Ch 7

Riddick woke a few hours later and laid in bed beside Shazza for a little longer after that. He didn’t sleep well, never had. Wasn’t used to safety and now even though he knew he was safe he was restless. He watched her sleep for a little longer before he slipped out of bed, surprised at how reluctant he felt when he did. Didn’t want to leave her side. He stroked over Shazza’s hip as he pulled the blanket back over her and the sound of her murmur in her sleep stopped him for a moment but a gentle caress was all it took for her to fall back asleep. He stalled a little longer as he sat on the edge of the bed and watched her sleep.
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Ch 6

Jack hadn’t wanted to leave Shazza and Riddick, but she would be right next door. Shazza made a point to leave the door between their rooms unlocked. Didn’t want to leave the door wide open, not after she had watched the both of them in the shuttle, she had seen more than enough of that. She felt better when Shazza checked the room for her though; it was such a simple thing, but it made her grin right down to her toes. Followed right behind Shazza and almost walked into her as she stopped at the doorway to the bathroom. Shazza had looked over her shoulder and smiled back before stepping out of the way. A bathtub! Shazza had grinned at her and squeezed her shoulders before she left her alone to finish her exploration.
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Ch 5

At least he was alive. Theo rested back against the headboard and tried to get comfortable; after all, he wasn’t about to go anywhere, at least not yet. Riddick was supposed to be some sort of escape artist, and he had checked the room out thoroughly, he had poked at the vents and examined the locks before he left. Theo knew it didn’t matter anyway; Riddick could have left the door wide open and simply told him not to leave the room, or else. He knew that if Riddick was given the smallest reason to kill him that he would, and yet he was still alive. With the comm system shut out and him not needed to fly the ship anymore, he had half expected Riddick to simply kill him right there, as they had no further use for him, but he hadn’t and that was interesting in itself.
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Ch 4

When Theo saw the ships’ lights flicker off across the console, he decided he had taken about all he could take of Andreas. The ‘accidents’, the fires, even the explosions; the whole crew would mutiny at some point. He had lost four good men earlier, they had demanded to be let off at Tangiers and even the promise of more pay couldn’t keep them, and without decent men, he couldn’t be a merc, or anything else for that matter. That other little dream would account to nothing, because he sure as hell couldn’t do that by himself. If the Odyssey was anything but what she was, a top of the line ship, she never would have left Tangiers with her skeleton crew. Andreas had to go, brother or no brother; except it would appear that someone had already done the deed for him. The puddle of blood beneath his body was still warm.
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Ch 3

Riddick seemed to all but disappear into the shadows behind the storage bins. Shazza would never even know he was there if she couldn’t feel him; he never moved, save once, when he pulled Jack back into the darkness behind him. It was hypnotic to watch the light from the front shield flicker along the length of his arm as he moved, the pale starlight rippled over muscle like water. Shazza doubted many people would really consider Riddick beautiful in the classical sense, the lines were too hard, the steel of his form tempered on the anvil of a brutal existence. He was beautiful in the way all predators were, all sensuality, grace and blinding power; that’s what he was right now, a predator.
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