Rating: R mostly for language
Genre: Drama/ a little comedy to break it up
AN: Jack may seem a little out of character in the first couple of chapters because I did it on purpose. I just figured, even though she may be tough she is still a little girl that just been through some crazy shit… so in the story she is going through a little shock. The real Jack will be surfacing soon do not worry.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the concepts of characters from PB or COR.
Part TwoJack looked at the array of clothes in front of her never believing that one person could have this much. She pulled the first thing she saw, which was a pair of sweat pants and a baggy T-shirt, "These will do," she said facing Anissa
"Good, why don't you take a bath while I go downstairs and cook something up?" She waited for Jack's approval "Ok, let me go get you some towels"
After Anissa left the room Jack just looked around in awe and a little envy. The room was pretty spacious and was simple with only a bed, a dresser, and a desk. The walls were a sky blue and adorned with fluffy clouds and the bed resembled a large cloud and had a bunch of fluffy white pillows. In the corner of the room was the desk that was painted a bright orange and acting as the sun. Jack like it. In fact she loved it because it relaxed her… made her feel like she belonged. It was a room that a thirteen-year-old girl and her mother would decorate together. Jack envied Anissa's daughter already and she hadn't even met her 'she has a mother that loves her enough to do this for her…already has one up on me'. Jack turned towards the door and was startled by Anissa leaning against the doorframe watching her.
"Here you go Jack" she said handing the towels over to the young girl " Come, I'll show you where the bathroom is" Anissa noted the change in the girls face 'like she's disappointed.' "Don't worry you can come back to the room afterwards" Jack smiled and followed her out of the room and down the hall. ' This girl has been through a lot' Anissa thought as she pointed the room out to Jack. She stopped before heading down stairs "Is there anything in particular that you would like to eat?" the girl beamed and said "A burger and a strawberry milkshake!"
Imam was alone in a fit full sleep when Anissa entered the living room. He was sweating profusely and his eyes were moving rapidly underneath his eyelids. She thought for a second that she should wake him but decided against it when he started to calm down. She took another look at him. He had grown a lot older since the last time she seen him… she hardly recognized him. The same question that had been bugging her since he called out her name on the porch popped in to her head again 'Can I find it in my heart to forgive him?' She knew that she didn't have the answer to this question and she wasn't sure she wanted to anyway 'can a leopard really change its spots? I'm not so sure,' she left him there deciding to wake him when dinner was finished and made her way in to the kitchen.
She stopped in the doorway when she saw Riddick rummaging through her fridge. She would have laughed if she wasn't so tired and suspicious of the man because he was picking various items out sniffing it and depending on the smell either ate it or fed it to Cojack.
"So I see you two have made up" Riddick dropped the old potato salad that Anissa had been meaning to through out. Cojack greedily lapped it off the floor. The tension in the room between the two was immediately visible as their guards went up. Different thoughts ran through their heads as they stood starring at each other:
' Why does he make me feel so uneasy?'
'When is she gonna fuckin' cook…'
'Why does he seem so familiar?'
'Her breasts are huge. I'm gonna hit that soon…'
'He's probably dangerous…'
'Why the hell is she still standing there?'
"I'm hungry," Riddick said in a deadpan voice.
"Ok"
"When are you gonna cook?" Riddick could feel his blood pressure increase.
"I will in a minute" she wanted to see how far she could push him before he got angry… doesn't look like she could go too far with the way he was looking at her like he wanted to kill her.
'This bitch wants to try me'
Riddick shifted his head to the side kind of like a dog when he didn't understand something. He got so close to Anissa that she could feel his breath on her neck and he made an inhuman growl that shook her to the core and scared the shit out of her.
"I told you that I was hungry so be a good little girl and get me something to eat… or I'll throw you over my knee." Riddick wanted to do something that would put her over the top, so he slapped her hard on the ass and laughed when she jumped and yelped. He walked over to the kitchen table lounged back in a chair and put his feet up on her glass table.
'That asshole!' Anissa could feel the heat rolling off her as she slammed pots and pans around the kitchen. She hated that it looked like she was being submissive, but she new if she didn't cook anything the girl and her father would have nothing to eat. 'Damn that bastard!' She started throwing things on the counter and glancing Riddick's way. She shouldn't have looked because the smirk on his face just pissed her off more 'What's with those damn goggles anyway? Looks like a fucking retard!'
In the other room, Imam was startled awake by all the banging and slamming coming from the room next door. He quickly gathered himself off the couch and ran into the kitchen to see what was amiss. He ran in looking side to side only to find his daughter fuming behind the counter cooking and Riddick lounging like he was without a care in the world.
"Is everything alright?" He asked looking back and forth between the two.
"Everything smells like fucking roses in here, Holy Man" Riddick said grinning at Anissa and picking an apple out of the fruit bowl. Imam looked at his daughter raising his eyebrows silently asking the same question. She grumbled something that sounded close to "fine" to Imam, so satisfied he sat down at the table.
