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Damn, Not Again!

Ch. 17

I stared at the dark ceiling for a long time, just savoring the air. Peeking inward, I saw that Rae was curled up in one corner, and her mental self was without eyes and without ears. She had cut herself off from her senses. Prude.

I gave her a nudge and eyes tentatively appeared on her face, followed by ears.

(It's over.) I told her. Her face turned six shades of red.

Bitch. she cursed me. I smirked, blinking lazily.

(So sue me.) I replied, nonchalantly.

Slow but sudden movement brought both of our attentions to the present and I glanced to my right to see Riddick roll over onto his side so that he was just close enough that his body heat radiated over to me.

"Rae?" he asked, a controlled, yet curious voice. I grinned, and Rae went back into her sightless, soundless world.

"Sorry, Richie, the full moon was particularly quick this time, she was out just before our little bit of fun." I said, honestly, rolling onto my side as well. Rae would never have done that anyway, she was still too scared of being caught by anyone.

Riddick's expression became somewhat disappointed and he returned to lying on his back. I followed him, so that I was lying on my stomach, looking down at him. I tilted my head.

"Thank you, though." I said, and meant it. A first. He really is getting to Rae, not like those other posers. He looked at me, eyebrow raising.

"For what?" he asked. I smirked.

"That was the first time I've had sex in twelve years. what do you think, 'for what'?" I scoffed, rolling my eyes. This puts a smirk on Riddick's face. But it's not a prideful smirk, rather an amused one.

"You've had sex, but Rae's a virgin. Wow." he said, and I smirked at the irony too.

"Yeah, it's a mindbender."

There was silence for a long time, and I rested my arms on a pillow, and my head in my arms, allowing myself to fall asleep.

When I woke up, Richard was gone, but his side of the bed was still a little bit warm, so he couldn't have been gone long. I got up and stretched before putting on some clothes, this time a baggy tee-shirt and some jeans. Contraband from Earth.

Rae had gone into some sort of meditative trance, and was ignoring me every time I nudged her. Oh well, it's her loss. I get to spend time with Richard.

I went down into the tavern and bought some breakfast, ignoring comments about my skin color and brushing off idiots who gathered too close to me. When at noon Rae still hadn't emerged from her protective shell, I decided to give her a wake up call.

(Hey, cry-baby.)

Leave me alone.

(No. Pay attention.)

She grudgingly opened her inner eyes and then opened her ears as Richard B. Riddick walked in, spotted me and immediately walked over, sitting down across from me.

"Checking out the city?" I asked. He nodded. "Anything interesting?"

"Not really."

"Yeah, I know, the one place where conditions are ideal for me and the culture is dead but doesn't know it." I laughed, but laughed quietly. Many people were very patriotic about their planet. Don't know why, though. It was a complete drag.

"Tell me about you and Rae." he said, and I looked at him. He looked interested in the subject. I raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything for a moment.

"Kay. What do you want to know?"

Oh no. Please.

(Relax, I'm not gonna tell him anything really important)

Riddick tilted his head and gave me a look that suggested he wasn't going to let up until he got the answers that he was satisfied with.

This could get interesting.