Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or anything related to the movies. Just playing around.
This is my very first fanfic. I hope you enjoy and please read and review. Rating becomes M in later chapters.
Overview
The story takes place after Pitch Black. Riddick and Jack were living with Iman when mercs caught up with him. Because of Jack's involvement, Riddick is forced to take her with him for her safety. Two years have passed since then and she is several months from turning fourteen and growing up and out of being a boy. She's beginning to notice the changes in her body and she's exploring what it means to be a girl. That includes noticing Riddick in a different light.
As far as Riddick is concerned, he's torn. He's noticing the changes in her and they are becoming more and more difficult to ignore. He has some big decisions to make about their future together regardless of how he may feel.
Without giving too much away, Riddick goes his way and Jack goes hers, changing herself into Kyra as she cuts off her former life and attempts to live a normal one.
Eight years later, when she is twenty-two, they meet. She's grown up and he's not looking the same at all. Neither recognizes the other and some sparks fly. (This is where the "M" rating comes in.) If you choose to skip over the earlier years and get to their meeting, begin at chapter 12 for a little backstory of her late teen years and the run in between our two will be not so long after. Of course, I highly reccomend you read from the beginning. There are several original characters that are involved in her life and that's where they start. Also, much of how they behave together later in the story has its roots from their early years together.
Danger threatening Jack/Kyra and miscommunication leads to their reunion and an adventure that involves the Necromongers and a trip to the Underverse with a pit stop that will take them both to face their past.
As of September 2006, my story has turned into something far beyond what I imagined. Up to over 50 chapters and 400 (yikes!) reviews and I thought this would be a 30 chapter story tops. I hope you enjoy it and I would love to hear your comments as you read. They help me grow as a writer and I find they sometimes inspire new ideas. Enjoy!
Update May 12: It's finished!!! Whether you're a new reader or re-reading it, thank you!!
Cricket71
Perfume and Black Silk Boxers
Jack had just gotten out of the shower. She looked at herself in the mirror after she dried off her body and frowned.
"Perfect! Just freakin' perfect."
The reflection that greeted her was that of a girl growing into a woman. This was the first time she had really looked at herself in a while. Gone was the flat chest and straight body that she had cherished, that was safer to be in.
"I don't want fucking boobs!" She ran her hands down the side of her body and felt the swell of her hips. "Or hips!"
She was three months shy of fourteen and knew it was inevitable that she would have to grow up, that she would have to be a female again…a woman this time.
"Why couldn't I have been born with balls?" She laughed to herself. "But then again, if I had balls I wouldn't have run away and be here now with Riddick, would I?"
Jack did everything in her power to disguise the fact that she was growing up. She had dressed as a boy since the age of eleven, cutting off her long hair and shaving her head. She had taken to wearing baggier clothes outside of the ship to hide her developing figure but she contemplated it if was enough. She ran her hands through the short tresses and cocked her head to the side.
"Hmmm. I wonder if I should shave my head again?"
She wasn't bald anymore, preferring to wear a traditional looking boy cut with long bangs. She had seen a picture of a long dead Earth actor named Leonardo Di Caprio and had liked his hair cut and copied it.
"Nah, Leo was a pretty boy. Hell, so am I!" she laughed.
She picked through her closet. Many of the clothes she wore on ship were growing too small, forcing her to wear what baggy clothes she had until they were tattered looking. She tried on a shirt and scowled.
"Ok, can't wear that one, too tight." She picked up another shirt. "Too damn tight, too!"
Then she went into Riddick's room to raid his closet and found a shirt, tried it on, and looked at herself in the mirror.
"This is huge…but at least you can't see my tits! I guess I need some new shirts. He'll shit if I start wearing his." She started to take his shirt off and stopped. "On the other hand, I haven't pissed him off lately, I'm wearing it."
Looking at the pants she owned, she began to think the same thing. They clung to her ass and hips a little too tightly. "I'm getting a nice ass even if I say so myself, but it's gotta go."
She went back into his closet and tried on a pair of his pants and laughed out loud. "I can swim in these!" She cinched the waist with a belt as tight as she could and put the shirt down over them.
