Chapter 11
The closer she moved towards her ship the darker her vision became. The heat in the hanger was unbearable as she tried to focus her telekinesis to protect her. Then she could have sworn that she saw Riddick come back out of her ship in a space suit.
Just as she passed out, he was close enough to catch her. He picked her up and held her close in his arms as he carried her back to her ship.
Riddick secured Riley in to the co-pilot's seat as he took the pilot's seat and speedily took the controls to fly the ship out of the hanger. He fired up the weapons as he blasted the emergency door at the hanger exit, leaving a hole big enough for them to fly through. The starship was imminently approaching the sun to crash. He flew out just as the ship hit the sun's atmosphere. He could see the crash of the starship as it burned up under the intense heat.
After setting the autopilot, he quickly dragged the unconscious Riley to the cockpit and checked her pulse. It was faint but she was alive. Grabbing a med kit, he ripped open the back of her top to see the four deep claw marks that Vaurith had made on her back. They were quite deep and her major organs were undamaged thankfully. Riddick sighed as he tended to her wounds and bandaged her up she was going to be ok.
Soon after he had cleaned her up and left her to rest, he sat across from her as he watched over her sleeping peacefully. While Vaurith had been in his body, he had seen everything that she had done. More importantly, he had seen how Riley had trusted that he would not let Vaurith kill her if he could do something about it. She had trusted him with her life when she had told him she trusted no one. That alone had intrigued him enough to come back and save her life.
As if she had heard his thoughts, she awoke and tried to sit up only to feel twinges of fiery pain in her back.
"Easy there, you are still on the mend, that witch got you good" he smiled.
"We made it then" she looked unsure.
"Yea we made it, because you trusted me... Why did you do that?" he said as he removed the goggles from his eyes.
"I don't know I guess, I had to believe in something and I chose to believe in you" she said before laying back down to rest some more.
He could not believe what she had just said. She believed in him. Funny thing was he believed in her too as he smiled to himself.
"That and the… fact that I noticed the slight flinch…. in your body when I called you a dick, because I know… how much you love when I call you that" she said drowsily as she drifted off again.
The smile on his face dropped instantly as he shook his head mercilessly. Even when she is not all with it, she pisses me the hell off he thought