Hello everyone, this chapter is very long. I have Shay going from the present time to flashbacks of her and Riddick. I believe her memories are important so that way we understand the depth of their relationship. The next few chapters will most likely be the same. Hope your enjoying the story and thanks for reading!

I walk behind the group keeping an ear and eye out for any sounds or movements. When I don't notice anything strange I let my mind wonder back to the first memory I had of Riddick, the one I remembered while I was in the cryo chamber. I smile at the memory.

I let myself get pushed back into those memories. Thanking myself everyday that I made the right choice and followed him out my front door that day instead of ran.

Flashback

I watched him smile and walk out the door using his hands in a come on motion. "Great so much for being alone," I mutter.

I grab a new shirt and rip off my old one throwing it in the corner since it was cut up. I head to the door sighing not really wanting to be around this man named Riddick. He confuses me and I hate that feeling. Before I hit the door I stop in my tracks as I get an idea.

I turn towards my tunnel and think maybe I should make a break for it. I can leave this place and start new I didn't have to be bossed around by him. I start walking towards it but something freezes me in my spot. 'Are you really going to run Shay and let this man take away this place you call home?' I mentally say. 'Plus do you really want to be alone for the rest of your life? This man is an animal like you I bet you both could have some fun together,' another part of me thinks.

I scoff out loud at the last part. "Where the hell did that come from," I mumble and rub my hands over my face trying to get a hold of my thoughts.

"SHAY GET THAT ASS MOVING NOW!" I hear Riddick yell. I groan and throw my hands up in the air walking out the door. "Calm the fuck down I'm coming," I say shooting him a glare.

He starts walking and we head into the deeper part of the jungle past the small waterfall and into the more hostile area. I stop when I hit the smell. "I'm not going that way. I respect their territory and they respect mine," I say backing away from the invisible line. This was the territory of the creatures the town was scared of. I wasn't scared but I respected treaties and we had one.

Riddick lets out a loud laugh that makes me flinch. "You scared baby girl?" he taunts. I let out a growl and bare my teeth. I watch the smile disappear, "I'd watch your tone with me Shay," he snaps. My canines go back to normal and I look away from him letting out another small growl. 'Now's not the time to be having a pissing party,' I tell myself.

I feel him grab my arm and he drags me through the thick vines and trees until I spot a small clearing. He then lets go of the death grip on my arm.

Something shiny catches my eye and I follow him the rest of the way. I watch him move around and rip away pieces of foliage to reveal a small two seater ship.

I walk up and touch the part of the wing that looks like to be missing a part. "Got tore up pretty bad when I landed," he says coming behind me. "I need parts and somewhere to stay while we work on it," he says next.

I turn around quickly and look him in the eye. "We? Who the hell do you think you are? You don't own me. I'm not helping you," I snap at him. He approaches me removing what little space we had between us and pins me with my back against the ship. He puts his arms on each side of my head and looks down at me trying to intimidate me.

I push my arms out to keep some space between our bodies and I can tell he doesn't like that. "Who says you have a choice?" he answers confidently. "I do. I'm my own person." I look up into his goggled eyes and watch a smirk play across his face.

"How about this, you help me and I don't kill you." He says matter of factly. I feel anger burst through me but he is already prepared and throws me to the ground pinning me under him. I growl and snap my jaws at him and he holds me down completely immobilizing me tell I'm calm.

"You done?" he asks a few minutes later. I can see sweat dripping off of him. His smell is more powerful now and I take a deep breath. I smell power and dominance pouring from him and his smell seems to help calm my nerves.

"Yes," I finally answer letting my body go slack. I feel him relax some and let go of my arms but he stays laying on me. "So you going to get off me so we can get to work?"

I watch him raise an eyebrow at me, "So you're going to help me without anymore tantrums?" I glare at him, "That wasn't a tantrum and yes lets just do it and get it over with."

