Cold.

Jack buried herself against Riddick as he held her. There were too many people aboard and not enough willing to go into cryo. This meant everyone had to pay for it and there were no lights and no heat for the night cycle on the ship. The little bit of light in the room came from a portable vid player that one of the guys had. Most of the movies saved on it were horror and action flicks but Jack wasn't really paying attention to them. She was nuzzling Riddick trying to stay warm.

They had two blankets to themselves, being gipped out of a thermal because they had each other's body heat…

"Riddick we're not going to do anything… in front of… you know…" Jack asked quietly as the crew sharing the living room with them fought over the thermal blankets before the heat was going to go out.

He looked at her for a long moment before he shook his head saying, "I'm not sharing you like that. Not even if they're just watching."

That's what he said but slowly his hands were straying from her sides and back. She forced a breath out through her mouth slowly against his neck as his hand found her breast the other rubbing her thigh. Riddick turned his head towards her as he let her slid off his lap a bit so her back was against the back of the couch and she sank down slightly, more trapped between him and the couch. He caught her mouth with his and Jack couldn't help but think it was unfair how warm he seemed to be.

The couch was nice, oversized, and with Riddick's coaxing the both ended on their sides comfortably. Riddick shifted the blankets around making sure their legs were covered using the extra one to tuck around the back of Jack before covering himself. Then he wrapped around Jack, a leg over hers, and one arm acting as her pillow. With him acting as a sufficient wall against the others in the darkened room he looked down at Jack for a second before pulling her into another kiss. She didn't object at first but when he started messaging her breasts again she grabbed his wrist.

Jack mouthed to him you said, but he just kissed her more repositioning his hand so it cupped the back of her neck. Moving his kisses across her cheek he mumbled quietly against her ear, "Don't move baby, I just wanna touch." Riddick knew what he said, and he wouldn't fuck Jack with them around, but he wouldn't be denied touching her. In any case the shrill scream from the vid player insured that the guys were caught up in the slaughter happening on the screen. He, careful not to move too much, pushed Jack's shirt up. She looked up at him for a second before she shrank lower, he watched as she pulled out of her shirt tucking it behind her before removing her bra and doing the same.

She didn't know what she was doing, but Riddick let go of her neck pillowing her head with his arm again wrapping it around her. "Quiet," Riddick told her as he ran his free hand over her. She bit her lip, his command becoming hard when he tweaked each of her nipples.

Riddick kissed her, moving his hand around to her back playing his fingers down her spine, then back up. Jack gripped his shirt and he moved his fingers down to the hem of her jeans. His fingers slipped under the waistband before moving away from major temptation to tease them both by pushing her hands away to get better access to her chest. He nibbled her lower lip knowing he couldn't move low enough to taste the inviting flesh he was touching.

In the morning they'd take a shower, he could have his fill then, and thank Jack generously for letting him do this to her. She squirmed covering her mouth with her hands keeping her arms out of the way. Just a little more…

ooo

Riddick pushed Jack into the back of the couch hoping to make her feel secure, holding her there kissing and licking her forehead, cheeks, lips, jaw, and anything he could get at. They'd been asleep for less than an hour. She'd screamed and probably woke up the entire suite, if anyone had been in touching distance he would have shived them. Everyone was probably just too cold to come see what was wrong, maybe a few were sound sleepers, but it was doubtful many weren't wondering what was up. The guys on the floor had sat up, were probably trying to see what was up while keeping warm and their distance. Only she wasn't settling and she wasn't waking up.

"Jack, come on kid," Riddick said patting her cheek, kissing her face, shaking her a little, "Wake up, it's just a dream." She wasn't screaming anymore, but she was still pushing, and whimpering. She stank of fear and, unlike other times, it was putting him on edge. One of the guys got the courage to stand up behind him and Riddick growled in warning. He couldn't pull the covers off her, she still wasn't wearing her shirt, they never put it back on her. Glaring over his shoulder at Oliver he waited for him to sit back down before he shifted her up a little higher so he could get at her neck. He carefully bit down on her neck, making sure he didn't break skin but was firm enough to make sure he was felt.

Jack whimpered, but stilled, he put a little more pressure, making it hard for her to breathe. A more persistent whimper told him she was awake and he let go, leaning up more to press his forehead to hers.

