Ghosts
The only sound was the crackling of fire that had now spread through the crashed vehicle, feeding slowly on the spilt gasoline leaking onto the ground.
Maya sat, motionless, staring out into the blackness of the night.
She let her shoulders slump, her breath coming to her in short sporadic pants. She could still see the beasts outline in her head every time she blinked. Smell its breath, hear its growls.
She raised her hand slowly, it was shaking like mad. Her whole body was.
She slowly wiped a stray tear with the back of her hand.
She had to shake herself out of this.
She couldn't just sit here and do nothing.
She looked down at herself, she was bleeding through her armor in places and her pants were torn open at the left knee. Blood seeped through the material, staining it a deep crimson.
"Fuck..." She whispered to herself.
She needed to move. There was no telling what other creatures had heard the crash and would be coming to inspect what all the noise was at any second. She couldn't risk fighting off massive skags in her injured state.
Maya slowly pushed herself upward onto unsteady footing. She wobbled a little as she did so. Not a good sign.
She had to push through this.
She looked down at the laceration on her leg. She had to stop the bleeding. Blood would only attract predators. Maya placed her palm to the wound and with a flash of light and a streak of heat she seared the wound shut. She gritted her teeth and let out a little hiss of anguish.
God that fucking hurt, no matter how many times she did it. She was used to patching herself up, but that never changed how fucking painful it was.
She cursed herself and limped toward the wrecked vehicle.
It was a long walk back to the caverns. She would be better off making camp in one of the hillside caves than trying to make it all the way back there at night.
Wasn't smart to wander the plains of pandora at night...even if you were the planets most powerful siren.
Maya sifted through the wreckage and managed to salvage three guns, some ammo, and some food she'd stored. By some miracle they hadn't been touched by the fire just yet. Maya attached two guns to her hips and slung the third over her back. She stuff the food into her pockets and looked out on the moon bathed landscape.
She looked up the cliff face just across the canyon.
There was a small cave nestled midway up.
That would serve high enough to be out of reach from Alpha Skags, it would have to do.
Maya sighed outwardly and limped toward the cliffs.
After a good hour, and much strain to her body she managed to drag herself and her cargo up the cliff and rolled into the cave. Maya lay on her back breathing heavily.
The cave was wide, and from the looks of it, deep. With her luck she'd find a family of Rakk's hiding in it.
She forced herself to her feet and trudged into the cave. The further she went the larger the cave seemed to get, until it opened up into a monstrous cathedral like room. stalactites dangled from the ceilings, and stalagmites rose up from the flooring, as if reaching for each other in vain. Frozen by centuries. The cave was untouched.
A small pool over water glistened in the middle, illuminated by glowing crystals clustered amongst the rocks.
Maya stood still for a moment, looking over the natural beauty of it all. It was gorgeous.
She limped downward, and settled herself next to the pool, sliding down against a large stalagmite. She closed her eyes for a moment, breathing in slowly, listening to the sounds of water dripping and echoing off the high walls. It would have been peaceful, if her mind hadn't been a tangled mess and her body been a flurry of aches and pains.
But what hurt more than any physical wound she had suffered...was her heart.
She hadn't felt pain like this since...since the day he'd left.
Maya felt sick to her stomach.
She had always thought she'd have been so much stronger...but when the time finally came...but when the moment she faced Zero again was there...she could do nothing. She'd trained, endured all of Jack's awful eridium treatments, she'd become a shell of the woman the once was and yet...in the face of him...she had fallen. She knew what he had become, she'd seen what he could do to people. She'd seen all the souls he'd torn limp from limp and left only their guts out in the dirt. She'd seen their headless bodies. She'd seen it all, she knew what kind of beast he was. She'd even seen some of the experiments Jack had down in the medical ward. They were nothing compared to the monster Zero truly was...she knew it was him. Deep down she didn't want it to have been. She wanted it to have been some creature born from the crazed Pandoran evolution. But she knew...she knew better. Those eyes. Those endless black abyss like orbs. They had haunted her for so long, at night she'd see those eyes in her dreams, staring out at her, soaking her in. And tonight...there they were. So real. Too real.
