Tainted

Josh held his eyes closed tight trying to loose the nightmare in the darkness until he felt a soft down blanket; no more of a small rag touch his face. Groping for the comfort and warmth, he barley had time for his fingers to register the soft underside’s flesh texture before a soprano voce shriek in pain and he jolted awake. Any normal sized person would have slammed their head on the bunk immediately over head but this was one benefit to being a 4 and a half foot tall 10 year old girl. His head cleared the space without a pulse and his icy blue eyes bolted open to stare into the face of, a Biof?

Taking a couple moments to wake up his brain he took a long look at the figure bent over his bed frozen in the middle of mid pre poke. She had all the curves and equipment of a woman in her late twenties, maybe early thirties and sported cleavage that he could drown his head in, though they probably just looked bigger from his vantage point and proportions. Craning his neck further up he traced the delicate neck and it’s pale but not to pale skin, up to the full lips painted in red so deep he could get lost in them, their luscious shape deformed into a pained expression. He followed up toward the eyes passing a split in the upper lip that joined with a petite pink nose, porous and moist that distended the skull outward somewhat like a semi muzzle of a rabbit or cat. Up to eyes of the deepest silver/grey. Eye scrunched into a look of distress that matched the lips and then his eyes split off, from the right side was a long slender ear that jutted up before flopping over into a broken L shape on the right but on the left the other rabbit ear jutted at an unnatural angle toward him. Suddenly Josh released his grip on the ear and his cheeks reddened in embarrassment.



“Sorry ms…” he paused for a moment to think of a name for this obvious Splicer. “Ms. Bunny.”



The woman took her ear in hand and stroked in carefully. “Bout time your brain woke up Cindy and my name is Candy.”



“Candy?” Josh snickers “Where your parents drunk when they named you?”



“Were yours when they sent you up her without a suppressor!”



Cindy gasped “How did you?”



“A tight piece of jailbait ass like you without a suppressor? I doubt there isn’t a compat-gen on this station who doesn’t know, and by extension all us compar-gen know.”



Josh lowered his head “I can’t afford one.”



“Look I don’t care, I got a shift at Zero-G in a cycle and wanted to tell the new roomy the rules so I don’t come back to find our cramped little quarters all fucked up. So sit still, shut up, and listen.”



Josh went mute and did so.



“We got like shit for free space, if you got hangings,” Candy paused and reached past Josh to pat the wall his bet jutted out from. “They go there and no where else.”



Josh turned to the wall then to Candy and nodded.



“Ok second, you’re the ass, I’m the tits, Jen’rya is the head, and Riku is the Eyes. What that means jailbait is that everyone sits on you. If any of us say jump you do it until we tell you to stop. As the new tits I have the honor of being mothering you, teaching you the ropes and then cutting you loose and hoping you don’t fuck up. The eyes watch, everything you do Riku will know and report to Jen’rya who will then decide anything that needs deciding. Got it ass?”



Josh just nodded, after a moment of silence he squeaked out a question before Candy could resume “Tits? Um why is a suppressor important and what does it do.”



Candy sighed “Ok ass listen, a suppressor produces a field that tells any compatible gender that you’re off limits, no matter what the compat-gens enhanced senses may detect. Without one you’re basically broadcasting your legs are open for business. Even the station whores have them so they can go off the clock. In the more civilized colonies it’s a nice extra protection but not really necessary. Bodies don’t just fuck in a public street there, but here at Zero Point anything goes. God you parent must have been chip fried if they didn’t teach you that but go ahead and get you a synapse jack.”



Josh pouted “How come everyone thinks I’m brain loaded?”



Candy laughed, it make Josh’s blood run cold “Your average 10 years old girl doesn’t have the vocabulary of a 30 something old man. Nor do they typically come alone to Zero Point and get a place to stay by their lonesome. So ass what package did they load you with, better be something good if you want to survive here.”



Josh too ka moment to think back to his old life “I’m a personal assistant, I can do a little of everything.”



Candy laughed again “Oh yeah your screwed, your not going to find a PA job here.”



Josh’ eyes began to swell with tears again and he began balling “Can’t you help me, mommy.” She sniffled “Your suppose to be the tits!”



Candy rolled her eyes “Ok, ok, shut off the water works, I’ll see if I can get you a job at Absolute-G, that where I work, it’s a bar in the sector where the anti grav generators are off line. I’m pretty sure I can get you a Zero Grav Waitress implant easy enough.”



Josh continued to sniffle “Can you get me a suppressor too?”



Candy glowered “I’m not here to baby you girl.” Then she sighed “Look you’ll owe me big, I’ve had my eyes on some more gene-mods but always come up short, so listen up. Half you check goes to me until you pay off the implant, suppressor and my fee. Got it?”



Josh nodded and giggled.



“Ok get changed, and no we don’t have a shower, live with it, and meet me outside in 5.”



With that Candy spun on the balls of her feet and left, as she strode out Josh caught sight of a triangular puff of fur angling out for her spine that resembled a deer or rabbit tail. Sighing Josh jumped down from the bed and snagged out his bag and quickly searched his clothes. He sighed, the dress he had worn on the trip up was the only one he had. The bag was full of clothes that fit an older man, jeans, dress pants, shirts, all fit to someone a good 2 feet taller then him and with different proportions. He scurried into the clothes, ignoring the way to big undergarments and used one of his belts to secure the waistline while rolling up the sleeves and legs almost a third of their length and slipped out the door.

Candy was waiting and as she looked back at the sight of Josh she started to snicker “Your parents really didn’t like you, did they? What are those? Your father’s clothes! Don’t you have any of your own?”



Josh felt the tears welling up and anger flush his face “Shut up you bimbo bunny splicer, there’re all I have!”



Candy shot Josh a murderous look as she hefted the girl on her shoulders. “Don’t ever call me a bunny; I’m a Chimera Splicer not some freak who’s trying to change their species.”



“Chimera?” Josh laughed “Yeah and just what makes you so chimera like with a bunny nose, a bunny tail, and bunny ears.”



Candy began walking “Bunny ears yes, doe tail, and cat nose to be exact.”



Josh snorted “Feh, why do that to your body anyway, your still a freak.”



Candy was starting to calm down, as was Josh, dropping to a more jovial rather then aggressive exchange “I like being different. I think you’d look positively adorable with cat ears and a wolf tail.”



Josh snorted as they continued to walk. “Whatever.”



“After work Cindy I’ll show you the bio medic.”



“Why the hell would I want to do that?”



She smiled devilishly though Josh could not see it. “You need to see what bio-mods you’re going to have to help me pay for.”



Josh’s voice dripped with venom “Joy!”