Disclaimer: I still don't own anything in this story that you may have seen in the movies, or any T.V. shows that I may have taken ideas from. The only things that I do own are the altered plot and Aerinha.

I had come back into the house, after the plans had been finalized with my father, and found Riddick still in bed asleep, though he had moved over to the other side of the bed, giving me full access tot he outside of the bed. If I hadn't gotten that feeling, he would have steam-rolled me into the bed and not even woken up. I thought nothing more on the subject and climbed into bed and the inviting arms of a sleeping Riddick.

I wake up from the lack of heat next to my body to find my arms are empty. I get up to search for her, but she isn't inside the house, so I venture out into the darkness.

I pass by probably a hundred Necros, all armed to the teeth and watching me pass by them without them so much as blinking an eye as I pass each one, so I pay them no never mind.

As I reach the backyard, suddenly the entire yard is lit like there was a special morning right there just for those two. I stood at the threshold of darkness and light and watched as they argued.

She was absolutely beautiful bathed in moonlight, her hair in magnificent curls all over her head from sleep, and her still wearing her combat clothes, minus the boots.

"No! I want to be the one to bring in Riddick, just like I had planned before!" she shouted at the man who was holding her by the shoulders.

I couldn't hear the rest of their conversation, but I had heard enough, and suddenly the vision that had stood so beautifully in the moonlight turned to face me and looked evil. Her hair was now straight, black, and tied in a messy ponytail, her clothes looked like those that mercks wear, with all the little tools that came with the trade, and she had greed playing through her eyes as she looked at me.

I was so stunned by her sudden transformation, that I didn't even realize it when the Necros that had been hiding in the shadows ambushed me from behind and tied me up. She walked over to me, slowly, so the Necros could finish putting me in restraints without any trouble from me. When she made it over to me, she placed her hand on my head, tilted it back so she could look me directly in the eyes, and whispered for me alone to hear, "I think that the best part of the entire month, was playing on your emotions to get you to fall for me and making you think that you would have actually had a chance with a sweet, innocent girl like that."

"Take him to the ship and get him restrained while I settle things here. Thanks for all the help Vaako, couldn't have done it without your help."

Riddick woke with a sudden, slight, start with the realization that he was in bed with a merck who only wanted to protect her "payday". He could tell from the amount of light in the sky that it was early morning, so he maneuvered himself off of the bed and out of the room with more grace and ease than I had just hours before.

He stood in the doorway for a few minutes before he left the room and house forever, just thinking and watching me sleep. Oh, to have had the chance to fuck her once, just once. But it's too late now. Unless, I wake her up now and have my way with her. Sure! You do that, and not only will you not get enough of a head start, but she will probably have your ass in chains by the time she gets done with you, and not in a kinky sort of way either. No, better to leave now and save your ass, you can just get you some when you have enough down time.

I woke up startled and alone after having a very disturbing dream that I couldn't believe was one of my own. It must have been Riddick's dream, but why would he have cast me as the evil being in the dream? And how did he know anything about that conversation? Oh well, I won't worry about it.

I stirred in the bed trying to find Riddick, but he was nowhere to be found. Where is Riddick? He probably just woke up before you and didn't want to wake you. But where is he? I don't hear the shower, or the television, and I can't hear him pumping the weights upstairs, so where the hell is he?

I got up out of bed, much to my body's protest, it hadn't had enough rest for it's liking, and searched the house to make sure that he really had left and that my senses weren't playing tricks on me. His stuff was gone and I couldn't find him anywhere inside the house, or outside of it either. He really is gone! He took his stuff with him. He doesn't plan on coming back!

My head spun with confusion. How could he just leave like that? Where did he go? When did he leave? Would he even still be on the planet? If he doesn't want to be found, how the hell am I going to find him before the plan is supposed to go into action? Oh gods! I have to tell dad to not start preparations yet, not until I can find Riddick, or else everything be ruined and dad could die!

I got dressed and had something to eat in record time, neglecting the shower knowing that it would take too long and would give Riddick enough time to be able to get off the planet. Every minute that I spent here in the house was a minute wasted where I could have found Riddick. I contacted dad on my mini-communicator to tell him what was going on.