Maya buried her face in her hands and the sobs wracked through her body. Shaking her down to her core and sputtering up in ridiculous, loud, cries of anguish.
She wanted them to stop. She knew how weak she must look.
Sirens don't cry.
She didn't cry.
But yet...she couldn't stop.
She'd never done a damn thing to deserve all this.
How could she return empty handed to Jack, knowing she had been this close to Zero. Knowing she could have killed him, and didn't.
How could she have thought she would ever be able to? No amount of time, or training, or hardships would change the fact that she...had once loved the assassin.
And there was a piece of her that still did...as much as she didn't want to admit it.
She'd buried that piece for so damned long...and now it all just came up, rearing its ugly head.
Maya slowly laid down onto her side, sobbing softer now, the tears staining down her face. She curled up into the fetal position there on the cave floor. Broken, bruised and crushed. The ground felt cool against her cheek as she laid there.
She closed her tear filled eyes and curled her fists up to her chin. The sobs slowly began to dissipate, and her body grew still as sleep began to take her.
Within moment's she had slipped into unrestful sleep.
Suddenly Maya's eyes flicked open.
She was rattled from sleep by the dreadful feeling...of another presence.
Someone else was here.
Maya slowly reached down to her hip, searching for her gun.
But her fingers found nothing.
Where the fuck was her gun!?
Maya's eyes grew wide as her hand snapped around to her back.
Nothing.
Maya sat up in a panic, scanning the room frantically.
She held out her hand and immediately a powerful ball of energy formed around her entire arm. It glowered and flickered like fire as she urged it to grow.
"Whoever you are, you have no idea what the fuck you've gotten yourself into..." Maya snarled standing slowly, the energy growing, slowly encasing her whole body.
Whoever they were they had all three of her guns, she needed to form a barrier against bullets.
"Show yourself you fucking coward!" Maya barked her voice echoing off the walls.
The energy licked around her wildly, licking at her feet as she took a stride forward.
Suddenly there was the sound of footsteps behind her.
Light, graceful, almost undetectable.
Maya whirled around, arm outstretched, ready to phaselock the stupid soul who dared try to sneak up on her.
As soon as she turned, she instantly felt like everything was in slow motion.
Her heel scraped the earth as she turned on it, her breath caught in her throat, her eyes widened in their sockets.
She felt the wind knocked right out of her. She felt numb right down into her bones.
Maya froze, fist still ready to be wielded, body ready for battle.
Black. All black.
A black, sleek helmet.
So sleek she could see her reflection in it.
Tall.
So tall.
Towering above her menacingly.
Maya's eyes wavered as she looked upon the sight.
A ghost.
Come back to life.
Real in front of her once more.
Haunting.
Black as night.
"Maya..." His voice was soft, and mechanical.
It kissed at her ears, licked down her neck.
Her name on his tongue...it sounded just the way it had so long ago. It hadn't changed. It still roused the deepest feelings within her. Stirred her core.
No.
He'd left her.
He couldn't come back now.
No.
Maya's arm shook with rage.
She gritted her teeth together.
"How dare you...how dare you come back." Maya hissed through snarled lips.
He did not move, he did not speak.
The ghost was silent.
"How...DARE YOU!" Maya screamed letting loose of all the energy she'd built.
It swirled out over her body and hit him full force. He was knocked back off his feet and slammed into the wall.
He fell weakly to the ground gasping for breath.
Maya's body glowed with blue fire as she outstretched her arms and sashayed toward the downed man.
"Maya...Maya please let me explain..." The man gasped.
The ghost gasped.
"No...there is no explaining. You filthy goddamned bandit. You stupid son of a bitch. NO EXPLAINING!" Maya yelled swiping her hand through the air throwing blue fire his direction, illuminating the ground before him.
