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A/N: Some one asked me what the "diaper disaster" was when I first wrote this so I had to put it in hope this is better than it was at first. TY for all the reviews :)! I changed Dixiann's name to Dez because Dix didn't sound right.
Chapter One
His heart raced, never in his life had something like this happened. What was he going to do? Daxter surely couldn't help him he had the same problem as he did. Things weren't the same with the two of them, at least not after Tess had been turned into an ottsle like Daxter. He knew that at least Tess could help him out until tomorrow then he would figure out what to do. He tried to remember exactly what happened.
Flash back.
Jak was walking down the street on his way home from Tess and Daxter's place. His buddy had called him with the news that Tess had finally had their baby and Daxter wanted him to be the first to see her. Even though come to find out she had had the baby almost three months ago. Daxter had been strutting around their apartment. Jak had spent a few hours with them before he decided that it was time to leave the happy little family. Secretly he was jealous of his friend but he would never say so.
"Hey buddy hurry up and have a kid of your own so our kids can run around and cause problems!" Daxter had said to Jak On his way out. Jak had to laugh at that and the thought of having a kid that could some day later in their life run around with them saving the world, not just theirs others too.
He had almost made it home when a man in strange black clothing approached him and ran into him with great force. Jak stumbled back with something pushed against his chest as he hit the ground.
"Take this monster you have created." the man had sneered at him. At first he was confused and just like that the guy was gone. He looked down at what he had supposedly created and saw that it was a baby. There was a bag at his feet that must have things in it for him to take care of it. He awkwardly carried the baby back to his small crappy apartment, and called Daxter for help.
End flash back.
Jak sat there waiting for Daxter and Tess to arrive. Every now and then the baby would hiccup. He had no idea what to do with it and he couldn't even tell if it was a boy or a girl. By the looks he would have a first assumed it was a boy but the more he looked at the baby the more he was thinking it was a girl. He tipped his head.
"Do baby girls even blow spit bubbles," he asked himself.
A lot of things had been going threw his mind. Just who was the mother? Had he met her? Was it one of the few women he had flirted with at Daxter's party that was held after the defeat of the dark makers? What if he got attached to the baby and the mother wanted it back? Jak shook his head, the torrent of questions in his head that he needed answered but one question kept bugging him, was it a boy or a girl?
Suddenly he nose caught the most horrid of smells, and he knew right then what had happened. Jak was experienced in many things, but changing a baby's diaper was not one of them. He thought that maybe he could wait for Tess to get there and he could have her do it. He then realized that Tess would be just about the same size at the baby and may have a lot of problems changing her. Another thing that crossed his mind is that if he let her sit there and Tess found out she would have his head.
Jak bit his lip as he looked at the bag that had been left at his feet. There had to be diapers in there, right? Jak looked over at the baby who was now looking at him. Looking into those cerulean orbs he could tell that it knew what was going on. Jak dug threw the bag and found what he was looking for. He put the diaper off to the side and grabbed a box that was titled diaper wipes. Jak noted that the picture on the box of a hand using it to wipe a giggling baby's bottom. At least he knew what they were for now.
Sighing he pulled the car seat over to him and he sat on the floor. He wandered if he should take her out of the dirty car seat or if he could change the baby in there. Logic told him that he would have to take the baby out to change it. He unbuckled the car seat which had taken him five minuets to figure out just how to put the baby in.
It took him a few minuets to get the coat zipper undone. Its not that his fingers were to big to grab the zipper it was the he couldn't get a good grip on it because the baby kept wiggling around. He couldn't understand why any one even a baby would be moving around when they have their pants full of crap.
Jak moved the baby so that it was lying in front of him. He moved the coat to the car seat only to stop and look at it. It was disgusting dark stains of who knows what all over it. It smelled like mildew. Jak shuttered as he dropped it on the car seat which wasn't any better. He looked back at the baby to notice that its clothing were just as bad as the coat.
Jak looked over its clothing to see how he was going to get the one piece off of the baby. He found that there were snap down were the diaper was. Well that made things a whole lot easer, he wouldn't have to completely strip the baby just to get to its diaper. It looked easy enough, he reached down and started to pull the snaps apart when he cringed.
The one thing he was hoping to avoid at all cost happened and now he got the scope of just how bad the baby needed changed. now that Jak had an idea on just how messy things were more than likely to get he grabbed a random towel from behind him. Its just to bad he didn't realize that he was grabbing his only good towel. After he got the towel under the baby he continued on with his work.
