I woke up....where? I was lying on a metal slab, I could feel the coldness of the metal on my body. There was a bright light shining from high on the grey stone wall and at first it blinded me. All I could see was the immediate area round where I was lying. The floor was covered in black ceramic tiles and the walls were of smooth laser cut stone. I could see the whiteness of my body. Suddenly I panicked. This was no dream. I could feel the walls, I was naked and I was very very scared.

*******

Scorpius was watching from the room behind the one way mirror. He had two trainee technicians with him, a male and a female.

"Observe our latest Human subject. For some time I have been inserting an idea in her dreams, a picture of the experimental suite. And this she has grown to accept. This time I undertook to remove her from Earth. One would expect that she would also accept the same situation in reality, but witness the agitation, the apparent fear and the the pathetic attempts to cover her body. What would be your conclusions?"

The male technician shuffled his feet and replied tentatively.

"She could believe that's she's hallucinating Sir."

 "Feasible. Another possibility."

"Well Sir it could be that Humans have a social taboo against unclothed bodies and that she is genuinely disorientated by the displacement."

"Excellent Salok. And just how would you suggest that we proceed with her?"

"Keep her disorientated, perhaps increase it. Then a session in the chair to investigate why she seems not to like being clothed. Only when that has been ascertained can we progress further."

"I shall put this in my graduation report.  All adds to your credit Salok."

She blushed.

"Thank you Sir. A good report from you will enhance my final mark."

Scorpius looked at her with a knowledgeable eye. Yes she would make a Grade One Technian, perhaps suitable for his own team. As for the male, well just the general science laboratories.

"You're dismissed. Be here at the beginning of the first time period tomorrow."

They both left the room after collecting their notes. Salok cast a longing glance at Scorpius on her way out. There was something about him that had started a fire of desire in her belly. Scorpius continued watching the Human as she curled up in a corner of the cell, her arms wrapped round her knees, head buried down in the hollow. He needed to get some monitor probes inserted into her body and it would be easier to administer the sedative when she slept. The hair fine probes were self powered, they used the electrical energy from the subject's own body to send out measurements about the area in which they were inserted.

******

My status didn't improve with time. I cried until there were no more tears. Then my fear was transformed into curiosity. It seemed far more constructive to try to firstly find a way out and then to try to get back home. Surely there would be a landmark or sign post which would tell me what town I was in.

Food and water were inserted several times a day through a hole in the door. I never heard or saw anyone, there was a small toilet bowl for my wastes, but no means of washing. I became very smelly and my hair although short, got matted. My personal state initially offended me, but I thought rationally that there was nothing I could do to remedy this, so I ignored it.

The total silence was at first smothering, the lack of being able to pinpoint anything with sound made me feel more disorientated, but as I'm comfortable in my own company, that feeling soon left me. I started probing some scientific theories I was interested in and made myself a world independant of time. I had no means of knowing how long I'd been there, I slept when I wanted to, I ate when they fed me and I put my mind into free fall whenever I ran out of ideas to follow. I stayed totally sane and completely lucid. If they'd been hoping to break me, whoever they were, then they'd have to think again.

Strangely I always had the feeling I was being observed. One time my peace was rudely shattered when the door opened a girl dressed in coveralls, a belt around her waist with an insignia which I didn't know entered, followed by a soldier carrying a type of weapon I hadn't seen before, and threw a set of coveralls at me.

"Put these on.", she said curtly, "and follow me."

I put on the pale grey garment and followed her, my bare feet slapping on the tiled floor. She led the way into a room which was lit by three large circular wall lights which left large areas of shadow. The guard closed the door and the girl and I were alone in the room.

"Sit in the chair."

She pointed to a rather innocuous looking chair in the centre of the room. To on side was a console with many lights and touch pads and a small round object looking like a crystal ball on a tall stand. I sat down on the chair. The girl pushed me back into it and fastened a restraint around my chest. Alarm bells suddenly started going off in my head, but before I could make any struggle to gain freedom, she'd fasten my arms and legs to the frame of the chair. I tensed up, what the hell was happening! As she lowered a helmet like contraption onto my head and screwed it down onto my skull a sudden realisation hit me. This was not Earth! I felt drained at the concept. A voice cut across my thoughts. A soft extremely cultured voice but full of a deadly menace.

"Is she prepared Salok?"

"She's ready for you to begin Sir."

A figure dressed entirely in black walked out of the shadows. At first I didn't see his face. Then I did, his lips slightly parted in a rictus of a smile. I screamed with fear and horror, the devil incarnate, the grim reaper, the riders of the Apocalypse, the vampire king, folk memories of centuries brought to life. I began to fear for my life.

"Human if you react in this manner before I begin then you will have an extremely painful session."

