(Disclaimer: I own none of the Pitch Black or the COR characters. I wouldn't mind owning Riddick though.)

Riddick stood in a large white room with no doors and no windows. He looked around; his eyes brown like they had been before the shine. His stare fell upon a figure walking towards him.

"Karee?" he looked at the figure getting closer.

"My name is not Karee. It's Aereon. I come in the form of your daughter, because her heart is pure for you. She will never betray you. But you are her only hope, without you she is lost. Especially now, when she could loose you forever."

"I would never leave her. Not even in death." He stood firm like a tree.

"Death is the only part between loved ones. I tell you this, because something will happen, she will need you more, when it happens. Her mother will not be there to comfort her. She will be yours and yours alone. She needs you now, she has always needed you. She new it was you when you watched her sleep. But she didn't understand why you didn't stay." Aereon's white robe and hair blew in the wind.

"She didn't need to grow up watching her back. She was only a little girl." He looked down with a heart full of shame.

"In many was she is still a little girl. She wanted to be a boy when she asked her mom when daddy was coming home. When Jack told her that he wasn't she thought that it was because she was a girl. So from that day on she was Slice, making it quite known that she was hard to the core. Waiting for your return, but you never came. Then came that day when something in her said she needed to find you. Her and her friends, who too thought she was a boy, were drinking and were caught. Her animal side took over, possibly the one good trait she got from you, somehow she new you would find her. And take her away from that prison she called New Mecca." Aereon's gaze left Riddick and fell to the floor, to reveal a bird's eye view of him on my bed with me at his side. "She would kill for you, she would even die for you. But would you die for her? Now I see shame in your heart. If you had to choose between your wife, and your daughter, who would you choose?" The view on the floor faded away.

"I wouldn't." His eyes darted to Aereon's pale face.

"We will see when the time comes." Aereon's form went from 16, to 6. She walked up to Riddick and took his hand and they started to walk. She brought him to that conversation between Mom and me.

"Mommy? When is Daddy coming home?"

"Karee, Honey. Daddies not coming back. I'm sorry."

"See what pain you gave her. She will never be the same if you left her again. She changed when she met you, even before she new who you were. If you leave her now you will tear her up. She will fade from reality. Leaving only a shell of a scared little girl. Now go it's not your time." Aereon faded away. Air was being pumped into his lungs as his eye's opened to see me giving him mouth to mouth. I looked at him in concern as he slung his arms around me and held a tight grasp.

"Um... You can let go now." I said straining from the lack of oxygen. He let go and just stared into my eyes. "We landed ten minutes ago so I came back in hear to tell you but you weren't breathing. I don't know where we've landed." Riddick stood up and walked out the door to the room taking a right were mom sat waiting in the mp room for me. I followed him but making sure he didn't notice. He walked in the room. He and mom started talking I couldn't hear what they were saying, then they started to yell.

"You can't leave." Mom yelled at him.

"I have to go." He yelled back.

"But we need you." I heard a sound that sounded like she slapped him. I ran back to my room and put on my usual black pants and wife-beater threw a few things in a small bag and ran out of the ship. I made sure I still had the shiv in my boot, and made sure I was walking like I did before that son of a bitch came into my life. I ran and ran. I ran threw streets and alley's and past buildings, making quite sure neither of them could find me. I stopped in an alley with a small building the door was open so I went in and sat in the middle of the small room laying down placing the bag under my head.

"I left him before he could leave me." I whispered to myself. The floor was cold and hard. But it was better then having that feeling he wasn't coming back. I closed my eyes I don't know for how long, but my eye's shot open, when I felt the presents of another person. I sat up and out the shiv. A hand grabbed hold of my shirt and threw me at the wall behind me. The shiv dropped to the floor. Then by picking me up by my neck, I kicked at the figure, but a large hand stopped my knee from hitting his balls.

"I've been looking for you for three hours."

"Riddick, get the fuck off me." I said with a cocky tone.

"Tell me why I've been looking for you for three hours." He let go and I dropped to the floor, I scrambled threw his legs, but he caught my boot. I kicked his hand away.

"I left you before you could leave me."

"I would never leave you."

"You told mom that you needed to go."

"How much of our conversation did you hear."

"I heard enough."

"We weren't fighting because I was gonna leave." I stood up and jumped in his arms and held on as tight as I could.

"I'm sorry. I didn't want you to leave again."

"I will never leave you." His large arms around me, holding me. (Till this day he has yet to tell me what him and mom were fighting about)

"How's your chest? Does it still hurt?" I asked still in his arms.

"It hurts. But I like pain, makes me feel alive." He leaned in and his nose met mine, our foreheads touched. "Look into my eyes. What do you see?" I looked into his deep eyes.

"I see darkness, shame, hatred, and fear." I blinked and felt a little dizzy. I had this funny feeling in my stomach. "I don't feel so good." I felt queasy, acid slithered its way up my throat and all over Riddick. Vomit was all over him, his shirt, wasn't black anymore. He started to go blurry, and then all I could see was darkness. I woke up back in the ship in a big vat of ice. Riddick walked in, holding a small container.

"We had to put you in ice to make your fever go down." He pulled the thermometer out of it's container and put it in my mouth. It made a beeping sound. "103.6. Not good. It went up. Jack come here."

"I don't want you to go soft because of me." My head felt like it was hit against a wall fifty times. Mom walked in with a face of concern.

"Did her fever go down?" Riddick crouched beside the tub of ice, handing mom the thermometer.

"Its 103.6." He set his hand on my forehead. "Hot to the touch."

"What do we do?"

"I don't know." He stood back up. "We'll just have to wait." As he said that my stomach curled.

"I locked Spyro up in the engine room so he can't go roaming around the city. I'll go feed him and give you guys some time." Mom left the room as Riddick pulled up a chair.

"Why are you doing this?" I sunk a little further in the ice water.

"You took care of me when I was sick, now it's my turn."

AN: He's turning soft. Hope you like.:)