Jak managed to get the one piece off of the baby. Now he just had to get the diaper off. He examined the diaper for a bit and noticed the around the waist was two tabs. He pulled the two tabs and pulled the diaper off. Now at least one of his questions had been answered it was a girl.
'at least she cant piss on me' he thought as he tried to figure out a way to get the diaper from under her. He pulled the diaper out from under her and realized that he probably should have lifted up her rear to make sure non of the crap got any were else. He began to wander just how he was going to clean her when he remembered the box of diaper wipes. He popped the little box open and was surprised to find that they were wet.
He was uneasy about cleaning the girl but it had to be done. He managed to get all the crap off of her and throw the dirty diaper away. He sprayed some air freshener to make it smell at least some what better. The baby blinked rapidly as little droplets of the air freshener fell into her face.
Jak sat back down and picked her up trying to figure out just how he was going to put the diaper on her. Finally after three minuets of fighting with the diaper he finally understood how it worked. He laid the diaper on the floor and picked up the baby. He was holding her and decided that he wanted to look at her face more close up.
Her lips twitched in to a small smile that made Jak's heart stop for a second. However the sweet moment was interrupted. Just to make sure he looked down, yup she had done it alright. She proved him wrong, she could piss on him and she did. He gave out an exasperated sigh. He looked at her threw narrowed eyes. He saw it in her eyes, she was laughing at him.
"you really think that's funny don't you?" he asked her. She kicked her little legs and made a sound like she was trying to laugh. Jak had to say that he wasn't at all mad, hell even his dark side wasn't mad and that told him something. After several minuets of fighting again with the diaper he managed to secure the diaper around her waist.
Now all he needed to do was take a shower. He thought for a minuet and he decided that he had three choices, he can find something to do with the baby and take a shower, he could wait until Daxter and Tess got here and could watch her, or he could take her into the bathroom with him wile he took a shower.
He didn't have to wait long for the answer to come to him because the baby girl got a funny look on her face. His left ear twitched as she started to whimper so he picked her up. He wasn't quite sure how to hold her. He wasn't comfortable holding her the way Tess and Daxter held their baby.
Jak never saw it coming. Just as she started to whimper again her tiny body jolted slightly and she threw up not only on Jak but all over herself as well. Jak could handle many things, metal head, split eco personalities, Daxter, and random other things. He could not however handle vomit.
The infant girl started to whine, Jak slowly opened his eyes and looked at her. At first he was irritated but looking in her eyes he knew that that was something that she hadn't meant to do and she was sorry. He sighed and wrapped one arm around her to hold her against him and he leaned over to see if there was any thing he could use to clean her with in the shower. There at the bottom was some soap for a baby he gathered all that up and some tattered footie p.j.'s and went into the shower.
Jak felt awkward about showering with a baby he didn't quite know what to do. How was he going to wash her and himself if he had to hold her the whole time? A thought crossed his mind that might work. With no other place to set the little girl he put her in the small sink. He made sure he had all the baby stuff with him then quickly started the shower.
He realized that the normal hot bath he takes may be to hot for a baby so he made it a lot cooler than he normally would. Its damn good thing that Keira, Tess and Ashlin had all made him by a pair of swimming shorts. After he put those on he picked up the baby and climbed into the shower.
The first time the water hit her she squeaked in surprise making Jak think that the water was to hot, but she stuck her hand out to the water and then tried to laugh again. Very carefully Jak sat down in the bath tub and sat the baby in his lap. Then he face palmed himself, he for got to take off the diaper.
So Jak took the soggy diaper off of the girl and tossed it in the trash. He gave her a rag to play with wile he took and got ready to wash her. He put the soap on the rag and ran it over her skin. While he was washing her right arm she was using the left to fling the rag around and it was hitting him in the face.
He tried to get her to stop several times but she just kept doing it. He even turned her around so he could look her in the eye and tell her to stop. He took note that there was something in her eye, she wanted him to do something but what ever it was he wasn't picking it up. She jerked her hand and snapped the rag just above his eye brow, it didn't hurt no were near as the time Daxter snuck into the showers at the underground and snapped him with a wet rag. It was still enough to irritate him.
"JAKLIN STOP IT!" he said to her and she turned around and smiled at him. His heart jumped again. why did he feel like this when she did that? He couldn't help but smile back. She went back to playing with the washcloth and Jak frowned.
