"What is it Riddick?" Kyra says as she runs to the back of the house fearing the worst. "Where the hell are they?" "What do you mean Riddick?", she said as she got to the room, "They're gone!"

"He must have taken her in the middle of the night. I thought you said that the room had been quite all night? Why didn't you hear anything?" "What makes you think they left on my watch? You might have fallen asleep for a moment and they left then. Did you ever think about that?"

"This isn't getting us anywhere. We have to find her before they find out who she is and try to use her to get to me." "Riddick," Kyra said putting her hand on Riddick's shoulder to get his attention, "if Derick is a merck, than he has probably already told his crew about her, and that he knows where you are. You need to get out of here now. If you stay here, than he'll be able to lead them right to you."

"But I can't leave her behind again. I can't leave unless I know nothing is going to happen to her. There's no telling what they'll do to her, especially since she'll be used as bait." "Riddick, I've seen the way she looks at him. He didn't kidnap her, and I don't think he'll let anything happen to her. I've seen how he looks at her." "Yeah, like a hungry dog looks at a bone. She's young and pure, they'll take advantage of her, and then use her to get to me. I have to find her." Riddick grabbed some gear that he had stashed away for an emergency and ran out of the house with Kyra following behind him.

What happened that night…

After Derick entered the room, he shut the door behind him so Riddick couldn't see what was going on, just guess. He crawled into the bed with Dannie and held her close to him. He could tell there was something on her mind that she wasn't comfortable bringing up, so he asked her, "Is there something that you wanted to share with the rest of the class?"

She looked up at him, smiled, and asked, "What happened to you the other night? I saw Riddick and Kyra the next day and she said that Riddick got rid of you, but wouldn't tell me anything else."

"Well, she was mostly right. When I woke up that night and you weren't in bed next to me, I got up and found Riddick hovering over you on the couch. I tried to get closer to see if you had any injuries, but he threw me out of the house with nothing more than the closes on my back and locked me out." "Oh! I see. So he did, "get rid of you". But, why didn't you come over the next day?"

"I tried, but by the time I made it over there, you had just finished yelling at Kyra, and she practically ran me down leaving in tears. You must have really scared her for that to happen." "She pissed me off something serious. She fucking lied to me about being on the planet already and why she didn't show up that night for the anniversary. I don't tolerate liars." "Well, anyways, by the time I got into the house, Riddick had a hold on you, and you were passed out in his arms. He might have tried to kill me if he hadn't had a hold of you, trying to keep you comfortable even though he was thoroughly uncomfortable himself. I think he was sitting with one butt cheek on the carpeted area and the other on the linoleum. He told me that if I didn't leave right away, he would make sure that I never saw you again. Not wanting to test him, I left."

"But why didn't you come to the gym that night?" "I was with the crew telling them about you and that you wanted to join and that I knew where Riddick was. They were very intrigued about you, and want to meet you tonight if possible. But only if you still want to help us bring Riddick to a slam, otherwise, I should be going, they are expecting me either way."

Derick leaned down to kiss her before he left. He had only meant for it to be a quick peck on the lips and then he was going to pretend to leave, but Dannie put her arms around his neck and pulled him closer to her. Derick was a little shocked, but he wasn't going to argue with her. He returned the kiss by pushing his tongue passed her lips and moving his body over hers. He put his free hand on her hip and allowed it to roam over her ass, and back up to waist almost touching the undertone of Dannie's breast.

Not wanting to be late for the meeting with his crew, he stopped before it got too far and said, "So are you coming, or are you going to make me late for no good reason?" "I'm coming, but we have to get passed Riddick, and I'll bet he's called Kyra to come help. How do you propose we do that?" Derick looked around the room, and leaned down for another kiss, "Does the window open?" Dannie smiled, got up, and opened it. "Get dressed and ready to go, we don't have much time before the captain begins to think that we aren't coming."

They climbed out of the window as quietly as they could, it was just lucky that Riddick had conked out, otherwise, they may have had a better chance of leaving if they had gone through the front door talking loudly the entire way. They had to walk the entire way because if they tried to take the cars it would have made too much noise and woken everyone up. They finally made it to the merck ship, the Andromekles, around midnight.

