Chapter Seven

Around half an hour later 'Marguerite' looked around the door of the hut that she and the others occupied, she saw Cali sitting underneath a tree by the area they had entered the camp.  She looked back inside "We have to get out of here."

'Veronica' was subdued; she looked mournfully from Malone to the older woman.  "Jasima and Cali are right…" at 'Marguerite's' shocked expression she continued quickly.  "Malone and Roxton don't belong to us, they belong to the women whose bodies we've possessed."

"You're not going soft on me!" Jess couldn't believe it, not when Sarah had always been the stronger of the two of them.

'Veronica' joined her by the entrance.  "It isn't our time any more, give Marguerite and Veronica a chance to have the life we never did."

"If we don't claim them, Jasima and Cali will" the thought of loosing him made her feel ill.

The blonde pointed to Malone.  "Look at him!  Look at Roxton!  They won't chose us over them because they know we're not the Marguerite and Veronica they know" by now both women were oblivious to the fact that the two men in question were in the room.  Not that they appeared to be acting like themselves anyway.  "These women are stronger than we ever were" 'Marguerite' looked at here sadly.  "Jack and Don chose them because they were made to, we just didn't understand it at the time."

"I know.  I do, I just don't want to go through that again, that sense of loss."

"Nor I, but we don't have a choice.  Who do you want them to be with?  Marguerite and Veronica?  Or Jasima and Cali?" they both looked into the back of the hut were the two men seemingly slept peacefully.

"Fine!" it was obvious Jessica didn't want to leave.  But she had no choice "the fight is up to these two now."

The two women clasped each others hand and at the same time stepped out of their bodies, leaving Marguerite and Veronica to fall to the floor, gasping for breath.  "We should go now.  Jack and Don will be waiting for us" Sarah broke the silence.

Jessica turned back, though the other two women weren't exactly in a position to listen to anyone then.  "Good luck, never walk away from them.  You don't know how good you have it," she wisely said.  They both giggled before disappearing from sight.

Veronica looked up from the floor at Marguerite who was on her knees next to her, both still quite dazed.  "What the hell just happened?"

Cali stood at the entrance to the hut.  "Having fun?"

Both women were immediately on their guard.  "And who might you be?" Marguerite questioned the strange woman warily.

Cali ignored the question.  "Hurry up with Edward and John, we want our share too," she complained impatiently.

"We?" a puzzled Veronica asked as she stood.

Cali was becoming frustrated.  "Jasima and I share from time to time too" Malone and Roxton watched her from where they were sat at the back of the room "I will come back in about five minutes."

She walked out of the hut and once she was out of sight a recovering Marguerite and Veronica turned to question them.  "What's going on here?" Marguerite asked Roxton, both men looked to be out of it.

"Do you know something we don't?" Veronica took over.

"Jasima and Cali are wonderful hostesses," the two men answered in unison.

Veronica looked closely into the eyes of them both.  "They look drugged."

"Roxton…what do you think of Jasima and Cali?" Marguerite asked.

"What are you --?" Veronica started to ask before Roxton's reply gave her reason to shut up.

"Beautiful."

And then Malone gave his views.  "I have never met anyone as extraordinary as them before."

"Veronica…do you remember Danielle?" how could she forget?  Veronica nodded a yes anyway.  "Something tells me she left a few friends of her on the Plateau" she cringed.  Just what they needed.

"Something tells me we should meet this Jasima and Cali properly" with one last look at Roxton and Malone they made their way to where the other women were waiting in the larger building, across from the huts.