Riddick really didn’t know what to make of the crew of Serenity. When he’d listened to Kaylee on the planet she’d described each crew member and certain events they’d gone through, but no one was as Riddick had pictured them---especially the Captain. The murderer didn’t see the often joking man as one of authority---mostly the one most listened to was Zoë, his right-hand man—er…woman—whom Riddick was sure was having something with the hired-guns.

They all sat around the table in the mess hall. Shazza had gotten into an argument with the captain during their ‘introduction’. Apparently Shazza had once met the captain, though neither would say when where or how, and if Riddick had to guess by the glares they gave each other, they hadn’t parted on amicable terms.

The Australian glared at the captain throughout the whole conversation until he sneeringly brought up ‘that big bluff of a man’ who’d been courting her during the time he’d known her, asking what’d happened to him. All the blood had rushed from Shazza’s face as she got up and ran away from the table, tears streaming down her face.

Obviously, the ‘bug bluff’ had been Zeke, her husband, and the realization that he was dead was once more sinking in now that she didn’t have to fear for her life.

“What?” The captain asked, seeing the glares Kaylee and Jack were giving him. “What did I say?”

“Men!” Kaylee continued to glare at the captain while Simon Tam, River’s brother, who was way too prissy looking for Riddick’s tastes, sat next to her, hand on her knee, as if trying to reassure himself that his bao-bei was back with him safe and sound.

Riddick had to admit that while the younger man looked useless when it came to weapons, he was quite gifted when it came to fixing the damage caused by weapons. He’d taken care of Iman, stitching him up and bandaging him before doing the same to the others and giving them medicine to make sure that none of their wounds would get infected.

“What?” Malcolm Reynolds asked once more, defensive.

“He was the f