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Riddick stopped dead in his tracks, he turned his head just enough to let me know he was listening.

"She didn't die. She's been waiting for you for sixteen years, for you to come back to her. They are the same person. You met her after Kyra died and you just fell in love with her. You felt you had known her already." I felt a little sorry not telling him direct. "She's waiting for you on New Mecca. She's been waiting for you ever since you left her there when she was 14. She went on went on with her life but in many ways she's still standing at the docking bay waiting for you." I reached in my pocket and pulled out the piece of paper my mom had given me the crash log of the Hunter Gratzner. I unfolded it and read it aloud. "Full Name:

"Richard B. Riddick."

No known aliases

AGE:

Uncertain.

No birth certificate on file.

PRIOR KNOWN ADDRESS/ES:

Hubble Bay Penal facility. Ribald S Correctional Institute.

Tangiers Penal Colony. Ursa Luna max-sec prison, a.k.a "Slam City."

CRASH INVESTIGATOR'S

("C.I.") NOTES:

Unknown if Riddick is still alive, but I'll say it anyway: APPROACH

WITH EXTREM CAUTION!

Prison psychological evaluation

Portrays the subject as violent

psychopath with primitive fight or

flight responses.

During one escape, Riddick joined a

mercenary outfit that

augmented a company of E-TAC

fighting in the wailing

wars. Of the 500 men in that

outfit, Riddick was, supposedly,

the only man to leave the planet

alive. Rumors (uncorroborated

by this investigator.) suggest that

Riddick killed most of his own

Platoon.

Riddick is skilled with many arms,

But weapon of choice is the knife.

This guy loves to cut.

Riddick known to have surgically

altered eyes for enhanced night-

vision. This enhancement while

an asset in a dark prison

environment, may prove

a liability in out-world conditions, and thus be his only potential weakness." I folded the paper back up, and started walking slowly towards him. He turned his whole body around to face me. He put his and in front of me palm up so I handed him the folded paper.

"Where did you get this?" Riddick looked at the paper with no emotion, looking into my eyes.

"She gave it too me. She new if you were still alive that you would find me, so she gave it to me to give to you so you would go back to New Mecca to get her. Please don't leave her a second time. She was with you that day you wanted to leave her on that planet, she was with you when you left her on New Mecca, and she was with you when you became a king, and she's with you now. She has always been with you and she always will, if you go back to her or not. You might be a cold hearted killer, but even an animal has a heart." I took a step back. Not knowing what his action would be.

"We better turn around." Riddick bent over and stuffed the paper in his right boot and went to the bridge. I gave a sigh of relief, and ran after him.

Later

"How long will it take for us to get there?" I asked with an annoying tone.

"Three weeks." Riddick didn't turn from the space outside.

"Why?" I asked him facing the window then looking at him.

"Why what?" He said with still no head movement.

"Why did you leave her?" There was silence, no answer came. So I took it as a he didn't wanna talk about it subject.

"I did it to protect her. I spent five years on an ice rock to protect her." He switched the yellow switch labeled 'Auto-Pilot' and turned his chair to face me.

"She would have been better off with you. It tore her up when you told her she would be safer without you. She was the only person ever to feel safe with you. But now you have two people who feel safe with you. I feel safe with you. I always have, I couldn't sleep without a story about you. My mom would tell me a story about you then a story about my dad. I didn't connect the two until I met you at slam." I returned my stare out the window, looking endlessly at the blackness of space.

"It's been a one man show since I was 12, and Jack reset that when she fell in love with me." He rubbed his face with his large hand and sighed. "I'm going to take a nap, if anything happens come and get me." Riddick left with no sound from his boots.

"We're safer with you then without you." I said stopping him with my words. He started back on track to the bunks. Stupid, stupid. Asking him why he left her. I knew he was gonna get mad. Silently of course, because Richard B. Riddick has no emotion. I thought leaning back putting my hands under my head watching the nothing that made space. I tried to keep my eye lids open but they got too heavy so I let sleep take me.

Dreaming

I'm running through a black tunnel I can't see anything. My eyes were blind folded. I stumble and fall and scrap the front of my bare chest, blood just spilling out on the floor of the black place I was in. I could sense that Riddick was there, by his smell and that feeling you get when you know someone is watching you.

"You're life is spilling onto the floor." He said making the whole place rumble with his deep voice.

"Help me. I know you can, and I know you will. I need you and you need me." I said trying to make my voice as deep as his. My voice is not as deep.

The blind fold fell from my eyes and he stood there smiling at me with a sinister smile.

End of dream.

I woke up with a startled grunt; I looked around to find I was still alone.

"He's still sleeping." I mumbled to myself. I settled back into my seat and stared back into the emptiness of space. I heard someone breathing and the stench of death filled the air. I turned around and stared death strait in the face.

"Shit!" I pulled out the shiv that had killed so many.

"Put that away." He said in his little ratty voice.

"The fuck I will." I stood there holding the shiv firmly in hand.

"Where's Riddick?" He said pointing at the empty pilot's seat.

"I dunno." I shrugged keeping my eye on the dead man.

"Toombs." Riddick said leaning on the door post of the bridge door.

"Riddick!" Toombs turned around.

"Toombs? I thought I killed you down in the holding cell?" I asked in confusion.

"It was a droid. Made to look and bleed like human." Riddick said still leaning against the door post.

"But then where was he when you purged the other half of the ship?" I said pointing to where the other half should have been.

"He hid in the docking pilot's quarters. To see what kind of escape I could concoct." He pulled a shiv similar to the one still in my hand.

"You wanna dance Riddick? I'll dance." Toombs grabbed me; and pulled a gun. I was totally surprised that I dropped the shiv. "He's just a stowaway huh? I read his file. He's your son." Toombs had his arm around my neck and the gun to my head. "If you don't want you're son's brains all over this ship you will be a good boy and lock yourself to that pipe next to you and stand there for the rest of the trip to New Mecca so I can get my bounty for the both of you." Toombs tightened his grip on my throat.

"I care nothing about him. I just needed him to tell me where I could find Jack." he stood there perfectly still.

"You son of a Bitch!" I yelled at him, for betraying me. I closed my eye's wanting to cry.

"Life's tough sometimes. You would sacrifice your own flesh and blood." Said Toombs squeezing the trigger on the gun in his hand.

AN: A bit of a cliffhanger, but I really hope you liked it. Thoughts and feedback appreciated.:)