Naskia sighed, rather angry with the unconscious Niall. She didn’t know if she was angrier that he had nearly got himself killed or that he had violated her while she slept.

He looked absolutely pathetic, lying between her legs covered in her cum. She scooped him up into her hand and reached over to her bag and removed a wipe from a pouch. She wiped him down not roughly but harsh enough to bring him round. Naskia felt some pity as he spluttered and moaned in pain as he came round.

“Keep your eyes and your mouth closed.” She said barely giving him time before she used the wipe to clean his face.

Niall groaned as Naskia finished wiping him down.

“You need to explain yourself, now.” She said looking pretty angry.

“You were snoring…” Niall groaned again.

“What the hell does this have to do with me snoring?” Naskia yelled. She was tried, angry at being violated and not a little frustrated from not getting to finish.

“You woke me up you were snoring so loud.” Niall said. The look on Naskia’s face darkened taking Niall’s statement of fact as an insult.

“I tried yelling into your ear, pulling your eyes open and even kicking your nose and you still didn’t budge. So I tried something I thought might get your attention.” Niall sat up and groaned. His sides were aching. He felt at his ribs checking to make sure they weren’t broken. They hurt but not bad enough to be broken.

“So you decided to just crawl inside me?! Did you think it would be quieter in there?” Naskia asked sarcastically.

“Nas, please that’s not it at all. Everything is aching can you cut me some slack here?” Niall said.

He instantly regretted saying that as Naskia’s face darkened further. He was jolted as she raised her hand swiftly and held him only a few feet from her eyes and stared him down. Her huge eyes, which were usually full of joy and love now burned into him. He thought she was deliberately trying to intimidate him and it was working. He felt miniscule and powerless before her. He just wanted to dive off her hand and hide somewhere.

“Look I’m sorry! I just wanted to rub your clit a bit and wake you up. You must have gotten a bit too excited as you ended up shoving me inside you with your fingers. I didn’t mean to nearly get myself killed I swear.” Niall said half cowering and slowly trying to back up her hand away from her face.

Naskia’s face didn’t change. She was still deciding what to do with him. She was still very angry with him but he looked so broken after his ordeal. As much as she wanted to be angry he looked like he had been through enough punishment. Her face slowly returned to normal. She cupped her hand to support his bruised body and slowly lowered him from her glare. Niall didn’t realise but he had subconsciously been holding his breath and exhaled in relief.

“Look I believe you ok. I just don’t think it’s right that you think can just violate me like that.” Naskia said to him trying to sound less angry.

“I really am so…” Niall said before Naskia cut him off.

“I wanted to have this conversation with you tomorrow but it’s probably better we have it now. I don’t think we should….play anymore. You know I really like you Niall but you’re not my pet. If you’re my pet then I can do what I want with you but we both know you’re not. It’s consensual and that makes it dangerously close to a relationship and I don’t want to go down this road.” Naskia said. She was moving from angry to upset.

Niall waited for her to finish.

“I think we should just be friends. You’re still my equal as far as I’m concerned. That’s why we have to be friends. If this bothers you I’ll find someone who thinks the same way I do and you could stay with them maybe?” Naskia said. She hated what she was saying. She wanted to be with him but it just wasn’t possible.

“Ok….I can understand that. I should be able to use the expansion of your father’s equation to get some recognition from the university. Hopefully they will take me on and I can get out of your hair then. Will you help me do that?” Niall said.

He felt a bit dejected but he respected what Naskia said. He could understand where she was coming from. The last few months had been great but he could never properly be with her. It was only going to end in heart ache. The only question was; how much?

Naskia felt terrible. She secretly hoped Niall would try to fight her on this to show he cared for her as much as she cared for him. She was actually quite hurt that Niall didn’t seem to care as much as she did.

“Yeah….sure, that’s probably for the best. Time to go to sleep I think….” Naskia said. She was still tired from being woken up and the emotional strain was making her want to just curl up and die.

Naskia went to set Niall in his bed.

“Nas, I ache all over. Can I please sleep with you?” he asked sounding a bit broken.

Naskia’s heart was breaking. She wanted to curl up with him so badly but she knew it would only make things worse.

“No…no…we can’t…” she said.

“Please Nas…it’s just for comfort.”

“No…not for me it’s not.” Naskia deposited Niall in his bed and pulled his blanket over him. She quickly rolled back over and wrapped herself up in her covers, more for comfort than warmth. She covered her mouth with her hands tightly. She didn’t want Niall to hear her cry.

Kiri was walking across campus on her way to her early morning class when she heard someone call her name. She stopped and turned around to see Dorok chasing after her. She wasn’t overly close with him but they had an overlapping circle of friends and got on well.

