Abel

by Jessie Rose Case

Abel passed her a vid screen. A button flashed. Coco pressed the button and a search light rotated off the top of the monolith. It would be seen for miles and be a beacon of hope like the old-world light houses. It also sent out a pulsar every 15 minutes. All basic electronic systems would pick it up. They hoped no one would get lost in the wilderness again. It was solar powered and would never run out of power and strong enough to penetrate the sands and winds. She handed back the vid to Abel, looking around the area. A stone sign was going in near the entrance to the underground tunnels. It said one word. Sanctuary.

  Coco had never felt so heart sick. There was no cemetery to their lives to leave behind. They cremated anyone who died. At last, there was a lasting memorial to all of them. It felt just and right. She took one last look round, then walked back towards the off-worlder. Their time on this planet was done and it was time to look to the future. She gazed over to Abel as he directed his men. Her future was going with her.

  ***

  Chapter Five

  It seemed strange walking around the ship. Cyborgs walked the corridors fulfilling their orders, always walking with a determined stride. They’d been on board and taken off from their planetary system, nearly two weeks ago. So much had happened in the last month, since she’d first met Abel that it was difficult sometimes, to get her head around it all. She knew he had over 500 men on this ship, that it was only one of a larger fleet. The fact that it could tow her ship without a problem, said it all. It was a powerful machine.

  Coco sighed. She now spent her days going from level to level, seeing the elders who were helping her on those floors. Her job was to make sure that each section that had been allocated to the colonists, was working as it should. Abel had told her that a consistent presence, would sooth over their worries and anxieties and prevent anything blowing up. If they could do anything to make it easier on everyone, she had his permission to do it.

  Her escort stopped at the door to the next section. This was Hodges’. Not that he was meant to be in charge but, Coco guessed in his little group, he was still calling the shots. She put her hand on the door panel and it opened. She plastered on her smile and walked to the chair and table that had been set up in each section with two chairs opposite, for her meeting. Her escort with her. She came every other day for an hour to each section. If someone wanted to speak with her they only had to make an appointment over the vid screen, they all knew how to do it. No one could make more than one appointment a week and every request, had to come from an elder. They were in charge of channelling the queries.

  As the liaison, she’d had the choice of who to work with in each section and she’d chosen those that had previously had little power but seemed fair. Sometimes that worked, sometimes it didn’t.

  Freda came towards her and sat down. Coco noticed she had a nasty bruise since the last time she’d seen her. She glanced over and saw Hodges smirking. She looked back at Freda. The woman should be respected not abused. She opened the box in her mind. Screen this table from view.

  The Cyborgs moved to stand in front of the table. She noticed Hodges didn’t look quite so smug.

  Coco looked down at her vid screen, keeping her expression neutral and her voice low. “Freda, he cannot see you now. If any of you want to move to another level, you only have to ask. Hodges is only in charge if you allow him to be. He’s not in charge of anything or anyone else any more. I’m now going to speak like normal, so he doesn’t know what’s going on.” She looked up, smiled and spoke clearly. “Morning Freda how are you today?”

  Freda mumbled something back. “If you and some of the others want out, we can arrange that.” She told her quietly. “So, what do you have for me today?” Coco asked. Freda handed over a vid screen. Each level had been given one to communicate with.

  Freda told her a number of the women wanted out with their children. In the community they could hide for a bit or get lost for a while, get a break from their men but on the ship and all on this level, there was no hiding. The women weren’t happy, and the men were getting more aggressive. Coco went through the list of complaints loudly enough for anyone to hear and put in orders to fix the problems.

  When they were finished Coco thanked her and told her loudly that all the women and children needed to be vaccinated before arriving at the Station. That they would be back tomorrow night to do it. Coco gave her a meaningful look. Then passed her her vid screen. She’d typed several words on it. ‘Tell no one. Be ready tomorrow.’

  “As you can see Freda, I’ve ordered the items.” She told her, Freda passed the vid screen back and got up walking back to her people. Coco walked out, her escort with her.

  Coco shook her head, she was sick of seeing women bruised and beaten. It wasn’t just Hodges who acted that way either. She knew they had a problem amongst his people. The women walked on egg shells and it felt like they had no other option. Well, she’d make sure they did. Coco connected with Abel over her neuro net and explained her plan. It would take a number of his men and some props. He gave her the go ahead.

  She walked to her next appointment and worked through the day.

  ***

  Abel had watched her pick through dinner. He could sense how worried she was. He’d tried to engage her with information to take her mind off whatever was eating at her, but nothing worked. He was riding his own emotions. Torn, between wanting to sooth her and make her his. Getting up from the table he removed his plate and hers. She barely noticed him moving around clearing things away. He couldn’t let this go on any longer.

  Abel grasped her arm and helped her up from her seat. “I’ve something to show you.” He told her taking her hand and walking out his rooms. Since being on board his ship, he’d insisted she eat with him in his rooms, then he escorted her back to her own, leaving her there. That was becoming more and more difficult to do. He wanted in that room with her.

