Disclaimer: I do not own Predator. It's heartbreaking to have to admit. The OC's and storyline are mine.

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ShadowsInLight: Thank you so much. Hope you enjoy this one.

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Madscientist: The reference to gold isn't one I had heard either. In other words, I made it up. It was just a way to show how preciously she valued their lives. Gold being more precious than metal. Hope that explains it.

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Kenzie followed Viper, taking in the beauty of the planet. Never before had she seen anything so serene. It was unreal. She was more interested in looking at all the beautiful things the planet had to offer than actually doing what they had come to do. She'd yet to see one animal that would be worth killing. They all seemed so small and harmless.

Kenzie stopped following Viper when a large rainbow colored flower caught her attention. It was absolutely beautiful. She reached out and touched it slowly. The petals were like silk against her fingers. Never before had she seen something so amazing. She thought about plucking it, but decided to leave it alone. How she wished she had a camera to capture some of these moments.

Turning to continue she saw that Viper had stopped as well and was watching her. His intense gaze almost making her uncomfortable.

"You should not stop like that. You will get lost."

Kenzie shrugged. "I'd just scream for help."

She watched as Viper cocked his head to the side. "Screaming may draw many things. Some things are not wanted." He turned and continued walking.

Kenzie rolled her eyes and followed behind him. "Thank you, Yoda."

As she walked Kenzie studied Viper. His broad shoulders were muscular and she enjoyed watching the way they moved with his steps. She was intrigued by the creamy color that littered them along with the brown and specks of light green. His back, the same color only with more green, flexed as he moved. Kenzie couldn't help thinking how yummy he was, well his body at least.

Viper stopped and Kenzie almost ran into him, since she was ogling him. Stepping to the side of him, she saw why he's stopped. They had come across a clearing which housed animals the size of lions, but they resembled crocodiles.

"Are we hunting them?" She asked Viper. He only nodded.

Kenzie removed her handgun from it's place on her belt and screwed on the silencer. Aiming at one close to her, she let off three shots and watched as it slowly fell to the ground without disturbing too many of the ones around it. She then removed the silencers and shot one straight into the air, sending the others running off at the noise.

Holstering her weapon Kenzie made her way to the dead animal. That was easy. She thought as she approached it. She bent down in front of the animal, searching for the bullet wounds. All she found were small dents. Her eyes immediately went to the orange grass, and the silver bullets were shining up at her. Just as she was about to stand. The animal let out a hissing noise, before it's snake like tongue wrapped around her wrist.

Kenzie yanked her wrist, only to have the animal tighten it's hold. She brought her forearm down, intending to send a striking blow to the animals head, only to regret it upon contact. The texture of the creatures body was hard and Kenzie knew she'd have a sizeable bruise. The action had also caused her stitches, which weren't holding that well due to times she'd gotten them wet, to slip apart. Well isn't this just peachy.

Reaching behind her, Kenzie pulled out her machete and sliced through the animals tongue like butter. A howl, much similar to that or a wolf's could be heard a mile away. Without thinking, Kenzie used all of her strength to slice the creatures head off.

Sheathing her machete, Kenzie quickly peeled the severed tongue away from her wrist and threw it to the ground with a face of disgust. She then kicked the animal's body to make sure the damn thing wasn't kin to the headless horseman, before checking her midsection. She wasn't bleeding.

A low rumbling roar caught Kenzie's attention and she turned to find Viper with his arms crossed over his chest as it moved slightly up and down. Was he laughing? Yes, he was. The bastard was laughing at her. Kenzie didn't take to kindly to that fact.

"Thanks for the help." She stated sarcastically. "While I was being eaten by this thing, you were sitting there laughing."

"It was not eating you." Viper stated. Kenzie merely rolled her eyes.

She headed off in the direction the others ran off to, leaving Viper behind. He'd once again successfully irritated her. The faster they got the meat, the faster they could leave.

Viper could smell and feel the irritation coming off of the female in waves as he followed her through the trees. He wasn't sure what he had done to upset her, but he knew that she was indeed mad at him. Learning from his brother's mistakes, he knew that it was best to stay quiet when ooman females were mad. You could only make it worse for yourself. At least that was what he had observed.