Tears streamed down her cheeks as she looked up into Riddick's silver eyes. She grabbed for him wanting to be closer. Not wanting to say what she'd been dreaming about. Riddick wrapped his arms back around her holding her hard against him, keeping her against the back of the couch. She kissed his chest happy to be awake happy to see him.

"Jack?" Riddick asked quietly kissing the top of her head.

"They were all dead…" Jack whimpered so quietly Riddick had to take a moment to understand what he'd heard. "The people on New Mecca… Lajjun… Zi…"

Riddick shook his head against her. "It was a nightmare," He hummed into her.

"Aereon showed me… There's a ship coming after us… she… she made me…" Jack lapsed back into tears it becoming hard to keep her voice down. "It's my fault Riddick."

"Shit," Riddick growled picking Jack up keeping one of the blankets around them, making sure he had a hold of her shirt and bra, and walked around the guys, passed the table where another video was playing on mute. Right now he kind of wished he'd taken the room even if the wall was flimsy. He shouldered open the bathroom hating that right now it was the only private place he could take her. "Jack, calm down, hush baby." Riddick breathed as he sat down with her in his lap, his back against the door. Pulling her things out from the blanket to wrap it tighter around them Riddick kissed her cheeks. "It wasn't real."

"They hurt her Riddick. They killed my sister. Riddick, it was so real…" Jack whimpered against him.

Riddick held her kissing the top of her head, trying to calm her down before he was too on edge himself. Reaching out of the blanket Riddick handed Jack her bra, and then her shirt watching her get dressed. "Jack we're going to go ask Sienna to look into it, okay?" Jack hiccupped but nodded, and once she was finished she clung to him again.

"She said you were going to leave me again…" Jack said hopelessly.

"I'll always come back kid," Riddick rumbled as he quickly got them up the stairs. Jack was starting to shiver from the cold, and he could feel it seeping into his skin too. He knocked on the door urgently only to get a call that he could come in.

He walked in and shut the door looking to Sienna, saying, "I need you to pull up a news feed and see how New Mecca is doing."

Sienna nodded and Bear waved them over saying, "Sit down."

Riddick moved around the bed sitting on Sienna's other side as he rubbed Jack's arms and sides to try and keep her warm. She buried her face against the side of his neck. He watched the screen as Sienna typed away, what she found made her fingers still over the keyboard and close her eyes against the screen. He just watched. The camera was still broadcasting, though all that was around was death. Men in armor walking by.

"I was wrong…" Sienna said as she changed windows looking up their ship, flinching a bit when Jack sobbed. "They're detouring the ship… We're landing on Helion 5 we'll be there late tomorrow unless they get this thing running full speed then about midday… They have faster ships than this rig we just have a head start, they're right behind us, we'll probably have time to land if we go faster, and get off the ship before they invade, if we're lucky... Since it would be faster to turn around and land on Helion 4 I guess they're taking us to the planet they're taking next."

"How could you have been so off?" Bear asked putting an arm around her.

"I was using the estimations given by the… former militaries they've conquered. Apparently everyone was very off, or these fuckers were just taking their sweet time till now," Sienna said looking over at Jack and Riddick. They were kissing; it was obvious Riddick was trying to make Jack feel better. After a moment Sienna asked, "Jack how'd you know?"

"That air bitch fucked with her head," Riddick growled against Jack's lips. He kissed her forehead before resting his cheek on top of her head, when Jack lowered her face to wipe the tears off her face.

"Elementals are a tricky lot. They see too much," Sienna breathed as she looked helplessly at the screen shivering a little because of the cold. "We can't even highjack the ship, not with a crew this size. Too many factors and eventually the necros would catch up, board us and probably just exterminate everyone who didn't make the cut, take who they could to convert. Good for the men, bad for the women and kids."

"W-what about the escape pods?" Jack asked, even though she doubted it would work.

"We don't line up with any of the planets, and we won't, if we did I'd say do it, but we'd probably just be picked off." Sienna explained. "They're probably not powering up the ship so no one panics until it's too late. In the morning they'll probably announce that there's been some minor malfunction and that we need to land before going into deep space… We'll have to get off."

"We could probably steal a star jumper," Bear said rubbing the back of his neck. "Just get off and steal a ship."

"It'll be a tight squeeze if we take everyone," Riddick said as he looked down at Jack brushing her hair out of her face. "Anything fast enough to out run them long enough to get away is going to be small."

