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

Peterson sat in his office chair staring at Emily as he was waiting for an answer to his question he had asked her before she ran out of his office yesterday.

"I cut them with my dad's shiv." She rubbed the long sleeve shirt covering her self inflicted cuts.

"Emily I think you need to talk to a psychiatrist."

"No, please anything but that."

"I think Mr. Richard will have a different opinion."

"I doubt you want another encounter with my dad." She gave him a quick smile then frowned again realizing what she had said.

"What do you mean by that Emily?" Peterson leaned on his desk with his hands in front of him.

"The man that almost made you jelly this morning is my dad." Emily's stare went from her arms to him.

"I still think you should see a psychiatrist. And maybe your dad with you."

"He had to see one in slam; I doubt he'd want to see another."

"Why don't you get your homework for today and go home. Talk to your dad and see what he's willing to do."

"Ok. I can do that." Emily walked out of the office and gathered up her homework and started the mile walk home. She was just passing the diner she passed everyday when she saw Riddick in a window booth. She walked in and sat down in the seat across from him.

"Your suppose to be in school." His stare at the table.

"Mr. Peterson told me to gather my homework, then to go home and talk to you about me seeing a shrink."

"I know you don't approve of what I do but it puts food on the table and a roof over your head." His dark eyes rose to meet her sea blue ones.

"I don't care what work you get into as long as you don't kill my counselor's. I've made five go mental already." One tear fell down Emily's cheek; Riddick wiped it away with his thumb.

"I don't want you to follow my footsteps in anyway." Riddick's eye's closed as he saw Jack walking out the door as he held a three day old Emily. He could still hear her voice saying those pain staking words. "I can't take it. Bye"

"Dad, are you ok?" Emily put her hand over his and set her other hand on his face to try and comfort the killer.

"I'll be fine." His eye's whipped open. "You should go home and do what you need to. Then call Peterson and tell him to give you some names."

"Ok. What are you gonna do?"

"I have to finish my shift then I'll be home." Riddick stood up and walked out the door to the diner laying 5 UDs on the table. Emily finished her walk home. When she walked through the front door to the little 2 bedroom apartment the phone rang. Emily ran to her room and picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Emily?"

"Mr. Peterson, give me some names of some shrinks."

"A psychiatrist friend of mine has volunteered to do an evaluation on you tomorrow if you would come into my office an hour before school starts."

"Ok."

"His name his Dr. Larson, he finds your situation very interesting and would like to help." Emily heard footsteps in the living room.

"I gotta go, dad's home. So I'll see you tomorrow." Emily hung up the phone and walked into the living room. She looked around but nobody was there so she peeked in the door of Riddick's bedroom. She found him lying on the bed bloody and bruised. "What happened to you?" She asked sitting down at the foot of his bed unlacing his right boot and pulling it off.

"I was collecting my dues from this guy and he had 9 other friends." His voice tired.

"You look like you could use some rest." She pulled off the second boot and threw it across the room as it hit the floor with a thud. "I'll go get some water to wash the blood off." She left and was gone for a minute, when she returned Riddick was almost asleep. She took her spot next to him and wiped the dry blood from his face with a cloth. Emily unbuttoned the shirt he wore. When she unbuttoned the last button she revealed a scar on his chest from his right shoulder to his stomach. "Where did you get this?"

"At Butcher."

"Butcher Bay?" Emily's eye's widened into saucers.

"Yeah. I was there a total of three days there." Emily slide up next to him and lay on his left arm and leaned into the side of his chest.

"How did you get out?"

"Fighting guards to get my way up to the warden's, then I met the warden, put my goggles on him dressed up as a guard and walked out of there with Johns."

"Wasn't Johns the blue eyed devil?"

"Yeah."

"Mr. Peterson gave me a name of a shrink that wants to help. His name is Dr. Larson."

"Larson?"

"Have you heard of him?"

"Heard of him, he was my shrink at Hubble. You can't tell him anything about me." Riddick sat up and faced Emily.

"Why not?"

"Emily. To you and every body else here on Flash 13 I'm John B. Richard. To most of the universe I'm Richard B. Riddick." Riddick held Emily's hands. She just looked at him.

"You...you killed all those people on the Hunter Gratzner that crashed 16 years ago." Emily's stare went from confused to anger. "Why didn't you tell me before now?"

"I didn't kill those people. Only Johns, he wanted me to kill your mom."

"I...I still think you should have told me. This is not something you don't tell somebody. And that's why mom left isn't it?"

"No. Your mom left because she didn't love me anymore." Riddick couldn't bear to think of Jack walking away anymore. Riddick felt like crawling in a hole and dying. Riddick had pushed his emotions out the door 'till he met Jack.

"You don't wake up and just stop loving someone." Emily felt a surging pain through her head. She put her hand up to her forehead as her teeth were grinding.

"Are you ok Emily?"

"There's this pain. I've been having it for the past two weeks. It comes and goes."

"Maybe you should go get your head looked at."

"I hat hospitals and I hate doctors. You know that."

"Yeah, but this isn't normal."

"I'm fine." Emily sneezed and when she opened her eye's she looked at her hand, she just thought it was snot; 'till she looked, in her hand lay a small puddle of fresh blood. Blood started to flow from her nose. She fainted from the pain.

"Emily! Emily!" Riddick said trying not to get hysterical, while shaking her lightly. She didn't respond to anything, he had to carry her to the hospital. He waited for hours for results from the doctors. He paced back and forth in the waiting room, he drank three pots of coffee and a gallon of water waiting; but he was too nervous to eat. Finally a doctor came out to talk to him.

"Mr. Richard?" A doctor in a white lab coat walked out of two doors marked "Personnel Only"

"Yeah?" Riddick had to restrain from running the guy over and screaming "is she ok?"

"We did a scan of Emily's brain and it shows a large tumor pressing on the left side of the brain. This means if it isn't treated soon she could die."

"What can be done?" Riddick had to ball up his hands and fold them across his chest from hitting something. (Most likely the doctor.)

"There are many treatments. We could do surgery, but we would have to remove some of the brain around the tumor with it, to be safe that the tumor doesn't return."

"Will she be normal?"

"She's lucky we found it before it progressed."

"So she'd be just like she was before the tumor?"

"If the surgery goes well yes."

"Ok. How much for this?"

"700,000 UDs."

"Ok. I want you to do the surgery now. I can get the money in an hour. How long will the surgery take?"

"120 minutes at the most."

Riddick ran out of the hospital to retrieve the money he needed. He had been saving up to buy a new ship to travel but Emily was more important then some ship. He had 175000 UDs saved up and only needed 525000 to make the 700000. Riddick thought his boss would give him the rest. Rusty always liked Emily. Rusty was the head of things on Flash 13, he was the new age mob and Riddick was his collector and murderer. Riddick went to the warehouse were Rusty stayed. He stood in Rusty's office and stood in Rusty's presence.

"Rusty will you give me the 525000 UDs?" Rusty stayed silent for moment.

"If I give you this money, I will own you." Rusty shook his cigar at Riddick.

"Rusty, nobody owns me."

"For a murderer and escaped con you sure blend in well... Riddick."

AN: Hope you liked it. And to see what Riddick does to Rusty, or if he even does. Plz R&R