They were headed back to the ship. They had killed a few animals, which he now had tied together and slung over one of his shoulder. He would prepare them when they arrived back.

Viper was so lost in thought that he nearly ran into the female when she stopped. He looked down at her to find that she was looking up at him.

"I don't know where I'm going." She stated. Viper gave a nod before taking the lead.

Viper silently led the way back to the ship aware that the female was following him. He was also very aware that she was till upset with him. That was unmistakable.

Once back at the ship, Viper watched as the female stomped her way inside. Shaking his head and letting out a deep breath. Viper set to work skinning and cutting the animals into pieces. A task that normally wouldn't have taken as long as it did. His mind was preoccupied with the female. He wondered how she would take to his customs and living with him.

After finishing the meat, Viper made his way back into the ship with it in hand. Placing most of it into the large cooler, he prepared to cook the rest for the evening meal. He'd just began to smoke the meat when the young male came in.

"What's up Vipes?"

"Viper." He corrected.

"I know that. Vipes is a nickname." Colby informed him.

Deciding that he really didn't want to know what the male was referring to. Viper continued to prepare the meal. He could sense the young male watching him. Studying what he was doing.

Once the meat was prepared, Viper took a J'ga from the cooler. He cut it into pieces before peeling each one. When that task was done, he went about putting the fruit and meat on a plate for Kenzie before filling his own plate with meat. He took both plates and headed into the other room sitting them on the table.

Going to his sleeping quarters he typed in the code. Walking in as the door slid open he found Kenzie in the middle of the bed, reading the book he'd brought her the night before.

"It is time to eat."

He watched as the female closed the book and walked passed him without a single word or look in his directions. Viper let out a huff of air. She was still mad. Still holding a grudge. One he knew from his brother's experience could last weeks. He was not prepared to, nor would he wait weeks.

Going back into the eating room, Viper noticed that the female had moved her plate away from his. Frustrated and a bit irritated, Viper grabbed his own food and stalked out of the room. Opting to go to the control room and eat there.

As he flopped down on the couch, Viper couldn't help the hiss that escaped his lips. The female was being difficult. If he didn't figure out a way to change that, then Viper knew his patience would be tested.

Colby sat on the storage room floor with his sister. They were sorting and labeling the remaining boxes. Which was still a good bit. He hadn't realized until that moment exactly how many items they'd accumulated, but he was grateful that they had.

He watched out of the corner of his eye as his sister folded a pair of pants and stuffed them into the box beside her with enough force to rip the side of the box. He tried to keep the amused smile from his face, but he couldn't.

"What did those pants ever do to you?" He asked, knowing she'd have some sort of smart comment.

"Shut up." Was the only response he got. Now Colby was a bit worried. Kenzie never passed up and opportunity to play the dozens with him. Especially when it was just the two of them. Colby tired another approach. The more direct approach.

"What's going on with you and Viper?"

"Who is that?" Kenzie asked with venom in her voice.

Colby raised a brow. It was clear that Viper had obviously pissed his sister off. Colby felt bad for the poor guy. He didn't know what he'd gotten himself into. They say there's nothing like a woman scorn. Colby knew for a fact, that worse than a woman scorned was a McKenzie Jay Snider scorned. She made hell look like a puppy next to her Cerberus like anger.

"You know. The big green, brown, and white alien that's been roaming around here." Kenzie only rolled her eyes. "Alright, spill. What did he do?"

As Colby listened to his sister recount everything that happened on her outing with Viper, he had to keep himself from laughing. He understood why Kenzie was mad. Even if he thought she was overreacting a bit. If Viper hadn't felt a need to help her, then he obviously knew that she was perfectly capable of taking care of herself, or the creature was no threat.

"Kenz, don't take this the wrong way, but I think you're overreacting a little."

Kenzie glared at him. "I am not."

Colby left it alone. He knew his sister well enough to know that it would take a jackhammer to drill the fact that he was right into her head. Instead he opted on sorting in silence. Picking up another one of the items from the boxes they'd dumped Colby froze. It was a silver locket. He remembered the day he got the locket. His reasoning behind it.

~"Are you sure she'll like it?" Colby asked his sister for the fifth time.

"I promise if you ask me that one more time, I'll take it and throw it in the creek. She's going to love it."

