Riddick woke to another heart beating next to him, he had gotten the best sleep in his life. Slowly his eyes opened, wanting to make sure that there wasn't any kind of light that would blind him. Darkness, heavy curtains blocked out the sun's rays, he sat up in the bed, rubbing his neck as he thought about his night with this new animal he had come across, a smile slowly formed on his lips, he had no plans now.

His last thoughts before this woman just popped out of the blue was to turn himself over to the first merc that he saw, but he couldn't play house with this woman, it wasn't him. He had never been given the chance to really find out who he was and what he wanted from life. This was definitely a new territory for him, he had no one tailing him, he had gotten rid of the necros, but sleeping with this woman definitely didn't fix his problem, Jack was still dead, and she was dead because she had saved him, so where did that leave him?

Back where he started just with an absolute best night of his life? He needed coffee before his thoughts went down this road. He grabbed the extra sheet from the bed that Nadia wasn't wrapped up in and got up, he wrapped the sheet around his hips and went to put in his contacts. From the bathroom he went to the kitchen and found the coffee maker, he started making coffee.

He then went searching for his clothes, he chuckled as he walked through to the living room, they had trashed the place, broken lamp, couch pillows in the floor, everything that had been on the coffee table swept into the floor.

"One hellva night." Riddick mumbled, he found his boxers and threw them on, suddenly he felt a pinch in his sweet spot, fourth lumbar down, the abdominal aorta,

"What a gusher. You listen good Riddick. Your done with leaving me behind." Nadia digging the knife in until a small bead of blood came out,

"Don't know what you're talking about, the name's…" Riddick being interrupted,

"Cut the shit, dick. Tell me, where do I get eyes like that?" Nadia whispered seductively, his hair on his neck stood on end,

"You've gotta… fuck, who the fuck are you?" Riddick growled, this information pissed him off, only one person ever asked him something like that, and she was worm food. He snapped around and now had her own blade against her neck,

"Let me tell ya a little something, you ain't that kid I saved. The kid I saved, died for my sorry ass and its not vey nice to play on something like that." Riddick roared out, so pissed that he cut into her neck a little, drawing blood, but she still didn't smell of fear.

"How could I be dead when I am right where you left me. Take a look, notice the layout of the house? A lot of damage was done when the necros hit, but I rebuilt it, just the way Imam had it. I still have the claw necklace you made, though I turned it into something more useful. It's the shiv your holding in your hand right now." Nadia explained angrily, he glanced at the shiv, he found it was the claw he had given to her. He stared her down then took a glance around the room, it was similar, but he wasn't letting her go,

"No! I saw you die!" Riddick bellowed.

"Are you mad that I'm alive, or that you screwed the little girl you saved long ago just to try to kill her memory that threatens to eat you from the inside out?" Nadia giving him a grin, this couldn't be happening, how would she know that her memory would do that to him?

"Who did I kill for you? One person, who was it?" Riddick growled out, the claw shiv biting into her neck a little more,

"Johns. You found out I was on my period when we were trying to get the cells back, you said it was death row with the girl bleeding. Fry wasn't bleeding, I had pretended to be a boy. I thought you were so cool, I shaved my head and wore goggles. That's when you blew my cover and told everyone else I was girl. You told me not to cry for John's but you had no idea why I was crying.

I was crying because I didn't think I mattered that much to you. Just thought you saw a dumb kid playing dress up. That's when I knew you cared, I mattered, I was worth killing for. Fuck you Riddick if you think you can leave me alone again. I wont fuckin' let ya." Nadia's eyes glossed over with tears. His hand slowly pulled away from her throat, he stared at those green eyes, and just dropped to his knees, her eyes widened, she freaked a little, she had brought him to his knees.

"I saw… you died… I couldn't…" Riddick leaning his forehead against her legs. Nadia closed her eyes, tears ran down her face, it crushed her to see him so defeated. Her fingers touched his naked shoulders,

"I'm here Riddick, I'm right here." Nadia dropping to her knees, he opened his eyes, she had tears running down her face. Riddick petted her bedhead hair with such a painful expression on his face.

"The holy man said you were in a slam." Riddick couldn't understand how she was alive,

"I was, just not locked up, I was doing some scouting around, looking for you, almost got caught so I came back. Was trying to figure out a new plan on my flight back. I had no idea the necros had been taking over everything. I had my own dock station back then, and the station had no idea that the necros were even here. They let me dock, I kept to the shadows on my way home.

That's when I was attacked, all I remember was it was pouring rain, storming. I woke up blinded, cut up pretty bad." Nadia seriously. By the way she sounded, she had to have been in a coma,

"How long Jack?" Riddick whispered, Nadia hesitated,

"Three months. When I woke up I had Damien standing by my side. He got me the best care, told him he saved my life, he didn't see it that way, he said I saved myself. He said that I had woken up and dragged myself out to the open that he found me leaning against a crumbling wall, said if I hadn't done it they would have never found me in time." Nadia whispered as she started to shake.

