Chapter 11 part 1

When Kirby returned from the marketplace, she was met by an angry looking Riddick.

"Where have you been?" he demanded, he looked like he had been worrying for the past hours that she had been gone.

"Out." she stated firmly.

"You are not supposed to be 'out' without someone escorting you." He said nearly spitting he was so furious.

Kirby looked around him and saw Melany leaning up against the wall scowling because it wasn't her Riddick was paying

attention to.

"Why are you controlling my every move?" Kirby said trying to side step him but he moved where ever she went.

"Your back is hurt." Riddick yelled in her face and pointing a finger at her.

"Ya, that's it Riddick." She said pushing past him.

Kirby sat on her bed looking around the barely lit room. It was a very solemn and depressed place she decided kicking

off her boots and falling back onto the bed. A knock came on the door and she glanced over raising her eyebrows in

surprise. "Come in."

Riddick stepped inside, "Gotta change your bandages." he whispered.

She bit her lip and stared at the ceiling thinking, and totally ignoring his statement.

"Did you mean what you said earlier? You know about the back thing?"she asked wearily.

He paused and looked at her shape on the bed. It radiated with beautiful reds and purples.

Riddick then walked up to her, his eyes glimmered with an audacity to them. Kirby looked up at his towering figure and

folded her hands nicely behind her head. Then she cocked her head to the side wondering why he was staring at her.

"Yeah," he said.

"Huh?"

"Yeah, I meant what I said about your back." he said grabbing the first aid kit from beside the bed. Kirby sat up and

pulled her shirt off in front of him. He looked surprise but she looked like she had done it thousands of times before.

"You just strip like that for anyone?" he asked.

"No, I just figure you have seen a naked woman before." she said then layed down on her stomach.

Riddick started taking off her bandages, making sure he was careful when she spoke again.

"Who was that person you compared me to."

"At the beach?"

"Yea," she said wincing as he peeled a strip of bandage off.

"Her name was Jack. I knew that if she hung around me I would rub off on her and that

would ultimately take her life..." he fell silent.

"I'm sorry you lost her..." Kirby whispered.

"Who said I lost her?"

She didn't sat anything else and put her head down into the pillow as he ripped another strip off.

"Riddick..."she said in a muffled voice.

"Sorry."