Someone sold you out

You come around slowly your head throbbing with a mixture of pain from the blow that rendered you ****, and judging from your mouth mild dehydration, it was hard to tell as you blink your eyes trying to focus the blurry image infront of you, as your other senses slowly come back to you.

You feel the cold metal against your face and bits of your body still left exposed by the catsuit, next your notice the low humming which you recognize as the dull throbbing hum of high energy capacitors distributing its energy to the needy machines it's hooked up to. As you blink a few more times you find yourself in a cold metal looking room it could easily be the bowels of a ship although you can't feel the slight subtle shifts in gravity from a ships artificial gravity so you reckoned there was a good chance you were still on the station itself or the ship you were dragged to is still docked. Of course there is a chance you were put **** while **** or maybe frozen in some form of stasis but you doubted it from how you felt and the lack of any IV drips for the cheaper stasis options open to the sort of person who might go after you. The bounty was by no means small but hardly enough to warrant the top of the line mercaries who could actually bankroll the more expensive means.

You tried to shift about to stand up but found that your hands and feet were bound and the best you could do was manauvour yourself upright with a back to the wall. The movements were far from your normal quiet graceful ones and you are far from surprised when you hear the approaching clank of heavy boots on the metal floor grates, as a large silloutee approaches you.

"Ah finally awake I see." Sneered a smug deep voice more akin to a growl, than normal speech.

"Lucky me." You pelt in a flat tone of annoyance.

"Awwww don't be like that, you and me are going to be spending a lot of time together, long trip home to collect on your reward after all." The growl like tone replies as the silhouetted figure continues to approach, a sense of scale starting to fill out as the large framed figure gets closer.

"Well if you were trying to get on my good side, knocking me out and **** me weren't exactly a good ice breaker." You continue to snap back your headache feeling your bad mood.

"Well in my defence it's not like you'd of come with me willingly, but then again maybe that would of been pretty fun too." The gruff voice continues as it's o finally steps out into to some light, giving you a view your captor.

You would be kidnapper was as tall and imposing as his sillouhett had made him appear, standing at your best guess at around 6 and a half feet but also very broad and muscular by the shape and size of his shoulder and arms. The man infront of you had a shaggy mane of blank unkept hair which was a strange stark contrast to the cleanly shaven face that glared down at you, the piercing grey eyes appearing to size you up, like a hunter sizing up his caught prey. The man suddenly squatted down to bring himself down to your level, and the contrast in size between you becomes even more apparent as the arm muscles on the arm nearest to you is about the size of your head.

"So my captor got a name, if he's so insistent on us being friendly." You say drawing on every ounce of willpower not to spit the words in his face, as your eyes scan your captor taking in the details of his equipment and clothing.

"Awwww don't tell me you've lost the will to fight now, I was kinda looking forward into having to make you more obedient." The man says as his face stretched into a large wolf like grin, revealing a large set of pearly white teeth, too bright to be his original set you reckon, as the few with pointed ends seem to further cement your theory. "Ah well I'm sure we'll have some fun either way, but you can call me Garth or Sir, I ain't picky." Garth continues with another unnerving grin.

"Well I assume you already know my name." You reply as you try and search his body for any telltale signs of concealed weapons, before concluding that he must be unarmed, or at least without a weapon within easy reaching distance.

"Only your first name, and that your friends can call you Val. You know it's funny Val, I've seen your warrant pop up and initially I didn't pay it any mind, just figured you were the daughter of some rich and powerful type who just want their kid brought back or to prevent any embarrassment, the pattern fits hopping from planet to planet a few strings of petty theft." Garth begins as he laughs to himself and shakes his head. "Honestly I thought your bounty wasn't going to worth the headache, and I ignored the updates, hell no way a runaway kid could cause enough problems to amass a big enough bounty." Garth continues as he reaches out and puts his hand on your face lifting your chin and forcing you to look at him, as he pauses mid flow and smiles at you. "And yet here I am the ass end of nowhere stopping for supplies, and some clerk sees I'm a bounty hunter and offers to sell me a lead to a promising reward, said she had just sold something to a wanted criminal and was looking for the informer reward." Garth continues with a wicked smile as he pulls his hand back as you stare up at him with a look of defiance in your eyes.

"Naturally, I thought it would be a goose chase, but something about her just gets through and I take pity on her enough to hear her out." Garth says chuckling and shaking his head. "So she pulls out a holo pad and up comes the footage of her selling you something, alongside your bounty, which I have to say is very impressive theses days. Don't know who you pissed off Val, but hell their loss is my gain." Garth continues with a chuckle. "Ain't that just crazy thought, I pay your bounty no heed, don't bother even looking for you, and here I am between jobs and your fine ass falls into my laps complete with a hefty pay off." Garth says with a hearty chuckle that makes your blood boil as you fight the urge to reach up and hit him. "Guess luck is finally in my side." Garth says with a grin.

"Or maybe it's just building you up for a bigger fall." You say back venemously, about as much as you can do given your still slightly woozy and the adversary infront of you.

"Ohhhhhh I think I'm going to enjoy this trip, might have to take the scenic route to make sure I have plenty of time with you sweet cheeks, it'll make a nice change having something nice to haul rather than the ugly mugs and bodies I have to haul in." Garth says with a smile as he straightens himself up.

"Enjoy looking at me while you can because I'll be gone the first chance you give me." You reply as you begin to feel confidence returning as a faint weight can be felt, as you realize the tools you had stashed into your quantum corset was still there. Garth smiles at you and casually reaches into his leather jacket and pulls forth a small needle. You try to avoid it as soon as you spot it, but between your current state and Garths surprisingly quick movements for his size the needle is stuck into your neck, and shortly after the contents is injected into you, you find yourself falling into a deep sleep.