Chapter 8; Shiftings in the balance
"Riddick stop damn it" Cara said slowing down.
"What are you stopping for?" he demanded.
"You idiot. You're only two feet taller than me, one stride for you is like five steps for me and I'm not ruining my outfit by trying to run there" she said.
"Right, more like you don't want the wind to ruin your perfect hair" he said.
"I hate you" she spat at him.
He walked up behind her and ran a single fingertip up her spine and watched her body shiver. "Still hate me?"
"Even more" she said and he grinned.
"You're an idiot, you know that right?" she stated.
"If I'm an idiot then what does that make you?" he asked.
"An even bigger idiot" she muttered walking forward.
"A bigger idiot because you stick around me or because you sleep with me?" he asked.
"A bigger idiot because I know someone that would ask that question" she said.
"Oh really?"
"Yes really. You know I've decided I don't like sleeping with you and I don't think I'm going to anymore" she said.
He raised an eyebrow "You're not eh?"
"Nope no more so find yourself a nice quiet corner at night to hole up in" she said.
"Do I get any say in this?"
"Nope my decision completely" she told him.
He walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her shoulders and drew her back up against his chest and whispered in her ear "What if I get lonely at night?"
"You've got a hand don't you?" she asked him innocently.
He roared with laughter "God I forgot how much I enjoy your off the wall bluntness" he said setting her back down.
"Well I try" she said walking forward again.
"So no more sex, ... that really sucks" he said.
"Sorry bucko I just don't want to anymore"
"Why? Because I'm getting to be an old man?"
She snorted "Ya whatever."
"No really Cara, I am almost forty now so is that it, I'm just a disgusting old man so you're going to move on to a younger guy?"
"You know that isn't true" she said turning around. He was looking at her and she groaned and stamped her foot "Damn it why do you always have to give me that look!"
"What look?" he asked innocently.
"Oh whatever you know the look you were just giving me" she said.
"I haven't a clue what you're talking about" he said trying to smother the smile that kept threatening his lips.
"Whatever, you give me that look that reminds me of some big dumb dopey dog because you know it makes me go soft on you" she said.
"Dumb dopey dog? Not just a dog but a dumb dopey dog? God I'd hate to hear how you really feel about me" he scoffed.
"Oh you idiot you know what I meant!" she yelled.
"Afraid I don't, if you meant something besides that I resemble a dog you're going to have to elaborate on it" he said to her.
"You give a look that's similar to a dog when it runs through the house and knocks everything over and creates a mess. Then when you go to scold them they look up at you with these eyes as if to say what did you expect; I'm just a dog. That's the look you just gave me! It had nothing to do with you looking like a dog, you know you don't look like a dog" she said.
"What do I look like then?" he asked.
"Like something good enough to eat" she murmured under her breath.
"But you aren't going to partake anymore?" he asked.
"Not unless I decided to at some point in the future" she said.
"But you just said you weren't sleeping with me anymore" he said.
"You're so gullible I swear, I was teasing of course I'm going to sleep with you whether I like it or not. You're kind of like a constant north for me, I just naturally gravitate towards you. I just hate having sex with you because it makes me feel bad for everyone else that doesn't get to have you as a lover."
She turned around and saw him standing there with his mouth gaping open. She walked over and pushed his mouth close "Flies are going to get in sweetie. Hate knowing some little female got you wrapped around her little finger and all she's gotta do is crook it to make you squirm?" she asked.
"That isn't true" he said solidly.
"Really?" she asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yep" he said confidently.
She walked over and ran a hand gently up his inner thigh and heard his breath catch.
"I'd say I was right" she said and then hurried off into the building they were approaching.
He stepped through the door a few seconds behind her whispering "You'll pay for that when we get through here".
She turned her head and offered him a seductive smile "I'm planning on it".
They sat down and he groaned inwardly at the torturous wait he had before he could take her home and do what he wanted with her.
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Sam decided to go shopping for a new dress. She decided nothing in her closet was right for Jack's wedding. As she wondered through the aisles of long flowing gowns she let her mind wonder on this new curve that life had thrown her. Memories of a man she once thought brought her the breath of life flooded through her and so did the pains they brought on.
