WARNING: These next three Chapters I've posted are rated M
So please if you read something you don't like …you have been warned!
Bait
A puddle of still and muddy water never looked so appealing to Sarah Connor in her entire life. She dropped knee first into the cool liquid splashing it on her dry and parched face. The feeling seemed to bring her back to life as she splashed it over and over again on her beautiful features.
Suddenly a soft hand grabbed the back of her neck with an iron like grip and tugged her backwards into the puddle.
"Slow Down beautiful, if I didn't know any better I'd think that you were trying to drown yourself." Steel growled with a chuckle standing in the ankle deep puddle. Sarah breathed angrily as the metal restraints bit into her wrists.
"You know …you're going to fetch me a lot good stuff tonight. The boys are so use to girls they'll almost pay anything to be with a real woman." Steel said gripping Sarah's chin and looking her over with a predatoral spark of lust in his eyes. He moved his hand over sweeping her slick locks of hair out of her face. Sarah gave him a death glare and spat in his face.
Sarah fully expected to be struck in the face for such an action, but Steel merely laughed and kicked some water at her before stepping back on dry land.
Sarah got back on her knees and gave a good look around.
The land was flat and desolate but in the distance she saw canyon like hills. She traced the small stream that was providing the water for the puddle calculating that they were still close to the river. Sarah brushed way the mist in the puddle before she cupped the water in her hands sipping the disgusting tasting brown liquid as she quietly formed a plan in her head as she observed the landscape.
"You know what I do to Pretty girls that try to escape?" Steel called interrupting Sarah's planning. "I take them into the desert and tie them to a pole, and then I make a lot of noise and watch the Sand Scarab patrol machines tear them apart." Sarah turned to find him sitting back to a rock grinning evilly as if he was reading her mind. Sarah turned her head back down staring at the water bellow before clearing and sipping again. She stayed in the puddle several more minutes in silence.
"…I hope that Connor mutt hurries up and gets here already. cause I'm board." Steel yelled into the wasteland stretching.
"Ryan... he won't come." Sarah said quietly having flashes of her deed in the diner and plugging the machines chip back in.
"If he's smart he would write me off as a traitor …maybe I am? Maybe my sole purpose here is to do Skynet's dirty work? If that's the case then the farther way I am the safer he is." Sarah thought guiltily gliding her hand through the water gently.
"Oh…he'll come, if not for you then for me, but he's coming." Steel lifted his greasy ponytail so the air could hit the back of his neck, tapping the shotgun against his thigh. "Plus he owes me a few…after what I did when I found his father's little angel wondering alone in the desert ….mmmm Kate." Steel shook his head as if having a fond memory of something. His tone and voice affliction could have been mistaken for a conversation about ones favorite food dish.
"She was a pale red head with blue soulful eyes, soft and feminine. The way she would scream …it did things for me that I can't even describe, but sadly she stopped screaming after a while and it became less enjoyable then before, so I gutted her. Too bad, but she was fun while she lasted. Now she'll live forever in my hall of fame." Steel opened his leather vest and showed Sarah one of the thin tally lines just bellow his heart. Sarah said nothing staring at the whole host of tally marks on his chest like she was going to be sick. "Each one represents a woman that I find to be fun or …unique." Steel looked down at Sarah with a flash of primal ferocity. Sarah looked away staring back out to the No-Mans- Land.
"I think when we're through …your mark might go on my heart. Connor's women are always …fun, and you look like you can take a lot more then Katherine could." Steel said quietly as if savoring the secret he just exposed.
"I don't…know what you're talking about?" Sarah said denying his claim with a fake sense of confusion.
"Oh please I've seen your face on that damn picture that John Connor carried with him for years. There is also a reason that the kid hid you from me. Your Connor's newest squeeze or maybe you're an old one and the cheerleader and Katie didn't know about you? Either way you're important enough to him to keep that picture of yours." Steel said in a gratifying tone standing up and grabbing something from the motorcycle.
"If he thinks I'm John's lover then he might think he can ransom me…It might buy me time."
"John…John and I, we're in love and he would give anything for me…I can be your meal ticket!" Sarah pleaded in a scared hopeless voice trying to give the impression that she had been found out and had everything to lose.
The sound of sloshing water caught Sarah's attention as someone lock an arm around her neck and pull her out of the water. Sarah struggled trying to break free when she felt a sharp prick in her neck. She watched as Steel injected something into her with a syringe.
"You… just … made… things … interesting." Steel growled in her ear tenderly kissing her neck with each word. Sarah felt sick as the world began to spin then every thing went black.
***
"He'll come to you broken and weak he'll need your touch and embrace like he once did. Once he surrenders to you and he's holding on to you for dear life…that's when you know what your purpose is."
