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15. Sleep well

Jake blinked weakly. His mind was still empty, but he woke up from his unconsciousness more and more. His body felt heavy like lead. Every muscle seemed to be like numb. With effort, he managed to open his eyes for more than five seconds, then he closed them again.
It wasn't his hiding place anymore. It was dark, but there was no moonlight, like he saw it the last time. It was a closed room. He narrowed his eyes and realized a straight line which let through a little light. Maybe a crack of a door or similar. A big door. More a little gate.
What's happened?
He moved his head weakly. He tried to remember until he could move his body completely again.

(Flashback, last night)

Jake had not a good sleep this night. He always had to think about what he should do in future. He listened Beans's heartbeat. The lizard still lay on his body. He wished he could look into her mind. But he guessed what she was thinking. He watched Beans. He remembered how he had met her the first time. She was also there in town when he killed Amos. She was much younger than now, but she was still a good looking lizard woman. All people were shocked when they saw their sheriff was dead. Maybe Jake would have taken the town for his own, if the damn hawk had never appeared in that area. When he heard the hawk was gone and a little spineless lizard ruled the town, this had annoyed him. Even that the house pet dared to averred he would be his brother. When he had met him, he only saw fear and horror in the lizard's eyes. Jake had enjoyed the fear of all the people. He loved the respect of others. When he had licked his girlfriend, he had smelled the first time how good she could taste for a female. She wasn't a bad choice. She had character. Not a weak spoiled brat. She was as wild as the desert around her. Even without venom but despite her little size she had had enough courage to fight for her land. He had to admit he had smiled when she had thrown the water into Mayor's face. He had seldom seen a woman like her. And to touch her. To circle around her, to press her thin body with his muscles. It would have been an easy thing for him to strangle her. Despite she had enough force to insult him. He had no scruples to kill a woman, but otherwise, later he thought it was a little shame to kill something like her. Sometimes he was a little, just a little bit glad, that he didn't.
He wrapped his body a little closer around her. Everything seemed to be perfect, just her inner mind didn't obey him. He was a little disappointed that snakes haven't the ability to hypnotise others. He came closer with his face and stopped very close in front of hers. He could smell her soap. He darted his tongue in and out softly. Seldom he found no of his kind so attractive. Maybe he should… He bit his under lip. Not yet. He removed his head a little and looked at the moonlight outside. It was a warm night and peaceful. Like peaceful which he liked it when he had been a little child without worries. He moved his body again to lay down in another position.
Suddenly he winced. Something little bite him on the neck. He twirled around but there was no one. He looked at the ceiling of the cave but there was pure darkness. He listened a moment. But there was no sound, just the point where he felt the stitch felt a little strange. A mosquito? No, the stitch was more intensive after. Jake left his sleeping place and let Beans slither to the ground. The female lizard woke up and blinked irritated.
"Jake, what's wrong?" she muttered sleepily.
Jake became nervous. The stitch on his neck didn't become less. To the contrary. It became worse. It itched and was painful.
"I don't know," he muttered. "Maybe just an insect…"
He stopped.
Beans realised his uncertainty. "Jake? Something wrong?"
Jake didn't reply. A little thing had crawled over the floor and disappeared again. What was that?! Beans looked at him.
The snake winced when he saw the little creature was crawling in the moon light outside of the cave. He slithered forward. What kind of animal was that?
He had to catch it! If it was venomous, he needed something to identify that.
"Wait! Stop! You damn thing!"
Beans stood up, still tipsy and rubbed her eyes.
After Jake reached the end of the cave, he looked around wildly. The moonlight shined bright on the earth. He focused a point where he could realize a movement. It had more than four legs. It was a little spider, much smaller than Mister Black in Dirt.
Jake slithered at it. The little spider crawled so fast that it was impossible for Jake to catch it.
But Jake managed to take a big jump forward and landed with loud crash in front of the spider animal. This kind of spider wasn't knowing for him. And he knew every danger in that area. Jake felt nausea. His body began to tingle. The spider bite still hurt. Maybe it was also inflamed. Jakes body began to tremble against his will. He breathed several times. He had to keep calm. Panic was the worst thing what he could do. The gigantic rattlesnake flinched when he felt numbness around the bite and more around. He looked ahead. The little spider sat in front of him, cleaning her feet and seemed to watch him with its eight very small eyes. Jake narrowed his eyes. He jumped on her, but the spider made a side jump and Jake fall on empty earth. Jake blinked heavily. The version began to blur and he saw double. The spider venom had to be very effective. The spider ran around him. He jumped where he could recognize a movement. Suddenly there was a scurrying sound in the air and he felt a strong grip around his neck. Shortly after wards, shadows appeared.
Jake guessed something and he shot around. The creatures disappeared for a moment. He looked around. Someone climbed on his back and head. Jake circled around, but the person stuck on him, a shadow covered his eyes. Someone pressed a cloth on his nose. Jake made the first bad mistake to take one deep breath of rage. He shook his head heftily. But that was enough to breathe the smell which he knew very well.
Chloroform.
He winced, when he heard Beans screaming, interrupted with muffled cries. Then they abated. Jake threw his head back and the unknown person fell down.
With all effort what he could give he slithered back into the cave.
There were other shadows of other animals. Maybe mammals, but Jake was too in anger to analyse more. He only saw Beans between two of them with a cloth pressed on her nose. Maybe also soaked with chloroform. The female lizard just jerked weakly with her arms and legs.
"Get out!" he yelled and fired bullets around without to have a clear aim. The spider venom and the little chloroform waves had weakened him.
He stopped, when he remembered he could hurt Beans with his bullets. Everything around him began to twirl. He felt heavy, so heavy.
At the moment, when Jake lowered his head to become a cleaner mind, someone pressed again a cloth on his nose. Jake fell aside and smelled more and more of the chemical stuff. That was also too much for him.
"Sleep well," was all what he heard before he fell in sleepless dreams.