"We're going to kill them too," Jack lamented, understanding right away why Riddick was saying that.

"We'll give them a chance," Bear said looking over at Jack while pulling Sienna closer to him. "We'll pick a place, and anyone who makes it we'll all meet up there."

"Sienna, find a place far, but that an average star-jumper could get to in one or two shots," Riddick said as he picked him and Jack up off the bed before sitting back down with them under the covers too on the queen sized bed.

"You have no boundaries do you?" Sienna asked as she lifted her laptop so Riddick could add the blanket on top of them.

"Do you want to be cold?" Riddick snapped, not in the mood for the snippy attitude.

"Sienna just look," Bear said watching as Riddick forced himself to concentrate on Jack instead of doing something to Sienna.

Jack watched as Sienna started working before looking to Riddick who was combing his fingers through her hair. They looked at each other for a long time before he pulled her so she was lying against his chest.

"The closest habitable systems are Ananke, Erebros… well with outer planets wouldn't want to land on the death trap you guys did, UV, and Lupus is a little farther but most ships would at least make it to the last planet in their galaxy with it being on the right side of the sun this time of its cycle."

Riddick looked down at Jack thinking over their options as they stood. The UV plants were all extraordinarily hot or cold only one was colonized mostly by Terraforming researchers. Ananke was either a layover or tourist traps depending on the planet you picked, and Erebros was all mining colonies…

"Lupus is the only one that makes sense," Bear said taking the words out of Riddick's mouth. "Lupus 7 is the best industrial; most inhabitants are on the wrong side of the law, good hiding place."

Jack tensed up but didn't say anything just looked away. Riddick rubbed her back, he knew that's where Jack came from, but she'd also been on the streets there, which meant she'd be best suited to survive there even if she had to do it alone. "Lupus 7 it is," Riddick said looking over at Bear. "We'll tell the others when the light comes back on."

ooo

"Jack you go with Bear and Sienna," Riddick said as he shielded her against the wall. "When you guys touch down on Lupus 7 you stay with them as long as it's the safest thing. If you have to-Jack don't you dare say a fucking word! If you have to you ditch them, stay alive until I get there, you survived there as a kid, you'll survive this time."

Another explosion lit up space port, but when the smoke cleared Riddick could see that Sienna got the ship to open to them. He watched Bear wave him over before he leaned down and kissed Jack telling her, "You never put your life in anyone's hands but mine." He kissed her wrist insisting, "Mine, My Jack." He looked around the corner as Jack wiped at her face trying to clear her eyes. The army was making their way down, destroying every ship as they went. He shoved her out in the open before him, getting her half way before pushing her the rest of the way to Bear.

Jack tried to go after him, tried to defy the orders he was giving her, but Bear had her before she could get to him. He was the diversion, the one most likely to live on their own in the middle of the warzone. Bear put his arm around her neck dragging her into the small ship they were taking. Riddick already had a shiv in someone's eye by the time the ramp closed. Jack fought until Bear shoved her into a seat strapping her down as Sienna rushed through the take-off sequence. Bear was barely strapped in before she took off.

"He's going to leave you, when he comes back for you he'll be death, he won't be the person you love."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Jack demanded trying to wipe the blood off her hands trying not to look at the slaughter beneath her feet.

"You're going to have to kill him. We thought it could work this way," Aereon said as she looked Jack over her in dismay, "We thought you would die for him anyway, and after a while Necromongers would disown him and they would eventually fade, fighting amongst themselves for power. Like this, though, this is the wrong balance."

"I won't kill Riddick!" Jack yelled shaking her head, trying to get out of this hideous dream. Trying to wake up.

"You will, good and evil can't love each other. The moon can't be with the sun, death can't have life, and the girl doesn't belong with the wolf," Aereon said glaring at the young girl, grabbing her shoulders trying to make her understand. "You will kill him, or you'll be responsible for the deaths of millions. This is all your fault, and it will be again and again until you kill him."

"I won't kill him. I won't! Riddick! Riddick help!" Jack screamed looking around and finding the wolf, pitch black wolf she was looking for. The one with silver eyes.

"He'll eat you alive, you won't be the sun or life." Aereon said backing from Jack as the wolf pressed between them. Jack fell to her knees and the wolf took a hold of her neck. "You'll just be the girl with the basket, picking the path for the wolf."