Anissa was almost finished with the burgers and was throwing ingredients in the blender for the milkshakes when a cleaner and more content Jack entered the kitchen. This reminded Anissa that she still hadn't found anything for her father and 'The Asshole' to change into yet and it was already four thirty. She was glad that it was Saturday or she would have never made it to work.
"I'll try to find something around here for the two of you to wear or your things can wash while you are taking a shower? It's your choice" Anissa said coldly placing the condiments and buns on the table. 'Someone must have pissed her off' Jack looked over at Riddick who was smugly munching on an apple 'Must have been him. They're already not getting along… wonder what will happen if she learns his identity.'
"Finished" she said laying the steaming burgers "There's cheeses, lettuce, and tomatoes on the counter if you want and juice and water if you don't want the milkshakes" Before Anissa could finish talking the trio was already up fixing their burgers and stuffing their faces. Owning her own bakery Anissa witness a variety of wild eating habits, but she had never seen any human being devour food quite as ferociously as Jack, Imam, and especially Riddick. She was starting to feel worried that she might have not made enough food. When their hunger was finally satiated there only remained half a bottle of ketchup and two slices of tomato.
" Oh! I think I ate to much" Jack sat back rubbing her swollen stomach like a pregnant woman. "But it was soo good," 'As hungry as I was it could have been shit and I would've loved it'
"It was great, Anissa, thank you very much" Imam said gratefully, looking at Riddick who was picking his teeth, waiting for him to say something too. Riddick sighed "Yeah, it was alright… a little dry…" Imam just shook his head and Anissa crossed her arms deciding to let what he said slide… for now.
"Jack will be sleeping in Bri's room so that leaves another room that one of you can sleep in and then there is a sofa bed in the family room. Decide between yourselves what you want." Imam quickly said that he would sleep in the family room because he didn't want to wake them with his prayers. So it was decided and they helped Anissa clean up… well really Jack and Imam helped her and Riddick walked off into the rest of the house to do his own thing.
Riddick wandered around the house while the others finish cleaning the mess in the kitchen. Riddick had to admit to himself that, that was the best meal that he had in years, but he wasn't gonna admit this to anyone. 'Shit, they might think I needed them or something'.
He made it through all of the rooms downstairs and noted that none of them were bedrooms, so he started for the stairs. He took them two at a time and ended up in a long hallway with about four doors two on each side. The first door on the left had a poster on it with words that read "Brianna's Paradise" the door across from it was the quest room that he would be staying in. It was plain he noticed only a queen size bed, a desk, and a closet all in gray. Riddick went over and pressed the bed testing how firm it was, satisfied he went over to the closet and discovered that it was full of men's clothing.
'Must've belonged to an ex, I know she don't have no man now as tight- assed as she's been acting… she needs to get laid' Riddick grabbed a shirt and pants that would be the least snug on him and laid them on the bed. He grabbed a towel that he found in the closet and made his way back into the hall. The second door on the left was the bathroom that he passed and went into the room next to his, which he discovered was Anissa's, nicely decorated in a bungalow theme that had a large bathroom of its own. Grinning to himself, he turned the shower on high, stripped off his clothes, and stepped under the scorching stream.
Imam wrapped a robe over himself as he stepped out of the shower. He went downstairs to retrieve his clothing that had been washing during his shower. When he reached the laundry area Anissa was there pulling his robes out of the drier.
"Thank you" he said taking the robes from her "For every thing… You have been more gracious then I expected since we didn't leave on friendly terms the last time we were together. I just want to say sor-" Anissa cut him off before he could finish his apology
"Forget it! It's late and you look like you have been through a lot, why don't we go to sleep and worry about all of this later." Anissa didn't look him in the face but just continued walking out of the room and up the stairs towards her bedroom.
She entered her bedroom and closed the door behind her. It was unusually hot in there so she took off her robe revealing the small baby blue camisole and short pajama set that she had gotten from her ex before they broke up, she didn't know why she still wore it. When she turned to place her robe on the bedpost, she saw the light on under her bathroom door. 'I must have left it on all this time, damn it! I can't afford this' she thought as she opened the door and entered. Her breath caught in he throat when she saw the beautiful physic that greeted her. There was Riddick walking out of the shower naked as the day he was born. Anissa's eyes racked his body as she fought to breathe again. His body glistened with water drops and her eyes followed the trail of a particular drop, which fell from his upper lip and followed a flesh path down his chin rolling under his neck and uniting with another droplet at his clavicle. The union speeds up the progress of the droplet, which resumed its fall down wards between the valley of his impeccable pecks and furthered its journey down his washboard abs to mingle with a thin trail of hair moving down… down… down…
Suddenly as fast as lightning, Riddick grabbed his towel and wrapped it low over his hips startling Anissa out of her daze. He laughed as he inched closer to her bending to whisper in her ear "It's been a while, huh?" he laughed again and quickly left the bathroom. It took a good five minutes before Anissa was able to compose herself and understand what had just happened. She walked out of her room and noticed that everything was dark and silent; she re-entered the room closing the door silently behind her and leaning against it
'Damn that man is fine' she thought trying unsuccessfully to suppress the butterflies in her stomach and the heat between her legs.