. It's not what you're thinking - there's only one bullet in the gun. I left the rest in the bag, which you were holding, so she doesn't have those. I kinda wanted to be sure when I brought the gun with me that I wouldn't do anything crazy just because I could, I mean, I was thinking I'd just use it if I needed to fight like, a bear on the way up the mountain or some shit, but it'd also be useful if I needed to intimidate someone if things went wrong in there. I was never down to actually kill anyone, I just thought, you know, if it was fully loaded, and I was in a bad situation, then I might... well, it might have been too easy to cause a massacre, in a panic, or whatever. I don't know, it seemed right at the time. But anyway, if she sees she only has one bullet, she's not going to use it, is she? Once it's gone the gun is useless. And if she shoots one person, even if it's Janice, she won't be able to get away with that - not if she didn't have any way of taking out anyone else. Without any bullets she's still as weak as usual, so she'd be restrained and then probably executed or whatever the law does about murder. She probably will just keep the gun so she can feel like she has something she can threaten people with to get whatever it is she wants."
Madeleine looked thoughtful, but a little less panicked. He was right, the killing spree scenario was impossible, and Sophie wasn't a psychopath anyway. If she was going to kill anyone it would be out of desperation or for some gain for herself, not just because she hated them or because she was completely batshit insane.
"So, what does Sophie want that she could use the gun to get?" she asked slowly, sounding as though she already had an idea about the answer.
"Well, it depends whether she believes me that I'll take her out if I see her out here. If she doesn't, or she does but doesn't think I'm a real threat - which, by the way, I am, I wasn't bluffing, I have a huge army of androids, but I'll explain that later - then her biggest want will probably be to leave Sanctuary."
"Which means getting the code from Janice, since she's the only one who has it now I'm not there. So she could threaten Janice with the gun, get the code, and leave, in theory... Would that be such a bad thing, though? I can understand why you don't want her anywhere near you, but it's a big world out there, if she comes out and just goes her own way and makes friends with different people to you, what does it matter?"
Curtis rubbed his forehead, his brain aching from trying to figure out all the different possible ways this could go.
"The thing is, I haven't told you about the world out here yet, other than that it's safe for us. There aren't people. Well, not humans you can have normal social interactions with. It's not so much that I was taken in and welcomed by some of the nice people who'd been living out here this whole time, and Sophie could just do the same, and we'd never run into each other again. What's out here, at least in this region, is a society made up of androids who used to serve humans before the invasion. They had some way of fighting off the aliens - blue monsters, they call them - that didn't work for humans... Something to do with the aliens' weapons, they are designed to do some kind of psychic attack that humans or animals couldn't do anything about, but androids were immune to. I haven't asked in too much detail because, well, it's fucking terrifying, given the blue monsters are still around in other parts of the world, and I'd rather not think about them unless I have to. Anyway, the androids, they look and act like people, but they're subservient. You don't make friends with them and gain their acceptance - you become their master. Now, I've claimed as many as I could since I've been out and I mostly just have them doing whatever they were doing before, keeping their society going as they always have, and just doing stuff for me to help me if I need them to. But I have by no means claimed every AI and android in the area, and an unclaimed one, well, any human can become their master and have them do whatever they like. Sophie, well, I can't see her doing anything all that dangerous with them - she doesn't have the imagination - but can you see how bad it would be if Janice got out here and had androids under her control? She'd try and take over the whole place and we'd be back to living by stupid, puritanical bullshit rules only with like, android enforcers. I know it's selfish, but I was the one who took the risk of coming out here first, before we knew if that'd mean instant death-by-alien, and I want... I think it should be..." he looked back at the door, his voice trailing off, but then he met Maddy's eyes with a new certainty on his face, "I want to live my fucking way."
Madeleine saw the complexity of the situation now, and though she had many, many questions about the whole 'subservient android society' thing, those would wait until they'd decided what to do here and now. She couldn't really fault Curtis for wanting what he did - if she was being honest she wanted a world like his too, and as long as the people inside Sanctuary weren't suffering anything worse than whatever break-up drama Sophie was having with Fliss, she didn't feel especially guilty about leaving them all down there while she and Curtis got their own dreams of a freer, more interesting life.
