Anne had Layne in a sling she kept against her shielding him from notice as she wore a wool long coat. It was cooler than Hellion Prime and she wanted to keep him warm plus do her best to protect him. Kalifa and Salim stood on either side of her like body guards and Jack smiled giving Riddick the hint to take a look.

"Body-guarded like a national treasure." She told him squeezing his arm.

"He is and they know it." he growled nipping her ear. "72 hours Jack and not a second more."

Damn she was driving him insane. He could smell her, essence de Jack… the way her hips would move, the sound the fabric of her shirt made when she turned.

"Promises, promises." She said laughing. Salim watched them, truly marveling how much they loved one another. Allah had blessed him, by showing him that even when adversity had struck, time and again, true love prevailed and flourished.

"Bank on it Princess." He said walking beside her. Both looked menacing, he wore his lenses, and walked confidently in a deep black long coat, and Jack looked demure, beautiful and vibrant but at the same time, just as deadly.

Their first stop was to a dealer that Riddick knew that sold electronics and Jack's eyes went wide when the balding skinny man who came up to her chin addressed Riddick with a smile. "Well, I have not seen you in at least a year, Robert. Come, walk over here, out of the prying eyes of others. What can I do for you today? And who is this lovely lady? Very nice."

He gave her the manly once over and looked like he liked what he saw. She gave him the eye and smiled as Riddick began to smirk at her.

Get over it kid.

"This, is Jack." Riddick said proudly. The small man's eyes went wide and he smiled a toothy grin.

"So this is Jack. My, you did not lie when you said she was worth going back for." He said embarrassing Jack so bad her face was hot for hours.

You're hot as hell Jack, get used men saying that…

"What can I get for you?" he said winking.

"I need a laptop with a 3 terra gig dual processor, a hard drive big enough to handle a Mock 6 nav and com computer's data, and wireless integration for slick and easy access."

"You don't want much do you?" he asked shocked at her knowledge. "You cannot be more than 16."

"Almost 18 but that's not important. I need to be able to jack in and jack out at will and I need it in a hurry loaded with this software." She said handing him a piece of paper.

"This kind of machine will need to be built and it not come cheap. You're talking illegal pirate software and if I'm caught, or your caught with my hardware and…" he said getting flustered.

"Don't worry about a thing pops." She began playing with her wedding ring and smiling. "Let's just say, you make this work, you'll have many more hackers besides me making your business acquaintance. I'll make sure of that." She said leaning her elbows on the counter and winking. "Right honey?"

The skinny man, looked at Riddick who said, "Give the little lady what she needs Joe. I'll vouch for her. She's my wife."

Jack's eyes looked up at him and were so astonished he told anybody that she smiled a big shit eating grin.

"No shit! Took the vows. Damn, I'm getting old." Joe told him running his hands on his bald head. "Give me three days and this much." He said sliding a piece of paper in front of her.

"Done." She told him smiling like a kid in a candy store. She gave Riddick a wink and walked out the door those hips teasing the shit out of him. How he was gonna be able to wait three more days made him groan.

Jack met with Kalifa and Salim where she kissed the bundle in Anne's arms. "Riddick, I've known you almost 5 years. I wouldn't have pictured this in my wildest dreams. Is that little one yours?"

"He is." Riddick said leaning on the counter. "Just so you know, Jack's a pro, she can make you a lot of money. Trust her, I do."

And that in itself told Joe everything he needed about the petite brunette with the stop traffic dead body. "How old's your boy?"

"Almost two weeks." He replied getting himself ready to join them.

"Man, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy." Joe told him shaking his hand like any normal man.

"Thanks. We'll be in touch." Riddick told him and left without a backwards glance.

When Riddick, Jack and Salim decided where they should go next, Jack had an idea. They were relatively unknown on this planet, Toombs was too far out to alert anyone, if he even wanted to do that and she wanted to get that gun she needed for the darts her and Sasha were cooking up.

"I'll need something small, but powerful, twenty feet range if possible long range would be too ineffective. Tranquilizer darts about this big." She told him and he just the place.

An hour later Jack had her weapon. They got back to the ship, unmolested, because they were berthed in the restricted area, a perk for having a larger ship, and went back up the gang plank.

"What is wrong my brother?" Kalifa asked looking at Riddick close the hatch.

"Tired." he growled. But it was more than that, it was the weight of having a beautiful woman in his bed and not being able to do anything about it.

"You look more than tired my friend. I know that face. I still wear it more often than I would like." He said with a wry smile.

"Didn't know you had to wait so long to…after a baby." He said suddenly very grumpy.

"For human women, which Jack was but is no longer is it ranges from 6 to 12 weeks, not 2." He said not looking forward to Anne being that way. "Plus they do not recover as nicely as your wife has."

"Kal," he warned. "Watch what you say about Jack."

"A man who does not admire the beauty in simple things, even though his ability to take the beauty as his own, is a fool." He stated plainly.

"And a dead man touches what is mine." He retorted with a cold look in his eye.

"Go to her, bask in her beauty, the time will pass quickly enough." He said trying to comfort a fellow man who knew the strain of frustration.

"I think I will." He said walking with a new sense of purpose.

When he reached his room, Jack had put Layne to bed on her side of the platform and he rested so peacefully that Riddick took a moment to stare. Man he was too lucky. Then the darkness in him beckoned.

You don't deserve them. You're a murderer, an animal.

Then he heard her melodic singing and the splash of water. He slowly walked to the couch, took off his boots and socks, and removed his shirt. He saw her reflection in the mirror, mostly covered over with steam, and her breasts seemed to be bobbing on the lightness of the water, mixed with a mixture of vanilla and sandalwood. He was immediately aroused, and his black pants pinched him painfully. The bubbles that covered the rest of the surface just made him even more erect as she went under coming up with her hair slick down her neck.