“Hey Dorok, what’s up?” She said turning around to greet him.

“Have you seen this?” He said handing her a pad with text on screen.

Kiri scrolled through the pad and a smirk came over her face as she realised what it was. Niall had posted a blog of his day to day life online and was fielding a lot of questions. It looked like over 10,000 individual people in the university had read it.

“No…I haven’t seen it before.” Kiri replied.

“A few weeks ago Naskia came in with this piece of human technology. It looked really advanced for human technology. Anyway there were loads of pictures on it of physics type stuff and this guy in the blog is a physicist. Does Naskia have a Human? A Human that’s clever?” Dorok asked looking hopeful.

“What’s it to you?” Kiri asked. Her mind was whirling with how she could work this to her advantage.

“There’s a friend of mine, she’s a journalist and she’s looking into it. She promised me a date if I can get her a name. You know something…..don’t you?” He said.

“Haha, yeah Dorok I know something. Just leave my name out of it ok?” she said. Kiri didn’t want this getting traced back to her. There was no way Naskia knew about this blog. She would completely freak out if she found out from a journalist.

“Deal!” Dorok said excitedly.

“Nas has a Human. And yes he is smart. And from the language here I think it’s him.” Kiri said. “Now get out of here before someone sees us together. I really don’t want Nas knowing this came from me.”

“Thanks Kiri! I owe you.” He said bolting off.

Kiri smiled to herself. Now all she had to do was go home and wait for the fireworks to go off.

Naskia walked out of a 3 hour lecture on baryon asymmetry and antimatter production relieved it was over. As much as it was fascinating, too much of it pickled her brain. A young woman stopped her in her tracks. She was tall and thin, pretty too with a short dark hair done a pixie style.

“Can I help you?” Naskia asked clutching her books across her chest defensively.

“Naskia Bass?” She asked.

“Yes….what can I do for you?” Naskia replied a bit confused.

“My name is Loona Armac. I’m a reporter with Tannhauser Student News. I’m working on a story about the Human blog.” The tall woman said.

“Human blog?!” Naskia said her pulse quickening a bit.

The reporter handed her a pad and Naskia read it. She grew more and more anxious as she read it. There was no reference to her in it apart from “my companion” but the language was pretentious and arrogant enough to be Niall.

“I’d like to do an interview with the Human and his companion. You would happen to know anything about him would you?” Loona asked.

“No, I don’t know who this is.” Naskia asked doing her best to lie. She was nervous and more than a little annoyed at Niall.

“Really? I have a source who says that the human writing the blog is yours. He says you’ve had him for at least 2 weeks now.” The reporter said.

“He?! Dorok! Damn him…..” Naskia thought.

“I don’t have a human. Please leave me alone.” Naskia pushed passed Loona and walked on without looking back.

Loona knew from the look on Naskia’s face that she was on to something but she decided it wasn’t a good idea to push her just now.

Niall felt himself being lifted out of his bed by a tight grip. He was then dropped from about 6 feet to the wooden floor below. He landed roughly on his already sore side. He clutched at it and groaned as he looked around trying to figure out what was going on. He was on Naskia’s desk. She was standing over him looking angry as all hell.

“What is this?!” She yelled throwing a pad down on the desk narrowly missing him.

Niall looked at it. It was his blog. Naskia must have found it. She looked a lot angrier than he expected.

“It’s my blog. I’ve been reaching out to the students to see how they’d react to me.” Niall said easing himself to standing. His legs felt a bit shaky as he raised himself from the table against his instincts to cower before the towering woman.

“Why didn’t you tell me about this?!” Naskia said still half yelling.

“I was didn’t know I had to tell you.” Niall said flatly. He composed himself not wanting to appear weak.

“Of course you have to tell me! You’re using my things to post it and it all leads back to me! A reporter just interrogated me about it in the street. She knew my name and that you’re my human!” Naskia yelled. She was waving her hands about and pacing.

“A reporter?! That’s good! Does she want to speak to me directly?!” Niall was excited. An interview could go a long way to getting sympathy for his cause.

“I didn’t ask. I just got out of there. I can’t believe you did this to me. Do you have any idea what people would say if they knew half the stuff I’d let you do?” She said rhetorically.

“I do actually. Most people seem pretty supportive of your actions. Read the whole thing. Read the recent messages I’ve had. They’re all supportive.” Niall said appealing to her rational side.

Naskia wasn’t listening. She was still furious with him. Last night’s activities and now this, she felt like he had totally betrayed her trust.

“And what about the rest? I’m going to be humiliated. Tell me the password so I can delete this before anyone else reads it.” Naskia said looming angrily again.

