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Accustomed to a life of privilege and wealth, the young Siamese cat is thrust into an uncomfortable glimpse of the commoner. To make matters worse, she finds herself in the company of a gun toting jackal with a fatal disease and a sinister grin.", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Promised to a rich businessman, Ada must travel across the continent to the untamed western land in an airship.  Accustomed to a life of privilege and wealth, the young Siamese cat is thrust into an uncomfortable glimpse of the commoner.  To make matters worse, she finds herself in the company of a gun toting jackal with a fatal disease and a sinister grin.", "writing": "[center]Fly to Hell\nPart 5[/center]\n\n\nThere was a rumble of thunder and Ada stirred in the chair.  The ship rocked in the wind and Ada could feel the movement in her stomach.  The single swinging bulb on the ceiling stung at her eyes and she blinked away the sleep to find the male sitting up in the bed.  \n \n\"I'm thirsty.\"  Valentine said quietly.\n \nAda covered her mouth to yawn.  \"Do you want me to find the stewardess?\"  She asked as she glanced out the window to see no hint of sunrise yet.  Just raindrops dancing on the glass highlight by an occasional flash of lightning.  \"I expect she must be sleeping, but--\"\n \n\"No.  Water is fine.\"  \n \nAda filled a glass from a cupboard at the sink.  He grasped the cup weakly in both paws as he drank and Ada couldn't help wondering how this male could survive what he was up against.  Somehow he had managed to eliminate one of them, but it had nearly cost him his life.  Three more remained.  Horrible, vicious killers every one of them, and yet the look in Jack's eyes when it was Valentine and not Bill who had returned, it was unmistakable.  \n \nIf they saw him now...\n \n\"I was thinking,\" Ada spoke, \"in the morning the ship is scheduled for a stop.  If we are early we can take a seat near the door and you can escape when we land.\"\n \n\"Sneak off like a thief in the night?\"  Valentine smirked at her.  \n \n\"You could get away!\"  She insisted.  \"You could live!\"  \n \nThe jackal frowned.  \"I appreciate your intentions, but that's not going to work.  If you thought of it, surely they have too.  Did you notice they were sitting between us and the door the entire time?  If I were a betting male, and I am, I would wager they're still there.  They'll remain until their task is done.  Just in case I try to run.\"  \n \n\"Out a window, then!\"  \n \nValentine guffawed which caused him to cough painfully.  He winced as he composed himself.  \"I was in no shape to jump out windows even before I got a knife to the gut.  Besides, I'm heading to New Gehenna.  That's where I'm getting off whether I walk or I am carried.\"  He turned the cup back over to her.\n \nAda snatched the glass from him.  \"What is it with males and their pride?\"  She huffed, slamming it down on the counter.  \n \n\"You are mistaken, I lack any to salvage.\"  \n \n\"Why then?  For what reason would you have to stay?\"\n \n\"Reprisal.\"  \n \nAda flinched at the word and the steel in his eyes as he spoke it.  \n \n\"You do not believe that it is by accident that I am on this ship with them, do you?\"  Valentine's voice was soft, but there was a vicious implication to his tone.  \n \n\"You wanted this?\"  She breathed with revulsion.  \"Are you mad?\"  \n \n\"Quite the opposite on both counts.  This conflict was bound to happen eventually.  To postpone it puts me at a disadvantage, here I have some possibility of victory, instead of six months from now when I'll have none.\"  \n \n\"Mr. Valentine, in case you haven't noticed, you are all but bedridden!\"  Ada pointed out.  \"You hardly pose a threat to me, let alone them!\"  \n \nValentine nodded.  \"You may be right.\"  He flashed a grin.  \"Then again, you may be wrong.\" \n \n\"Is that so?\"  Ada narrowed her eyes at him.  She would prove his folly.  She reached for him, intending to shove him over like a house of cards.  \n \nThe jackal snagged her wrist and yanked her into the bed.  She landed on him with a gasp, her breasts pressed against his bare chest with her face so close to his nose that she could smell his lingering intoxication.  A bolt of lightning lit up the room brilliantly, followed closely by a long rumble.  The bulb on the ceiling flickered, but continued to illuminate. \n \n\"Well then...\"  Valentine's eyes danced as he regarded her horror. He put his paws around her waist.  \"It appears I am helpless against you.\"  \n \n\"[i]Mr. Valentine![/i]\"  She exclaimed in dismay.  She attempted to squirm from him, but he held her firmly.  \n \n\"How shameful it would be if someone discovered us.\"  He chided.  \n \nAda pushed at him.  \"This is inappropriate!  Let me go!\"  \n \n\"Don't be so coy, my dear.  You've already displayed your commodities.\"  \n \nHeat bloomed on her face.  \"You didn't!\" \n \n\"Given your own wandering gaze, it seemed only fair.\" \n \n\"I would never!  Release me at once!\"  She hissed.  \"If you don't... I-I will use my claws!\"  \n \n\"Now that is a salacious offer.\"  His wicked grin appeared as he leaned close.  \"To be so marked by you.\"  \n \nAda recoiled.  \"Please... don't do this!\"  Her heart started to hammer and her tail was fluffed out, swishing furiously.  Her breath quickened as the situation was starting to become apparent to her.  The heat of his body burned through her thin nightgown, which may as well not be there for all the protection it provided. \n \n\"Do you believe I'm capable of this?\"  He murmured while nuzzling her lightly.\n \nAda turned her head away from him, shutting her eyes tightly.  She could only whimper a response. \n \n\"Do you?\"  He growled.\n \n\"Yes!\" She sobbed.  \n \nValentine sighed and Ada found herself tumbling off the bed when he released her.  The Siamese propped herself up on the floor, breathless and flush.  Her eyes glistening with expected tears as she looked at him with bewilderment.  \n \n\"I suppose you have proven something.\"  He grumbled while holding his injured side in agony.  \"I have some pride left after all.\"  \n \nAda put a paw on her chest, clutching the front of her nightgown.  Her body trembled and her heart refused to cease its fluttering.  A fiery sensation flourished in her ears and... somewhere else as well.  She had never been treated in such a way by a male before.  Given her status, none would take such a risk.  She had written about females being so humbled, even -- dare she admit -- fantasized about it, but the experience was quite overwhelming.  To be held powerless and exposed.  To be proven as frail and delicate.  It was...\n \nWell, she wasn't sure what it was.  \n \n\"Miss Moragon, I have taken advantage of your time and kindness for too long.\"  Valentine announced.  \"I will see to the rest myself.\"  \n \n\"No.\"  The frightened tone of her voice lingered, making the word sound pleading.\n \nHe glared at her.  \"You may go now.\" \n \nAda shook her head.  \"Fall Creek... was it as Mr. Tallan said?  Please tell me.\"  \n \nHe grimaced.  \"Why should that concern you?\"  \n \n\"Because I must know!  Because it matters!\"  \n \nValentine turned from her in annoyance.  \"No, it does not.  Nora is dead and no confession will alter that.\"  \n \n\"Nora?\"  Ada knelt next to the bed, leaning on it.  \"I beg you, Mr. Valentine.\"  \n \n\"What do you want to hear?\"  Valentine spoke coldly.  \"That I ravaged her?  That I had my way and ruined her?\"  \n \n\"Is that what happened?\"  \n \nHe shot her a furious glance. \"No!\"  \n \nValentine blinked at himself before scowling.  \"You are a frustrating feline, Ada.  Perhaps you seek absolution, but you forget that I do not.\"  \n \n\"You say you have done sufficient work in your life for condemnation.\"  Ada told him.  \"What is one admission to the contrary?\"  \n \nThere was a foreign expression on Valentine's face when he smiled.  It surprised her and she realized it was the first genuine one he had ever offered.  \"Well, this is vexing.\"  He spoke with fascination.  \"You've gone and made me admire you.\"  \n \n\"I promise I won't make a habit of it.\"\n \nHe nodded.  \"I reckon you speak true,\" he admitted as he settled back on the pillow, \"but I fear that, even in truth, there is no salvation to be found.  For a time she and I had an amicable relationship.  You see, Nora was of fair means but a known spinster.  Certainly not due to any failure of birth or upbringing, I assure you she was quite alluring in body and demeanor.  However, she was beset with a severe case of scruples, unable to settle upon a male who could not meet her lofty standards.  I had no delusions that I could rise to them.\"\n \nValentine searched for his case, pulling out a cigarette.  He lit it and drew in a breath, coughing it out softly through his nose.  \"Of course, I was always up for a challenge, and her wealth was as seductive as her figure.  I courted her to the best of my abilities though I lacked any expectation of success.  Great gambles for great rewards, so to speak.  I turned all my charm and cleverness upon her, and before long something dreadful occurred.\"  \n \n\"What happened?\" \n \n\"She fell in love with me.\"  \n \n\"That's a good thing... isn't it?\" \n \nHe chuckled.  \"My dear, you've never been in love.  I have faced the cannons of war and charging beasts of the jungle.  Seen manners of horrors I dare not speak of in your presence, but love is something exceptional.  It has driven the entirety of history, had it's paw in every great accomplishment and every dismal failure.  It can bring about peace or deliver absolute strife, raise vagrants to the level of kings or lay very gods to ash.  You must understand, I sought only her favor, but she offered me her heart instead.  For a male of my wretched capacity that was inexcusable.\"  \n \nComprehension grew in Ada's eyes.  \"You did something far worse than violate her.\"  \n \n\"Indeed.\"  Valentine agreed as he flicked ash onto the sheets.  \"If I had perhaps known she was with cub...\"  He sighed.  \"No.  No, there's no use beguiling myself.  I still would have abandoned her.\"\n \n\"You are well and truly damned.\"  She spoke with awe. A roll of thunder appeared to agree with her assessment. \n \nHe fell back into aloofness and the artificial grin appeared.  \"So, now that you know the extent of my depravity you are absolved from any obligation.  You are free to leave.\"  \n \n\"No.\"  Ada responded, and the jackal raised his eyebrows at her curiously.  She gathered herself and got to her feet.  \"No, Mr. Valentine, I can't in good conscience leave you like this.\"   \n \n\"Pray tell?\"  \n \n\"Earlier you asked me who I am.  While I may not know to an extent that is satisfactory to you, what I do know is that I am not a coward.\"  She asserted.  \"I will not flee from someone in need.\" \n \n\"So you're better than me?\"\n \n\"Yes.\"  \n \nHe laughed before bursting into a coughing fit.  When it abated he grinned.  \"You promised you would refrain from that.\"  He coughed again.  \"Very well, on that much we can agree.\"\n \n\"So I can stay?\"  \n \nValentine took a final drag from his smoke.  \"Seems I have little say in it.\"  He motioned to her for the water again.  \"However, I must be honest with you.  There will be blood.\"\n \n\"I have seen blood before.\"  She said confidently as she passed the cup.\n \nValentine dropped the cigarette in, which hissed as it hit the water.  He looked at her with grim earnestness.  \"No, I'm afraid you haven't.\"  ", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "
Fly to Hell
Part 5