He rolled away skillfully, still clutching his side from the impact of Maya's toss.
"You...you have no IDEA what I have been through...I've hunted you down...hunted you for so fucking long. And here you are...I'm going to fucking kill you...watch you burn..." Maya hissed wildly.
The energy flocked around her like massive animals following her every step.
"Maya, Maya please..." He begged.
Maya slowly approached him, her boots crunching the ground with every step.
She crouched down beside him, and grabbed his helmet in her glowing hands, causing the metal to burn slightly.
"I like the way you beg..." Maya sneered running her nails down his helmet.
"I've finally got you right where I want you..." Maya whispered shoving his helmet away.
"I was ordered to bring you to Jack...but let him have all the fun...no...no I think not." Maya hissed mulling the thoughts over in her head.
The ghost looked at her, or she assumed he was the way he tilted his mask.
"Maya...this is not you. You speak with hate. You are not yourself." He breathed.
He reached up slowly to touch the siren's face, despite his glove being burned in the process.
The touch sent chills down Maya's spine.
This was no ghost.
This was...Zero.
The name hit her like a ton of bricks.
It was him.
Maya dropped her ready hand and slowly the energy around her dissipated, wisping away like spirits in the wind.
Maya's face dropped, and her eyes welled with tears.
Her words were not her own.
They were words of anger...she sounded just like Handsome Jack...
The realization hit her hard, nearly doubling her over.
Here she was miles away and the dictator still controlled her, still swam through her.
Zero lifted up on his elbows slowly, and gently lifted himself to a standing position.
"You are much more powerful. Couldn't have taken another blow like that. Would have broken ribs at the least." He whispered dusting off his chest and shoulder.
Maya said nothing. She simply stood there, unmoving, barely even breathing.
she closed her eyes, and then opened them again.
This was what she had become.
An extension of Jack.
She was just as angry as he was, just as insane as he was.
Here she was so angry, so bitter...just like him.
Maya looked up at him through teary eyes.
"Zero..." She whispered.
"Why the fuck are you here..." She whispered through her teeth, the tears falling heavy now.
Zero shook his head in dismay and took a step toward her. Maya instinctively stepped backward.
"No. Stay over there. Don't get near me." Maya whispered her voice shaking a little.
Zero dropped his arms slowly.
"Answer the question." Maya hissed watching him with cold, deadly eyes.
Zero sighed lowly and let his shoulders fall in dismay.
"Oh Maya...what has he done to you..." Zero whispered softly.
"What do you think he's done to me!?...everything. Everything Zero." Maya snarled back her eyes wild with hate as she looked upon Zero's tall form.
"And it's all your fucking fault." She added viciously.
Zero said nothing.
"So you knew...you knew Jack had me. You knew and you didn't come for me. You let him have me...you let him use me. You let him pump me full of eridium, turn me into this...this monster!?" Maya yelled thrusting her hands out in anger.
"Yes, I knew he had you. But I thought you went by choice. I had no idea..." Zero tried feebly.
"By choice!? By CHOICE! You think I joined with him on purpose!? What the fuck is WRONG with you!? He CAPTURED me! Tortured me! He's taken everything from me...and where were you Zero?! Where were YOU?" Maya yelled angrily.
"You are not the only one who he has made a monster. What Jack has done to you, I would have only done worse. I would have killed you had I stayed." Zero whispered lowly.
"I could barely control what I was then. I killed hundreds. I lost everything." Zero whispered.
Maya gritted her teeth in rage.
"You saw what I was. You know Maya. You know." Zero said softly his voice ashamed and sad.
"I can control it now...but a year ago...I was utterly lost. Killing one or two bandits is one thing...but I killed families. Children, babies. The beast doesn't pick and choose. He doesn't spare souls based on age, or health, or status." Zero breathed clenching his fists.
"He kills how he pleases. I was just a host. A puppet." He finished.
Maya looked at the floor.
She knew what he was.
