It was still nighttime when Dannie woke up, but didn't make any sudden movements or sounds, so Derick stayed asleep. She got out of the bed carefully and went outside to be near her mother and cry the tears that she couldn't in front of Derick or anyone else.

"I am so sorry that I couldn't save you all those years ago. If I could have, things would have been different. I wouldn't feel so alone all the time, and I wouldn't be so angry all the time. I miss you so much mom." she said through the tears that were pouring down her face.

Riddick came up behind her and put his arms around her to comfort her. She turned into his hard chest and realized that it wasn't Derick, but he was holding onto her so tight and yet so gently that she didn't really want to leave his arms. She stopped crying, and pushed him away from her. Dannie looked up into his silver orbs, memories of her dream began to flood her mind, and Riddick could see the anger rise in her eyes. She backed away from him disgusted with herself that she would have shown so much weakness to anyone, Derick included, and she swung at him.

She remembered everything that Kyra had ever taught her about fighting. All of the different strategies, the combinations, and how to disarm your opponent to make sure that you have the upper hand in any situation. Dannie was a young, fast, Furyian female, with the strength of years of built up rage and guilt fueling the fire within. Riddick was a father trying to help his only daughter get past the anger and frustration of nineteen years without a father and fourteen years without her mother around.

All Dannie wanted was to kill him right then and there, but she had never been taught how to kill, so she just settled for beating him to a bloody pulp. Riddick knew that he could easily take her on and win, but thought that it would help his cause if he didn't fight back, but that only pissed her off more. At least if he fought back she would have some respect for him, but all he did was just stand there and take every punch and kick that she threw. She would have beat him to death, except she had been going at such a high pace for so long, and the rage was beginning to be too much for her, so she collapsed in the middle of a punch. Riddick caught her before she fell to the ground, and carried her into the house and laid her on the couch, not knowing where her bedroom was. He stayed next to her the entire night making sure that she wouldn't hurt herself.

Riddick put in a call to Kyra after he was sure that she was completely asleep. "Kyra, I found her, I need your help now. She figured out who I am, and there is a merck here. She is unconscious on her couch right now, but I don't know how long she will be out, and I don't know if I can do this. She's angrier than I thought she was going to be. Get here quick. I'll explain everything when you get your ass here."

Night passed into morning and when Dannie woke up again, a very worried Riddick was hovering over her. He sat down near her and said, "I called Kyra." Dannie tried to get up, but was tied down to the couch, "I had hoped that she would have been here by the time you woke up, so we didn't have to go through all of this, but when she gets here and you calm down, I'll untie you." "It takes a month or more to get here from Helion 3, are you going to leave me like this the entire time?"

"It doesn't take that long if you are already on the planet. How else do you think I was able to find you? It's not like I knew what you looked like or where you lived. Was I just supposed to go around for another nineteen years knocking on doors and trying to track you down only knowing your name?"

"Riddick, let that girl go!" Kyra said bursting into the house. "Kyra!" they both said at once. Riddick got up and went over to give Kyra a hug which sent shivers down Dannie's spine. "Go and untie her before she gnaws through the ropes on her own." Riddick went back over to Dannie, undid her hands first, then her body, and last her feet. When her feet were free, she got all the ropes off of her and kicked Riddick in the head to get him away from her. Dannie ran to her room to try to find Derick to help her, but he was already gone.

Kyra came after Dannie, hoping that having raised her would help in this matter. "Dannie, I told your father to get rid of him so we could talk to you without him poisoning you against us both." "Don't call him that, he's not my father, he's just a sperm donor, and he fucking sucked at doing that." "But Dannie that's who he is. He is your father." "No! I said don't call him that! He's not my father, if he were my father he never would have left after he found out about me. Riddick is just a fucking bastard who can't keep it in his pants!" Dannie was hysterical and Riddick heard everything that she said about him.

"Dannie calm down or he'll come in here and make you regret those words himself." Kyra said in a calming voice. "Fine. But let's talk about something else. Where were you yesterday?" "What do you mean?" "Yesterday? The anniversary of my mother's death. You didn't even give me a call to let me know that you weren't coming!" "I was on my way here. We had a hard time getting a ship chattered this time."

Dannie had backed Kyra up against the door to her bedroom by this time, and after the last thing she said, Dannie slammed her opened fist, palm down, onto the door right next to Kyra's head, scarring the woman to near death. Kyra had witnessed first hand what Dannie could do if she were pissed off enough, and she had always hoped that she would never be on the receiving end of any of that. "DON'T EVER lie to me again! You know what I do to liars, so don't make me do that to you." At the sound of Dannie hitting the door, Riddick came to the back of the house to Dannie's room to make sure that there wasn't any killing, but only found a pissed off Dannie and a frightened Kyra.

"If I didn't love Cameron so much, I would have punished that lie right away, but instead you get a warning. Now everyone leave my home right now! Tell the boys that I said hi. Take your Riddick with you and everyone leave me alone!" Riddick pulled Kyra out of Dannie's line of vision and told her, "Get back to your family, I'll deal with my daughter." "I'm not your fucking daughter! Get away from me! Just leave me alone!"

Riddick put his arms around her, holding her from behind so she couldn't bite him or anything like that. "Get away from me! I don't need anyone, ever! I just wanted to be left alone. I never wanted a family, or friends. People just complicate things. They just make things worse. They always hurt you and you hurt them. I just want…" Dannie collapsed in his arms, and Riddick fell to the floor with Dannie in his arms and just sat in the doorway to her bedroom trying to keep her as calm as possible. "I guess this is my punishment for leaving you behind after Zara died. I will get my daughter back, even if it takes another nineteen years before you call me dad. I'm not leaving you behind ever again. I promise." Riddick stayed there on the floor, uncomfortable as all hell, just holding Dannie in his lap like a little girl holds her doll when it is supposed to be asleep, and stroking her hair.

Hours rolled by and the daylight disappeared. Dannie woke up wrapped up in Riddick's arms with her own arms wrapped around him. She could vaguely remember all of the yelling she had done, but she mostly just remembered how bad she felt. Riddick felt her stir and held on tighter. "Please let me go? I have some things I have to do tonight. I don't have time for this crap right now." Dannie said in a groggy voice. "If you expect to get up right now, than you had better quit with this attitude of yours and start showing some respect to Kyra and myself."

"Tell you what, I will apologize to Kyra for yelling at her, but not what I said, and you can kiss my ass, because you have done nothing to earn any kind of respect from me." Dannie pushed off of him and stood up but fell into the wall. She hadn't regained blood flow to most of her body, so she was walking like a new born fawn. Riddick got up and had to keep catching her until she got back her balance, which was no small feet in itself since she was fighting him the entire time and he was having the exact same problem, he could just cope better.

"Where do you think you are going at this time of night? The only things that are open at this time of night are things that you don't have any reason to be going to." Riddick said in his most father like tone. Dannie just laughed him off, "So you think that you can tell me what to do. I am nineteen years old and have managed quite well for the best two years on my own. If don't mind, I have to change, and then I am going to a gym to help relieve some stress that you two put my body through."

I can't think of anything that could go wrong at a gym that should cause alarm. And at least it is a crowded place, so no one would try anything stupid, and she can take care of herself. "Fine, but be careful." "Right. Don't wait up for me. I'll be back at my home whenever I decide that I can stand the sight of you again."