To Fight for those we Love rough draft

I am not going to finish these rough drafts until much later.  But they are done.  I had to get this out.  

To Fight for those we Love.

Carien sat on the edge of her couch, her hands formed in a fist in her lap. “I won’t have it. I can’t have it end like this!”

Ashely sat up as she rubbed her eyes. “What are you talking about hun?”

Carien took a moment to look at Ashely, remembering that she had spent the night with her. Carien was thankful for her presence, in a dark time she was a reassuring light that helped her stay calm. “I am talking about them taking Sarah. I. . . I have to do something.” She began to shake. “I know it sounds crazy but they are just going to. . .”

Ashely stood up and gently rubbed Carien’s hands. “I know hun.”

Carien shook her head. “You must think I am crazy. Pathetic. Trying to deny the fact that the woman I love was taken from me.” Carien laughed. “Just say it.”

Ashely shook her head. “No. I won’t say it. In fact I am going to ask you what do you want to do to help Sarah?”

“Huh?”

Ashely smiled. “What do you want to do?”

Carien paused. The question had come out of no where. “I. . . I want to save her. She shouldn’t be locked up like that.”

Ashely nodded her head. “I agree. And how do you plan on doing that? We could try the courts—”

“NO!” Carien took a deep breath. “No. We won a court case saying it was ok for her to be a giantess before and they didn’t care. We are going to get no where with that. Besides I don’t trust the person who took her.”

“So then how do you propose we help Sarah?”

“I. . . I would go in there and break her out if I had to.” She sighed. “But that isn’t possible. It just isn’t.” She looked at the ground defeated. “Can you please stop asking me this. Please. . .”

Ashely sat down next to Carien. “I am not trying to make you upset hun.” She took a moment to hug Carien. “But maybe there is a way we could find Sarah and break her out of where she is being housed.”

Carien coughed. “What?”

Ashely smirked. “Tell me honey did I stutter? I think we can save Sarah.” Ashely stood up. “When I was giving you your space for the last week I wasn’t just idle my dear.” She turned her head. “I have been hard at work trying to figure out how to get Sarah out of that prison.”

“But. . .” Carien shook her head. “If we do that Sarah will spend the rest of her life as a fugitive.”

Ashely shook her head. “I have some friends in the govrment. They don’t intend on letting Sarah go. Or for that matter letting her live for much longer.” She turned towards Carien and changed the tone of her voice. “Honey they want to use your wife as an example. They want to use Sarah as a way to scare the public into not becoming giantesses in the future.”

“What. . .”

“If we don’t save Sarah now we might not be able to at all!”

Carien jumped to her feet. “I. . .” She pulled at her hair. “They wouldn’t. They can’t!”

“I am sorry. I didn’t want to tell you this at all. But we have to act fast and I wanted to make sure you were ready.” Ashely put her hands on her hips. “From how you were I needed to know that you weren’t going to be destroyed by what I had to tell you.”

Carien threw her arms to the side. “But if I knew that I would. . .” She held her hand over her chest. “Oh my god. Sarah. Sarah.”

Ashely grabbed Carien’s shoulders. “Carien breathe. Breathe.” Carien did as she was told. “Now please listen to the rest of what I have to say ok?” Carien nodded her head. “I also went up the town that was taken over by the giantesses.”

“What!”

“I told you to listen ok.” Ashely sighed. “I saw the broadcast when they took over Martinsvile that they seemed to know something about Fredricks Fancy and I wanted to know what.”

“But they could have—”

“Just listen.” She sighed. “Yes they could have chrushed me the moment they saw me but surprisingly they were very nice to people who don’t view them as monsters. It did take me a moment to meet with who I wanted. And even after I did the lady almost smushed me flat after I brought up the subject that I did.” Carien gasped. “But I told her that it was to help an imprisoned giantess.”

“Wait what are you talking about?”

Ashely sighed. “I met with a woman named Karren about a possible way to shrink Sarah temporarily.” Carien blinked her eyes. “While Karren was a bit upset to talk about the subject as she had been experimented on and forced to change in size she told me where I could find the research files. It then took some. . . creative persuasion. . . to librate them from the Fredricks Fancy offices.”

