The Weapon - Lex - part 23
By Diana the Valkyrie
Sandy Gentle
Update: 07/11/2003 to valkyrie05


It was because I was looking at the spitting image of Sandy Gentle. Wearing
that white silk dress that she wore in "Softly goes the night"

And Sandy Gentle is ten times sexier in person than on the screen. I could see
the texture of her flesh, I could smell the faint sweet perfume of her hair. I
wanted to throw her to the ground and fill her up with babies.

"Why have you made yourself look like ... " she put a finger on my lips.
"Here's where you get to show how well you can keep a secret. I don't look
like Sandy Gentle, I *am* Sandy Gentle. Always have been."

I stood there, my mouth a big round O, listening to her voice. She sounded
throaty and slightly out of breath, like she'd just run a mile, or some other
strenuous exercise. "But, but ... how?"

"Secret identity," she said. "I'm both. The big tough heroic Guardian of
Humanity, but I also have a normal life as sweet Sandy Gentle, star of the
silver screen."

"Normal?" I asked. "Normal? How can the biggest porn star in the world have a
normal life?" "Well, relatively normal," she smiled. "I've got a whole bunch
of your disks," I said. "So do about a billion other people," she grinned,
"you tend to get that when you're a big porn star." "But how do you keep it
secret, don't they notice when you fly in and out? Don't they see when you
change?" "I don't fly when I look like this, and what do you think phone
booths are for? And people expect me to be secretive about my private life.
It's just that it's the opposite of what people think - they think Sandy
Gentle has some mousy obscure other secret identity that she slips into when
she isn't filming. And actually, Sandy Gentle *is* the other identity."

"But. But why? Why do you do it?" "For the money," she said.

Now I really was gobsmacked. My illusions were tumbling like nine-pins. First
I discover that my idol is also a porn star, and now I discover she's only in
it for the money.

"Geoff, you remember you said you trusted me?" "Mmmm." "Well, I'm calling you
on that now. Do you still trust me?" "Yes, I do." "Liar."

I blushed. Maybe it isn't a good idea to lie to the Guardian of Humanity.
"Damn right it isn't, I can tell when you lie. Your hands got a bit sweaty,
and your heart speeded up." "OK, OK. I don't trust you, not after what you
just told me. You make porno disks for the money, what sort of role model is
that?"

"It isn't a role model. So what? People don't know it's their Guardian, all
they know is it's Sandy Gentle. You haven't heard why I want the money, yet."
"OK, tell me why?"

"Geoff, you might not realise this, but the three most important things to
humans are food, sex and money. And since pretty much everyone has all the
food they can use, it boils down to sex and money."

I nodded, that sounded right.

"Well, I understand about love, and that makes it easier for me to understand
about sex." "Sex is difficult to understand?" "Us People only have one
gender." Oh." "And it takes six of us to make a baby." "But how ..." "And we
don't have anything like money, it's a completely alien concept." "We're
aliens?" "To me you are." Oh. "And I'm an expert at the marital arts," said
Sandy. "You mean martial arts." "I mean what I said."

"You see, I have understood this much. I can do stuff. I'm very capable, I can
do stuff you wouldn't believe. But I can't do everything. When we set up the
Baby Rescue Centers, me and Duncan ..."

She stopped for a moment.

"Me and Duncan ..." she repeated.

She was silent.

"Yes?" I prompted.

"I'll be alright in a moment."

I looked down at her. There was no tear glistening in her eye, but I felt that
there was something deeper, something sad. I wanted to give her a hug, she'd
obviously just hit something emotional.

"When we set up the Baby Rescue Centers, I found that if I pay people money do
do stuff, I can be a thousand times more effective than if I do everything
myself. So, I do things that earn a lot of money, and then I can use that to
do a lot more than I could myself, just flying around. You see? It isn't all
kittens and trees."

I saw. I think.

"Right. Now follow me."

Fortunately, by then my erection had subsided. She led the way out of the
parking lot, into a nearby street, and we went into a building that had a sign
up, "Cute Chicken". The receptionist saw her immediately. "Sandy, hi. You've
got a meeting in a few minutes." "I know, that's why I'm here. Barb, this is
Geoff, he's a friend of mine, he'll be sitting in on the meeting."

I followed her into her office. "Listen up, Geoff, we don't have much time.
Here's what you do. You keep your mouth shut, got that?" I nodded. "You don't
say a word, understand?" I nodded again. "You leave all the talking to me,
follow?" I nodded a third time, this time I had my finger on my lips. She
laughed. "I think you've got the idea," she said. "But you might find it's not
as easy as you think. OK, follow."