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.Land of the Giants: The Ferals	By : keithcompany Category: G through L > Land of the Giants Views: 2357 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Gessy had a blast on the Spindrift. All the objects made for her scale, all the clothes fit and for two days she was the center of attention like never before.
Valerie lay across the box of soap they used as a table while Betty rubbed her thighs. The two watched Barry sitting with Gessy on the other side of the camp. He was showing her a book and telling her about Earth.
"She's very interested," Betty observed.
"But not in the book," Valerie agreed. She sighed and lay her head back down. "He's not going to be happy tomorrow."
"Why not?" Betty seemed surprised.
"Because Gessy is going back to her giant tonight."
"Oh, yeah." Valerie heard hesitation in the voice. Before she could ask she noticed the rest of the men coming out of the ship. They surrounded Gessy. Barry stood up to stand a little back from the circle of men.
"Is this a game?" Gessy asked. "Do I get to choose a friend?"
"Gessy," Mark said, "we're your friends." Valerie started to explain what the word meant to the girl but felt a tug on her shoulder. Betty was shaking her head.
"You believe me, don't you?" Mark was asking. Gessy nodded. "Well, this is for your own good."
Steve and Dan grabbed Gessy's arms and held her while Mark tied her to the seat she was in. She kicked and squirmed but couldn't break free.
Steve stepped around to kneel in front of her. "Gessy, we can't let you go back to the giants. It's just too much of a risk for us."
"But I wouldn't tell!" she cried. She aimed a kick at the Earther but he ducked back. "You guys are MEAN!"
"This is for your own good," Mark assured her. "People shouldn't be kept as pets."
"So kidnapping's better?" Valerie called. She shrugged off Betty's hands and slid off the table. Dan and Fitzhugh stepped back from her approach but Mark and Steve faced her square.
"You've frightened a little girl. One who's been nothing but a help for me! This is how we treat friends?"
"She's been brainwashed, Valerie," Mark said. "We need to deprogram her. Like those cults. It'll all be over in a couple of days."
"While her giant searches the forest frantically for her? For both of us?" she said with a snort. "He'll think we're hurt. He won't stop looking."
"It's just a pet that ran away," Mark insisted. "He'll give up. He'll get another one."
"He won't," Gessy said. "He'll find me."
"He'd better not," Steve said. "Look, if you hadn't seen the camp, I'd say let you go.   But Mark insists that we talk you into joining us."
"We're your friends, Gessy," Mark told her. "We really are."
"Well, there certainly won't be any KISSING!" Gessy shouted in his face. Then she curled up and sulked.
Valerie sat down and put her arm over the girl's shoulders. "Damn straight," she muttered.
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For the rest of the evening, Valerie sat by Gessy watching everyone go to the far side of the camp to argue. They fought in groups of two or three, always with either Steve or Mark.
Valerie decided they could all go to hell. She tried to untie Gessy but got caught each time. Then she tried to get Barry to cover for her.
"Look, Val, I really like Gessy. And would it be so bad if she stayed here? With us?"
"With you, you mean," Val answered. "And yes. It would be bad. It's not what she wants." She waved him away as the older men approached.
"Valerie, look," Mark started. "Even you admit that she's been conditioned to live like a pet. If we tried, I bet we could break that conditioning. Get her started on a new life."
Gessy looked up just long enough to stick her tongue out at Mark. Steve laughed. Mark turned to glare at him.
"What?" Steve asked. "Oh, come on. It was funny." He sobered as he faced Valerie. "I don't know any way around it," he said softly. "Maybe Mark's right. If he is, if he can turn her to our side, maybe we can have a happy ending to all this."
"Happy for you, maybe," Valerie muttered. She shook her head and started limping away from the group. "Okay. I guess I can't stop you. But I really can't watch this. I'm going for a walk."
"I'll go with you, Valerie," Betty offered. Valerie waved her away and kept on going. She ignored the calls from the girl behind her and disappeared behind a leafy bush.
Everyone watched Mark tie Gessy down tightly and start talking to her. No one noticed Valerie sneak back to the camp to grab Gessy's whistle.
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Valerie was very lost soon after that. They almost never traveled through the forest by night because the landmarks were so hard to see.
She had no idea where the giant campsite was or even where the Earthling camp was anymore. But she did find a giant path.
No one was on it. She looked up and down, several times, then screwed up her courage and lifted the whistle.   After sounding the thing Valerie rushed to hide under the leaves of a bush. Just as she turned around the view the path a large form thundered along it.
It wasn't Deckett.
One of the forest rangers was whipping his flashlight back and forth along the ground. "Hey, little one," he was calling. "Someone need help?"
For her own sake Valerie would have just keep moving around until she found the giant she wanted. But beggars can't be choosers and she owed Deckett as much as she owed Gessy. She swallowed hard and stepped into view.
"Help!" she shouted. He pinned her with the beam like a searchlight. Then he stepped slowly forward and reached for her. She'd worn the smock Deckett had dressed her in, mostly to make Gessy feel more comfortable among the Earthlings. Now it made her appear as the ranger expected to see a local. She hoped.
"Don't see too many domestics around here," he said. She lifted her arms and he grabbed her around the waist. She was familiar with the vertigo as he lifted her and stood. "Did you get lost, little one?"
"Yes," she said with a sob in her voice. "My name is Gessy, I belong to Naturalist Scholar Deckett, and we live at..."
"Deckett? I just checked his papers." Her hair flew as the man spun around and headed quickly down the path. "He was going out of his mind trying to find you. He'll be very relieved to see you."
