Alliance Greene - Part 1 - Original Fiction

The young woman crouched beneath the tree. Surrounded by bushes, she surveyed the forest like a wild cat waiting on prey. Something wasn't right. The night was quiet, far too quiet. Even the crickets had stopped chirping. Someone or something was nearby. Was it human or alien? She needed to know before taking another step toward home.

When the twig snapped, she froze. There he was, about 20 yards to her left. Not much more than a kid, early 20's not military, but carrying a rifle he probably knew how to use. The way he was scanning the forest, she was lucky he hadn’t seen her before she found her hiding place.

He was walking a zig zag path through the forest, checking out every nook and cranny he spotted when he spotted the rabbit skins drying near the cave. Intent as he was on finding the rest of her camp, she managed to get 3 feet from him before yelling, "Freeze! Move a muscle and I'll blow your head off."

He froze, raised his hands and said, "Look lady, I thought the camp was abandoned. I'll move on and leave you in peace."

She thought, yeah, sure you will, and you'll be back in an hour with your buddies. "I said don't move." Pulling a strip of leather from her pocket, she tossed one end over his shoulder. "Tie it around one wrist. I don't want to hurt you. All I want it time to grab my stuff and get out of here. Don't try anything for 15 minutes and we'll both be on our way."

She quickly tied his hands around the nearest tree, and then moved behind the bushes that hid the entrance to the small cave she called home. Two minutes later, everything was packed. Grabbing her packs, she turned to leave just as something slammed her against the cave wall, knocking the breath out of her.

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As the daze wore off, she realized her hands were held above her head, her knife was gone as well as the 9 mm. Worse yet, a hand was moving up and down her body. Fear kicked in. It felt like she was being squeezed between two rock walls. The cave wall behind her was real, but the wall in front of her was just a man. There was still a chance of getting out of this alive.

Twisting and bucking, she managed to move the man enough to get her feet up. She pushed against him with all her strength, but he didn’t move. Her body slid up the wall several inches. That gave her a few more inches of space to move in, but nothing more. She took advantage of that extra room to pull her feet to his stomach, but just as she started to shove with all her might, he twisted and rammed his body between her legs.

Again, his rock-hard body held her tight against the cave wall. That last move had made her situation much worse. How many times had she seen this scene in a movie? Two lovers come together, the need to touch flaming their blood to a boil. He pins her to the wall as his hands and mouth explore her body.

Where the hell did those thoughts come from? He was a stranger, holding her against her will and if she didn't get her head out of her ass, he could rape or even kill her. She wasn't a teenager running off hormones. Her training, strength and intelligence had kept her alive for 3 years since the invasion and now wasn't the time to be thinking about sex.

He might be strong, but she wasn't a wimp either. If the right situation arose, she could get away and if she kept her head about her, she could create her own chance. After one last, feeble attempt to break free she said, "Damn it, if you're going to rape me get it over with."

"Lady, I have never raped a woman in my life. I'm tying you up for my own protection, and then we are gonna walk outside and untie my buddy so the 3 of us can sit down and have a talk, ok?"

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Damn this woman was hot. Why couldn't he meet a woman like this in normal times? It has been way too long since he'd been with a woman. Funny how sex was one of the first things you forgot about after an alien invasion. She was beautiful, but he’d already seen enough to know she was deadly. If he had to guess, she’d had Marine Corp training long before the invasion. That meant she could be just as deadly as he could be.

"Look lady, I'm not trying to hurt you. Hell, I won't hurt you unless you try to hurt me. I'm gonna back off just enough so you can put your legs down, ok?

Before her feet touched the ground, he was binding her hands. After extracting a promise, she wouldn't try to use her feet against him, he pushed away from her. But he didn't let go of her hands. "Damn you look familiar, I feel like I know you from somewhere".

A sharp reply formed in her brain, but before she could tell him off, her world darkened to black and she slumped unconscious into his arms.