Eve Sky
Chapter 9 - "Ah, a peaceful life." (relaxing sigh)
by StarCross
It felt more like a honeymoon than a rediscovery excursion for Doctor Emerald Rogers and her personal nurse Marie Anderson. Ever since the event in Seattle, they let go of their coworkers Jan and June and took a road trip east to see the ruins of the 7th Vermont Special District of the country of Bay Haven, during which their relationship improved considerably. In fact, despite all genetic taboos, they were having regular sex along the way. They merely did so because it felt so natural in their desire to become closer to one another.
Getting off the main road, they drove off the road, then past a barbwire fence, and then past a warning sign indicating that it was a radioactive fallout area, which it wasn't really because the Geiger counter was not ticking. Although Marie could survive whereas Emerald would not, they remained in the two-door SUV until they reached the edge of a very flat valley.
The Geiger counter was still not ticking. Assuming that the sign was put there for show, they risked going outside anyway. It was hard to believe that this area was full of grass, trees, and other floral, and now it was a scorched desert created by the bombardment done by the Congregational Corporation and Nataraja Agriculture more than twenty years ago. It was cold and very breezy despite the sun dodging between the clouds every often. Emerald and Marie were dressed in overcoats that flapped occasionally to the wind. It also was lead-lined, as an additionally safety measure just in case.
"Was this where I was born?" asked Marie as they walked.
"You were born in the 9th Vermont Special District," replied Emerald, "in the place once called Michigan. I was in charge of a sub-project that created you and your sisters."
"Only I survived, right?"
"Yes."
"So I would have been like Jerri."
"Miss Adams was too human to be like you, unfortunately. Yet I can't help but wonder how she is able to do it? Was she a natural occurrence or did Professor Zoya Admantite actually succeed?"
"Doctor! Doctor! Was this here before?"
Emerald looked and saw Marie looking down upon something. She went over, but Marie held her arm out to prevent her from falling. Emerald was shocked to see a massive conical hole that could not have been possibly made by any type bombardment. It was wide almost as if it was deep, and they could not grasp the sight of the bottom.
"It can't be," Emerald gasped.
Emerald turned around and headed back towards the SUV.
"Doctor?" said Marie.
"I have to make sure. Maybe they have--"
When she climbed up over the incline she suddenly saw a pretty young woman with pearl-white hair and a pearl-studded white dress in the far distance. Then she heard a loud bang-pop behind her. Emerald turned around and Marie collapsing due to a big hole in her chest. Suddenly, a blur of a fast-moving white created more holes in her body until she was bloodily decimated.
Emerald was too shocked to scream. She turned back around and saw the woman in white grinning right before her.
"Are they mad?" she gasped. "They've actually released you?"
The woman grinned. She raised her flexing hand, and Emerald felt a huge pop go through her chest...
After recovering Evie, Jerri and Eva handed the AngelTech wings to Farrah and Kelly as a reward for putting up with Evie, who was surprisingly calm and happy being with the mercenaries. To her dismay, Evie started wailing when Jerri held her, and Jerri then handed her to Eva who immediately breastfed her.
However, they did not leave without any means of transport, and thus their friendly mercenaries gave the family a beaten-up but working sedan they used to drive east until they ran out of fuel. They walked the rest of the way to the small and occupied town of Victoria of East Texas. It was inhabited by those who were tired of city life, and they did their best to get away from not only the hustle and bustle but also the constant population shifting done by the Congregational Corporation.
Although Jerri and her family were still technically in the Congregational Nation, the inhabitants were overjoyed that they were toppled, yet at the same time worried that the Nataraja Agriculture would continue the oppression started by Helena and her forbearers. It was possible that the power shift would have no effect on a small town literally on the fringe of society.
The local café was deserted save for the old bartender named Ol' Bella, who also served part-time as a doctor, therapist, sheriff, sage, and sometimes the stand-in mayor. Working under her was a mute waitress, a pretty teenager whose hair was mostly grayed by an intense trauma. She was never paid, but she did not have anywhere else to go lest she would be taken advantage up by the unscrupulous.
"Would you girls have?" asked Bella.
"Sorry, but we don't have any money," said Eva.
Bella served Jerri beer and Eva some juice. "It's on me."
"We will pay you back somehow," said Jerri.
"If you're looking for a job, this isn't the place," said Bella. "You'd be best served in the cities, however decadent they may be."
"We'd prefer not to head back there."
"You're fugitives? Say no more. The Charity's were total bitches, and with Nataraja in power, I don't things will change much. However, this does not mean you'll find work here. You're welcome to stay, but it'll be struggle to feed yourself and your children."
