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

Riddick stands silent for a moment. The memories of his past the bad and good went through his mind like water.

"I want you to remember this moment." Riddick cocked the gun and started to squeeze the trigger. He turned his head towards Emily.

"Don't..." One single, silver tear ran down her pale face. Riddick loosened his squeeze, but didn't lower his weapon.

"Emily grab your stuff, we are leaving." Emily got dressed and started to open the door, but turned around and gave Riddick a sad look. Riddick knocked out Johns and walked with Emily out of the hospital.

Riddick and Emily arrived at their apartment, Riddick told Emily to grab a change of clothes and her backpack. And they headed to the local hanger. The two of them found a cargo ship heading for Hellion Prime so Riddick thought it a good idea to take it. Riddick stepped into the cargo hold and sat on a large box and hung his head.

"What have I done?" Riddick's whisper echoed in the room. He thought of all those he had killed and the reasons. When Emily was born all his memories were washed away. He started a completely different life, and wiped the slate clean.

"You didn't let him take you." Emily walked in through the door with a smile on her face as she sat down beside him.

"I thought we could ride this cargo ship to Hellion Prime and then take another to UV6."

"I don't care where we go. Just protect me." Emily started to shake. Riddick held her in his arms.

"Protect you from who?" Riddick gave Emily a look of no emotion. As Emily laid her head on his chest and sighed.

"You..." She could hear his heart beat. It slowed down after she told him who she needed to be protected from like it hit him like a rock falling from the sky.

"Me? I love you... I wouldn't hurt you." He kissed the top of her head.

"Your eyes are so dark and empty. They used to be so full of life." She set her right thumb next to his left eye. "Seeing Johns changed you. You almost killed him. You are once again who you used to be." Emily stood up and walked to the opposite side of the large room and sat in the corner setting her bag next to her.

-Who am I? What am I?- These thoughts went through Riddick's head. He looked over his shoulder to see if Emily was awake. She sat in the corner her knees at her chest as she stared at the floor. Riddick looked straight ahead.

"Who am I?"

"Who do you think you are?" Emily's voice smooth like her gaze at the floor.

"I am John B. Richard."

"No...you are Richard B. Riddick. And that is who you will always be."

"I have changed. I'm not who I used to be. I'm not that man anymore"

"You can change your name, and your clothes, but you will always be Richard B. Riddick; you can change your looks, but you can't change who you are. You can't take back what you've done, but you can change your future." Emily's eye's glazed over and they became a dark blue almost black. "I can't give you the answers to all your questions. But I will do my best to help answer them." Riddick sighed a heavy sigh and felt as though the universe was sitting on his shoulders. "If life was only Questions and Answers, if it were only that simple."

"If only it was that simple, I'd still be traveling, and you'd never been born." Emily took her place next to him, he held her in his arms as she sank into his embrace. The remainder of the trip the two didn't move. When they arrived on Hellion Prime Riddick quickly shoved as much stuff from the large box he had been sitting on, in the empty duffle he brought as he could fit and the two of them walked off the ship side-by-side.

"What now?" Emily asked a tired and un-shaven Riddick sitting across the table from her.

"We find a ship going to UV6, which we won't be able to hide in a ship headed there."

"No I mean with you." Emily pushed back a strand of her golden hair out of her face. Riddick stood up and walked over to the counter and grabbed a few sugars from a little glass bowl. He turned around and sat back down.

"I don't know. This diner is the only place besides Flash 13 I've been to in almost 14 years." Riddick looked at his coffee, slide his goggles to his forehead and rubbed his eyes. "And you're asking me what's next."

"I might only be fourteen and look like the dead, but I do know some things." Emily unzipped her bag and showed him the UDs she had in her bag. "When my hand grazed Johns face, distract the eye with one hand so they can't see what you do with the other. Isn't that what you always say?"

"How much?"

"I dunno. However much he had in his pocket. Doesn't look like a lot." Riddick took hold of the bundle of UDs removed the clip and started counting.

"6990, 6991, 6992, 6993, 6994, 6995, 6996, 6997, 6998, 6999, 7000. There is 7000 UDs here. Wonder how many bounties he has here?" the two laughed at his joke. "There's enough here to get us to UV6 and halfway back."

"Do you think we could get a flight there?"

"We shouldn't have a problem." Riddick shoved the money in his right pocket and looked at Emily. "What am I?" He asked noticing her eyes were a different color. "Am I the animal I was before?" Riddick's eyes left Emily and fell to the floor in shame.

"Butcher Bay. Why are you here?" Emily asked in Riddick's voice. "You are all that matters Riddick. They realize this and that is why they are coming. Not like the others. They are different. The only way you can stop them is if you know who you are. What you are." She spoke in her soft voice. Then she went on in Riddick's voice. "Who am I... hmmm... What am I?" She again spoke in her voice. "Some of us still remember the true crime that happened on Furya. Once you wake...Truly wake...you will never forget." Again in Riddick's voice. "Only the dead have seen the end of war. And before I'm through...the after life is gonna get a whole lot more crowded." Emily sat silent for a long while the silence was broken by a heavy sigh Riddick gave her. "You let a whole planet die for one person. You got to see what would happen if you didn't choose her. She died and you didn't like it so you decided to let the Necromongers destroy a whole planet, because you didn't want to loose her again." Emily's pale face turned a light shade of rose showing her anger. She lifted her fist and slammed it down on the table. "You can still change your future."

"That's the second time you said that." Riddick gave Emily a look of suspicion.

"I have?"

"Tell me what I can change?" Riddick stirred his coffee still looking at Emily.

"No, I'll show you." Emily leaned over the table and laid a hand on his hand that lay by his coffee cup. Riddick stood on a planet with nothing but trees. Emily walked up on his right side and took his hand. She led him to one tree in particular, it was shorter and fatter then all the others. Emily walked through it and pulled Riddick in behind her.

"Where are we?" Riddick looked around the small city of Zebara.

"Fisher 2 in the city of Zebara. The planet is covered in small cities much like this one. In a month fisher 2 won't be this healthy." Emily waved her right hand and the whole scenery changed. There was nothing left, but bodies and debris.

AN: I had some hard thoughts. Hope you like. Plz R&R