Sorry this took so long to post. Its kinda funny. I've written all these awsome parts to this story that you will all love but now i'm just trying to link them together, and not doing too well. Well, here you go.

Riddick looks past me and I turn, "Aaron?" I look both ways down the hall. Empty. "That chicken shit left me." I say out loud before turning back to the big guy.

"Smart move on his part." His face is emotionless.

'Don't bother. Probably wouldn't like what he's thinking any ways.' I cross my arms, "So you think I should have followed him?"

He takes a step towards me. "Saved me the trouble of coming after you, though this is less fun.'

"What did I do this time?"

"You left with out my permission."

Disbelief. If it is showing on my face as much as I'm feeling it Riddick must be having a hard time keeping a straight face. "That's it? That's the reason you scared the hell out of me and chased off my only friend? God, I thought it was something important like me and Aaron were being followed, or a gang had targeted me to be Xed out, or even that my shoes were untied! I'm not your bitch! I haven't sold myself for protection and I wont!"

"You're not my bitch. Not only could I get better meat to fuck, I don't need someone slowing me down."

"Then what's with the 'permission' thing? You said it was a one time offer."

"I was only going to ask you once. You say ok then you stay with me in the cell, at least until you get some sense beat into you."

"And you would let me get attacked and beat or raped?"

"I wouldn't let you get raped, and the getting beat and attacked, not unless I was the one doing it."

I try to comprehend what he was talking about. "And what's the difference between me and one of the bitches around here?"

"The fact that you'll try to kill anyone who tries to take you. And you don't have to climb into some wannabe bad ass's bed to keep the others from jumping you."

He isn't acting like what I had heard, there has to be something else. I give him an expecting look. "The catch?" 'For all the shit he just threw at me, it must be big.'

He relaxes back against the stone wall, "You stay with me and don't leave with out telling me where you are going and you do what I say, when I say with no questions."

That gets my attention, "Hold up, you're not my mother. I shouldn't have to tell you diddly squat about where I'm going or do anything you say."

"You going to run back to you little friend who ditched you after seeing me? Or you just gonna head back to you dark little cell next to mine where the guys are probably waitin' for you to come back?"

"What? You want me to go down into the dark with you where you have the advantage over me? I know what's with your eyes. I know what a shine job is and what it does for you." There is a long pause where I refuse to look at him. 'Big decision here Arc. What cha gonna do?' I hear foot steps and look up seeing him walking back down the hall towards the lower levels. "Hey, where are you going?" I shout out to him but stay standing in my place.

"Last time I walked off, you followed me. Might as well give it a second try."

Just as I start to say something I hear distant footsteps and a voice call out behind me. "Hey you! Girl! Come here!"

Riddick keeps walking without turning around and I make my discion, hurrying after him. The steps seem to speed up then slow down as I reach Riddick, but don't stop. Now more like speed walking then running. I try to match his pace and do pretty well. Either that or he slowed down. I don't look up at him but talk low enough for him to hear with out the others behind us to hear. "If I wasn't a magnet for trouble, if I was lucky, I wouldn't be coming."

"If you were lucky, then the last time you got out of here, you wouldn't have gotten caught again."

The steps get closer, sounds like two, maybe three. I watch the floor as I walk, "I don't want to do this again..." A thick arm drapes over my shoulder and I give a glance at Riddick who doesn't even bother to look down at me, he just keeps his eyes forward and pulls me closer to him. 'This better not turn out to be another attempt to get me under him.' I almost smile then notice the steps coming up behind us. I try to stop myself but I end up looking over at them as they pass. Two guards, about 5'6 and only having shock sticks with them look me over hungrily. One of them grabs my arm and pulls me from Riddick.

He looks me right in the eye and talks in an urgent voice, "Are you Arc?"

"That depends, why do you care?"

The second guard takes out some handcuffs and opens them. "Doesn't matter. We can find out from our friend who requested you."

A hand grabs the guard's arm before he puts the cuffs on me, "You go back and tell your friend that if he wants her, he'll have to come and talk to me about it." He pushes the guard back and they look at each other for a few seconds before scowling at Riddick and turning around going back the way they came. Riddick turns towards me, "Happy now? Come on." We start down the hall once again, uninterrupted. Once it gets dim enough to where I can just barely see, I catch sight of one of his shivs in a homemade sheath on his back. Just too tempted, I try for it just to get a warning look and threat.

I step into the cell and move right to where the cot is and feel him moving around. "Are your goggles off?" A pair of black goggles land on my lap and smile turning them over in my hands. "Whats your vision like. I mean because of the shine job."

"Still good. All bright pinks and purples and some dark blues."

I nod like I understand and yawn sitting back.