Author Note: I know this is a short chapter but I wanted to post it so all of you would know I wasn't dead or anything...and so I would at least have accomplished something with the four days off of work I just had.
So there they were, surrounded by mercs on a ship they didn't even know if they were ever going to get off of alive, hiding in a supply closet. Riddick with one hand down to make sure the baby was okay and the other arm outstretched toward Jack's head. Jack holding onto his arm for dear life, leaving marks from her fingernails and her biting down on his hand so hard that she tasted blood in her mouth in an effort to stifle her screams as much as possible.
Riddick didn't feel any of it though. Wasn't even thinking about the mercs outside. He was one hundred percent focused on the tiny head he finally saw.
One more push and the shoulders were free. Two more pushes and the baby was out and screaming.
Riddick wrapped the baby up in his shirt and handed it to Jack.
"It's a girl," he whispered never taking his eyes off the baby.
"I know," Jack said with a huge smile on her face.
The sounds outside had grown quiet.
"We have to get to a ship before they come back this way," Riddick urged quietly.
"Okay, but you have to cut the cord first."
"Here," she said guiding his hand, "you have to find some string or something to tie it off here and then you just cut it right above that. I know you can handle that."
Riddick did this quickly hoping that Jack knew what she was talking about and that he wasn't going to hurt the baby.
As he was finishing his highly tunned ears could pick up noises coming their way.
Putting the baby back in Jack's arms he started to pull her up off the floor.
"We have to go now!" he ordered in a hard whisper.
Her legs wouldn't cooperate with her. They were jello and she couldn't even stand. She could hear the footsteps coming closer.
"I'm not going to make it Riddick," she said as her legs gave out from under her, "here, take her," Jack said with tears in her eyes and desperation in her voice as she pushed the baby into Riddick's arms.
"I'm not..." Riddick started as he went to give her back the child but Jack interrupted, "you will take this baby and you will get off this ship," she ordered.
"We're not leaving without you. Hold on," Riddick stated as he picked up Jack while she was carrying the baby.
Nudging the door open with his foot just a couple of inches he could see that the corridor was clear for now.
"We're not going to make it." Jack whispered close to his ear.
He turned his head slightly to look her in the face. "You forget who you're talking to Jack. I always make it," and with his trademark smirk on his face he gave her a quick kiss before taking off to the nearest docking bay.