Yay for another chapter! And to all those who knew it was Pip good for yous.

This chapter might seem a little dull, but it's much needed, and the next chapter will be coming very soon because it's a part I'm very excited about. Just be a little patient.

Saismatt, Yeah the beginning is a little dull, but I'm going to leave it as it is for now. Maybe when it's finished I'll go back in and fix it. However, I do completely agree, and I went back in and change it so she wasn't just "talking" because you're right that did seem a little too calm, especially after she looked at their bag like it had a life of its own.

As for your problem with not remembering who Pip is, I realize some others might have the same problem so I added more in, and Riddick describes how he knows who Pip is. It should be enough for everyone to be reminded who Pip is.

Then with Jack thinking of herself as an assassin in that way. She does and she doesn't. She knows she's an assassin, and she isn't really a good person, but she doesn't really hate herself. She's trying to cope.

Yeah, I figured that Jack said that Pip reminded her of Johns and then Riddick calling him a Billy Bad-ass, what he actually called Johns in Pitch Black, would just solidify the idea of who it was for those who weren't sure and were really paying attention to everything.

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Jack thought she had control.

She had sat for over an hour waiting for Riddick to come back. He had only said "Toombs" upon walking out of the ship when she questioned him, which left Jack figuring that the merc wasn't going to be lasting much longer. It also led her to believe that Riddick might actually be gone for a bit.

Possibly long enough for her to go do a hit…

So Jack had been wrong, she didn't have control…

After a half an hour more Jack jumped up, pulled on her shoes, stashed a shiv in one of them, and headed out of the ship, locking up before she left. She headed toward the darkest part of Lupus 5, which was saying something as the whole planet was dirty to the core. Someone would want a hit-man for cheap; she'd just have to turn her head and squint to find the right person. Hell she'd offer it for free if she had to, Jack just wanted that job. She wanted reason for killing someone, even if it wasn't a good reason. Hell, "He cheated at poker" would be good enough for her.

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A while later Jack stepped into a bar, dimly lit, people whispering. Jack looked like nothing special, her new clothes had clearly been worn by someone before she got them but she hadn't cared. They were cheap, and they fit, that's all that mattered. Also Jack didn't look like she was a hooker, so she only got lingering looks before being left alone to look for a place to sit.

The bartender took to giving her a problem for not wanting to order something, but Jack still just insisted, "I'm just looking for a job from one of your patrons." She didn't say it loud enough to be suspicious, but she did say it loud enough to be heard by anyone within five feet. After that it didn't take long at all for someone to sit next to her. Three minutes tops.

"What kind of job you looking for sweetheart?" The man asked leaning in a little too close for Jack's liking.

"I'm not sucking anything, if that's what you're thinking," Jack growled as the bartender left them to tend to someone who called out for a refill, saying he'd be back for her order or kicking her out. The man next to her had a beer in his hand, and when he didn't leave or just call out for a refill of his half filled glass she added quietly, "I'll kill just about anyone for anything though."

"Mmh, thought so," The man said before taking another swig of his beer, "How about a hundred Universal Denominations? That good, for an easy job? Be like polishing silver, or getting an attractive guy off with that pretty mouth of yours."

"What'd he do? Where is he? I'll tell you if a hundred's worth my time," Jack said as she looked at the man next to her. He was hefty, but it seemed like he could do some damage… in a caveman type of way. The man had a buzz cut, and smelled of booze. Over all he looked like an idiot…

"He's just a pain in the ass, always looking for work where he shouldn't. The stupid fuck need's to stay down here so the cops that are around don't start doing their jobs." The man said as she swirled what was left of his beer around.

"Cops need to be paid too," Jack insisted as she looked across the way at the different bottles of alcohol that were sitting on shelves, "But if you can get around to telling me what he looks like and where he is, I can take him off your hands none the less."

"Here's a picture," He said as he pulled out a flimsy piece of paper. "As for where he is, check the allies near the brothels few buildings down." He watched as Jack looked at the picture, committed the better toned man to memory before setting the picture down. "Don't you want that? In case you need to compare?"

"Nah you keep it, you'll need something to remember him by," Jack said as she dusted off the back of her pants. "No one will ever find all of him anyway."

The man went to say something else, but Jack wandered off before he could. Really she was grateful to be away from the boozer. He reeked; insulted her sense of smell, but then again all of Lupus 5 did that.

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It took about fifteen minutes but Jack found the right guy. Of course being next to a brothel also meant that she also found a prostitute giving him a good time. Jack frowned in disgust before she rolled back around the corner she peeked around. She'd give the man some time let him have his last kick before she killed him. Also, Jack thought that she'd save the girl doing him some trauma... not that Jack didn't know the girl was probably already traumatized in her line of work…

"Hey, Jackie, wanna have some fun?"