(Flashback end)

Jake opened his eyes again. The effect of the anaesthetic became less.
He wanted to open his mouth to loosen his tongue to analyse his surround, but he couldn't get apart his lips. He shook his head weakly, but it was useless. His mouth was closed like glued.
He moaned muffling, and rubbed his nose on the ground. Something wasn't right. When his head became a little clearer, he realized that his mouth was gagged with a cellotape around his snout. Irritated the rattlesnake lifted his head. What's going on here? He bent his long body, but he couldn't coil it together. He remained stretched. Something held him tight that avoided him moving his body. Jake opened his eyes wide. Damn! Was that a nightmare? He couldn't be… where was he?
He looked around wildly. Chains had pulled through his gun belt. Another big necklace around his neck. Another chain was clamped on his gun tail. He couldn't move backwards or forwards. He pressed his eyes together. Damn chloroform. But maybe if he had back his full force he could remove the chain somehow, and with some luck escaping…
He winced.
Beans? Where was she?
He looked around. He tried to see something in the weak light. He stopped when he realized a little shadow on the floor.
Beans lay beside him not far away. The female lizard lay on the side, and didn't move. Jake narrowed his eyes. She was also tied with ropes and gagged. A chain was connected with her bonded hands and the wall.
Jake muffled something, but the female iguana didn't react.
Maybe they had given her too much chloroform. But she didn't seem to be injured. He hoped.
He looked irritated. What are that rods in his visual field?
He need a while until he realized he lay in a bars cage.
The chains had connected with the cage rods. He moved his head back and moved his gun tail It was also tied on but maybe he could…
An empty clicking sound gave him the worse insight. The robbers had removed the bullets from his gun.
He sighed. A while he lay there motionless. With every minute, anger raised more and more inside him.
Who caught him? In his head went thousands of persons through. There could also be many gangs, who hated him. But who dared to rob him like that?
After a while of thinking without an aim, he calmed down himself.
Panic was a worse and dangerous thing.
He tried to orientate himself. Where were they? Maybe he could see something through the crack of the door. He tried to move forward. The jangling of heavy chains filled the room. They held him. Damn he hated to be captured. Full awake he screamed muffled and shook with all his force on the chains. Suddenly he froze when a bell rang which was bound on one of the iron chains.
Damn! He cursed himself. What was the use of it?
A signal for his kidnappers that he had woken up.
He interrupted his fighting and listened. There was no sound.
He waited.
One minute passed.
Two minutes passed.
In the third minute, there were vibration footsteps, which came closer and closer in their direction.

To be continued...

