pitch black
obscure anticipation
chapter 19
Time turns at last
author's notes:I´m lying sick at home, don't expect anything sensible....
but well, when do I write anything sensible?
Riddick´s mind raced over the controls. Damn these things, these low
class skiffs. A bloody shame that it'd been the only one "available" to him.
He knew where to find Skylar. A planet they'd visited in the beginning.
Called Double Helix. What a name.
He still fought those urges.
he just had to know, just had to get to the fucking bitch.
Just these urges in the way. Urges that told him to leave this all,
go to new Mecca and be close to her.
Something within him wouldn't let him, whether it was the animal in him
or not he didn't know.
Perhaps it'd been that look on he face, in her eyes when he'd left.
A look that made her look like Skylar.
Maybe that's why he couldn't go back, not yet.
**********************************
Her feet making that familiar "cling cling to the metal floor sound".
God, it felt good to be back.
Iman had tried to talk her out of all this, but in the end she'd packed and
left, asking Iman not to tell Riddick that she'd left, or at least, that she's
left with a stranger that was incredibly thin, blonde, female and insane.
But it felt better to be back.
In some ways there was more peace around the ship, specially the cooler room.
Being with Skylar again, despite the memory of her trying to kill Riddick.
The world was just too fucked up to wonder, plus, she'd explained.
That was something Riddick hadn't really done properly.
What her older sister still clung to her mind, the long story of revenge
unraveled.
As it turns out, Skylar had been pregnant when she'd been sent to the slam.
She and Macy had been allowed to meet for about a half an hour or so before
they were supposedly permanently separated.
So, she'd been knocked by her boyfriend, not uncommon. She'd met Riddick,
made friends, been a psycho, sent alot of emails through the comm system.
Ofcourse, like a true survivalist, she'd used Riddick in order to escape.
Clever big sister.
Riddick being Riddick, still with out a soul, was just a little bit more
than pissed off. So he decided to try to get the couple.
He'd blown up the apartment, the apartment with Skylar´s one year old
daughter, Jackleen Macy Menski.
Then Riddick had nearly killed Skylar.
A rather heart breaking and a screwed up story line.
One of the reasons why she'd gone with her big sister.
She wanted to see Jackleen, that little creature that was nothing but
the body. She wanted to see that little girl with her own eyes and find
out whether she could kill the feelings she had for Riddick.
She did love him.
fuck that, she really did and she was starting to really hate it.
Even worse, she missed him.
She knew that she called his name out after her nightmares, thought she
saw his reflection when the light fooled her in the mirror.
Riddick.
Richard B Riddick.
How wonderfully fucked up.
******************************
The place dark and uninviting. Shane sat depressingly going over possible
plans. Ty just relaxed and had a double vodka.
Best to freshen up a little before meeting the boss.
Watching the doors once in a while. Only real scum walking in and out of the
doors.
Riddick was suppose to be on the planet. Why would they take such a risk?
Ty shook the intellectual thoughts of his shoulders and decided he should
leave them to his brother, the brain.
A breeze of a breath crossed Ty, his attention drawn to the other side of the
table.
Three of them sat there.
Two stunning women, similar enough to be sister, and a man with ebony black skin.
Odd enough for a space traveler.
Something so familiar about the younger girl.
Her eyes froze as Ty looked directly into her warm brown odd eyes.
So damn familiar.
-Ty and Shane Johns?
Shane nodded his head.
The older woman pulled something out of a bag. It turned out to be cash, alot
of it.
-Your payment. Updates.
The man didn't speak, the one they always talked to. The woman was more
to Ty´s liking, direct, no shit, straight to the point.
-We know Riddick´s here, we can't really figure out why or where, but we
know he's here.
The woman stared fiercely through Shane. A look that almost brought the subject
of fear up in Ty.
-Any idiot watching the underworld would know that, how close are you to
getting him.
Ty watched the girl respond to the woman's words, almost as if it were a
shock up on a shock.
