The Captain

The final flash fiction in my dark sci fi flash fiction series. Based on Beauty and the Beast. More info here: http://sknhammerstonebooks.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/fairy-tales-with-a-twist-part-1/



“He refuses treatment.”

The officer led me to the room where Captain Brutum had been taken. His ship had been shot down, crashing into the uninhabited planet of Venus.

“Hello, Captain.” I walked into the room, the chrome door sliding shut. “I have been told you refuse treatment.”

He was covered in burns from the ship crash and Venus’ horrific atmosphere. He was almost unrecognizable as human.

“My crew was killed,” he stated. “I don’t want treatment.”

“I was brought here…”

“You were not brought here,” he interrupted me. “I took your father and forced you to serve in my fleet in return for his release.”

“That was you?” My blood ran cold.

Three years ago a man had taken my father from the planet Aran. He returned him to home when I agreed to be taken as a slave. Now I was meeting the beast face to face.