"Dad! Dad! Where the hell are you?" I said in a distressed and hurried tone of voice.

"I'm right here Rinha, what's wrong?"

"Riddick's left the house and I believe he plans on leaving for good, his stuff is gone."

"When did he leave?"

"I don't know. Sometime last night, or possibly very early this morning. He didn't leave a note."

"Where do you think he might have gone?"

"Probably to go procure a ship so he could get off of the planet and far enough away from me to be safe."

"What happened to make him think that he is in danger from you?"

"I'm not sure, but I think that he overheard some of our conversation last night, and he thinks I am a merck protecting her 'payday'."

"I'll send out some men to help you find him. Where do you want them to meet you at?"

"Don't send anyone to help me. If he suspects that he that he is being followed by the crew, he may retaliate and you could lose some of your crew members without just cause. I'll do this alone, just monitor for any ships trying to leave without permission, and don't start preparations just yet. If we try doing this without Riddick, a lot of people could whined up dead that didn't need to be, including you. I'll let you know as soon as I find him and convince him to help."

"Alright. Be careful, and don't cocky. I now how far you'll go to get what you want."

After getting off the com with my father, I left the house and commenced to searching for Riddick everywhere I could think to look. I checked ship docks first, hoping that he hadn't already purchased a ship or ticket on a ship off of the planet. Luckily, there hadn't been any ships bought from any of them, no ship was hijacked, and because of the Necros, there weren't any ships allowed off of the ground for any reason, so he hadn't gotten off of the planet just yet. After exhausting the ship docks for clues and finding none but that he hadn't visited any of them, I checked gyms, nothing, hotels, motels, shelters, and churches, nothing, hospitals and clinics, nothing, and than I began the long search through every fucking bar on this fucked up planet, there being as many bars on this planet as there are churches which is saying a lot, and still found nothing.

By the time I had finished searching the bars, it was close to midnight, cold, and it had started raining while I was in the last one. I had searched everywhere I could possibly think to search for him, and the only thing I found out was that if you are going to search an entire planet for one man who is used to hiding from the entire universe, you should never do it alone, and you should always bring money for food while you are out. I had decided that if Riddick didn't want to be found, there was no way in hell I would be able to find him, so I gathered up my courage and ventured out into the cold rain storm, without anything to shield myself from the rain, and went to make my way home.

I had gotten about halfway down the street, when something or rather someone caught my eye. I caught a glimpse of a huge man walking briskly past me into an alleyway, but what really got my attention was that as he turned to get a look around him to make sure he wasn't being followed, I can only guess, I saw his glowing silver eyes. That can't be him. I've checked this entire planet over and couldn't find a trace of him anywhere, but there is only one person I have ever met that has those eyes. It has to be Riddick!

"Riddick!" I yelled after him, but got no response. So I called after him again, thinking that maybe he just hadn't heard me, "Riddick!" Then I realized, that he had heard me and that he was just ignoring me so I would think that it wasn't him and leave him alone. I ran across the street and into the alleyway that I had seen him go into, but because of the darkness, I couldn't see anything or anyone, so I changed my vision to night mode, but just as I had gotten everything into focus, I was slammed up against a nearby wall with a shiv at my neck.

"Riddick, it's me Raina! Get that thing off of my neck! I've been looking for you all day!" I exclaimed at him so he would not cut my throat, at least not right away.

"Why, afraid you might lose your 'payday', merck?"

"I'm not a merck! If I was, do you think it would have taken me this long to get you out of here and to the nearest slam?"

"OK, so your not a merck." he said matter of factly.

"What made you change your mind so fast?"

"If you had been a merck, you would have said something like, 'Do you think it would have taken me this long to get you to the slam that would have paid me the most?'. All mercks are greedy bastards. So if you're not a merck, than what was that conversation about with Vaako last night?"

"That is a little more complicated to explain. Could we possibly go inside somewhere so I can talk to you and not freeze to death while I explain myself?"

I could see it in his eyes, there was no way in hell he was going to wait for his answers, not when he could simply make me tell him what he wanted to hear. So instead of giving me an answer, he just moved his body closer to mine, and pressed the shiv harder to my neck so I wouldn't freeze to death, and he could invoke fear in me so I would talk right then.