-Close enough, he seems to be royally pissed off. I´d say he's back into
his old ways after that nice break. But he seems to be more...volatile.
the girl grabbed the line that lay in the air.
-He's not.
Ty gave the girl an odd look.
-Hess not back to his old self.
Shane leaned over, closing to the girl and sending the other two into a
status of alert.
-And you'd know the first thing about that, little girl.
Her eyes shone, with something that could be called superiority.
A loud bell started to ring in Ty´s head.
-Yes.
Shane leaned back and laughed, waved his hand casually and replied in
the same way as his hands.
-Sure, sure.
He turned towards business, the other two who seemed to be baby-sitting the
girl.
-I have an idea that might work....
The plan passed Ty completely. A sinking feeling had dug its way through his
belly.
He remembered that girl and from the looks of her shaking face, so did she.
he could only stare at her.
She looked broken.
The girl they'd raped little over a year ago.
A knot crept up Ty´s throat. Something told him that all of this would
end like a gigantic mess.
The orange bouncing ball tickled his fingers.
**************************
Jack's world collapsed when they arrived at the ship. Violently she cried.
Without shame she looked for comfort in her sister's arms.
Even if it had been her who hired the assholess.
Startled Skylar put her arms around the pixie girl.
-Yo, what's up girlie?
Skylar´s black eyes so far away from serious. Little sister had been
unusually emotional lately, crying, laughing or screaming, nothing in
between.
- The mercs...FUCK!
Angrily Jack stomped her feet down, trying to squeeze the words out of her
tight throat.
-FUCK, those are the mercs that raped me!
Skylar´s face twisted in thought, her eyes narrowed as she looked over to the
out side world as if she could see everything, particularly the Johns.
-Sure Pixie Girl?
Jack's voice trembled with anger as the reply spat into cold air.
-Ofcourse I'm fucking sure! Those...damn it...FUCK!
Her voice reflecting the way her heart trembled from confusion. Skylar
lay her arms around her sister once again, wishing she could take some
of the pain. Wishing that she could get the Johns and rip their guts out,
skin them alive perhaps? Cold logic caught Skylar´s mind.
-Don't worry lil sis, i´ll deal with them when all of this is over.
A nearly fully grown woman ceased her sobbing, wiped her bloody nose.
-Ah, fuck this!
Skylar´s nose twisted a little as a comment of the past slipped by her lips.
-Mom used to have nosebleeds all the time when she was pregnant with you,
guess it´s coming back at yah.
Jack looked up at her sister, absently holding her hand before her nose.
-Oh, yeah, thanks mom, one of your daughter's a psycho, the other's got
a bloody nose.. I'm gonna go stop this shit.
Skylar watched her little sister leave for the bathroom.
Her mind swirled and wondered.
What in hell had made Jack change her mind so drastically? How in hell
had the pixie changed over nearly two months?
She didn't want to kill Riddick, but she still was around her big
maniac sister and her homicidal husband.
Something was seriously screwed up in Jack's head, other than just
her mind.
Skylar turned around, going to help Macy with some of their supplies.
A very surprise event greeted her.
Something that put her dead black blood on fire.
*******************
*damn my mother fucking nose...*
Jack stuffed some toilet paper up then started to clean up her bloodied shirt.
ten seconds later she threw it away, only wearing a top.
*Not like I'm gonna get fucked, only Skylar and Macy aboard*
The reflection in the mirror a Jack that she really hadn't seen before.
Sure, she had paper stuffed up her nose, but this Jack in the mirror.
She looked so different.
Older.
*Fuck, I hope i´ll look like this when I'm thirty*
Her stomach grumbled loudly, demanding food.
*Geese, must have forgotten to eat lunch*
It grumbled loudly once again. Then this funny feeling settled down in her heart.
As if something were wrong.
Jack took a knife into her hand, one of those Swiss army knifes that Skylar
had given her.
This one was a late birthday present.