And she had been so terrified she couldn't even lift her gun to him. She had been useless in the shadow of the beast.
"I know what you are. I thought I was prepared...and then I saw you...it...and I just, I just froze..." She admitted lowly.
"And you were not the only one who killed families. You saw Pandora fall. Because of me..." Maya whispered.
"Why didn't you kill me...why didn't it kill me?" She whispered looking at him with a tear streaked face.
"I can control it now. Somewhat. It is a living part of me that I have to deal with, but I have learned." Zero whispered.
Maya just stared at him, lips tight, eyes wavering.
"I wish it would have killed me." Maya blurted softly.
Zero looked taken aback.
"Maya don't say that. Do not speak such things. I would never...that is why I left in the first place." He stuttered.
"It would have been better that way! I wanted you to set me free! Then I'd never have to go back...never have to see Jack again...never have to bend to his will again..." Maya sobbed pitifully.
"Maya please...please stop..." Zero tried but she cut him off.
"No! Don't tell me to stop! You have no idea what I have had to endure, you have no idea the pain I have been through! I deserve peace! I thought I might finally get it! If you weren't going to kill me why the fuck are you here!?" She yelled viciously.
"Because...despite all odds i found you tonight. Try as I might to leave you in my past, here you are. I should not be here, but my emotions have driven me to you once again." He continued.
" Before you I felt nothing, thought emotion naive. I thought when I left I would just go back to that...but I was so wrong Maya. I haven't stopped feeling utterly broken since the day I left."
Maya stared at him in silence.
"That makes two of us." Maya whispered.
"I shall go now. I just needed to see you. Just needed to tell you how sorry I am." Zero whispered turning his back to Maya and starting out of the cave.
Maya felt panic welling up in her throat.
"Z-Zero! Wait...don't...don't go." She said suddenly.
Zero paused and looked back at her.
"P-please...don't leave again...don't...don't go..." Maya stuttered, her words falling to pieces as the sobs took over.
Suddenly her legs just gave out.
Maya crumpled to the ground, overcome by vicious sobs.
Zero rushed to her sunken form and bent down before her.
He sat on the ground and pulled her into his lap. She fell into him hard, bursting into loud shameless tears. Zero pulled her tight to his body, strong arms coming around her shaking form.
He shushed her softly, resting his helmet on the top of her head as he rocked her gently. Maya's fingers found the worn material of his suit and they dug into the familiar armor harshly.
Her tears wet the front of his chest plate as she buried her face into him, face twisted in ugly sobs.
"I don't even know who I am anymore...the things I've done...I'm responsible for the fall of Pandora...I watched when Jack killed our friends...I helped..." Maya sobbed her voice cracking.
"Sh...sh...you don't have to talk about it. Just breathe. I'm here." Zero whispered.
Maya nodded against him.
Maya sobbed into Zero's chest plate for what felt like an eternity. She just let it all go, let it all come out. The year of buildup, the year of torture, the year of endless horrors.
Even the strongest fall apart every once and a while.
She was the strongest being on the planet, besides the Warrior and here she was a sobbing mess.
Maya took a deep breath, fists still clenching the material of Zero's armor. She squeezed her eyes shut for a moment and exhaled. The tears were lessened, the sobs slowly disappearing.
Zero's familiar heat surrounded her.
God it had been so damned long.
He smelled like old leather, the worn kind, the old kind. He smelled like earth, like the dirt of Pandora. He smelled like...home.
Maya wiped her nose with the back of her hand and sniffed pitifully.
Zero reached up and stroked the back of her hair slowly, his long lithe fingers parting the locks with ease.
Here there were again. So much time between their last meeting...and yet it all felt the same.
Two monsters. Molded by the Hyperion overlord. Created by his hands. Power forced upon them unwillingly. They were not all so different.
"We're both monsters..." Maya whispered softly burying her face in the crook of Zero's neck.
She felt Zero chuckle lightly.
