A slight smile curved Asia's full lips, "A little sarcastic don't you think?"
"Being the half crazy person in the room I'm allowed at least two half-baked paranoid conspiracy notions a day before my medications kick in."
She laughed softly and I found myself wondering how I could make her do it again. She was looking at me in all seriousness now.
"So I'm to be with you on your island for a year, while I work on breaking the Code?"
"That's right and perhaps even longer."
Her gaze became somewhat sarcastic itself, "And you agreed to your part in all of this, because you want to save the world?"
"Nope. The world's done nothing for me, so why should I risk myself and save it. Don't get me wrong, I don't like what I'm seeing in terms of destruction, but I don't have a dog in the fight so to speak."
"Then what payment were you offered to perform your duties?" She asked cautiously.
"You. You were offered as payment. You and a request from an old acquaintance are why I'm here."
She stood up stiffly, as she put weight on her ankle, "I don't like your deal!"
"I don't imagine that you would, but the deals been made and all that remains is for me to collect payment, which I will."
She backed away from me then to the bedroom and closed the door and locked it. I sat there staring at the door in brooding passion.
I stared at the door all day long.
I wanted to give her time.
Why did I want to give her time? Exactly! There'd been enough time gone by already.
I rose to my feet and approached the door. My foot lifted and I kicked the door hard and it shattered backward, even as I stepped into the room. She swung around toward me and it was clear that she knew what was coming, as she started backing away from me, as far as the room would allow.
"This only has to be as hard on you as you make it to be." Was all that I said, as I approached her, even as I willed my aroused consciousness sparked by the fear in her eyes, to be silent.
She wasn't succumbing quietly, but whacked me several times with articles that she could lay a hand to. She was still too weak from the fever to really resist though and I picked her up with relative ease and tossed her on the bed. She tried to scuttle off of it, but I pulled her back and pinned her beneath me.