The floor was very clean and un cluttered apart from a few shrink wrapped pallets dotted about the floor, she waited by one of these pallets so that s...e could lean against it. She waited in the eerie silence for over fifteen minutes and hoped that Steve would not show. Still she waited until the clock was showing twenty past two, a moment later she heard the heavy double doors swing open at the far end of the racking and slam shut behind Steve who was marching over looking very pissed off, this. This is interesting. I’m not even sure what some of these marks are from. Was that a razor?”“I can’t remember,” she whispered, and she wouldn’t look at my eyes. “I wasn’t paying attention but I didn’t take drugs. He... he did, but...”“Let’s see. I’m going to guess it wasn’t a fetish player at all, but someone who hid their abusive nonsense under the label?”My words were calm, controlled. Every mannerism she gave off said that she needed it. Tears welled up in her eyes. “Y-yes. What are you. ‘I’m all they have now, and it isn’t just my sister. My mom has nowhere to go either. How can I just go knowing Auntie Paulina will have them thrown out of the house as soon as Daniel leaves again.’ Gabriel pinched the bridge of his nose, eyes closed. Abby was prepared for him to start yelling. ‘But he opened his crystalline green eyes and nodded. ‘I’ll think of something, but you’re coming with me.’ ‘Gabriel—’ ‘No arguments. You’re coming with me and that’s final. I’m not spending my birthday. .and then fuck them, if they could. Because, hey, green skin girls, to quote a wise sage from a time long forgotten.Whatever the reason, humanity took to the stars, made contact with other species and made a place for themselves in the universe as a whole. True, there were quite a few inter-species misunderstandings, a little planetary warfare and a smidgen of near-genocide in between then and the present, but nobody wants to rehash intergalactic history, now do they? No, let it just be said.