Across the hall

Chapter 15

Dayla rushes through the door to see Rita tired up to a chair and Jack sitting directly infront of her with shiv in her hand. Rita's eyes bug out when she sees Dayla. "Dayla!? Oh thank god you're here. Look at what Jack did to me, please help me!" Dayla rushes over to Jack "Why Jack?!" Dayla says in a scolding manner. Jack looks at her in amazed confusion and says "What?" "Why didn't you gag tha bitch? We might have nosy neighbors." Rita turns her head to Dayla in shock the whispers in a hurt manner "Dee dee?" Dayla rushes to Rita with duck tape and covers her mouth. "You don't call me that, the only person who can call me that is dead, and that's definitely not you."

**MEANWHILE AT ETHAN'S HOUSE**

Ethan is sprawled across a wall with spikes driven in both hands. At this point he has many cuts and welts from where Riddick has 'accidentally' pressed his shiv. Riddick sits down on the sofa to have a drink. Riddick has a smile that goes ear to ear as he sees the blood drain from his body. Drifting in and out of consciousness Ethan finally gets the strength to ask, "Who are you?" "Who am I? I'm your wife's fiancé, her baby's father, and your murderer for this evening" Ethan let's out a small whimper as Riddick gets up with his Shiv gleaming.

Riddick didn't come out of the house until the wee hours of the day. He left Ethan in a heap, in his own blood. Getting home he sees Rita in the chair with a gag in her mouth and Jack sitting in the same chair as when Dayla first walked in. "Where's Dayla?" Riddick says as he walks over to Rita. Dayla comes running downstairs then jumps on Riddick. "I was worried sick you big fucker." Smiling he pulls her from his body. "It's not over yet baby. What are we gonna do with her?" Dayla shifts to look into Rita's terrified eyes "Take her to the basement. No one will here her scream." She scowls



The basement is lit with a florescent flickering light. Rita sat in the middle with no bonds or gags, and crying. "Why are you doing this to me?" Rita sobs "Because you're a scandalous conniving greedy murderous bitch, and you deserve it." "Dayla please don't do this, you don't have to. Can you really get away with killing someone is the question." Rita bellows. This makes Riddick laugh, "Hell tha fuck yeah. It's tha story of my life." He yells in her face. Jack and Riddick begin to laugh together. Dayla gets up close to Rita "No Rita that's not the question. The question is 'If you can get away with killing someone, would you do it?" Dayla looks down as if she were thinking then she looks her in her eyes "Yes Rita, I would." Moving up slowly she turns to Riddick and Jack and says "gut this bitch and put her out by the trash." With this Dayla goes towards the basement stairs and walks up, all she can hear as she climbs is the screaming of Rita and it suddenly stopping when she finally gets to the door. Closing the door behind her she leaned against it and closed her eyes. As Rita slowly died in her agonizing hell, so did Dayla's pain and anger. Breathing deeply she slowly walks upstairs. Hours later when everyone has washed the blood and changed they all decided to go out and celebrate.