"OK, fine, I'll play by your rules. I already told you that I'm not a merck, and you do believe me right?" my eyes pleading his for an answer.

"Of course I believe you, otherwise I would have let you stand there and freeze to death, instead of trying to keep you warm." He said into the hollow of my neck, using his hottest breath.

"I'm a Necro. In fact, I am the Necro that you have been hiding from since all of this shit started."

He backed away from me, taking his body heat away from me. "That can't be! You look nothing like her! She had dark, stone cold eyes when I saw her. You have soft, beautiful, blue eyes."

I had almost blushed when he said those beautiful things about me, but it wouldn't have been seen because my entire face was red from the sheer coldness of the rain. "That is very flattering, but the only thing that you saw on that girl was her eyes. The helmet that she wore covered her face and caused shadows over her eyes so that they appeared dark, and her armor hide her other features as well. So you can't honestly say that I look nothing like her."

"But your eyes aren't the same."

"You mean like this." I changed my eyes from night-vision mode to the hard, dark, stone cold eyes that had haunted him for so long.

"You are her." He backed away from me even farther while I tried to explain everything to him.

I started with the things that he already knew, the siege and that he had killed Irgun. "Irgun was my one and only friend, and we had a mutual respect and trust in one another. He watched my back and I watched his, I just never expected to have to worry about one lone breeder with no weapons going up against him with his hammer axes. He had never lost a battle before that day, and I blamed myself, for a time, about his death, thinking that I should have done something to stop it or have jumped in to help him. But after I was given his battle armor, I began to blame you and decided to take it upon myself to hunt you down and kill you as revenge for Irgun."

"So if your such a skilled warrior/murderer, than why am I still alive today?"

"Because, I began to believe that just killing you would not be the best option, but instead I spent my time trying to come up with the absolute best torture for you to have to endure so you would feel the same kind of pain that I had been feeling. But, after seeing what had happened to Jack and Imam, I realized that you had only done what you did as revenge for them."

"So why was I never taken to Necropolis and tortured to death or converted?"

"Because, the more time I spent with you, the more I learned about you, the more I learned about you, the closer we became, the closer we became, the more I began to care for you, and I've never killed or tortured anyone that I care about. That was when the dreams started. Irgun had come to me in the first dream and told me that since I neither killed you nor brought you to Necropolis for the Lord Marshal to take care of, that I would have to relive your worst nightmares and fears until I did one of those things, I just never imagined the kind of horrors that reside in your past."

"I remember those dreams, or rather waking up everytime you had one of those to you screaming at the top of your lungs and you thrashing about trying to fight off everyone that came anywhere near you."

My teeth were chattering from the cold, and I kept clutching my body in a fain attempt to keep warm. "Riddick can we please go somewhere so I can get warmed up? I'm freezing to death and I haven't had anything since early this morning. I promise to tell you the rest of the story and anything else your heart desires, but I need warmth first!"

He stepped forward and in one swift step, he had closed the gap between our bodies, placed his right hand around my waist and used his left hand to hold his shiv back at my neck. "No, either you tell me what I want to know right here, right now , or I'll slit your throat."

"Fine, do you remember that morning when I blasted your ass into the wall?"

"Yes. I'm still sore from that day."

"Well, that night I dreamt about the massacre on your planet. I had a front row seat to the destruction of your planet, your people, your family, and I witnessed your birth. I was your mother and I saw the entire thing. I saw the Lord Marshal, then a commander, come in and murder and maim your father, I felt him rip you out of my arms and saw as he wrapped your umbilical cord around your neck, I saw you tiny body turning blue from the lack of oxygen, and I felt as that bastard plunged a dagger into my heart." Riddick removed his shiv from my neck and allowed me to finish my explanation in the comfort of his arms while he tried his best to keep me from freezing to death.

"When I woke that morning and saw you over my body, I wasn't seeing you, I saw him with a dagger primed and ready to be plunged into my chest yet again. I couldn't relive that, it was too painful and I was too afraid that I would die in real life. But when I blasted you away, he didn't leave. He remained looming over me with that smug, hateful look on his face, so I kept blasting until he was gone as well."

Riddick tried to comfort me so I would continue by pulling me even more into his chest and arms.