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15. Sleep well

Jake blinked weakly. His mind was still empty, but he woke up from his unconsciousness more and more. His body felt heavy like lead. Every muscle seemed to be like numb. With effort, he managed to open his eyes for more than five seconds, then he closed them again.
It wasn't his hiding place anymore. It was dark, but there was no moonlight, like he saw it the last time. It was a closed room. He narrowed his eyes and realized a straight line which let through a little light. Maybe a crack of a door or similar. A big door. More a little gate.
What's happened?
He moved his head weakly. He tried to remember until he could move his body completely again.

(Flashback, last night)

Jake had not a good sleep this night. He always had to think about what he should do in future. He listened Beans's heartbeat. The lizard still lay on his body. He wished he could look into her mind. But he guessed what she was thinking. He watched Beans. He remembered how he had met her the first time. She was also there in town when he killed Amos. She was much younger than now, but she was still a good looking lizard woman. All people were shocked when they saw their sheriff was dead. Maybe Jake would have taken the town for his own, if the damn hawk had never appeared in that area. When he heard the hawk was gone and a little spineless lizard ruled the town, this had annoyed him. Even that the house pet dared to averred he would be his brother. When he had met him, he only saw fear and horror in the lizard's eyes. Jake had enjoyed the fear of all the people. He loved the respect of others. When he had licked his girlfriend, he had smelled the first time how good she could taste for a female. She wasn't a bad choice. She had character. Not a weak spoiled brat. She was as wild as the desert around her. Even without venom but despite her little size she had had enough courage to fight for her land. He had to admit he had smiled when she had thrown the water into Mayor's face. He had seldom seen a woman like her. And to touch her. To circle around her, to press her thin body with his muscles. It would have been an easy thing for him to strangle her. Despite she had enough force to insult him. He had no scruples to kill a woman, but otherwise, later he thought it was a little shame to kill something like her. Sometimes he was a little, just a little bit glad, that he didn't.
He wrapped his body a little closer around her. Everything seemed to be perfect, just her inner mind didn't obey him. He was a little disappointed that snakes haven't the ability to hypnotise others. He came closer with his face and stopped very close in front of hers. He could smell her soap. He darted his tongue in and out softly. Seldom he found no of his kind so attractive. Maybe he should… He bit his under lip. Not yet. He removed his head a little and looked at the moonlight outside. It was a warm night and peaceful. Like peaceful which he liked it when he had been a little child without worries. He moved his body again to lay down in another position.
Suddenly he winced. Something little bite him on the neck. He twirled around but there was no one. He looked at the ceiling of the cave but there was pure darkness. He listened a moment. But there was no sound, just the point where he felt the stitch felt a little strange. A mosquito? No, the stitch was more intensive after. Jake left his sleeping place and let Beans slither to the ground. The female lizard woke up and blinked irritated.
"Jake, what's wrong?" she muttered sleepily.
Jake became nervous. The stitch on his neck didn't become less. To the contrary. It became worse. It itched and was painful.
"I don't know," he muttered. "Maybe just an insect…"
He stopped.
Beans realised his uncertainty. "Jake? Something wrong?"
Jake didn't reply. A little thing had crawled over the floor and disappeared again. What was that?! Beans looked at him.
The snake winced when he saw the little creature was crawling in the moon light outside of the cave. He slithered forward. What kind of animal was that?
He had to catch it! If it was venomous, he needed something to identify that.
"Wait! Stop! You damn thing!"
Beans stood up, still tipsy and rubbed her eyes.
After Jake reached the end of the cave, he looked around wildly. The moonlight shined bright on the earth. He focused a point where he could realize a movement. It had more than four legs. It was a little spider, much smaller than Mister Black in Dirt.
Jake slithered at it. The little spider crawled so fast that it was impossible for Jake to catch it.
But Jake managed to take a big jump forward and landed with loud crash in front of the spider animal. This kind of spider wasn't knowing for him. And he knew every danger in that area. Jake felt nausea. His body began to tingle. The spider bite still hurt. Maybe it was also inflamed. Jakes body began to tremble against his will. He breathed several times. He had to keep calm. Panic was the worst thing what he could do. The gigantic rattlesnake flinched when he felt numbness around the bite and more around. He looked ahead. The little spider sat in front of him, cleaning her feet and seemed to watch him with its eight very small eyes. Jake narrowed his eyes. He jumped on her, but the spider made a side jump and Jake fall on empty earth. Jake blinked heavily. The version began to blur and he saw double. The spider venom had to be very effective. The spider ran around him. He jumped where he could recognize a movement. Suddenly there was a scurrying sound in the air and he felt a strong grip around his neck. Shortly after wards, shadows appeared.
Jake guessed something and he shot around. The creatures disappeared for a moment. He looked around. Someone climbed on his back and head. Jake circled around, but the person stuck on him, a shadow covered his eyes. Someone pressed a cloth on his nose. Jake made the first bad mistake to take one deep breath of rage. He shook his head heftily. But that was enough to breathe the smell which he knew very well.
Chloroform.
He winced, when he heard Beans screaming, interrupted with muffled cries. Then they abated. Jake threw his head back and the unknown person fell down.
With all effort what he could give he slithered back into the cave.
There were other shadows of other animals. Maybe mammals, but Jake was too in anger to analyse more. He only saw Beans between two of them with a cloth pressed on her nose. Maybe also soaked with chloroform. The female lizard just jerked weakly with her arms and legs.
"Get out!" he yelled and fired bullets around without to have a clear aim. The spider venom and the little chloroform waves had weakened him.
He stopped, when he remembered he could hurt Beans with his bullets. Everything around him began to twirl. He felt heavy, so heavy.
At the moment, when Jake lowered his head to become a cleaner mind, someone pressed again a cloth on his nose. Jake fell aside and smelled more and more of the chemical stuff. That was also too much for him.
"Sleep well," was all what he heard before he fell in sleepless dreams.