"I suppose you are right siren. We are indeed. We are both monsters." Zero whispered softly to the Siren curled against him.
"I know you meant well by leaving. I was just...just so angry..." Maya said after a long pause.
"I could not have let the beast take you. I could not be responsible for that. I love you too much to have let that happen." Zero whispered.
There was that heavy word.
Love.
He did not say it as past tense. He said it as the happening now. He still loved her. Just as much as he had the day he left. And he had loved her every day since.
To hold her like this again...it was like a dream.
It didn't seem real.
He'd dreamt of this over and over again. They had felt so real...only to dissipate with the new morning. Sometimes they would transform into nightmares. Nightmares of the beast...taking Maya, devouring her. Nightmares of the hell she had experienced being captured by Jack. Those nightmares haunted his every waking moment. And yet, here she was...real...alive...for him to hold, for him to comfort.
Zero reached around to the back of his helmet and peeled it up off his head gingerly. He let the helmet fall onto the ground beside them and Maya looked up at him.
Untamed dirty blonde hair, those sharp features she had fallen for in the first place...and those beautiful glossy eyes.
Maya stared in wonder.
"You haven't changed a bit." Maya whispered touching his chin gently.
Zero seemed to tense at the touch, but smiled smally at the comment.
"I shall take this as a compliment? Your hair is longer. You just as beautiful as I remember." Zero mused softly.
"Stop trying to butter me up." Maya said softly, attempting to lighten the mood.
Zero smiled down at her, his perfect teeth shining through his thin lips.
Maya let out a long sigh that came up from deep in her core.
Zero's eyes were steady as he looked at her, their gazes locked, and somehow it ignited a fire that had long since been snuffed out. The blaze roared back to life as Maya's eyes swept over him. Her plump lips were still as she observed him. Her stomach filled with heat, her body was overcome by tingles of sensation. The flame had flickered back to life against her will.
She had hated him.
She had hunted him.
She had wanted him dead.
And now...in his overwhelming presence...all she wanted was want him.
Maya stared for a moment longer, and suddenly craned her neck up, slamming her lips into the assassin's.
Zero seemed to freeze in surprise at the sudden advancement from the siren.
One moment she's trying to kill him, the next she's kissing him.
She was just as confusing as he recalled. Just as much of a loose cannon.
But eventually, the tense male relaxed into the kiss forced upon him...and he returned it.
His arms pulled her to him eagerly as she pushed in harder, her lips parting, tongue exploring his teeth. She gently bit his lip and Zero involuntarily let loose of a small groan.
Maya pulled back instantly.
She was not supposed to kiss her prey.
She was definitely not supposed to do that at all.
If Jack knew...god he'd rip her limb from limb...
Jack.
Fuck...it was a good thing he did not know where she was. His favorite siren...flirting with the enemy, oh that would not go over well.
No.
She paused the thoughts in their place.
She would not let him control her here.
He was not here, she would not let his iron grip frighten her from miles away.
She would do as she pleased tonight, and forget Jack. Forget all about him.
"I'm sorry..I just...old habits die hard I guess.." Maya whispered shyly looking away from the assassin.
She could feel Zero take a deep breath against her.
"You taste like honey. And the most delicious of fruit. Maya please...please just kiss me again." Zero mused gruffly.
Maya looked up at him with wide, uncertain eyes.
She wasn't sure this was such a good idea.
But every nerve in her body screamed for her to. That old flame was burning her down. That old lust that she had buried so long ago. It was all back in full force.
She couldn't deny it, couldn't fight it.
And so she let it take her away. Let it own her.
Maya grabbed Zero's temples and crushed her lips against his once more.
He pushed back against her, stronger now, deepening the kiss that was all tongues and lips and moans of satisfaction.
Zero's arms went to the small of Maya's back and he slammed her into the dirt, pinning her underneath him.
God he was strong.
Much stronger than she'd remembered. It knocked the wind out of her for a moment, but she never parted their lips. Maya's fingers went to the back of Zero's armor, fumbling to undo the catches. It had been so long she felt clumsy undoing the ridiculously complicated clothing.
