Dark Eyes (A Riddick Story)

As That Month Goes By

Leenah

I paced back and forth in my cell. Slamming my hands, my fists, my knees, my feet, and every part of my body that could possibly be used against the metal walls. It had been a month since I had tore the head off of that failed experiment. Marston thought that I only needed one more injection to become what he wanted, but to my advantage things weren't going to his plan. Two nights before he began to get frustrated.

“I don't care if it will kill her anymore! Just inject her with double this time!” he had yelled at the nurse holding the injection bag as I lay strapped to the table watching with amusement. The fact was, the injections weren't working anymore, or at least weren't pushing my stage any closer to where they wanted. “We are so close! Give it here!” he rushed forward, his normally neat, jet black hair tousled, his stubble grown, his eyes droopy with sleep.

“Now, Marston, you know as well as I do that number 28 and this one are our most important experiments. We cannot afford to lose them.” a woman, who was basically his supervisor, warned from the corner looking almost as amused as I was at his frustration.

He took a breath and threw the bag across the room where the nurse rushed to retrieve it. “I know!” he screamed throwing his hands up in the air and then slumping down in his seat speaking more quietly. “I know.”

I sat down on my hard bed thinking about the memory, knowing if something didn't change soon he was going to really lose it. The only thing that kept me from killing myself there and then was hope of seeing him again. Lately there had been rumors of a man with dark eyes, glowing eyes on his way to the facility also known as Injecco. Of course, the supervisors swept it off the table, throwing it in the trash as riff raff because there was no possible way he was coming to a place like this. Little did they know he had a reason, I just found it hard to believe the reason was me. I kicked out my feet and pushed the metal table where I ate my food hard against the wall where it made a loud bang, metal against metal. It had been a long time since I had seen Riddick, and I would be lying if I had told myself I didn't miss him.

Riddick

I was wasting time, but in this situation I had to. Injecco was a hard place to find. A planet thought to be off the grid, that is until I went looking for it. Most people who came across it would have deemed it dead, but I knew better. The place was big, surrounded by forest with electric fences. Seemed they upped the security by the way Leenah had described it. There was no telling how many people they had locked up in there, but there was only one I was interested in. Of course there I go being a god damn pussy whipped bitch. I shook my head with a smile, for the first time in my life liking the sound of that. Especially by one as bad ass as her. She reminded me to much of someone I used to know, which might have been why I liked her so much.

I stood at the top of the tree, a knife twiddling in my hand as my goggles sat atop my head, my eyes staring into the dark night as rain poured down onto my skin. I could see guards patrolling the electrified gates, tough men that reminded me of the many mercs I had killed in my day. They would probably be the easiest part of this whole mass of shit I was getting myself into. Sneaking past them wouldn't be much fun, I thought with a smile, but I had to know what the rest of the place was like. I needed to find out where they were keeping Leenah, and if she was alive. My eyebrows pulled together at the negative thought and the anger pulling at me. If there were gods, they better pray to them if she is dead, but even if they did pray, there would be no saving them...even if she is alive.