****** I do not own Jack, Imam, or Riddick from Pitch black. ******

Chapter one - promises are forever

"Don't promise me something you can't keep Riddick."

"Hey now, don't get all worked up Jack I'm coming back for you." He said pulling her into an embrace. " I just want to give you some time to think about what you want to do with your life. Let's face it mine's already in the shitter." He sighed, "I just don't want to bring you down with me." He looked down in to her eyes. "I will come back for you. I promise Jack." He said beginning to fade away into the darkness.

"Riddick?" She looked around franticly not seeing him. "Where are you?…It's so dark…Riddick?" She stumbled across the unknown land not knowing what she might run into. "Riddick?" Her voice began to tremble as the sounds of the creatures began to shriek all around her.

She fell to the ground hugging her knees. "He's coming, he's coming, he promised."

"Jack," a distant voice echoed across the dark unknown land. "Wake up,"

"There coming to get me," she whispered.

"Wake up child, wake." Imam's voice broke through her dream causing her to jump awake.

Her bed was all in shambles. Her sweat and tears began to dry on her face, and her hair was tossed wildly around her head. Looking around her bedroom she noticed Imam sitting beside her, relief crossed her face and a small smile of recognition crossed her lips.

"Come now, what did you dream of child?" he asked her while grabbing a damp cloth from the nightstand.

She sat up welcoming the cool feeling of the cloth against her flushed skin. "The same old dream." She replied sadly. She watched him put the cloth back on the nightstand.

"Imam these dreams are always the same! They always end on that planet…and with Riddick. Is it trying to tell me some thing? Because if it is I really don't understand." She looked back at Imam, "do you think he's going to come back?"

Imam sighed smoothing out his robe thinking of what he should say. "Jack." Pausing he looked down at her with a sad look on his face. "I don't know if Mr. Riddick is coming back here… But one day I'm sure he will." He said squeezing her hand.

Jack looked down at her hands disappointed, "Oh."

"As for your dreams maybe they are trying to tell you something that you don't want to face." He stood up still looking at her. "Come now, try to sleep."

"Wait a minute. What do you mean by that?" Jack questioned staring up at him.

He sat next to her on the bed with a sigh

"Jack there are so many things in this world that we don't want to see, but we see them… There are many things that we shouldn't do, but we do them any way. Maybe your dreams are trying to show you something that you don't want to see, but you see it any way." He kissed her forehead and left her room.

"It can't be true," she whispered to herself as she fell back into an uneasy sleep.