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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." Riddick's choice in kills just dragged him smack into another fight that should never have been his.

Pairings: Riddick/OC

Rating: M – swearing and sex scenes

Saviour

Chapter Nine

"Where are you going?"

Eleayna didn't bother turning around, she was busy strapping a shiv to her inner thigh. When she did look up she only saw two silver spots glowing in the shadows of her unlit room. She surveyed him for a moment, wondering how he got past the guards outside her door. Never mind… she didn't want to know. She turned away from him and holstered her gun, feeling him move towards her.

"I'm going to explore." She told him evasively, strapping on her gloves and covering as much skin as she could.

"You're going to their base." He told her, his deep throaty voice filling the entire room around her.

Eleayna didn't reply, what would be the point? He'd know she was lying if she tried to deny it. She crept across the room and slid the window open silently. Third floor, not bad. She swung one leg out of the window, bracing herself with one hand on the frame. He grabbed her wrist and she nearly overbalanced, her right foot searching for something to steady herself on. He peered at her for an interminably long time, his goggles on his head and his glittering eyes blanker than usual.

For a moment she thought he was going to throw her out of the window. He let her go and drew back into the depths of the room until she couldn't see him anymore. A sudden sense of dread rushed over her but she pushed it firmly back, forcing her toes into the brickwork and lowering herself out of the window. She dropped lithely down onto the balcony below her window, remaining crouched until she was certain that neither the owner of the room nor the guard patrolling the grounds below had seen her. It didn't take long to climb over the balcony and down the tree next to it. Hotwiring one of the vehicles was surprisingly easy and she didn't even see the guard supposedly patrolling the grounds. She headed East, wishing Riddick was driving so that she didn't have to have the lights on and make herself so visible in the complete blackness of the night hours on this planet. She had been briefed earlier by the Council and they had reluctantly revealed the on-planet base where most of the leaders were gathered after they heard of her arrival. She was going to find out what was going on over there and then she was going to do whatever it took to take them down so that she could get back to her so-called life. That was the plan anyway.

OK, so it hadn't exactly worked out as well as she'd hoped. For one, they had seen her on her way back out of their base. Two, the stupid base was on the edge of a goddamn cliff so the only way out was exactly where half of their infantry were currently standing. Two guards racing towards the frantic shouting were surprised when Eleayna appeared out of the shadows. She killed them quickly, impatient to get out.

She was already at the door and she lost her focus. She didn't even feel the shot punching through her side until she had already hit the floor, her vision blurring and the world tilted dangerously. She felt suddenly detached from herself as she heard the men standing over her relaying her injury to their superiors. She was momentarily stunned when she recognised Riddick busy slaughtering the back up heading their way. When did he get here? She rolled over with some effort, her entire side going numb. The tunnel behind Riddick was a swarming mass of moving figures, shouting and screaming and the thundering of gunfire. Her eyes met Riddick's and they stared at each other through the chaos. His expression, or lack thereof, didn't change as he turned away and vanished. She struggled to her hands and knees as pain lashed through her body and the men began to surround her. The bullet must have nicked something vital. She'd been shot before but this was bad.

Riddick had disappeared. It hurt. She wasn't sure what the hell it was but it hurt a lot more than any of her other injuries, more than the gaping wound at her side. It felt as though her chest was being slowly pulled apart. She couldn't breathe. She fell down again. Her right arm was still around her waist, clamping down on her wound to stem the flow of blood so only her left hand steadied her as she sat in her own blood. The puddle around her was turning darker with even more of her blood as she raised her dulled eyes to watch him walk away. The soldiers didn't see him as they circled her like oversized vultures. He was gone. The tears came. She hadn't cried in so long, she had feared she no longer could, but they came now thick and fast, almost choking her with their burning intensity as she stared vainly into the shadows he had disappeared into.

Eventually she lowered her head to stare at her bloodied gloves braced against the floor and lacerated with all kinds of cuts. She was too weak to fight. Too woozy. She'd lost too much blood. She couldn't get her vision to focus, couldn't gather the strength to balance herself properly. She waited for the attack to come. It never did.

He heard the thud as she fell to her knees, her strangled sob filtering through the sounds of the raging storm around him and the footsteps of the soldiers. He paused and lowered his head, his silvered eyes staring back at him from his reflection in the puddle pooling at his feet. Rain speckled his bare skin and his black tank top clung damply to every muscle, weighed down with water. The sound of a defeated sob echoed around him and he raised his eyes to stare at the vehicle she had concealed under some trees. His way out. Mist swirled past it almost beckoningly and he heaved a heavy sigh.

"Fuck."

He was turning into a soft-touch in his old age. Turning on his heel he raced back down the alley and barged into the soldier about to take a hold of Eleayna.

She dropped down the moment they let go of her. She was very still but he didn't have time. The soldiers didn't seem to learn, they launched at him one after the other with apparently no coordination. He despatched them easily, a slice here, a jab there, gutting that one seemed a good idea.

That was his problem. He got complacent. The truck came out of nowhere. He saw it just in time to leap up and brace himself. The bars across the front smashed into him and he felt a couple of his ribs break. He'd been closer to the edge than he thought and he went sailing backwards. At the last minute his reflexes kicked in and his hand lashed out, catching the edge of the cliff.

He'd killed nearly all of the soldiers. There were only three left. Eleayna managed to cut one's throat from behind before the others realised what was happening. It only took two thrusts to kill the others. She scanned the cliff-top. Where was Riddick? The truck was still there so he hadn't gone. She saw the other truck idling by the edge of the cliff.