"No!!" Sarah screamed her eyes snapping open.
A hand quickly placed it's self on her open mouth. Sarah tried to shake it off but another hand clamped on the other trying to keep it steady.
"Shh…please I'm not going to hurt you, but you need to be quiet!" a voice whispered to Sarah.
She turned to see a figure of a teenage girl not a day older then seventeen looking at her with a look of panic and fear. Sarah looked into her brown eyes and nodded. The girl nodded back removing her hands over her mouth. Sarah stared up to see that it was the middle of the afternoon from the looks of the blue sky above her.
Sarah had a hard time sitting up, everything was numb and sensitive. However the girl noticing her trouble and helped her up gently with care. Sitting up Sarah got a better look at the girl in front of her.
She had tanned skin with long curled brunet hair. Her eyes were brown and she had a round beautiful face. Sarah could tell she had some Hispanic blood in her from her looks. She was wearing a faded weather worn blue silken dress with spaghetti straps and her face had a liberal amount of make up that made her look like a cross between a hooker and a Clown. Sarah gave her attire a strange look.
"I'm sorry … umm …he made me put you in that because he didn't want anyone else touching you." The girl apologized with a hint of shame. Sarah shook her head not understanding what she was talking about. Then the wind kicked up and Sarah felt a draft between her legs. Sarah looked down seeing that she was wearing the almost same dress except in cream instead of blue.
"Why am I wearing this?" Sarah asked angrily pulling on the dress noticing that she still had the iron binders on her wrist.
"They make you wear this so that they can fetch a better price" a familiar voice called from a small distance. Sarah leaned back for a better look.
She saw another teen girl with long ratty blond hair, smudged fair skinned complexioned and blue eyes. Sarah thought she might have a heart attack.
"Riley…Riley Dawson?" Sarah asked taken back by the girl's appearance.
"Do I know you…?" Riley asked frightened that a stranger knew her name.
"You don't know who I am?" Sarah asked
"Sorry…" Riley shook her head still doing her impression of a scared mouse.
The confused conversation was cut short by yelling from behind Sarah.
"We'll give two weeks of food and a bottle of whisky for a night!" a white trash accent echoed through the small rock canyon they were camped in.
"We'll pay twice as much …. Plus you already offered to buy that little half breed whore!" a deep female voice yelled back.
Sarah turned around to see a fair amount of people sitting around on a blanket. They were separated into two groups of people with Steel sitting in the middle separating them.
The first group to his left had five filthy men. The one who sat in front of the others had unwashed dirty blond hair with a decade of dirt and grease on his frail and lanky physic. His companions had the same disgusting look about them. Sarah had flashes of "deliverance" just by looking at them.
The other group to the left had a different look to them. They were all Mexican and all looked like they belonged to a gang. Some where bald others had a buzz cuts. Many had tattoos and all wore matching green bandannas. In front of them sat a heavy set woman in a tank top with a large tattoo of an eagle with a snake in it's talons on her arm. Her hair was long and ratty and she seemed to be missing several teeth but due to the decay of the others Sarah could guess that the teeth fell out with out a punch being thrown.
BANG
The squabbling stopped and all eyes turned toward Steel who had a smoking shotgun pointed in the air.
"I'll strike up a deal with you … I'll let you take both girls for half there worth and … you all can have a go with the woman." Steel said pointing the gun at Sarah and her small group.
"What's the catch?" said the dirty man.
"There's a kid tracking me, a Tech-Com Officer, I want you to kill him. If you do that then I'll keep my word." Steel said gesturing toward the south. "And the person who brings me his head, gets to screw her twice…anywhere they want to put it." Steel gave a sketchy smirk nudging his head toward Sarah. All eyes turned toward Sarah who gave Steel a seething death glare.
"You hear that Elsa!" Steel asked the large Mexican woman. She nodded with a sly grin eyeing Sarah hungrily. She then turned to her crew speaking to them in Spanish. However one of them seemed to be disagreeing and arguing back with the large woman.
"What's his problem?" Steel asked annoyed.
"He doesn't want a taste he wants to buy the woman." Elsa Explained.
BANG
In an instant the man arguing had a hole blown through him. Everyone looked shocked before staring at Steel.
"Anyone else want out of the deal?" Steel asked cocking the shotgun.
No one said a word
"Good, now I suggest you get sober" Steel said snatching a bottle from one of the dirty men that was about to take a drink. Steel took a swig and walked away from both groups. He gave a long almost paranoid look to the cliffs above. His action gave Sarah some small satisfaction. She turned back to the girls that looked like they were going to die of terror.
"I'm running out of time." Sarah thought examining her handcuffs.