"He's all I have," Jack whimpered as the wolf firmed up his grip on her.

"No, he's all you want little girl. When he makes you sup on your mother's flesh and blood maybe you'll understand why you can't love him," Aereon said walking away.

"Jack… Jack!" Sienna said as she patted her friend's cheek.

"I was just thinking about the dream I had last night…" Jack said focusing on Sienna. Even though her friend looked concerned Jack just looked around, her heart breaking when Riddick was nowhere to be found. "She said he'd leave me… I didn't want him to leave me. He could have come with us… We could have ran forever…"

"We wouldn't have made it Jack. The soldiers would have shot the ship, damaging it…" Sienna said wiping at Jack's tears as they fell down her cheeks.

"She said she couldn't see that far. That it was possible for us to run forever. Something changed…" Jack breathed as she stared into Sienna's eyes wishing they were silver. Looking at Bear and wishing he was Riddick. "Someone did something and changed everything…"

"Jack, she could have just been toying with you," Bear said as he moved closer kneeling next to Sienna and tucking Jack's hair behind her ear.

"She said I was supposed to die," Jack said looking at her lap. "She said I was supposed to die for him, but I'm not, and that's wrong. They wanted a different balance. They fucked it up because they didn't make me Kyra, and now they want me to fix it, now they seem to want me to live…"

"Jack I think you need to rest," Bear said suddenly, unbuckling her and pushing the seat back.

"Bear, I want Riddick back… I don't care if I'm just the girl with the basket, I told him I'd eat the meat, and drink the blood, and climb in the bed every night." Jack cried curling onto her side. "I want him back."

"Jack you're the only thing he's ever loved, he's going to come back for you," Bear told her patting her leg. "He'll be there before the end of the year."

AUTHORS NOTES

OKAY who didn't see this coming? *raises hand* Yeah so this changed on me, and everyone should fear what music can do to a person. Two songs inspired me and I ended up completely scrapping my first version of chapter 10 and popped this out in about a week or so because it came to me. Okay another reason I scrapped my first version of chapter ten was because Riddick went all out of character on me and it was bad, I should never reread a chapter and say that I hate my own depiction of Riddick unless he's doing something really evil, but this isn't exactly what I had been expecting. This does however mean that Monsters is going to be longer than I thought. It was going to wrap up in the next chapter or two and make way for a sequel, but instead Monsters is just going to be longer.

For those who read my other two stories, I'm sorry that my muse strays from story to story, but I'm trying and if I don't write the story I'm inspired for they all start ending up the same, which no kidding is exactly how in each and every one of them Riddick and Jack ended up in space. Besides the fact that I've never felt strongly towards New Mecca as a setting. Be patient my loves

REVIEW REPLIES:

jenefaner:I had a couple good funny moments in this chapter nine huh? But yeah I loved CoR so much until I saw Pitch Black (saw the movies out of order do to tv) and after seeing Pitch Black and Dark Fury I was all... CoR did it wrong! Which is usually what prompts me to write fanfics without putting one of my own characters in as a love interest for the main guy. On the Riddick/Jack Bear/Sienna smut-i-ness, no fooling it almost happened. The only thing that stops me is Riddick would probably murder Bear if he so much as thought about putting any part of him in any part Jack, and viseversa with Bear feeling that way towards Riddick with Sienna. So copping a feel on the other guys girl while dancing is really as far as the smut can go with them.

badbunny1818:I try to keep him about how he was in the movies, and I'm glad you like mine. (Ps if you're looking for some good dark Riddick's I suggest Saismaat's fics she does amazing.) I also try to age Jack accordingly using how she was in PB and add in how I wanted her to grow, so again I'm glad you like her. That and Kyra was great I would have loved her if she wasn't supposed to be Jack.

RatedRGirl83:I know I'm getting sloppy with my updates, I'm sorry. And yeah he didn't have sex with her and hid what he did do with her pretty well -.- then things went south. It's another we'll have to find out in the next chapter thing.

hideher: Welcome to Monsters hideher! I'm glad you like this one too. Riddick never did get a hold of Imam after their little chat but all things considered Imam had necromongers invade his planet, and you'll see what happened to him and his family in the future.

Reviews, replies, and questions are always welcome!