He smiles, "Well if you insist." He says as he presses his groin against my core and starts a rocking movement. I gasp at the feeling and let out a shaky breath "what are you doing?" I ask. But he just responds by nipping at my bottom lip. I feel his hands go under my shirt and roam up to my chest. I finally understand what I said.

"Riddick?" I ask trying to control my breathing. "Yes baby girl?"

"I meant work, lets get to work," I say shakily. He rocks into me one last time and stands up. I lay there for a moment getting myself under control and watch him grin down at me. "Do you want me to continue," he chuckles.

I blush and push myself up. "Where do you want to start," I ask and glance at him. "Well I was thinking maybe foreplay a bit or we can get right to fucking, whatever you want." I roll my eyes. "Focus Riddick, I'm talking about the ship."

He chuckles, "We need to get some parts from town and that's where you will come in handy," he says and smacks my ass as he passes. I let out a small squeak at the contact.

The rest the day I follow him around writing down inventory on what was needed. When night falls Riddick sends me out of the ship to grab something. I bend down to grab it when I hear a familiar growl. "Great and I thought today couldn't get any more interesting," I say irritated. I turn around slowly and look at the animal. It kind of looks like a gigantic monkey with long black nails and red eyes. He is the biggest so I'm assuming he is the leader of the group.

He approaches me and snarls and I can see the foam and saliva dripping from his mouth. "Hey I don't want to fight. I know I'm in your part of the jungle." I tell it. I watch it snap its teeth at me. I then let out a growl standing my ground. I quickly look around and I see about three more sets of red eyes looking at me from behind him.

I feel my body change instantly as it charges me. I dodge out of the way and I connect my shiv cutting into its chest. I hear it give a howl of pain as it grabs my arm throwing me against the ship. I pull myself up quickly and run at it faking a left. It falls for my trick and I quickly move right bringing my shiv down into its shoulder. He howls and I go to finish him.

I then feel a horrific pain in my right upper thigh and let out a cry. I look down to find another one biting into me. 'Must be his mate,' I think as I pull another shiv from me and stab it in the eye. It pulls away with its own scream. When I turn around the male launches itself towards me and I wait for the blow but it doesn't come.

I look up and see Riddick fighting with it. Riddick gets him pinned and starts to push his shiv into its neck but its mate plows into Riddick with the shiv still stuck in her eye. It bites into his shoulder and Riddick lets out a growl of pain.

The animal in me snaps and I see red. I don't feel my feet move but before I know it I slam into the mate and we go rolling. "Don't touch him," I hiss out when we stop. I jump on her and rip into her throat with my teeth shaking violently.

I feel the blood gush everywhere and I hold her in my jaw until I feel her heart stop. I hear a howl of sorrow and I look around to see her mate looking at me as Riddick brings his shiv down into his skull and the male falls over. I look into the dark and see the other two look at us and turn around and run.

I limp over to Riddick. "Now you see why I said I didn't want to cross into their part?" I say angrily. He turns and looks at me, "We're alive aren't we?" he says coldly and heads to his ship.

I quietly follow but cant help how angry I am with him. He made me kill and I was the one that broke the rules, not them. So now I feel a bit guilty killing those things, especially when the male saw me kill his mate. The sound of his cry will haunt me for awhile.

When we get inside I finally get the courage to say something to show him I'm mad but I watch as he sits in the pilots chair and pulls his shirt over his head. I can't help but stare. His body is amazing and I get this urge to touch his abs. He reminds me of one of those gods you read about in storybooks.

I get pulled to my senses when he grunts as he checks the place he was bit. I look to his bite and see the blood flowing down his shoulder along with some black veins. I glance at my own bite and notice that my body was pushing the black stuff out. 'Shit their bites are poisonous,' I mentally tell myself.

Without thinking I walk up to Riddick and climb in his lap to get a better view of the wound. "Shay I don't think now's the time," Riddick grunts in pain. I look at him and roll my eye's. "She poisoned you with her bite." I watch him look at his shoulder and the veins running down it. "Fucking great," he hisses.