"Been wondering when you were gonna try this out." He said leaning against the doorway and biting his lower lip. He looks almost good enough to eat, she thought pushing the soap around in the water.

He ached all over. He wanted to touch her, to kiss her, to melt inside her. looking at her like this was torture…

"Hello." She said sinking a little lower. "Rough day at the office?"

"Could say that." He said leaning on the counter.

"Want a shoulder massage? I'm offering."

I ain't gonna say no to that. I watch her lean up against the side of the huge tub and smile, like she's watching me cause she wants me. "You see something you like princess?"

"I might." She says crooking her finger. "My you might need a more in depth massage than just your shoulders. I think I might have to re evaluate where I stop. You look, all tense. Remember, tense is bad."

Damn Jack, you're mean. Teasing me like that isn't nice.

As I step in the water, it's hot, a little hotter than I like it, it burns a little, but I'm sinking down and getting used to it. "How's little guy?"

"Perfect. Burped like a marine and went right to sleep. My question is," she said pulling me against those fucking amazing breasts, "how is Daddy?"

"Stiff." I tell her and that's true in more than one sense of the word.

Her hands are like magic against my skin. Man I missed her and its only been about three weeks. She was having a hard time at the end and I ended up showering longer and going back to fisting myself to keep from exploding or killing something.

"I can take care of that." She says simply. No Jack, when I take you, that's when I'll get off.

"No baby." I tell her groaning cause she just started on my neck. I can feel her feet wrapped around me and damn Jack that is not even remotely fair. I can feel ever single piece of those damn fine thighs…. Focus on massage or she's getting nailed in this hot soapy water.

Riddick sat back against Jack as she rubbed and worked out the sore and frustration induced muscles in his neck and shoulders. She ran her hands over his now soapy chest and neck driving him to a heat induced delirium. She smiled when she nipped his earlobe and grinned like the Cheshire cat when she rubbed herself against his back in an attempt to get comfortable.

"Jack." He grabbed her thighs to stop her from making it worse. "You're killing me and you know it.

"What if I tell you a story? It involves a good friend of mine. He didn't tell his best friend he wasn't feeling himself and thought he'd deal with it all on his own. But little," she said scooting around to stand on her knees in the deep tub, rising out of the water bubbles covering her, barely. "did he know that she was going through the same thing."

He was growling because she was teasing him beyond his tolerance for it. "So," she continued turning around to get the wash cloth, "I went and had a word with Sasha. She indicated that I'm so healthy, and since my menstrual cycle had stopped four days ago, that with a little shot, right here," she said pointing to her hip right beside the dragon's tail, "I could be back on my horse, so to speak any time I desired."

She took a small pitcher and rinsed the rest of the soap off and her him swallow loudly. "Jack…"

"Well, are you just gonna sit there or are you gonna have a taste? I mean I am naked, and completely ready, willing," she said turning around to show him her perfectly tone body. "and able."

His loud growl echoed through the small space as his hands grabbed her hips and pulled towards him. His mouth, hungry and impatient was kissing the soft skin of her stomach, showing no visible signs of being pregnant. "Damn Jack, it was like it never happened." He said rubbing his cheek against her as she kneeled in front of him. Her breasts descended to sit right on the top of the water and she smiled, kissing his neck.

"Furyan resiliency. Thank you for the upgrade baby. Makes me feel good to know my body pleases you now."

"It pleased me before, this is just a bonus. God Jack, I missed touching you." he said kissing her insistent lips then returning to that pulse slamming throat. He growled against her neck and she moaned in response. The low register of his throaty response to her breasts plastered wet against him only spurred her on.

"I missed you. I thought you didn't want me after, seeing me like that…" she said suddenly shy like he remembered. "So many nights I wanted to touch you, taste you, tease you into exploding. But I was afraid you didn't want me."

The thoughts of her going down on him in their bed while he was asleep was a little fantasy he had but he hadn't ever told her. Now hearing her say it made him hungrier. It humbled him to think she worried he didn't want her.

Jack you're dense. Just absolutely fucken dense…

"That Jack will never happen. You make me run so hot I can't stand it sometimes." He told her running his palms down her arms and lacing his fingers through hers. "Hot baths are good, very relaxing. But also, good for pouncing. You up for that, cause I can't stop touching you and I might not last. Plus I know you like it, you smell good."

"Well, after that shot I'm good for six months without a tune up." She told him straddling his legs. His hands rested underneath the water on her hips and stopped her.

"What are you talking about?" he asked rubbing his face against her breasts.

"No babies, until we want them, from now on. Or would you like me to get pregnant every time we get going?" she asked grabbing his cheeks and rubbing his face against her laughing.

"Smart girl." He said biting and nipping at the one orb he'd been eyeing for the last minute.

Her louder than usual groan as he pushed her down onto him while hungrily licking and sucking on her nipple drove him so insane that he growled against her chest in response. "Damn Jack." He said growling loud. "My favorite flavor. Sugary and vanilla. Missed," he said pushing upward sloshing water, "you," again, "so," and again, "much. Baby you feel so fucking good."

"Fucking is what I like, and I like it just," she said pushing down, "like this." She said picking up the pace. Both having been deprived for weeks felt their release coming on fast and strong.

He called out her name against her breasts and she heaved against him shattering against his chest. He started to laugh, a satiated, lazy laugh as he rested his head against the rim of the built-in mammoth sized tub. "Told you I'd last two minutes. But hey," he said kissing her soundly on the lips driving her to distraction. "there's more of that later. Right?"

"When did that ever stop us?" she asked sitting with her feet out of the water. "Wash me my husband."

"With pleasure wife. With pleasure."