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Outlaw Hard: Coming of Age	By : Outlaw_Hard Category: +M to R > Outlaw Star Views: 2137 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Gene seemed completely flustered to Jim. It wasn’t that Gene was somehow unflappable, but this was something completely out of the ordinary. Jim had never seen Gene act like this, and it was unsettling. Regardless of how Gene had bugged the hell out of Jim lately, he was still his best friend and partner.
For a moment, it looked like Gene was just going to stay stubbornly silent, so Jim leaned forward, “Talk to me, G…!”
In a flash, Gene leaned forward and took hold of Jim, firmly and decisively. Before Jim could react, Gene pressed forward and kissed Jim passionately, his lips hungrily devouring his own. Gene held the kiss for what seemed like a shocked eternity to Jim, before relaxing his grip.
Jim instinctively pushed Gene away, “What the hell are you doing Gene??”
Gene blinked and sat back in his chair again, staring at Jim. He gulped and looked away, “S-sorry..I don’t know what came over m-me..” he stammered.
Jim had NEVER seen Gene stammer like this. It was starting to scare him, even more than the sudden kiss. “Gene. What th…”
But before Jim could finish his question, the escape pod was struck by something outside, throwing them into one wall of the escape pod. Jim flew into Gene, who wrapped his arms around Jim protectively as the pod was wrenched by another outside force, sending them to the opposite wall.
While holding tightly to Jim, Gene’s back slammed against the pod’s interior, knocking him out cold, his arms going slack.
Jim shouted, “Gene! Gene! Damnit..!” as he struggled to right himself, hanging onto the seat as his momentum carried his legs up over his head in the freefall of zero gravity. Gene’s momentum had been stopped by Jim’s mass, and he simply floated slowly away from the wall.
It was a tractor beam, it had to be, Jim thought.
“Gilliam! Gilliam what is happening?” Jim called out on the com, but all he heard in return was static. “Fucking hell..!” Communications were being jammed, most likely. He had a sinking feeling they had just been caught by the criminals.
Jim pushed away from the top of the pod’s interior and floated back down to where Gene was, checking him quickly for obvious trauma. There was a growing lump on the back of his head, but there were no other wounds that Jim could detect.
Given how rough the tractor beam operator was being with them, Jim moved to cradle Gene’s head in his lap, doing his best to cushion any further shocks. He did his best to make sure that Gene was floating close to the bottom of the pod’s interior so that when the artificial gravity kicked in, he wouldn’t sustain any further injury.
He looked down at Gene’s unconscious face and frowned in worry. What was Gene thinking? That was something Jim would have expected from Fred..yet Fred had never actually tried anything direct like that before.
It took another few seconds for Jim to realize that was his first real kiss. A deep blush crept across his face and he glanced away from Gene, embarrassed, excited, and extremely confused.
What was this feeling boiling up from within him? He didn’t have long to think about it before artificial gravity kicked in and Gene slumped to the floor, Jim’s lap cushioning his head.
Whoever had caught them would be coming through that door. They just wanted hostages, right? Jim decided that it was pointless to fight, and that surrendering was their only option, especially with Gene out of commission.
Another minute passed in tense silence before the door opened up from the outside. Escape pods didn’t have a lock on the outside, but they were built so that the door self-sealed against vacuum, opening into the pod instead of out. However, when the pressure was the same both inside and outside, the door was nothing more than a latched hatch with no locking mechanism.
As the escape pod hatch opened, light spilled in from outside and a figure stood in the doorway, backlit. A woman..?
“Well what have we here?” a female voice asked, dripping with sarcasm, “Looks like you allllmost got away, Gene. Oh..you must be Jim, yes?”
Jim scowled and slid forward, pushing Gene gently behind him, “What’s your problem?” The anger in his voice surprised him, but he held tight to the emotion, trying to keep it in check. Anger unchecked was only going to get them both killed.
The woman sat down in the pod hatch, one leg hooked over the threshold, her face becoming illuminated instead of just back-lit from the light outside. Two guys who were obviously goons stood just outside.
Jim blinked and exclaimed in surprised recognition, “Wait, you..? Weren’t you with Gene before the attack?”
Garnet smiled a little, but the effect was more menacing than reassuring, “Yeah, he would have been an easy mark if things had gone according to plan. Such a simple man..” She motioned to Jim, “We won’t hurt you if you just cooperate and give up nice and easy. You’re our payday, after all.”
“So you’re going to ransom us? Wait..no, you’re going to hand us off to someone?” Jim asked, his mind working through the possibilities. They had made many enemies over the years, it wouldn’t be surprising at all that prices had been put on their heads by any one of the many pirate cartels.
Garnet grinned and laughed, “You really are the brains of this outfit, aren’t you? Just like they said you would be. Who would have thought we’d snag both you and Gene in one shot?”
Jim narrowed his eyes, “So are you willing to allow a counter-bid?”
The golden woman tilted her head at Jim, “You think you’re in a position to negotiate? Sorry, I doubt you can offer us money that we couldn’t otherwise beat out of you. Money isn’t the point.”
“Not in this for the money..?” Jim began, but before he could ask more, Garnet stood and exited back out the hatch.
“Stun them and take them to my ship,” Garnet told the goons and then was out of sight.
Jim looked around and didn’t see any alternative to being stunned. They were worth something to them alive, so resisting might create more problems and leave them with broken bones instead of just a headache.
“Why do you have to stun us?” Jim asked, hoping to at least stay conscious to keep an eye on Gene, “Wouldn’t it be easier if I carried this guy, so you don’t have to carry both of us..?”
The goons looked at each other and then back to Jim, pulling out a stunner. He pulled the trigger without hesitation and Jim’s body jerked and slumped back. The two were carried off to their fate.
To be continued.....
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