Disclaimer: I don't own pitch black, or any characters in the movie (insert pouting here). I do however own the character Erin, and Reena is actually based on my best friend, who has given me her permission to use her in this story. There, covered all the legal bullshit. (big smile!)

Dark Horizon

Author: Rin

Erin opened her eyes and stared into the darkness that was her basement. 'That's odd' she thought 'should the room be spinning like this?' The music was blaring, and her best friend, Reena, was dancing around blissfully behind her.

Erin grinned, and shifted on the couch to get a better look at her friend, who was doing a pretty good imitation of a fish out of water. Erin giggled, and then smacked herself for giggling. Erin did not giggle. It was just not possible. Blonde bimbos giggled. Erin did not. With the success of winning her own argument, Erin gracefully flopped off the couch.

Reena gave her an odd look, before going back to her fishy dancing, as Erin had so lovingly dubbed it. Erin slowly crawled to the table halfway across the room to get to the bottle of vodka. Her and Reena had been down there for at least 2 hours. The whole time consisting of drinking, dancing, and watching a bit of porn. Erin grinned evilly at the last. She was slowly corrupting Reena. But as far as Erin saw it, a little bit of porn never killed anyone, especially two hormone driven teenage girls.

Erin grabbed the bottle of vodka, and braced herself before taking a big swig of it. She slammed down the bottle and wiped her mouth off on her sleeve. Suddenly, a thud from behind her made her swing around, and once the room stopped spinning again, Erin took in the sight of Reena, lying face down on the floor. Erin burst out in laughter.

"Reenaaaaaaaa" Erin slurred out. When Reena didn't respond back with anything, Erin sighed and slowly crawled towards her. She rolled Reena over, and saw that her eyes were still open. Erin's eyebrow went up in a questioning manner.

"I fell" replied Reena to the silent question. That earned her a laugh out of Erin, and a light smack on the shoulder.

"Alright, Lets get you to the couch before you damage the poor floor with your hard head." Said Erin, slowly getting up, steadying herself, and then leaning back down to grab the pouting Reena under the arms to lift her.

"No, the floor hurt me! No fair. Stupid floor gets all the sympathy," mumbled Reena. Erin grinned down at the shorter girl, and started half dragging her, half carrying her to the couch.

"Damn girl, been eating a few too many Twinkies have we?" said Erin, having to stop to hoist her back up before they both went crashing to the floor.

"Bite me"

"Nah, your not my kind"

"EW! Not like that!"

"Hey! You're the one who said it, not me"

"…. Are we there yet?"

"Shut up little missy, or I'll leave you on the damn floor" grumbled out Erin, who then thankfully threw her friend onto the couch. She then promptly threw herself next to her, and sighed.

"Wanna watch Pitch Black again?" asked Erin.

"Again? How many times have you watched that movie now? I swear, you probably know all the lines to it now." Said Reena, and rolled her eyes at her friend, who was already getting up to put the DVD into the player. Erin just turned to her and gave her a wicked grin, turned off the blaring music, and flopped back down on the couch.

"How can you resist watching Vin Diesel with only a tank top on, all sweaty and those huge sexy muscles?..Yummy…." moaned out Erin. Reena reached over slowly, and smacked Erin.

"Is your mind always in the gutter? Gessssh! Besides, you don't really get off on just muscles and we all know it. You like the fact that he's damn sexy, deadly, and can make blades or whatever. You get some sick satisfaction when you see a man with a knife. Remember that time in House Of Knives? When I had to drag you out so you wouldn't drool all over that guy?" said Reena, who was grinning, remembering that time with her friend.

"Hey! I was not drooling! …. At least I don't think I was." came Erin's grumbled reply.

All of a sudden, Erin was hit with a wave of exhaustion, which was very uncommon. Erin usually was so hyper when she was drunk.

"Reena, dude, are you as tired as I am?" Erin got enough strength to turn her head and look over at Reena, who was trying to drag her feet up to curl into a little ball, but didn't seem like she had enough energy to do so.

"Hmmm…..?"

"What…yawn…the hell is wrong…. yawn…with us? Never this tired" Erin was starting to feel sluggish. 'What the hell is wrong here?' she thought. The only reply to her question was an unlady-like snort, which told Erin that Reena had either passed out, or actually fallen asleep. Fighting to stay awake, Erin looked at the T.V. and saw the start of her movie. Her eyelids started dropping. And she finally lost the fight to stay awake, and fell into a deep sleep.

The moment both of the 19 year old women were asleep, a dark shadow stepped away from the darkness to stand in front of them. Smiling gently at the curled up women, the figure lent down to move a stray piece of hair out of Erin's face.

"I hope you find the happiness that you have both been searching for. You, my dear" the shadow said looking at Erin, "will heal his heart, and you" now looking at Reena, "will find your peace, at last" and with those whispered words, the dark figure stepped back into the shadows, and watched as the friends disappeared into thin air.