Scerior

by Jilly Bowling

  Kylie put her arm round Jo’s shoulders and said “You told me that when he came to you, he was overcome because you were ovulating. Would you have been happy if he had taken you and made you pregnant?”

  “He knew that I couldn’t live with being pregnant all the time. He promised me and said that he loved me enough to resist making me pregnant”.

  “Which he did. He must have been in agony, but he controlled himself. That shows how much he respects you” insisted Kylie.

  “Huh, respects me enough to go to a prostitute, no, two prostitutes for god’s sake. I hate him!”

  “No you don’t, that’s why you’re so upset”.

  “Love, what a joke. How could I expect an alien to love me? I was right when I first came here, the Sceriae are kidnappers, rapists and murderers. I’ll die before I let him near me again!”

  By this time they had reached Acorus’s villa and Jo jumped out of the car, ahead of Kylie or Tchu, and hurried inside. Her guards hurried after her and jumped back in astonishment as she rushed into her quarters and slammed the door in their faces. Kylie and Tchu had hurried after her, but they too found the door slammed in front of them.

  Opening the door Kylie peered round it. Jo was walking up and down muttering to herself. Tjai was standing by Jacki’s cot, watching Jo worriedly, not knowing what to do. Sidling through the door Kylie too was at a loss, but Tchu went straight to Jo and taking her by her arms gave her a hard shake, “Calm down Jo, this is not the way to deal with this, use your brain. Lord Acorus loves you but you cannot behave like this with him. He is all powerful and used to doing as he pleases. You must be clever if you want to keep your position”.

  Jo shook her off “You mean I have to accept any behaviour from him. Never! I have had enough taken from me, but I will not lose my pride. So just leave me alone Tchu”.

  With that Jo flung herself onto a sofa and glared at Tchu.

  There was a knock on the door and Kylie opened it to find a soldier was standing there.

  Jo spat out “What?”

  “Sorry Lady, but I have a message from General Acorus. He has sent word that he will be with you in the morning”.

  “Right. You’ve passed on his message, so go away” Jo snapped rudely.

  As the soldier turned away, Tchu tutted at Jo and followed him out. Kylie sat down next to Jo and frowned at her “Please calm down Jo. Tchu is right; you can only push Acorus so far. Use your head, we are captives here don’t forget. It is a beautiful, luxurious prison, but still a prison. I’m not stupid, I know how it is. But just think what the alternative is”.

  “I don’t care, I’d be better off dead”.

  “No you wouldn’t. Think about what you’ve accomplished here in such a short time”.

  Jo stared at Kylie and laughed harshly “Yeah, I’ve helped aliens kidnap even more girls. I was on Earth and was stupid enough not to run. Yes, I’ve accomplished so much!”

  At that moment Jacki woke and started to cry. Tjai picked her up and took her to Jo.

  “She is hungry. Will you feed her?”

  “Of course I’ll feed her. Whatever her father is she is still my daughter”.

  Taking her Jo cuddled her and she chuckled, smiling up at her mother. Jo put her to her breast and nursed her as tears ran quietly down her cheeks. Kylie patted Jo’s shoulder and stood up “I must go back to the nursery. I’ll speak to you tomorrow. Please think hard about what you are going to do. Forget the hurt, use your head. Bye Jo, I love you”.

  Turning to Tjai Jo told her to go too. She wanted to be alone with her daughter. Once Jacki was fed, Jo took her into the bedroom and climbed into bed with her. She was so emotionally exhausted that she fell into a deep sleep. Tchu looked in on her twice during the night, but she was out for the count, and Jacki slept soundly, cuddled into her mother. When Jo finally woke up light was streaming through the window and Jacki was lying beside her gurgling and chuckling. The baby was so content that Jo took the cot out of the living room into the bedroom and placed her in it. Going into the shower she stood numbly under the water still undecided about what to do. As she was drying her hair Tchu and Tjai entered with breakfast. Going into the bathroom Tjai asked if Jo would like a massage and Jo gratefully said she would. Lying on the massage table with Tjai’s strong fingers massaging her legs; she tried to decide how to deal with Acorus’s betrayal. If she was sensible she would say nothing, but she knew that was impossible for her.