"You now I'm pregnant?" asked Eva.
"I'm primarily the bartender, but I'm also the doctor... and even a gynecologist if needs be. The poor girl working for me is Tenaya, or at least that's what's she's given me in writing. I don't know much else."
Tenaya, who was sitting at the farthest booth, blushed and hid her face.
"She's mute and shy," whispered Bella. "But really pretty. I'm even tempted to do her, but that might make things worse."
"So there's really no work in this town?" asked Eva.
"Nope."
"I see. Well, thank you anyway."
"Take care. All five of you."
"You even know I have twins?"
"I am the town's doctor you know."
The family waved goodbye and walked outside staring at the empty and dusty streets and then past it.
"We could always go back to the cities," said Jerri. "Under new identities."
"Uh-huh," said Eva, looking elsewhere.
"Houston is close by. I just hope they haven't moved the population from there."
"Uh-huh."
Jerri looked at Eva, was now staring a significantly different direction than her. In her eyes, she was staring out to space.
"What are you looking at?"
"Do you see that?" said Eva.
"See what?"
"That barn over there."
"What barn?"
"Hold Evie. Let me go ask Bella something."
Jerri received Evie, who immediately began crying.
"Is my eyesight that bad?" Jerri asked herself.
Evie quieted down, and stroked Jerri's cheek. Then Eva came back with a smile on her face.
"We're moving in."
The barn in question, was a long walk away, and beside was a run-down house that could be mistaken as an ugly shack. It occupied a once-thriving farmland, but the expression on Eva was overwhelmingly positive. What was she thinking?
On that day, Bella and Tenaya helped the family with initial cleanup and gave them a pair of sleeping bags and food to last the entire day. Bella then told them that she'd get the rest of the town to refurbish not just the small house but also the entire barn as well.
The next few days were spent on the refurbishing. Jerri worked on it without question, although she wondered if she was allowed to work on it. Reading her expression, Bella relaxed her worries.
"Officially the town owns it," she said. "Or rather, the town council. I'm part of it, and it is usually the mayor who has to approve of the deed transfer."
"You're giving this away for free?" asked Jerri.
"Might as well since it's not making any money. Although I am curious on why you need this dusty place."
"Beats me."
"Anyway, don't worry about paying in the near future. In fact, you might not have to since our current mayor is so stoned and forgetful that she'll think you've been here longer than any of us put together."
Jerri shrugged her shoulders and kept on working.
Around that same time Eva made a number of orders of various fertilizer, seeds, chemicals, a tractor, and even had a silo of water installed in case the plumbing went bad. The farm essentially became her lab that drew the curiosity of the townsfolk almost daily in her "experiments", although she was mostly doing mixing and the sort. Bella and Tenaya volunteered to be part-time assistants.
"This is some strange concoction," said Bella. "Are you sure you and your wife are fugitives? Maybe you've been laid off by a large corporation."
"You could say that," said Eva.
It was then Jerri remembered that Eva used to be part of Nataraja Agriculture.
The modified fertilizer Eva concocted was loaded up onto the tank of the tractor and was then poured onto the dry farmland. With the further help of the townsfolk, Eva and her family planted seeds and waited weeks for the seedlings to sprout, much to everyone's amazement.
"We can essentially have our own food supply here!" Bella cried. "Misses Adams, we cannot help but appreciate you coming here! If you want anything else, just ask us and we will get it."
"You're too kind," smiled Eva, "but right now we're fine for the time being until I think of something else."
Jerri and her family were settling in very quickly. In the months that came, they bought a truck and a pair of cows, which Jerri thought they were going to slaughter for meat. She forgot that Eva was part vegetarian, and that she wanted a pair of cows and one bull just to have around for comfort and for a bit of reverence since she was Hindu. However, she needed the cows for milk and use the bull to assist in plowing if needs be.
The pregnancy was taking a toll on Eva, and so Jerri now performed most of the work on the farm almost like a husband. She did the best she could as a woman, but Bella, Tenaya and the others dropped by very often to help her.
Many months later, Bella assisted as a midwife to help Eva give birth to twins without the need of a caesarian. It was around that time that not only the cows gave birth to a calf each, milk and crops were being sold to pay off the town for the farm, however small they may be. The crops and milk were then instead to celebrate an impromptu party for the birth of the twins Nikhila and Odilia.
Jerri soon found out that she was significantly nearsighted. She did not want to wear glasses, but Eva insisted that she wear a pair. The resourceful Bella gave her perfect mach, which now made her a bit bookish. She received a few laughs from Evie, and Eva, however, became attracted to her wife all over again that they had a passionate of sex. Months after the twins were born, Eva became pregnant again--with one child this time.
