Title: Unleash

Rating: M

Disclaimer: I do not own anything.

Chapter 6: Reckoning

The slamming of the door should have scared her, hell, being dragged into the storeroom should have scared her, but all she could feel was the blinding anger that seemed to fill her up. She felt like her skin was burning, itching with a need she couldn't define, but knew she had felt it before. Quickly she was losing what little control over the animal inside her she had, and it seemed to want exactly what she was feeling...tear...claw...bite...bleed...She just hoped that this time, it didn't end with her covered in blood.

It had amused him to watch the little kitten inside her take over, watch her give in to the animal inside, knowing that it was most likely responsible for the blood on the kids hands, including Chillingsworth. Finally, get to play... The growl that emanated from his feet had him chuckling.

"Well, well, well...Knew there was something squirming inside you, kid. Surprised it took this long...So here's how this is going to go..."

His purring voice filled the room, but before he could finish, Jack had launched herself at him, ready to claw his face off. He grabbed her around the waist and threw her against the opposing wall, growling at her audacity. She was at him again though, barely winded by being slammed into the wall. He let her throw several punches at him, observing her style and the right side she left open. He quickly kicked her in the opening she left, followed by a swift uppercut that brought her to her knees. Within seconds he had her pinned on her stomach, her hands trapped in one of his larger ones above her head, and a shiv at her sweet spot. She stilled instantly.

"Oh, kitten...what am I going to do with you?" He purred into her ear, earning himself a growl from beneath him. Not liking that, he squeezed her wrists, applying almost enough pressure to break them.

"I'd hate to have to break your wrists, kitten, but I will if you don't settle down now." He felt her go lax and quiet under him, and eased the grip on her wrists slightly from blinding pain to just uncomfortable.

"Good girl."

She could practically hear the smirk in his tone. She could still feel her animal's desire to fight, to escape his hold, but she knew when she was beaten. As if she could try and forget with the shiv at her sweet spot reminding her...

"Well...now that I've got you paying attention...what do you want to talk about, kitten?"

She could still here the smirk in his voice, and couldn't resist trying to wiggle out from under him, annoyed by the new nickname, but the tightening of the grip on her wrists back to painful had her stilling immediately. She expected him to let up, but the pressure on her wrists did not.

"Riddick...stop...you're hurting..."But the pressure didn't ease and she could hear him growling behind her. "Riddick! Please...I-I won't try and move anymore, promise!" She couldn't stop the whimpers that escaped her, but she was slowly giving in to the pain and the terror...he had never hurt her on purpose before... "Please..."

"Good, Jack. You're starting to get it now, aren't you?" He eased up on the pressure on her wrists again, and covered her body with his, keeping the shiv exactly where it was. Purring in her ear, his animal finally felt like Jack was starting to understand her place in the pack.

"Now, where were we? Oh yes, you're mine, aren't you kitten?" A snort from Jack had him frowning. "Something on your mind, kitten?"

"Don't call me that! And I'm not yours! You think you own me cause you saved me a couple of times?! How about how I saved you from Chillingsworth! Now let me up!" Her outburst had her puffing and wiggling, the shiv be damned! I won't be owned!

Riddick didn't know if he should be proud of her for her defiance or furious with her stubbornness. Shouldn't have said that, Jackie-girl... Within seconds he had her wrists pulled high up on her back where with the slightest pressure he could break both her arms. Quickly stowing his shiv, he delivered a quick punch to her ribs. Her groan of pain helped ease the fury that was beginning to overtake him, but it was going to take a little more than that to fully calm the beast now. Pulling the shiv back out, he began running it gently up and down her side as he hiked her wrists a fraction higher. Her whimper of pain had him smiling and his animal purring.

"Jack, I could break your arms like this...so I would think very carefully before I said something stupid...Do you understand, kitten?"

When she didn't respond immediately, he jerked her wrists slightly higher, her subsequent whimper was music to his ears, but her silence wouldn't do at all.

"Sorry, kitten, couldn't hear you? I said, do you understand?"

"Yes! Yes, I understand!" She couldn't stop the whimpers that were escaping her now, the pain in her arms and back was excruciating. She wasn't sure how much longer she could hold out for, but the moment was coming and she knew that the rock that is Riddick would smash her into a million pieces before he gave up on what he wanted.

"Good, good, I'm glad to hear you say that. Now, kitten," he could hear her grind her teeth together at the nickname but she didn't react any other way so he let it go. "you think that being mine is something you have a choice in?" He waited for her answer, but when none came he began to lose his patience. A growl escaped him and she jumped at the sound. "Is it?" Another hitch of her wrists and he got the response he was looking for.

"NO!"

"No, what?" He was tired of this slow game. He wanted her to submit to him now., and thankfully it looked like the stress position he had her in was doing its job and breaking her will.

"No, I don't think I have a choice! Riddick, please! It hurts!"

"Oh, kitten, I know. I know it hurts, but it won't stop hurting until you understand."

"Understand what?" She was so tired, and was in so much pain. "Please, Riddick, let me go...it hurts..."

"That you're mine. Mine to protect, mine to train, mine to punish...mine. If I have to jump ship, I have to know that you'll do what I say when I say. That animal inside of you, its looking for pack. Looking for its alpha. All you got to do is get out of its way. It knows what it wants..."He rolled her onto her back, stowing the shiv. He grasped her hands in one of his larger ones and pulled her arms over her head. The other came to cradle her face. "Understand, kitten?"

She starred up at his shined eyes, and couldn't look away. She realized then that maybe she never really had a choice to begin with. She had been so drawn to him on that planet, and even now the thought that he would leave without her seized her up with panic. Taking a deep breath, she nodded and sealed her fate.

"Yours."