To Rose: Don't we all want to slice and dice that bitch.
To everyone. Thenext few chappies will be kinda violent. PLEASE BE ADVISED
Riddick's perch atop the building overlooking Faisal Mohammed's compound was dark and he smelled Salim and two of his men before he saw them and groaned. When could he get a moments peace to think about things?
He put down his binoculars and looked up slowly. "Riddick." Salim said quietly as he removed the mask covering everything but his eyes. "You must come quickly. Jack has been taken."
Riddick's breath stopped in his chest and his body tensed with swelling rage. Dressed in black, and silent as the grave, Riddick jumped down off the ledge and ran towards the house.
Shouldn't have left her. Should have taken her with me. Damn it!When they got to the villa, Riddick stopped just short of the courtyard. The front door was open and two guards were dead in the doorway. It looked like there had been a struggle.
Not long an hour maybe two, he thought to himself.
With two shots to the head, each lay slumped over. The blood was fresh he could smell it. Inside, the tables were overturned and there was a broken glass on the floor. Both men ran inside, taking a cursory look at the scene. Kalifa stood in the doorway his face a mask of shame.
Riddick shot him a glare that if he were any other man would have signified his coming death, but this was a man he trusted and he needed to find out the facts before his animal side took over and exacted revenge.
Riddick noticed a few things that gave him hope that she was still alive. The lack of blood, the overturned furniture, and the hand held was blinking.
Salim walked carefully towards him, removing his cloak and cowl, not touching him but speaking calmly. "She is alive. Mohammed has her. Farah has betrayed us. Kalifa is sure of it."
He had been speaking low and walked inside from inspecting the bodyguards. "He has her? How can you be sure?" Riddick said feeling as if he was going to explode.
"They left this." Salim told him handing him the medallion and moving discreetly back.
His tortured roar echoed through the small space and his fist found its way a space of bare wall. With the medallion still clutched in his hand he leaned against the broken part of the wall with his eyes closed. After a few minutes, he placed the necklace around his neck and stormed out the back door. Salim sat on the couch, amidst the broken furniture and took a ragged breath. He knew the torment he felt, and left Riddick to go off into the courtyard alone.
"Oh my fucken head." Jack groaned trying to sit up. Great, just great…
Jack awoke with a massive headache. She knew she had to have been drugged and the first thing she noticed was the restraints. She was on her side, her legs pushed up against her stomach and she felt the cold tile of the floor against her cheek.
How long have I been laying here?As she felt her heart beating wildly in her chest, she knew that they had kidnapped her from the villa and given her to Mohammed. Damn it!
She leaned up and looked around tentatively. She was alone. Thank God for that.
The small room was bare save for the mat on the floor and the sconces on the wall holding lights that made the room dim and dingy.
At least they sprung for the mat.
She was vaguely aware of the voices; the heated shouts that had brought her to awareness were coming closer. She looked at herself, bound at the ankles, and her hands bound behind her back.
No blood, no pain except the bruise on her back from Farah's little 'fuck you'.
She was in remarkably good shape. But that wasn't good either, it meant that she was going to be saved for something worse later.
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and began remembering what Riddick had taught her. She could hear his voice in her head and that made her smile. It calmed her. Know your surroundings; try to remember where you are.
Fucked, that's what I am. That bitch Farah, she's first on my list.
She chuckled seeing Riddick in her mind scowling at her.
Okay, she drugged me. Could I be anymore fucking stupid? You're gonna be fucken pissed at me when you get a hold of me.
What do you hear? She heard him crooning in her ear.
Voices, I hear them, arguing. Two women and one man. Old bitch, Ziza, younger woman, gotta be Farah wanting more opportunities to kick my ass.
What do you smell? Come on Jack, he asked her.
Fear, but that's me. A male coming closer and the old woman. They're coming towards me.
What do you see?
Movement on the other side of the door through the underneath of the door. The door opens and I see one male, two females and more males coming down the hallway. The men are armed and Ziza is pissed. Farah is smug and both those bitches are history when I get loose.
"Lights, 100 percent." The old woman ordered standing over her. Ziza looked down at her a black headscarf covering her gray hair leaving only an old weathered face to hurl insults at her. She glared at Jack looming over her in her long black dress her arms at her sides in tight little fists.
"Hello Bitch." Jack spat looking up trying to adjust to the light. The old crone looked menacing in the light. She looked old and withered, mean and evil. "Long time no see…"
"Silence!" she snarled, back handing her hard against the face drawing blood. "Yusef, have your men bring the Adeni to me. She'll learn respect quick enough." She said watching them forcibly drag her down the hall.
"I'm gonna kill you bitch!" she shouted as she kicked and screamed. Two men, dressed in deep crimson , wearing combat boots and had hand guns on their waists, half dragged half carried Jack towards a bedroom.
They threw her on the bed where Ziza held a knife in her hand. "Hold the Adeni down."