"Then, it sounds like we should leave like we were going to. The only thing Sophie having the gun really changes is that it's now probably only a matter of time before something happens in there that causes other people from Sanctuary to come outside - regardless of your warning to her. It was too vague and hard to imagine, I think - maybe if she knew about the androids or the lack of people or whatever she'd be more intimidated by you saying that, but then, if she knew that she'd also be more interested in leaving, too, no doubt. We can't know whether it will just be Sophie, or whether it'll be Sophie, followed by others, or whether the whole of Sanctuary will just open its doors for good. What happens in there is outside of our control and we have no way of knowing what is happening either, so there's no point worrying about it."
"Yeah, I guess... It just suck
s so much to think that I'm probably going to have to deal with all that bullshit sometime soon, and once again, it's all because that dumb bitch managed to trick me..."
"Oh, I wasn't suggesting we just make the best of it for now and just wait for Janice or whoever to show up and spoil everything. Not at all. Just that we focus on what we can do to protect your version of the future out here... If I understand things correctly, then androids who you've claimed for yourself will not accept any other master?"
"Yes! They are loyal to whoever holds their license until they release them to someone else - I guess people used to be able to buy and sell them second hand, or hand them over in their wills or something - or the license expires. All the AIs and androids had no owner when I came out here, which was why I could claim them, but if I could somehow claim them all, then anyone coming out of Sanctuary wouldn't be able to claim any!"
"And someone out here with none of the androids on their side, what would life be like for them?" Madeleine asked, as if she was trying to confirm something.
"Well, if I leave the androids as they are, I guess a human out here could just live how they wanted. They'd still be able to get stuff and eat food made by the androids, and they'd still be protected by them if there was ever a threat to the region, but they wouldn't be able to hold any power over anything beyond themselves, really."
Maddy nodded, as if this was the answer she'd been hoping for - although there was an unspoken understanding of the condition 'if I leave the androids as they are'. Curtis didn't intend to make his subservient robots hostile towards another human, but he could if he wanted to.
In actual fact, Curtis himself wasn't sure how that would work. He knew that the robots had their tertiary protocols to defend humans in general, and so he doubted he could override that fundamental part of their design and have them kill humans, but the mere existence of android security and police, and the fact he'd been stunned no questions asked by Sarge, told him that non-lethal force was no problem, and there probably were conditions under which an android might shoot a human. This hadn't seemed important enough to ask his android friends about before, and he hoped it wouldn't become important in the future. Killing other humans would probably be a mile across the line of what Maddy the Believer would accept, too, and he had found that he was already extremely grateful to have her with him in this situation, to help him decide what to do. He didn't want to lose her alliance by starting to consider wholly unholy acts like murder.
"So the best course of action is for us to just figure out how best to claim as many androids as we possibly can, and to make sure there are no areas close to Sanctuary where there are free ones to be found. I... I assume I can claim androids too, in this vision of the future of yours?"
"You? Yeah, I mean, I had thought you'd be wanting some androids for your own... pleasure... I actually have a nice male droid buddy I'd been thinking you might like to meet... and then there are ones who you could have make you clothes and food and take care of your health and stuff, but I hadn't been thinking you'd have to amass a load of them like me. But it makes sense I guess, now. With two of us, we could get to twice as many of them in a shorter time. So far I'd just been claiming the ones who come to the supermarket I've been using as a house. The androids communicate between themselves as a society, and so as more of them find out there is a human in the area, they kinda make pilgrimages to have me claim them. I was thinking of making a move to the city at some point after I'd rescued you, just because it'd be probably a better place to start a life than an abandoned supermarket, and I'd figured I'd wait until a lot of the population there was already claimed by coming to me first, just because it seemed easier and I felt like we'd have all the time in the world, but perhaps with this turn of events it might be better if maybe I went there later today and you stayed at the Lucky Buy - you can talk to my live in androids and get acclimated to life out here, and also claim any android pilgrims who come by after I've left. What do you reckon?"
Madeleine smiled wryly.
"Sounds like I'll be in at the deep end. But still not as much as you were when you first came out here. Sure, let's do that."
A glance at his watch told him it was more than late enough now for the sun to have risen, and so, with the beginnings of a plan agreed upon, they tried to forget about the Sanctuary situation for a while so that Maddy could get the full impact of stepping out into the sun and feeling fresh air on her face for the very first time.
