Into The Wasteland

Chapter Five

The war rig slowed to a halt behind the cover of a large rock formation. Savage pulled her car in beside it and got out, still horrified by what she had witnessed. By now night was beginning to fall, the red and purple of the sunset overtaking the sky.

"We have to go back for her!" a girl with long black hair screamed as she took off running the way they had came.

"Cheedo no!"

"Maybe Immortan will take us back!" Cheedo cried.

"We are not things, Cheedo!" the Dag hushed the girl as Cheedo cried in her arms. Savage was in a state of shock. Never had she seen someone killed like that, and she had caused a lot of death. Everyone was just milling around the war rig, not sure of what to do.

"I'll take watch," Savage mumbled as she grabbed her collapsible sniper out of the lancers perch and climbed skillfully up the back of the war rig into the lookout nest at the back of the rig.

Savage unfolded her sniper and started to scan the horizon.

"He was watching, you know?" the voice startled Savage so much she almost shot the shape huddled in the corner. It was Nux. "Immortan watched me fail, and now I will never enter through the gates of Valhalla".

Savage watched Nux curiously. She collapsed her sniper and lay down beside him.

"I worked so hard to be the best war boy, and now that's over".

"I had to work really hard too," Savage whispered. "I used to be really small, so scrawny, that no one ever gave me a second glance. When I won my first race when I was eight, that is when people started paying me some respect". Savage paused, Nux's eyes filled with curiosity and sadness. "But they didn't know what I had been through; the beatings, the near death experiences, stealing parts to make my car. And now it's like I did all that for nothing".

"I think you aren't just an amazing driver, but also and amazing person," Nux whispered back. "I saw you race once long ago. And you are nothing like your name suggests". Savage smiled the first real smile she had in a long time. Savage closed her eyes, intending to get some rest, but her eyes shot open when a pair of warm lips touched her own.

Nux had leant over and was gently kissing Savage, one of his hands on one side of her and using his other arm to prop him up. Savage was hesitant to kiss him back. This was her first ever kiss, and she was guessing that it was Nux's first kiss too. But she started to kiss him back regardless, things quickly turning heated as Nux rolled completely on top of Savage.

First came off her jacket, then her pants and shirt. The bandage that Savage used to keep her chest flattened was being eyed curiously by Nux. Savage gently grasped the cord that held up Nux's pants and pulled it, making his baggy pants fall from around his waist. Now it was her turn to eye him up and down.

No one heard them as they made love up on the war rig, considering those below still didn't know Nux was there. Afterwards they lay there under a sheet Nux had found in a container huddled close to each other, Nux still gently kissing around Savage's chest. She felt the pull of sleep tugging on her senses as she slipped off to sleep with Nux hugging her closely to him.

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Haha I have been waiting to write the scene where they get together :P