Alexander glanced up. He didn't look in a good state. He had stubble and looked less together than normal.I guess the room service in these prisons was terrible.
"I know everything I need to know" said Alexander. "I know the way she smiles in the morning. I know the way her nose crinkles when she smells something new for the first time. I know the way her eye's sparkle like diamonds in the moon light. I've known I met a lot of beautiful girls out there but I know that I worshiped her the moment I could see her smirk. I know that she is my Sun, my moon and my midnight. I know I wake up at night and for some reason I can still smell her on me, and that's enough to remind me she's out there beyond your reach. I know I have what you'll never have and can never take from me - love. "
Then he looked at me and got up.
"Hang on You've shrunk a little. Who are you?"
I began to unzip the head of the yellow bio-isolation suit. It was difficult to do it in the thick contamination gloves. Then when that was free I was able to undo the inner suit and gas mask. I pulled the gas mask off.
"Someone who loves you" said Marta.
I smelled like a fetish factory but the growth of a smile on his face was worth it. I grabbed him and before he could say anything I stepped up on tiptoes flung my face around his and kissed him within an inch of his life.
"Your General Samal?" Said Alexander now confused.
"That's a disguise. He's the General" said Marta pointing at Sam.
Alexander looked at sam "your the car boy from the Governor's party" said Alexander.
"Yeah and you're a lousy tipper," said Sam.
Just then my family came round the corner.
"Mom, Dad this is well my boyfriend ? Alexander strong" I said not sure I would be used to a word like boyfriend .
"Nice to meet you" said Alexander smiling like he was picking me up to go a prom or something.
"I hate to spoil the party," said Dad "but they have CCTV. It's everywhere. They might be figuring out that something is wrong. What's the escape plan?"
I pointed a gun at Sam "oh I have no plan on escaping." I smirked, "What I need to know is where is the vault with all the cure in it."
*****
A few hours later I was captured, beaten and tied to a metal chair in an interrogation room. I was trapped in a room. There was a woman sergeant in there with me. She was down to a sports bra and was using me as a punching bag. The walls were plain, concrete. I was in an interrogation room. On the wall of the windowless room, was a glass partition. Other wise the room was empty, all the better to think about your crimes. Along with regret there was table a chair, the window and the security camera in the corner. On the other side of the glass partition stood a man in a business suit. It was clean well pressed I'm clearly tailored to his exact if slightly chubby physique. The man looked at me as he said his name was Ian Bush. He was a middle aged man, he had a hairline that stretched round the back of his head. Thin white hair that formed fringe around the pink area Marked a man in his late 50s or early 60s. After a moment I recognised him as 'governor' Willy's translator. He had announced his self as the president's personal public relations advisor and chief media strategist. Apparently, word of the break in had reached the segregated bio-contamination chamber the president still ran the county from.
"I'm afraid your poorly thought out plan has failed. You were caught yards away from vault nine" he said from the speaker that was built into the wall.
Vault Nine was where they stored the cure that had been confiscated. Or so Alexander had told me.
"your father and Mr Strong along with the others will soon be caught," said Johnson's calm passionless voice. "Overworld is not a huge place they can't get out. We are going to find them eventually. You can run but you can't hide. It is only a matter of time"
I look at him and smiled while a small dribble of blood came from the corner of my lips. They hadn't been very gentle with me when they had caught me.
"If you can help me find them I can promise folk like them won't be hurt." said Bush.
I looked at him.
Bush nodded and I got slapped.
"You see bad folk like you will never understand..." Bush began.
"Bad folk like me?" I said feeling a tooth rolling loose in my mouth. "Me bad folk? You're the bad folk. You deliberately held the cure back from the general population. You stopped my mom's cure by burning her lab. How responsible were you for its release in the first place?"
Bush laughed "That's just 100% fake news and any similarities to persons real living or dead is coincidental and if anyone says different will undergo the full force of the law. It's a fake or faux story passed by our enemies. You're the bad people you want to pull America down. Bad. Politics in America was a disgrace. You wanted fat and ugly women all over government. America needed smart people as me and the Mr President. Our IQs are the biggest, too big, every one else felt stupid and insecure around us. good. "
"So apart from slaughtering good grammar why are you talking to me?" I said.