The technician was checking a small instrument which stood on the top of the console.

"Sir, her heart, breathing and adrenalin levels have increased dramatically."

"Ah there you observe a very primative reaction they still show to stress and fear. I believe it is known as 'fight or flight'. Are the levels critical?"

"No they're beginning to settle now."

"Then proceed. Set the extraction rate at two. I shall be gentle to begin with."

He came and stood by my side, his face very close to mine. I could see all the folds in his dark purple lips. As he opened his mouth I could see the teeth packed into his mouth and the black gums.

"I'm going into your mind with my Aurora chair to find out exactly what you fear and what your deepest desire would be. I warn you, try to resist and it will be extremely painful. Just let me have what I wish. You will find out that I always win. "

He turned to the girl.

"Begin Salok."

There was a low hum from the helmet on my head. A feeling of immense pressure, a whirl of images . I could feel the pressure begin to turn into pain. As it built to a crescendo I began to whimper. He turned away from the globe which was showing a pattern of  bright coloured lights.

"Human, I warned you, resist and it becomes a painful procedure."

He stroked my cheek with a gloved finger.

"Just try to relax and I promise it will be easy."

I made a conscious effort to put my mind into free fall. Just let thoughts wander around. The pain ceased. There was only a sort of vibration in my skull.

"Extraction rate four. The screen's a blank."

I could see his black clad back. He turned and looked at me with a puzzled look on his face.

"Are her vital signs steady?"

"Heart rate slightly up Sir, but nothing to worry about."

"Strange. Still nothing. Try six."

The vibration in my skull seemed to increase.

"Salok, seven if you please."

I could see that she was starting to look distinctly worried. As I didn't know the reason for her worry, I decided not to make it my concern,

"Ah a faint image. Level nine."

"But Sir."

"Do it", he hissed at her. She complied immediately.

"Oh how delightful Human. Your biggest fear and your deepest desire are the same thing. I shall enjoy investigating them. By the bye, you have the highest tolerance to the chair in any subject I've had to date. Another channel for my investigation."

"Salok you may shut down the chair and stand down. I shan't need your services any more today."

At his command, she pressed a button and the lights on the console faded. She picked up her bag and left. I noticed the longing glance she gave him on her way out. He came up to the chair and one by one unlocked the restraints. There was definitely amusement on his face.

"You may get out of the chair now. Usually my subjects can't wait to leave it."

I stood up but my legs were rubbery. He place a gloved hand under my elbow and steered me out of the room and into a furnished chamber. Pointing to a divan he said simply, "Sit."

Going through a door from the chamber he was gone for a moment or two before returning.

"Follow me."

I got up and walked after him. My legs were stronger and I was feeling better. After all nothing really  bad  had befallen me at his behest. The room we entered contained a large round tub filled with water. A soft perfume which was totally foreign to me wafted up my nostrils. I stood there not certain what to do.

"Strip!"

I must have looked uncertain.

"You can hardly get clean while you are clothed."

I looked round me vainly for a place where I could hide. He took hold of me by the shoulder and wrenched the fastengs to the coverall open.

"There's no place here for your Human dislike of nakedness. Anyway I've seen you many times since your arrival."

I was right in the feeling that I was being watched. I stepped out out the garment. He pointed to the tub.

"Get in and sit down on the seat."

I did as he indicated. Shock came over me as he began to shed his clothing. His body was lilac veined white, tall and extremely slim. His skull was completely hairless as was the rest of his body. The only embellishment on his body was the round disk with lights on his skull behind where his ears would have been if he'd had any. Just orifices, no lobes. No obvious genitals. Was he sexless?

He came up to the tub and got in. I tried to get out. He held me down on the seat and sat down beside me. He took hold of something like a loofah and gently stroked my breasts with it. I flinched and again tried to move away. This time he took hold of me by the shoulders, brought his face close to mine as said insouciantly.

"Your greatest fear and your greatest desire. To be touched, to be delighted, to be enraptured. Your guilt and your craving. I shall show you exactly what it feels like to be completely captivated."

I whispered without much hope of release.

"You're using me as an experiment."

"But of course I am. But this experiment has a reward."

"What?"

"My undivided attention for as long as you please me."

I shuddered. It seemed to amuse him. He carried on washing me, removing the filth which had accumulated. He paid special attention to my most private and sensitive parts. I shuddered again, not this time with revulsion but with delight. I felt his teeth gently nibbling my neck while he was gently stroking my nipples which rose dramatically. He stopped for a moment.

"What's to fear? Feel the delights you wouldn't acknowledge."

