Riddick and Nadia had coffee then she took him down into the basement, it looked a little like a sewer. There was a complex system of tunnels branching off of one another going three different ways. An arsenal of guns and ammo lined the tunnel walls, small handguns and shivs to submachine guns to rocket launchers and larger knives, one knife was rounded blade, so when thrown it would cut anything down in its path, kind of like a frisbee.
"How the hell do you have this kind of fire power?" Riddick impressed with the fire power she had lining the walls, Riddick took an interest in the frisbee shaped blade,
"That is my favorite piece." Nadia smirked,
"Just wait big evil, this is just the beginning. These are my escape routes, they lead in three different directions, it took me forever to figure out how to go about it blind, and then once my shined eyes came in I got lost a couple times, but I got marks on the walls now. This one will take you out of town, and in any tunnel you can arm up on the way through.
This one will lead to Damien's place, and the other one is very special. It leads to my ship, if I have mercs on my ass I can blow them to hell and back, the walls are packed with very special fireworks, just a flip of a switch and no more mercs." Nadia explained as they walked through the tunnel that led to Damien's place.
At the club
"What are we doing here Jack?" Riddick asked,
"Damien feeds me breakfast but we are here for you to watch. Figured you wouldn't let me pull my moves on you so, the only other person to help in this kind of situation is…" Nadia standing by Damien,
"An ex-military man." Damien speaking up.
"Wait…he knows…about…" Riddick pointing to himself,
"Imam and his whole family died. I would have died if he hadn't found me and got me help. He is the reason I can protect myself now. I needed someone to fall against, and being blind, he helped me see when I couldn't." Nadia seriously. They were standing by the bar in the club,
"Trust me Byron, I'm not going to come between two furyan soulmates." Damien smiling a little, Riddick made as if he had heard the comment, still upset that his Jack had told this guy who he was.
"Alright, so come on, we'll go back to the basement, can't have us breakin' shit in the club." Damien leading the way. Riddick followed them down to the basement and sat on the stairs out of the way while Damien and Nadia loosened up. When they started their moves, Riddick watched her, it seemed as if she was pay attention to Damien's muscles contracting to predict his movements, which she blocked every single time.
Most of the moves she threw were what Riddick would imagine were moves from the military training that Damien had taught her, she was good with matching Damien's punches and kicks. She finally got the drop on Damien, seeing her opening she took it and flipped him on his back and had a blade shoot from her boot heel and lay against Damien's throat.
"I yield." Damien shouted. Riddick smirked, she gave him a hand up,
"Okay breakfast now?" Damien asked,
"Sure, if Byron's seen enough?" Nadia asked.
"Pretty good, fight me, with contacts out and with the rattan eskrima sticks." Riddick grabbing a pair of rattan eskrimas as Jack looked at Damien, she took her contacts out and put them in her case.
"Alright you're on." Nadia grabbing the pair of rattan eskrima and Damien cutting the lights off.
"Afraid to leave your DNA behind?" Nadia asked,
"Just don't want you blood on my hands." Riddick growled as he took his first quick attack on her, aiming for her left arm, she blocked. She made a strike to his left side towards his ribs, he blocked. They went through all 12 striking techniques of Arnis pretty fast, but it didn't take them long to start they started to pull dirty tricks. Riddick threw a foot out to catch her knees, she twirled away and got him in the side of the back with her elbow.
He growled, their movements became quicker, their rattan eskrima slapping against the opposing rattan eskrima. Riddick slapped Nadia's fingers and that was it, Nadia hissed, she knew right where she was in the basement, she had trained with Damien down there a lot. She kicked off the wall and gave him a roundhouse kick to the head and he was down. Nadia held her rattan eskrima against his neck,
"Do you yield?" Nadia hissed in the dark, she tightened the stick against his neck,
"Yeah, I yield." Riddick grumbled, she let him go but kept her guard up in case he pulled something on her, slowly she gave him room, her hand on her own shiv, he turned and kicked her legs out, she fell to her back. His shiv at her throat,
"What are ya gonna do now?" Riddick asked,
"Could ask you the same." Nadia staring him down, he felt a tapping on the inside of his upper thigh, close to his boys, it was her shiv.
"Good." Riddick smirked, he got up and helped Nadia up,
"You got some strength." Riddick nodded,
"If you really wanna go at her with a shiv, you could use our practice knives." Damien throwing him a rubber knife and giving Nadia one. Riddick took a moment to feel the weight of the rubber knife, felt almost real. Nadia caught him off guard already, but Riddick turned around and they started playing through a knife fight. Their arms moved so fast that it was hard to determine what kind of combination techniques they were using, but he noticed he wasn't feeling the rubber knife blade itself, he was feeling the butt of the knife.