Jack's heart nearly stopped, her blood felt like pancake batter that just wouldn't move through her veins. She turned her head slowly, only to find a face she didn't want to see. One she had been imagining on others. Her green eyes were wide, and Jack couldn't seem to move. Her voice wouldn't even come to her right now. All she could do was think… hope that she was just seeing things again.

"What Jack? Don't remember me?" He asked as he moved in front of her. "You left me for dead. You said that you never forgot someone you killed."

"Pip I tried," Jack forced out as she backed into the wall as much as she could. "I wanted to find everyone and get them somewhere safe but he wouldn't let me. He wanted me off the planet and he took me."

"He? You mean Riddick; you know the one Tasha called Richard. Richard B. Riddick?" Pip questioned, he didn't wait for answers though when he noticed Jack's eyes grow hopeful at the sound of Tasha's name.

"Tasha… the others…" Jack whispered even though she tried in vain to make her voice louder. She reached out to grab Pip, intending to shake him, make him tell her where they were. Make him tell her they were alive.

"No, you don't get to worry about them!" Pip hollered at her as he evaded her grasp and pulled out a gun. "You left Tasha; I mean yeah, I can understand you leaving me. Really it almost doesn't even bother me that you left me to die; I can even see you leaving Gigi and Victor, but Tasha. You loved that girl so much it had me wondering."

Jack looked at the gun, it sobered her to be on the other side of the killing machine. What was really killing her, though, was that the guy who didn't really like Tasha was bashing her for not saving the girl. "I couldn't stop him from taking me; I couldn't stop Riddick from doing anything he wanted…" Jack said, still not being able to get the whine out of it.

"You could have killed him," Pip said as he pushed the gun into Jack's stomach, "You being the big bad assassin of the group. Why didn't you just add his face to the list instead of ours?!"

Jack couldn't tell Pip that she could never kill Riddick, but her voice was barely missed as another voice from her past spoke up…

Toombs.

"Well I for one am very happy she didn't kill Riddick," Toombs said as a group of mercs circled around them.

"Because he is worth twice as much alive," Jack grumbled as she turned her head to look at the man who had talked, instead of the one with a gun in her gut.

"That's right," Toombs said sounding way too pleased, like he already had Riddick behind bars. Not that it was likely unless Riddick was just handing himself over to mercs these days. However the real reason he was pleased came out of his mouth next. "You, you're worth as much as he is dead, alive. So we'll be taking you in, after we use you as bait to get Riddick under lock and key too."

"He won't come for me, I've fucked up," Jack said leaning her head back when Toombs came closer to put his face next to hers. She would have moved altogether, if it weren't for the gun, well guns now pointed at her. Four others had shown up, including the guy from the bar, and the one that had been in the alley a moment ago. After noting this though Jack continued to lie, and said, "I couldn't keep up. He's probably on his way to New Mecca by now."

Toombs seemed suddenly very unhappy; obviously taking her words as truth. "New Mecca?" He asked grabbing her shirt and pulling her towards him, and away from Pip's gun. "Why would he go to New Mecca?"

"Would you look for him there?" Jack asked trying not to seem surprised that Toombs was this much of an idiot. It was the easiest lie she knew, and he was falling for it. Someone left the planet. It sent hoards of unwanted people to New Mecca looking for someone who wasn't there. It got old for Jack but she had to remember that not everyone had heard the lie, that it was only an old wasted lie for her.

And well Pip…

"He's not going to New Mecca," Pip suddenly cut in as he bashed Jack in the head with the back of his gun. It hurt and startled her, but it wasn't enough to knock her out. "If he's going to New Mecca then New Mecca is filled to the brim with corpses, and people who ripped off the casinos on Freemont. She tells everyone that when people go looking for someone she wants to keep hidden, or doesn't know herself where they are."

"Bitch," Toombs growled at Jack as he punched her in the face. He watched Jack stagger, and bend down holding her head before he started deliberating. "Well," He thought out loud "We could just go chain her up on the ship and broadcast that we have her. We stick around for a few days and let him try to come get her…"

Pip sighed, almost disappointed in himself that he joined up with such a useless merc. Still he nodded when Toombs looked to him for his opinion. Toombs after all did know how to find Riddick, had the heads up on him, and Jack was obviously there too just like he thought. He wanted to kill her though. He wasn't sure that Crematoria was enough for what Jack had done.

"Whoa-ahh…!"

Everyone turned to see Jack disappear around the corner and the man she'd been set up by looking down at the knife in his chest. It took them all of a second before Toombs yelled to everyone else, "Get her! Get her!"

Up on the roof, though, Riddick was frowning as he inspected his shiv. His silver eyes were hidden under his welders' goggles, but they were hard none the less. After a moment more he started towards where the yells and shouts of the mercs chasing Jack were. All he had to say was, "Jack you are fucking up."