Wrote this for the Weekly Drabble Challenge at the forum I go, so it’s exactly a hundred words. It’s seem more innocent there, but after tagging this setting on my Deimos and Phobos… hun hun hun, it’s not that innocent now is it? Anyway, it’s just a drabble now, but one day, I may just decide to develop it into a full-blown scene as part of the story.

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He could not believe it. He spun away from the woman before him abruptly, disregarding the fact that she had to given due respect for her higher rank, and stalked towards the window with an urgency that he seldom felt.

His palms had not even touched the windowsill when he looked out and saw it. His purple eyes widened, staring at the scene with utmost shock. And the bitter taste of betrayal was almost edible in his mouth.

Standing not far away in the alley below, was the figure of his kidnapped partner and lover, kissing and embracing another man.