(Flashback end)

Jake opened his eyes again. The effect of the anaesthetic became less.
He wanted to open his mouth to loosen his tongue to analyse his surround, but he couldn't get apart his lips. He shook his head weakly, but it was useless. His mouth was closed like glued.
He moaned muffling, and rubbed his nose on the ground. Something wasn't right. When his head became a little clearer, he realized that his mouth was gagged with a cellotape around his snout. Irritated the rattlesnake lifted his head. What's going on here? He bent his long body, but he couldn't coil it together. He remained stretched. Something held him tight that avoided him moving his body. Jake opened his eyes wide. Damn! Was that a nightmare? He couldn't be… where was he?
He looked around wildly. Chains had pulled through his gun belt. Another big necklace around his neck. Another chain was clamped on his gun tail. He couldn't move backwards or forwards. He pressed his eyes together. Damn chloroform. But maybe if he had back his full force he could remove the chain somehow, and with some luck escaping…
He winced.
Beans? Where was she?
He looked around. He tried to see something in the weak light. He stopped when he realized a little shadow on the floor.
Beans lay beside him not far away. The female lizard lay on the side, and didn't move. Jake narrowed his eyes. She was also tied with ropes and gagged. A chain was connected with her bonded hands and the wall.
Jake muffled something, but the female iguana didn't react.
Maybe they had given her too much chloroform. But she didn't seem to be injured. He hoped.
He looked irritated. What are that rods in his visual field?
He need a while until he realized he lay in a bars cage.
The chains had connected with the cage rods. He moved his head back and moved his gun tail It was also tied on but maybe he could…
An empty clicking sound gave him the worse insight. The robbers had removed the bullets from his gun.
He sighed. A while he lay there motionless. With every minute, anger raised more and more inside him.
Who caught him? In his head went thousands of persons through. There could also be many gangs, who hated him. But who dared to rob him like that?
After a while of thinking without an aim, he calmed down himself.
Panic was a worse and dangerous thing.
He tried to orientate himself. Where were they? Maybe he could see something through the crack of the door. He tried to move forward. The jangling of heavy chains filled the room. They held him. Damn he hated to be captured. Full awake he screamed muffled and shook with all his force on the chains. Suddenly he froze when a bell rang which was bound on one of the iron chains.
Damn! He cursed himself. What was the use of it?
A signal for his kidnappers that he had woken up.
He interrupted his fighting and listened. There was no sound.
He waited.
One minute passed.
Two minutes passed.
In the third minute, there were vibration footsteps, which came closer and closer in their direction.

To be continued...