I groaned. My head said no, my body said yes, Yes, YES. I felt him lifting me out of the water and wrapping me in a large absorbant sheet. When he'd dried me to his satisfaction, he place me on a large couch which was evidently used for sleeping and began further manipulation of my now rapidly yielding body. I was losing the will to resist him. He began licking my body, my nipples, my throat, nibbling my ear lobes. He was licking ever lower.

Finally he found the sensitive cells of my clitoris and began alternatively licking and nibbling. Just enough to stimulate, but not enough to cause me pain. Convulsive shocks of erotic sensation shot through me. I could see he was showing pleasure at my reactions. Watching me closely as I was losing control of my body. When he'd manipulated and raised my body to the edge of the precipice of ecstatic delight, I felt something enter my vagina. I could vaguely see that a pouch had opened just below where our navels are and that some thing was unfolding from there.

There was a feeling like small electric shocks, and an intense sensation of pleasure was sent through my body and I climaxed, threshing with the pleasure and falling spent onto the couch. I could see his most unusual phallus retracting, rolling up and being hidden in the pouch. He came and lay beside me, stroking the back of my neck.

"I am Scorpius. You will learn that if you do my bidding I am fair. However if you resist me or become troublesome then my reaction can be formidable."

"I want to go home."

"My dear little Human, that's one place you won't see for a very long time. I've got plans for you. Such cunning plans."

He continued stroking the back of my neck.

"I must find a name for you. I can't keep calling you subject twelve zero three. I think perhaps .... Baadan. The name of an old Sebbacian goddess."

He nibbled the lobe of my ear, not very gently this time, and drew blood, which he promptly licked off with obvious relish.

"I think perhaps I shall create from you an all powerful tool for my personal use. Or perhaps I shall just use you for creation. I shall enjoy this experiment greatly."

My dress was distinctive. He'd provided me with a black bodysuit similar to his own with a black quilted leather jerkin, with a high red and gold collar with his sigil on it. My feet were shod in knee length, black, soft leather boots. I was recognised wherever I went on the base and accorded a distinction which I knew was totally due to his influence.

One of the Peacekeeper captains was assigned to teach me to fly the small fighter, which they called a prowler. It was far more enjoyable than piloting a car round busy city streets. Surprisingly I excelled in target practice. I had no idea why he should want me to acquire these skills, but they filled up my days most profitably.

After the day's lessons were finished I retired to my room and prepared my lecture notes on the computer console which Scorpius had had installed there. The room was a small one off his, but had the convenience of a small shower room for my sole use. I always shut the door when I got in and he always opened it and left it open when he returned.

One evening when I'd just finished my meal (Scorpius hadn't yet returned to his quarters) I sensed that there was someone in the door way. I turned and there was the technician, Salok. Her face was a mask of hatred.

"Can I help you?"

"You've stolen him. You'll pay."

"Sorry come again I don't understand."

"You frelling piece of dren. You've stolen Scorpius away from me. While he's got you there's not a chance that he'll even give me a second glance."

"I wasn't aware that you had an arrangement. Scorpius has said nothing to that effect."

"There wasn't but I thought that he had some regard for me. He put me on his staff and it's usually for his female technicians to service his needs."

"Oh. Well what can I do about that? I'm not exactly here willingly you know and I have to keep on his right side."

"From what I hear you spend most of your time on your back."

"So?"

"It's degrading."

"Strange. It seems to be what you want the most in life."

She threw herself at me grabbing my hair and pulling hard. I retaliated by hitting her hard in the breast. While she recovered I fled into Scorpius's chamber and made for the outer door. There was no way I intended to have an all out fight with an angry wildcat.

She caught up with me before I was half way across the floor. Grabbing me round the throat she was trying valiantly to throttle me, but I had managed to take a deep breath just before and I went limp and waited for my moment. She relaxed her grip just slightly and I drove my elbow hard into her ribs and slid out of her grasp.

I ran for the door but she grabbed me by the ankle and we fell to the floor. I twisted to face her and cold terror struck me. She'd pulled a knife from out of her belt and was lunging at me with it. Aiming for my heart just under the ribs, commando trained. I twisted just enough to deflect the blade and I felt it sink into my side between my ribs. The next thing I knew she was thrown bodily against the far wall and Scorpius was kneeling beside me.

"Take that.. overheated bitch and incarcerate her. I'll deal with her shortly."

 He was speaking to the captain who had entered the room with him. My side felt as if it was on fire and as I took my hand away it was covered in blood.

"I'm sorry. She just came for me."

"What's to be sorry about?"

He stroked my head.

"You'll soon be attended to. The medical staff are on their way."

"How did you know?"

He chuckled humourlessly.

"You don't think I leave my quarters and my most treasured possession without surveillance, do you?"

"Cameras. That would explain it."

My breathing was ragged and there was a little blood coming from my mouth. At that moment the medical team arrived. He was the model of clinical efficiency.

