Title: For the Love of Sanity

Rating: R mostly for language

Genre: Drama/ a little comedy to break it up

AN: Sorry it took so long! This summer was really hectic. I am getting ready to study at abroad

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the concepts or characters from PB

Part 16

Anissa rubbed her very swollen stomach and sighed; the months had gone by rather fast and before she knew it she was in her third trimester, more precisely her eighth month. In another month the baby would be here and Anissa couldn't have been more excited. She had finally pulled herself fully out of the runt that she had been falling in shortly after the incident when she stumbled upon Riddick and his new toy; it still hurt to think about it….

It was the first week of the new year and Anissa, still feeling a little down, was shopping by herself in downtown Gazze looking for a new crib for the baby since she had sold Brianna's a long time ago. She did with the pretense that she would never have use for it again; oh how she was wrong. She had just walked out of one of the more popular baby boutiques where she hadn't found anything that would go with the barnyard theme that she wanted for the baby room. She had been looking down when she had slightly bumped into someone.

"You wanna watch where your fucking going?" the rude and snide voice caused Anissa's head to snap up taking in the green eyes and blonde hair. Who was this bitch! If Anissa wasn't pregnant she would show her where she was fucking going.

"Excuse me, I didn't see you" Anissa said, her jaw clenching showing that she was more than just a little pissed off. Anissa was annoyed as Marsha Brady stood attempting to size her up while snapping her gum and twisting her ugly extensions. Then in her peripheral vision Anissa recognized the frame of the man that she thought she loved.

"I don't got all day, Janice" He hadn't noticed her as she was hidden in his blind spot still in the entrance of Babe.

Anissa breath hitched in her chest as she got a closer look at this Janice girl who was not only the bitch that was ruining her morning, but also the bitch that was ruining her life.

"What the fuck are you doin' in front of a baby store!" Riddick said a little unnerved and panicked at the thought of what she could be trying to hint to him.

"She's talking to the mother of your unborn child" Anissa could feel the anger coursing through her like a red-hot fire. 'How could this motherfucker!?' she stepped into his range of vision in time to see his face fall but his eyes remained fathomless behind the black shades. Janice's over done face contorted

"What the hell are you talking about?" Janice exclaimed so loudly that a few people on the crowded street turned their eyes toward them. She dumbly looked between the two who stood there facing each other down.

"This is the cow that you have been mooning over?"

"Shut the fuck up Janice!" Riddick yelled but not fast enough to keep Anissa from knocking the shit out of the stupid bitch. Janice screamed and made an attempt to lunge at Anissa but Riddick pulled her back before she could touch her.

"You are the most pathetic piece of shit that I have ever met in my entire life. Some man you are! Hiding from your responsibility like the fucking yellow belly bitch that you are; I hope you rot in hell and you can take that stupid cunt with you, fucking cock sucker" her eyes never left Riddick's face and they never watered showing him that she was truly done with his bull shit. She walked away leaving a stunned Riddick and Janice, who was holding her bloody noise and crying to him.

Anissa wasn't dumb; she knew that Riddick had been fucking some one else, but to see them together… shopping… like a true couple… Anissa's heart started to beat faster and she began to feel light headed. She was having an anxiety attack. She had been walking so fast and far from the couple that she couldn't tell where she was and the uncontrollable fear gripped her as she collapsed on the crowded street hearing the cries of people around her as she succumbed to the darkness.

Anissa thought back to awaking in the hospital scared for her baby and that was when she vowed that she would never feel anything towards that monster but hate. She had been released from the hospital hours after she woke; the doctor explained that it was a severe panic attack that had no negative affect now but if they continued regularly could be a source of fatal stress on her and the baby. That had been a little over three months ago and since then she hadn't seen Riddick, making it a point to avoid him, which wasn't difficult because he never slept at the house anymore. She hated him. How could he do this to her and still consider himself a man? She was tired of thinking about him and the situation. Anissa never spoke a word to anyone about that day; not wanting them to hate Riddick… she didn't know why she still saw it fit to protect that bastard, but that was just the person she was. Always thinking about others.