Author: Furyan Goddess
Title:
Riddick No More
Rating:
NC-17 for sex, language and violence
Fandom:
Post PB/Riddick/AU
Disclaimer:
Do not own Riddick or anyone thing from the Riddickverse. All other
OC are mine.
Summary: Riddick is approached w/ a proposition he
can't refuse.
Pairing:
Riddick/OFC
Archive:
Maybe? Ask.
Feedback:
Yes Please but if it's a major gripe, PM me
Authors Note: This
came from a dream I had. "Jeff" is someone I went to school w/
and I dream of him more than any other person in the world. I've
only seen him once since I graduated 14 years ago. The name and
dream/story from him, but he's OC cause… well… I don't know
ANYTHING about him LOL… I'm gonna try VERY hard not to make Anna
a huge MarySue but I'm not sure I will be able to.
:kiss to Helen for Beta on this story... thanks sweets.
© October 2007 Furyan Goddess
Andromeda Galaxy
Andros System
Planet 5 - former merc port and outlaw settlement
Newly renamed: Tombstone
Twenty Five Years Ago:
The planet itself wasn't very large, about the size of Earth's moon and almost as desolate except for the one settlement. The rest was a wasteland, a grave yard, hence the name.
Twenty five years ago, the place was overrun with ruffians. Thieves, mercs and every kind out outlaw you could think of. Whorehouses and bars graced every street and murders weren't just a daily thing, more like an hourly thing. The local undertaker was one of the richest men there was. Then The Company came.
The Company decided that such a planet was perfect for the new mass grave site they were planning to use to dispose of criminals that no longer were fit for prison or whose crimes were so bad, they warranted the death penalty. They brought in a young and ambitious man who was a strong supporter of the death penalty. Judge Frances Logan.
He, along with his advisers and enforces quickly turned the unnamed merc planet into a thriving, clean city. Mercs moved out or went legit. Some joined in the fight to clean up the land. Woman were shipped in to help populate and reproduce a new generation of Andros'.
That's where Judge Logan found his wife. He chose the most beautiful woman of the bunch for himself and gave his favorites the first pick. She was frail but beautiful and only bore him one child, a son, and died from complications of childbirth.
The rest were passed out like candy to anyone that was looking for a woman they could own and control. They were essentially free slaves and had no rights. Their husbands dictated what they did and who they associated with. They were there for the men's enjoyment and to make children and nothing more. To be seen, fucked and not be heard.
New women were brought in all the time and soon they had themselves a bit of a surplus. The extra women were left to fend for themselves until such a time that a man chose them for their wife. Many tried to escape off planet and many died at the brutal hand of 'gentlemen' or starvation.
There was a woman who managed to sneak out of her guardian's house one night and find her merc lover. They had sex and made a child. Judge Logan wouldn't marry them because they had broken the rule and become sexually involved before wedding vows were exchanged, an inexcusable sin in Tombstone.
Shunned by polite society and left to fend for herself while her lover was gone, she hid on the outskirts of town and lived on the scraps she could find. Her lover sent her money but no one would sell her anything of value or employ her.
She birthed a daughter. Premature and frail, the woman put all of her time and energy into keeping the small girl alive. She made it through the first year and when she began to eat solid food, the mother gave her most of what she could find and the woman slowly starved herself to death.
She died when the child was three, just after her lover had returned form a long and very profitable run.
He stayed and tried to raise the girl on his own but soon the call of the wild and greed made him restless. He went to the judge, the same judge that refused to marry him and the woman, and pleaded his case. He offered his services as a merc and gave the judge sixty percent of his bounties to take care of his daughter.
Judge Logan, always on the look out for more money, quickly agreed and took the child into his home and care that evening. After a month, he realized what a mistake he had made.
His son, who was a year older than the girl took a quick and disturbing liking to her. He protected her from anyone that tried to pick on her for who her parents were.
The judge seriously thought about calling her father back but the monies he had coming in from him were just too good to pass up. So, he kept her and cursed her very existence with every breath he drew. His son, on the other hand, loved her with everything he had.
Twenty Years Later:
"Jeff, I see the way he looks at me. He'll never let us be together. He thinks I'm a piece of shit because my dad's a merc." Anna said looking at the man she loved. He had light brown hair and hazel eyes. He was intelligent and soft spoken. Kind. He would make the best husband and father.
"That's not true, Anna. Don't worry. He'll come around." Jeff told her in his quiet way. He really believed in the good of people, namely his father.
She scoffed, "No he won't, Jeff. I don't know what world you're living, but it isn't this one." She could never speak this freely with anyone but him. She'd be slapped for even trying.
"Look, baby, there's nothing he can do. I've already made my intentions known. You know that once a man speaks for a woman here, there's nothing that can be done unless someone with more money and influence speaks out against the union.
"No one will go up against me for fear of the Judges retaliation." Jeff told her as he continued to work on a chair he was building. He did woodworking in his spare time. He said it helped him destress from getting his law degree
"We'll be married by the end of the week. Right after I take my Bar Exam," he muttered absently as he sanded a spindle.