  When Tjai was finished, Jo slipped on a kaftan and picking Jacki up, sat down at the table to feed her. She was eating solids now and happily devoured a bowl of cereal. Once she had finished the cereal, Jo offered her a breast and she suckled for a while, then stopped and chuckled happily at Jo. Handing her to Tchu Jo said “It’s mummy’s turn to eat now so you play with aunty Tchu”.

  As Jo was eating her breakfast the door opened and Acorus walked in followed by Kheta. Taking his helmet off he went to Jo and pulling her up into his arms kissed her passionately. Annoyed that her traitorous body responded to him Jo tried to maintain her cool.

  “It’s good to see you, my love. But I must have a shower. I won’t be long” and with that he went into the bathroom and Jo heard the shower running. Turning to Tchu Jo said “You and Tjai take Jacki out please. And don’t come back until I call for you”.

  Tchu went to protest but at a glare from Jo, did as she had been told. As the shower switched off Jo stood up and faced the bathroom door. Kheta came out first and left after bowing to Jo. Then Acorus came out and made straight for her. Grabbing hold of her he pulled her into his arms and bent his head to kiss her again. As he did so, Jo pulled her face aside and went rigid in his arms. Frowning he stood back and looked at her “What are you doing? Aren’t you pleased to see me? Tell me what’s wrong”.

  “If you thought anything about me, you’d know what’s wrong” Jo snapped.

  Angrily Acorus said “If I knew what was wrong I wouldn’t be asking. I have done everything that you asked. Rescued the females and punished the Wracki and the Xenorii. What more do you want?”

  “Honesty and loyalty. A little respect wouldn’t hurt either”.

  “Honesty, loyalty, respect? What are you talking about? Come Jo. I want you, let me love you”, and he pulled her back into his arms.

  Struggling to get free Jo shouted “Love me, is that what you said to the two whores you took as soon as you left me last time? How many more have there been since then? Or did you take a couple with you, to fuck while you were away?”

  “Oh!”

  “Oh indeed”, Jo shouted managing to free herself “Got bored with them have you? Decided it was my turn. Well you can just fuck off!”

  “Enough, watch your language, how dare you speak to me like that?” he was angry now and looked very frightening.

  But Jo was beyond caution. As he reached for her she backed up and found herself against the table. Her hand touched a plate and picking it up she hurled it at Acorus. As he ducked she picked up other dishes. Some with food still on them and continued throwing them at him. Swatting the dishes aside he pursued her, and running round the table she picked up a large crystal bowl and threw it as hard as she could. Trying to avoid it Acorus slipped on some food and the dish caught him, on his eyebrow and cheekbone. Both split open and poured with blood.

  Roaring with anger Acorus smashed the table into pieces, and reaching out grabbed Jo’s wrist, causing her to scream with pain and anger. Pulling her to him Acorus tried to grab her other wrist, but she clenched her fist and swung at him. It caught him square in the eye that was already filling with blood from the cut on his eyebrow. Blood splattered both of them and Acorus roared with anger once again. Eventually he grasped both of Jo’s wrists, whereupon she kicked him as many times as she could. Lifting her knee she hit him in the crotch and once again caused him to roar with anger.

>   “Jo he shouted “Stop. Or you will get hurt. Calm down and let us talk”.

  “Go to hell. I’ll never talk to you again. Bastard, liar” Jo screamed trying to bite his hand.

  Hauling her towards the bed Acorus sat down heavily. Pulling her kaftan over her head he wrapped it round her head and arms. Lying her across his lap he held her arms in one hand and wrapped one leg over hers. His kaftan had ridden up and his erection pressed into her waist like a steel rod. Once more he tried to reason with her “Calm down. Let me tell you why I used the whores. And there have been no others, I swear. I have counted the days until I came home to you”.

  “So I’m just expected to say it doesn’t matter. You betrayed my trust. You’re all talk. Once just once, you couldn’t have me. You make me sick!”