Zero was already making short work of her armor.
He broke the hard kiss to claw her pants off her hips and drag them down over her knees.
Maya kicked off her boots and leaned up suddenly.
She grabbed Zero by the belt roughly.
"Take your fucking pants off." She commanded harshly.
The most powerful siren on the planet was allowed to bark orders during sex.
She was allowed to do anything she wished.
The anger had boiled down into lust, and so she would take it all out on the lover before her.
A wild lust, let loose after so many days of being shoved down deep inside of her. She let it free with a vengeance.
"God you are so rough. Even more so now. I am already enjoying this." Zero mused reaching down to his belt hurridly.
Maya half smiled at him wickedly.
Zero hefted his pants down quickly, and slid them off at Maya's command.
He knelt before her, so familiar yet so alien. His proud erection bobbing in front of him, swollen and needing her.
Maya peeled the top of her armor off with goddess like movements, slow, elegant, gorgeous.
Zero groaned outwardly as her healthy breasts rolled out to greet him.
He grabbed her arm and yanked her toward him roughly. Maya stumbled forward and braced herself against Zero's naked body.
"Hey watch it..." She growled as he kissed down her neck, still gripping her wrist tightly.
"Or what siren. You're threats are hollow. You know this better than I." Zero snarled into the crook of her throat.
Maya groaned.
God she missed this.
The way he talked to her. The way he was coy with her, the way he fought her. That hard headed nature that just made her melt.
"I could melt your brain with the flick of my wrist big guy." Maya huffed moving against Zero needfully, straddling his lap, feeling his erection pushing into her stomach.
"I would much enjoy to see you try. I would fight you all the way down. You gorgeous creature." Zero huffed into her ear.
His hot breath made the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end.
Maya moaned louder than she had really meant to, eyes closed, neck arched as the sound of pleasure came loose from her throat.
"That's it siren. Let go. Let me have you..." Zero continued, extending his tongue to run it around the bell of her ear and suck her lobe in his soft lips.
"You're such an animal..." Maya moaned wontonly as her back arched into Zero.
"In more ways than one. This I assure you. My lovely siren." Zero groaned sucking Maya's neck harshly.
"God damn it Zero fuck me already!" Maya begged pitifully grinding against Zero's fat erection.
"Goodness siren where are your manners? Barking orders like you own this planet. Tsk Tsk." Zero teased meanly, as he reached around to cradle her ass in his large palms.
"As a matter of fact, I do own this planet assassin." Maya whispered dazedly.
"Ah, my mistake. I apologize sincerely. My queen of Pandora." Zero whispered to her softly.
"That's more like it bandit." Maya teased in return.
"I remember you when you were a bandit. So rough, so mean, so...powerful. I guarantee you still fuck like a bandit.." Zero growled, grinning wickedly.
"Guess you just have to find out." Maya cooed devilishly.
Zero groaned lowly and pushed Maya into the ground once more, trapping her with his body as he kissed her roughly.
Maya wrapped her heels around his lower back and looped her arms around his strong neck loosely.
Zero grabbed his erection and gently guided it to Maya's already slick entrance.
He pushed against her, his fat head stretching for entrance.
Maya hissed and gritted her teeth. He was so fucking big. That had certainly not changed.
Zero pushed in farther, forcing for room, stretching her out as she mewled beneath him.
It was the most gorgeous sound he had ever heard. It was fucking delicious.
Finally with a final push Zero was fully sheathed within her body. Maya arched her back begging him for movement, begging for his body, begging for the pleasure he was pushing down on her.
Zero ran his tongue up Maya's pert breast, capturing her nipple and sucking it diligently. Maya gasped out loudly and her hand snapped to Zero's head where she entwined her fingers in his wild hair. He abused her nipple with his tongue diligently, lapping at it, sucking it, giving it more attention as the Siren moaned louder.