Nadia was fighting with the wrong end of the knife, but the times she had gotten him with the blade, they had been is major areas of an artery. After thirty minutes of hard core practice Riddick had been caught in the back at the abdominal aorta.
"Good." Riddick tapping her on the arm, they gave Damien his practice knives back, he walked over to the table and put in his contacts,
"And I've got stealth. The strength I built up came from training and building this town back." Nadia whispered in his ear, a tingle ran down Riddick's back, he hadn't even heard her move.
"As in hammer and nails?" Riddick asked,
"Carried roofing, boards, hammered and nailed, though it was a bit hard doing it blind. Also paid for a good bit of it. Then Serge had me boxing, and other training, it was a year later that my eyes came in." Nadia explained,
"What do you mean?" Riddick confused,
"You didn't have your eyes shined, you were born with them. I guess in females they turn shined at a certain age. A bit weird really, thought I was going crazy when I could slowly start picking out things in the dark." Nadia shrugged, his mind went back to the 'furyan soulmate' as Damien had called them, he wasn't really to see Nadia like that, he could hardly even wrap his mind around this chick being the little kid he had saved so long ago.
He knew this girl was Jack, she smelt like Jack and his senses had never been wrong but he had to wrap his head around the fact that he had fucked jack like an animal half the night and the other half of the morning he had took his time and enjoyed every inch of her. None of it was bad, it was intense, his body and hers fit so tightly perfect like a puzzle piece, no, this was bad, very bad.
"Hey B! Stop thinking too much and have a beer and a sandwich!" Nadia slugging him in the arm with her fingers that he had slapped with the rattan eskrima,
"You gonna finish breakin' those fingers Jack?" Riddick growled out,
"Must have been some welcome back last night to sleep in like this. Hey man might wanna catch that bit of drool you got going on there." Damien pointing to Riddick's chin. Riddick subconsciously licked his lips. He gave Damien a deep rumble in his chest,
"Easy Byron, you do know no one in here in this room is actually afraid of your brooding mood, sit and eat." Nadia kicking a chair out for him to sit down. He sat down and Damien gave him a beer, Riddick knocked the cap off using the edge of the table.
"So, you got muscles, you can see in the dark, what else you got kid?" Riddick taking a chug of beer, this time Nadia growled, before he could catch her leg she kicked the leg of Riddick's chair breaking it. Riddick caught himself before he could fall,
"What the fuck Jack?" Riddick asked, she stood up and got in his face.
"Do not call me a kid." Nadia growled again,
"Noted." Riddick went to lean against the sink,
"So…your skills?" Riddick taking a bite of his sandwich,
"I can hack, I have three different accounts, which is how I paid for the city to be built back. I can make you dead so you won't ever have to run again, my ship is untraceable and impenetrable. Nothing gets in and nothing gets out. Best med bay on a ship, of course with the smaller shit I can fix myself and if anyone does come looking, I have something to take care of that too." Nadia seriously. Damien nodded, Riddick glanced at Damien,
"So, this guy the replacement you found? No offense Sergeant." Riddick asked,
"Damn it Riddick!" You listen up, and listen good, you saved me from the hammerheads, that's great. You didn't need some kid slowing you down as you ran and hid. I got that. But your plan failed, yeah, a few years were great, but the only skills I picked up were sewing and hackin', no skills to actually find you or to save Imam. But I didn't run and hide, I tried to save the one person you dumped me off on.
I tried and I failed! If you don't want me now then go, crawl back in the hole or cave or wherever you were hiding." Nadia growled out, Riddick sucked his lips in, he couldn't hold back, he grabbed her by the throat with one hand, and threw her onto the table as Damien picked up his beer and sandwich and let them at it. Nadia didn't struggle, she wasn't going to give him the satisfaction.
"You fuckin' listen to me Jack. You were a kid, wasn't going to have your blood on my hands. You were untrained, a kid, already running from someone. I cared Jack, I cared enough to try to give you a good family, at least a good father figure. You were supposed to forget me and have a life, not running from one!" Riddick bellowed out.
"I could never forget you, you saved our asses, and you killed Johns cause he wanted to use a kid for bait for those hammerheads." Nadia struggled to speak with his huge hand closing off her throat. Riddick slowly backed off, he sat down hard into the chair Nadia had used, slowly she sat up.
"You have never been a monster to me, you saved me from them, Johns, the hammerheads, those were the real monsters, never you." Nadia leaning her forehead against his as she sat on the edge of the table, her legs spread open as Riddick sat in the middle of them in a chair.
"I'm here big guy, and I'm not running from you, ever." Nadia holding his cheeks.
"Maybe you should be running." Riddick grumbled.
"We are in this together now." Nadia seriously.
"Hey why don't you guys go take it somewhere else besides my kitchen table." Damien taking a swig of his beer.
"Come on, I'll take ya to my ship." Nadia getting off of the table and leading Riddick back through the tunnels to the ship.