There was a rumble of thunder and Ada stirred in the chair.  The ship rocked in the wind and Ada could feel the movement in her stomach.  The single swinging bulb on the ceiling stung at her eyes and she blinked away the sleep to find the male sitting up in the bed.  
 
"I'm thirsty."  Valentine said quietly.
 
Ada covered her mouth to yawn.  "Do you want me to find the stewardess?"  She asked as she glanced out the window to see no hint of sunrise yet.  Just raindrops dancing on the glass highlight by an occasional flash of lightning.  "I expect she must be sleeping, but--"
 
"No.  Water is fine."  
 
Ada filled a glass from a cupboard at the sink.  He grasped the cup weakly in both paws as he drank and Ada couldn't help wondering how this male could survive what he was up against.  Somehow he had managed to eliminate one of them, but it had nearly cost him his life.  Three more remained.  Horrible, vicious killers every one of them, and yet the look in Jack's eyes when it was Valentine and not Bill who had returned, it was unmistakable.  
 
If they saw him now...
 
"I was thinking," Ada spoke, "in the morning the ship is scheduled for a stop.  If we are early we can take a seat near the door and you can escape when we land."
 
"Sneak off like a thief in the night?"  Valentine smirked at her.  
 
"You could get away!"  She insisted.  "You could live!"  
 
The jackal frowned.  "I appreciate your intentions, but that's not going to work.  If you thought of it, surely they have too.  Did you notice they were sitting between us and the door the entire time?  If I were a betting male, and I am, I would wager they're still there.  They'll remain until their task is done.  Just in case I try to run."  
 
"Out a window, then!"  
 
Valentine guffawed which caused him to cough painfully.  He winced as he composed himself.  "I was in no shape to jump out windows even before I got a knife to the gut.  Besides, I'm heading to New Gehenna.  That's where I'm getting off whether I walk or I am carried."  He turned the cup back over to her.
 