She was putty in his hands, ready to be molded, ready to be shaped.
She rocked her hips against his, wanting motion from him desperately.
"Q-quit... being a tease..." She half whispered half moaned.
Zero grinned down at her wryly.
Suddenly he jolted up into her, causing her body to lurch as he thrusted forward.
Maya cried out loudly, hands flying to her sides, fingernails digging into the dirt.
Zero thrust into her again, and again, at first slow and steady...but soon quickening into body racking humps.
He fucked her mercilessly, it had been so long, and she felt like heaven.
Her walls squeezed him, so soft and wet.
She dripped around his erection, her fluids running down his sack as he thrusted.
Zero leaned down to capture Maya's lips once more, kissing her harshly, meanly.
She moaned into the kiss as his hips snapped against hers, making wet little sounds as their sweaty bodies collided.
It was hot, so fucking hot.
Maya could feel the heat all around her, some from the hot pandoran night, some from her tattoos springing to life.
The illuminated every crevice of the cave, casting shadows left and right as their power cam forward.
Maya cried out shamelessly arching her back off the ground, meeting Zero's frantic thrusts.
Her arms came to Zero's shoulders, and immediately he could feel the burning to his skin. He ignored it.
The white hot heat only added to the pleasure coursing through his veins. He grunted and moaned lowly as he rutted against her fiercely.
Her powers glowed hotter, scalding his shoulder blades with the new energy. Zero gritted his teeth. They felt sharper than normal.
No. Control it.
Fight it.
Not now.
Not here.
Zero grabbed at Maya's hip bones, pulling her to his every thrust.
Maya's feet scrambled through the dirt as he fucked her, her eyes fluttered closed and she let loose a wild feminine yell. She dug her nails into Zero's skin, clutching onto him for dear life.
He fell on her again, ravaging her neck, sliding his tongue along her throat. He could feel her pounding pulse against his tongue.
"F-Fuck! Come for me Siren!" He commanded through heavy breaths.
Maya could feel her muscles clenching, her stomach tightening, her legs tensing.
She opened her mouth wide, releasing another pitiful scream.
She was so close, just a little more.
Zero's hand snapped to her entrance, he pushed a thumb into her swollen clit and began to rub harsh little circles. Maya all but doubled over.
It was too much, she couldn't hold it off.
"Come for me!" Zero barked the order to her his voice tainted by vicious passion.
Maya bucked up, her eyes screwed shut in utter bliss.
And she came.
Hard.
Maya's body unraveled around the two of them, sending waves of power in every direction.
Some stalactites rattled and crashed down from the ceiling into hundreds of little pieces.
Those that fell directly above them disintegrated as they hit the forcefield of energy Maya had formed around them.
Her body clenched around Zero's shaft, squeezing tighter than he could handle.
He bit his lip, causing it to bleed a little, his nails scraped at Maya's hips, leaving small red wounds.
They were sharper than moments before.
Zero pushed the beast back with all that he had. He could control it. He had to.
He pushed the thought to the back of his mind as he continued to fuck his gorgeous siren.
He fucked her harder, faster, muscles pumping into every thrust. He fucked her dirty, mean, rough.
Zero moaned out lowly as orgasm took him by the throat.
He pulled himself from Maya's warmth and stroked himself off frantically. He came on her body, sending streams of warm liquid up her chest, down her neck, over her stomach.
Zero stroked slowly now, allowing the last remnants of finish to ooze from his angry tip.
He sagged slightly, breathing out raggedly.
Maya laid still, chest heaving, eyes closed as she tried to find her breath.
Finally she opened her amber eyes to assess the seen before her.
Zero looked at her with half lidded, tired eyes, breathing heavy, cock still in hand.
She looked down over her torso, taking note that she was now bleeding, and dirty.
She groaned out and let her arms fall to her sides.
Zero leaned back on his knees trying to steady himself.
"Fuck..." Maya whispered under her breath.
