“Fine. But I want my tonic, first,” she demands. Jonas grins and offers her the drops. Eve sighs as it burns its way down her throat and into her empty stomach. It strikes fast, and she sighs when the desperate desire for more floats away. Smiling, she straightens her dress and snaps, “On with it then.”
Jonas leads the way to the train he has been eyeing, gently pushing her towards it. Eve straightens her back and walks, glancing at the three men who are standing next to it.
To say that she stands out would be an understatement. Her green silk off the shoulder gown highlights the porcelain color of her skin. Her long black hair is twisted up and secured with a beautiful golden fan. Jonas watches as she approaches the men and speaks for a moment. They smile and tease each other, two of the men wander off to continue working, while Eve smiles and steps closer to his body.
"Now!" Jonas whispers, and when she moves in touching the conductor's arm, his smile fades, and desire lights. Interested now, he grabs her hand and pulls her up inside the engine.
"You like big machines? Come on girly, I got just what you need." Jonas listens and finds he's as disgusted as Eve is by the man's manners. He will deal with him, as soon as he gets what he needs. Right now, he needs an engineer. The man is pawing her and tugging at her dress roughly. Leering at Eve he grabs the sleeves of her dress and jerks it down baring her white breasts to his hot mouth. Pushing her back against metal control panel, he bites at one of her nipples while pinching the other hard.
He freezes when he feels the pressure of the cold steel against his temple. Eve glares with hatred at both men. “What’s this, a robbery?” He stammers.
“Not quite,” Jonah shoves the pistol hard against his temple as Eve quickly straightens her clothes. “You, my friend, will help us catch a train. If you do as I ask, you stand to make a nice sum of cash. If you don’t, I will kill you and find someone else to help me.” Jonas pulls out his roll of cash and holds it in front of his face. “What’s it going to be?”
“Call me, Stanley. You’ve got yourself a deal.” He licks his lips and looked at Eve with a grin. “But you should know I can’t drive this train alone.”
Eve steps away to glance out of the train door and hears Jonas saying, “Tell us what to do.”
Stanley explains the process of how to load the boiler, and the Chen listen as Eve interprets. They quickly leap into the coal car attached to the back of the engine and begin throwing it into the boilers open door.
Jonas sits the engineer down to discuss his pay and Eve listens from outside the train door. The interior of the cab is quickly heating up as they prepare to leave. "Stanley, there's a train headed to Indiana, and I need you to catch up to it. It left two hours ago.”
"If we drop the other cars, we can catch it by morning," Stanley explains how to unhook the extra cars, and the Chen follow his instructions. He wipes the corner of his mouth and glares at Eve with lust. "Any chance you'd throw the girl in as part of my pay?"
Jonas shrugs his shoulders, “I don’t see why not. She’s of no use to me anymore.” They laugh, and Jonas pays him. “Half now and half when the job is done.” Eve is trembling with fury as she marches off to oversee the drop of the other cars. Jonas calls for them, and she squeezes into the engine. "Let's go," Jonas orders.
Stanley reaches up and pulls on the lever. He blows the whistle and someone waves at him.
“What’re you doing?”
He leans out of the window and yells over the sound of the train. “Got a problem with the engine, taking it to Yard Four to have her looked over before morning.”
"Alright." He clears the track for him, and Jonas grins.
“Excellent.” Jonas laughs from his seat on the floor as Eve stares off, praying for an end to this nightmare she's in. Jonas is just going to continue using her, passing her from man to man until they grow sick of her. Well not if she can help it. Her skin is crawling again as the drops start to wear off. It seems the more she uses the shorter the high lasts. Stanley guides the train through the yard and chooses the track Jonas indicated.
“How fast can she go?” Jonas yells over the constant chug, chug, chug of the engine.
“As fast as they can shovel,” he laughs.
“Eve tell them to keep it fed!” Jonas snaps gesturing behind her.
“Yes, Jonas,” Eve gives the order and wipes at the sweat on her brow. The engineer shoves an overhead lever and pulls the lower lever. Steam fills the night and puffs as it picks up speed, it puffs out massive beats of steam to the rhythm of Eve’s heartbeat.
It is hot in the engine of the train, and soon they are at the highest speed she can travel. To Jonas and Eve, it feels like flying along the track at an impossible eighty miles per hour.
“What are we doing when we catch up to her?” Stanley asked.
“Can you connect to it?” Jonas asked.
“Of course.”
"Good you connect it, and we will cross over." If Eve is surprised by this news, she doesn't show it. His plan is becoming clearer now, cross over and take them out. Her smile mirrors