"How! He's the only judge around. I can't get married in a church because my parents were never married. I was born out of wed lock, Jeff! There's no greater sin than that here." Anna's blue eyes were swimming with tears when Jeff finally looked up at her. As far as he was concerned, there was no more beautiful woman than his Anna. Her blue eyes were offset by a mass of black hair and ivory skin. So completely different from the normal coloring of native people. They were typically brown on brown, just like him.
Anna got her coloring from her father. He was from a different world, descended from Old Earth. Her complexion reflected that. The only thing that her mother gave her was life and the curse of being a bastard child. She was even lower the normal females on planet.
Women had few rights and almost none when it came to who they married and how they were treated afterward. Every once in a while, there would be a love union, such as the case of Anna and Jeff. He had enough power and money to claim her without fear that someone else would come along and challenge him.
Anna clenched her fists briefly and then took a deep breath. She had to trust Jeff, besides, where was nothing she could do anyway. She was powerless. Her station in life left her with very few options to provide for herself. No one would hire her because of her bastard status. Only Jeff looked past that and she loved him more for it.
"Just let me handle it, okay." Jeff said with a sigh. He didn't relish going up against his father but he loved Anna and he planned on making her his wife, regardless of who her parents were.
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Riddick was led into Judge Logan's chambers in cuffs and chains. He looked around the room and smirked. It would be so easy to break out of there. Slit his throat and run. The spaceport was only a few blocks away, an easy run from someone in his shape. He began to develop a plan when he heard the door to his left open.
The judge came in with a mass of black robes and an air of a man that was used to respect and obedience. Riddick rolled his eyes behind his goggles. He had heard that this judge was the strictest around and loved to hand out the death penalty.
That was why he was there. The merc that nabbed him planned on this being his last stop. The judge was the highest reigning power on the planet and this area of the galaxy, a Company man if he ever saw one. To Riddick, it looked like all that power went to his head, or more importantly to his stomach. He was one fat old fuck.
After a few minutes and a big fuss, the judge settled himself into his large leather chair with a humph. The chair creaked ominously under his weight and Riddick was ready for it to finally give out. It held. Must be made of the strongest wood known to man. He thought absently.
The judge sighed again to show how displeased he was that he had to deal with Riddick, and finally spoke, "So, you're Riddick,"
Riddick only cocked his head to the side and looked at him. Judge Logan sucked his teeth and sized him up. "Mr. Riddick, I have a proposition for you."
Riddick smirked, "Sorry Judge, don't swing that way," If he was gonna die, might as well have some fun first. Fuck with the judges head. Piss him off, maybe he'd let his guard down and he'd be able to escape.
The judge turned red and one of the guards took a baton to the back of Riddick's knees. He grunted in pain but remained standing, he was used to rough treatment by guards and mercs. They all beat on him when they had the chance, trying to weaken him so he wouldn't kill them or escape. It never worked. He always got away and always got his payback.
"Cute, Mr. Riddick," The judge handed Riddick a paper, and he looked down at it as he held it in his cuffed hands. His eyes quickly scanned the letter and he frowned.
"Who's Derek Anderson?" Riddick questioned.
"You are."
Riddick's head snapped up and looked at the fat red man. "What you trying to pull, Judge?" He growled menacingly. Riddick hated being fucked with; he liked to toy with others but didn't care for the tables to be turned.
"Nothing. I can make you disappear, Riddick. A new name. A house, money. Anything someone such as yourself could hope for," The judge said with a sneer at the very prospect of letting him go. It was clear what he thought of Riddick. "I can make it as if Richard B. Riddick never existed."
Riddick rocked back on his heels and regarded the judge, "What's in this for you? Who I got to kill?" He could tell that the judge wasn't happy with the arrangement. There must be something big he wanted Riddick to do to make such an offer. He also knew that would never happen. Even with a new name, mercs would still be after him. He'd never know peace.
The judge shook his head, "I don't want you to kill anyone, Riddick. I want you to marry someone."
"What?" Riddick's laugh was disturbingly loud as the sound filled the chambers and echoed off the wooden walls. "You want me to marry someone? That's funny Judge," The judge tossed a photograph of a woman on the desk and pointed to it. Riddick looked at the picture and smirked, "You want me to marry her?"
"Yes." The judge said as he stabbed a finger on the photo. "That little bitch got my boy all tied up. He plans on marrying her come the end of the week. I can't have that—garbage—marry into my family,"
"Funny, she don't look like trash to me," Riddick said as he licked his lips, he could almost taste her. It's been a long time since he's had a woman. She looked like a prime piece of ass and he'd love to fuck her six ways from Sunday, but marriage? Get real.
"Her father's was a merc. He left me in charge of her care while he was off planet, chasing you. Seems that he didn't survive the experience so I'm left with the responsibility of marring her off."
"So, just forbid the blessed event if you don't want them to get hitched."
"You do not seem to understand me, Riddick. I want her gone, out of Jeff's life for good, one way or another. She's a piece of shit, born out of wedlock. That's a sin here. She has no money, no dowry and nothing to offer him. She'll only bring him down. Jeff is young and blind. He loves the girl but he'll get over it in time and marry someone more—suited—to his station in life.