As if her poor body hadn't been sore enough before...well it certainly was now. She grimaced as she tried to sit up and found it much more painful than expected.
Zero reached back and rubbed the burns on his shoulder blades. They were already beginning to heal.
There was some benefit to the infection.
Near instantaneous healing.
It obviously made making love with a siren much easier.
Any normal man would have been burnt to a crisp.
"Sorry...if I...burnt you..." Maya huffed watching Zero tiredly.
Zero shrugged.
"I will heal in moments. It was worth it. I may have even liked it more than I should." Zero said chuckling lightly.
Maya forced herself into a sitting position and leaned her back against a large stone.
Zero slowly slid down next to her.
He snaked his arm around her shoulder and she leaned her head into the crook of his neck.
"Well...that was...unexpected." Maya breathed slowly.
Zero nodded.
"Unexpected, yes. Surprising, yes. But most enjoyable all the same." Zero mused sighing heavily, his chest rising and falling with the deep intake of air.
A silence hung in the air between the two as the events really settled in.
Maya turned ever so slightly, her back to Zero, exposing her branded flesh to him.
Zero drew in a sharp breath.
"Oh Maya...I am so sorry..." He whispered reaching out and touching the Hyperion shaped scar.
Maya flinched away instinctively and Zero retracted the touch.
Maya looked at him with sorrow in her eyes.
"Don't touch it..." She whispered looking down in shame.
A siren...branded by the enemy.
How shameful it was.
Jack...
The thought of him wandered back into her brain.
She would have to return to Opportunity tomorrow. She had been gone several days, and it would take several more to get back. She would have to lie to Jack's face about the events of this night.
He would be furious if she returned without Zero...
God only knew the torture she'd endure...
She breathed out shakily.
She could only imagine his wrath if he found out what she had done. Though she surpassed him in physical strength and power...he controlled her with such a simple thing as a collar.
"I have to leave at first light tomorrow." Maya sighed suddenly.
Zero looked down at her.
"But why? I thought maybe...maybe we could try this again. I don't want to lose you again." Zero whispered slowly.
Maya choked back more tears.
"I can't stay. I- I have to go back to opportunity." Maya said avoiding eye contact with the assassin.
"You can't go back to that Maya. I won't let you." Zero voice rose in anger.
Maya looked at him sternly.
"You don't understand...this collar...it binds me to him. One push of a button and he could drop me where I stand..." Maya whispered.
Zero said nothing, only looked upon Maya with sad, guilty eyes.
"I gave up my freedom...he gave me power, and I hunted you...but there was so much more than I bargained for. He...he owns me now. Every move I make he watches, he observes...he rules me...just like everything else on this planet. I may be powerful but I can't defy him...I just can't. If I did...he'd kill you, and Sal and Axton...I have to keep them safe." Maya whispered.
"Salvador? Axton? They are still alive? How do you know this?" Zero whispered, shock clinging to his voice.
"I ran into Axton...just before I ran into you. He said Sal was alive as well."
Maya said softly.
Zero shook his head in dismay.
"Thats why I got captured. And fell into Jack's hands. We were attacked...I sacrificed myself so they could live." Maya whispered.
"Oh Maya...I am so sorry I wasn't there...all this time...I thought you joined with Jack. I thought you were out for revenge...and so had turned to his side." Zero whispered.
"No...I did it because I had to. I had to save their lives. My freedom was a small price to pay to spare them." Maya breathed.
Looked at the floor of the cave.
"The morning is a long way off. Let us spend tonight together. Even if it is but a few hours...i'll savor every moment I get with you." Zero whispered hanging his arms on his drawn up knees.
Maya looked at him with sad eyes.
"I wish it wasn't like this...I'm sorry." Maya strained.
Zero reached out and shushed her gently.
"Let's not talk about that now. Let's just be...together. No more talking." Zero mused.
Maya nodded and allowed Zero to wrap his arms around her.
In that moment she was whole.
Even if it was only for a moment...she finally felt alive again.