  We study the correlations between center vortices and Abelian monopoles for
SU($3$) gauge group. Combining fractional fluxes of monopoles, center vortex
fluxes are constructed in the thick center vortex model. Calculating the
potentials induced by fractional fluxes constructing the center vortex flux in
a thick center vortex-like model and comparing with the potential induced by
center vortices, we observe an attraction between fractional fluxes of
monopoles constructing the center vortex flux. We conclude that the center
vortex flux is stable, as expected. In addition, we show that adding a
contribution of the monopole-antimonopole pairs in the potentials induced by
center vortices ruins the Casimir scaling at intermediate regime.
