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

"You're serious?" Riddick looked at the two of us. "That means your Jack." He placed his goggles on the top of his head looking at mom. His eyes shining in the dark.

"Yeah." She slid her body to the edge of the bed and put her hand on his face.

"Hey!" I smacked her hand. "That's my body. And um I rather not see this kind of thing." I put her hand back in her lap.

"How, I mean why?" He rubbed his bald head.

"I'm not really sure. I was me then I closed my eyes then I wasn't me." Mom started turning green. "I think I'm gonna need a bucket." I ran out and grabbed a bucket and gave it to her.

"Cucumbers it's always cucumbers. I didn't even eat cucumbers." I looked away thinking it was kinda gross. "Wait...I'm starting to remember something. I remember a name. Aaron? No. Aereon. I remember a woman named Aereon. I had a dream about her. She said I was going to get a chance to be someone else."

"Aereon. Mmmh." Mom thought a little. "Aereon. Not familiar with me. Riddick?"

"Nope never heard of her." He walked out the door.

"How do we change back? I miss my body." I started to cry. "I want my body back." I sobbed a little more and then the tears just stopped falling.

"I think you need to go for another walk. But be sure Riddick doesn't fallow you. You need some alone time." She wiped the tears from me eyes. And I went for another walk. Making sure Riddick didn't follow me. I stopped in an alley way and sat on a box sitting to one side. "This is life I guess. You take it and you mold it." I sighed, resting my head on my hands. I heard footsteps walking by the alley, I slide into a door way and watched two men pass the alley, I started to follow them.

"I know he's here somewhere, I saw his ship come this way." The first man said to the other.

"Are we gonna take just him or the boy too?" the shorter one asked the first guy.

"You twit. We're gonna get our bounty for the both of them." The first guy smacked the shorter guy. I waited for them to turn a corner and ran as fast as I could to the ship. I ran in the door, down the hall way, and found Riddick sitting in the mp room.

"They're here. Two mercs, they followed us here." I said breathing hard. "I heard them talking. I think they said they were taking you back to Butcher Bay when they catch you." He faced me and started to speak, but didn't. He got up, he brushed past me, he stopped turned his head just enough that I could see the side of his face.

"If they catch me." He gave a low chuckle. "Finish getting the supplies we need then we leave." He walked off. I jogged to my room, mom laid in bed reading.

"Help me finish packing the supplies so we can leave." I started out the door.

"Why in such a hurry?" She got up and started getting dressed.

"Mercs." I walked out of the room, down the hall and back outside. Riddick was standing back facing me with his hands on his head I walked up beside him and looked at what he was looking at. The two mercs had guns at him; I took three or four steps away from him.

"And is there something I could help you with?" I asked trying not to be smart.

"Riddick and the boy." The first guy said. "We will take Riddick dead or alive. But the boy goes alive."

"I'm sorry." I said taking only one step forward. The first guy raised his gun and aimed it at Riddick, and pulled the trigger.

"No!" I pushed Riddick out of the way, feeling the bullet penetrate my side. I hit the ground, blood all over the place. Mom ran out of the ship and stopped, suddenly I was looking at Riddick crouched over mom.

"Mom." My eyes welled up and I ran to Riddick's side. Mom had her hand on Riddick's face with tears falling down her cheeks.

"I love you Riddick, take care of my little girl." Riddick placed his hand over hers and kissed it repeatedly. She let out her last breath. Riddick just sat there holding her dead body. I grabbed Riddick's shiv he had in his belt and ran for the mercs; I sliced them up real good. By the time I was done with them, I was covered in blood and the bodies of the mercs in front of me. Riddick walked up behind me and put his hand on my shoulders.

"It's my fault she's dead." My chin met his hand on my left shoulder. "I jumped in front of you when he pulled the trigger." I dropped the blood stained shiv on the dusty ground and walked towards the ship. I went in my room and buried my head in my pillow; my tears soaking it.

hour later

"Karee?" Riddick whispered to me as he sat down next to me and laid one of his large hands on my back.

"Yeah?" I turned my head to him wiping my eyes dry. His arms wrapped me to his chest, as new tears trailed down my face. "I love you." I managed to say between the tears.

"I'm sorry. I can't." He let go of his grip and walked quickly out of my room. I started to cry more.

"When I need you most you walk away." I screamed at him. He sat in the pilot's seat getting ready for lift off. Fry's words going threw his head, along with Jack's and Aereon's. 'I'd die for them not for you.' 'Take care of my little girl.' 'Her mother will not be there for her.'

"Damn." He said to himself stroking Spyro's back. "The people I care about the most dies." He came back into my room and started shoveling things into my duffle. "You're staying here." I sat up on the bed and looked at him.

"We're staying?"

"No, you're staying."

AN: I know I killed Jack, but she will be back. Hope you like.:)