by David K Dark
“That was a pretty intense..er..talk” she finally said. “The other one, Gaia is it? She had to wake you both up. You were gabbling about a blue planet or something. You..”
She stopped and looked away.
We are here
Dan didn't really have any words. His mind was not just blown, it was shredded. The emotions of the month long pent-up frustration, the drinking, the fighting, the joy of the reunion, the exquisite sex, the unexpected girl and the unexpected visions had left him in a dazed state.
Aurelia stood up excitedly and grasped the back of the seat Gaia was sitting in. She turned her exquisite features to Aurelia and laid a long gloved on her hand.
We do not want to harm you
We only want to love you.
Dan thought for a moment they were talking to him, but he could see Aurelia looking directly at Gaia with a wide eyed look on her pretty face, and he realised they were speaking to her too.
Aurelia didn't know what to say, but the craft had landed with no discernible movement and they were preparing to let them go. Dan absolutely did not want to leave. He never did, the worst part was being alone, not knowing if they would ever come back. They were not the best conversationalists, were pretty mysterious generally, and he could never get an inkling of if they ever intended to keep visiting him.
The side of the craft became invisible and he could see a pine tree forest which was lit up all white and blue. He turned to them.
“Please. Don't go!”
And then they were standing on the forest floor, the cold night air hitting them. The craft simply shot up into the sky at a tremendous speed. He tracked it up until it was just another star in the night sky. He realised he was standing there next to Aurelia and she was staring at him.
“Oh my God, did all of that just happen? Did it really just happen?!” He opened his mouth to reply but no words came out, his mind was still in a warp. She looked around them. The night was pitch black without the lights. The forest looked unwelcoming.
“Come on, we've got to go. Goddamn, I must be dreaming, honest to God..!”
She started in the direction of the road. Dan, who didn't know which way was up or down, stood where he was. She got to the tree-line when she realised he was still there, staring up at the sky the way he had first started the evening. She wanted to get home. Wanted to tell her Dad, get into bed and pull the covers over her head.
She looked at him. He had looked a bit wild this evening but now he looked plain fried. He was never going to get out of the woods on his own like that.
She paced back towards him pulling her cardi tight about herself.
“Come on Danny-boy, you'll catch your death out here.” She smiled her best Aurelia Johnson - everything will be okay, even though it won't - smile at him. He blinked at her, uncomprehendingly.
“Come on Dan” She said, more softly this time. “I'll take you home. You need to get some sleep.”
She led him out of the woods, he really wouldn't have been able to do that on his own, and took him over to where she had stowed her old pick-up. The walk was long in the dark, through the trees and out onto the rockier dirt road, and he never spoke the whole way, just occasionally mouthed a word or two, and stared at the sky from time to time.
They came to the pick-up and she helped him in, pushing his leg further when the door wouldn't shut. She tried to start the truck but it was just dead. The clock on the dashboard was stopped at 19:34.
“God damn!” She banged her hands on the steering wheel and flopped her head forward, her blonde hair hanging over her face. She crinkled her eyes up and squeezed them tight, trying not to think of the fact that she might well have been in a different galaxy an hour or so ago. When she opened them again, there was a shape near her shoulder. She turned her head and a cigarette was being proffered from Dan's fingers, in her direction. She looked along his arm and he was looking back at her with a solemn gaze. She took the cigarette from him, then rolled back against the driver's door and laughed hysterically.
8
They sat there for a while and smoked in the cab, Dan seemed able to do that, at least, then Aurelia decided that they would have to walk the further four miles back home. She shunted him out of the door than gathered his arm around her and slowly took him along the track. He seemed to be shutting down as they finally made it to the highway.
They started along it for a few minutes, Dan stumbling more and more then headlights began growing along the stretch of black top. A truck came along, and passed them but she could see the brake lights come on and it stopped. Backing up it pulled alongside and stopped. A grizzly looking man in a chequered shirt and Deere cap was squinting at them.
“You alright, Missy? What's wrong with him?”
“Oh, he's alright, we could just use a ride to Dellington if its no trouble.” Auriela gave him the hundred-watt smile.
“Yeah, course. Hop in!”
She gritted her teeth and hissed at Dan “Come on Danny. We got to get in!”
“He been on the sippin' whiskey, by any chance?” the old guy chuckled.
“No no, we've been, er, out in the, er, out for a walk.” she glanced at Dan. She didn't really want to arouse the guy's suspicions even though they hadn't done anything wrong, but she felt Dan needed some help and creating a scene wouldn't help anybody. She contemplated shoving the boy into the truck first, but that would look weird, so she took a deep breath and opened the passenger door. She climbed in next to the gear shift and as she did she had to climb over the damn gearbox backwards. She could feel the old guy's eyes burning a hole in her skirt as she thrust her bottom towards him. She ignored this and turned to the motionless Dan on the roadside.
