AN: Keep in mind that although I wish I owned Vin Desil and everything PB and TCOR related...I don't. And I lurve you all...so don't sue me or claim that I'm being a plagiarist. Because the really hurts my feelings...and I am no such thing. I respect your comments and stories, please respect mine. You don't have to like it ,but don't flame me because you disagree with something I've written.
Righto! On that note. Begin the Story!
"Pretty girl is suffering while he confesses everything.
Pretty soon she'll figure out what his intentions were about.
and that's what you get for falling again;
you can never get him out of your head."
These lyrics rang in the mind of what appeared to just be a normal young woman. She groaned as she pulled her self off of the couch and out the back door into the courtyard of her house. It was a sunny day on Helion Prime and the aforementioned female could hear the sounds of mid-afternoon New Mecca around her. She walked to the edge of the large courtyard. Peeking over the gate, she smiled at the children that laughed and shouted in the streets. Unknown to her, an old friend was sneaking up on her.
"Boo!" the intruder exclaimed, scaring the smaller girl off of the fence.
The startled girl's feet hit the ground and she spun around with an expression that caused her friend to laugh. Upon recognizing the taller girl, she wiped the expression off her face.
"Jack!" She laughed and smacked the girl lightly.
"You should've seen the look on your face, Mercuri!" Jack exclaimed, patting the shorter girl on the head. She looked her friend over and whistled. "You sure have changed. Just look at you. Your skin is darker, your hair color is different and you've grown...I mean really grown. Jeeze, wait till Riddick sees you."
"He's not here is he?" Mercuri asked, her expression changing to one of discomfort. "I mean obviously he's on this planet, probably in New Mecca...but he's not in my house is he?"
"Where else would he be?" Jack asked her. Upon seeing Mercuri's expression she frowned slightly. "Is everything okay?"
"We didn't exactly part on the best of terms." Mercuri said, looking at the floor and trying to forget about what had happened.
"Yeah...he told me that." Jack said, taking Mercuri gently by the arm and walking towards the house. "Do you wanna talk about it?" She asked, seeing that her friend was upset.
Mercuri shook her head and said, "No. I'm fine. I'm over it now.", before she plastered on a smile that could've passed for genuine. It fooled Jack easily, but it couldn't fool the owner of the silver eyes that had been watching the pair of girls through a second story window.
'The kid's grown.' He thought to himself, moving away from the window. He heard the girl come inside and could distinguish two laughs. One was real, 'Jack's', he thought. One was fake, 'Mercuri's', He told himself. The man ran a large tanned hand over his freshly shaven head and sighed as the girls' ever light footfalls stopped outside the study he was in.
"He's in here." Jack told Mercuri, thinking everything was fine with her friend. She hadn't seen through Mercuri's act, simply because she was glad to have found her friend again.
Mercuri reached out a petite hand and her slender fingers wrapped around the handle to the door. With a soft tug, she slid the door open to be greeted with…