It was a four man crew; the captain, also the navigator, two gunners, Derick was one of them, and their muscle man. When Dannie saw them all she could do was laugh. I know what Riddick would say if he saw this "crew" right now. 'A four man crew for me, fucking insulting.' I bet I could take them all down alone and not even break a sweat. "What the fuck is she laughing at?" demanded the captain of the pitiful crew. "Dannie! Stop that! He doesn't take to kindly to people laughing at him if he hasn't made a joke. Sorry sir." "Yes, sir, I'm sorry. I wasn't laughing at you, just the size of your crew. I expected there to be more, especially if you plan to be going after Riddick."

"Well, if you plan to help us, than I think that we have just enough men to haul his ass in." "How exactly do you plan on me helping you? I know that I am strong, but if he's being chased, I'll bet my life that you'll loose at least half the crew. You need more than just four men and his daughter." "Not if we use you as bait and make him believe that the only way to save your life is if he comes quietly.", the two stronger men on the crew came up from behind her and grabbed her arms to restrain her, "See, we all know how much you mean to him, so if your in real danger, than he'll do anything to get you back safe and sound, even if he never sees you again. Tie her up boys!"

"Derick! Help me!" Derick came up to her, looked her in the eyes, kissed her as passionately as he could, and knocked her out, "Go ahead, but if you touch her in any other way than just trying to make this look real, you'll never touch another girl in your life. Understand?" The other three men just nodded and commenced to "working her over".

Riddick and Kyra left the house together, but spilt up to cover as much ground as possible. They searched all day, but since neither of them knew where Derick lived, when they had left the night before, or where they might have gone, neither of them found either Dannie or Derick. Riddick returned to the house first, he didn't want to get too far away and not be able to find his way back, most of the houses around her looked exactly alike and it can be hard to remember where you were going if there aren't any street signs or numbers on the houses. When he arrived at the house, he went inside to see if Kyra had made it back yet or if Dannie had managed to escape to get back home, but neither one was there.

He went back into the living room to wait for something to happen, and found an envelope that he had passed on his inspection of the house. He picked it up and found out that it was addressed to him and it smelt like Dannie. He opened it and found a polaroid of Dannie after they had beaten her up, and at the bottom it read:

She's closer to her mother now. Wish you were here.

Riddickdropped the polaroid on the table and ran to the backyard, hoping to find her still alive. He dropped down by her side, pulled out his shivs and cut her loose. "It's OK Dannie, I'll get you inside and you'll be alright." Dannie woke up in Riddick's arms and said, "I'm so sorry dad. I never should have left, but I had to. If we make it out of this alive, I promise to explain it all to you." gun cock

Riddick picked Dannie up and turned around to face Derick holding a gun to his face. "Hand her over to me, I'll take care of her, I promise." Derick winked at him fast enough so Riddick could see it, but not the crew. Riddick handed Dannie over to him and backed away from them all. The captain spoke up, "She didn't even put up a fight, are you sure she's your daughter?" Riddick started after him and the other gunner cocked his gun and pointed it Dannie, the captain said, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. He rarely misses a non-moving target."

Riddick stopped ten feet from the captain and put his hands in the air to show that he was giving up. "And she said that there was no way in hell just the four of us could bring you down, even if she were here to help. Cuff him boys, payday is coming soon!" Riddick stood still and allowed them to cuff him.

In all of the excitement, the other mercks had forgotten all about Derick and Dannie over by the grave. Dannie had woken up just in time to see Riddick being cuffed. She made Derick let her down, she hadn't forgotten that he was the one who started all this, but Derick didn't allow her to go far at all. He pulled her into his body, held her close, and whispered into her ear, "I told your dad that I would take care of you, and I don't break promises. There is a gun locked and loaded in the back of my pants, it's for you if you want to help me rescue your father. just grab it and start shooting. Cavalry is on the way, but we have to keep them busy so they can be arrested." Dannie looked up into Derick's eyes, nodded in agreement, and grabbed the gun from his pants and shot the two guys how were leading Riddick away and Derick shot the captain.

The chief heard the shots and an entire task force showed up and arrested the mercks before anyone was killed. Riddick was released and ran back to Dannie. They both said at the same time, "Are you alright?" Riddick pulled her into a hug that she would have normally protested to, but was too relieved to care who saw. Riddick was going to take her inside, but the chief insisted that she go see a doctor and she was sent to the hospital for a couple of days to make sure that she didn't have any internal injuries that might have caused her some trouble later. She was fine after she got a lot of rest and some real medical care. When she returned home, she was slightly different for her experiences, but not enough to concern anyone.

All of the mercks were sent to a triple max slam, all except Derick. He was sent back to his home planet in the Seaphra System, but no one would tell Dannie why. Until, one day there was a knock on her door…