Niall’s own temper flared. He couldn’t believe what she was saying. She was trying to silence him, control him like he belonged to her. He could feel his heart pounding as his fight or flight instincts kicked in, standing before the building sized woman there was nowhere to run to. He only had one choice.

“No! I’m not giving you it! It’s my only link to the outside world Nas. I need it to win people over to my cause.” Niall said now yelling himself.

“You know what? I don’t care. You’ve completely disregarded my feelings entirely on this and potentially put my reputation and future at risk here.” Naskia went over to his tank and removed Niall’s pad from it.

“This is mine now. You’re not getting it back until you tell me how to delete the blog. I’ll help you get your freedom but it’s got to be on my terms.” Naskia said waving the pad around before putting it into her bag.

“Naskia! You can’t do this.” Niall yelled starting to feel desperate and isolated already.

“It’s done Niall. You’ve pushed me and pushed me for the last 2 weeks. I’ve been nothing but kind to you and still you push. You’ve pushed too far this time.” Naskia sounded hurt. She had returned to the table and was now looming over him with her arms crossed.

“What happened to me being equal?! You’re condemning me to spending my life, isolated and locked in this room.” Niall said trying to appeal to her conscience.

“You are equal, but it doesn’t mean you’re in charge. You don’t know Titan society and you don’t know what you’re getting yourself in to. I need to assert myself here before you end up getting us both into trouble.” Naskia said without compassion. “You’re going to have to start doing what you’re told or I’ll have to rethink this equality idea.”

Niall felt anger building inside of him. Standing on her desk like this arguing reminded him of the first time they met and the feeling of powerlessness he felt as she called him “pet”.

“This is horseshit and you and I both know it! You’re just trying to control me, keep me here so you when you come across something you’re not smart enough to do, I’ll be here for you to fall back on.” Niall said. He was pissed and guilt wasn’t working.

“Stop it Niall. I can’t believe you’re trying to take the moral high ground after you violated me last night.” Naskia said her pretty face darkening. Her eyes flashed with anger.

“Ha!” Niall spat at her. “You want to lecture me on morality after YOU bought ME to use as some sort of sex toy?!”

“Shut up! SHUT UP! That wasn’t the reason and you know it!” Naskia yelled dropping her arms to her side and stomping back and forth.

Niall sensed she was near breaking point. He wanted to push her. He wasn’t going to be the one to break here. She had to or else she was slowly force him into a pet roll and he couldn’t let that happen. He felt bigger, tougher and not like a mouse before a predator.

“Well what was the reason Naskia? Was it because when you got me you were a weak, pathetic failure who needed something even more pathetic to make her feel better?!” Niall yelled.

“STOP IT NIALL! That’s totally unfair.” She yelled bending down at him so he would feel the full force of her voice.

He felt spittle on his face and his ears rang as she shouted full in his face. Niall wasn’t intimidated. It only made him angrier, more determined to push her.

“But I wasn’t pathetic was I? I wouldn’t bow down to you like you wanted. I’m smarter than you. Stronger than you and you used every weapon you had to get me to do what you want.” He pressed on.

Naskia raised her to her full height, glared and gritted her teeth. She was careful to ensure that she cast a large a shadow as possible over the defiant Human in front of her. “Stop this Niall. You have no idea, no idea at all.”

“You don’t frighten me. You’re just a sad, lost, scared little girl.” Niall spat each insult out one by one. Naskia could feel her head clouding over as she got angrier with each insult. She was shaking with rage.

“The first day I was here you tried to seduce me. You know what kind of person uses sex to get people to do what she wants? A WHORE! You are a fucking WHORE!” Niall yelled so angry he wasn’t thinking clearly.

Niall had pushed too hard. He was standing in the middle of desk, deep in Naskia’s shadow glaring up at Naskia who was visibly shaking with anger. He was waiting for her to snap and capitulate but I didn’t happen. Her eyes had gone from soft and gentle to burning with rage in a matter of minutes.

For the first time in her life Naskia felt a red mist descend over her. Niall was trying to bully her as everyone always did. Kiri always tried to push her around. Her mum always picked at her and tried to Naskia into a younger version of herself. Naskia had had enough. Niall had pushed too far. She finally snapped.

Niall didn’t anticipate what would happen next, he assumed she would break. Naskia pulled her arm back sharply. She swung it so quickly he had no time to react. The back of her open hand hit him across the side of his chest and leg with such force that it knocked the air from his lungs and sent him flying towards the wall at 100mph. He hit the wall hard and heard cracking noises come from his chest and screamed in pain. He then fell and hit the desk below and quickly passed out.