Chapter 8
It felt as though they had sufficiently exhausted the subject of how to claim robots, and what Madeleine would be able to expect at the Lucky Buy by the time they reached the foot of the mountain. Her enthusiasm and excitement about the everything out here was contagious, and Curtis wasn't feeling anywhere near as anxious about the Sanctuary problem now. If anything, he felt like he was seeing his situation in a refreshing new way. He hadn't really had a goal before. He had just been focusing on figuring things out here and then getting Madeleine out - after that, he had his vague suppositions that he would at some point move to take over the city, and he'd also go and snoop around the area where their ancestors had come from, but there was no concrete task he had to fill up his future. Now, they were together, and they were unified in the goal of simply claiming every android in the region, so that they'd have full control over the area, whoever of the non-robotic variety may show up in it later.
One thing that they weren't so sure about, was what 'the area' actually included, though. Curtis had knowledge of a few small towns nearby and the main city, which the androids all referred to colloquially as 'the city', so he hadn't actually found out what it had been called back in the old world times. It'd probably tell him on Ian's maps, if he took the time to play around with them - another thing he'd been meaning to do at some unspecified point in the future, but which now felt a bit more pressing.
Beyond those places, and a few farms he had claimed pilgrim robots from, he wasn't sure what else there was by way of android settlements nearby, and he was also unsure as to what would be a reasonable radius to limit themselves to. Exploration might be a long term goal, but for the medium term, he wanted to simply create a good home for himself, and he didn't really need more than one city for that. Now he had to consider keeping control so that Janice or Sophie or whomever else might slither out of the mountain cave couldn't get it, he had to consider that that may not be enough. If there was another big settlement the same distance away in a different direction, there would be nothing stopping an enemy taking control of that, and then trying to start a war with his city. He discussed all of this with Madeleine as they made their way down the trail, glad he had her to sound off of, even if what he mainly wanted from her was just confirmation that he didn't sound crazy and paranoid.
"No, we definitely need to come up with some kind of strategy that involves the whole region, and make sure we control every major settlement that lies close to Sanctuary in every direction. If we have all of those, we can contain anybody who comes out."
"I'm glad you think so, I was worried I sounded like some kind of megalomaniac... You know I don't want control really - personally I'm happy for the androids to just go about their business. Managing them all is a hassle, and it's not like we need anything in particular more than they already provide. I just don't want anyone else having a chance to cause me problems, and it seems like to assure that, I have to basically rule the entire fucking map..."
"Sure seems that way. But I don't mind myself. It'll just be like having a really big church congregation."
"Except they have no souls to save..."
"Well, there is that... I probably need to rebrand as something other than a preacher, then, don't I? I mean, if the only person out here God might give a shit about is you, and I rate my chances of getting you to see his grace as --"
"Slim to none. Sorry."
"Well, quite. And so if I can't be a spiritual leader, maybe I can just be a... non-spiritual leader."
; "Like, a general? Or like a queen? Do you want to be queen of the sex bots?" he joked, taking her hand to help her down the last steep bit before they reached the dusty, yet mercifully flat path that would lead to the road, and to Ian the car. Maddy had already been informed about Ian the car, and she didn't think his name was anywhere near as silly as Curtis did. She thought Ian sounded cool.
"Sex bots? Seriously, those are a thing?"
Other people might have said this with at least the pretense of some kind of embarrassment or disapproval, but Madeleine just sounded impressed. This was one of the reasons Curtis had known the hentai loving minister would be a good fit for his new world order.
"Yes! I have two female ones back at the Lucky Buy. I mean, all the androids more or less are designed to be fuckable - they call it their 'secondary special protocols', just so you know what they mean if they offer you that - but there are also these special androids that used to be used as prostitutes in the old world, and they have some... enhanced features. I'm sure we can track you down a nice male one in all of ten seconds of trying, if you want a fun introduction to the world of android-human relations when we get there?"
"You... wouldn't be jealous?"
The question surprised him. He hadn't really considered the nature of their ongoing relationship. It didn't seem even worth questioning, given they were the only two humans there were. But whether he'd considered Madeleine in some way 'his' or not, he certainly wouldn't begrudge her fucking androids. It was one of the best parts of life out here.
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