She shook her head. She had made the decision to leave and not look back. Looking back showed weakness and she wasn't weak. They were better off without her. She left because she didn't want her life which seemed to be in a constant upheaval to bring more chaos on them. It had been tough at first but it gradually wore down to a dull ache in her chest. Something that would make her heart flutter at a familiar sounding voice or make her freeze when someone would step up almost silently behind her and she was sure it was him. The hardest had been when a lady at work had her baby a few months back, that was the clincher. She would never know about Dillion and his day to day life or the things he'd do with it.
It was your choice she reminded herself. And it was an important one to make. She heard someone laughing and her she looked towards the back of the shop. There stood Jack and she was making animated gestures to a small girl with blonde hair. Suddenly Sam remembered Seth talking about the girl trying to get her hearing back and she realized that Jack was using sign language to her.
The little girl was grinning and looking up at Jack with total adoration. Jack must have been telling a funny story since the girl would give away to giggling every now and then. The girl caught Sam's glance and held it for a minute, Jack then turned to see Sam watching them and her eyes seem to chill a few degrees. Sam nodded her head at Jack and the girl signed something to Jack. Jack looked back to Sam and motioned for her to come back to them.
Sam felt like the lamb walking into the slaughter house as she walked back to them. She breathed in deeply as she made her last few steps towards them.
"Sam, this is Lissa my daughter" Jack said while signing the whole time. "Lissa this is Sam, someone I knew when I lived with Grandpa" Jack said out loud while signing as well.
"Do you speak and sign everything?" Sam asked.
"Yes we do, the doctors tell us it's important to speak as we sign since she's learning to read lips very quickly. Of course we're hoping she won't have to sign or read lips for long" Jack said and Lissa smiled.
"How old is she?" Sam asked.
Lissa smiled and signed something "She says to tell you she's eleven" Jack said to Sam.
"She could read my lips then?" Sam asked and then Lissa nodded.
"She's a quick one I tell ya, she only has trouble every now and again with her lip reading" Jack said.
"What does your dad think of her?" Sam asked.
"He thinks she's an angel" Jack said her voice wearing a warning undertone.
"Shields down Jack I come in peace" Sam said.
Jack sent sparks to Sam with her eyes. She signed something quickly to Lissa and then grabbed Sam's elbow guiding her in a different direction.
"Look Sam I won't give you any information about any of them unless you ask specifically" Jack started to say
"Isn't that what I was doing?" Sam asked her.
"Not in front of my daughter Sam, I told you don't come to my wedding with an agenda. I guess I should have said don't come to me or my family with one" Jack said.
"You're so cold Jack, will you ever be able to talk to me without making it a threat?" Sam asked.
"When ever you no longer represent me with one I will" Jack said letting her eyes deliver the message clearly.
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Riddick shuffled Dillions hair a bit as they left the court room. "So how does it feel?" he asked.
"It feels wonderful, I mean mom I love you but now I can do what ever I want" he said.
"Whatever you want?" Brianna asked.
"Well I am now a legal adult" he said.
"Just because you're emancipated doesn't mean you're the king of the world" she said.
"Hey mom step of my buzz why don't you" he said.
"I'm going to take wonder boy here home, see you guys in the morning?" Brianna asked Riddick and Cara.
"Of course" she answered and Riddick grinned.
"I still can't believe you're older than me" Dillion said.
"Amazing isn't it kid" she said patting his shoulder.
"I mean hell you were telling us you were fourteen and boom suddenly you're 22 and how the hell do you still look like you haven't hit puberty yet?" he asked.
"Cryosleep, it can be an amazing thing" she said.
"Or a complete bitch" Riddick added.
"I'm with you man" Dillion said.
"Of course you are. We men stick together because it seems we're the only ones who know we're right" Riddick said to him.
"Alright this is us" Brianna said walking up the front porch.
"Goodnight" Cara said walking towards the house she and Riddick now shared.
"'Night Cara" Brianna said.
Riddick walked up to her and placed a chaste kiss on her forehead "Goodnight mom" he said.
"You still melt me everytime you say that" Brianna said.
"It's true....no one else has ever mothered me the way you do" he said.
"Good night Riddick" she said hugging him. He hugged her then walked towards his home feeling content, until he walked in the door.
Cara was standing in the kitchen looking in the cabinet and trying to unzip her her skirt.
"Need a little help with that?" he asked then unzipped her skirt the rest of the way and let it drop to the floor.
"Riddick I'm hungry" she said letting her head fall back while he kissed the side of her neck.
"So am I" he whispered.
"Really, I'm hungry" she said pulling away.
"And really I am too" he said reaching for her.
