Chapter 8: Trust Factor (part 2)

Calandra was down and out for a whole week, and the Elder stayed with her the whole time. Riddick checked up on her during the week, Jack saw the worry in Riddick and wondered can a murdering convict fall in love. She laughed at that notion and yet made her wonder could it be possible. Patrick and Sarah came in a visited her as well. At the moment Sarah and Patrick was in a heated argument.

" Damn it Patrick, he hasn't hurt no one and Calandra trust him." she spat at him

"I love you, but damn it woman, he is a murdering convict. He murdered my brother." he yelled

" For the love of God, will you listen to yourself, I know you miss your brother and I know he was a part of you, but you don't know that he killed your brother."

"And you don't know that he didn't."

"You are making a big mistake."

"It's my mistake to make."

Riddick came inside the exercising room. He noticed that Patrick was staring at him. Jack came in the room and knew something was up. She look at Patrick and Riddick circling each other like two snakes ready to attack each other at any moment.

"You murdered my brother, you bastard."

"It was for survival."

"Survival my ass, run that bullshit to someone else." said Patrick as he threw a knife at Riddick's head. Riddick threw his shiv at Patrick with full speed and Calandra caught it. She did a roundhouse kick to Patrick's chest and a punch to Riddick's chest. The two men stumble back and look at Calandra.

"So you want to bring up the past and test your egos." hissed Calandra

"Move out the way Calandra, this has nothing to do with you. This is between Riddick and I." spat Patrick

"No, you are both on my ship and I will not tolerate any bullshit right now or ever. I make you both a deal, both of you fight me at the same time and when one of you defeat me you can fight the other. So everyone move out the way please."

"I already defeated you Calandra, this will be over very quickly." said Riddick

"I don't think so Riddick, you always fought Shadow but you never fought me before." she smiled

"I think he's scared," said Patrick

Calandra attack Patrick first, she threw a punch to the face and just in time he blocked it. It took him by surprise how fast she was. Riddick tried to come behind her but she kicked him in the chest, Patrick grabbed her arms, so she grabbed his arm and took her leg put it on his chest and uses his weight to kick him in the face. When she noticed that Patrick didn't move she knew that she took the wind out of him. Riddick threw a couple of punches and tried to trip her but she was too fast for him. She blocked every punch and did a back flip before he thinks of his next attack. She tried to round house kick Riddick but he grabbed her foot and as soon he did that she kicked him with the other foot and he felled to his knees.

"Enough, if I see either of you at each other throat especially Riddick and Patrick, I promise I will slit each other throats for you. Do I make myself clear?" she growled

" Yes." both of them said.

Calandra looked at Sarah and Jack and they both went to Patrick and Riddick. Calandra noticed that the Elder was sitting in his room, but she kept going to the lower floor. She pressed some buttons on the wall and the floor open up into a bubbling Jacuzzi. Calandra took off the t-shirt and the shorts and sat in the water and tried to relax. She let the bubbles take over her senses but not her guard. She opens her eyes and noticed that Jack was standing there.

"Can I join you?" Jack said

"Sure." smiled Calandra, she noticed that something was on Jack's mind and I think it was time to talk about it.

"Jack, what is it?"

" How did you know?"

"Come on Jack, let it go."

"No, I need to know. I can't shake I'm the reason that you lost your freedom. How did you know Shadow? I didn't tell you where I live and I didn't tell you why I ran away. Did you follow me that night?"

"First, call me Calandra or CJ and no I didn't follow you. Like I told you when I first met you I have a connection with you and I don't know why? That night I saw everything from your eyes, I felt the pain that you felt and the things that he did to you. And when you came home and I smelled him on you. Right then and there I had his scent in my nose. I heard what your mother said to you and I couldn't let her go either. But honestly I don't why we have this connection like we do."

"I know why?" said the Elder

"Why?" Jack asked

"Because something called DNA"

"What do you mean?"

"This is going to get complicated."

"You spilled the beans and now you have to cook it."

"I think Riddick and Sarah should be in here."

A few moments later Riddick and Sarah came into the poolroom.

"Okay Elder, let's hear it." said Calandra

" Calandra, Jack is your cousin. Sarah is her sister. There is a connection between you three is because you are all family except Riddick and Calandra." said the Elder "That was the easy part, when you killed Jack's foster parents you killed Marcino's older brother. I don't know who the woman was though. Sarah and Jack are half-sisters, meaning that Jack and Sarah and the same mother but different father. This is the reason that you had a connection with Riddick. You are Furyian too. One more thing, there is something in stored for you two and the more you two fight it the harder it's going to be for you both to stop history from repeating itself. I know there is a book that you are looking for and it seems like it to me that you stop looking for it why?"

"I didn't stop looking for it, it's not on the ship."

"Then you didn't look hard enough."

The Elder walked out of the room leaving Riddick, Jack, Sarah and Calandra to their thoughts. Sarah and Riddick went separate ways. Jack needed to talk to Calandra some more, so she got out of the pool and locked the door behind them. Jack step back inside the Jacuzzi and sat next to Calandra

"Calandra, I appreciate what you did for me, but there is something I want to ask you."

" What is it?"

" How did you get caught?"

" Later that evening, I came back to make sure you were safe, I didn't know that people saw me come out of that house. Anyways, there were Mercs on my ass that was working for Marcino and caught they caught me. I made a deal with that I would go with quietly if they promise to leave out of this. I'm surprise that they did. I guess they wanted the money, more then having Marcino on their ass."

"I'm sorry Calandra, I should have stayed away from you."

"Jack, you don't have to apologize and plus if I never met you, until this day I would never found out that you were family. My question for you is how did you meet Riddick?"

"He was captured by this guy named Johns. For some reason I knew that these two men didn't like each other. Anyways, we were on this ship called Hunter-Grazter; it crashed on the planet called T2. I had a schoolgirl crush on him so bad that I even shaved my head to be just like him. There were others too but one of them really took a liking to us and that was Carolyn Fry, she died for Riddick and till this day, he still don't understand why. The only reason why Riddick use Johns as bait; Riddick founded out that I was a girl. Everyone else thought that I was a guy. I was bleeding and those hammerheads knew it and could smell it. Johns told Riddick to use me as bait but instead he chose Johns. Then I was attacked by a full-grown hammerhead and Riddick killed it for me. After that we were like Bonnie and Clyde until he drop me off on New Mecca." she whispered

"How did you meet Marcino?"

"Lupus Five, I joined up with some Mercs and they slaved me out. I should have stayed in New Mecca. All wanted was to be with him."

Jack closed her eyes and yawned. Jack and Calandra got out of the pool and went Riddick's room. Calandra was glad that he was not there; she didn't feel like dealing with him at that moment. Jack got into bed and went to sleep immediately.