I hate Erica, and she's not even a real person. Plus I created her.


Erica

I could hear them fucking in there, her moans and cries of ecstasy.

I hadn't been able to help myself, I had peaked through the door. I had seen his back in the moonlight, that curve of his tan skin and mouth on her chest. My chest was burning with anger at that, I had gritted my teeth and scratched my nails into the door.

Why the fuck did she have to be pregnant? I don't think I could get him now. I don't think I could have a companion out here when everyone hated me so much. I didn't want to fucking be alone. I wanted what that bitch had: I wanted a lover, I wanted a baby, even if they were mutants. I wanted that emotional support Lizard gave Dizzy. I wanted someone to hold me, love me. Fuck I just wanted someone to sit with me when I was alone in my room.

I pouted on my bed, my arms crossed over my chest and my legs straight out in front of me. I can't do this, I have to get out of here. I wouldn't tell anyone of what goes on out here, but dammit I just need to get home.

I got out of my bed and grabbed a bag, stuffing the clothes I had inside of it. I looked around the room then sighed, walking out into the hallway. The house was quiet, except for the remaining pants from dizzy and Lizard, the wheezing breath of Big Brain. That dude creeped me out like a lot. He didn't like me, I knew that, told me to rot in hell a couple times. I have tried to avoid him a lot, but right now he was in the foyer, sitting in his chair beside the door.

"Wh-wheez-at are ya…doin?"

I stood in front of him, squeezing the strap of my back pack tightly in my hand. "I'm leaving."

"Ya gonn-wheez-a get kilt."

"By who, you guys?"

"Hades."

I raised an eyebrow and scoffed, walking around him and jerking the door open. "Sure, the god of the Underworld is gonna come after me. Good luck with losing your mind."

I didn't slam the door shut, didn't need to alert the rest of the house, but I did jump off the porch and start running out towards the way I saw Lizard and Dizzy walking in the this morning. That had to be the way to this guy Jebs place. He had a phone, he just had to at least. I could make it out of here.

What the hell was that Big Brain guy talking about, Hades? The god of the Underworld? Maybe he was serious, I don't think he's a real joker. But who the hell was Hades? Some mutant living out here besides them?

My question was answered by a strong grip on my leg. I screeched and looked down, seeing this strange mutant lying between these two flattish rocks, his skin molted to blend in with the scenery. He grinned up at me, snaking his tongue out at me and brushing the gross thing at my leg. I screamed again and tried to jerk my leg away, but he just wouldn't let go, pulling me closer towards him.

He gave a rather strong tug and I fell, raking my nails at the ground to try to get away from him. Was this Hades? I screamed when I felt his tongue slide up into the hem of my shorts, tickling my panties. I felt the tears pouring down my cheeks and gave a cry/sob, digging my finger into the ground. I was able to wiggle away from his grasp and twisted, kicking him in the face. He gave this strange cry and held onto his face, falling sideways into the dust. I kicked my way up to my feet and started running into the desert again, unable to tell if I was running in the same direction anymore.

God I could feel his saliva on my leg. I stopped for a moment, trying to wipe the saliva off of my leg. I gave up and swabbed it up, rubbing it into my shorts so it would soak up. I sighed and started running again, cheering out loud when I saw the lights of the gas station. I fell onto the floorboards of the steps, letting tears fall onto the boards. I made it, I am ok. I am safe. I can hear someone moving inside and sighed in relief, resting my head on the boards.

"Th' hell?"

I looked up at the scraggly old man. "Help me…help me please. I got away from them. I got away from that place. I was attacked by some creature in the desert, one of those mutants. He looked like a rock…"

Jeb's eyes widened and he slammed the door on me. I screamed, pushing myself towards the door so I could bang on it. "No, no you can't do this to me! I have to get home, I have a baby to take care of! You can't let me die out here!"

My baby, she was there. I can't do it, I can't go another moment without her. I've been trying to convince myself that I can do without my baby, that I can always make it back to her, that she will be fine without me. I can't do it anymore. I have to her to my baby, my baby girl…

"Momma…"

I froze up, looking around. I heard her…I heard my baby. "Clair! Clair, momma's here for you!"

But it wasn't her, it was no one. It was just me and Jeb inside talking to someone, but I know it was a radio he was talking to. Was he calling those mutants? Were they coming after me? No, no I can't go back. I won't go back.

I curled in on myself, sobbing into my knees in the dusty porch. It can't happen like this, I can't just be stuck out here without my baby. Stuck out here with Dizzy, with Lizard, and with that freak who attacked me. What the hell did he want, why did he attack me, where was he now? Was he watching me? Did he go to Jupiter?

"Clair…" I whispered into the cold night air.