Ada snatched the glass from him.  "What is it with males and their pride?"  She huffed, slamming it down on the counter.  
 
"You are mistaken, I lack any to salvage."  
 
"Why then?  For what reason would you have to stay?"
 
"Reprisal."  
 
Ada flinched at the word and the steel in his eyes as he spoke it.  
 
"You do not believe that it is by accident that I am on this ship with them, do you?"  Valentine's voice was soft, but there was a vicious implication to his tone.  
 
"You wanted this?"  She breathed with revulsion.  "Are you mad?"  
 
"Quite the opposite on both counts.  This conflict was bound to happen eventually.  To postpone it puts me at a disadvantage, here I have some possibility of victory, instead of six months from now when I'll have none."  
 
"Mr. Valentine, in case you haven't noticed, you are all but bedridden!"  Ada pointed out.  "You hardly pose a threat to me, let alone them!"  
 
Valentine nodded.  "You may be right."  He flashed a grin.  "Then again, you may be wrong."
 
"Is that so?"  Ada narrowed her eyes at him.  She would prove his folly.  She reached for him, intending to shove him over like a house of cards.  
 
The jackal snagged her wrist and yanked her into the bed.  She landed on him with a gasp, her breasts pressed against his bare chest with her face so close to his nose that she could smell his lingering intoxication.  A bolt of lightning lit up the room brilliantly, followed closely by a long rumble.  The bulb on the ceiling flickered, but continued to illuminate.
 
"Well then..."  Valentine's eyes danced as he regarded her horror.  He put his paws around her waist.  "It appears I am helpless against you."  
 
"Mr. Valentine!"  She exclaimed in dismay.  She attempted to squirm from him, but he held her firmly.  
 
"How shameful it would be if someone discovered us."  He chided.  
 
Ada pushed at him.  "This is inappropriate!  Let me go!"  
 
"Don't be so coy, my dear.  You've already displayed your commodities."  
 
Heat bloomed on her face.  "You didn't!"
 
"Given your own wandering gaze, it seemed only fair."
 
"I would never!  Release me at once!"  She hissed.  "If you don't... I-I will use my claws!"  
 
"Now that is a salacious offer."  His wicked grin appeared as he leaned close.  "To be so marked by you."  
 
Ada recoiled.  "Please... don't do this!"  Her heart started to hammer and her tail was fluffed out, swishing furiously.  Her breath quickened as the situation was starting to become apparent to her.  The heat of his body burned through her thin nightgown, which may as well not be there for all the protection it provided.
 
"Do you believe I'm capable of this?"  He murmured while nuzzling her lightly.
 
Ada turned her head away from him, shutting her eyes tightly.  She could only whimper a response.
 
"Do you?"  He growled.
 
"Yes!" She sobbed.  
 
Valentine sighed and Ada found herself tumbling off the bed when he released her.  The Siamese propped herself up on the floor, breathless and flush.  Her eyes glistening with expected tears as she looked at him with bewilderment.  
 
"I suppose you have proven something."  He grumbled while holding his injured side in agony.  "I have some pride left after all."  
 
Ada put a paw on her chest, clutching the front of her nightgown.  Her body trembled and her heart refused to cease its fluttering.  A fiery sensation flourished in her ears and... somewhere else as well.  She had never been treated in such a way by a male before.  Given her status, none would take such a risk.  She had written about females being so humbled, even -- dare she admit -- fantasized about it, but the experience was quite overwhelming.  To be held powerless and exposed.  To be proven as frail and delicate.  It was...
 
Well, she wasn't sure what it was.  
 
"Miss Moragon, I have taken advantage of your time and kindness for too long."  Valentine announced.  "I will see to the rest myself."  
 
"No."  The frightened tone of her voice lingered, making the word sound pleading.
 
He glared at her.  "You may go now."
 
Ada shook her head.  "Fall Creek... was it as Mr. Tallan said?  Please tell me."  
 
He grimaced.  "Why should that concern you?"  
 
"Because I must know!  Because it matters!"  
 
Valentine turned from her in annoyance.  "No, it does not.  Nora is dead and no confession will alter that."  
 
"Nora?"  Ada knelt next to the bed, leaning on it.  "I beg you, Mr. Valentine."  
 
