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Full Summary: 'Maybe he wouldn't kill her just yet.' She was only meant to be another kill; instead they're both caught up in a cat and mouse hunt and stuck with each other. "Well I sure as hell chose the wrong girl to kidnap." Murder, lust, space-ship chases, fighting for your life and lots and lots of swearing. "I'm bleeding all over my new clothes, being chased by more Mercs than I care to count and I'm on a stolen space-ship. Now I know I'm hanging around with Riddick."
Pairings: Riddick/OC
Rating: M – swearing and sex scenes
Saviour
Chapter Three
Eleayna was checking over the controls at the head of the ship, Riddick was sitting on the side with one foot propped on the swivelling chair watching her. Hawke ignored him as he approached her; he leant sideways in the doorway with his arms crossed against his chest.
"So. Why did you get me out of there?"
Riddick continued sharpening his shiv though he was listening hard, his head on one side as Eleayna stiffened slightly but didn't turn around.
"You know why, I needed a ship…"
Hawke cut across her easily and Riddick felt a distinct charge in the air; she was getting angry again.
"Bollocks! You could have gotten a ship without dragging me out of there as part of a deal."
Eleayna continued checking everything over, her back on him even as he took a step into the room and dropped into the chair next to the one occupied by Riddick's foot.
"Hawke, drop it. Your father is the best ship-dealer around, I had a better chance of a good ship from him rather than stealing one and he had a condition… you."
As she leaned over to retrieve something that had slipped over the edge towards the window he placed a lazy hand on the back of her thigh. She grabbed his hand and twisted it back at a painful angle before Riddick could even blink. Hawke didn't flinch.
"Well then, why we're discussing our reasons what about us, I'm sure you had a reason for turning into a fugitive so let's hear it."
His anger was rising and Riddick smiled, watching the pair of them with distinct amusement.
"Like you said, we were young." Her voice was pure ice.
"So because we were eighteen it was all just a bunch of shit?"
The anger in the room was intoxicating and Riddick leaned back against the cool window, inhaling it as he watched the scene unfolding before him.
"Let's get one thing straight, Hawke. You're the one that disappeared and then turned up a year later thinking we could just pick everything up where we left off. I'm not a good person; I've killed people Hawke, and you know what… I enjoyed it."
Riddick studied her profile as she calmly continued her work on the ship without once looking at Hawke who was looking thunderous and somewhat desperate.
"So… what, I was just a bump in the road before you went on the run?"
Eleayna leaned up to flick a few of the overhead switches; her face was carefully blank as she replied even though Hawke couldn't see it;
"Something like that."
Hawke closed the remaining space between them and placed both hands on the control board at either side of her as she turned, effectively pinning her in position. Neither seemed to notice that Riddick was still there.
"That's that then, eight months we spent preparing to forget."
Shoving him roughly away Eleayna stalked across the room towards the door, pausing as she reached it she turned back to look at him;
"It was nine months, actually.
Eleayna kept her back to the window as Hawke exited the ship to be met by his father. She knew Riddick was watching her from the darkness at the back of the control room but she ignored him, her hand fiddled with something at her neck vaguely but even Riddick's sharp eyes couldn't discern what it was nestled under her top. Both were still in their ripped and bloodied clothes from the night before, they had showered separately but had not had much choice but to change back into their ruined clothes afterwards. Eleayna closed the ship's doors and started the power up, she was about to ask Riddick where he would prefer to be dumped when she felt him directly behind her.
"You wouldn't be thinking of dropping me on the nearest planet now, would you?"
She felt a thrill of fear run down her spine as his hand traced lightly up her arm to caress her neck, it invigorated her; she was never afraid.
"What would you be planning on doing if I was?"
She could practically hear him smile as he replied, his left hand pricking the bare skin of her navel with a shiv while his other rested on her neck; lightly enough but she knew he could snap her neck in a second if he so chose.
"Well you see, I wouldn't like that. So I've decided… I'm gonna stay right here."
