A/N: Told you all that I was finally back in my writing groove. Hopefully more chapters will come out of my brain and I can finish with both of my stories. Enjoy.

Both had gone to bed alone, but in the deepest part of the night, only a few hours before they were due to enter the Serna System, and approximately twelve hours before they would land on Zealion, the capitol planet of the system, Zoe rolled over in her bed to find a rather hard body laying next to her.

"Who's there?" She was trying to remain calm and not explode at whoever was there without knowing who it was, and secretly hoping that it was Riddick coming to take her away.

"I know I shouldn't be here, but I couldn't sleep, so I thought I'd take you up on the offer and have another chat."

"Jaden, I will kill you where you lay if you do not vacate my bed immediately! I'm tired, cranky, and becoming increasingly bitchier by the second."

He knew he had been tempting the fates when he ventured back into her room that night and crawled into her bed to lay next to her. He even knew he was tempting the gods by staying there and ever so gently placing his hand on her cheek. "I have something that I need to tell you before we land." Jaden played with his life even more when he pulled her closer to him and placed her on his chest.

Again, that feeling like everything that was happening between them was so wrong, and yet so right came back. She knew that she should fight him every step of the way, that she should at the very least resist as he touched her face and pulled her closer, but she continued to allow him to do these things because deeper in her heart, it felt like it was supposed to be happening.

"Why do I keep giving in to you when we're alone? I mean, I haven't felt any urges to kick your ass for invading my personal space, and I just allowed you to pull me here on your chest. I can't figure out why."

"Because my inner beast calms yours."

'Inner beast? That's a Furian term.'

"Did you say…"

"Yes, my inner beast. My driving force. My Furian blood."

"You're Furian!"

"Well, only half, but still of the Furian Royal House."

"You're a Furian Prince? But how?"

"My mother was the Queen of Furya. She was found half alive on the planet mumbling something about someone named Dick. The transport brought her to Xion and the doctors there fixed her up and informed my father of her presence, once she was found out to be royalty. She was granted Sanctuary at the palace, and they fell in love. The rest gets you to me."

"Why were you never put on the suitor lists?"

"Because I had been betrothed, but she broke our vows before we went through with the ceremony, and I just now decided to try to find someone new. The rest leads me to your bed."

The thoughts of what her mother had always told her came flooding back.

"When you find your Furian Prince, you will be calmer around him than you ever have been in you life, and you will fall in love with him immediately."

She had found her Prince and yet her mother was wrong. She may have calmed around him, but only after spending time with him alone and she had no romantic feelings for him at all, she merely didn't feel the need to kill him. Maybe it was only because he was half Furian, maybe that was why everything was taking so long to happen between them. She would have to talk to her mother once she got back to the planet and could get to the shrine.

Suddenly, while laying on his chest, a severe depression enveloped her. Zoe began to sob uncontrollably and inconsolably.

"Zoe, what's wrong? Did I say something?"

"I …don't …know. I …don't …know …why …I'm …crying …all …of …a …sudden!" She could barely breath through the tears enough to speak, and she went into an even deeper body wracking round of sobs.

Aragorn heard her from his room down the corridor as she began to cry, but was the only other one to hear her, and jumped out of his bed so he could run to Zoe's room when she wailed the last word.

"What the fuck did you do to her to make her start crying!" Aragorn all but yelled at him, completely ignoring that Jaden was in his sister's bed.

"I don't know. She just started crying all of a sudden. Help me man!"

Aragorn motioned for him to leave the them alone so he could do what he had to do. Jaden gladly left the room. Aragorn used a pressure point on the small of her back to put her to sleep and held her a while as she began to drift back into a dreamless sleep.

When he was sure that she was asleep, he left the room on a mission of mercy.

The ship was eerily calm, quiet, and empty. She had been gone for almost a month, but he could still see her all over the ship, could still smell her throughout their room, and hear her laughter echoing throughout the corridors. He was lost without her, lost in every way.

Riddick knew where they were taking her, but didn't know if he should follow after her. sure she may have professed her love for him, but did it mean anything if she was being forced into a marriage with someone else?

Would going to the planet and kidnapping her do any good? Sure, they would be happy, until her father or her other brother found her missing and they hunted him down again to get her back.

No, the only way he could be with her would be to get the king to agree to let him marry Zoe. But the king being a power hungry man would expect his youngest daughter to follow suit and marry a man who stood to inherit a powerful kingdom, and all of the power that comes with that, so she would be able to add to the list of powerful allies he had from his other children.

It wasn't that he was going to keep it from her forever, just until after he was sure that she would be able to love him for who he was, not the title he carried. He had to know that she would love him as a man, and not care that she wasn't getting her Prince.

Riddick paced the corridors of his ship, unable to keep still long enough to do anything, let alone get any sleep. As he passed by the com system for like the fiftieth time in the last ten minutes, he noticed a light blinking, signaling a message on a secure channel.

'Probably just another job.'

Riddick tried to ignore the light, but the little nagging voice at the back of his mind wouldn't shut up and leave him to his wallowing, so he checked the message.

Aragorn's voice sounded over the speaker:

"Riddick, this is Zoe's brother, Aragorn. Something's happened to Zoe and a terrible depression has fallen over her. I had to subdue her to control her crying, but I fear there maybe something seriously wrong with her. She needs you now! We'll be landing on Zealion in just under twelve hours, and the wedding will commence in one months time after that, whether or not she is any better. You have to get here before then, or I'm afraid for Zoe's safety. Hurry!"

Riddick wasted no time. The moment he heard that something was wrong with Zoe, he started up the engines, not needing to ear he rest of the message.

Luckily, he had the ship drifting in that direction the entire time, just hoping for a sign to tell him whether or not to put the engines in overdrive.

If this wasn't a sign, he didn't know what would be.