"I can't believe it, you literally had one job."
"It's not my fault that my decoy was rubbish."
"I'm gonna have to stop calling you hotshot because your shot was so not hot."
"Well, I'm sorry my name isn't Killer like you."
"Asshole. That's your new...
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"Prisoner one-three-five please stand." One of the guards says as they storm into the cell.
"Now now Jeffers, is that any way to talk to your princess?" The red headed girl mutters from her place on the floor. She'd only been let out the other day to do her rounds and that only happens once every three months or so. Something is wrong, she thinks to herself and tries to make sure none of the people in her room could see the fear that briefly passes across her face, I'm not 18 for another few months they can't do this they can't float me!
During her time in the Sky Box she never once felt fearful for what her future held which was likely to be floating in space with no suit, just like all the other criminals before her. Yes, she may have been the princess but that's why the royals could have two children and regardless of that, people who stole just one thing got floated and Aurora had done worse. Aurora Montgomery was a murderer, a guard murderer, something that anyone regardless of their status would get floated for. Aurora had accepted that she would die at 18 and couldn't do anything about it but that doesn't mean she wasn't fearful of dying. When the guards came in and told her to stand it was the third time in her life that she felt fear. She was frozen to the spot and Aurora swore her heart stopped beating.
She'd seen people get floated before, the last floating she had witnessed was someone who she cared a lot about. Her father took her to watch one when she was only 10 years old under the pretence that she needed to know what she was going to have to do when she got older. She took a vow that day that she would never be the person to press that button. She'd asked Abby Griffin about the process when she was left behind at her first floating. Abby told her it wasn't totally painless but you'd lose consciousness fairly quickly. She'd said that once the button is pressed the doors open 20 seconds later and that those 20 seconds probably felt longer than your whole life. Yeah no wonder Aurora was a bit messed up.
"Your highness," Another guard, Johnson, huffs out whilst sidestepping Officer Jeffers. "Please stand and face the wall. Don't make this harder than it has to be."
"I'm going to make this as hard as possible Johnny boy. I thought you'd all have realised by now I don't handle authority very well." Aurora says, snapping out of her fear induced daze. "If I'm going down, I'm taking as many people with me as I can. You all know just how much damage I can do even without a weapon."
Just as Aurora is preparing to fight her way out she hears a voice shouting from down the corridor to let them through.
"Marcus?" She says under her breath, the fight leaving her momentarily. He's come to say goodbye, she thinks to herself, I get to say goodbye.
"That's enough! Do you know who she is? Treat her with some respect." Marcus Kane says as he pushes his way into the room and sweeps the tall red headed girl into his arms for what may be their last ever hug. "Give us a minute alone to talk."
"Sir, we are under strict orders and an even stricter timetable." Another guard says as he takes a step towards the two. "We have to move her now. I'm so sorry."