  Pushing his emotions to one side he headed for the observation room. It was something that had been set up for dignitaries when on board, for when they travelled with them. No one else used it without his permission. He moved along the corridors with Coco in tow. Pressed for the lift and they both got in when the doors opened. He pressed for the top floor. It was above the Bridge. As the lift stopped and the doors opened again, the circular room came into view. He stepped forward to realise that Coco was still in the lift. Turning back, he saw her slowly exit it and walk forward. She had a look of wonder on her face. The entire room was made of glass walls and gave a window into the stars.

  “Wow,” she told him looking around. “This is amazing Abel. Isn’t it vulnerable to space or an attack?”

  Abel shook his head. “No, we have blast screens that are normally down over these, I had them opened for you.”

  She took a seat on the bench in the middle of the room. “How far are the nearest stars?”

  “Most are lightyears away. Even with our technology, it would take months, half a year or more to some worlds.”

  He came over and sat beside her. “I wanted to show you this. It’s a big universe Coco. What’s happening here is only a blink in the universe’s eye. There is so much more out there. I don’t want to you give up on that.”

  She frowned. Was that, what she was doing? Having their issues, taint any good to come from this? The fact that they had a second chance, that none of them really thought possible, was incredible. They should all be thankful and yet, they weren’t. She couldn’t understand it. “I’m not giving up on that, truly, I’m not. I guess I’m just annoyed, that this chance we were given, which I never dreamed of, hasn’t changed things for a lot of us. That pisses me off and saddens me.”

  Abel pulled her onto his lap. Her back to his front so she could still see the stars. “People don’t change Coco. You can take them out of their environments, take them to new places and they do the same things. It’s who they are, it’s what they know, they’re not looking to change, they don’t want to.” He slipped his arms around her and pulled her into him,
breathing in her natural scent.

  Coco wrapped her arms around his and held on. What he said was true, she just didn’t like it. He smelt so good to her. The comfort of his arms, exactly what she needed. “We’ll give those women and children a chance to leave. Some of them probably thought things would be different on here, that this would be a fresh start. We can all understand the wishing, but now, they have experienced the reality. It will help them choose.” Abel nuzzled into her neck, kissing it lightly. Coco’s body heated. Although she was upset for her people, her body still responded.

  How could she feel so drawn to a man, when some of her people were hurting? She wondered. At the same time realising, Abel was nothing like Hodges and his men. She knew him well by now. He was honourable, truthful and didn’t use others to get what he wanted. She ….. trusted him. Coco relaxed in his arms gazing at the passing stars. It had been a very long time since she trusted anyone.

  “You smell so good Coco.” He told her pulling her into him. Her desire filtered into his senses. She was feeling that for him. Elation swarmed over him. It had not been the first time he’d scented her need of him, but it was the first time, she’d relaxed into him, welcoming him. He took that as a good sign. “Do you know how hard it has been, not to indulge in my need of you Coco? Not to do, as my nature demands?” He whispered.

  Coco’s breath hitched. His words spoke to her, made her feel heady. Her nipples hardened. She couldn’t miss how hard he was under her. If she knew one thing, in all the chaos around her, it was that she wanted this man. She grasped his hands and moved them to cup her breasts. Abel didn’t hesitate to take over.

  She was accepting him, rolled through his mind. Pure joy assaulted him. He’s emotions so intense, it bordered on shutting him down. The deluge taking over all other processes. For a fraction of an instant, he wondered if he was compromised. Had he left it too long and endangered them both? Then he took control and pushed it away. He was unused to such feelings, he reasoned, it was simply overwhelming at finding it. Of allowing himself to feel ….. human.

  He undid her clothing and pulled it from her shoulders. She didn’t wear a bra, as other human females he’d known did. Just a tight vest of some kind that he pulled over her head and dropped to the floor with her shirt. He caressed her, feeling her skin in his hands. “Beautiful,” he told her running his thumbs across the nibs of her breasts.

  He didn’t need to see her to know, just how beautiful her breasts were. They fit in the palms of his hands, Abel indulged in the play, he’d been longing for. As he kissed along her neck line and shoulder, his hands played with the gift of her body. He tweaked and stroked, flicked and rubbed until Coco was panting hard and squirming on his lap. “Need more baby?” he asked licking her ear.

  She nodded absently. The sensations Able was sending her as he ran his hands down her body were driving her crazy. His hands slipped to her waistband and undid her trousers, yanking them open. He ran his hands down inside her panties, through her pubic hair and pulled her legs open, ripping the panties. Coco stilled. He slipped his fingers through her lips finding her clit and entrance, and rubbed, circling her clit. It was both shocking and wanted with every fibre of her being. As she started to relax back against him, he slipped a finger into her and started to work her.

  One hand went back to her breast and kept up the pace of bombarding her body and senses. Coco’s squirming got faster, she started to ride his hand. Abel bit down on her neck and sucked hard, thrusting two fingers into her. Coco cried out and arched her neck into him. Then started riding him again. More urgently this time. Abel took the hand from her breast and slipped it between them undoing his own trousers allowing his cock to spring up between them. He kept pumping at her with his other hand. Coco’s pace increased, he could sense how close she was to coming. Removing his fingers from her, he pulled her trousers free to her knees lifted her, so his cock found her entrance and pulled her down on him slowly.

