This goes out to a good friend of mine who's pretty into Julia. Hope you enjoy, buddy!
Julia planted her face against the bar and sobbed silently, reaching for the bottle to her right to fill her glass for the 100th time tonight. Not even caring that she was missing the glass completely, she just tilted the bottle upside down and poured the expensive drink all over the counter, sobbing while she did it.
"That's it miss, it's time for you to go home." the bartender said in a gruff voice, snatching the bottle and holding his hand out for her keys. Julia looked up, tears still in her eyes, and put her car keys in his hand. The bartender put her keys in a box and then handed her the bar phone.
"Call a cab, call someone, just get the hell outta here." he said, then walked off to tend to other patrons.
Julia stared into the reflection of the phone; was that really her face? She had never touched a drop of alcohol in her life and she never had a reason to. But after today, she felt like drinking until death came and quietly took her.
"Why... why did this have to happen? My dream... my purpose... gone." Julia said to herself, her voice naught but a pathetic whimper. Earlier that day, she had made the biggest mistake of her life; the Forest Rejuvenation data that she had worked so hard to acquire had been wiped from her computer, backup files and all. How it happened was still a still a mystery to her. She took such good care of her files! The chances of losing all of her data in a flash were astronomical!
Not even bothering to make a phone call, Julia just stumbled out of the saloon and made her way down the street. As she walked down the sidewalk, she watched the cars zooming up and down the street.
"Maybe I should just jump in the next car's way..." Julia slurred to herself, still sobbing frantically. She felt totally defeated; nothing in her life mattered anymore now that her precious research was gone. She slowly started to inch forward towards the middle of the street, looking to see if a vehicle was headed her way. There was a semi truck carrying a load of lumber headed straight for her. Julia turned around and spread her arms out, welcoming the inevitable impact and instant death.
Mother... I'm sorry.
The horn erupted as the truck neared closer and closer to the drunken scientist. Suddenly Julia felt a heavy object plow right into her, knocking her back onto the sidewalk. Everything went blurry as Julia heard a voice say
"What the hell are you doing, you idiot?"
Julia groaned and moved her head back and forth, trying to restore her vision. Suddenly she felt a rush of coolness engulf her face.
"AAH!" Julia squealed as she shot upwards and came face to face with a woman holding a now empty water bottle.
"There, did that help?" the woman asked with a giggle. As she stood up and extended her hand, Julia got a good look at the woman: she was very tall with light caramel skin and mid length brown hair. Her eyes weren't visible thanks to the huge orange-tinted sunglasses she wore.
But it was her attire that really caught Julia's eye: her silver coat was wide open, revealing nothing underneath but her black leather bra and two gun holsters on each side of her large breasts. Despite wearing a belt, her multicolored striped pants hung down so low that her black thong was visible for the whole world to see. To complete her risque image, she had a tattoo on her well toned abdomen, right under her navel.
"Are you gonna stare all day? I know I look good, but wouldn't you be more comfy on your feet?"
Julia finally snapped out of it and grabbed the woman's hand. Once she was on her feet, Julia fixed her hair and dusted off her jeans.
"Sorry I broke your glasses. I'll buy you some new ones. Man, you look really cute without glasses, Julia."
"Wha... h-how do you know my name?" Julia asked. "Who are you?"
"Katarina. Katarina Alves." the woman said. "And I know you because... I've been watching you."
"Watching... me?"
"Yup. I can't help myself. When I see someone I like... I go after them. " Katarina said, a slight hint of seduction in her voice. Julia looked down and saw her running her tongue across her lips, causing Julia to become slightly uncomfortable.
"W-well, thank you for trying to be helpful... but you shouldn't have saved me." Julia said, looking down at the ground. "As of now... I have no reason to live."
"What happened?" Katarina asked, pretending like she didn't already know.
"Well you see, I lost something today. Something important. Something I had dedicated my life to. And now that it's gone... I might as well be gone as well."
"The Forest Rejuvenation data?" Katarina asked with a grin, causing Julia's eyes to widen.
"How do you know about that?!"
"Honey, in my line of work I know a lot. More than you can possibly imagine."
"Wha-what are you? Some kind of secret agent?"
"I'll be whatever you want me to be..." Katarina whispered, licking her lips.
"What was that?" Julia asked, a strange expression on her face.
"Oh just a little joke. Look, I know all about your little predicament. Because I'm the one who caused it."
Julia's mouth shot open. Her confusion slowly started to transform into anger.
"You...you...YOU DELETED ALL OF MY RESEARCH?!"
"Yup!" Katarina said with a wide smile.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Julia screamed as she charged at Katarina. But she took one step and fell on her face.
"Oh dear, somebody's had too much to driiii-iiink!" Katarina said in a singsong voice.
"Sh-shut up, you bitch!" Julia stammered as she tried to get to her feet.
"Hey now, don't be that way... yet." Katarina said in her sultry tone. She bent over, her ample cleavage parading in Julia's face.
"Maybe you should be a little nicer to the person that holds your life in her hands." she whispered.
"Wha-?" was all Julia could manage when suddenly everything went dark.
TO BE CONTINUED