"Ok, I guess I can live with that just to go to the store. They're too long though." She found some scissors after searching through all of the drawers in the galley, and hacked the bottom of each leg off so that the length would be better for her. She took one last look in the mirror and nodded at herself.
"Perfect."
Jack had stayed a boy for a reason. Being male meant that you weren't vulnerable. Riddick had shown her that. The very thought of having men look at her - the way her step-father had, made her chest tighten with dread, making it hard to breathe when she thought about it much.
I've got Riddick with me now…I'll never go through that again.
She grabbed her backpack, shiv, and credits and started to exit the ship, unfortunately, that's when Riddick showed back up. He took one look at her and his face became exasperated.
"What the fuck! That's my shirt!" He looked at the pants she was wearing and realized they had been cut. "Do not fucking tell me those are my pants!"
Jack put her hands on her now existent hips, "Ok, I won't tell you that these are your fucking pants and yes, this is your shirt. I need some clothes. My others aren't acceptable for wearing outside the ship."
"Acceptable? Where the hell are you goin'?"
"Shopping of course. I'll be back soon."
"You better buy me up a new pair of pants, too Jack!"
"Good thing I'm wearing yours so I'll know your size." She turned around to face him and gave him a coy smile. "Oh, and to make it up to you, I'll even get you a pair of silk boxers!"
"JACK!"
"What? What's wrong with silk? They keep you warm and you know how cold space can be." Besides, with an ass like yours…you'll look great in them. "Bye!"
"Just don't be more than two hours…and bring back some food…and while you're at it, I think I need more socks…black socks."
She threw her hands up. "You want me to write this down or are you going to give me a damn list?"
"Just go! And don't be late!"
Walking to the stores her mind went to Riddick and those boxers. Riddick, in silk boxers…black silk boxers…hmmm. He always looks good in black. Don't know what's gotten into me…I've always thought he was hot…in a bad ass kind of way. Just never thought about it as often as I do now. The man does look fine without a shirt. I'll never pass up that view.
The first time she started looking at him differently she remembered how she felt. It was like someone had turned up the heat and her stomach tingled…along with a few other places. At least that was the best way she could describe it. It freaked her out a little, but what she felt wasn't unpleasant.
He had almost caught her watching him one day, and she blushed furiously and left the room. She was relieved at not being caught. In her mind, it probably wouldn't have mattered had he seen her. He doesn't notice me. He only sees a kid trying to be a boy…that's it. Still, she'd been more, well, flirty lately, and it was definitely fun putting him off balance. He's not used to this….so much fun watching him try and figure out what I'm thinking…whatever the hell that is.
Riddick entered the ship and went to the galley to get a beer. He and Jack were running contraband and he had just completed their latest delivery and had gotten paid. He took a drink and shook his head in frustration.
"Can't figure her out lately. Hell, she a girl and she's thirteen. I have no fucking idea how to handle any female under the age of…consent." He smirked, "And that kind I only deal with one way, and there ain't much thinkin' I gotta do either."
He rubbed his bald head and kicked back the rest of his beer. "She just better stay the hell out of my clothes or I'll have to kick her ass."
Jack had received odd glances from the sales people in the store. She looked like a boy, a pretty boy, wearing his big brother's clothing. She went straight to the men's clothes, bought Riddick another pair of pants, socks, and a pair of silk boxers.
Oh, I just have to fuck with him. Now for me.
She headed to the boys department and chose clothes for herself. Everything oversized but not swallowing her like his did. The only things she bought which actually fit her were some tank tops, boxer shorts, shorts for the gym and socks. Then she headed to the women's department. That's where the strange looks came from. Here was a "boy" buying bras, underwear, and nightgowns. The only feminine things she ever wore.
They just can't figure me out, she laughed to herself. She was almost finished with her shopping when she passed by the fragrance counters. Although many of the scents were intermixed, one attracted her. She walked to the counter and sprayed a little on a tester and smelled it.
Mmm, a little spicy. Should I? Ok, think about this Jack. I can't dress as a boy and wear perfume! Then again, I'm not in port all the time and I can wear it when we're not. What the hell. She bought their largest size and dropping the perfume sample in her bag she headed for the ship.
Next chapter... "What's that smell?" Riddick sticks his foot in his mouth. Big time.