Okay, I may not be updating this story and my other ones for a little while. I just started back up with school (today's date 9-7-2004) the eleventh grade....eh. I will try to update my stories whenever I can find the time.

Riddick looked at the sleeping Jack, he went over to the side of her bed and gently brushed her shoulder length brown hair away from her neck seeing two puncture wound scars. He held up his wrist and looked at the identical scars. Rage filled him at what Victoria had done. He left the room going down the stairs and stormed out of the house, making it back to the ship just as the sun was starting to set. He went up to her room closing the door behind him and picked up the stake that was still there, he would wait until the moment she was first waking to drive it into her heart. He wanted her looking at him when he killed her. He positioned it over her heart and the alarm on his chrono went off, her eyelids fluttered and he raised his arm. It was on the downward motion when her eyes snapped open and she caught his arm just as the stake was going to pierce her skin.

Victoria pushed him away with a hiss and leapt out of the coffin landing in a crouched position close to the ground, her fingertips and toes holding her up. She hissed at him again and he saw that her canines were elongated, the look in her eyes anything but human. She rose to her bare feet and he snarled at her, the animal in him coming out. Riddick stripped off his cloak and let it fall to the floor in a black mass. He lunged at her with the stake raised and she stepped to the side knocking it out of his hand with a flick of hers. It flew across the room and skittered on the floor until hitting the wall. She attacked him and he twisted grabbing her arm and throwing her into the wall. He saw her head bounce off the wall and she stayed still for a moment giving him the opportunity to grab her by the back of her neck and throw her into the opposite wall. He smelled blood and smiled evilly, until he found out that it was his, there was a cut on his cheek. He stepped towards her to attack her but she disappeared from the spot and was suddenly in front of him, her arms pinning his to his sides.

"Did you think you could beat me human?" she growled in his ear and her teeth buried into his neck. He tried to break her hold on him but he couldn't and she continued to drain him. Victoria abruptly stopped and pulled away. Something human entering her eyes. "Riddick!" she exclaimed as he dropped to his knees, suddenly very weak. Through tunnel vision he saw her cut her wrist with her nail and hold it to his mouth. "Drink, you'll be stronger." She said and before he thought about it his mouth locked on the wound and he fed from it, swallowing the blood that entered his mouth. The tunnel vision went away and he did indeed feel stronger. Riddick pulled away from the cut and saw it heal. He was then aware of a dark thumping sound, he realized that it was his heart but then he heard another one, a faster stronger one and he realized that it was hers.

"Why did you do it Victoria?" Riddick asked her.

"Do what?"

"Bite Jack." He said and she stood.

"She wanted me to."

"I don't believe that."

"It's the truth."

"Tell me what happened."

"Okay." she said and launched into the story. "We were walking down the street..."

"Victoria?" Jack asked and she looked at her.

"Yes?"

"What's it like to be a vampyre?"

"Very simple, you rise at night, drink blood for food, all you have to worry about is someone finding out who and what you are."

"When you bite someone, does it hurt? For them to be bitten that is."

"If I haven't eaten for a really long time, then yes it hurts, but other times it can be rather enjoyable, it may sting a little though."

"Is there any side effects?"

"Such as?"

"Do they die afterwards?"

"No, not always. I can't speak for others of my kind, but I only take what I need I don't need to kill. They'll feel a little lightheaded afterwards, but it's just like getting blood drawn."

"Have you ever bitten Riddick?"

"Twice, once when I woke up after a fifty years sleep and once when I had to drink human blood."

"How did he react?"

"The first time, he was unconscious when I fed from him, the second..." she ended with a giggle.

"What?"

"He had to go take a cold shower after the second time, for most vampyres feeding from people of the opposite sex is a sexual thing, not just a way to get food. What's with all these questions? What are you getting to Jack?"

"Victoria, I want to know what it feels like, I want you to bite me."

"No, absolutely not."

"Why not?"

"One Riddick will drive a stake through my heart if Imam doesn't beat him to it and two...you're a child."

"To you everyone is a child, Riddick is a child compared to you and you still fed from him."

"I meant mental wise, not age wise. And even if I was, Riddick is 35, you're only 16. See the difference?"

"Please Victoria, I won't ask again I promise." Jack pleaded and looked at her with puppy-dog eyes.

"No, I mean it, no. End of discussion." Victoria said and Jack kept looking at her. "Okay, just stop looking at me like that, no matter how old I get that look always gets me, even though I literally invented that look." Jack smiled.

"Thank you! I promise I won't ask again."

"You better not, now where do you want it?" she asked and Jack tapped her neck. "Of course, the neck. How stupid of me for asking. Come here." She said and pulled Jack into an alleyway. "No one will see us here." She brushed Jack's hair over one shoulder and touched her neck gently, she could feel her pulse quicken under her fingers, she could feel the blood rushing under the surface. Victoria felt the Hunger rise and her canines elongate. She gently pushed Jack's head to one side and bit down on the sensitive flesh, Jack hissed and tensed as her teeth broke through. Victoria began feeding and Jack relaxed, moaning slightly, one of her hands coming up to tangle itself in Victoria's hair. Victoria placed a hand on the other side of Jack's neck while the other went under her shirt slightly to caress the skin of her stomach and waist. She pulled back and licked the wound making it heal, leaving behind a faint scar. She kissed Jack's forehead gently and looked at her.