"This might hurt a bit," I say pulling my shirt over my head. I watch him look at me weird until I start to wipe away the blood and I feel his hands come down to my hips as he takes a deep intake of breath.

After I wipe away most of the blood I get this overwhelming sense to bite him in the infected area. I don't think twice about it because the animal in me knows what to do, it has many hidden secrets that I'm only just learning.

I bite him before he knows what's going on and I hear him curse loudly and grip my hips painfully. It feels like he his crushing the bone but I don't stop. I finally pull back and run my tongue over the area a few times before looking in his eyes.

"What the hell you do that for?" I look down at my hands sheepishly, "I don't know why. I just had the urge but look it pulled the poison out, now it can heal." I glance at him as he looks over his shoulder. I let out a soft hiss of pain when he moves his hands from my hips. I look down and already see a bruised imprint of his hands there.

"Not the reason I thought I'd be leaving those," he says playfully. I blush and try to move off him. He gently grabs my hips and holds me on him. "I'm tired Riddick, I want to head home," I say. I feel him start to stand up and I go to move but he grabs my legs and wraps them around his waist.

"We make a great team baby girl," he smirks. I let out a small laugh and look into his shining eyes. I feel my heart beat pick up and I start peeling my body off of his trying to stay in control. He reluctantly lets go and follows me towards my cave.

I crawl on the bed and I'm to tired to object that he is crawling on it behind me. As I feel myself falling into the abyss of sleep I feel Riddick pulling me into his arms and I hear a soft sigh of contentment.

I wake to a heartbeat by my ear and I pick my head up. I'm laying almost completely on top of Riddick. I hurry off of him and get out of bed.

I grab some food and start to make something to eat. I hear my stomach growl and I know he has to be hungry as well. I make enough for both of us. I go to wake him up but he is already up and watching me.

"Not much but it's something," I say. I watch him nod and eat. "Thinking about sending you to town today," he grunts with his mouth full. "I don't advise it. I'm not going to town on a weekend." I watch him stop chewing and look at me. "Why the hell not?"

Oh all the being nice bullshit went out the door already. "So much for that," I mumble. "What was that?" he asks. "I can't go to town tell Monday, it's only two more days. If I go to town with all this people out and about I might do something not so human, you understand," I say frustrated.

He watches me closely and finally nods his head. "How's the shoulder?" I ask changing the subject. He rolls his shoulders up in what looks like a shrug testing it out. "Barely noticeable. Whatever you did made it heal pretty quick," he says eyeing me.

"Huh, well I guess that's good," I answer. "How's your thigh?" I look down at my leg through the rip in my clothes and see it's completely healed. "Healed," I say.

We sit quietly and finish our food. Once done he stands up and looks at me. "Well since we have so much time, you can show me around." I sigh and stand up heading for the door. 'Maybe I should just chance town instead of being stuck with him.'

The next days go by better then I assumed and he does his own thing most the time leaving me to myself. When the night before I have to go to town comes I head to the waterfall to clean up. I'm starting to smell bad but I was avoiding it with him, not wanting to be naked around Riddick. He was with his ship right now making sure he has everything down that he will need.

I slowly peel off my clothes and stand under the cool water. I let out an appreciated groan at the amazing feeling. I get lost in the pure enjoyment of washing my hair to notice anything. As I start rinsing my hair I feel arms come around from my back to my stomach. I jump at the contact and feel my body changing rapidly until I hear him.

"Its just me," his deep voice says as he pushes his front against my back. I stiffen at the contact of his skin on mine. 'Oh God, Oh God he's naked,' I panic in my mind.

"Why are you here? I thought you were at your ship?" I say trying to keep the panic out of my voice. "Got done, was heading back when I saw you here, thought I could use a shower as well," he says like it's totally normal. I lightly pull away from him. "Oh okay," is all I manage to get out. I feel his hand move to my hip and he turns me around to face him.