"I ask the questions girl. I'm the President's communication officer. Your good looking, you're a woman and I'm trying to figure out how to sell you as the face of modern terrorism. It's either you or Alexander Strong when he is caught. He's a well-known industrialist, I think no one would get it. I think you seduced him. Women seduce men all the time even Billionaires like Alexander Strong. You seduced him, lured him in with sex and then wanted to use his organisation to help PI terrorists bring down this country, very so much."
At this point I don't think Bush was talking to me more as thinking aloud.
"What's the time?" I said.
"About ten to five" said Bush habitually looking to his watch "Why did you ask? Is this how smart but fat ugly women seduce poor billionaires like Alexander Strong, by asking them the time?"
I rolled my eyes. "Are you calling me fat and ugly?" I said.
"Is the eye rolling how you seduced Alexander Strong?" added Bush.
I looked up at the sergeant "you couldn't punch me a little harder. I'm looking for unconscious but still breathing. Mostly so I don't have to listen to a pig like this patronise me and all women."
"How dare you say that. Its completely false news. I don't patronise women" said Bush. "I've never been a patron. I only give to registered charities. Women like me. "
I looked back at the sergeant.
"On second thoughts how painful is say being punched out for a couple of hours? Just until his bed time?" I said to the sergeant.
She then punched me. It pushed the air out of me. I felt like a punch back which had taken the full weight of [ FAT GUY] in a crash.
"Oh that hurt" I managed to wheeze out. The sergeant pushed my head back.
"Is this how you treat everyone here at Overworld? All those people volunteering to make America a Great again after the virus. They end up in jails." I managed to gasp out.
"No I'm afraid we don't" said Bush. "Half of them won't take the black and end up with a lobotomy."
The sergeant strutted around me. Looking where she was going to attack next go next.
"And you. Do you want to be the next Megan M. Ambuhl?"  I said to her.
"Sounds good. Did she ever get a film deal" said the sergeant.
"Next you'll be telling me you've been inventing everything Governor Willy has been saying. You'll be telling me he is a complete hoax and the whale can't even talk" I said
Bush looked surprised "What you believed that fish can talk? I didn't think anyone would be dumb enough to vote for a fish but I was so wrong. The president knew. He knew exactly how all the people hit by the virus would behave. He is so the smartest. He is the biggest smartest person OF ALL TIME"
"Governor Willy not a fish," I said. "He's an aquatic mammal. Is it after six now?"
"Why are you so concerned about the time?" Said Bush.
I and the sergeant started laughing. The sergeant aka Marta pulled up a seat and sat down. The look on Bush's face looked like someone had mooned a jack rabbit.
"What are you doing sergeant?" Said Bush.
"I'm tired I'm sitting down and having a drink," said sergeant Marta. "Would you like a drink?" She added unhandcuffing me.
"Sure that would be nice. Good punch pulling btw" I said smiling.
Sergeant Marta pointed at the blood from my lip "OK. There is a coke machine down the hall. Sorry about that one - you moved."
"Sergeant" started Bush "I'm ordering you to punch that woman."
We looked at each other at laughed again.
"What the fuck have you been doing?" Said Bush fustrated from behind his bio-glass container.
"Well, I was auditioning for the remake of Rocky." Said Marta.
Bush looked really confused while Marta pulled the keys out and unlocked me. I felt sorry for him.
"Well, you see you didn't capture me going to the vault nine, but coming from it. We found a huge amount of cure stashed in those vaults. Enough to cure the entire Washington area, if you dropped it in the water supply. The reason you never found Alexander was that his job was to climb up into the water tower and dump cure into it. After that it was only a mater of time until the US military in Overword was cured. I'm I'm the bad person you don't mind if I monologue for a bit? You see you weren't torturing me information. We were torturing me for your confession, that and to distract you from Alexander and my dad. That camera above your head has been recording everything. If Alexander is to believed he will get back out on the 6 o'clock news live, he has his own news channel. By now everybody has heard about how you've kept the cure back. With the army back to scratch. Well I don't think they will be taking your orders of a bit."
With that, the door to my cell was unlocked. Alexander came in smiling.
"How dare you" shouted Bush over the intercom. I picked the chair up and threw it at the glass. The glass cracked and Bush rushed to the other side of his room.
