This is the chapter most of you have been waiting for Riddick, Jack, and Minx finally meet. Okay this chapter might be a little confusing for some people (including me, ::blush::). This chapter alternates between Minx's POV and Jack's POV , I announce who's point of view it is on the top of every section. Don't worry, later Minx and Riddick get some alone time.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Jack

It had been three hours, since she opened the book of history Imam had sent her. Her eyes glazed over the words, seeing them, but paying no attention to what they were actually saying. All she saw was letters, spaces, and the brown paper they were typed on, nothing else.

She just didn't feel like it was important. How could this help me? She wondered. Closing the book she looked over at Riddick. He was sitting with his ankle on his knee watching the news. He looked calm, and in that moment almost normal, except for the shined eyes.

She smirked to herself, but felt her eyes growing heavy, as ancient battles and prayers circulated through out her brain. She wasn't used to a life so normal, or so nice for that matter. She just didn't know what to do with herself. This was an expensively furnished apartment with the newest stuff, no cockroaches or flies to kill, or no mercs to worry about. She didn't have to look out a small, clouded over, window of a ship and watch out for flying debris that were gonna hit the skiff. Things were just normal. Almost too normal for her liking.

I'd better get used to this. She thought. Living with Imam is going to be even more normal than this. She almost scoffed at the thought of living on land again. In a house that did not have rockets or a control panel or wings or turbo boosters. Just a normal house, or apartment. She'd go to regular school and just be among kids her own age, not people like Riddick. She'd be staying there and not moving anywhere until she was 18 years old.

She pushed the thoughts away realizing she was just babbling to herself now, driving herself crazy with the idea of actually being normal. Would it really be that bad? She wondered. She was about to answer herself when the Comm system rang.

Before Riddick could move a muscle she was already at the door, hitting the scan button. Hocks's face appeared on the mini screen on the wall next to the door. She smiled to herself feeling a mini surge of happiness. "Hey Jack, open up I got a special package for youa Minx coat." Hocks joked. From the left side of the screen Jack saw a smaller hand smack him on the arm. "It's not dead yet. Still a little feisty." He said with a chuckle. Jack nodded throwing in a snicker of her own, and pressed the open button. The door did as told and smoothly slipped out of the way. "Hey Hocks." Jack said casually. Inwardly proud that she sounded so cool. She was usually nervous around strangers.

Hocks nodded and stepped over the threshold into the narrow hallway, and was followed by the young looking woman from the space port she's seen only about a week ago. She had the same dark long hair, and was carrying that large rucksack over her right shoulder. Yup, it was her alright. "Jack this is Minx, my niece. Minx, meet Jack." He said casually. Jack looked at Minx's eyes. They were the color of honey. "Hi." Jack said smiling slightly, shaking her hand, then letting it go. "Hey." She said.

"Well isn't this civilized." Jack turned to see Riddick leaning against the wall that led to the living room, he had his goggles back on, and was smirking. There was a moment of silence before Hocks spoke. "Was wondering where you got to." Hocks said. Riddick sauntered over and stood next to Jack. He was acting strange, like he did back on T2, when he was around Fry. Quiet and mocking, with a little menace thrown in just for fun.

Jack knew that this girl had to prove herself if she wanted to gain some courtesy from Riddick. He wasn't as nice around strangers as he was around her. And Jack could tell he was probably going to be like this for a couple of daysif not more."Riddick, my niece and your computer installer Minx." Hocks said gesturing to Minx with his hand. After a moment, Jack stole a glance at Riddick, she couldn't tell who he was looking at.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Minx

Minx looked up at Riddick, he was better looking in person. Taller and bigger then she thought, but she hadn't really thought that hard about him. Jack was cool, and she could easily get used to her, but wasn't completely sure how she was going to go about getting used to Riddick. He seemed like a man of few words.

He towered over her and must've out weighed her by a good 60 pounds. Minx turned her attention back to Jack. "Mind showing me to my room." She asked Jack. "Nah, don't mind. Come on." The girl said motioning for her to follow.