“But why. . .”

Ashely smiled. “So we can shrink Sarah and walk out her out of the prison like nothing ever happened. They are trying to imprision a giantess, not a doll.”

For the first time Carien flet a twinge of hope. “I don’t believe. . .” She shook her head. “But how would we even get to Sarah. They wouldn’t let us just walk to her.”

Ashely smiled. “I reached out to our blueberry friend for that. She agreed to help us berrfiy the guards.”

“Huh?”

Ashely crossed her arms. “Carien I know this is a lot to take in but I am here to help you get Sarah back. You just have to say the word. What do you say?”

Carien stared at Ashely. She felt like she was in a dream. Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath she gave Ashely her answer. “Let’s do it. Let’s get my wife back.”

***

The sky was dark as they approached the prison. Carien sat in the back seat of the car, between Ashely and Crhisten. In the drivers seat sat Patrick with Tess beside him. She never thought she would be here, both in the sense that she would have to fight for the woman she loved and that she would be here to save Sarah. She looked around the car, still surprised at how many people were willing to help her get Sarah back.

Christen tapped her hands on her juicy legs as the vehicle bounced along the dirt road. From what Carien understood she was taking a big risk being here. The person she worked for would never forgive her for what she was about to do. The bag at her side contained a super contrated powder of blueberry foulua that when inhaled would turn someone into a blueberry in seconds. It is how they were going to enter the facility. If anyone got in their way they would throw the powder in the guards faces. While they quickly became massive blueberries Christen and Carien would move on.

But wearing a mask was parmount as the powder was extremely potent. Inhaling to much could cause you to overinflate and pop. Carien didn’t care. After hearing how they treated Sarah and what they planned for her she had no sympathy for these people. She couldn’t imagine what Sarah was feeling right now only that someone had to pay for it.

That fire is what kept her warm. The car trip lasted well into the night and some of her companions dozed off. But Carien kept her focus. For the first time in a week she felt she had a porupose again. She felt she had hope. And she wans’t going to let it slip out of her fingers. She was going to save the woman that she loved. The was going to show the world that Sarah was someone that deserved a chance, no matter the cost.

It was two in the morring when the arrived at the prison. It didn’t look like much, a massive grey slap rising out of the earth, but Ashely assured them this was the place. Carien narrowed her eyes as she put on her mask. There was nothing more to be said. This was it. Either she was going to walk out with a shrunken Sarah against her thigh or she wasn’t going to walk out at all.

She opend the car and stepped out into the freezing air with Chrsiten. The two women looked at each other before strutting up to the gates. The dark clouds above helped mask their approach along with the fact that there were little to no lights emanating from the prison. It was all a part of their effort to keep the place hidden and disorient Sarah inside.

As the guard came into view however he raised his rifel. “Hey. This place is off limits. You two need to head back where you came from.” He gulped as he saw Christen. “What the hell?”

Carien tossed the powder in his face wordlessly. She watched for a moment as he coughed and moaned as he dropped his gun to the ground. Then she quickly grabbed his keys and unlocked the door and walked inside, leaving him behind as he quickly began to expand behind them.

Carien and Christen then split up. Christen would go and berrify as many guards as she could while Carien tried to find Sarah. They had fifteen minutes before they backtracked and exited the building. They didn’t want to give the building to much time to react as the longer they were in there the more time people would realize just what is going on and set off alarms.

Carien turned a corner and threw blueberry dust at a young lady before she had time to register Carien was there. Carien walked past as the woman fell to the ground moaning, her boobs quickly expanding and her ass ripping through her uniform. The powder was potent like Christen had promisted. But hopefully there was enough to pacify all of the guards she encountered.

She turned another corner and found herself staring at two young men sitting in front of a control panel. The monitors of which showed Sarah’s cells. Anger burned inside Carien’s breast as she hurled the berry powder at one of the young men and jumped on the second. “Hey! Who are you!”

“Shut up!”

“What. . .” He gulped as he looked at his moaning companion, now a giant swelling blueberry. “What the hell did you do to him?” He gulped as he watched his friends clothing rip apart. “He is turning to a. . .”

