A Kid Like Her (A Riddick - Jack Romance/Adventure Story)

Manipulation and Retribution

Dame Vaako placed her hands on her husband's face. "My love, it was for us. I had to do something...anything to secure our place here, to protect the faith. You need to be in a position where you can do that, and I wanted to give that to you."

"To protect the faith? To protect the faith, my lady wife, you tried to whore yourself out to our Lord Marshal. You impugn my character and my honor as a Necromonger commander, my lady wife, and you say it is to protect the faith? You protect nothing, my lady wife, but your own greed. You've become so twisted I do not even know you. Where is the Rhiamon I pledged myself to?"

She could no longer contain her fury. "You never loved me, Vaako, like you have the faith. How could I ever compete with something I could not touch? It was the faith, always the damn faith that came before me and what I wanted for us. I had to use the faith to get you to listen to me!"

"What was your purpose behind the attack on her? Why send those men? If they had killed her what would they have become to the Lord Marshal?"

He knows?  "I know nothing of it."

His face contorted with rage. He backhanded her hard and she fell to the floor. "I found the travel logs. I know you brought those men here."

"And you saved her." She got up off the floor, lunged at him, clawing his face. "You saved that worthless whore of a breeder."

"What would you have me do, wife? Turn my back on her and let them kill her? I see no benefit from her death." Vaako stopped and his face contorted with fury when the realization hit him. "They weren't here to kill her. Their purpose was to injure her to the point so you could! You benefit from her death. You would keep the Lord Marshal!"

Dame Vaako snapped. "YES! I sent them after that whore. She is a disease to all of us. She is why he is here. He is our Lord Marshal and not you because of her interference. He raised himself up off that floor and ended your chances because he saw her dying. Diseases spread Vaako, and I did it to preserve our way of life from becoming completely infected. If you could not take that for us, then I would take it for myself."

"You are only the shell of the woman I married. You are no longer my wife."

"Til death do us part Vaako. You are my husband until Underverse comes and nothing can change that."

Vaako backed away from her. She turned around and Riddick was backing away from her as well leaving her with a very angry Jack.

Dame Vaako's face twisted with rage. "You....this is all about you! You have taken everything from me and now you have turned my own husband against me."

"You managed to do that all by yourself. If you weren't such a vile creature, I might feel sorry for you."

Screaming, Dame Vaako attacked. She swung an arm out to claw Jack's face, which she barely dodged, not thinking her attack would be so quick. She returned with a kick to her chest, sending her falling back. Had her dress not been so tight, she probably could have stopped her fall.

She quickly rose, took off her shoes and ripped the sides of her dress. "Now that Rhiamon, would have been the first thing I'd have done."

Eager for this fight, Jack stood her ground. She was more than willing to let Dame Vaako get her hands on her, if it meant the opportunity to soundly beat her. Lulled into a false sense that she had a chance in hell of hurting Jack, she came for her. Grabbing her ponytail she jerked it down with a growl. Then wrapped her other arm around her neck to choke her.

"Now we're getting down to it." She rammed her elbow into her rib cage, forcing her to loosen her grip. Jack grabbed a hold of the arm around her neck, bent forward and pulled for all she was worth, flipping the woman hard onto the unforgiving marble floor. She felt no pain but was temporarily winded. Breathing heavily, she slowly got to her feet.