LOCATION:

TEST VILLAGE

Dizzy

"The bitch is gone!"

I was started awake by Lizard growling voice. I jumped up, seeing Papa in the doorway. I screamed and covered myself in our sheets. Lizard looked back at me, moving in front of Papa. He blocked me from view and I sighed in relief and reached down for my clothes on the floor. I shimmied into them as quickly as I could and joined Lizard at the door, crossing my arms around my middle.

"What's going on?"

"The bitch got away, left last night." Lizard growled stomping down the hallway.

Papa sighed in annoyance, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Big Brain told me this morning that Erica had left last night, late. He didn't stop her and didn't alert anyone. I sent Pluto and Goggle out to the mines to see if Hades went after her."

My throat closed up. "Lizard told me about them…"

"So you know what has happened to her if they are the one who captured her."

I nodded, closing my hand over my throat. "Yeah…I know what has happened if that has went down. But do we really need to get her back?"

Papa looked at me like I was crazy. Was I? Guess I was. I just told him to let those creatures keep her, let them rape her, use her as a breeder. She deserved it, going for my mate, going for my love. If she got out of here alive she was jeopardizing my family. Let her go.

"Dizzy…how can you say that?"

I shrugged. "She was going after my mate. She can rot in that place for all I care."

He stared at me, those eyes of his watching me, judging me. "We will still look for her. If she is dead, we bury her. She will not e eatin."

"Why not?!" I screamed, drawing the attention of the few upstairs. Ruby and Mama wondered into the hallway, watching us. "Didn't you say he was my mate? That tampering with a mate is certain death? You yourself told her that. You told her she would die, but you are going to retrieve her? Bury her? Why do you care about her? What does it matter? She could have jeopardized the whole family, and your going to let her live?!"

My blood was boiling, my fists were shaking at my sides. I thought Papa was on my side? Why the fuck was he going to let her live, why not execute old style with a bullet in the head for possibly messing his whole family up?

"It is my ruling, you have no say for it. We will retrieve her and you will do nothing. You are a clan member, not a leader."

He left me there, shaking in the hallway with my chest feeling as empty as it had ever felt. I watched Mama and Ruby flow down stairs, both casting me a sorrowful glance that I ignored. They had no say in it, so it didn't matter. Lizard came up after a few moments looking like a pissed puppy. He shrugged into my side and pulled me downstairs and out the door. The blistering heat brought me from my reverie and I hissed , shielding my eyes from the harsh sun.

"This isn't fair." I moaned.

"I knows where she be."

I pulled Lizard to a complete stop, staring at him slack jawed. "You know where she is?"

He nodded and pulled me again to a steady walk out of the village. "She in the mines. She 'Meleons mate."

I smiled a sadistic smile, my psyche finally stretched to its limit. I can't let Pluto and Goggle get her and bring her back home. I can't have her in the same home as mine, can't have her near Lizard anymore. I have sat back and went with it, thinking Lizard won't touch her. But what if were arguing ne day and she comes along with her pretty eyes and bats them the right way? He will sleep with her and then my world will shatter and I will not let that happen when my life is finally piecing itself back together.

Lizard saw my grin and sighed in a worn way. "Wha'?"

"Where are the mines?"

He didn't want to do it, I could hear the reluctance in his voice as we walked towards the hills. But I didn't care, I wanted to nip this problem in the bud before it grew into something more. I wanted that bitch gone, I wanted to stop regretting being a good person. I was done being on pins and needles around that bitch. I saw her last night, while Lizard and I were making love. I saw her jealousy ridden eyes scan over my mate and I will not let it happen again.

Erica would not make it out of the mines.

"Why ya wanna kill th bitch?"

I glared at him as we climbed up a gravel slope. "You know damn good and well why I want to kill her. Don't tell me you're on the let her live wagon to?"

He scoffed. "I not, I jus' ain't seen ya so…"

"Angry? Bloodthirsty?" I threw at him. "Look, you are my mate, and I will not put up with her incessant flirting with you. I am sick of her and her pretty face and her fucking perfect body."

Lizard stopped me and held my face gently in his hands. What happened to the psycho I fell for in the first place? The lunatic that enjoyed raping and killing? I didn't think he could be so loving and caring and gentle. I bet if the old Lizard, the one numb to emotions like this, would fucking kill this Lizard. I think he'd torture him first, just for being a pussy.

"You ain't gotta worry 'bout her getting ta me."

I felt a tear leak onto my cheek and bit my lip. "I'm a girl, I can't help but worry about things like that. You are mine."

He smirked and pressed his marred lips for a moment. "Well ya need ta stop."

I rolled my eyes and pushed away Lizard, a blush burning my cheeks. "Let's just kill this bitch…"