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Violation

My eyes slid open and I winced in the bright light. I shifted slightly and felt the rough lumpy mattress underneath my face. I'm lying face down on a mattress that feels like its made of hemp. Something about this isn't right. I open my eyes fully and sit up.

The far wall of the room was made up of metal bars. Bars meant just one thing, a cell. Why am I in a cell? And why can't I remember?

I move position on the bunk, why are my pants undone? I look down at my shirt and that too is half undone and the bottom is buttoned wrongly. I stand up and button my pants. I ignore the whirling of the room and walk to the bars. I hold them so I don't sway too much.

The opposite wall is stone and I'm at the end of what appears to be a corridor.

"Hey!" I yell down the corridor. "Hey!"

A man, Sebaccean, comes walking down the corridor, not bothering to rush. His feet are purposeful. He stops, well out of grabbing reach I notice. He looks like a guard, dressed all in black. On one hip is a pulse pistol and on the other a wicked looking baton type thing that has several flashing lights round the handle. That cannot be good.

"Yes?"

"Why am I here?"

FLASHBACK:

D'Argo came back to the table with the tray full of drinks.

"No fellip nectar?" Chiana pouted.

"No, this is some local spirit. Just drink it," he said handing me my drink.

Aeryn sniffed it suspiciously and took a tiny sip. And I still wanted her, but she won't give me the time of day.

I took a sizable swig and swallowed. This stuff was good. Tasted like tequila, but with a sweeter aftertaste. Like blackcurrants. With a kick. Chiana and me would have fun if no one else would.

I tried to make conversation with Aeryn but she was indifferent to my advances. At one point I caught the scent of her hair and felt my stomach knot inside. I want her so badly.

Many drinks later, I'd lost precise count, when Aeryn was still on the first one; I leant over and grinned at Chiana. "Wanna dance?" My speech was only slightly slurred. I think.

She grinned back. "Sure Crichton. You two ok here?"

D'Argo just grunted and Aeryn shrugged.

The far end of the bar was converted into a dance floor, the table wasn't far away so Aeryn and D'Argo could keep their eyes on us. Miraculously we'd come across one empty table in the crush of people.

I took Chiana's hand and we headed for the dance floor. The band was playing something I didn't know but sounded suspiciously like Bohemian Rhapsody so I started singing it to Pip.

"Mama, just killed a man…"

She giggled and pressed closer to me. I felt my body start to react to her proximity and tried to will it away.

"I know you only want to make Aeryn jealous," she purrs, tilting her head.

"What? I…" the drink has addled my brain and I can't form a response. I look over at the table. Aeryn is deliberately looking away, checking out the bar with a hand resting on her gun. D'Argo looks furious.

She pushes one of her legs between mine and catches my head back to face her. "Why didn't we get it together John?" Her pink tongue catches between her lips and I find myself staring at it. I like the way she purrs my name.

"Behave Pip," I say, words slurring. "You're drunk"

"So are you," she retorts with a grin, and jumps up, legs round my waist and kisses me. Drunken sloppy kisses that we shouldn't be sharing. But I respond anyway. Eventually I pull away and she hops down. My whole body feels like it's tingling.

I look round at the table. D'Argo has gone and Aeryn has downed her drink. I feel my face burning up with shame.

I leave Chiana on the dance floor and head for Aeryn.

"Aeryn I…"

"You don't need to explain yourself to me Crichton." Her tone is hard, brittle. She stands.

"Wait Aeryn let me…"

"You've done enough Crichton," she snaps and leaves the bar. I feel a flash of anger and let her go. I grab D'Argo's unfinished drink from the table and down it.

END FLASHBACK:

"Why are you here?" the guard looks incredulous. "You don't remember?"

"No."

"You'll probably deny it at the hearing tomorrow too. You make me sick…"

"Hearing? What did I do?" I can feel panic rising in my belly. Like a nest of rattlers.

"You attacked and raped two women last night…"

I stare at him in horror. "What? Who?"

"A Nebari girl and a Sebaccean woman."

"No…no…NO! That wasn't me!"

"Your DNA was all over both victims. Scum." The guard spits on me. It hits me on my left shoulder but I don't even move. He walks away whistling.

I can't move. Rape. Nebari and Sebaccean. Chiana and Aeryn. No. That wasn't me. It can't have been me.