What Happens When You're Gone…
Solitary Dragon
"Where are you going Blonde?"
My question hung in the air, he turned slowly arched a golden brow and smirking to himself; he never answers me. After all, it isn't any of my business where he goes and what he does while he's not with me. I am just his property, a play thing and I have no say or so he likes to think. The months have crawled by since I left the inner city, time seems to have stopped, I can hardly recognized the days, the hours but there is a tugging in my heart. I want to be free...I want to go back to the life he dragged me away from, I want to go back to the family I lost, to my gang. I miss the wild, I miss the reckless me and more than anything I miss living on that razor's edge. Being here is like being stuck in a glass case with mirrors, everything and everybody looks the same, its this order, the constraints and the boredom which will be the death of me if I don't escape. My only release is Iason and I'm so TIRED of this, this revolving glass case of mirrors which I wish to shatter.
"Come back early or I'll get bored and create mischief Iason. It's lonely here and I have nothing to do. When are you going to let me go? Or will I remain a prisoner here for the rest of my life? Till I start to...wrinkle?" I rolled over and lounged against the pillows, the bedding already disturbed by our previous encounter.
"Are you really so warped? DO you THINK that you can control me FOREVER, Blonde?"
"Are you challenging me? I don't like that tone." He pulled on his cuff, glancing in the mirror once more attempting to straighten his crooked sleeve.
"I'll be leaving for business, there are things that need to be tended to and Jupiter's patience is running thin. I'm going to be gone for a few days but when I get back..." he levelled his blue eyes on me with a weighted gesture. I knew I'd pay for my remark but I couldn't help pushing forth.
"You're being awfully talkative? Are you...trying to scare me?" I grinned, as usually he looked nonplussed about my retort and failed to react. He'd respond in his own way when he got back.
"Stay of out trouble. You are here because I made it so. Don't test me." Iason's words were final; tossing his cloak over his shoulder he made his move. The elevator blinked to life and he disappeared behind its doors.
Gone for a few days? What did that mean? I picked up snips of conversation every
now and then, but it seems that there is an issue on One of the Rings.(1) I don't know much about space politics but I've come to understand that there are Worlds out there that I know little or nothing about. Iason was a wheel in the wider workings of the universe; he was concerned with so many mysterious things and part of me wanted to know but unlike Katze...I didn't want to lose the thing that made me...who I am. The thing that brought us both so much pain and so much pleasure.
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"It can be delivered to your master's quarters, but I'm not authorized to make transactions with you, without his prior consent. It's a legal matter and you can't be privy to contracts. You're just a mongrel pet after all."
I wanted to punch his teeth in; part of me itched for the blood behind his scream. Damn Iason and his mediators. Am I a non-person to be spoken down to, like the lowest order of beast?
"In any event," he continued, "I will forward a log to Mink's desk as it isn't a pressing matter and can be handled when he returns. Do keep out of trouble."
The screen bled black as his mediator disconnected our chat.
I was waiting on a call from Katze and that's why I turned on the screen instead Iason's mediator greeted me with a bark and rambled on. It's been 3 days, as usual Iason hasn't called or sent word and I'm disturbed at how much this upsets me. I want to be indifferent and uncaring but like a magnet I'm drawn to him and wonder what he's doing without me but I don't want to care. I fill my time by wandering about; I know I can't descend into the inner city, that would be sudden death, I'd incur Iason's wrath and who knows what he'll do. But I flirt with the idea of escape, every day I move closer and closer to the outskirts. I'm daring my own death, for if I'm caught...but then again it's an adrenaline rush, I love knowing I've push the limit. I can't be controlled; I can't be tamed and made into a play thing. I'm RIKI the DARK!
"Having fun?" A voice shot out into the darkened room.
I started dropping my glass, it was Raoul.
"Why are you here?" I sneered, turning away from him and glaring out the window at the night sky.
"Is that any way to talk to me? MONGREL." A caress as fleeting as it was, I knew instantly what he'd come to do. Raoul enjoyed raising my hackles and knowing I could do nothing to stop him, he never oversteps his boundaries but like me he pushed the limits. Raoul understands what he can and cannot do and what is Iason's and Iason's only. There was a level of comfort in that, in knowing that I wasn't to be passed around like meat. I was...special somehow. I was Iason's and no one else could have me.
"He's gone and what do you do? Whimper about in the dark like a dog...are you waiting for him, like a good pet? Like an obedient pet? Your time here is going to be cut short, Mongrel. I don't' know what kind of hold you have on him but I'm telling you now - you wouldn't be the downfall of this place. This place that Jupiter built - you'll go back to that dirty pit where you and your kind belong. You've tainted him, but I hope that he'll come to his senses and release you. I'm praying for it."
My tormentor left and part of me agreed...I'm praying for it too. I'm praying for freedom.
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"Have you been good?"
"Do you need to ask Blonde? And why is it that you ALWAYS turn up after I've showered...I'm naked for God's sake."
"What are you hiding; I've seen it all before...I haven't forgotten what you said before I left Riki..."
"Back to the same old routine Iason? Surprise me for once and do something that I wouldn't predict."
Fangs, the sting of his bite on my shoulder - I've missed you…Blonde…
To be continued...
I tried hard this time and it actually flows - it's been years since I've published here but I hope to get active in the Community once again. This is my first Iason/Riki piece and I will continue writing GOOD chapters!!! I don't want to beg for reviews but ...it will create FASTER updates *Cheeky smile*. PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! I'll be happy if I only get one review or even a FLAME! ok I'm lying I WANT TONS of Reviews! DOMO ARIGATO!!!
I'll try to keep it light in places and playful at times AND MORE EVIL RAOUL!!!
Katze will appear in Chapters 3 or 4, I haven't decided yet but DEFINITELY MORE EVIL RAOUL! Doing evil, naughty things...! heheh Let your imagination run wild and if you have a suggestion and you happen to be reviewer number 3 I'll include it in the story line! DON'T WASTE your REVIEW!!! LUCKY number 3!! Reviewer number 3 Gets to add a plot point!
(1)Rings of Jupiter obviously - ok I took some "liberties" here!