“A blueberry?” Her voice was cold. “Yes. If you don’t want that to happen to you there are some questions you will answer.” She pointed at the mointors. “Where is she!”

The young man looked at Sarah. “The giantess?”

Carien yelled at him. “Yes the giantess!”

He shrank from her. “Ok, ok. She is being held just a little bit from here. No one is aloud in there though. We have this monitoring station to make sure that she is kept well. It is Ben’s orders.”

She pulled him to his feet. “You are going to show me where the door to her cell is.”

“But. . .”

“Unless you want to join your friend over there.” She sneered at him. “Oh and just so you know. I can give you an extra dose so you can keep swelling and swelling until you pop.”

He gulped. “Ok. Ok. I will take you.”

“And one other thing. Turn on the lights in her cell.”

“But why.”

She wrapped her hands around the powder. “Don’t question me.”

He turned around and began to type. “Okay.” The lights suddenly flashed on in the cell. “There. Now follow me.” Carien snorted. “It is just a slow walk.”

Carien snorted. “It better be.”

***

Sarah almost fell to the ground as the light suddenly turned on. For what seemed like an etrinty she had spent in perpetual darkness. Then suddenly she found herself naked in a cell. “What is going on? Hello?” She twisted around. “Hello?”

She gulped, hugging herself. “I am going crazy aren’t I. Maybe I finnaly went crazy.” She laughed to herself. “Or I am dreaming.” She threw her head back and laughed. “Hahahahahah! You got me. You broke me. What else do you want. Huh? What? WHAT?”

Suddenly the smell of blueberries filled her cell. She blinked her eyes. “I really must be going crazy. Why on earth—”

Suddenly the door opend and Carien rushed in. “Sarah!” She rushed forward and hugged Sarah’s right leg. “Oh my god how happy am I to see you.”

Sarah knelt down and poked Carien. “Ok now I know I am dreaming.” She laughed. “Because how else could you be here.”

Carien took a deep breath. “Sarah it is me.”

“Hahahah. Sure it is. Sure. Sure!”

Carien kicked Sarah, sending pain rippiling throughout her body. “Is that real for you?”

Sarah blinked her eyes. “Carien?” Tears formed in the corners of her eyes. “It is you.”

Carien nodded her head. “Yes. Now we don’t have much time.” She tossed a strange contienr up to Sarah. “Drink this. Now!”

Sarah recognized the container at once. “Fredricks Fancy? What?”

“You want to get out of here right?”

Sarah wasn’t sure what was going on but she trusted Carien. Taking a deep breath she used her powerful fingers to crack the container open, cold liquid pouring down her throat. She suddenly felt unsteady, blinking her eyes. “Ugh.” She then realized that the world altering around her, her surroundings becoming bigger by the moment. She knew at the moment what Carien planned, a smile forming on her face. A few moments later she found herself at the same size of Carien. “I never thought I would be able to look at you like this again.”

“Well don’t get used to it for long.”

“Huh?” She looked around, Carien quickly growing. Sarah fell to the ground as the world grew around her, Carien quickly becoming a giantess. “This. . . what?”

“Don’t worry Sarah. We have it all under control.” Once Sarah was just barely the height of a doll Carien reached down and picked her up. “Soon you will be safe.” Carien set Sarah comftably in her pocket.

Sarah smiled as they exited the room. “I can’t believe this is happening. We are really going to get out of this nightmare.” She looked at the guards, swollen into giant blueberry mountains. “So that is how she found me.” Sarah smirked.  “I can say it is a much needed overhall for these jerks.”

Carien seemed to know where to go, taking multiple turns through the dark fortress before emrging into the night alongside a massive blueberry woman. To Sarah’s surprise there hadn’t been any alarms. “We are going to get away. Maybe. Just maybe. . .”

As they crossed the field alarms shot though the night air, their piercing shrik causing Sarah’s heart to race. “We are almost free.” Carien hurried her pace and sweat beat down Sarah’s neck. She could see a dark shape appear in the distance, what appeared to be a car.