Minx felt Riddick's eyes on her, although she couldn't really tell by those dark goggles. Sighing she moved to follow Jack, but before she could, Hocks stopped her. "I want to talk to both of you in my office tomorrow, at 0800." Hocks said. Minx guessed that he meant her and Riddick. And it took her a minute but she finally figured out that 0800 meant 8:00, she had forgotten that they used a twenty-four hour system on ships like this, so there was no 8:00 p.m.

She nodded to Hocks, "Thanks for everything Hocks. See ya then." She said sincerely, then following Jack. " That door over there, that is in between the hall and the livingroom, that's the workout room." She commented blankly. A moment later they reached the door at the end of the hall.

Jack slid open the door to reveal a very feminine room, with white silk sheets, and a huge king sized bed. Over by the far wall was a matching powder table and mirror, next to it was a bathroom and walk in closet. Minx smiled, wondering how Hocks had picked all this out. "You think he hired an interior decorator or something. I'd begin to worry if he did this himself." She said, looking over her shoulder to see Jack still lingering in the door frame.

She had a slight smirk on her face, "Yeah. I'll see ya round uhMinx." Jack said, "See ya." Minx said casually. Her door slid shut, cute kid, she thought with a smile. Jack reminded Minx of herself when she was 15. She was a sort of tom boy, she still had some scars on her knuckles to remind her of it. She bandaged her chest so that the boys in her orphanage wouldn't make fun of her.

That all changed when she met Deo, she didn't feel like she needed to hide being a girl anymore. Turning back to her rucksack she started to unpack, but as Raven had taught her, she left almost half of it still packed just in case she need to escape.

Walking over to her walk-in closet she hung up some of her jeans, and skirts. Then put her shirts and underwear in the drawers. She unpacked the rest of her toiletries and personal items, then decided to take a look at the bathroom. It had miniature Jacuzzi, and a stand up shower head above it, complete with a pull around curtain that went around the entire Jacuzzi. The bathroom had white and blue tiles lining the entire room. With some cute small blue tiles lining the mirror. The towels were large, plush, and clean. Sighing happily, she strolled toward her bed, and plopped down onto it. Bouncing gently as she closed her eyes.

Later she looked at the clock and realized that it was already 12:30 at night (00:30 hours if you used the ship's time) she hauled herself up and decided to go and use the workout room. Grabbing a towel from the bathroom she headed down the hall noticing that it was particularly darker then normal.

Opening the door she heard the faint sounds of weights being lifted. Her heart rate sped up as she wondered who it was. What if it was Riddick, what would she do then. She was ashamed to admit that he was slightly intimidating her, and she was sure that he probably knew it.

Nearing the center of the room, she found it was just Jack. Alone, and looking tough in the light. Minx smirked, "Mind if I join you?" She asked. Jack looked startled for a moment, but relaxed when she saw Minx. "Oh, yeah." She said a little winded, and breathless. Minx and Jack worked out in companionable silence for close to an hour. Jack was strong, and could lift almost as much as Minx, who was pleasantly surprised. They broke off and started to cool down, when Minx noticed a damp stain on the back of Jack's cargo pants.

"Um, Jack I think you sat in something." She said awkwardly. Jack turned briefly feeling her behind, then promptly turning red. "Oh, shit!" She swore under her breath, Minx could tell she was embarrassed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Jack

Jack felt her face go red as she saw the blood on her fingers. Damn, I should have known, it was that time of the month anyway. She was so humiliated, Minx must think I'm so immature to not notice. She thought. She heard Minx laugh lightly. Oh, great now she's laughing at me. Jack thought feeling like darting for the door.