'don't even think it' his dark side said.
'you gave her a name, your name," said his light side.
'still…' Jak tried to say.
'no,' they both said
'she has eco powers just like you, you'd let some one else take care of her?' his light said.
'even if she's not yours you can always adopt her,' said dark. Jak stopped for a minute.
'wait you guys want to keep her, even dark?' Jak asked astonished.
'is that so wrong, she too damn cute' dark said. Jak could hear light laughing.
'cute?' light asked
'so?' dark growled but Jak ignored the rest of their fighting when he realized that the water was a little cold and Jaklin was starting to shiver. Jak got up some how wile still holding the baby and climbed out of the bathtub and wrapped her in a hooded towel. Jak kicked his vomited on clothing into the dirty clothes pile and walked to his room. He plopped Jakie onto the bed and looked threw his clothes.
It was a good thing that the girls had taken him shopping the other day. He put on a white shirt and a pair of sweat pants. He was skeptical when Keira had said they were good to sit around the house in. she wasn't kidding there. Jak could hear Jakie behind him, some how in the back of his mind he knew what she was telling him. He didn't know how but he just did.
'she is talking threw the eco to,' came the light side of him but that was it. Jak couldn't help but smirk at the knowledge of that, come one how many people get to know what a baby is talking about. Jak sat on the edge of the bed and put some socks on.
He looked over his shoulder to see what the baby was up to. She had almost gotten the towel all the way off minus the fact that part of it was on her head. Jak left the room and grabbed another diaper, now that he knew how to put the damn thing on it didn't take as long as before. He was always very prideful in how fast he learned things.
Now the hard part was trying to get her to hold still long enough to get one of her little arms and legs into the p.j.'s. after a short struggle and a few colorful words he had her in them, though they were to big for her. She crinkled her nose and looked at him. He knew that she didn't like them.
"tomarrow after the meeting with the precursors I will get you some new clothes," he said. She seemed to be satisfied with what he said and yawned and gave him a lazy smile. He knew that was it, right then and there she had him wrapped around her finger. He picked her up and held her close and took her back into the living room and placed her in the car seat. He sat there and watched her fight sleep.
Jak looked at the baby again, it was hard not to think that she was his. She did look a lot like he did. He had found out that the baby was a girl when the diaper changing disaster happened. He didn't even want to remember that. The baby suddenly hiccupped and his left ear twitched. He ignored it until she started to whimper making his left ear twitch more. Just then Daxter, Tess and Dez came into the room. Daxter took one look and laughed.
"damn buddy that was fast," Dax laughed. Jak frowned at him.
"seriously Dax, this is not funny," Jak said, as Tess walked up with their baby to look at the one Jak had in the car seat that he had luckily found. The moment that the two babies were close enough to see each other they both made identical squeaks at each other causing Jak to stop telling Dax what happened on his way home. They just watched as Tess held her baby so that they could see the other and after that it would be an hour before Dez would quit making noises.
After Jak had told the them what had happened they all sat watching both babies. Jak let out a sigh, he didn't know what to do and nothing he could think of was helping. This was all new to him, he wished that his father, Damas hadn't come to aid him that day he would have been able to ask him for help. He couldn't keep her he was barely nineteen and a lot of the people of the city look down on teens of any kind having kids. He saw what it had been like for Keira.
Jak knew that if this kid was really his he was going to have a really hard time, not only is he a teen barely considered an adult. Not to mention he was "Prince Mar" and that was going to look bad as it was. He wished that some one would say something, any thing his darkness was starting to get antsy and that was never a good thing.
"you have a name for her?" asked Tess killing the silence.
"Yes, its Jaklin," Jak said looking at Jakie again who looked at him with her intelligent eyes. An unknown sadness rested in his chest. He bit his lower lip. He honestly didn't know if he could keep her. Daxter seemed to like the name that he had given her.
"she'll be a big hero like you some day," Daxter uncharacteristically said. Jak could only nod is head, of course that is if he kept her.
"you should go to the hospital just down the street from here and have a paternity test done on her to see if she really is yours or not," Tess told him as she looked over the baby moving the trashy clothes she was wearing to see if there were any bruises.
"has she been changed yet?" she asked with a slight glair in her eye. Jak flinched a little but nodded his head, he didn't want to remember that maybe later when it would be funny he would think about it.