"A creek? Really?" Colby asked shaking his head. "I just want it to be perfect."

"I know." Kenzie replied.

"It is her birthday and all."

Kenzie scoffed. "I don't remember you going through all this damn trouble on my birthday."

"You're also not my girlfriend."

Kenzie rolled her eyes at him. "I'm your sister. That's more important." She responded just to pick on him.

"There are some things you get from a girlfriend that would be just wrong to get from your sister."

"Eww. TMI Colby. And you better not be having sex." She stated sternly.

"Whatever. Just know that after Haley sees this locket, I'm going to have to fight her off of me."

"Ha. Like you'd do that."

Colby laughed. "You're right. I wouldn't."

Kenzie shook her head. "Little nasty ass."

"Says the person that's barely five feet tall."

"I'm five-one. Thank you very much."

"Sure you are kid. Sure you are." ~

"Colby."

Kenzie voice brought him out of his thoughts. He placed the locket on the floor only to find, that it was completely clean. He turned his attention to his sister. She was watching him closely.

"Are you okay?" She asked with a worried expression.

Colby gave her his practiced smile. "Yeah, I'm fine."

"Alright. Well, we've sorted enough for today. I'm going to go take a nap. We can finish tomorrow."

Colby looked around them. With all of the boxes they hadn't done, he highly doubted that they would finish tomorrow.

He watched as Kenzie left the room, before turning his attention back to the locket. Standing, he placed it in his pocket, before heading out of the room as well. He set out to find his grandfather and see what the old man was doing.

Daniel stood outside the ship taking in everything around it. He was itching to get his hands on the different plants and specimens to study them. Armed with gloves, containers, and two guns, just in case, he set about collecting. He was so lost in thought, and bliss from collecting, that he hadn't noticed Colby stood behind him.

"What are you doing?" His grandson asked, arms folded over his chest.

"Collecting specimen and plants to study." Daniel responded absent mindedly as he hastily picked up an ant like creature, the size of a frog. He dropped it into a container quickly and secured the lid.

Making his way over to one of the trees he attempted to pull off a few of the leaves with no luck. Setting down the container in hand, Daniel placed both hands securely around one of the large leaves and pulled. Still it didn't budge.

"Colby go inside and bring me a knife."

"Gramps, I don't think the tree is meant to be without it's leaf. Otherwise you would have been able to pull it off."

"Go." Was the only response Daniel gave as he moved on to a bush.

It proved easier to collect from and while pulling a whole branch came loose. Daniel pulled off the pieces he needed before laying the branch back by the bush. He turned in time to see Colby taking the knife to the tree.

After his grandson sawed off a few leaves. Daniel gave him instructions on what to do next. From what he could tell it wouldn't be dark anytime soon on the planet. That gave him plenty of time to bring out his equipment and study his finds.

Kenzie woke to the smell of something sweet. Rolling over, her face landed on something as soft as silk. She let out a yawn as her eyes fluttered open and were met by rainbow colors. Sitting up slowly, Kenzie grabbed the flower that lay on the bed. The same flower she'd admired earlier on her outing with Viper. She brought it to her nose and took in the sweet smell of it.

The aroma was intoxicating. Kenzie wasn't sure if she should be worried it was having the effect of a slight outer body experience on her or not. She thought about it for a minute and realized that she didn't really care if it did or not.

Placing the flower back down she turned to another item that had caught her attention. It was a skull. Completely cleaned and polished. If she wasn't mistaken, it looked like one of those animals she'd killed earlier. Kenzie placed the skull down and smiled to herself as she got out of be. She made her way out of the room in search of Viper. First, she stopped off in the storage room and rummaged through her box of gum, pulling out a pack of "Hubba Bubba" gum.

Opening it as she walked out of the room, Kenzie popped a piece into her mouth and began to chew. She walked into the control room a few seconds later and found Viper sitting at the controls on a call.

Not wanting to interrupt, Kenzie took a seat on the couch in the corner and pulled her feet under her. She sat patiently, playing with her gum wrapper while she waited.

Absent mindedly, Kenzie began to blow bubbles. Sucking them back into her mouth, to muffle the popping sound. She hadn't noticed that Viper had ended his call until she heard a slight rumbling sound. She looked up to find him staring at her. She let the bubble that she'd just blown pop noisily.