  As Jo shouted and fought to get free Acorus’s patience snapped. He was covered in blood, she was beyond reason and he had to assert himself, so raising his hand he slapped her on her bottom, making sure he didn’t really hurt her.

  Instead of crying and saying ‘please stop ‘Jo fought hard and yelled obscenities at him. Seeing red, he slapped her again and again until Jo was screaming and crying, but still refusing to give in. Finally with her buttocks red and stinging Jo stopped struggling. Still holding her wrists Acorus picked her up and laid her on the bed. Pulling her kaftan off over her arms he shrugged out of his and dropped them on the floor. Holding her arms above her head with one hand, he draped a leg over hers, as he had done the first night he had taken her. Raising himself onto one elbow he caressed her stomach with his free hand. Gritting her teeth Jo turned her head away from him.

  “I have been thinking of this moment for months. Longing for when you weren’t pregnant and we could tease, play and make love however we wanted. I know you won’t believe me but the whores were a necessity. If I had known that you were ovulating I would not have come to you. Please believe, I have no control over the urge to mate with a female who is ovulating. It is the way we Sceriae have been for thousands of years. It was either fuck, or try to kill something. And I needed to be fit to take on the Xenorii”.

  As he spoke to her his blood was still dripping from his forehead. Jo looked up into his face, then into his eyes. Although full of blood his eyes looked at her full of love and when tears started to pour silently down her cheeks he leaned down and kissed them away.

  “You hurt me” Jo sniffed

  “Not nearly as much as you hurt me” he said gingerly touching his brow.

  “I don’t mean physically” she sighed “I never thought you would go to a whore or whores”.

  “You know the reason. If I didn’t love you, I would have just given in to my nature and you would be pregnant again. I can’t even remember what those females looked like and I don’t think I ever knew their names”.

  “They remembered you” Jo sniffed again.

  “Well what can I say?” he grinned.

  Wriggling Jo said “Pig, Big headed pig!”

  “I may be big headed, but if you keep wriggling like that, I’m going to take you hard. Milk is pouring out of one breast, and it is turning me on”.

  “Oh, you are disgusting; let me go so I can dry myself. I hadn’t finished feeding Jacki”.

  “There is nothing disgusting between a male and female who want each other” and Acorus grinned and moved his head down to her breast where he cleaned her up with his tongue, ignoring her protests. “You taste delicious everywhere” he said as he moved down her body, licking wherever her milk had sprayed.

  As he reached her groin Jo squirmed and said “I haven’t forgiven you. I’m still furious. Just because you’re bigger and stronger than me you think you can do what you want”.

  His tongue carried on over her sex and found her most sensitive spot. After teasing her until she was panting with desire and arching her back, he paused and moving up her body, with a quick lick at her breast he said “If you hate this and don’t want me I’ll stop”.

  Jo was breathing heavily through her mouth and casting a look at him replied “OK”

  Taken aback Acorus was speechless.

  “Let me go then” Jo said.

  Acorus moved on top of her and growled “I lied. If you don’t want me to make love to you, I’m just going to rape you”.

  “Huh, I knew it. You have no honour!”

  At that Acorus decided that he’d been lenient enough and pulling her to the edge of the bed lay her across his knee again. Separating her legs with one of his, he slapped her, then as he had done with the whore, plunged two fingers into her. Jo squealed and swore so he did it again until she was squirming with the need for sexual release. This time she was crying with sorrow and need. When he felt her give in he swung her onto the bed and in one smooth but, for him gentle thrust, entered her. Against her will she arched up to him and her legs moved round his hips.

  As he moved inside her, her body responded and she came with a shuddering scream. With her body sucking him dry Acorus too gave way to a jolting orgasm. Kissing her deeply and passionately he then took her face in his hands and said “Jo, I love you. When we make love it is beyond mating. You humans talk about your souls. If I have one then you are in there with me”.

  Gazing into his bright blue eye, one was bloody, Jo found herself believing him “Please don’t hurt me again”.