The floor beneath them gave a violent shake. Eleayna struggled to keep her footing. The cliff was starting to crumble. The bomb she'd wired inside must have gone off. She'd planned to be out of here by now.

Racing forwards she skidded to a halt when she saw Riddick barely clinging onto the edge of the cliff with the tips of his fingers. She watched him for a few eternal moments before making a split-second decision and throwing herself forwards, slipping on some rocks she landed on her front, hard. Pain shot through her wounded side. She just missed a falling boulder by an inch and she rolled over to scramble backwards as it rolled towards her. Getting to her feet she leapt over the large crack that had appeared beneath it and landed on her front once more as she grabbed hold of Riddick's wrists. He stared up at her as she dug her nails into his skin trying to haul him up.

After a few moments of struggling he landed on top of her, his weight weighing her down as they gasped for breath. The pain in her side was paralysing. Now she could see him fully she could see the rip in his vest and the rapidly developing bruise underneath that had caused his momentary loss of balance and fall over the edge. Rolling off of her he was on his feet in an instant and scanning the rocky terrain around them for his attackers. Taking a step forward he stumbled and dropped to his knees, just in time to miss a shot fired at his head. They were in plain sight of everyone who was now feeling out of the building.

"Riddick!"

He was on his hands and knees as the three soldiers began sprinting towards them but he still managed to rip one's throat out and puncture the other's heart with the other shiv as Eleayna pinned the one coming at her beneath her with a nifty flip, breaking his neck she looked up at Riddick who was sprayed with blood and still on his knees.

Crawling towards him she scanned the area and saw several shadows moving to their right behind a pile of rocks, to her left were a dozen more and she knew that they would be spreading out in front of them to cut off their escape route if they didn't hurry. Grabbing him around the waist, he snarled at her when she clutched his bruised chest but she ignored him and swung his arm over her shoulder.

"Come on."

He was halfway to his feet when another shot rang out just skimming over them, Riddick roared angrily and she knew it must be paining him to feel even this small amount of vulnerability. She pulled him up and they managed to stumble a few hurried steps before another shot clipped Eleayna's arm and she stumbled onto Riddick knocking him over. When he scrambled to his feet but leant heavily against her through loss of blood, they nearly lost their balance again and this time it was Eleayna who fell against him. She lay half on top of him with one arm on either side of him, he stared up at her as shots ricocheted around them puncturing the ground.

"Riddick, if you don't move your ass we're both gonna die so will you put some fucking effort into it!"

He smiled at her, which only further infuriated her until he began to get to his feet; leaning against her again the pair of them put all their energy into racing across the open expanse until they had thrown themselves behind a cluster of rocks out of range. Riddick was breathing heavily, his lungs must have suffered some damage from the truck.

"Doesn't look to good, does it?" She murmured, tearing off her jacket and ripping it into strips.

She wrapped one strip around her waist to step the bleeding, the other around her arm. He was watching her. The pair of them were in pretty bad shape. She she of them were in pretty bad shape. tep the bleeding, the other around her arm. dea. could hear them regrouping on the other side of the rocks and the ground gave another ominous wobble. There was a very slim chance of making it. If they circled around the rocks covering them, managed to escape their notice and legged it to the truck…

With her mind working overtime, the pain seemed to lessen. She had a plan. She needed one of those idiot soldiers to wander a little closer. She grabbed a hefty rock and lobbed it at the goon closest to them. As she expected, the others were too spread out and he looked at them, but didn't call out. He made his way over. Eleayna levered herself up into a crouch. He rounded the rocks and caught sight of Riddick. Before he could raise his gun she snapped his neck. She grabbed the gun. Now she had to get them all back and near the edge. Easy.

"Don't move. Be ready to run for the truck."

He turned his silver gaze on her. He was wheezing now. They stared at each other, neither of them sure he could actually make it that far when he could barely breathe. Eleayna took a few breaths. Gymnastics with a bullet in your gut, probably wasn't a good idea. She leapt over the rocks and pelted towards the cliff edge. She shot two, three soldiers on her way. It barely made a dent but they all came rushing back. Exactly as she wanted them to.

They bunched together behind her, chasing her back the way she'd come. She took a breath and launched herself mid-run, flipping onto her hand, then her feet, back onto her hand and with one huge cat leap, onto all fours back behind the rocks. She had about four seconds. She fired the gun over the top of the rocks. There weren't enough bullets to take out the soldiers still advancing, but she did manage to fracture the already unsteady cliff edge. The ground beneath the soldiers started to crumble and they shouted in alarm.

"Let's go, Riddick!" She grabbed his arm and they ran.

The soldiers were panicking behind them but they were nearly there. Ten feet. Another five strides. Riddick barrelled into the truck and Eleayna jumped the side, switching on the engine and roaring away, spraying rocks behind them.

"I hope you're a better driver – than an assassin." Riddick grunted breathlessly, trying his hardest to stay conscious.

His chest was on fire and breathing was almost impossible. He could feel pressure building behind his ribs.

"Hey I'm a plenty good assassin." She growled over the noise of the wind and the rain still whipping around the truck. "If that guy had been where he was supposed to be—"

He gave a low grumbling laugh that turned into a hacking cough. Blood bubbled between his lips and she stared at him worriedly, almost careening into a tree. He muttered something pointedly about her driving and she swore at him.

"Saved your ass." She mumbled through gritted teeth.

He coughed again and she stomped down on the gas. The pair of them were likely to drop dead in this damn truck if they didn't get some help soon.

FitMama – sorry about the reeeeeeeeeeally long update. Lots of stuff happening.

bima – ah well they don't know that

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