Poll Closed
Apr 28, 2009
The Poll to determine Remora’s reaction upon finding herself in the same cell as Handsome Hank is now closed.
Winner? She barely notices him, so fascinated is she by Bones.
Look for the new post to be up next Tuesday!
New Poll Up!
Apr 21, 2009
How does our intrepid heroine react to finding Hank in the same cell she’s placed in? Only you can decide!
Poll ends next Tuesday, April 28.
3. Disappointment
Apr 21, 2009
“Up!”
Remora groaned, shedding the last tatters of unsettling dreams.
The voice spoke again, more insistently. “Up, girl. Inebriates are allowed no more than six hours in the recovery room.”
Blearily, she opened her eyes, then immediately wished she hadn’t. The light stabbed through her half-opened lids and burst painfully against the back of her skull. With a gasp, she lifted her hand to her head, feeling a tender lump beneath her leather cap.
Why did her head hurt? She remembered the bar, and that brutish, smelly captain accosting her. Then another man had come up and a fight had broken out. Someone had hit her with something – she hadn’t seen who or with what, but it must have knocked her out.
She’d never been knocked unconscious before. In the romances and adventure novels she read, the hero or heroine always awakened to find themselves either in dire peril or in the safe arms of their loved ones.
Tentatively, she peeked through a half-lidded eye at her surroundings. The small cot upon which she lay had only a single thin blanket, and the room itself had boring, crumbling cement walls that had once been painted a wan green. A solid metal door cut into the wall and a single uniformed woman stood in the doorway holding a clipboard and tapping an impatient foot against the floor.
She was most certainly not in loving, safe arms. Nor did she find herself tied to a doomsday apparatus while villainous cackles peppered the air around her. Disappointed, she frowned. No dire peril, either.
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