Then the sounds of gun fire filled the air. Sarah gripped the sides of Carien’s pants as her heart pounded in her chest. “We are almost there. Keep going. Keep going.”

The blueberry woman reached the vehicle first, thrusting the back door open and yelling at Carien to get in as she jumped into the back seat. But another shot rang out and Sarah suddenly felt something hot run down across her head as Carien cried out in pain. “Ahhhhhhhhhhh!” Carien fell into the car, pulling the door closed behind her.

“Go!” Ashely yelled at Tess. “Get us out of here.”

Tess didn’t have to be told twice, speeding off into the night.

Ashely put her hand on her chest, breathing a sigh of relief. “Thank god it’s over.” She smiled. “And it looks like we have Sarah safe and sound.”

But all Sarah could do was shake violietly as blood dripped down across her body. She was afraid to look up, afraid to know just what happened as Carien grunted. “No. No, no, no, no, no.”

Ashely looked over at Carien. “Oh my god!”

Carien shook her head. “I am. . . Ughh.”

Sarah crawled out of her hiding place, blood covering her body and tears in her eyes. “Please be ok.”

Ashely moved to Carien’s side at once. “The bullet just missed your heart.” She lowered her voice. “But it knicked an artiery. I am sorry to say I don’t think we will get you to a hosbital in time hun.”

Sarah felt like her heart was going to jump out of her chest and at the same time everything seemed to go cold. “But. . . no. . .” She grapped onto Carien’s clothing. “You can’t. . . you can’t die.”

Carien coughed. “Sarah. . .”

“No! You hear me. You can’t die!” Her tears mixed with Carien’s blood. “Don’t you understand? I need you. I need you to be strong. If you weren’t around I would have. . .” She snifled. “If you are not around I won’t be able to have the strength to be. . .” She shook her head. “I can’t be strong without you! Don’t you see that! You have always been there to prop me up in my darknest moments and help tell me I am a good person. If you go what am I going to do.”

Carien laughed. “Sarah you never needed me. I said what I said. . .” She coughed. “Because I just needed to remind you of what you already knew. That you were someone who were special and your life was one worth fighting for. That being a giantess was something special. That you being you is wonderful.” She moaned. “But truth be told. I always said those things because I was saying them to myself. I was never a strong persong Sarah.”

“That is wrong.”

Carien shook her head. “No it’s true. You were always the strong one Sarah. The brave one.” Carien smiled. “It is what I loved about you. Even if you never knew it yourself I always did.” She ran her figners along Sarah’s cheeks, brushing the blood from Sarah’s face. “I wished I could share your strength. It took me so long to work up the courage to even talk to you.”

“But. . .”

Carien pulled Sarah in close. “I love you Sarah. You are the most wonderful person to have. . . blessed my short life.” She forced a smile. “I am so happy I got to know you.”

“Carien.”

“I am just happy that I got to. . . I got to save you. You deserve to live. You are the most wonderful person. Never forget. . .” Carien went still.

“Carien? Carein!” Sarah shook her as tears filled her eyes. “Carien!”

Ashely put her hand on Sarah. “She is gone.”

“No. No!” Sarah cried as she curled up against Carien. “No. . .”

(Please feel free to leave a comment if you want to say something in honor of Carien.  She is one of my oldest charcthers and this was very, very hard for me.  I umm. . .  I had to stay up at night on my vacation writting this, crying at times, because this wouldn't leave me alone.  This has been rattling around in my brain for a long time.  But getting around to writting this was much harder than I thought it would be.

I once had an editor who told me that they wanted me to bring a charcther back in a trilogy I wrote a long time ago because they were in love with them.  I understand how they feel now.  I feel this in my bones dispite this being the diretion for the story.  I both feel this was the direction was going to take and at the same time I was screaming out to change course because I, the author, hated to see this happen.  I know it's odd to say but sometimes I feel a slave to my own mind and this is one of those secarios.  I. . . I am going to miss Carien.  I am crying little as I am writting this.  This are going to get happier again after this but. . . sometimes things have to get dark, get sad.  Because. . . I don't know.  I am rambling now.)