Derick walked into the room after passing Troy on his way out and saw Dannie sitting on the floor gasping for air. She saw him standing over her and held out a hand to try to keep him from going after Troy, but he left anyways. She went to get up and Riddick came into the house and found her still on the ground. "Dannie are you alright? Derick told me to come in here and see to you. What happened?"
Dannie was still gasping for air, but not as much, "Troy…was here. Derick…went after…help…up." That was all she could get out right then, Troy had crushed her larynx which made it hard to talk even being able to breathe. Riddick helped her up on her feet, made sure that she was alright, and went after Derick, and if he should happen upon Troy in the process, no one would begrudge him the opportunity to kick his ass.
Riddick caught up with Derick, but neither of them ever caught up with Troy, but they did run into a few of his hench-men, twenty to be precise. Riddick pulled out his shiv which never left his body, Derick picked up a lead pipe on the ground, and the two of them worked their way through the group of men. It had been a long time since Riddick had killed a man and now he was killing two or three men at a time, like he never stopped. Derick even killed a couple of men, but mostly just knocked them unconscious, he was never much for killing, not even to save or protect the woman he loved.
By the time that they made it back home, Dannie seemed fine, but they knew better. She was in the backyard working out in the little obstacle course Riddick had set up for her to train on. She never even acknowledged their presence, just kept going through the obstacle course again and again. Dannie knew that they had gone after Troy, but she didn't know what had happened after they left. They decided to leave her alone and allow her to focus on the task ahead of her.
She came in for a short break and there was Derick waiting for her to tell him all about her meeting with Troy. "So why was he here?"
"He came here to make sure that I wasn't going to back out of the fight."
"So why were you on the ground gasping for air when I came into the room?"
"Because I got smart with him and he decided to punish me."
"Tell me what happened, or I won't allow you to leave the house to go and train anymore for the night."
"Troy really did want to make sure that I wasn't going to back out of the fight, but he also wanted me to know what he had planned for me when he won."
"And that would be?"
"Derick he plans to keep me for the rest of his life. He wants me to bare his children, and what not. I tried to tell him that that would never happen and he slapped me across the face."
"So that's where the bruise came from. That couldn't have been all that was said."
"No. And when I tried to tell him that there was no way I would allow him to win, he…"
"He what?"
"He told me that if I won, he was going to have both of you killed, if I didn't agree to be with him. I won't let you two die for this fight."
"So he has it to where, if you lose, he gets you as part of the prize, and if you win, he gets you because of your loyalty to Riddick and myself. So either way, I will never get to see you after the fight is over with."
"Derick, I would rather die than see you or Riddick die, or have to hand him my title. I will find a way out of this mess so that most of the people are happy."
Derick almost believed that she was lying, but wasn't sure how to confront her about it. She kissed him on the cheek and went back outside to finish her "training".
While she was outside trying to keep from being angry with the guys for leaving to go after Troy, she had just finished the obstacle course for the twentieth time when she was captured by a pair of strong arms and a smell she couldn't identify and didn't like.
She tried to struggle free, but the arms only held on tighter. As soon as she was too tired to be able to get free, he leaned down and whispered into her ear, "Don't tell me you thought this little obstacle course would actually prepare you for our fight." Dannie would have retorted, but he had covered her mouth to keep the comments in.
"I have another deal for you, and I think this will be more to your liking. I have evidence that your father killed about ten of my men earlier this afternoon when they came after me, and since I pretty much own the entire police force, I'll not only have your father's warrant reopened, but I'll have your boyfriend booted off the force if you don't back down from the fight and pledge yourself to me. Don't answer now, I want to hear it at the fight tomorrow night in front of the entire crowd. If you do as I say, your father will remain a free man, Derick will be able to keep his job, and I'll even allow you to see Derick on the side, so long as you have my children. I'm not an unreasonable man, I wouldn't want you to be bored while you are in my home while I am at work." He leaned down and kissed her on the neck, like a vampire would right before he would bite you. "Remember, you have until tomorrow night to think about it and you have to announce it before the fight begins, or else the deal is off."
As he left, he shoved her into the middle of the obstacle course, where she was getting beat to a bloody pulp because she was so disoriented. Once he was gone, Riddick and Derick ran to the backyard to find Dannie laying on the ground unconscious, still being hit by the things in the course. Riddick ran into the middle of it and grabbed Dannie before she was killed, being knocked around a bit himself, while Derick was trying to find a way to shut the damn thing down.
It was just a good thing that Dannie was a fast healer, especially with some of the brown liquid that Dannie had given Derick the night of the tournament. Dannie learned the recipe from Kyra, she learned it from Zara, and Zara learned it from Riddick, but no one ever found out who Riddick learned the recipe from.
While when Dannie gave that stuff to Derick he slept for over twenty hours, Dannie only needed about three hours and she was all better. She was even up in time for her date with Derick. But before she could go and play nice with Derick, she just had to confront them both about what had happened.
"I have something that I need to talk to you both about before I can leave this house, and neither of you are allowed to interrupt me. If you do, without me having asked you a question, this night is going to get bloody."
She looked them both long and hard and then started back up, "OK, now I know that both of you are wondering why Troy was here yet again. It turns out that he has evidence against you dad for the murder of about ten of his men earlier this afternoon. With this evidence, he can have your warrant reopened in an instant, which means that you will be either on the run again or put into prison and I'll never get to see you again. And Derick, he practically owns the police force since he has the mayor in his pocket, so one call to his good buddy the mayor, and your out of a job, and you'll have to leave the planet just so you can get another job as a police officer.