Amidst work, raising children was becoming very hard. All three children were constant troublemakers, especially with the growing Evie whose first word was "fuck", and Eva laid the blame on the cursing Jerri, who then laid the blame back on her wife. Jerri was informally assigned to raising Evie as a father figure while Eva took care of the twins. Evie didn't seem to like the prospect and threw a lot of tantrums that caused her to pick on her little sisters that was under Eva's care. As an unusually precocious child, Evie acknowledged Eva as her mother and Jerri as the "other mother", very much to Jerri's chagrin. Jerri did her best to teach her how to fight using marital arts, perform basic farm and home maintenance duties, and even took her hunting with a classic Winchester bolt-action rifle. Steadily, under Eva's tutelage, Jerri's aim improved.
Regular help for their farm did not come until one day a neighbor alerted Jerri and family that an all-girl biker gang that called themselves the Kamikaze Lolitas had arrived and taken a few teenage girls hostage and proclaiming that they were now the new leaders of Victoria of East Texas. Jerri sprung into action with Eva trailing behind at backup.
From the information she gathered on the way, Jerri was told that there were about ten members united under the leadership of teenage Ichiko Kreuz with the older and long black-haired Lucifer "Lucy" Zero as second-in-command.
She spotted the gang holding themselves in Bella's café. Bella was across the street being tended to for a bloodied blow to the head. The decorated bikes the gang rode on varied from choppers, import speedbikes, dirt bikes, scooters, and motor-assisted bicycles. The costumes they were either gothic and intimidating or outright outlandish. Almost true to their name, they were dressed in a modern gothic lolita dresses cut appropriately for their bikes, and some had shoulder pads or gauntlets studded with aluminum spikes.
The three teenage girls they took hostage were seen at the farthest window of the café, and Tenaya was one of them.
This wasn't the first time a situation like this had happened. Smaller groups and individuals had caused trouble in Victoria of East Texas. Usually the townspeople would drive them out through strength in numbers. However, the frequency of dangerous outsiders was growing, and that was because of the morality sweeps Nataraja Agriculture had imposed on the cities once governed by the Congregation.
In this situation, the townspeople were frightened by the tough look of the gang, but Jerri knew better. She marched up towards the café with a grin.
"Wait!" Bella cried out. "We have to think through this."
"Oh, I think can take care of it," said Jerri.
"You don't have to! We'll call the authorities from the city to deal with this."
"That won't be a good idea, because they'll force us to move. And I'm sure that many of us don't want to be found out due to past crime we have committed. Besides, I got my backup."
Eva arrived beside Bella, with her arm folded and staring objectively at the situation.
"Please be careful," said Eva.
Jerri nodded. Proudly she approached the entrance that was guarded by two of the gang members, one of which was a bespectacled black woman with red-orange hair and the other had a hairband over her hair.
"This café's for invited guests only!" said the black woman.
"We're having a party!" said the girl with the hairband.
Jerri pocketed her glasses. "Clearly, you can't resist a piece of ass like this."
"What the hell's going on you two?" demanded Ichiko.
"This ho is trying to whore herself in," replied the black woman.
"Let her in then!"
Jerri brushed past them. The majority of the gang members were fawning over the teenage hostages, while their leaders watched on from the bar.
"You wanna join the party?" smiled Ichiko.
"Tempting," replied Jerri, "but personally, I feel this isn't the best way to pick up girls. You're acting way too mannish--whatever that means."
"She has a point," said Lucy as she calmly sipped her tea.
"Hush bitch," said Ichiko.
Ichiko leaped off her stool and walked right up to Jerri, who was taller than her. In fact, Ichiko turned out to be the shortest female in the group, but she was certainly not the youngest in age. She could even be the oldest. She almost looked like a short girl barely into her teens, and her stature and bratty demeanor did not frighten Jerri one bit.
"What the fuck do you really want?" she asked.
"Let the hostages go and we'll let you bunk her for a day or so," replied Jerri.
"Ah, but you see, we've sort of lost our turf ever since the Nataraja bitches came in and ran us out. So we need a new home. This seems like a perfect place, and I hear there is a nice farm where we can have salad and steak."
"My wife won't allow it. She's Hindu."
"Fucking Indians fucking taking over the world."
"Please watch your mouth. My wife is near."
"Fuck her."
Jerri calmly struck the short Ichiko hard in the head. Ichiko fell to her knees clutching her head, and soon she began wailing like a baby. The rest of the gang members drew their weapons--knifes, brass knuckles, pistols--at Jerri, while the maternal Lucy embraced her leader.
