"How many blankets do you have?" he asked. "Same as you, one underneath me and two on top." "Come here and bring your blankets with you." "Okay" was her only response. She moved quickly because of the cold. "She sure is trusting." He would have to warn her about that later, she wasn't going to last long if she was just going to go around doing whatever a guy told her to do.

Before he knew it she was under his blankets with him. She had thrown her three blankets on top of his two when she moved but it was to cold for her to bother trying to straighten them out. He sat up and put all the blankets together. Now they had one blanket underneath and five on top.

The situation would have been perfect if not for the fact that they were both lying on their backs and the blankets covered all of Jack but only half of Riddick. He turned onto his right side. "Lay on your side" he demanded. She was once again quick to obey. She was now facing him. "Better?" she asked. He was momentarily stunned at her action. She was staring right into his eyes so he decided to stare back for a moment. It looked like she could see right through him. He couldn't see anything in her big eyes except innocence.

She wasn't trying to be cute and she wasn't coming on to him he decided. That didn't mean it didn't piss him off just the same. He was a man, a man who had been in the Slam and then chased and caught my Johns. It had been a long time since he was this close to a female. "She's just a kid", he told himself. Without any warning he grabbed her left wrist and flipped her all the way over on to her right side. Still having a firm grip on her wrist he growled into her ear. "Don't ever even think of doing that again. No female has ever been this close to me without something, good or bad, happening to them."

That really wasn't true he admitted to himself. He didn't do anything to Caroline and there were a few others that safely made it through a meeting with him, but those had been very brief encounters. Any women staying longer than a few seconds was either there to get screwed (voluntarily of course, he didn't need to rape anyone) or was a merc and got herself killed.

He let go of her wrist and felt her shivering next to him. He hoped it was because she was scared but he moved the blanket farther up on his neck, which in turn pulled them up higher on Jack just to make sure it wasn't because of the cold. "What's going to happen to me?" she asked with her voice shaking. "She is scared - good", he thought. He had learned a long time ago that if you get into people's minds you can survive a lot longer, plus he got a sick enjoyment out of it for some reason. He leaned into her ear again and in the lowest, rumbling voice he had said, "nothing...yet."

That seemed to scare her more than what he had said before. He actually had to suppress a laugh. If he really wanted to do something to her he would have killed the holy man as soon as they got on the skiff and then did whatever he wanted with her. Why would he go about attacking her slowly? Well he was successful in scaring the crap out of her anyway. "That will teach her to be more careful around people."

He had put his arm over her waist and his hand was resting on her stomach. That actually made him a little uncomfortable since it seemed to be such an intimate gesture but there was really nowhere else for his arm to go. "She's just a kid," he kept telling himself over and over.

"I was just trying to look at your eyes again", she said suddenly. "Why?" "Because they're beautiful". That actually did make him chuckle a little. "Beautiful is for girls Jack", he replied. "Anything can be beautiful, even guys. I was just trying to give you a compliment." Now she was telling him he was beautiful?

She was starting to make it difficult for him to be this close to her. He had never been told anything about him was attractive, especially his eyes. Most people when seeing his eyes were visibly repulsed. They saw him as even more of a monster than he was. He had actually always been self-conscious about the eyes. They came in handy in dark places and they did scare people when necessary but before the eye shine women would actually talk to him, with the eye shine he would always get the same reaction that he got from Caroline, they immediately tried to get away from him as soon as possible. Jack was the first person who actually seemed to be attracted to his eyes. He thought that was nice and very, very dangerous at the same time.