All this means that I will be left alone if I don't agree to back down from the fight and pledge myself to him. So instead of having you both killed if I win and don't agree to his terms, if I don't back down from the fight and I end up winning, he is going to make sure that I never see either one of you again and that I will be left alone." She broke down into tears, "Why did you have to kill his men? You told me that you had given that up and you promised that you would never do anything to jeopardize your freedom."
Riddick got up off of the couch and went to put his arms around her, but she started hitting him instead and he just took it. "Why…why…why?" Derick got up and grabbed a hold of her to keep her from hurting herself. "If you two had just not gone after him, then he wouldn't have this on you, and everything could have been straightened out. I could have settled it and I wouldn't have to worry about whether or not if I'd ever see you again." Sobs.
"Hey, don't worry about it. Don't think about it anymore. We can go out tonight and I'll get your mind off of everything and then tomorrow you can worry about this. Anyways, he can't do all of this that he keeps saying that he is going to do, he's just trying to pull your focus off of the fight so he has a better chance to win."
"Do you think so?" "Of course." Riddick chimed in.
"Alright." She dried her tears. "Let's go have some fun before all this crap takes hold." And with that they left for their date, but Dannie knew that Troy had the kind of power that he continued to display over her. She knew that if he really wanted something to happen, then he had the type of resources to make sure that it got done, but she tried to not let it dampen the mood for the evening.
Derick took her out for a fancy dinner at a high priced, snooty, French restaurant where they had a wonderful meal, most of which Dannie had never had before. There was Escargot for an appetizer, which tasted like rubber to Dannie, fresh-made dinner rolls, tossed salad with an herb vinaigrette dressing, homemade chicken noodle soup, veal and chicken parmesan for the main courses, and Tiramesue for dessert. Dannie had never eaten so much food, and she was about ready to pop, but Derick took her dancing after dinner which helped her to work off everything that she ate so she wouldn't feel the need to smack him for making her eat so much food.
It was late when they finally made it home and they were both tired from all the dancing. Dannie had never been dancing, so Derick had to teach her how to do it, and he didn't start out with the slow dancing, he started out with the hot and heavy dancing that he hoped would help to get Dannie into the right mood for what he had planned for her next, and sure enough it did.
"I feel like I'm drunk."
"But you didn't have any alcohol tonight, I didn't even have any."
"I know, it must be a different high. I have never had this much fun before in my life, and I owe it all to you." She pulled him close to her and kissed him with everything that she had.
Derick picked her up by the waist and wrapped her legs around his waist to keep her right where he wanted her, situated right above his erected crotch. He grabbed her ass firmly in his palm and she heaved herself up at his touch burying his face in her almost bare chest. He had her hang onto his head so he could start to undo the many buttons on her top before he ripped it off of her revealing bare breasts.
He threw her onto the bed and started removing her pants, but her hands were in the way, she was trying to even the score by taking off his shirt, she didn't want to be stark naked and him not have removed a stitch of clothing. She won out and undid the buttons on his shirt and slid it off of his shoulders as slowly as possible, making him wait for the next part. When she finally had it to his hands he helped her get it off the rest of the way as he started kissing her again.
Once he had her back down on the bed, he started back on her pants, but was beginning to get impatient with the one button on her jeans, it was the nicest thing she had to wear and Derick wore the same type of thing that she wore so she wouldn't look too out of place, so he had her undo it, and he ripped them off of her. She had no problem getting his jeans button undone, she just took her sweet time and practically had him begging her to hurry up. She slid his pants down and found out that he wasn't wearing any underwear, so she had him undressed before she was. But as fast as he had her panties off, it was like she had never been wearing any herself.
Now was the best part of the entire night. Derick was on top of her covering her body with his, and his body was covered by the covers on the bed. He was very gentle about the whole thing. He stroked her cheek to make sure that she wasn't afraid of what was going to happen, looked deep into her eyes, and kissed her gently at first and then got more passionate as the kiss continued. His right hand traveled down her body and rested on the inner part of her thigh in order to get her to open her legs so he could insert himself.
She was trembling in his arms, but she wanted this as much as he did so she did as he "told" her to. He got himself into a comfortable spot and just as he started to stick his tongue into her mouth to distract her from the pain that he knew was coming, he thrust himself into her wet body and she let out of cry of immense pain which turned into pleasure after a few tiny in and out strokes.
It had been so long since he himself had had any sex, so it was almost like it was his first time as well. He knew what kind of pain he had just subjected her to, and he knew what to expect out of this. He hit all the right spots to get the kind of reaction that he wanted. He wanted her engulfed in every kind of pleasure possible, he touched her all over, kissed all the spots he could get to, and he just kept going into her deeper and deeper. He started off slow and gentle, but as time went by, and there was no longer any pain, only pleasure being felt, he started going at it like a wild beast. There was no way in hell he was going to stop now and that made it all the more pleasurable to Dannie.
She was moaning so loud and everytime she hit a release point, her screams were even louder and it forced Riddick to have to leave the house so he wouldn't go downstairs to their bedroom and interrupt them in the middle of everything. Before he left, Riddick heard her hit her third orgasm and that wasn't even the halfway point for them that evening. Everything was so new to her, the sensations, and the feelings she was experiencing were worth so much more because they were new, and Derick was the one helping her experience these things.
Riddick came back to the house after dawn and they were still going at it. They were on their final release when Riddick came in the house, and then the house was quiet again. They were both so tired, that neither of them moved from the positions they were in. Derick had collapsed on top of Dannie's heaving chest and hadn't even bothered to try to remove himself from her, he was just out. Dannie didn't mind, she was too tired to care that he was laying on her, plus it still felt so right to have him inside of her, that she wrapped her fingers up in his hair and fell asleep with a smile on her face.