"What do you want to hear?"  Valentine spoke coldly.  "That I ravaged her?  That I had my way and ruined her?"  
 
"Is that what happened?"  
 
He shot her a furious glance. "No!"  
 
Valentine blinked at himself before scowling.  "You are a frustrating feline, Ada.  Perhaps you seek absolution, but you forget that I do not."  
 
"You say you have done sufficient work in your life for condemnation."  Ada told him.  "What is one admission to the contrary?"  
 
There was a foreign expression on Valentine's face when he smiled.  It surprised her and she realized it was the first genuine one he had ever offered.  "Well, this is vexing."  He spoke with fascination.  "You've gone and made me admire you."  
 
"I promise I won't make a habit of it."
 
He nodded.  "I reckon you speak true," he admitted as he settled back on the pillow, "but I fear that, even in truth, there is no salvation to be found.  For a time she and I had an amicable relationship.  You see, Nora was of fair means but a known spinster.  Certainly not due to any failure of birth or upbringing, I assure you she was quite alluring in body and demeanor.  However, she was beset with a severe case of scruples, unable to settle upon a male who could not meet her lofty standards.  I had no delusions that I could rise to them."
 
Valentine searched for his case, pulling out a cigarette.  He lit it and drew in a breath, coughing it out softly through his nose.  "Of course, I was always up for a challenge, and her wealth was as seductive as her figure.  I courted her to the best of my abilities though I lacked any expectation of success.  Great gambles for great rewards, so to speak.  I turned all my charm and cleverness upon her, and before long something dreadful occurred."  
 
"What happened?"
 
"She fell in love with me."  
 
"That's a good thing... isn't it?"
 
He chuckled.  "My dear, you've never been in love.  I have faced the cannons of war and charging beasts of the jungle.  Seen manners of horrors I dare not speak of in your presence, but love is something exceptional.  It has driven the entirety of history, had it's paw in every great accomplishment and every dismal failure.  It can bring about peace or deliver absolute strife, raise vagrants to the level of kings or lay very gods to ash.  You must understand, I sought only her favor, but she offered me her heart instead.  For a male of my wretched capacity that was inexcusable."  
 
Comprehension grew in Ada's eyes.  "You did something far worse than violate her."  
 
"Indeed."  Valentine agreed as he flicked ash onto the sheets.  "If I had perhaps known she was with cub..."  He sighed.  "No.  No, there's no use beguiling myself.  I still would have abandoned her."
 
"You are well and truly damned."  She spoke with awe.  A roll of thunder appeared to agree with her assessment.  
 
He fell back into aloofness and the artificial grin appeared.  "So, now that you know the extent of my depravity you are absolved from any obligation.  You are free to leave."  
 
"No."  Ada responded, and the jackal raised his eyebrows at her curiously.  She gathered herself and got to her feet.  "No, Mr. Valentine, I can't in good conscience leave you like this."   
 
"Pray tell?"  
 
"Earlier you asked me who I am.  While I may not know to an extent that is satisfactory to you, what I do know is that I am not a coward."  She asserted.  "I will not flee from someone in need."
 
"So you're better than me?"
 
"Yes."  
 
He laughed before bursting into a coughing fit.  When it abated he grinned.  "You promised you would refrain from that."  He coughed again.  "Very well, on that much we can agree."
 
"So I can stay?"  
 
Valentine took a final drag from his smoke.  "Seems I have little say in it."  He motioned to her for the water again.  "However, I must be honest with you.  There will be blood."
 
"I have seen blood before."  She said confidently as she passed the cup.
 
Valentine dropped the cigarette in, which hissed as it hit the water.  He looked at her with grim earnestness.  "No, I'm afraid you haven't."  ", "pools_count": 1, "title": "Fly to Hell: Part 5", "deleted": "f", "public": "t", "mimetype": "application/msword", "pagecount": "1", "rating_id": "1", "rating_name": "Mature", "ratings": [ { "content_tag_id": "2", "name": "Nudity", "description": "Nonsexual nudity exposing breasts or genitals (must not show arousal)", "rating_id": "1" }, { "content_tag_id": "3", "name": "Violence", "description": "Mild violence", "rating_id": "1" } ], "submission_type_id": "12", "type_name": "Writing - Document", "guest_block": "f", "friends_only": "f", "comments_count": "0", "views": "177" }