"But the scars…" Riddick being interrupted,

"The place Damien took me to did skin grafts. My eyes, my chest, stomach, I have the photos in a box, I needed to keep them, to remind me how far I have come, and why I held strong." Nadia softly.

"I stayed for you." Nadia staring him straight in the eyes, he touched her hair, moved his hand to her cheek,

~ She will die on you, she will give her life for you again and there wont be any coming back. ~ his thoughts turning in on him, she started nuzzling his hand, but his thoughts got the better of him,

"No, I cant… I wont." Riddick getting up and backing away,

"Riddick, stop. You sit your ass down or I will make you!" Nadia shouted,

"You don't get it Jack, you are alive, breathing, standing here before me. It was because of me I thought you were dead. You gave up your life for mine. I can't take that chance again, I won't!" Riddick roared out, as he was walking to the door.

Nadia sucked in air and growled, she ran quietly, she ran up his back and kicked him hard in the head, with the force she kicked him with his head flew forward and smashed into the door, Nadia grabbed the nearby handcuffs and cuffed his hands together tightly so he couldn't dislocate his thumbs and slide them off.

"You don't get to do this again! I'm not a stupid little kid for you to dump off anymore. I have the skills now to help you." Nadia straddling his back in only a bra and panty set.

"I cant ever feel like that again Jack. Did you know I thought about turning my ass in? Fry died for my ass back on that planet, then I saw the person I had saved once get thrown into an ugly ass decoration that speared her through the gut!" Riddick grumbled.

"Don't you realize, I wasn't exactly in perfect health at the time and I wasn't with you? I did die Riddick, several times when Damien got me to the hospital. I will prove to you that I am fit, willing, and able to run with you now." Nadia explained,

"Okay, well I will be the judge of that, take the cuffs off now Jack." Riddick nodded,

"Can't do that, I cant trust you won't run out on me, and its Nadia. No one knows I'm Jack, Jack died with the holy man and Ziza and his wife. I am her cousin that was visiting at the time." Nadia showing him her new ident card.

"I want to see the photos Jack." Riddick growled, Nadia felt a tremor go all the way through to her bones,

"I'll give you the box, but I can't look at them again, not now." Nadia whispered, she got off of him, and walked him upstairs to the bedroom and turned the light on, he sat on the bed, she got down on her knees and grabbed the box from under the bed, and sat it beside him. She uncuffed one wrist and cuffed him to the nearby bedpost. She walked over and leaned against the doorframe of the room and slid down to the floor, Riddick glanced at her mood, she looked numb, she spaced out, he looked down at the box, afraid to look inside.

Slowly he brought it into his lap and pulled the top off, there were a handful of photos, he started to shake, slowly he brought them out of the box and into the light. The first photo was of her eyes, looked like some kind of acid was poured onto her eyes, it was burnt from temple to temple, he swallowed hard. The next photo was of her chest and torso, she was cut up so bad one of her breasts was barely attached, he wanted to vomit, this was the little kid who he dropped off with the holy man to keep her safe, his eyes raked over the photo more, her abdomen had a thick line cut across it. Riddick dropped the box and photos and fell to his knees in the floor dry heaving,

"Fuck Riddick!" Nadia uncuffing his wrist before he could break it, she turned her back against the box and the rest of the photos. She held him around the waist,

"You wanted to see." Nadia softly as she rubbed his back,

"Jack, I…" Riddick having no words for her, he couldn't say anything, he thought he was protecting her from the people that was coming for him, that would always be coming for him.

"Riddick I survived. You needed to see, and you need to see them all. It will prove if I can survive that, I definitely can survive a merc. I don't know who done this. I don't think it was those necros, but I don't think it was mercs either, they wouldn't have done this kind of stuff until they had some information. Torture then kill or slave out, that's their code that they live by." Nadia seriously. Riddick's forehead touched hers,

"I left you to protect you, thought I was giving you a new life, a good family." Riddick whispered,

"And it was until that point, but I needed you back, guess I felt danger coming and I couldn't stand up and take that kind of hit without ya, but I survived. I held onto hope I would see you again and I vowed that once you came back that I would sink my teeth in and not ever let you go again." Nadia putting her hands on his cheeks.

"Are you ready to see the rest?" Nadia asked, Riddick nodded, he needed to see, to walk through her shoes, to know what she actually fought to live for him. He turned around, and started gathering the photos up, as she went to her closet to find a pair of Kevlar cargo pants, she threw them on and pulled a pair of the same Kevlar cargos for Riddick and threw them on the bed.

Riddick saw a photo of her back, it was cut but not quiet as bad as her front was,

"Jack, I don't know if its right to stay with you, but I'm staying." Riddick seriously, he couldn't let this happen to her again but he didn't know if he could stop her from dying for him.

"Glad you finally came to your senses. Get dressed, I'll show you what I'm packing nowdays." Nadia standing in a dark blue sleeveless Kevlar vest and cargos. Riddick saw the clothes she had laid out for him,

"Fancy, how did you get these?" Riddick feeling the Kevlar, it felt like top quality stuff, he got dressed, surprised that it all fit.

"One of my many skills." Nadia smirked.