The doors to the medbay hissed open and three tall, slender figures glided in.
"No! No! Get away!" Jessica screamed in between sobs. Ahe could hear Owen's gravely baritone yelling obscenities next to her.
The aliens spoke to each other in an incomprehensible language, before turning to face the young lovers.
"We will now begin the procedure." Their voices were cold and tinny.
Jessica heard a long hissing sound as a strange smell began to fill the air.
"Please! Please, let us..." Jessica was starting to feel weak, "Just let us..." her head felt full of cotton, "Let us go, please..." she whispered before slipping out of consciousness completely.
The next few hours, Jessica was in the total darkness of a dreamless sleep. She would wake up occasionally, for a split second, and witness flashes of the nightmare she was trapped in. She'd see one or two of the aliens, hovering over her, their dark, large, glassy eyes staring at her. Sometimes there'd be blood, so much blood.
Jessica finally came to, for good this time. She opened her eyes slowly, they felt heavy, her head ached, and her whole body felt stiff and heavy. She sat up slowly.
'Oh, the restraints are gone,' she thought to herself.
She looked up and blinked a few times, as her eyes adjusted...