Carefully Jack walked forwards, letting her feelings lead her.
Away from the kitchen, by passing the rooms.
To the cooler room.
She looked around, careful not to make a sound.
her eyes looked sharply over the surface, the lower level, the upper level.
Along the quiet engines.
Nothing, something was there. She knew it.
But what ever it was she wasn't about to waste time on it.
A stronger feeling caught her, a feeling caught by a loud scream.
More like a roar.
Screaming out a name.
-MACY!!
Jack ran, the scream had been from the ship's entrance. Skylar´s voice
had seared through Jack's head.
Maybe Riddick.
Hopefully not Riddick. She didn't want to see him like that again.
Like a killer, like an animal but not a human.
A furious sight greeted her.
The Johns.
Blood seeping down Macy´s head, he was semi conscious. His hand bled as well.
The mercs who'd raped her.
Looked like the blue eyed devil Johns.
-We need the ship
The leaner one growled. Shane wasn't it? Yes, Shane.
Skylar looked down at the ground, wandering thoughts splitting her head
Jack knew that they'd been hired cause they were...the best...the craziest.
Bitterness smiled at her big sister's face as she looked up, smiling.
A single gun in Skylar´s hand aimed at the mercs. Skylar didn't
look all too happy about her employed betraying her.
-Let him go and you'll die quickly.
Skylar´s voice grave and dark. it amused Shane, Ty seemed to be a little more
insecure. His eyes glancing over to his brother, to Jack.
To her brown eyes.
-No, you put down your gun and give us the ship.
Her arm still aiming as if it were second nature to her, which it was.
-I suppose someone wants the ship back, care to tell me whom you're
blood milking this time?
Shane's lips stretched as he still had the gun to Macy´s much so calm face.
-Who the fuck do you think?
Skylar almost laughed.
-Oh, so ship development wants their engineer back!
her expression switched straight back onto that of out chilled cruelty
-I killed him.
Shane tightened his grip around Macy´s throat, it was almost as if he were
trying to push the gun through his skull.
-Any last words nigger.
Calmly Macy looked at Skylar, both of them ignoring Shane's words.
-The fuckers gonna ghost us all...
the gun to Macy´s head.
*just cuz I can't fucking run*
-I meant real last words, cuz I just might ghost you.
a vicious tone.
-Yo, little chimney
Catching the brown eyes on a mental level. Something else hid there.
The shadows reaching out for her, almost grabbing her by the shoulder.
-If Mr. Johns fucks me over, take care of our Skye
Jack exposed herself to the burning sunlight, feeling insecure in the shades.
Macy completely calm, Skylar´s gun raised, she actually shone of fear.
Jack couldn't remember a single moment in her life where Skylar had
been anything but at least a little confident.
Looking directly into Macy´s drowningly warm eyes.
-I love you.
Skylar´s shaking lips replied as a shot ran off.
-I Love you.
The echo of the gun silenced the moment.
Who would have thought?
Noone.
Macy hit the floor, blissful face, the Shane clutted his chest as he died.
pain stained Skylar´s face, disbelief visited Ty´s for a short moment, until
he decided to pull out a gun of his own.
Skylar reached out for Jack, screaming.
-WATCH OUT!
Skylar and Jack tumbled over the iron floor, out of the ship. Skylar pushed
a few words into Jack's consciousness.
-Run away, I´ll find you.
The second time someone had told her to run. Both times away from the ship.
Ty looked as if fury itself had taken residence within him.
Jack made no attempt to move.
-I'm helping you.
A demonic evil crossed Skylar´s face.
-damn you!
Skylar just barely grabbed her little sister and threw her through
the only doors available.
The air locker.
Skylar hit one of the buttons in a rush, leaving Jack within the Space dock
facility, behind pressurized steel doors.
Her hands beat on the steel, he knife forming the sparks which reflected
her hereditary rage.
The last thing she saw of her sister was when she ran into the ship, the merc
following her.
