Kidnap
It was a nice, hot summer day. Samantha had just left the office for the day and was on her way home to make some dinner. Afterwards she was going on a party. Thinking hard, she was interrupted by a man on the pavement trying to get her attention.
He was strange. Very tall, short black hair, and a tight fitting suit that looked like some kind of leather literally encapsulated his body. It looked as if the body had to be contained so it wouldn't just reshape itself into some random shape. His face was pale white and wet with sweat. He did not look very healthy.
"I'm sorry, can I kidnap you?" He had a voice.
"Er, no?"
"Oh, ok then." He turned around, looked about for a second, then moved swiftly to the nearest person he could find. She could vaguely hear him ask, "I'm sorry, can I kidnap you?"
Slightly shocked, very surprised and immensely fascinated for some reason, she continued her walk, her gaze locked on the stranger. What happened was a very unfortunate accident. These things happen when you don't watch where you put your feet.
*
T-kondr4 was a special member of its species. Had it been a bunny, it would have been a very happy bunny. As it happens, it didn't particularly feel that not being a bunny was a great loss, as it had no notion of what a bunny is. So it was still very happy.
The species that T-kondr4 belonged to lived very uncomplicated lives. From what it had seen around the world so far, most people were living very complicated lives. As far as T-kondr4 was concerned, and it wasn't, life was supposed to be uncomplicated.
It had been living for a long time, though exactly for how long it didn't know. The only thing it knew that one day it was, and from that day it had been living. It was currently on a walkabout, trying to look around the world as much as possible. This took quite a while, as T-kondr4 and its species moves slowly; so slowly, in fact, that humans would have a hard time noticing that they moved at all. But T-kondr4 had all the time in the world.
Their minds wander a lot, and it is very difficult to have a conversation with them. T-kondr4 was a lightpost.
*
By the remotest of possibilities at this very moment T-kondr4 was standing very near Samantha, though she was looking at the stranger and had not noticed the lightpost in her way.
T-kondr4 was standing right in her path, though it didn't know; it's mind was on one of its long wanderings.
She walked into T-kondr4, stumbled, fell -
T-kondr4 could feel something bumping into him. Slowly his mind came back to where it belonged and focused on the nearby world. This took an exceptional amount of time.
By the time it was aware of what was going on just beside it, Samantha was long gone. The apology it had started uttering was cut short. For a while it pondered what next, then it said, "Oh well," and let its mind wander again.
- and was hit -
The stranger across the road had noticed what was happening and was looking at it with what can only be described as considerable interest. The distressed innocent middle-aged man he had been asking to kidnap ran away as quickly as possible. As a side note, it should be noted that this man later died of a heart-attack which had nothing to do with being asked to be kidnapped.
A decision popped into his mind and argued successfully that it should be decided.
- by a bus. Public transport is very unreliable.
*
Eventually, she woke up. She wasn't sure if she was still alive or not, but waking up kind of felt good. She looked around. The bed she was in was in a small cabin somewhere. It looked kind of sterile, gray and white, no personal items of any sort, nothing on the walls. Possibly somewhere in a hospital? But it didn't look like one.
A door opened with a swoosh. Or rather, the door simply seemed to disappear. Through it came the strange that had politely asked her if he could kidnap her.
"You!" she yelled.
"Me," he aknowledged.
She looked him over. He looked slightly different, although she couldn't pinpoint the exact differences. He wasn't wearing his tight-fitting suit from earlier. His body seemed to move about constantly - no, it was more like water rippling from some minor disturbance that never stopped. In fact, she thought, he was probably not wearing anything at all. She felt a bit embarassed at the thought.
"What are you?" she managed.
"What you would call an alien. I suppose your next question is where are you."
"Hm. Yes."
"You're aboard what you would call a flying saucer, although it doesn't even remotely resemble a saucer." He sounded slightly annoyed. Nevermind.
"You kidnapped me." Not a question, a statement of fact. "And put me in this.. saucer - " The man flinched. "- of yours, hidden somewhere on this planet."
"Yes." He seemed to hesitate. "We were looking for some specimen of your species to examine. You are a very interesting species."
"Charming," she spat. "And you, 'examined' me."
"Yes."
"Without my knowledge, or acceptance."
"Well.. you were unconscious."
"Does that make a difference?"
"It didn't hurt you."
"It doesn't make a difference! It's a question of principle! Of integrity! How can you do such a thing without asking! And you call yourself civilized?"
"Well, actually, I haven't, but I suppose you can say we are. And I did ask you."
"And if I recall correctly, I said no."
"True. But a moment later you were nearly hit a bus. If I hadn't.. snatched you, you would now be in a human hospital, possibly dying or dead."
She considered this. "I'm going home." Again, not a question.
"You may, of course, do so whenever you want to, though I advice you to stay here another couple of day to recover completely."
She stood up and dressed quickly in a white robe he gave her. "I'm going. Where's the door?"
He pointed. "But that's not-"
She didn't stay to listen. She opened the door and ran.
Into nothingness.
"Oh," shouted the alien man from behind and above her. "I forgot to mention; we're in orbit."