"After that day, I realized that our current Lord Marshal is nothing but a weak, scarred little man who has to destroy people in order to make himself feel powerful. I decided after going through all of that, that you deserve your chance for revenge for your planet, people, family, and most of all, yourself. Killing the Lord Marshal and taking his place is not only your destiny, but it's your right."

"And how exactly did you plan on getting me into Necropolis with any way of being able to kill the fucker?"

"That's where the conversation you only halfway overheard comes in. Vaako, my commander, had come here, after going on a wild goose chase across the galaxy searching for you, to bring you and myself back to Necropolis and present you to the Lord Marshal himself, like I had planned to do before everything happened between us. But, I told him what I had discovered and we came up with a plan to overthrow him and put you in command."

"Do you really want to put ME in charge of an armada?"

"As both my father and I believe, the armada can only be led to their true purpose by a strong, confident leader who knows his own mind as well as the minds of those around him. Now, do you want in on the plan, or should I just let my father take you to Necropolis like he had planned before?"

"Your father? Vaako's your father?" He pulled away from me ever so slightly so I could see the look of confusion on his face. In doing so, he took away a great deal of heat from me just as an arctic blast came between our bodies, but Riddick didn't reclose the distance.

"I'll explain that part later. Do you want to know the plan or not?"

"Yes, of course I do."

"I will alert my father that I have found you and he will make preparations for our arrival. He has a band of men who are loyal to him, so he plans to have those men especially placed in the Basilica (A/N: Just in case I misused the word, I meant the thrown room. I just wanted to use the word that a Necro would use.) when I arrive with my prisoner, you, tomorrow morning. When I bring you in, you will be chained up, but when I present you, I will telekinetically disengage the locks on the chains and place your shivs in your hands so you can catch him off guard. Hopefully enough so you won't have to fight him, but should it come to that, my father's men will make sure that no one interferes with the fight, except to make sure that you deliver the fatal blow." The entire time I was explaining the plan to Riddick, my body was shaking violently from the cold and my teeth were chattering nonstop.

"Sounds great, but explain about Vaako being your father."

Just like Riddick to focus on the smallest detail of a conversation.

"Both my mother and father, Dame Vaako and Vaako, were converted at the same time, before I was born. But the thing is, when a woman converts, she loses her ability to conceive a child. Something in the conversion process destroys the woman's organs for child bearing, but little did my parents know that when they converted, I was already conceived and had established myself inside of her. You see, my parents were married before they were converted, so afterwards, they were just remarried. Well, by the time that anyone had any clues that I was inside her, she had already been converted and it was too late to just simply destroy the egg, and they couldn't kill her after she had established herself so high in the ranks, so I was born into the faith. And because I was born and not converted like the other children, I was afford certain powers and abilities, which is why I am the way I am." My body halted it's shaking and my teeth had calmed to a slow stammer. I had lost all of the heat throughout my body, and now my body was completely numbed from the cold.

"Well that would explain a lot about you." he looked at me and noticed that I had stopped shivering. "Let's get you home and warmed up before you die of hypothermia."

The rain had only increased in it's intensity and the wind blew like we were on an ice planet instead of the unusually warm planet that Helion Prime was.

"Riddick, I don't think I'll make it back home." he heard the frightened tone my voice held.

"Than let's get you inside somewhere around here. I'm sure that one of these bars has a few rooms above it." he said looking around as he spoke to mask the uneasiness in his voice.

"The one down the street does. But I can't move my legs, I can't even feel my body at all." My knees started to give way under me, and Riddick did something very unlike him; he threw down his shiv to the ground instead of re-sheathing it, in order to reach my side faster so I wouldn't touch the ground. He reached around my waist and snaked his head under my arm so that I was hanging on him.

He looked me in the eyes and whispered in his hottest breath, "Don't worry, I'll carry you there. I will not allow you to get hurt while I'm around to protect you." He looked me deep in my eyes as he pulled me closer to him in an attempt to get me into a position so he could pick me up. "By the way, I never would have slit your throat." he said as he hoisted me into the air, "I never hurt the ones I love."

"I love you too." I said trying to force myself to stay awake, but unconsciousness over took me, and everything went black.