"Hey, just be glad your wearing black. Come on back to my room an I'll tell you a story while we get this aggravation cleaned up." She said with an encouraging smile. But Jack felt too mortified. "No, that's alright I can take care of myself." Jack said trying to sound indifferent, but knowing she failed miserably, as her voice came out as a mumble. Keeping her gaze overted, she brushed past her and retreated to the safety of her own room. Where she could discreetly bang her head repeatedly against the wall, or crawl under the covers of her bed and die.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Minx

Minx watched Jack leave the work out room, after the door closed behind her she heaved a distressful sigh, why did she have to go and tell her. Me and my big tactless mouth, she thought. Slowly she trudged back to her room, wiping down with her towel as she went. Once inside she switched on the lights to dim. Raven was so much better with teenagers. Raven was Minx's best friend and mentor. Almost everything Minx knew how to do, or was good at, Raven had taught her. Groaning, she started up the Jacuzzi. Just as she was about to take off her clothes there was a soft knock at the door.

Turning off the water Minx padded quickly from the bathroom to her door, pointedly tripping over the rug at the foot of her bed, making her almost fall on her face. Swearing she slid open the door, to see a semi-red Jack standing before her. "Sorry, butcan I?" Jack asked fiddling with her hands. Minx smiled softly, maybe she wasn't so bad at this teenage girl bonding thing after all.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Jack

"Come on in." Minx said softly, with a casual smile, stepping aside so that Jack could enter. Jack was a little embarrassed. She was still in her wrecked pants, and unfortunately it was starting to dry. "Okay, umlet's see..where did I put my stash?" Minx mumbled heading into her walk in closet.

Jack took a minute to look around at Minx's room, and at some of her things. She had the nicest room in the entire apartment, it wasn't too girly. Jack noticed that Minx had taken away the lace throw pillows. She smiled at that, Minx wasn't too bad. She was cool too, her hair was always neat, and her clothes were tough. She noticed a diamond bracelet that hung in a box on her dresser, it was so beautiful. Even in the minimal lighting it glinted pink, blue, purple, and green all at the same time.

Minx came out carrying a robe, about five pads, and a box of tampons. "Okeyso, pad or tampon?" She asked. Jack bit her lip. "Er..tampon." She said lied, she really had no clue about how to use one. She started towards the bathroom, but stopped, "Actually, uhpad." She said lamely, feeling like a dork. "Hey, use what you want. Tampons used to make me so nervous, I couldn't even begin to open the wrapper." Minx said with a hesitant laugh. "Really, why?" Jack asked. Minx blushed, "It's stupid." She said. "Nah, why?" She asked again. "WellI used to freak out about it getting stuck, or it falling out. Just everything that could possibly go wrong." Minx said. Jack laughed surprising herself. Minx laughed too. But it was soon replaced with an uncomfortable silence.

"So what's the damage?" Minx asked. Jack walked over to her full mirror and observed them. "They're ruined!" Jack grunted, shaking her head. "Ah, rubbish. Just go in the bathroom and change into this robe, put on this pad and I'll help you take the stain outta the pantsif you want." She said hesitantly. Jack nodded, "Thanks." Minx smiled, wordlessly walking into her closet, her hips and pony tail swaying in perfect time.

With the robe and the pad in hand, Jack headed for the bathroom. She changed out of her pants and put on the pad. Shivering slightly she pulled on the white robe. It swallowed her a little, but it was still comfy. She wasn't used to this feeling of trust, in her earlier years, Jack had come to not trust other girls, especially pretty ones. They always stabbed you in the back at one time or another. Jack still was a bit wary about Minx, even thought apart of her wanted to trust her.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Minx

Minx hear a faint noise and looked up to see Jack in the white robe she had given her. She looked charming. "I think my pants are beyond help." She said heading towards the door. "Uhjust take these. My stash is open to you if you need more, just look in my bathroom." She said hesitantly. Minx could tell Jack wanted to leave, so she handed her the pads. "Thanks." Jack said and headed out.

Minx went back into the bathroom and started up the Jacuzzi once again. Slipping into the warm water she sighed contentedly as the knots in her body began to work loose. She started to feel drowsy as the hypnotic gurgle and bubble of the water filled her ears.

About an hour later she decided to get out before she looked like a ninety year old lady. Wrapping her lavender rode around her she dried her hair and slipped into her tang top and soft yoga pants.

The covers were soft, warm, and comforting as she found herself falling into a quiet sleep, if only her life could always be this simple.