"You fool you're contaminating me!!" he said Bush who tried holding his breath.
I looked at him "if you were ever contaminated it was before the out break"
Dad and Mom came in.
"We've opened the gates to Overworld people are leaving" he announced.
Bush was sitting there and his breath ran out. He breathed in heavily.
With Bush's tape on the internet, there wasn't much more to do. We started to bus people back home. Very quickly the people of Overworld who had been released had worked out a schedule to send the people who lived the closest home first. By midnight we had all abandoned Overworld, well everyone except the president and his advisors who kept them selves inside the bio-isolation wing of the Pentagon. The people of Washington and surrounding places had been the first to be cured. The had watched what had happened on Alexander's TV network and were smart enough to figure the rest out for them selves.
***
It was about two in the morning I was on a grassy knoll over looking Overworld. Everyone was keen to get away they had just started walking and hitching a ride out and home. Overworld was empty now and I sat there with Alexander looking at the now abandoned camp.
"It's empty" said Alexander reporting back to me. "Your dad has gone to the Whitehouse to try to restart the government. Your mom is on the way to New Jersey to one of my pharma plants to start production of the cure. Everyone else couldn't wait to get out. The only people left are the president and his inner circle. They won't come out of the biocontainment area. There is not even a guard. I guess it's just you and me."
He put his arm around me and pulled me close to warm me up. I looked up at the ring of satellite debris around the earth then noticed something. The sun had just set and it was getting cold on this beautiful clear night.
It had been a brutal day and I was very tired after everything but I geared my self up for one last confession. "This is hard to say. I'm sorry I thought you might have been the general. I don't know how I could have ever doubted you. "
Alexander laughed "Yeah well I think it was my fault. I was so in love I realised I couldn't bring my self, to be honest about being possessed. I could never quite believe that you weren't possessed. I kept wondering if it was all just me fooling my self."
I looked at him "you mean you only liked be because I was possessed"
Alexander lay back on the grass and shrugged "In many ways being in Jail helped me figure out how I really felt and why. I have dated a good many beautiful women who were infected. Mostly at my mother's insistence. They were ok to begin with but I quickly got bored. I liked my sister we both knew we were possessed early on. I realised I would be much happier with someone I could laugh with rather than at. Finding a possessed girl would be impossible. That's why I was trying to contact PI. I didn't need to but I felt I might meet someone that way. Then I walked in and met you."
There was a moving swish of white light on the horizon.
"Look a shooting star," I said, "make a wish."
Alexander looked up "I will but it's probably space hardware. Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?"
We looked closer and realised the shooting start was getting brighter and brighter. Alexander pulled me behind a tree.
"Its a big impact close your eyes" said Alexander. We both lay face down Alexander trying his best to cover me. Suddenly there was complete silence - a total stillness followed by a huge loud sharp bag. There was a pause and second later a huge wind went over us like a tropical storm which was over in seconds. The ground shook for a second. Then everything went back to normal as quickly as it had started. Alexander started to get put pushing away the mountain of leaves which had fallen on us.
As we got up I could still feel and hear the echo of the rumble around us. There must have been an impact near by. I got up and in the distance saw two pillars of smoke light by the light of the ring. The first was out in the river the second was slap bang in the middle of the Pentagon.
Alexander and I looked on in amazement as the pillar of smoke rose into the sky.
"That must have been a big chunk of space station," I said.
"That's terrible," said Alexander at the devastation beyond.
"Why," I said "I thought it was just the president and his infected aides were down there"
"No," said Alexander "it's not that. This guy sold me his car he had developed, Â which ran on water and it's gone"
I looked at Alexander. He looked back at me.
"Your face" he smiled, "I think I nearly fooled you. See I can still act infected"
"Come here," I said pulling him closer.
"And I will do. You know why? I'm possessed" said Alexander." possessed by you"
With that, we kissed.
*** THE END***
A/N Thanks again for your wonderful votes, reads and cool comments. It's been ecstatic. Â We are taking a break from writing to plot up our next book and more importantly get some reading done. There is so much wonderful writing out there we are looking forward to having some time to comment/vote back. If you have any suggestions please leave them here ( I like SciFi, Reb likes hard-love stories but we are flexible for the right work.) hugs and hugs agian. RK+Reb.