"What is that?" Viper asked her cocking his head to the side.

"Gum." Kenzie answered him simply. "Want a piece?"

"Why do you not eat it?" Viper wanted to know, ignoring her question.

"It's not meant to be eaten." Kenzie informed him with a shrug of her shoulders before blowing another bubble, this one smaller than the others.

"Then why do you put it into your mouth?" Viper wondered.

Kenzie thought for a moment on the best way to explain it to him. It seemed that everything was suppose to have a specific purpose to him. That made this even harder to explain. It was gum. Plain and simple. It's only use was having it to taste until the flavor was gone.

"You chew it." Kenzie answered him. Opting to keep it as simple as possible.

"Why?"

Damn him. He just had to make this difficult. "Because it taste good. It…keeps your mouth moist?" She phrased as a question. She wasn't sure what to tell him.

"Why are you asking me?" Viper inquired. "I do not know. You are the one eating it."

Kenzie rolled her eyes. "Here take a piece."

She pulled another piece from the package and handed it to him. She watched as he studied the wrapper before trying to stick it into his mouth.

"Um…you have to take the paper off." She told him holding in a giggle.

She watched as Viper took the paper off and popped the piece into his mouth. His mandibles moved from side to side as his jaws worked. Kenzie wanted laugh at the way he looked, but held it in. She blew another bubble as she watched him grow accustom to the gum.

"How do you do that?" He asked her after a moment.

Kenzie was puzzled. He was chewing the gum, and pretty well at that. So why would he still need her to tell him what to do. Kenzie blew another bubble in her confused state. Then it hit her.

"You mean, how do I blow the bubbles?" She asked cocking her head to the side.

"Sei-i."

"Um…well…you just stick your tongue through it and blow."

Kenzie demonstrated what she meant a few times in slow motion, which was rather hard. All those people who said it was easy were liars. Kenzie now had first hand proof. Not that anyone who tried couldn't see that for themselves.

She watched as Viper chewed his gum. She was waiting for the moment he'd try the bubble. She'd be highly impressed if he succeeded. Hell, she was impressed that she got an alien to chew bubble gum.

Kenzie ducked quickly. Wide eyes as the small pink glob came flying her way. Unable to do anything else, Kenzie rolled on the floor laughing. She couldn't believe that she'd almost gotten beamed with a flying gum ball.

Finally getting her laughter under control, Kenzie opened her eyes to see Viper watching her. Getting off the floor, she looked behind her to find the piece of gum that was once in his mouth now stuck to the wall behind her. Small laughter escaped her once again, but she quickly got it under control.

"Um…that was a great try, but next time try to keep it in your mouth." Kenzie told him.

"It is stupid either way." Viper stated turning his attention back to the controls.

Kenzie didn't say anything for a minute. It took her a second to realize that she'd hurt his feelings. Well, that was dumb. He shouldn't be hurt just because I was laughing. She thought to herself. Then it dawned on her that he had been trying to let her teach him something and she laughed at his failure. She also realized that she'd gotten upset with him for the same reason earlier. If this was how he felt when she was mad, then she really felt lower than shit at the moment.

Kenzie lay the gum down on the panel and without thinking quickly kissed Viper on the cheek. She could tell that she surprised him, by the quick click he let out.

"Thank you for the flower and for skinning and polishing that animals skull."

"You are welcome."

Kenzie studied his long dreadlocks as she chewed her gum. They were managed well. Much better than those she'd seen human men have. For the first time she noticed the deep purple ringlets about three inches from the roots and gold ringlets at the bottom, about three inches from the ends.

They looked extremely smooth. Kenzie placed her hand behind one and ran it down to the bottom slowly, where she rubbed her thumb over the tip of it. The deep rumble that came from Viper, startled her almost as much as his sudden movement.

He was now standing looking down at her. He was so intimidating that she subconsciously took a step back. It almost hurt Kenzie's neck to look up at him. She hadn't known what she'd done, but his reaction unnerved her a bit.

Kenzie was hit full force with the same smell from last night. After rain mixed with pine trees. She watched as Viper brought up one of his reptilian fingers and ran it slowly down her cheek. The feel of it was new to her, but it wasn't unpleasant. He took her chin gently in his hands and bent down closer to her level. Kenzie was more than tempted to pull away and hightail it down the hall.

