Wow. 10 reviews. And it's only the first chapter! Joy! I hope you guys will like this chapter as much as the last one. .

I forgot this last time.

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"Review your options again, Jack. Run is one of them. Run." Outside, Jack jogged in the direction of her latest home. She couldn't believe Riddick was here. How did he find her? Better yet, how did he recognize her! It's been six years. How long has he been on this plane? What the hell is he doing here!

She kept running. She was in good shape and covering ground well. Questions tumbled through her mind as she opened the door to her apartment and sighed in relief. She needed to calm down. It's just Riddick. But he was here. He found her. 'Damn, why did I run? He probably thinks I'm …..God, who knows what he thinks? Why is he here anyways? He cut out a long time ago.'

She stopped believing he would come back. She almost killed herself with hope when he first left. Everyday, she expected him to arrive any minute. "He'll come back for me," she used to think, "He would never leave for good." Bullshit. She could only kid herself for so long. After Imam threatened to put her in an institution off-world, she buried Riddick deep in her mind and tried to forget everything she ever know about him. He no longer existed. It was what she had to do to survive. She had lost what little weight she had, and had been skin and bones. She had been failing school because she was hardly ever there. She was 15 when she decided to erase him. She had practically loved him before then.

Jack lies on top of her bed and sighs. A breeze from the open balcony drifted in. Why is her here? Is she going to have to go through everything again? She wondered if he was actually looking for her, or if they had just coincidentally picked the same city on the same planet to hide out on.

"There's no such thing as coincidences." She murmured. The dark made her feel safe, and she relaxed.

"Glad you figured that much out, Jack." An amused, male voice said from the open balcony. Her eyes flew open, but she didn't move a muscle. 'Shit! He's already here. So much for privacy.' She thought, annoyed.

"Haven't you ever heard of knocking? Most people don't come in through the balcony, either. There's such things called "doors", you know."

A chuckle escaped him. Jack bristled. 'That idiot.'

"I didn't realize I was "most people", Jack."

"What do you want, Riddick?" she asked, flatly. He moved to stand at the foot of her bed, facing her.

"Nice place ya got here. How do you find money for a place like this?" he asked, purposely avoiding her question.

"I have my ways." She told him, innocently. The atmosphere was tense.

"Ways, huh? What ways?" he asked, barely able to keep the growl out of his voice. Jack smirked as she realized the implication.

"Oh, you know," she stretched out on her bed like a lazy, sun-drunk feline, "just ways."

" Oh. I see." He said flatly.

"Do you?" she narrowed her eyes.

"Don't I?" he quipped.

"Apparently not." She said.

"Enlighten me."

"Money just seems to find me, that's all."

"Uh-huh…. And whose pocket did it come out of?" 'At least it's not what I first assumed,' He thought.

"Whoever is careless enough to let me take it." She smirked.

"Don't get cocky, Jack."

"Why not? I'm good at what I do." She bragged, smiling.

" Uh-huh. I'm sure you are." He said sarcastically, laughing.

" I am!" she said indignantly. " I have this apartment, don't I?"

"Do you?"

" Riddick. You didn't come here to play word games with me. What do you want?" she asked softly, her eyes closing as she turned away from him; her hands covering her face. She lay back down on the bed. She was tired of all of this. These stupid games…

"Why did you leave, Jack?" he asked quietly.

"I could ask you the same thing. Besides, you left first."

"That's because I had to. What part of "I have a payday on my head" don't you understand?" he growled. She opened her eyes and glared at him.

"Probably the part where you didn't take me with you." He eyes were blazing with suppressed fury. Riddick shook his head in disbelief.

" Not one shred of self preservation in you, huh? If I had taken you with me, you'd have been dead within the day. Do you know how many times I've had to kill people to get them to stop chasing me since I left? Hell, I lost track. I couldn't have protected you and myself at the same time."

"Well then, I guess I overestimated you. You seemed to take care of us both just fine on T2." She snapped.

"That was different!"

"No it wasn't, Riddick!" she stood and strode towards him. " I would have taken care of myself." She sat down on the edge of the bed.

" It was too much of a risk and you know that. Why are you so upset about me leaving?" he asked, curious. Jack sprang up from the bed and whirled on him.

"Why? WHY? Do you have any idea of what I went through after you left? Oh I guess not. They don't write down these types of things in people's files. Which you probably already snooped through." She folded her arms and walked out onto the balcony. Riddick followed her, thoroughly confused. Which is a rare thing.

"Jack, what the hell are you talking about?"

She turned to him, her eyes hard.

" I killed you Riddick. In here," she tapped her head. "You are dead to me." She stated, "You weren't supposed to come back to life." She whispered sadly.

"Still not quite getting it, Jack."

She sighed.

" I went crazy, Riddick." She told him irritated. " After you left. I don't remember much of it. But Imam said that I would sit on the roof all day, just staring in the direction of the port. I wouldn't eat. Never slept. Imam said he could barely ever get me to talk."

"Finally, Imam threatened to send me off-world. To some psycho institution. I guess that snapped me out of it. After 5 months of that, I finally started talking and being normal again. You have to understand. I was 12 years old. Nothing you can say will ever justify you leaving. You keep saying I would have been killed if I'd gone with you." She laughed bitterly. " I nearly died when you left me to rot on that planet." She stated. "The only way I could survive was to forget you. So I did."

Riddick took in all this information, internally cringing at each thing she said. All this happened to her because of him.

" I couldn't have taken you with me…. You'd just have been more blood on my hands, Jack."

"You don't know that Riddick." They stood in silence for a few minutes, each observing the night. The sounds of music pounding came from a club a few buildings away. Wind stirred Jack's long hair around her. Riddick watched her close her eyes in bliss, as she gave into the essence of night. 'Jack was just a kid. Kids don't go insane with grief when they lose someone. They cope; kids are good at that.' He thought, as his eyes absentmindedly trailed over her body. ' Stop it, god damnit. This is Jack,' He mentally berated himself.

"You can't stay here, you know." He said, breaking the silence. She stayed leaning against the guardrail.

"And why is that?"

"If you stay in one place for long, they'll find you."

" "They" will never find me. No one ever saw me take anything."

" Are you so sure about that?" he tilted his head in question.

" Absolutely." She nodded.

"Enough to bet your life on it?" he asked. She paused. "I didn't think so." He strode over to her dresser and started throwing all her clothes on the bed.

" What the hell are you doing?" she exclaimed angrily, shutting her drawers with his fingers almost still inside.

" You're coming with me. Start packing." He answered gruffly.

"The hell I am! I'll go alone, thank you very much!" she said indignantly.

Riddick stood tensely.

"Jack…you're coming with me. Whether I have to drag you, kicking and screaming or not. So start packing if you plan on keeping anything, got it?" He said, very evenly, and she could tell he was really trying not to throttle her. She glared at him furiously, but started grabbing clothes and stuffing them into her knapsack.

" Asshole…. Goddamn pig…. Rude, egotistical, idiotic bastard…." She mumbled under her breath. Riddick smiled at her stubbornness. He found her. And he would take her away from this way of life and everything that goes with it, even if it kills him.

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