"That was...amazing." Jack said, her eyes half closed and chest heaving.

"Now never ask me to do that again." She said and Jack nodded. She picked her up in her arms, and in a blur left the alleyway, going to Imam's house. The door opened without her touching it and she went up the stairs and laid Jack on her bed, covering her up with a sheet.

"Victoria?" Jack asked, half-awake and half-asleep.

"Yes Jack?"

"Thank you." she said and Victoria leaned over her.

"No, thank you Jack." She said and kissed her gently on the lips before leaving in a blur.

"That's what happened, believe it or don't, but it's the truth." Victoria said and Riddick put his head in his hands.

"And Jack really enjoyed it."

"Really, really enjoyed it. She's a lesbian I saw it when I fed from her."

"What about you, are you..."

"I have no preference, male female its all the same to me, blood tastes the same." She said and he nodded standing.

"We have to go to Imam's, he's probably still gunning after your undead ass, you have to tell him what happened."

"Okay." she said and they left the ship after she healed his neck. They made it to Imam's and he entered, seeing Imam sitting there with Jack.

"Victoria." Jack said and she nodded at her. "I told Imam what really happened."

"We came here to do just that." Riddick said and Jack stood.

"I keep thinking of it."

"That's normal, it's not everyday that a vampyre bites you." She said and went over her, she stepped in a slow circle around her smelling her neck with her eyes closed, and Jack's eyes fluttered shut and her jaw sagged. Victoria's eyes snapped open and she stepped back.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Jack asked but she shook her head.

"Riddick, Imam we have to talk, Jack you just stay here." Victoria said and the three of them went up to Imam's study.

"What is it that's got you so freaked?" Riddick asked and she shut the door.

"It's Jack, she's bit-struck, I smelled it when I was smelling her blood." Victoria said looking over her shoulder at them.

"Bit-struck? What is that?" Imam asked and she turned around resting her back against the door.

"It has been described as the ultimate drug, the vampyre's bite."

"Jack's addicted." Riddick asked and she nodded closing her eyes. Riddick took out his knife and went towards her.

"If you kill me Riddick, she'll go insane." She said and he stopped in his tracks.

"I do not understand." Imam said sitting down in the chair. "You only bit her once, how can she be addicted?"

"Sometimes all it takes is one time, but it rarely does. That's why I made her promise me to never ask again."

"Wait a minute, you knew that this might happen but you did it anyway?"

"It rarely happens after one time. But there are exceptions."

"In this case, that exception is Jack." Riddick said. "So what happens now?"

"When we leave, we have to take her with us. If we don't it'll be like taking the fix away from a junkie, a good thing in that case a bad thing in this case."

"What'll happen if we don't take her with us?"

"She's either go insane, die, or go looking for other vampyres to get that fix. Not all of them are as nice as me, some of them out there they'll kill her when they're through with her. It'll be safer to take her with us. I can't believe I did this to her." Victoria said and slid down the door to sit on the floor, her shoulders shook as she cried. There was a knock on the door.

"Victoria, are you all right?" it was Jack. "It's like I can feel how much pain you are in, what's wrong?" she got off the floor and opened the door, Jack took her in her arms, but this just made Victoria cry harder. After a while they looked at each other and Jack wiped away red tinted tear tracks with her thumb.

Riddick locked eyes with Imam and they nodded at each other, Jack had to go with Riddick.

"We have to leave, sunrise is in a little while." Riddick said and Victoria nodded.

"I'll walk you guys out." Jack said taking her arms from around Victoria.

"No Jack, you'll be coming with us." Victoria said and she looked at her questioningly.

"I don't understand."

"You're going to be living with us, from now on."

"What about Imam, will he be coming too?" she asked looking at the aging holy man, who looked away.

"No Jack, just you." Riddick said and she nodded.

"Let me get my stuff." Jack said.

"I'll get it, you and Victoria get back to the ship before its too late." He said and she nodded again, Victoria took her hand in her own and they walked away, Riddick and Imam heard the front door open then close.

Victoria and Jack made it back to the ship with only minutes to spare. They went up to Victoria's room and entered.

"Wow, you really do sleep in a coffin. So where will I be staying?"

"In here with me." Victoria said taking off her clothes and laying in the coffin, she knew that Jack needed skin to skin contact whether Jack realized it or not.

"I'll be sleeping in there with you?"

"Yes, come Jack there's not much time left." She said holding her hand out to her; she saw her gulp and heard her heart race.

"Should I...?" Jack asked indicating to her clothes and Victoria shrugged.

"If you want to." She said, knowing full well that she did. Jack disrobed and lay in the coffin; Victoria wrapped her arms around her and pressed their bodies together. She closed the lid on the coffin just as the sky was beginning to lighten.

"How will I breathe?"

"This coffin has air vents cut into the sides." Victoria said. "Now Jack, when the sun rises my heart will stop and I'll stop breathing, essentially I'll die, now it might freak you out but whatever you do you can't leave." She said and felt Jack nod. Jack wrapped her arms around her and laid her head on her chest, hearing her heart beat. The sun peaked over the horizon and she listened as the heartbeat stopped, Victoria exhaled a shaky breath.

"Victoria?" Jack asked but received no answer. She closed her eyes and lay there in the complete darkness until she herself fell asleep.