*************************
*Stupid assholes, backstabbing pigs, pests, shit on my boots!*
Another gun shot ran off, screaming at Skylar.
*does the ass really think he can KILL me? C´mon, Riddick hasn't been
able to ghost my ass yet, what makes this asshole think that he can do it?*
The cooler room.
Skylar´s lips spread as the merc finally found her.
-You goddamned bitch!
Skylar shrugged carelessly, just stared at him, seemingly unarmed.
-Whaddaya know about ships Ty?
Ty dearest was getting ready to blow Skylar´s head off.
-There's this new technology, where you use a liquid to cool the engines
and the ship, saves alot of fuel and space.
disdain in the mercs face.
-Just shut the fuck up.
Skylar still went on like an unstoppable talking doll.
-When you change the fuel, you need to drain the cooler liquid or else
the fuel's gonna be to thick, the engines´ll be cold you see, having the
cooler liquid in would make them even colder.
Skylar jumped over the bridge, a shot ran of, one of many Ty had used on
empty air.
The woman barely got a hold of the stair in her fall.
Waved to Ty when he checked if she'd kissed the floor. Yeah, the floor.
No liquid.
-But Ty, darling, do you know what happens if you start the engines without
the cooler liquid?
Skylar´s feet made a loud bang sound when they hit the floor on the
lowest level of the cooler room.
She smiled straight at the furious Ty.
-It blows.
Skylar ran ahead, through the bottom level doors.
She hadn't really expected them to be there, but hey, if she could slip
suicide, then why the hell not? She'd at least say good-bye to Jackleen and
Jack.
The doors closed, leaving Ty searching for her while he climbed down.
lucky break that the doors were under the balconies.
The smile left Skylar´s face, leaving nothing behind.
-Jackass, activate engines.
*****************************
Tears washed Jack's face as she witnessed the explosion.
It was hard to choke on the tears that started to drive her mentality
out of control.
Now she was all alone.
The world had left her.
She still had Iman though.
Iman.
Her face deformed with pain.
Iman.
obscure anticipation
chapter 19
Time turns at last
author's notes:I´m lying sick at home, don't expect anything sensible....
but well, when do I write anything sensible?
Riddick´s mind raced over the controls. Damn these things, these low
class skiffs. A bloody shame that it'd been the only one "available" to him.
He knew where to find Skylar. A planet they'd visited in the beginning.
Called Double Helix. What a name.
He still fought those urges.
he just had to know, just had to get to the fucking bitch.
Just these urges in the way. Urges that told him to leave this all,
go to new Mecca and be close to her.
Something within him wouldn't let him, whether it was the animal in him
or not he didn't know.
Perhaps it'd been that look on he face, in her eyes when he'd left.
A look that made her look like Skylar.
Maybe that's why he couldn't go back, not yet.
**********************************
Her feet making that familiar "cling cling to the metal floor sound".
God, it felt good to be back.
Iman had tried to talk her out of all this, but in the end she'd packed and
left, asking Iman not to tell Riddick that she'd left, or at least, that she's
left with a stranger that was incredibly thin, blonde, female and insane.
But it felt better to be back.
In some ways there was more peace around the ship, specially the cooler room.
Being with Skylar again, despite the memory of her trying to kill Riddick.
The world was just too fucked up to wonder, plus, she'd explained.
That was something Riddick hadn't really done properly.
What her older sister still clung to her mind, the long story of revenge
unraveled.
As it turns out, Skylar had been pregnant when she'd been sent to the slam.
She and Macy had been allowed to meet for about a half an hour or so before
they were supposedly permanently separated.
So, she'd been knocked by her boyfriend, not uncommon. She'd met Riddick,
made friends, been a psycho, sent alot of emails through the comm system.
Ofcourse, like a true survivalist, she'd used Riddick in order to escape.
Clever big sister.
Riddick being Riddick, still with out a soul, was just a little bit more
than pissed off. So he decided to try to get the couple.