It's dark out and his goggles are gone and I see his eyes staring at me. I watch as they rake over my body and I can't help but get self conscious. I don't want to show him he is intimidating me so I hold very still as he looks at my naked body. I keep my eyes on his face not daring to look any where else. The animal in me might do something stupid.

I can't take it anymore and I finally speak, "Well I'm going to head back." I go to grab my clean clothes when I feel him pull me back into him. "You still need to wash your body there's still dirt on you."

I feel him bend down and grab my soap. I turn my head and watch him pour some on his hands. 'Oh please no,' I internally groan. I feel his hands move my hair out of the way and he starts lathering the soap on my back and shoulders. His strong hands rubbing away the knots in them.

It feels so good I can't help but let out a soft moan of pleasure. I blush when I feel him momentary stop before he continues. He then slowly runs his hands down the rest of my back to my butt. He lingers a bit to long there and I clear my throat. I swear I can hear the smile as he moves down my legs. He then pulls me back as his hands move back up to my shoulders and slowly make their way down my front.

I jolt backwards when I feel him run his hands over my chest. With the movement backwards I feel his erection pushing into me. I take a deep breath as he washes my stomach and keeps going lower. When I feel him brush over my core I bolt forward. "I think I'm clean enough," I say grabbing my clothes and trotting down the path.

"What no I'll help you wash your body Riddick?" he laughs from the waterfall. I ignore him and when I'm far enough away I stop and put my clothes on.

"Get a hold of yourself Shay, your not going to give into this man. Your stronger than that." I tell myself as I get to the cave. 'But he is more trained than I am, more physically tougher. I need to get better if I want to get as good as him.' I think.

I head in for the night and crawl into the bed with my back against his side of the bed. Before I doze off I know what I need to do if he is going to be around awhile.

The next morning I'm up early and I get ready to head to town. I head outside to find Riddick. I watch him grab some things and hold them out to me. "What's this?" I ask taking the bag. "There's money in there and a gun in case you get into a situation you can't get out of, remember I'll be waiting on the outskirts of town I don't want any one to see me." He tells me.

"Yeah I know. I have a contact in town that I trust and I'll be going to him first. He'll help me get everything you need and I can have it arrive at his building on the outskirts of town." I answer.

"You never told me about your contact." He says suspiciously. "Well you never asked and he is a good man so don't worry your pretty little bald head about it. I won't mention you anyway. I'll just say I need it." I tell him.

"One thing." He says. "Yeah," I say raising my eyebrow. "You run and don't come back I will hunt you down and make you wish you were dead," he threatens.

I scoff and look into his eyes. "If I wanted to run I would have been gone by now Riddick," I answer angrily. I watch him look at me skeptically.

I walk a few feet away, "Oh and Riddick I was thinking once I get back we can train together, be nice to have someone to rough up a bit," I say playfully.

"Don't think I'm going to be the one getting roughed up," he answers with a chuckle. I wave my hand over my shoulder and smile to myself knowing that he was right but I needed to learn how to fight better because one day I will take him down.

I startle out of the memory when I hear Johns yell telling everyone to be quiet making Imam stop chanting. Rocks fall and everyone stops. I watch Johns run and check it out. I smell Riddick but I know Johns won't catch him. I head over to Imam and Carolyn. I turn my head when I hear rocks being thrown.

"Seven stones to keep the devil a bay," Imam tells us. "You're on a trip to New Mecca, right?" Carolyn asks. "Once in every lifetime, should there be a great hajj. A great pilgrimage. To get to know Allah better? Yes, but to know yourself as well." He answers.

I hear Carolyn scoff lightly and answer, "Yeah." "We are all on the same Hajj now." Imam finishes and grabs the weapon moving forward with his boys behind him. I glance at Carolyn before I move on. I get a whiff off guilt again and I pick up my pace to see if Johns seen anything not wanting to smell her anymore.