"It hurts!" wept Ichiko.
"Shh, you'll be fine," said Lucy. She looked up and focused her black eyes at Jerri.
"I thought better of you," said she. "Using violence from the get go isn't like you."
"She needed a good hitting," said Jerri. "I knew right away when I walked in that you're the real strength behind this gang.
Lucy threw off her leather jacket. "We'll have ourselves a one-on-one fight. If I win, we'll stay in this town as long as we want. If you win, we will leave peacefully."
"You're on!"
"Oh, and get a doctor for my dearest Ichiko."
"She's not that hurt."
"Please do so. It'll help her deal with her defeat."
Everyone then organized themselves in a nearby park, with Jerri and Lucy as combatants. The entire town was in an excited uproar, while Eva sighed exasperatingly at such glorification of violence and the sudden placing of bets. Still, it turned out for the better since no one was killed let alone injured seriously. Not yet at least.
With her head bandaged, Bella checked on the wailing Ichiko at the sidelines, and concluded that it was just a small bruise. Ichiko threw a tantrum and proclaimed that her skull had been fractured. Her tantrums disappeared right as the fight started.
Once Jerri and Lucy were dressed down appropriately, they soon began their fight purely for sport and not for their lives. The excited look in their faces indicated that they wanted this way anyway. Their moves were mainly for show, and it was a like a kickboxing match. Actually, it ended up being a kickboxing match as they agreed to a three-knockout rule after the first knockout for Jerri.
Several blows to the face and stomach later, Jerri and Lucy were tiring. Each had their two knockouts, and in the last moments, Jerri dealt a punch to Lucy's face that earned her the third knockout. Jerri was declared the winner, and the Kamikaze Lolitas humbly accepted their defeat despite their self-proclaimed leader's protests and accusations of cheating.
The biker gang boarded their bikes and rode westward, but not before townspeople gave them one day's worth of food and water upon Jerri's insistence.
"I told you!" Ichiko complained as she rode behind Lucy on their chopper. "They cheated! You took the fall for this measly shit!"
"Yeah, why did you?" asked Jerri.
Lucy smiled. "I know a loving wife when I see one. Something about you makes me think that you've been blessed by the Goddesses."
"Shut-up!" cried Ichiko. "We're not leaving until we get a proper rematch!"
Lucy silenced Ichiko with a long and passionate kiss.
"Somewhere and somehow, we may see each other again," Lucy winked to Jerri. "In the meantime, take care of your family, and Ichiko and I will find a way to start of our own."
"I hate kids," said Ichiko.
"But you are one sweetie!"
"But I'm twenty-eight!"
The gang then left, almost like a dream, and it was said that they entered in the same way.
Jerri was swarmed by her admirers, especially the teenage hostages who had become overly smitten by her. She blushed and smiled in embarrassment, while Eva watched on with a annoyed wince until she noticed Evie pushing herself through the crowd. Jerri lifted her up and put on her shoulders.
"So you saw the fight?" Jerri asked her.
Evie nodded. Eva was unaware that her eldest daughter and snuck off from the house to watch the fight.
"You're cool Other Mother," said Evie.
Jerri sighed. "Why can't you call me mother or mommy?"
"That's for her," Evie pointed to Eva. "You're just Other Mother."
"At least I'm 'cool'."
The night ended like a dream. The excitement died in the next day, and life went on as usual. Days later, Bella came over one late afternoon with the timid Tenaya, but with them was a suitcase of clothes and a sleeping bag at the front porch. Eva was the one who answered.
"I tried to talk her out of it, but she insisted on boarding with you as a live-in housemaid," said Bella. "She feels it is her payment for being rescued by your wife."
"I guess that would be okay," said Eva, "seeing as I have too much trouble raising my children and the farm." Then she called out, "Jerri! Would it be okay if we fit in Tenaya?"
The bespectacled Jerri then arrived before them, and the mute Tenaya blushed and averted her smiling face.
"Sure," replied Jerri. "We would love to have her in. But what about you Ol' Bella?"
"I'll be fine," said Bella. "The café can run itself seeing as I don't get a lot of customers."
Tenaya then made some hand signals towards her former employer.
"Of course you're welcome to visit," said Bella. "Bring the Adamses along with you."
Tenaya nodded. She lingered at the porch until Bella gently pushed in to her new and welcoming masters, if not her new family. Soon after, she had dinner with them.
The incident with the Kamikaze Lolitas was how Jerri earned Tenaya.
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