He'd blown up the apartment, the apartment with Skylar´s one year old
daughter, Jackleen Macy Menski.
Then Riddick had nearly killed Skylar.
A rather heart breaking and a screwed up story line.
One of the reasons why she'd gone with her big sister.
She wanted to see Jackleen, that little creature that was nothing but
the body. She wanted to see that little girl with her own eyes and find
out whether she could kill the feelings she had for Riddick.
She did love him.
fuck that, she really did and she was starting to really hate it.
Even worse, she missed him.
She knew that she called his name out after her nightmares, thought she
saw his reflection when the light fooled her in the mirror.
Riddick.
Richard B Riddick.
How wonderfully fucked up.
******************************
The place dark and uninviting. Shane sat depressingly going over possible
plans. Ty just relaxed and had a double vodka.
Best to freshen up a little before meeting the boss.
Watching the doors once in a while. Only real scum walking in and out of the
doors.
Riddick was suppose to be on the planet. Why would they take such a risk?
Ty shook the intellectual thoughts of his shoulders and decided he should
leave them to his brother, the brain.
A breeze of a breath crossed Ty, his attention drawn to the other side of the
table.
Three of them sat there.
Two stunning women, similar enough to be sister, and a man with ebony black skin.
Odd enough for a space traveler.
Something so familiar about the younger girl.
Her eyes froze as Ty looked directly into her warm brown odd eyes.
So damn familiar.
-Ty and Shane Johns?
Shane nodded his head.
The older woman pulled something out of a bag. It turned out to be cash, alot
of it.
-Your payment. Updates.
The man didn't speak, the one they always talked to. The woman was more
to Ty´s liking, direct, no shit, straight to the point.
-We know Riddick´s here, we can't really figure out why or where, but we
know he's here.
The woman stared fiercely through Shane. A look that almost brought the subject
of fear up in Ty.
-Any idiot watching the underworld would know that, how close are you to
getting him.
Ty watched the girl respond to the woman's words, almost as if it were a
shock up on a shock.
-Close enough, he seems to be royally pissed off. I´d say he's back into
his old ways after that nice break. But he seems to be more...volatile.
the girl grabbed the line that lay in the air.
-He's not.
Ty gave the girl an odd look.
-Hess not back to his old self.
Shane leaned over, closing to the girl and sending the other two into a
status of alert.
-And you'd know the first thing about that, little girl.
Her eyes shone, with something that could be called superiority.
A loud bell started to ring in Ty´s head.
-Yes.
Shane leaned back and laughed, waved his hand casually and replied in
the same way as his hands.
-Sure, sure.
He turned towards business, the other two who seemed to be baby-sitting the
girl.
-I have an idea that might work....
The plan passed Ty completely. A sinking feeling had dug its way through his
belly.
He remembered that girl and from the looks of her shaking face, so did she.
he could only stare at her.
She looked broken.
The girl they'd raped little over a year ago.
A knot crept up Ty´s throat. Something told him that all of this would
end like a gigantic mess.
The orange bouncing ball tickled his fingers.
**************************
Jack's world collapsed when they arrived at the ship. Violently she cried.
Without shame she looked for comfort in her sister's arms.
Even if it had been her who hired the assholess.
Startled Skylar put her arms around the pixie girl.
-Yo, what's up girlie?
Skylar´s black eyes so far away from serious. Little sister had been
unusually emotional lately, crying, laughing or screaming, nothing in
between.
- The mercs...FUCK!
Angrily Jack stomped her feet down, trying to squeeze the words out of her
tight throat.
-FUCK, those are the mercs that raped me!
Skylar´s face twisted in thought, her eyes narrowed as she looked over to the
out side world as if she could see everything, particularly the Johns.
-Sure Pixie Girl?
Jack's voice trembled with anger as the reply spat into cold air.
-Ofcourse I'm fucking sure! Those...damn it...FUCK!