"I suspect she has a punctured lung."

"Very good sir. Leave her with us."

The nurse put her hand on my head as they carefully loaded me on the gurney. I winced as a pain shot through me.

"Easy dear, soon have everything under control."

***************

I spent two earth weeks in the infirmary. Medical techniques there were far in advance of those on earth and my injuries were soon healing. Scorpius put the wind up the nursing staff by breezing in one day shortly before I was due to be released. They'd done all sorts of other tests on me. I felt like a prize guinea pig.

"You're looking much better my dear. I've got a little treat for you when you feel up to it."

"Oh what is it.?"

He tapped me playfully on the nose.

"Be a pity to spoil a surprise."

I pouted.

"My you're not the little shrinking violet I took from Earth. I'm proud of your progress. Quite the sultry female when you turn your mind to it!"

"Perhaps I've had a good teacher."

We were completely alone. He'd fixed a private room for me anyway and there were few intrusions now I was virtually healed.

"Do you feel up to another lesson?"

"I'm ready, eager and willing."

"Certainly not a shrinking violet."

It had surprised me too to find that once Scorpius had aroused my libido, it became extremely strong. Mind you I could never be certain that he wasn't manipulating me in some way, but on that matter I didn't give a tinker's cuss. I enjoyed sex with him! Plain and simple. He took hold of my breast through the material of the thin gown I was wearing. I look up at the ceiling and he noticed my action.

"Is something wrong?"

"Just checking to make sure there're no cameras."

He gave a wicked little laugh.

"I can assure you, not a one. And if there were, well we could show them how it should be done."

"Scorpius!"

He undid the gown and slid it off my shoulders exposing my white breasts. The nipples were already standing expectantly erect. First he licked them gently, then sucked first one and then the other. I was thoroughly aroused by this time. He surprised me by nipping one of my nipples hard and drawing blood. Surprisingly the pain only served to arouse me still further. He looked up at me, his eyes glittering, before he carefully licked the blood away with obvious relish. I writhed as a stab of pleasure shot through my excited nervous system. Moving downwards he licked ever faster until he reached my bush.

"You can't today. I'm on my bleed."

"Not a problem. Ah what have we here?"

 He found the cord and deftly removed the protection. He slipped it in the sanitary unit. I was slightly dismayed. Just what was he planning to do? The answer soon followed. He placed two fingers inside me and withdrew them, blooded. I felt him smear the viscous liquid on my breasts and he proceeded to lick it off. Repeating the operation he very deliberately licked his fingers clean. I watched fascinated. Strangely, his somewhat animal like behaviour had finally got me to the peak of desire and I saw the slit of his pouch opening and the tip of his strange phallus start to unwind. Then he plunged it in me and as it swelled to fill me, it started the small stimuli which were guaranteed to cause my orgasm at the same time as his. I groaned as I came explosively, writhing vigorously. I just couldn't help it. Lying in his arms after, he stroked my head.

 "Well my dear Baadan, I think we can safely say your convalescence is complete."

I snuggled into his body with a little grunt of contentment. He looked down at me, amusement on his face.

"Strange, Human, how much you now enjoy what you so studiously avoided before. I wonder why?"

******************

I left the infirmary with him. One of the nurses whom I got to know quite well, winked at me as I went past her. I couldn't help but grin. As we went throught the levels, civilians and troopers alike said they were pleased at my recovery.

"I thought they didn't like aliens?"

"They don't like hybrids! They think miscegenation an abomination!"

I glanced at him. He caught my look.

"Go on say it my dear. Why do they have respect for me? I'll tell you that that was won by a mixture of fear and necessity. They fear what I am capable of and they need my services. Ergo they tolerate a half breed."

We'd reached the level which housed his quarters by this time. He opened the door which slid obediently aside. Once inside he sat me down on a chair.

"Won't risk you expending too much energy your first day back."

This was said with a touch of irony. He went into one of the anterooms off the suite and returned with a hover tray of food, which he placed in front of the chairs. I hadn't realised how hungry I was and tucked into the food with gusto.

"Definitely fully recovered. It has never ceased to amaze me, how, once you'd accepted you sojourn here, your appetite increased."

He looked at me appraisingly.

"A little more flesh on your bones is I think necessary. You lost a lot of weight in the infirmary."

"Anyone would think that you were fattening me up for market."

"An astute observation. Shall we just say for the job I have planned for you, it would be desirable."

I stopped in mid grape .(Yes we had grapes. They seemed to be fairly widespread in the galaxy.) He groaned audibly.

"Badaan, stop caressing that grape with your mouth or I'll want you again. You make love to that fruit."

"What job would that be?"

"You won't know until you've done it. I'll tell you then", he replied enigmatically. With that I had to be satisfied.