Author's note: Riddick does not share my bed therefore I do not own him. I know it's sad isn't it?
Just so you all know, Riddick took Jack with him; he didn't leave her on New Mecca. For the past five years they have been planet hopping, settling where they can for as long as they can. Jack is now 20 (to me she was 15 when PB happened).
This is the second installment of my song fic. Thank you all so much for encouraging me to keep this story going. I'm thinking that I could get one or two more chapters out of this that is if you all want it to continue. So leave me some feedback on whether you would like that or not.
The song is My Immortal by Evanescence.
My Immortal
Emotions were not something that Richard B. Riddick felt. But in the past five months since Jack had left him, he had been an emotional wreck. Well as much of a wreck as someone like him could be.
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
Riddick sighed at the memory of her smile, her eyes, her. The one person in the whole universe that knew him, understood him, loved him, and he had just let her walk out of his life. His foolish hidden fear of her someday realizing that he was no good for her had turned out to be a self fulfilling prophecy. He had pushed and pulled her in so many directions emotionally.
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
Riddick wiped the tiredness from his eyes. He moved gracefully from the cockpit to the bedroom that they had shared. The framed picture of them sat on the nightstand. His strong hand gently lifted his treasure. Even now he could hear her voice calling him into the galley for breakfast, or see her rushing past him to get to the shower first.
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time can not erase
It had only taken him seconds to realize she was gone, minutes to realize that it was voluntary. Telling himself that it was for the best, he drowned himself in a bottle for the next two weeks to forget. He had soon realized that there was no forgetting Jack.
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
The first night after they had escaped hell, he had found her crying in her sleep. After stitching his own leg up, he had lifted her from the hard cold floor and placed her in his lap. He woke to her thrashing and screaming, her emerald eyes glazed over as she relived the planet through her living nightmare. Imam had quickly come over to make sure it wasn't Riddick who had caused Jack's state. Riddick simply glared at the Holy Man, and proceeded to wrap his arms tightly around her then small frame. Then he did something he had never done before in his life, he gently placed a kiss on her forehead and whispered to her. "They do not know who they are fucking with;" his husky voice helped to calm the frantic teen even more, "Jack B. Badd is not to be fucked with." He remembered the small smile that crossed her lips before she finally settled back into his large body.
You used to captivate me by your resonating light
Riddick moved from the bedroom and back to the cockpit. This had been Jack's favorite place on the ship. She would sit there for hours and stare at the stars. Half the time falling asleep in the co-pilot chair waiting for Riddick to finish calculating. Sometimes they would talk about the old Earth system of making constellations. While passing through the Nebedor system, she had used the star chart to make Riddick the Hero. He had protested greatly, no one would ever consider him a hero. "It like the old saying goes Big Guy," Jack smiled before continuing, "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." Her slender hand had cupped his cheek, her jade eyes meeting his mercurial pools, "You're a hero to me."
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
She had made him love her and then left. Riddick shook his head, "Did you think that I could live without you, Jack?" As always he waited a moment for a reply that he knew would never come. Whether either of them knew it, they were bound to each other and Riddick was determined to make her see that.
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me
Riddick stared out at the stars. How could he have been so stupid to not notice whose scent was on her? Of course he didn't know the Mercs by name but usually he could smell if it was one. "Don't worry I got rid of them," her voice was always so shame filled. Fuck, how did I not notice? Riddick mentally scolded himself for the millionth time. It drove him crazy knowing that someone had used his Jack, that she had done it not for herself but for him. The first time she was old enough to be intimate with someone and it was a lousy fucking Merc that got off on that sick shit. They had taken advantage of her. "So did you, you dumb fuck." Riddick's inner beast roared at him. As much as he would have liked to he couldn't deny it. Sure it hadn't been physically but emotional he had relied on her and he had never given anything back. Only once. On R'gerillian.
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time can not erase
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
The heart that Riddick wasn't sure he still had ached. After three months, he had finally found where she had settled on for more than a few days.
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along
Millions of thoughts still raced through his mind when Riddick had decided to go to R'gerillian to reclaim his love. This one simple act had made him realize who and what he was without her. Without her he was alone in the universe. Once upon a time in his life that was exactly what he wanted. Jack had shown him how wrong he was, no matter how much he tried to convince himself that he wanted to just run off to some frozen planet and live life away from everyone, he would always want her by his side.
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
Checking the coordinates one last time, Riddick made his way back to their bed. Reverently, he placed the picture back on the nightstand. Slowly, tiredly, he removed his clothes, carefully folding them and putting them on the dresser. Lifting his pillow, he removed her wife beater and replaced it with his bone shiv. Settling in under the covers, Riddick held onto the small shirt that held so many hopes. "You still have all of me Jack," the low rumble of his voice began to drift.