A hot curl of desire began to stir deep inside her as he drew the shiv lightly across the skin of her navel, not enough to draw blood but enough for her skin to react with a scattering of goose bumps that raced each other all over her lower body. She could feel every inch of him pressed against her, moulded to her back as his two middle fingers moved in gentle circles on the skin of her throat.
"What about me, have you decided what you're going to do with me yet?"
There was only curiosity in her voice, no fear but a touch of suggestion as she felt the sharp pressure at her navel suddenly cease to be replaced by the light caress of his hand at her bared hip, his fingers biting into her skin just enough to make her bite her lip to stifle the incoherent noise trapped in her throat.
"Keep you… kill you… who knows… for now I'll let you fly."
The hand at her neck tilted her head back and to the left slightly so his own could switch from above her to her right side, his cheek brushing her ear as he lowered his lips to where her shoulder was bared by the fallen shoulder of her top.
"And later?"
As he dropped his hand from her throat he trailed his fingers lazily down over her collar-bone and down her arm. His lips brushed the skin of her shoulder so lightly she would have thought she had imagined it if it hadn't been for the sparks now shooting through every inch of her body.
"I'll let you know."
His breath caressed her shoulder and she shuddered, his left hand had inched its way to just below her belly-button, his fingers brushing just below the waistline of her trousers. Using every ounce of strength she could muster she refrained from squirming beneath his ministrations, something that seemed to amuse him as he smiled against her ear. Just as she had summoned the strength to speak his hands were gone and, spinning around, she could see no sign of him even as she strained her eyes to see into the shadows.
"So where's this bucket of rusty bolts heading?"
Eleayna didn't bother looking up as she twirled idly from side to side in the pilot seat, her feet propped up on the control board and her head leaning back against the headrest; her eyes closed.
"We're going to visit some old friends."
He cocked his head to the side as he watched her, his eyes taking in the coordinates of their destination with uneasiness; they weren't familiar. She continued without waiting for him to ask her and he leant sideways against the wall with his large arms folded.
"To be specific; we're going to where I grew up."
He shot her a look and she wondered briefly how he knew about her family before going on, her gaze fixed awkwardly on him as she continued to swirl the chair.
"It's a refuge-colony. They take in people with no where to go."
He didn't say anything but she knew he was listening even as he remained staring at her impassively.
"And somewhere full of innocent little orphans could really benefit from sharing a ship with a convict?"
She smirked at him and raised an eyebrow; eyeing him upside down over the back of her chair. The pose was oddly seductive; her long legs in her ripped leather trousers at the moment coiled onto the control board, and he had an intriguing view of her breasts partly-covered by her thick blood-red hair and her dark emerald eyes peering coyly at him from under her inky lashes.
Had he been anyone else Riddick would have shifted uncomfortably at the sight of her staring at him so wantonly, as it was he couldn't help but sniff the air between them a little deeper. She seemed satisfied with this as she straightened up in her chair over the loud voice announcing their approaching of the colony. Sliding her chair forwards and locking it into place against the controls she quickly pulled the ship into a docking bay and cut the power. Turning she found Riddick gone.
Hurrying off the ship she found him already scanning the empty bay through his goggles and his stance defensive. Eleayna walked right past him until she was near the door leading into the main part of the ship.
"Something's wrong."
He raised his head to look at her but she was already punching in a code to unlock the door. Watching as it opened she stared into the darkness of the corridor before her, Riddick joined her in the doorway and lifted his goggles onto his head so he could see. A red light flashed and cast a momentary glow over the ruined corridor. As it flashed again Eleayna scanned the numerous holes in the walls made by plasma blasts, dead bodies littered the floor; women, children, men.
As he took a step through the door the rubble crunched under Riddick's feet, the flickering red light reflected in his eyes as Eleayna followed him in, her eyes still sweeping the wreckage before them. He turned to say something to her but she was already nudging past him, racing down the corridor. He followed. He found her outside a large door which had been blasted open, the room inside was ruined. Furniture was overturned, pictures shattered and papers strewn around from the depths of a blasted desk.
