Chapter Five The fury within

When Lena woke up Riddick was already up and dressed. Lena decided to get up and reluctantly thought she better get dressed as well. Reminiscing on the night before Lena doesn't here Riddick come in.

"You are one hell of a woman." Riddick growls

Startled Lena turns around and blushes. Riddick walks forward and kisses her roughly on the lips.

"Time to train" Riddick commands as he walks out of the bedroom.

Sighing Lena follows, this is the part that she has been dreading.

For the next four hours Riddick trains Lena on offense, defense, and with a variety of weapons ranging from teacups and silverware to swords and javelins. For Lena's sake she is a fast learner.

When it is time to eat dinner consisted of something that looked like mushy porridge.

As Riddick starts to eat Lena just sits there staring alternately from Riddick to empty space.

Riddick catches on quickly and looks a little annoyed.

"What is wrong? I know the food sucks, but come on" Riddick joked

Lena smiles and shakes her head. "It's not the food, I am ready to talk now and when you are ready to listen let me know."

Then she starts to eat. Riddick stares blankly and realizes what she means. He gets up and moves a little closer to her.

Lena patiently replies "Let's finish eating and then let's go to the cockpit to talk, I want to see the stars."

Smiling sadly she returns to eating.

Riddick finishes the same time Lena does and escorts her to the cockpit area/

Not much room to be able to look face to face, but that may be the point.

They sit in opposite chairs and Lena starts them on a course to a far off planet, Sage 2, a planet that many people don't travel to due to animals and weather.

They agreed a couple of days ago to travel here to hid low and hide out for a while.

"As a child I was moved from home to home because no one really ever wanted me. I wasn't bad, but I don't know why they kept moving me. It seemed like each home I was moved from someone always managed to get a piece of me." Lena stops and wipes away a stray tear in anger.

"Finally one day I had had enough and snapped. I killed my last foster family. The horrible thing they did, the beatings, the whole family raping me! I was sent to a juvie and played my card right so that I could get out." Lena smiles faintly. "That took work and a lot of psychological evaluations to get that pulled off. I was and am clinically diagnosed insane and psychotic not to mention some other things that I have forgotten."

Lena smirked "They scarred me real bad, the nightmares. Always there to haunt me, but they have stopped not. If there is one thing I am grateful about is that….and you."

Lena stops again and Riddick realizes that is how she learned how to defend herself. From a horrible childhood and from the places she stayed.

Lena is no longer crying, but angrily staring at the stars. Riddick says nothing but puts her hand in his and holds it. That is her fury within.