(Disclaimer: I own none of the Pitch Black or the COR characters. I wouldn't mind owning Riddick though.)
The gun clicked, and I opened my eyes to find my brain was still intact.
"What the hell?" Toombs screeched checking the bullet chamber of the gun. "Where's the bullets?" He said throwing the gun on the floor.
Riddick reached in his pocket of his pants and dropped the bullets on the floor.
"Toombs I thought you knew me?" Riddick asked with a smartass smile.
"I do." Toombs picked up the shiv I had dropped.
"I hate bein in the fuckin middle." I said talking into the air. With my hands gripped on Toombs arm around my neck.
"I've been following you for too long now not to know what your every move will be. I didn't think you would sacrifice your own son. That was a surprise. I wonder if his blood is red or blue like yours." Toombs drug the shiv across my neck cutting it slightly, blood started falling down my neck and stopping at my black t-shirt.
"I will kill anybody I need to, to survive if it be my son so be it." Riddick came at Toombs. Toombs shoved me to his left, Riddick and Toombs started to dance.
"I should have taken you straight to New Mecca instead of taking you to slam. I don't want to kill you; you're worth twice as much alive. But that doesn't mean I won't." Toombs took a swing with the shiv at Riddick, but missed.
They danced some more and finally Riddick had Toombs in a head lock. I heard a quick snap and Toombs body fell to the floor. I carried him to the trash shoot and shot him off into space. If he wasn't dead he was then. I walked to the bunk Riddick had napped in and stood in the door way.
"If the bullets were in the gun, would you really let him splatter my brains?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest like he often did.
"I would have done what I needed to." He said lying down and turning to face the wall. I just turned around and started to wonder the ship. My adrenaline had been pumping so fast and hard I had totally forgotten about the cut on my neck that started to bleed more. I went to the medic station that thankfully wasn't with the mess hall, and bandaged it up.
I went to the bunk I claimed and sat on the bed staring at the wall for what seemed an eternity.
"Would he have let me die?" I whispered into the stuffy air. "Mom I miss you." I whispered to myself. It had been almost a month since I had seen my mom I missed her terribly. I fell back to sleep and had a restful sleep. I was woken up by a rattle of the ship.
"What the?" I looked out the window in the hall way from my bunk to the bridge and saw a planet below. I got to the bridge to find Riddick at the wheel trying not to crash this big beast. "Where are we?"
"New Mecca." Riddick said straining to keep the controls stable.
"New Mecca? You said it would take three weeks to get here?" I sat back in the co-pilot seat.
"It did. You slept for two weeks and four days." He said pulling up on the sticks in his hand. I fell on my back when the ship jerked backwards. The ship suddenly stopped shaking and we were docked.
"Get your stuff together. This is your stop." Riddick switched off every switch on the switch-board.
"What do you mean 'this is your stop'? Your gonna come see mom right?" I asked not exactly with hysterics.
"I'm dropping you off and then I'm leaving."
"You can't leave. You have to at least stay for awhile."
"I will see her then I'll leave."
"Fine." I walked out the main door to the great ship Riddick had taken from Toombs
I lead Riddick to the three story building mom and I lived in.
"We live on the third floor number 28." I said running far ahead of him. I barged threw the door. Mom was in the kitchen doing dishes. She liked to do them by hand because it gave her time to think.
"Slice!" she said tears welling in her eyes. She ran and hugged me. "How did you get home?" she asked still hugging me.
"I brought him." Riddick walked in the open door.
"Riddick?" she whispered in disbelief. "You came back."
"I came back because I promised you I would." She let go of me, ran and jumped in Riddick's arms. "I missed you." He said with a gleam in his goggles. Mom leaned in to kiss him, but he met her half way. I had never seen a lip like that since...I've never seen a lip like that.
"Ok, that's enough, I don't wanna to see my friend's parents kissing, and I defiantly don't want to see my parents kissing." I said getting between them.
"He knows?" Mom asked looking at Riddick.
"He knows." Riddick replied.
"Yes, I know. Now mom tell him who you are and what happened." I sat down at the kitchen table. Riddick sat at the opposite end with mom sitting on his lap.
"Riddick. I thought it was best that you thought I was dead so you would go on with your life. I almost did die. When I saw you again I wanted to hug you and never let go. But I decided to be someone else. Then I got pregnant with Jr. Here and I didn't want to him to be in danger so I left. I didn't want him to grow up not knowing what it's like to be normal." She said as a new tear fell down her cheek. Riddick wiped it away with is large but gentle hands. "Please forgive me?"
"I could never be mad at you." There lips entangled once more as a bullet came whistling through the air shattering the kitchen window and hitting mom in the left flank. Blood was everywhere. "Jack." Riddick said with a look of concern.
"Riddick. I love you." She said with her last breath. I fell to my knees as Riddick was holding her in his big musculent arms with blood all over him.
"Jack, you can't leave me now. I came back, I came back for you." He kissed the top of her head as one lonely tear fell down his cheek.
AN: Not really a cliffhanger but a heart stopper. Hope you like.