  Smiling down at her he said “I promise never to hurt you emotionally. As for physically I can’t promise, because I rather enjoy spanking you. And you must admit, it turns you on!”

  “Brute. I’m going to start a home for abused women and I’ll be the first inmate”.

  “Abused, Mmm, I’ll have to read up on how to abuse you properly”.

  “My bottom has been properly abused, brute. Next time I’ll make sure you don’t catch me. A heavier dish needed I think”.

  “That reminds me, I’m still bleeding. I think your Escorii will be worried that I have killed you. So, you’d better get in the shower before we call them”.

  Heaving himself off her Acorus pulled her up and pointed her towards the bathroom. Going into the shower Jo caught sight of herself in a mirror and gasped. She was covered in Acorus’s blood and sticky smears of milk. Half turning she could see that her buttocks were bright red. But it was obvious that Acorus had slapped her very gently. One real hit from him could break her bones. Shaking her head at her bad temper she got into the shower to wash herself.

  It was really no surprise when Acorus joined her. They washed each other and Jo took a cloth and pressed it against the cut on his forehead. Luckily the cut on his cheekbone had stopped bleeding but it was turning blue as was his eye. Acorus was becoming aroused again but Jo persuaded him that his brow needed looking at so they dried and got out of the shower. Jo kept the cloth pressed to his brow as he put on a clean kaftan, then he took over and held it himself while Jo got dressed.

  As she went to leave the bathroom Acorus pulled her to him with his free hand “Jo-Anna, are we alright now? I love you and always will. I respect you, admire you and am proud of you”.

  Jo felt the ready tears again “I love you too. That is why I was so hurt, because I also respected you and admired you, and I felt I’d lost that”.

  They kissed gently and lovingly and walked through the bedroom to the living room, arm in arm. As they entered the living room there was a knock on the door and at Acorus’s “Come in” Tchu cautiously looked round the door. Seeing Jo and Acorus together she moved into the room with Tjai following carrying Jacki who was grizzling. Going to Tjai, Jo took her baby in her arms and cuddled her. Jacki squirmed and was mouthing for milk so Jo took her to a sofa and started to feed her.

  Acorus asked Tchu to see to his forehead and asked Tjai to bring some food. Tjai looked surprised that they would need more food but went without comment. When Tchu took the cloth from Acorus’s head she gasped i
n horror and glanced at Jo “Oh my, I think you need stitches in that. It won’t stop bleeding. I’ll send for a doctor” she said putting the cloth back and pressing his hand over it.

  Hurrying to the door she spoke to a guard and then came back to Acorus “Sit down Lord. You must have lost a lot of blood”.

  As Acorus sat down he said “I’m afraid the bed needs changing. I bled on it a bit!”

  “I’ll see to it while we wait for the doctor” and Tchu disappeared into the bedroom.

  They could hear her gasp through the closed door and Acorus started to laugh “And she was worried about me hurting you!”

  Jo was mortified. Tchu would be disgusted with her. “It’s all your fault. You must tell Tchu that”.

  “She won’t believe me. She thinks I’m devine, above such behaviour”.

  Jo threw a cushion at him and he ducked laughing “Don’t attack me again, please, I beg of you”.

  “You make me so angry”.

  “I know, it’s so easy!”

  There was a knock on the door and Jeksa came in. Hurrying to Acorus she removed the cloth and said “Oh that is nasty. Why wasn’t it stitched before? What did it?”

  Acorus grinned and said “A flying food dish”.

  Jeksa frowned and said “A what?”

  Jo sighed and told her that it was a crystal dish that she had thrown at him.

  “Thrown at him. Why didn’t you duck?”

  “I tried, but I slipped on the other dishes she had thrown”. Acorus couldn’t help himself he doubled up on the sofa, nearly crying.

  Jo put her hand over her eyes in embarrassment. She’d never live this down. Acorus would never let her forget that she had injured him. Thinking that they had gone mad, Jeksa cleaned the cuts and then put five stitches in the gash on his brow. Asking if he had any pain, she gave him two tablets, when he said that he had, then she took her leave.