Her voice reflecting the way her heart trembled from confusion. Skylar
lay her arms around her sister once again, wishing she could take some
of the pain. Wishing that she could get the Johns and rip their guts out,
skin them alive perhaps? Cold logic caught Skylar´s mind.
-Don't worry lil sis, i´ll deal with them when all of this is over.
A nearly fully grown woman ceased her sobbing, wiped her bloody nose.
-Ah, fuck this!
Skylar´s nose twisted a little as a comment of the past slipped by her lips.
-Mom used to have nosebleeds all the time when she was pregnant with you,
guess it´s coming back at yah.
Jack looked up at her sister, absently holding her hand before her nose.
-Oh, yeah, thanks mom, one of your daughter's a psycho, the other's got
a bloody nose.. I'm gonna go stop this shit.
Skylar watched her little sister leave for the bathroom.
Her mind swirled and wondered.
What in hell had made Jack change her mind so drastically? How in hell
had the pixie changed over nearly two months?
She didn't want to kill Riddick, but she still was around her big
maniac sister and her homicidal husband.
Something was seriously screwed up in Jack's head, other than just
her mind.
Skylar turned around, going to help Macy with some of their supplies.
A very surprise event greeted her.
Something that put her dead black blood on fire.
*******************
*damn my mother fucking nose...*
Jack stuffed some toilet paper up then started to clean up her bloodied shirt.
ten seconds later she threw it away, only wearing a top.
*Not like I'm gonna get fucked, only Skylar and Macy aboard*
The reflection in the mirror a Jack that she really hadn't seen before.
Sure, she had paper stuffed up her nose, but this Jack in the mirror.
She looked so different.
Older.
*Fuck, I hope i´ll look like this when I'm thirty*
Her stomach grumbled loudly, demanding food.
*Geese, must have forgotten to eat lunch*
It grumbled loudly once again. Then this funny feeling settled down in her heart.
As if something were wrong.
Jack took a knife into her hand, one of those Swiss army knifes that Skylar
had given her.
This one was a late birthday present.
Carefully Jack walked forwards, letting her feelings lead her.
Away from the kitchen, by passing the rooms.
To the cooler room.
She looked around, careful not to make a sound.
her eyes looked sharply over the surface, the lower level, the upper level.
Along the quiet engines.
Nothing, something was there. She knew it.
But what ever it was she wasn't about to waste time on it.
A stronger feeling caught her, a feeling caught by a loud scream.
More like a roar.
Screaming out a name.
-MACY!!
Jack ran, the scream had been from the ship's entrance. Skylar´s voice
had seared through Jack's head.
Maybe Riddick.
Hopefully not Riddick. She didn't want to see him like that again.
Like a killer, like an animal but not a human.
A furious sight greeted her.
The Johns.
Blood seeping down Macy´s head, he was semi conscious. His hand bled as well.
The mercs who'd raped her.
Looked like the blue eyed devil Johns.
-We need the ship
The leaner one growled. Shane wasn't it? Yes, Shane.
Skylar looked down at the ground, wandering thoughts splitting her head
Jack knew that they'd been hired cause they were...the best...the craziest.
Bitterness smiled at her big sister's face as she looked up, smiling.
A single gun in Skylar´s hand aimed at the mercs. Skylar didn't
look all too happy about her employed betraying her.
-Let him go and you'll die quickly.
Skylar´s voice grave and dark. it amused Shane, Ty seemed to be a little more
insecure. His eyes glancing over to his brother, to Jack.
To her brown eyes.
-No, you put down your gun and give us the ship.
Her arm still aiming as if it were second nature to her, which it was.
-I suppose someone wants the ship back, care to tell me whom you're
blood milking this time?
Shane's lips stretched as he still had the gun to Macy´s much so calm face.
-Who the fuck do you think?
Skylar almost laughed.
-Oh, so ship development wants their engineer back!
her expression switched straight back onto that of out chilled cruelty
-I killed him.
Shane tightened his grip around Macy´s throat, it was almost as if he were
trying to push the gun through his skull.
