A Hard Droog Is Good To Find

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First Lines Challenge: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

by feldman

 

"What's it going to be then, eh?"

She'd been buzzing with the sheer disbelief and joy of being alive, but now the buzz is turning sour and it's bringing back all the fear she'd shoved aside for days beforehand.

"'Cause I'm sick of your looming!" She grabs him, slams him against a bulkhead, and climbs up his body until they're face to face. "So--what's it gonna be, D'Argo? What the frell do you want from me?"

"I want you."

"S'at so?"

"Yes. I want to taste you, and be inside you, and curl myself around you."

"Huh. Well I'm okay with that if you are."

"Not just that. I want to love you, and care for you, and walk beside you for as long as you'll have me."

"So, uh..."

"You were cruel to hurt me, but I was the fool who forced you to it. Which is why I'm asking now, before we do anything. Do you want these things from me?"

"Do I just want the sex or do I want more?"

"Yes."

"Right now..." She forces herself to stop staring at his gorgeous mouth. "Right now we should frell. We'll figure the 'more' part out later."

 

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