"yeah…" Jak said still looking in her eyes. What would he do if she was his, would he, could he keep her and even then, all the dangers that are always around him could he keep her safe? What about all the eco that's in his body? Would she have it too? What if he gave her up? Would she go to a good home? Jak rubbed his head at all the questions swimming around in his head at the moment.
"ya, know she dose look a lot like you, I bet the chances of her being yours is pretty high," Dax commented on the way she looked. All Jak could do was nod his head and more questions crammed themselves into his head. Dez started to fuss and Tess thought it was a good idea that they go home so she could put her to bed. She gave the ottsle baby to Daxter and shooed him out the door she wanted to talk to Jak alone for a few seconds before they left.
"Jak I know this is going to be hard even if it is just for one night, but even so I know you can do it," she said.
"thanks, this is something I have never done before, I'm a hero not a father, I don't think I can do this," Jak said as he buried his face in his hands. Tess smiled.
"Jak there are all kinds of heroes not just ones like you who save worlds or galaxies but teachers, doctors, and even fathers are heroes, I'll tell you what I told Daxter, this is the biggest adventure that you will ever have, there will be hard time but there will also be good times, take your time and think it over but not just about you about her too." Tess took just enough time to show him how to make a bottle then got up and left going home with her mate and baby.
Jak slightly smiled at the thought even if no one else looked up to him she would. Still he was unsure if he could do it. He looked around his apartment. If he was going to do this he needed a better bigger place. A house with a big yard, maybe even a little play set for her. He shook his head, he was going to far ahead of himself.
'you'd get rid of her?' asked a voice in which he wish he didn't hear right now.
'I don't know' he said to his darkness. Just then she started making a gurgling noise to get his attention, when he looked at her she hummed at him, a sad look crossed his face and it was like she knew what it was that he was thinking and her face scrunched up a little and she whimpered.
"I'm sorry I don't know if I can keep you," he said to the baby which started a few things, the baby started to cry and both his light and dark sides started fighting. He put his hands over his ears trying to drowned out all the sounds but it wasn't working.
He couldn't resist picking her up. He awkwardly cradled her close to him. It broke his heart to hear her cry like that, he didn't know how much longer he would be able to with stand it. He realized that the only thing he could do was keep her. He knew he was going to need a lot of help.
If Keira could be a single mother of twins, then he could be a single father of one. He steeled himself and allowed his "thick headed stubbornness" take over. Tess was right he could do this. He made his choice and he was going to stick with it.
"Jaklin Mara, stop your not going any were with out me," he said sternly to her, strangely Jaklin stopped crying and looked at him with a little bit of pleading and hope in her large cerulean blue eyes. Jak's heart raced again as she stared at him.
'you named her, you might as well keep her. Who cares what other people think about you it never bugged you before and she is more than likely will come into some kind of eco powers so its best to keep her from that mess, assuming she is ours,' came his light side.
Jak held her close to him and looked around the room. He looked at the car seat and thought that it was no place for a baby to sleep. He walked into his room and laid her on the bed. He needed to find another place this was too small. He moved the blankets and pillows around and slipped in to bed and pulled Jaklin close to him. The moment he was situated in bed he looked down at her to make sure she wasn't going to fall off the bed during the night, she yawned a really big yawn and Jak couldn't help but smirk at how cute it was.
Just before she passed out she smiled at him again and put her tiny little hand on his arm. his heart had jumped into his thought and hammered wildly. Finally she wasn't able to keep her eyes open any more and fell asleep. Jak reached out with his hand and ran his index finger over her hand. It was so small! He couldn't believe how small it was.
He didn't want to go to sleep, he wanted to keep watching her. He did something that he rarely did, of course no one knows. But he started to sing an old song that he assumed his mother or father used to sing to him.
"Take my hand,
come with me,
I'll lead you threw the land,
and you will see,
There's nothing to fear,
Not even the dark,
I will always be here,
So place your mark,
I'll guide you to it,
So take my hand,
And come with me,
Its just a bunch of sand,
Some day we'll see the great tree,
There's nothing to fear,
Walk your path,
For I am here,
And forever shall I be."
Jak fell asleep shortly after singing the song. Still many problems and questions raced threw his head. He would protect her best he could he vowed it. He would take her early to the doctors tomarrow to get the paternity test done then go to the meeting with the precursors.