  Coco grasped his arms to brace herself. “Fuck,” she panted, “tight.”

  “Slowly baby, I’m big, get used to it,” he told her lifting her a little and pulling her down more. He was only a couple of inches in, he had a hell of a lot more to go. He moved her again and she worked with him. Bracing against his arms, she lifted herself and dropped herself down again. He was getting deeper. It felt so dam good.

  “Again,” he told her. She lifted forward and dropped down again.

  “Again.” He repeated. This time she leaned forward and unlooked her trousers from her legs, pulling her feet free and opened her legs wider. That was better. He pulled her legs either side of his and opened her up. Lifted her a little more, held her open and thrust up as he pulled her full down on him.

  Coco cried out again. “Fuck your big.” Abel chuckled.

  “Ride me while I touch you.” He told her and his hands went to work. He undid the clips in her hair and pulled the tie from it. Letting all that hair cascade around him. It’s scent mixing in the air with their desires. Abel roamed up and down her body, feeling every inch, every piece of exposed skin he could reach as Coco bounced up and down on his lap looking for her own release.

  What had seemed painful a moment ago, now felt divine. She could feel every movement, every muscle, every centimetre of his cock moving in and out of her. She hadn’t had many cocks in her lifetime, but even she knew she was one lucky girl, nothing had been this good. Not one, had been this thick or this long. She’d never guessed they came in this size. Was that normal? Crossed her mind as she lifted and went deeper. A little giggle slipped out od her. She had wanted it all in her. Every bit of him and when Abel had grabbed her and pulled her down on him as he thrust up, it was just what she’d needed. The pinched had hurt for a second, she was so full and took a minute to catch her breath, then started to ride him in earnest. Her climax was so close, it was going to be soooooo dam good.

  Coco opened her mental box searching for him. The moment he connected with her, her system exploded. A searing heat consumed her and her body hummed and vibrated, she felt his pleasure roll over her. So intense, there was no mistaking how much he wanted this. Coco smiled. She liked this feeling, there was no hiding. He was so open to her, she could feel it all.

  The fact that she’d opened her mind to him blew him away. The connection so strong, she blended with him. Their shared emotions ebbing and flowing around and through them, only increasing the bond. He could feel her need of him. How much she wanted him. It was more than he’d ever expected. It was consuming him.

  He knew the moment she lost all abandon and her need to come took over. Her movements became more urgent, more jerky, more determined. A desperation crept in to reach her goal. Her body tightened along his cock. Her muscles rippled along it’s length holding him tightly within her.

  Abel grasped her hips and held her. As she dropped on him, he thrust up then ground her into him, then repeated it over and over again, as Coco clung onto him. He felt her tense up moments before she cried out her climax. Abel thrust up into her hard and fast, as she started to collapse on her wave of ecstasy, prolonging the experience as much as he could for her. Then slowing his pace, feeling her catching her breath, to gently, rocking in and out of her.

  Wow had that just happened? She was struggling to catch her breath. She had no doubt, if Abel wasn’t holding her up, she’d be on the floor. She took in several shuddering breaths, trying to gain some control over herself. It wasn’t easy with Abel still rocking in and out of her. She was literally seeing stars. Just thinking about it and feeling his emotions as well as her own, was enough to send her over the edge. Her nipples hardened again, her clit pulsed. She felt needy. She wanted him again? How was this possible?

  Abel kissed her gently, along her shoulder line. Her emotions were running wild and her barriers were down. He didn’t want to invade her privacy, but he couldn’t help but hear and feel everything she was going through. It’s the mating bond, he told her. You feel the pull that I do. In sharing our emot
ions, yours are twinned with mine. My need to have you, never leaves me. It dominates every moment of every day. I cannot control it. I do not want to. You are responding to that need with your own desire to mate. I can sense you too.

  Is it real? She asked him.

  It’s very real. Carnal. No boundaries, no control, just a basic instinct to bond, to share with your mate. He moved more forcefully into her. Coco moaned and rested her head on his shoulder, her hair creating a blanket around them. She couldn’t help but move with him, even as her own come, leaked from their joined bodies, she wanted more.

  I need to take you Coco. You ready for that? He asked no longer able to hold it back.

  He waited. He could feel her indecision. Not about him but about the joining. He understood she feared what she didn’t know. I will never hurt you. He told her honestly. No matter how much I want, how much I need, I will never, hurt you.

  Coco believed him. Yes, I’m ready. The joining of their bodies wasn’t pain, it was nature, making him perfect for her.

  Abel lifted her off his body and turned her to face him. You are beautiful, he told her sweeping his hands down her hair, loving the feel of it in his hands. I want you to watch me take my clothes off. Touch me where you need to. He stood, half his chest, shoulders and head above her. He leaned forward and gently kissed her. She stood naked and was unsure. Beautiful, he repeated. Then leaned back and bent to remove the rest of her clothing and boot. Then he undid his own boots and flipped them off.