Disclaimer: I don't own anything from the movies, books, or anything that could have come from any other show, movie, or book that I put in here and didn't realize. I do however own Zoe, her family, and Riddick's past that no one else thought about, so ask before you use it. Enjoy.

The next couple of days were long and slow. Neither one really talked to the other, in fact, they didn't really see one another. Zoe stayed confined in the bedroom, trying to make it feel more like home to her since she believed she'd be here for some time, except when Riddick called her out for a meal.

Both had confirmed to the other that she wasn't a prisoner here and she had free reign of the ship. But, she always said that she just didn't want to get in the way.

Riddick allowed things to happen this way until the third day, when after lunch, he wouldn't let her go back to the room.

"Riddick, let go of me please?"

"I'm tired of you constantly hiding away in that room. You've changed the order of that room more times than I care to count, and it somehow ended up where it began. Today, I'm taking you on a tour of the ship."

"You don't have to do that Riddick. You probably have other things that need to be done, and I don't wa…"

Riddick stopped her with a kiss. Nothing passionate, just something to catch her off guard, but it still left her a little light headed afterwards.

"I don't want you to say that again. You aren't in the way. And you should realize that I always get what I want, so it's useless to argue with me. Come on."

Riddick took her over the entire ship. Granted, it was small and outdated, but it was new to her, and she felt like she could be freer here on this small ship with her "capture" than she ever had anywhere else but in the shrine for her mother.

She saw the cockpit in full detail, the small gym, just big enough for one person at a time, two if one watched, the practice ring, where Riddick trained himself, and what would become her favorite room…

A multi-phasic shield guarded observatory, equipped with holo-imageres. It was the entire right-wing of the ship. With a half dome shaped top made of plexy glass, you could see all of the stars and systems as the ship past them.

"This is the only observatory equipped with holo-imageres."

"Why would you need that?"

"That way, if I'm stuck on the ship for too long, I can pick a planet from the database, and instantly I'm looking at their stars. Then I don't feel quite so alone, or small."

Zoe was quiet for so long, Riddick actually found it alarming. She hadn't stopped asking questions since he started the tour. They weren't anything of any real importance, but it was almost never silent during the tour.

"Do you like it?"

When she didn't answer, he looked down at her and found that she was in such deep thought that she hadn't realized that she was crying.

Riddick stepped in front of her and gently wiped away her silent tears.

At the feel of his fingers on her skin she came back to the here and now. She wiped away the tears more fiercely and moved back to the main part of the ship without another word.

Riddick wasn't sure if he should follow her, but he wanted to know what that was all about, and he didn't think that she should be alone right now. So he went with his gut and followed her back to the room.

He entered the room only a few seconds after Zoe, but she had already collapsed on the floor in tears.

Riddick knelt down next to her, grabbed her by the shoulders, and forced her to look at him. "What's wrong? Was it that bad? Don't tell me, nothing new, right?"

"No! It's nothing like that. It was just… I'm just… Oh! I can't explain it. I loved it, and the entire ship. I guess I wish I could stay here, with you. But that's an absurd thing to wish for."

"Well, you will be here for a while, so you at least get some part of that wish granted." Riddick was a little hurt to have to say it, but at least Zoe wasn't so sad.
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That night's dinner was a bit more talkative on both ends.

"Are you feeling any better?"

"Yes."

…

"Are you feeling alright?"

"Yes," she shot him a look of warning that he understood completely.

"I only ask because you are barely eating and you're barely speaking in response. One word answers are usually something I give, not get."

"I'm not that hungry and I really don't feel like talking."

"I was hoping you would tell me something about you. It seems a shame that we sleep together, and I really don't know anything about you except your name and that you are the Princess of Zealion."

"One of them."

"What?"

"I'm only one of them. I'm the youngest in fact. I have three older brothers and two older sisters."

"Oh, and here I thought you were the spoiled daughter of a rich and powerful King."

"No! I'm the over-protected daughter, my sisters were the spoiled ones. They wanted to be, so they were, I merely wanted to be free and loved. But, that was unheard of to my father, so I was guarded and he even attempted to keep me a secret until I came of age to be married off. Then I was flaunted and over indulged." Zoe went for sounding a bit on the sarcastic side, to sounding like she was completely disgusted with her life and family.

"So, your sisters ask for the world and get it, but you ask for freedom and love, and you get shunned. Your father really has his priorities fucked up. what about your mother? I'm sure she treated you with some kind of respect."

Riddick was desperately trying to find some reason now to send her back to her family and people. From what he was hearing, she sounded better off with him. He had seriously begun to reconsider sending her back when she started on about her family.

"My mother loves me and has always been the only one I could really open up to." Riddick visibly relaxed and released the breath he had been holding in. "However, she died giving birth to me, and I am the only one who can communicate with her among my siblings. I am the one closest to her in everyway, so I am the only one granted the ability to see and talk to her."

It took Riddick a moment to take all of that in. So she could talk to the dead, or maybe just her mother. He'd witnessed far stranger things during his travels.

"I'm tired of talking about me. Let's talk about you."

"I get the feeling that you are trying to hide something from me, but I'll let it go for now. What do you want to know?" he knew he was going to regret it, but he allowed for her questions, since she had answered his.

"Everything."

"Please pick a sub-topic? Everything will take a while, and I do want to sleep again before I die."

"Fine. It's only fair, your family."

"My mother and father both loved eachother very much and they lad a whole brood. I had two older brothers and four older sisters, and like you, I'm last born, but my mother didn't die giving birth. Her, along with the rest of my family died in a battle when I was five. Some fuckers had invaded my planet and my mom hide me away so I wouldn't get hurt, but the leader of that group of fuckers ended up finding me before they left. They took me off the planet and thought they had killed me, but…"

He stopped dead, lost in his thoughts. Zoe knew that look, so she didn't try to pull him out of it. She didn't want to force something that didn't want to come. The mind tends to wipe clean when pushed too hard, or forced to relive something that's too painful too fast, and he looked to be working through something.

He finally came crashing back to reality when she, ever so lightly, accidentally touched his hand.

"Oh! Uh! Where was I?" Riddick said a little confused.

"Don't worry about it. We'll leave the rest for another night. I'm tired anyways."

A/N: This is so dedicated to my best friend. She enjoys more talking then action, so this is for her, Only-Eyes-For-Riddick. even though I think that is so the wrong name for her.