"No, I thought I said no more of this business" she said backing away from him.
"Whatever Cara, besides that reminds me I told you that you were going to pay for copping a feel right before we went into the court room" he said.
"I wouldn't know what you're talking about Riddick" she said backing away a little faster.
"Then why are you backing away from me?"
"I don't like the look in your eyes" she said.
"Liar"
"I know, I'm dreadful at it aren't I?"
"Very" he said reaching her.
He caught her bottom lip between his teeth and nibbled on it, inching her lips a part then allowing his tongue to taste her. She always tasted the same, warm and comforting. She opened her mouth to him, letting him drink her life from her and to live the fantasy that swarmed in their minds. She pulled away from him and he looked at her questioningly.
"Didn't think I was going to let you get me that easily did you?" she said lustfully.
"Nope I didn't think you were going to let me get you at all, since I've already got you like putty in my hands" he said.
"You want me?" she asked him. He nodded his head.
"You're going to have to say it Riddick. Tell me you want me" she said. His eyes heated with lust and he reached for her.
"Uh uh uh uh, tell me Riddick" she said again waving her finger at him.
He reached for her and she batted his hand away "No touching until you tell me" she said back a bit away from him.
"So I can't touch you?" he said as he started to run his hand up her arm
"Or kiss you?" he said letting his lips drift to her shoulders "until I tell you I want you?" he said huskily.
She sprang away from him realizing he was making her drunk with desire. "That's right" she said.
He let out a low growl and pounced on her. She went down to the floor with him crashing on top of her. His lips instantly grabbing hers in a bruising kiss, her arms ripped up his back as her legs hooked over his hips. He lit a trail of fire down her throat with his mouth. He ran a hand up cupping her breast teasing a nipple with his thumb.
"Still need to say it?" he asked.
"Bastard!" she screamed as she ground her hips up towards him.
"I want you Cara, you know that" he said tearing her shirt off of her.
"I know" she said.
His hands slid along her milky skin traveling towards her hips. "Is that all you've got to say?" he asked as his hand slid into her inner thigh.
"Uh huh" she muttered.
He let a finger trail into her sensitive folds "Are you sure?" he asked her again.
"Yes" she breathed. He slipped a finger into her gently easing it in and out and sucked on the skin just below her ear.
"There's nothing else you'd like to add?" he asked sliding another finger in.
"Nothing I can think of" she moaned.
He slid his mouth down her chest coming to a clasp between her breasts. He caught it between his teeth unfastening it and freeing her breasts. He laced a tongue around her right nipple suckling it then gently biting down. His fingers drove into her a bit deeper and harder.
"I'm waiting Cara" he said.
"I don't know what you talking about" she groaned.
He smiled and sucked her breast fiercely into his mouth until he could hear her heart beating. "Anytime Cara" he said.
"Wh-" she started to say then he slid his thumb up slowly rubbing her as his fingers still worked inside her.
"It's your call Cara" he said.
She drew her breath in and he suddenly made instant contact to her pleasure point, "God Riddick now" she said.
"What?" he asked almost breathless himself.
"I want you, God now" she practically screamed.
He slid his fingers out of her and moved on top of her completely. She arched her hips up to meet his and he slide into her, finding her hot and ready.
"OH GOD!" she yelled out.
He grinned a minute then his own breath was caught in his throat. He loved how she writhed beneath him, her face in a sense of wonder as she freely allowed him to her body. There were no barriers here, no blocks. She came to him freely and he to her. She offer him herself mind body and soul and he took it, but never without giving it off himself.
She latched her arms and legs around him and he drove into her mercilessly. She screamed out and shook against his body and he rolled over on his back taking him with her. Finding herself astride him as the shuddering wore down to a quiet quake she arched herself up from him and rode him like a mad woman. He could barely breathe, the sight of her nude body on top of him. She bent her body back laying her shoulder blades against his muscular thighs, they rocked back and forth as she kept rocking her pelvis to him. He sat half way up running a hand up her hip to her breast pawing it as he continued their maddening run into the darkness.
Suddenly he felt her jerk straight up, he caught her in his arms and wrapped his lips around hers in a head spinning kiss. Cara drew her breath in and she felt him slam into her and then the warmth of him inside her. His eyes squeezed shut as his emptied himself into her.
She shuddered against him until the both crashed to the floor again. She ran a hand slowly over his forehead and his eyes fluttered open.
"I love you" he said and her eyes flew wide open.