In this chapter you're gonna meet Freddie and his good for nothing cousin, Bubba.
Harper stayed close to Trance as the kidnappers ordered them out of the cell away from Rommie and to their ship. Trance wrapped her tail around her waist so that it wouldn't get stepped on, and Harper kept her close to his side. "It's gonna be okay," he whispered to her, as they got into the ship.
Once inside the ship, Trance and Harper were thrown into a holding cell and their kidnappers all started to celebrate their capture of Trance and Harper. "It's purple," one of them said, as he pointed at Trance. "How come it's purple?"
"I don't know, Bubba," the other one said, as he took up the controls. "Why don't you ask it?"
"I don't want it to turn me purple," Bubba said, as he shot a glance back at them. "You think we can get huge money for them?"
"Bra'don was gonna get 15,000 apiece for them, so yeah."
"Gosh, darn it, Freddie you're so smart."
"Shut up Bubba, and go make sure that they are all right."
"Okay, Freddie." Bubba then turned and came up to the other side of the door. "You all right?"
"Yeah, Bubba, we're fine," Harper said, as he shot a glance over at Trance to see that she was tending to a wound she had gotten in the fight. "Can you get us some food, water, and blankets?"
"What ya think, Freddie?"
"Give them what they want, Bubba." Freddie then returned his attention on the task ahead of him as he slipped into slip stream. "Of all the people I could have hooked up with, I get my cousin Bubba."
Bubba quickly returned with the items and handed them to Harper before shutting the door. "Thank you, Bubba," Trance said to him, as she took up a scrap of cloth and put it over her wound.
"She talked to me," Bubba said to Freddie as he came up to him. "She's really nice."
"Bubba, stop it," Freddie said as they came back to normal space. "You can't have feelings for slaves."
"I know." Bubba sat down in a chair and looked over at Freddie. "But why did we have to take these two?"
"Because they looked to be about the youngest of the others."
"So it's not the fact that she's purple?"
"No, it's not because she's purple that I told you to take those two."
"What about the other?"
"She wouldn't be any use to us."
"Okay."
"Do you think that Rommie's okay?" Trance asked Harper as they sat down on the floor and shot a glance over at Bubba and Freddie.
"I'm sure that she's aboard the Andromeda as we are speaking," Harper whispered to her, as he covered her with a blanket. "Well, at least these guys treat us better than Bra'don did."
"Yes, they do. I think that Bubba may have a crush on me."
"You're right, Trance. I think he does too." Trance then moved closer to him and curled into his side. "Now all we can do is hope that they don't kill us."
"They won't kill us, it's not in their hearts." Trance then laid her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. "They'll protect us."
"Really?" She nodded yes, before she fell asleep. "Night Trance."
"Night Harper."
"They got names," Bubba said to Freddie, as he turned to face him.
"Ya think," Freddie said, as he hit him over the back of the head. "Of course they got names."
"I didn't think about names. I was gonna call her purple, him boy."
"Well, you're not anymore. You call them by their given names."
"Okay, Freddie." Bubba shot a glance over to see that Harper had fallen asleep as well. "They look cute together."
To Be Continued