To all my faithful readers I have to say THANK YOU! I'm taking the next twenty four off and that's why I've updated twice.
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Riddick walked into his bedroom and saw Jack everywhere. He inhaled and smelled her, felt her and sat against the bed he hugged her pillow and sat there silent.
God Jack, what have I done? You know I need you more than I have ever needed anyone. Please... don't give up.
The men stood in the hallway waiting for him to emerge knowing the silent pain he was going through. Salim and Kalifa both felt it. Dressed all in black, his face and head cleanly shaven; he walked towards them his face was all business.
"I have one speed; if you can't keep up don't bother." He snarled. Riddick walked to the doorway, took off his goggles and said, "Lights 20 percent."
"Riddick, we are out for blood tonight. We will follow you. Tell us what to do." Salim said walking closer to him.
Riddick began pulling weapons from the cabinet and put on a vest that would hold them. "Kill them all. Kill every single one of them. Anyone besides Jack and Anne you find out in the light dies. No exceptions except for Faisal, he's mine. That mother fucker is a dead man."
Riddick took two knives and put them at his sides, turned and centered himself, "Let's go."
Faisal Mohammed arrived with an entourage of ten men to a feast in his honor. He stood tall and foreboding in pristine white and crimson robes. He stood next to his brother Akbar and his brother Farad both looking menacing as the women served the food to them.
Faisal sat on the dais and was served an elaborate meal. "I am fortunate tonight my brothers. The Adeni has been found and is waiting. I will feed my body then I will feast upon her. Then I will share her with all of you."
Anne, veiled and deathly silent served her husband, barbaric as his oldest brother his meal, hoping that the bastard would choke on it. Faisal's three younger brothers sat and laughed looking forward to taking her because they all knew she had bested Faisal months earlier and wanted livelier quarry.
"Mother, get the Adeni ready. Dress her...perfume her. It will be a very long night." he boasted putting food into his mouth.
"For her." Akbar laughed making some of the women cringe.
For the entire meal Anne watched and waited. The men ate like pigs and drank until they were carousing like schoolboys grabbing anything that came close enough. Ziza grabbed Farah and Anne from their waiting positions in the back of the room pulling them out into the hallway.
"Come with me." She ordered her abaya flowing behind her like a black wave. In her hand she held a flask and Anne could hear her footsteps clip clopping like a horse from the vid-discs she used to watch with Jack.
Anne watched Ziza and Farah sniggering and feeling rather smug. When they arrived at the room she was put in earlier that day, one of Faisal's bedchambers, Anne inwardly cringed hoping that Riddick would hurry.. Underneath her Abaya, Anne had Sasha, ready and waiting to help counteract whatever she would be given.
The men opened the door when Ziza approached them. "Yahla Yemshi" (Come on let's go.) "Hold her down."
The unshackled her and flipped her over exposing her back and legs to more pain because of the linen. "Drink this Maumas (whore)."
"Fuck you!" Jack snarled pulling at the men who held her. "I'm going to kill you bitch, wait and see, I'm gonna strangle the life out of you and watch you die!"
"Wait and see now, will I? Pathetic girl. My son will teach you manners and ride you like the beast you are." She said slapping her across the face drawing blood.
She roared against the men who held her. "I'm gonna fucken kill you. And your bitch too." She said glaring at Farah.
Ziza grabbed her head and forced her mouth open. Jack railed against her guards spat out what Ziza had tried to force down her throat. "That's right child, drink it down. You will learn. One way or the other, you will learn."
Anne's eyes teared as she watched Ziza look at Jack. She was getting off on the pain and fear she was inflicting. Now she knew where her sons learned to be so sadistic.
"Feeling your limbs getting heavy Adeni? Just enough to make you still, but no enough to make you die. Blink if understand me."
The fear in Jack's eyes was evidence enough. She couldn't move or talk but she was painfully aware of everything around her.
Inside Jack was a torrent of emotion. She was deathly afraid of what she would experience with no way of stopping it, and she was so enraged that if she had the power to move she would not only kill the three men holding her down but Ziza and Farah as well.
Triumphantly, Ziza looked at the two women who stood there silent, one heartbroken the other smug, and barked her demand, "Dress her, in white as my son wants. Perfume her like a baghi (prostitute). Farah, you will be rewarded for your faithfulness to the family."
Then Ziza walked out like a queen. Anne looked at Farah, who stood over her taunting Jack. "Go attend OmFaisal. (Ziza) I will dress her."
"She said both of us." Farah sneered poking Jack who looked around at them wanting blood.
"OUT! Cast out!" Anne shouted at her pushing her towards the door. Jack's death glare was enough to send Farah railing against her.
Farah sneered and laughed then spat on Jack before going. Once the door closed, she ran over to Jack. "Oh GOD! Jack, I know you can hear me. I have Sasha; we don't have a lot of time. I saw Riddick. He knows. Have hope Jack. He's coming… Access Mobile Medical Diagnostic Tool."
"Accessing. Hello how can I be of assistance?" a generic computer voice asked.
"I have a patient that has ingested a paralytic that needs to be neutralized." Anne said in a hurried frantic voice.
"Place the device over the patient and move it along the body." The generic tool crooned. "Scan complete."
"Report." Anne asked as Jack's frightened eyes looked at her.
"One gram of the paralytic cylcobenzaprine hydro bromide found in digestive system. To counteract the effects of this paralytic load ampoule number 1 and inject into the nearest vein. Approximate time to neutralization, two minutes."
Anne injected Jack as quickly as she could. "Jack I have to dress you. Give the medicine some time. I'm turning on the machine, try and talk. Maybe you can get Sasha to talk to you; Riddick should be in place outside the compound by now."
"Sasha..." Jack croaked as Anne pulled a long pair of white silk leggings and a skimpy white top that barely covered her breasts. She put bangles on each wrist and a pair of slippers on each foot.
"Jack is that you?" Sasha chimed in using Jack's voice. "Did you take the antidote?"
"Yes, Sasha. Be quiet the guards are coming. Anne you better get outa here. I have a feeling the shit's gonna hit the fan."
"Jack? Take these, you're gonna need them. Good luck. I plan on keeping Farah and Ziza out of the women's quarters. Riddick said he doesn't kill women, but said he'd make an exception for them. Oh God, they are coming." Anne told her handing her two knives. "I'm going to hide Sasha she's got a tracking beacon so Riddick can find you."
Jack laid back down and them just underneath her backside, ready whenever she needed them. Faisal was going to die; she just hoped Riddick would hurry.