"I hope so," Valerie said softly. The cloth pinched between the man's grip and her hip was chafing as he walked along. She realized that Deckett had almost never actually touched her, even to carry her around. There was always a cup or plate or cushion between them.
At least this guy meant well. His grip was a lot softer than any of the policemen that had plucked her up over the years.
"Scholar!" the man shouted. Valerie twisted around to look over her shoulder. Deckett looked up from the weeds he was searching through, his face breaking into a smile.
That faded when Valerie was handed over.
"This is your domestic, sir?" the ranger was asking. "She said she was."
"Yes," Deckett finally said. "This is my Gessy. I was worried sick...about Gessy." He cupped his hands and allowed the other man to drop her into them. She looked up at him, trying to appear reassuring.
"Well, she had a bit of a scare," the man was saying. "But she's alright now. You'll probably want to take her home, teach her not to walk away like that."
"Uh, yeah," he agreed. "As long as...Gessy is okay?" He hesitated before the name, indicating who he was really asking about.
"Fine," she told him, hoping he understood that she understood. "A little uncomfortable, maybe. But safe, now."
He nodded. From his expression Valerie thought he was looking for a way to ask his questions without alerting the ranger. She understood, but the other man completely misread him.
He patted Deckett on the shoulder. "You've both had a scare. You should go home now. Be thankful that you're safe. 'Kay?"
"Um, yeah," Deckett replied. He couldn't think of a good reason to stay in the forest so he retreated.
He set Valerie carefully into his pocket and walked to his car. Once inside, he moved the Earthling to the dashboard and glared at her.
"Okay, Gessy is fine," Valerie assured him.
"She just can't come back to me," he muttered.
"Well, my friends are... They were a little..." She sighed and sat down. "Well, here's what happened," she explained. "My friends tricked me. They thought Gessy was a possible threat and they're trying to turn her into one of us." She explained about cults and deprogrammers.
"So now what?" he asked when she was done. "What do we do? Hopefully before your friends brainwash her against me."
"I don't really know," she admitted. "I want to help her, but I also don't want to put my friends at risk."
"Right now," Deckett said, leaning down close to her, "I couldn't care much less about your friends. I need to find Gessy. She has two friends on the planet and both of them are in this car." He stared out the window at the forest beyond the picnic area he was parked at.
"I can't go back in there tonight. The rangers'll get suspicious."
"What about the Western Station?" she asked. He looked confused. "The guys you talked to? They're from the Eastern Station. They never really talk to the guys from the Western one. There's a bit of rivalry. We're..."
She hesitated, then decided it was all or nothing. "Our camp is between the two areas of responsibility. It helps us hide. The cops don't care but the rangers don't penetrate each others' areas."
"So how do we get to the camp from the west?"
"You know the gazebo in the park?" she asked. He nodded...
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Valerie heard the camp long before she could see it. Well, she heard Gessy.
"No. No, he doesn't. He loves me!" she shouted. Valerie hurried along with a small smile.
"Atta girl," she muttered. "Keep the faith." She rounded the last tree bole and saw her friends. Everyone was in view.
Mark leaned over Gessy and argued with her. Dan and Steve were a few feet away. They watched the 'deprogramming' but didn't join it.
Barry and Fitzhugh sat by the fire. Their backs were turned away from the teen and her tormentor. Chipper crouched between Barry's feet.
Betty was sitting by the table, also looking away from the confrontation. She was the first to see Valerie.
"Val!" she shouted happily.
"Valerie!" Gessy cried. Everyone turned to see her.
The redhead stood with Gessy's whistle held next to her lips, ready to sound it.
Mark held both hands out and spoke soothingly. "Now, Valerie, let's not do anything hasty."
Steve took in her pose, her expression, and shook his head. "Let the kid go, Mark."
"Steve? Are you crazy? In just a little while I can..."
"You don't have a little while," Dan pointed out. "Valerie went and found her giant."
She nodded. "I'll call him if I have to. Just let Gessy go. He won't bother us. She won't bother us. You won't, will you, Gessy?"
The teenager glowered at the back of Mark's head.
"Gessy? If they let you go, you'll just go find Deckett, right?" Val asked urgently.
Gessy finally nodded. Betty and Barry untied her while Mark looked on angrily. "We only meant the best for you," he told her. She flipped him off.
Fitzhugh laughed. "I did tell you that that gesture would come in handy, did I not?"
"Yes, thank you," Gessy replied. She ran over to Valerie's side. "I knew you wouldn't leave me."
"No, never, of course not," Valerie assured her while keeping an eye on the other humans.
"I knew you'd be back. I hoped you'd find Deckett." She started to hug her rescuer but Val took a step back.
"You go ahead. Just go straight behind me, look for Deckett's flashlight." She nodded towards her shipmates. "If any of them try to chase you, I'll sound the whistle. Then watch out because the giant'll come running."
"Okay," Gessy said. "Good bye. I... I really liked meeting you. And seeing how you live. I wish we could..." Her voice trailed off and she ran into the dark.
The next half hour was as intense as the travelers had ever experienced. Everyone one was waiting for a fight to break out or for the giant to step into view.
But finally Valerie relaxed and let the whistle slip to the ground. "They should be gone by now," she said and staggered towards a seat.
Betty rushed to hold her up. Mark shook his head and walked off into the darkness. Steve almost called him back then left him alone.
He turned towards Valerie with a stern expression. "This worked out this time, but don't you ever, ever do that again," he ordered her.
"Do what?" she asked. "The right thing?" Steve raised his hands in surrender, then helped Betty walk Val into the spaceship.
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