Two more men came in and they held her down while Ziza cut away her pants. "Don't fucken touch me you bitch!"
Ziza backhanded Jack as she tried to get off the bed. "Silence whore!" she spat cutting away the fabric. The boots were also removed and her socks, and the realization came to Jack in a strangled gasp. NO! RIDDICK! OH GOD!
"Get your fucken hands off me fat ugly twat." She screamed as the knife cut away her panties. "What the fuck are you doing?"
Jack's face paled when she realized what Ziza was stripping her, but it was when she was nearly nakedshe began to struggle harder. "Move and I'll cut you Adeni. Hold her down."
"I'm gonna kill you Ziza, don't fucken touch me!" she screamed as Ziza put her hand between her legs and began to examine her.
With a sadistic smile on her face, Ziza shoved her hand deep inside her pushing against her abdomen trying to determine something. "You've been breached." She shouted grabbing her cane and motioned her to be flipped on her stomach.
The cane hit her bare backside and thighs at least ten times before she cried out in pain and when she did Ziza spat, "Tattooed, and a whore, you spread your legs for any man, don't you? You will pay. You will pay."
The sound the crack of the cane made dulled the pain when her body reacted to the sharp wood against her skin. She felt oddly numb and when Ziza grabbed the back of her hair and pulled her up she snapped, "Wait." Ziza stared at her defiant as she grabbed the choker off her neck and placed it around her throat.
"That was a mistake." Jack croaked before surrendering to the coming blackness. "I'm gonna kill you. Slowly and I'm gonna enjoy it."
Salim approached the courtyard where Riddick had been since they discovered that Jack had been taken. "Riddick, This is asking for you. I do not understand what it is but it has asked to be taken to you."
The hand held pc was blinking and Riddick placed it on the table. "Riddick?" Jack's voice said, and his heart nearly broke at the sound of her saying his name.
But he knew it was Sasha and not the love of his life. "Sasha, tell me what you've got." he said his voice breaking.
Salim stood next to him and watched as a holographic representation of Jack and Farah came into view.
"Jack invented this?" Salim asked looking at the image.
"Yeah. Ain't she a smart kid?" Riddick asked. "Sasha, begin playback."
"As you wish Riddick, please be aware that this is violent and Jack would want me to tell you that you need to remain calm. She knew this could happen and told me that you could get very angry."
"Sasha, I'm a big boy, play it back." He said removing his goggles and sitting on the ledge.
They watched, Kalifa walking in silently behind them and watchedKalifa's ex-wife slip the drug into the water and watch Jack drink it, and smile.
He shot the younger man a death glare and flinched as they manhandled her.He blew completely when Farah kicked Jack's unconscious body.
"End playback." Riddick said through his teeth. He lunged at Kalifa grabbing him by his throat and slamming him against the wall. "I'm gonna kill you."
"Riddick, she was cast out weeks ago. She has been away since then." Salim told him begging him to release his son.
"How did she know where we were?" he demanded as Kalifa dangled two inches off the ground.
"She was cast out because she laid down with another man, one of my father's guards. Instead of killing her, as is my right, I cast her out. We found out the guard was still seeing her…" he croaked as Riddick released him.
"Where is this guard now?" he growled putting his goggles back on and taking out his shiv.
"Faisal Mohammed's compound. Farah is Faisal's cousin." Salim said in a voice trying to calm the rage he felt.
"If Jack's dead, I'm killing all of you." He said in a powerfully menacing voice.
"Riddick, son, calm yourself. You do her no good like this. Jack will be alive, because Faisal wants her still. That is the only thing we can count on, he has never been denied anything before and she will at least be alive long enough for him to…"
Riddick stopped him from finishing that sentence with a murderous glare. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He had to take a step back. If he led with his heart he'd get them killed.
Get Jack.
Kill everything in my path.
Get the fuck out of Dodge.
Get her to the Ship.
"Where will she be kept?" He asked opening his eyes again and looking at the hand held.
"Women's quarters until..." Kalifa told him rubbing his throat and thanking Allah that he did not finish him.
"Think Kalifa, you have been there before, tell us where?" his father asked as Riddick pressed the functions on the pc.
"Faisal's rooms are on the far side of the courtyard. He will keep her there. According to Anne, our friend from school, he will be returning tonight."
"But she is wife to Akbar brother of Faisal, how is it that you speak with her?" Salim asked suddenly angered and embarrassed.
"Some things father are better left unsaid." He told him looking away.
"I don't care who he's fucking, just lets get moving." Riddick snapped looking towards the door.
Salim stormed out of the room knowing that Kalifa had been unfaithful to his wife with Anne. Kalifa stood there and waited then told Riddick, "We have a few hours. Let's go to the compound and see what we can see. I'm going for Anne. This ends tonight."
"You got that right." Riddick growled again, grabbing his shiv and putting into its back sheath.