Then she had a thought. She summoned all the mental powers she had, and thought-projected as best she could three words at him.
COME ON DAN!!
He jerked a bit and his eyes flickered, and lo and behold, he turned and began climbing into the pick-up.
There you are, you can do it.
He sat down and the truck took off.
“Where did'ja say, Missy? Dellingham? Whereabouts?” The old guy fumbled in the side pocket of the truck for something, didn't find it, so leaned across Auriela to the glove compartment. He brought out some chewing tobacco and as he did his hand brushed her knee. She was sure this wasn't an accident.
“Well, just drop us on the south side, near the Lake.”
“Say,” he went on giving her a sideways glance, “You ain't that missing girl, are ya? You look kinda familiar.”
“What missing girl?” She asked. This was getting weirder.
“That girl. Goldit, what was her name? Johnson I think, yeah. You ain't her, are you? 'Cos they say she was abducted by Ayluns!” he cracked up into a hacking laugh, and evidently found that hilarious.
“Ayluns! Your boyfriend there looks like he's been flying with 'em!” He slapped his thigh with laughter, then changed gear and let his hand brush her leg again, slyly stroking her skirt. She thought about swearing at him but she really didn't know what Dan would do. It could go either way, he might hurt the guy badly, or might not be able to do anything and get hurt himself.
“No I'm not the Johnson girl,” she lied “ And why do they say it was aliens anyway?” she shifted a bit away from him.
“There were folks say they saw lights up near the old mountain-top. Bin seen there before so they say.” he chuckled “But I don't believe 'em, nossir. I say they're whacked off their heads. Just like your lover-boy there!” He laughed again, then brushed her thigh again. “Say, he's awful quiet, ain't he.”
He leered towards her again and she looked over and saw Dan had lolled over and had his head on the passenger window.
“Oh look!” she exclaimed, “Here we are!” they had just passed a small complex of newly built houses, about half a mile from her Dad's ranch. This would have to do. She made the guy pull over, and tried to get out of the cab gracefully while pulling Dan out with her. They fell i
nto the dirt, slightly out of view of the driver and he landed right on top of her, his face right in the middle of her breasts.
“Get off, Dan, for Christ's sake!” she muttered and heaved him off. Within half a second she was slamming the passenger door with a hundred and fifty watt smile fixed on her face and she stayed there till the truck set off.
“Watch out for them Ayluns!” the old guy cackled as he drove off.
Shit goddamit, what do I do now? She thought. She rolled Dan over and sat him up, and slowly hauled him to his feet.
Come on Dan, I need you to stay awake, she frowned through her forehead at him, and this did seem to work. They stumbled and tripped till they saw her fathers house and barns coming into view. Auriela knew she couldn't take him into the house so she headed into a barn instead. The place was pitch dark, but she knew from a lifetime playing in there where the hay was and she led Dan over to it and finally let him sleep.
“I'll come back, I promise” she whispered, as she scampered away towards the house. In the barn Dan murmured “Please don't go.”
As she approached the house, she could see lights on even though it was gone midnight. She knew she needed a hell of a cover-story, she knew she should tell all that had happened, but found herself totally unable to bring herself to do it. So in the forty or so steps from the gate to the front door, she formed a story that had no impromptu sleep-overs or parties because she sensed her friends would have been grilled as to where she was already. As her father opened the door with a wild and exhausted look in his eyes, she simply told the truth.
“Daddy, I met someone.”
9
After all the wild accusations and arguments, tears and hugs had been done, Auriela tried to piece the actual truth together. She was shocked to learn that she had been away for 72 hours. This was actually totally unlike her, and no wonder her Dad had filed her as missing after 36. That was a lot of time but to her they had been away an hour at most. She was hungry, yes but not three-day-hungry. Then she remembered Dan, and with a stab of guilt, crept back out of the house with some ham and bread and drink. He was not really awake properly but accepted the drink before passing out again.
The next day after the dust had settled she found the time to go to the barn with more food and this time Dan was awake and alert, and hungry. She watched him as he ate, and he nodded his thanks as he gulped it down. She was wearing a pair of jeans and a check shirt and it showed off a fine figure even in the barn's half light.
“Won't your Dad come in here at some point?” he asked, and she shrugged.
“It's not a place he needs to check at this time of year.” she replied, “but he will do eventually.”
Dan reclined in the hay.
“So, Miss Auriela, I want to thank you for dragging me back out. I was pretty shot up.”
“Yeah, thank you for getting me abducted, thank YOU for passing out on me in the truck with that lech, thank YOU for..” she stopped, and there was fire burning in her eyes.
“What?” he said. But she was trying to say it, he could just about read her thoughts, or see the image that flashed up in his mind. Him making love to a tall, slender creature. He was startled, they had had a moment's connection. He tried to stand up and she looked at him puzzled.
“What are you?” she frowned, a lick of blonde hair falling over her eyes. She had her hands on her hips, head inclined to one side.
