A Date with Angel: and other things that weren't supposed to happen by Judkins J

Author:Judkins, J. [Judkins, J.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Three

Kim couldn't help but smile as she drove home. A new plan was forming in her mind. She realized her failure hadn't been a total failure. Any feelings she may or may not have for Angel were irrelevant. She hadn’t failed because of a lack of willpower. Instead, it had been realization, knowing that any alien technology she found couldn’t be used as evidence of wrongdoing.

She’d been going about things the wrong way. Instead of playing detective, she needed to play up to her own strengths if she wanted to survive. Hers should be a long-term strategy. She’d learn by careful observation, not by finding evidence.

But to do that, she needed to build tolerance. That had been her personal challenge to Angel, all those nights ago. Kim needed to match her own, lifelong, hard-won skills against Angel’s raw talent.

With this in mind, Kim devised a new strategy.

Angel sought to seduce her by exploiting Kim’s weakness, namely her inability to maintain control in the face of passion. To counter this, Kim had devised a program of building resistance. Tonight she planned to expand upon this defense.

What she now envisioned was a technique to combine the intensity of kissing without the risk of losing herself after prolonged exposure to it.

But she had to be sure it would work. Unlike Angel, Kim couldn’t design complex schemes without preparation. She had to think them through and plan for every possible outcome.

Kim locked herself in the computer room as soon as she got home. Other than the bathroom, this was the last place left to her that ensured privacy. In this refuge, Kim’s dark plan borne of desperation and optimism began to take shape. She looked at every possible outcome. She examined every detail, mapped out every possibility and accounted for all possible contingencies.

Her hard work and persistence paid off. Two hours later, there it was. The perfect plan. Kim wanted to weep, it was so beautiful. She would have laughed out loud, but couldn’t risk Angel hearing and divining her purpose, anticipating her plan and dreaming up her own contingencies to counter hers.

How could it go wrong? It wouldn’t. It couldn’t! Everything about it was flawless.

A goodnight kiss with an artificial but immutable time limit.

It. Could. Not. Fail!

The goodnight kiss was unavoidable at this stage of their relationship. Tonight, Kim intended to twist that experience to her advantage. In a normal situation, the intensity of a prolonged kiss was risky and best avoided. But in a controlled environment, Kim risked nothing.

Kim discovered the means to her salvation only a few days ago. She’d realized that of all the possible encounters, only the inevitable goodbye kiss contained no risk whatsoever because of its inherent time limit. Even if she lost all control, the kissing had to end at some point or she risked being late for work. A time limit, even an artificial one, allowed her to reap the benefits of the experience without risk to self or virtue. Kim couldn’t get carried away and lose herself to passion.

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