Ch 8
Riddick sat down by the ship to listening in on John's and Fry's conversation. He only heard the end about him slitting the pilots throat. He pulled out one of his shivs, he greased his head and started to drag the shiv over the his scalp shaving his head.
Johns walked out of the ship "Bad sign. Shaking like that in this heat."
Johns looked up after throwing up "I thought I said no shivs."
"Shivs? This?" Riddick moved his shiv back and forth, then continued shaving his head. "This is just a personal grooming appliance."
He had made one for Jack as well, but hers was smaller to fit into her small hands. He wanted her to have something to help protect herself with.
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Fry was inside the ship flipping switches to run the test to see if, it was ready for take-off. "Thanking you."
Riddick walked in just before the doors were closing. "Looks like we're a few shy. Power cells."
"They're coming." Fry's starting to get scared.
"It's strange, not doing a run-up on the main drive yet. Unless he told you the particulars of my escape."
"I got the quick-and-ugly version."
"You're worried about a repeat."
"It has entered our minds." Fry turned off one of the screens so Riddick couldn't see what was on it.
"I asked what you thought." Riddick got up and Fry's face hoping to intimidate her.
"You scare me. That's what you want to hear, isn't it? Now, can I just get back to work?" He could smell the fear coming off of her.
Fry turned her back to Riddick. "I've been meaning to catch up with you alone. Unrestrained." Riddick take a step, so he would be standing next to her. "You think Johns is a do-right man? You think I could trust him to cut me loose?"
"Why? What did you hear?" Fry was shaking with fear.
"Well guess if it were trickeration, he'd just "X" me out, huh? He'd kill me. Then again...I am worth twice as much alive. You didn't know that?" He could smell the fear coming off of her. "Your Johns ain't a cop. He's got that nickel-slick badge. And that blue uniform. But he's just a merc. And I'm just a payday. That's why he won't kill me, see? The creed is greed."
"Don't waste my time. We're not gonna turn on each other, no matter how hard you try." Fry walk back to the ship's console. She needed to finish the reboot before launch, it also helped to get away from Riddick. He was scaring her.
I don't truly know what's gonna happen
when the lights go out. Carolyn.
But I do know once the dying starts this little psycho-fuck family of ours is gonna rip itself apart." Riddick turned to leave, but before the doors could open he looked back. "Ever wonder why Johns shakes like that? Ask him. Ask why your crew pal had to scream so painfully before he died."
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"So who are you really? You're not a cop, are you?" Fry was pissed she put her trust in this man.
"I never said I was." John's started putting away his drugs.
"No, you didn't. You never said you were a hype, either."
"You have a little caffeine in the morning
and I have a little morphine. So what?"
"Here you got two mornings every day. Wow, were you born lucky."
"It's not a problem unless you're gonna"
Fry cut him off, slimming down one of his bullet casings containing his drugs. "No, it becomes a problem when you let Owens die like that! You have enough drugs here to knock out a mule team."
"Owens was already dead. His brain just hadn't caught on to the fact." John's lean back enjoying his high.
"Is there anything else I should know about you? Johns? You know I, I'm letting you roll the dice on our lives. It is not unreasonable." Fry with starting to see what Riddick meant about just being a Merc.
John's grabbed her hand and placed it on the side of his back, she could feel scar. "You feel that? That's my first run-in with Riddick. He went for the sweet spot and missed. Have they had to leave a piece of the shiv in there, Carolyn, and I can feel it pressing against the cord. So maybe the care and feeding of my nerve endings is my business." He let go of her hands, and sat back enjoying his high.
"It's just that you could've done something and you didn't." Fry turned to leave.
"Yeah, well, look to thine own ass first. Right? Caeolyn?"
"Captain! Captain!" Imam's boys called.
"I'm not your fucking captain." Fry walked out of the building and looked into the sky one of the planets was already starting the eclipses. "What do my eyes see?"
"If we need anything from the crash ship, I suggest we kick on. That sand cat's solar." Shazza ran over to the sand cat to get it started
"Where's Riddick?" Jack called worry about her soulmate.
"Leave him! He wouldn't wait for us!" Riddick jump over the side landing on the back of the sand cat, next to Paris. "I thought we'd lost you."
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