-Any last words nigger.
Calmly Macy looked at Skylar, both of them ignoring Shane's words.
-The fuckers gonna ghost us all...
the gun to Macy´s head.
*just cuz I can't fucking run*
-I meant real last words, cuz I just might ghost you.
a vicious tone.
-Yo, little chimney
Catching the brown eyes on a mental level. Something else hid there.
The shadows reaching out for her, almost grabbing her by the shoulder.
-If Mr. Johns fucks me over, take care of our Skye
Jack exposed herself to the burning sunlight, feeling insecure in the shades.
Macy completely calm, Skylar´s gun raised, she actually shone of fear.
Jack couldn't remember a single moment in her life where Skylar had
been anything but at least a little confident.
Looking directly into Macy´s drowningly warm eyes.
-I love you.
Skylar´s shaking lips replied as a shot ran off.
-I Love you.
The echo of the gun silenced the moment.
Who would have thought?
Noone.
Macy hit the floor, blissful face, the Shane clutted his chest as he died.
pain stained Skylar´s face, disbelief visited Ty´s for a short moment, until
he decided to pull out a gun of his own.
Skylar reached out for Jack, screaming.
-WATCH OUT!
Skylar and Jack tumbled over the iron floor, out of the ship. Skylar pushed
a few words into Jack's consciousness.
-Run away, I´ll find you.
The second time someone had told her to run. Both times away from the ship.
Ty looked as if fury itself had taken residence within him.
Jack made no attempt to move.
-I'm helping you.
A demonic evil crossed Skylar´s face.
-damn you!
Skylar just barely grabbed her little sister and threw her through
the only doors available.
The air locker.
Skylar hit one of the buttons in a rush, leaving Jack within the Space dock
facility, behind pressurized steel doors.
Her hands beat on the steel, he knife forming the sparks which reflected
her hereditary rage.
The last thing she saw of her sister was when she ran into the ship, the merc
following her.
*************************
*Stupid assholes, backstabbing pigs, pests, shit on my boots!*
Another gun shot ran off, screaming at Skylar.
*does the ass really think he can KILL me? C´mon, Riddick hasn't been
able to ghost my ass yet, what makes this asshole think that he can do it?*
The cooler room.
Skylar´s lips spread as the merc finally found her.
-You goddamned bitch!
Skylar shrugged carelessly, just stared at him, seemingly unarmed.
-Whaddaya know about ships Ty?
Ty dearest was getting ready to blow Skylar´s head off.
-There's this new technology, where you use a liquid to cool the engines
and the ship, saves alot of fuel and space.
disdain in the mercs face.
-Just shut the fuck up.
Skylar still went on like an unstoppable talking doll.
-When you change the fuel, you need to drain the cooler liquid or else
the fuel's gonna be to thick, the engines´ll be cold you see, having the
cooler liquid in would make them even colder.
Skylar jumped over the bridge, a shot ran of, one of many Ty had used on
empty air.
The woman barely got a hold of the stair in her fall.
Waved to Ty when he checked if she'd kissed the floor. Yeah, the floor.
No liquid.
-But Ty, darling, do you know what happens if you start the engines without
the cooler liquid?
Skylar´s feet made a loud bang sound when they hit the floor on the
lowest level of the cooler room.
She smiled straight at the furious Ty.
-It blows.
Skylar ran ahead, through the bottom level doors.
She hadn't really expected them to be there, but hey, if she could slip
suicide, then why the hell not? She'd at least say good-bye to Jackleen and
Jack.
The doors closed, leaving Ty searching for her while he climbed down.
lucky break that the doors were under the balconies.
The smile left Skylar´s face, leaving nothing behind.
-Jackass, activate engines.
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Tears washed Jack's face as she witnessed the explosion.
It was hard to choke on the tears that started to drive her mentality
out of control.
Now she was all alone.
The world had left her.
She still had Iman though.
Iman.
Her face deformed with pain.
Iman.