Circling the desk and climbing over a nearby table Eleayna knelt down besides the body of an elderly woman sprawled awkwardly across the floor.
"You've grown child."
Riddick raised his head to watch as the woman smiled up at Eleayna through her pain, sweat beaded her forehead and her dark grey hair had fallen out of its neat bun.
"What happened?"
The woman nodded at a large screen where fragmented images were flickering on and off through bursts of static.
"The Memory Stores?"
She nodded again and Eleayna got to her feet, crossing to the remains of the desk she tugged away a wire which gave off a few sparks before tapping a code into the pictured buttons.
"Preparing to play last viewed memory."
The metallic voice had barely faded when images of a little girl crying over a dead woman faded into the same girl watching a man being shot in the head. A burst of static was followed by the same girl, now a few years older by the look of her, being shoved aside by a tall handsome boy who took the full blast being aimed at her. Riddick glanced at Eleayna who was clutching at the thing around her neck convulsively, her knuckles turning white, she stabbed at a button and the screen cut out. She returned to the woman's side.
"They were here weren't they?"
She nodded slightly and Eleayna's face contorted in anger, Riddick could smell it in the air mixing with the smell of death and something else; sorrow.
"How would they know to come here, Vittoria?"
The woman merely smiled as Eleayna hung her head.
"I'm sorry I brought them here."
She felt the woman touching the top of her head lightly and she looked up.
"Oh child, you could never know they'd come here. But you must do what you can now, to save others."
Eleayna leant back on her heels and pushed her hands into her hair in frustration. Riddick was silent watching her; he was remembering something a long time ago, someone dying in his arms.
"I don't know what to do anymore, Vittoria. There's no one left… and I don't know if I can do this on my own."
Riddick turned his attention back to the scene unfolding before him as he felt the old woman's gaze on him.
"You could always do this on your own; I've never known anyone stronger. But this time, you're not alone…" Eleayna slowly turned to look at Riddick who was staring back at them impassively. "Help comes from the strangest of places, child."
Eleayna continued to stare at Riddick until a violent cough from Vittoria made her turn back to the woman who now lay dead before her. Sighing she leant forwards and pressed a brief kiss to her wrinkled forehead before getting quickly to her feet and moving to the buttons again. As she punched in a sequence Riddick felt the ship shift beneath them, Eleayna walked straight past him and out of the door.
"Come on."
He eyed her for a moment before following, his eyes darting all over to check for anyone who posed a threat. They soon reached a blank door in a distant part of the ship which Eleayna opened, walking into it she pulled open a drawer and indicated it to him as she made her way into the adjoining bathroom.
"Fresh clothes there; help yourself."
She could hear Riddick shifting about in the room as she stared at herself in the mirror, her hand went to the chain around her neck and she touched it briefly before setting about finding some clean clothes for herself.
With a heavy heart but a perfectly blank face Eleayna pressed the button that launched the bomb that turned the colony into a blazing funeral pyre. Riddick watched her as she stared out of the window at her last link to a home. She had changed into a pair of black combats that fell low at her waist, held up by a thick heavy belt, and a white tank top under a black zip-up jacket with elbow length sleeves.
"Never love anyone, kid." She turned to look at him as he stared at her from the shadows. "If you do, you might as well pull the trigger yourself."
She returned to staring out of the window and contemplated Vittoria's words; was Riddick meant to help her? He sure didn't sound like he had any intentions of it. In her short twenty-five years she had never met anyone so seemingly uninterested in saving anyone's neck but his own. Yet he had saved her and Hawke at that club. He confused her. Turning to look at him she found he was still watching her;
"Well it looks like we're stuck with each other." A slow smile curved his lips and she swallowed at the predatory look in his eyes as she spoke. "Any ideas?"
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