At the ship
"So, this is my baby." Nadia explained as she let him take a look.
"You're running shipments now?" Riddick asked as he looked at the huge and empty cargo hold,
"Off and on yeah." Nadia shrugged,
"Listen, I …" Riddick started,
"We are good Riddick, I'm sorry too. Just…don't leave me behind this time." Nadia afraid she would wake up and him be gone and disappear again.
"Don't think I could if I even wanted to." Riddick staring her down, he moved past her and up into the main floors on the ship. Nadia watched him go, she gave a half smile, torn between him really being on her ship and him being so defeated because he thought she was dead. She followed after him, he was quiet,
"This baby has three beds, one large bath, and enough kitchen space." Nadia listing the amenities. He was currently in the med bay,
"It's an AI system." Nadia explained, he found a case.
"What's in the case?" Riddick asked,
"In that one, they are serums, a shot, well several of them. Simply pull one out if you have mercs trying to get on the ship and shoot it into your neck before they see you and you can hide in plain sight. They will see someone different and if you look in the mirror you will see someone different but to a true furyan, I will see you, who you truly are. Pretty much plastic surgery, only in a liquid and without going under the knife. One shot will last 12 hours." Nadia seriously,
"And the side effects?" Riddick raising a brow,
"No lasting side effects but you'll crash once it wears off." Nadia seriously.
"How the hell do you have this?" Riddick asked,
"I asked Serge if he knew anything like it and he got his hands on some." Nadia shrugged.
"And this other case?" Riddick asked,
"Your 'get out of slam free' pass. Whenever you want me to do it." Nadia explained,
"Start it now." Riddick commanded, Nadia turned on the AI system, she sat down at a laptop as she opened the case that was voice activated. She got a slip of cotton, like the ones to check blood for a diabetic person, out of the case and grabbed a handheld machine and came over to Riddick,
"Need your blood so you'll be covered by DNA as well as new ID cards." Nadia explained, he hesitated, but placed his finger on the tablet and a tiny needle pricked his finger, a small amount of blood wetted the cotton. Nadia took it and went back to the laptop and began her work,
"Gonna have to strip and lay down on the table. This is for a health record for your new IDs." Nadia seriously. Riddick stripped down and laid on the table,
"Stay still as the AI scans." Nadia explained, he laid perfectly still.
"Scan complete." the AI system chirped,
"Alright, you can put your clothes back on." Nadia typing away. Riddick got the cargos on, he was putting his vest on as he stood behind her and watched her work with his arms crossing his chest. With her computer skills he was aroused, she was smart, she had compassion for her planet that had been ripped apart by those Necros, and she cared enough about him to run with him and to even get him out of mercs hands for good. She was in love with him, how could she not be. She had gone to slams to try tracking him down, she had prepared herself to be able and willing to run with him.
"Why did you come back?" Nadia asked,
"What?" Riddick being brought back to reality,
"You were for sure I had died, why did you come back if you thought I was dead?" Nadia asked.
"Didn't know I was landing on New Mecca. Needed to drown the woman with green eyes that was getting her rocks off by mind fucking me even when I was awake. I must have subconsciously put the coordinates in." Riddick seriously.
"What name do you want?" Nadia asked, with his description of how well he was taking her death she knew she had left some sort of an impact on him as well.
"Byron Richardson." Riddick giving her his full name.
"Its nice to know I was missed." Nadia mumbled as she typed in his name and printed out the IDs and saved all the information, he gave her a crooked smile.
"We need to get things you wanna keep from your ship." Nadia giving him his hard-plastic cards, he stared at the cards. These were official IDs with his birthplace being New Mecca.
"I put your job down as a loader for my shipping company." Nadia explained.
"Hey Jack?" Riddick getting her attention, she turned her head to the side,
"Thanks Jack." Riddick holding the cards up.
"I didn't give you those just to up and leave on me again" Nadia seriously,
"Not going to leave you again, kid." Riddick explained, mumbling the word 'kid' underneath his breath. He went and checked out the rest of the ship. The cockpit had more than just the standard switches and toggles, Nadia had a big smile on her face, like she held a secret.
"Yeah, I pulled out all the bells and whistles for this puppy. She's got an untraceable software system, a invisible shield which will hide the whole ship, she's got lock on target missiles, along with all the other standard shit." Nadia explained.
"Could come in handy." Riddick letting out a chuckle,
"Oh, it does, trust me on that one. Been through an asteroid field and those missiles lock on and don't let go." Nadia sitting down in the cockpit, Riddick sat down in the pilot's chair, Nadia was already in the co-pilots chair, she leaned her head back, and glanced over at Riddick,
"Either way, I'm glad you came back." Nadia softly, he stared at her,
"Glad you're still around to cause me trouble." Riddick gripping her shoulder.