“C'mere you,” he said, reaching where she stood. “I really DO need to thank you for...”
And then he leaned in and kissed her. She stayed still for a moment, hands drawn up to her chin and she returned his kiss, slowly at first then deeply and urgently.
He ran his hands down her shirt, the sides of her hips and back again. He had started to unbutton her shirt, and when he slid a hand in there he encountered her bra. Her passion deepened and she started to lift his tee shirt, exploring his stomach and slipping her fingers into his jeans a little. He reached around for her bra-strap, tongues locked together and then a voice not a million miles away shouted.
“Aurelia?”
“Shit!” She hissed and pulled away, hastily buttoning back her check shirt. He was smiling at her in disbelief as she slid out of a side door.
“Don't burn the barn down!” as she blew him a kiss.
End
Aurelia's Awakening
Book Four
The Delight Vector
Chronicles
A novella by David K Dark
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1
Aurelia Johnson couldn't sleep. There were two solid reasons for this. The first was that there was a young man currently sleeping in the hay in her father's barn. And the second was that she had been abducted by aliens five days ago.
She was a rancher's daughter, very used to hard work and as well as helping her Dad at the farm she kept a job in the liquor store in the nearby town of Dellington. It was there that she had first seen Dan, curious at first as to why he was rapidly catching up with the no-hope regulars that she usually served.
With dark hair and an athletic body, he had caught her eye, but it was the sadness in his eyes that had puzzled her. The strange thing about them was they were full of colour, a deep blue almost ethereally shining, but the lack of hope in them was startling.
Now in her bed, Aurelia found herself thinking about those eyes again.
Sighing, she turned onto her side and found herself looking out the window towards the barn. He had been in a bad way that day when she served him, already pretty drunk, but she couldn't say no, or indeed anything to him when she passed over the bottle of Jack Daniels. He had given her a little smile and left.
She had ten minutes of her shift left, and she could see him through the window just sitting in his car, not doing anything. As she left to another part of the lot to get in her truck he had left the far side, and she had followed him, initially just out of curiosity as to what part of town he was from, if at all. But he drove south out of town and she found herself following, in spite of herself.
Her curiosity had become red hot when he had pulled off at the tiny mountain road, into the woods. This place had a bit of a strange reputation. People had claimed to see weird lights up there before, also there was a clifftop where people regularly went to make out and also if they were feeling like it, jump off.
This was what had made her turn her pick up round and follow him up there, and that was when it had all happened.
Giving her head a little shake she tried laying on her back. It was no good. The events of the past days had left her in a mix of emotions. Fear, amazement, relief, and yes, admit it, lust, had all played their part. Now she didn't know what she wanted.
Dan had kissed earlier today, in the barn, but her Dad had been calling and she had had to run out so Dan could keep his hiding place in there. She had given him a line of some sort, some teasing little quip as she ran, but when she left she had felt a longing for those strong arms to hold her again. Now Aurelia felt her heart race a little as she remembered the sight of his naked buttocks up on the alien craft, his torso glistening in the blue light, and she bit her lip and exhaled.
“Try not to think,” she whispered softly, but she couldn't get the image out of her mind, how the exotic looking alien had wrapped her long legs around him. She couldn't help but wish it had been her.
She found her hand slipping to her thigh, pulling her cotton nightdress up to her b
elly. She gently stroked her downy blonde hair and closed her eyes. The past few days she had been full of nervous energy and adrenaline, now her body yearned for the man laying asleep in the barn. She slid her other hand inside the nightdress to her breasts, wondering what it would feel like to have Dan's rough hand there instead.
Aurelia could feel her heart racing as she imagined him stroking her down there and she slid a finger down below, tingling with arousal. She had got wet thinking about him and now she couldn't stop. She started to rub herself, feeling the slickness on her fingers, closing her eyes she massaged her clit with wet fingers, licking her lips and softly gyrating her hips.
There was a sharp creak which made her jump enormously. Freezing, she held her breath. All she could hear was her heart hammering. Then there was more slightly softer scraping noises. They were coming from the window. Dan's head was coming into view as he climbed up. Aurelia was torn between excitement and horror. She sat up in bed, and shot a glance toward the bedroom door.
He had entered the window softly, and his silhouette grew as he came towards her. She dare not speak, her Dad was a light sleeper, there were times when the coyotes or other animals woke them, and she was frozen in shock.
Dan crept onto the bed and crawled silently up it. Aurelia could not quite believe this was happening, she was caught like a rabbit in headlights, her heart hammering wildly. She felt a tingle of anticipation down below. He took her face in his hands and kissed her deeply and urgently, laying on top of her on the covers. Electric shivers ran up and down her spine. She ran her fingers round the nape of his neck, rubbing the back of his hair and kissed him back, passionately, feeling the weight of his lithe body on her. When he eventually let her up she could feel every hair on her arms standing up. But she shot another glance at the bedroom door.