"I tried to forbid it, but the laws against me on this one. Damnit!" he yelled as he punched his desk. He made the law and was kicking himself for it now.
"Why not have her killed?" Riddick asked seriously. The judge wanted her gone in the worst way, why not just X her out?
"Jeffery would know and I'd never know a moments peace." The judge rubbed at a nonexistent spot on his robe, "I've been holding out hope that someone else would stake a claim on her. On this planet, women have little rights and they don't get to chose who they marry. If a man claims them, then they have to marry him unless someone that has more money and power steps forward and challenges the claim. That's where you come in, Riddick."
"Why me?"
"Because this is your last stop. End of the line. We both know what'll happen to you now. I'm not going to send you back to prison only to have you escape again. Your next stop is that desolate wasteland out there. An unmarked grave and you'll become nothing more than a myth."
A myth? Most stories about me where blown out of proportion anyway, something mothers used to scare their kids into listening. "I don't have any money, Judge."
"No, not yet. But you do have a hand written letter from her father saying that you're her intended."
Riddick laughed again, "Right,"
"That's what you're holding. Read it again, it might make more sense now,"
Judge Logan,
First I wish to thank you for taking care of my daughter while I was off world. As I am no longer alive, I have sent someone to claim her by the name of Derek Anderson. He's a good man, an honest man and he promised to fully compensate you for seeing to Anna in my absence.
They are to be married with the utmost haste.
Sincerely,
Shane O'Malley
"You've got to be fucking kidding me. Do you really think someone's gonna believe a merc wrote this letter?" Riddick said with a disbelieving laugh. Did the judge really think people would buy this shit?
Judge Logan snatched the letter back from Riddick, "It doesn't matter if they believe it or not. It carries his seal and mark. It will hold up in a court of law."
"Your court?" Riddick muttered with a raised eyebrow. He knew that no one else would ever see that letter. The judge forged it for his own gain.
The judge turned red again and huffed out a breath, "Have we got a deal, Riddick? If not, I'd be more than happy to have you executed. I'm sick of fucking around with prisons that can't seem to hold you. Marry Anna or die, the choice is yours, Mr. Riddick. You marry her and I never want to see her again on this planet or I'll make sure every merc in the universe knows your location and I'll increase the bounty expediently." With that, the judge crossed his arms over his massive stomach and glared at Riddick.
"How long do I have to think about it?" Riddick asked with a smirk, "This is a big decision. I don't want to be rushed. Never imagined taking a wife." He singsonged to the judge just to stroke him off further and see if he blew an blood vessel.
A wife? The decision should be an easy one and for any other man, it would be. Marry the bitch and live to see another day. For Riddick, it was more complicated then that.
He didn't like people and he liked women around him for one reason only. As soon as he was done fucking them, he was glad to be rid of them. The only female he ever cared remotely about was Jack and he was amused by her. He was intrigued by Fry but never had any real feelings about her. He just wanted to fuck her in the worst way. He never got the chance.
"About three more seconds… one…."
Marry a woman for your freedom, damn Riddick, is it really that hard of a choice? She's definitely fuckable. "I don't know, what if there's a kid," he mused mildly.
A kid. He never even entertained the possibility before. Would he be a murderer like his father? Probably.
"Two…"
"Course it would be nice to have a free piece of ass,"
Nothing was free. In this case, free ass meant a constant nagging bitch to deal with. Was it worth it? Humm...free ass...death...nagging bitch...death. Fuck it.
"Thr…"
"Fine, you got a deal Judge." Riddick rumbled distastefully. He didn't like it, didn't trust the judge but he really had no other choice if he planned on walking out of there alive.
"Good, I thought you'd see it my way." Judge Logan reached to pick up the phone but Riddick spoke before he had a chance to dial.
"I'll marry your problem but you make sure that no more mercs come after me, ever. If I see one, if I even catch word that one's looking for me, I'll come back here and kill your boy and then you. We got a deal?"
The judge sneered at Riddick again but nodded. He knew he would serious. Making Riddick disappear wasn't something that was easy to do. He called in a lot of favors for this and shelled out a lot of money to set it up. Money that the judge received from Anna's father. Judge Logan felt it was money well spent if it meant she was out of his Jeffery's life.
He dialed a number, "Do it." After he hung up, he reached into his drawer and pulled out all of the paperwork Riddick would need, signed it and put his seal on it. Universal passports, bank accounts with five million dollars in it, photo ID and pilot's license and pink slip for a large ship and the deed to a house a system away.
Riddick let out a whistle, "You must really hate this girl, or love your son to an unhealthy level."
"Ever have a kid?" He asked Riddick who only shook his head, "Well, then you'll never understand the lengths a parent will go though to protect them, even from themselves,"
Riddick grunted as the chains and cuffs slipped away from his hands. He rubbed his wrists and thought of that for a minute. What would he do to protect his own kids? He'd kill anyone or anything that tried to hurt them. He wouldn't take the time and try to marry her off, he'd just cut her down. He guessed that was the difference between him and the judge. Riddick as just more hands-on.