"I did not mean to frighten you, Kenzie." He purred out smoothly.

Kenzie knew at this moment her voice would fail her. She didn't know if she was indeed frightened, if it was from this foreign touch, his proximity, or something else altogether, but she knew she couldn't speak. She opted for safe and nodded her head.

Viper dropped his hand from her chin and Kenzie took another step back. Her eyes moved from his face subconsciously down his body. Only to stop at his enlarged member. Kenzie gulped. Either he was really turned on by something, or she was imagining things.

Not wanting to find out which was correct, Kenzie headed out of the control room and into the kitchen. She took out one of the cups and poured herself some of the content in the brown pitcher Viper warned her about. At this moment she needed a stiff drink.

Downing the drink, she coughed slightly at the intense, burn and automatically knew this was ten times stronger than any human liquor. Pouring a bit more, she didn't care. She could only think about one thing. Her traitorous body. She wondered why the hell that episode with Viper had the area between her thighs moist.

Viper could still smell the females arousal. Even after she left the room. Taking a deep breath he familiarized himself with the scent. In hopes that he'd get to enjoy it a lot more in the future. Smirking to himself, he sat back in the control seat. He enjoyed knowing that he had some sort of effect on her. He had started to worry.

While Viper ran routine maintenance on the ship, he could see both of the males outside. They were pulling, poking, and probing the vegetation. Viper shook his head as the old man nearly ran around to get his hands on anything he could. He made a mental note to introduce him to Al'k once they were aboard the home ship. The two would get along well.

Once he was finished with his checks, Viper headed out to tell the males it was time for them to come in. Even though the planet did not have cycles and the sun was always shining it was time for them to sleep. He would give them time to finish and bring samples along with them in the morning.

After talking to the males, and nearly having to drag Daniel inside, Viper headed to the lavatory. He walked inside only to find the female wrapping a towel around her waist. Her scent was faint, but nonetheless still there. She paused when she saw him.

Viper removed him loincloth as he stared at the female. A blatant invitation. One in which he hoped she'd take him up on.

He watched as she tightened the cloth around her. Looking anywhere, but at him before he got into the bathing tub. Sinking down slowly he never took his eyes off of her. When he was completely seated, he held out a hand and beckoned her forward while purring deeply.

Viper watched as she took a small step his way before stopping. She pulled her fleshy lower lip into her mouth and chewed on it as if she was in thought. Again Viper beckoned. He was pleased to see her grip on the cloth go slack for a moment. Only to have her tighten it again and walk quickly from the room.

Viper wanted to let out a roar of frustration, but knew it would only scare her. Instead he soaked in the bath. It was obvious from her indecisiveness that she was feeling at least a fraction of what he felt. He'd just have to wait it out. Again, he had a feeling his patience would be tested.

After getting out of the bath, Viper wrapped a cloth around his waist and headed into his sleeping quarters. Kenzie was sitting on the bed reading the same book. Viper took into account that she deliberately tried not to look at him. He purred softly as he walked by her to his side of the room.

Removing the cloth, he grabbed a fresh loincloth and put it on. He then climbed into to bed and lay on his side, facing her. He watched as she read the book, but he could smell the nervousness coming off of her.

Taking one of his fingers, he ran it up and down her arm gently. The little bumps that sprang up from his touch pleased Viper. He continued to rub her arm in the same fashion as the smell of her arousal grew in the air.

He watched as Kenzie closed her book. Placing it on the floor beside her skull, she got out of bed, making Viper's hand fall in the process. She turned the light off.

Viper could feel her as she got back into the bed. He reached out and touched where her stomach would be if she were facing him. Instead he touched her back. Viper smirked to himself.

He gently rubbed a finger down her back, before lying his arm across her waist and pulling her back against him. She let out a small noise of surprise as her back met his chest. Viper allowed his finger to make it's way under her thin ooman covering, and softly circle her stomach, careful not to hurt her. As she sucked in a breath, Viper began to weave his mandible into her hair with a soft purr.

It wasn't long before the female was asleep. Viper ceased his purr and took in her scent, before closing his own eyes and allowing himself to sleep.

A/N: So what do you all think? Was Viper trying to hard?