Homecoming In Black by J M Anjewierden

Author:J M Anjewierden [Anjewierden, J M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Teen & Young Adult, Action & Adventure, Coming of Age, Space Opera, Female Protagonist, Space Battles, Spaceship
Publisher: CJMA Press
Published: 2023-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Oh, my head.

That’s the last time I go to a bar with the Marines. I didn’t drink anything, and I still got a ‘hangover.’ I don’t even remember the last part of the fight, though I gather the Marines won, at least until the local peacekeepers showed up.

If I find out that Mary set this up, hoping there’d be a fight we could ‘bond over…’

- M

WAKING UP in strange places was never a fun feeling, even when it wasn’t preceded by recurring nightmares. This was doubly true when that first groggy look of the place so forcibly reminded Morgan of even less pleasant places she’d stayed. Bare hard walls and floor, an exposed toilet combined with a sink, and a pair of cots that felt like they were only marginally softer than the walls – this holding cell wasn’t exactly the same as her ‘accommodations’ when she’d been captured by the terrorists back on Albion, but it was close enough to send her heart racing and her breathing perilously close to hyperventilating.

Her still throbbing head didn’t help things either. She’d been hoping a short nap would give her body time to recover somewhat from the pummeling she’d taken in the bar fight, but it hadn’t, and the headache served as yet another reminder of the terrorists, not that the headache was remotely as painful as literally having her head split open had been.

Fighting to get her breathing under control, she looked over at Stump’s temporary cot.

As best Morgan could tell, Stump was seated in exactly the same position she’d been in when Morgan had attempted to get some rest – half-kneeling on the bed with her legs tucked beneath her, shoes on the floor next to her and seemingly very careful to keep her dress from touching any part of the cot or its bedding.

At least that part I can understand, not that there’s much point in trying in my case, Morgan thought, looking down at the ruined dress she still wore, the soiled and borrowed dress.

Torn up one side of the skirt, lost a sleeve and a chunk of the surrounding dress entirely, grime ground into the entire backside, and booze soaked for a final insult. I’ll need to buy her a couple dresses before we leave the station, by way of apology.

Assuming they let me back on ever again.

That was the real crux of the issue, for Morgan. How was what passed as a government on the station going to react? Stump looked for all the world to be completely unconcerned that they’d been arrested when the local constabulary broke up the fight at last, along with most of the bar’s patrons, but apart from that one incident when the police had thought her identification faked, Morgan had never been in trouble with the law before, and it was making her incredibly anxious.

Or rather, she’d never been in trouble with proper agents of the law before, and she was reacting like she was about to get a beating for being late to a shift in the mines.

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