Jamie slept for several days as his body healed itself from the burns of reentry. Jack was awake, taking care of the orb those days. After about a week of sleep Jamie began to stir, hungry from his long sleep. Jack smiled, having made food for Jamie when he sensed he was waking.
"Look, daddy's waking up." He told the orb, having given himself the medicine since he didn't want what happened to him when they'd returned to Earth to ever happen again. Jamie opened his eyes, blinking a moment before sitting up.
"How long was I out?" Jack looked outside and counted yesterday and the day before...
"Two and a half days more than a week, counting today when you woke up." The orb suddenly clung to Jamie, causing Jack to smile.
"Our baby was scared for you."
"Long enough to become hungry then." Jamie smiled a little as the orb clung to him.
"It's alright little one, this is normal when things hurt us badly. I'm alright now. Promise." Jamie gently rubbed his hand along the orb. Jack smiled, tears came to his eyes and guilt that he was the reason for this; all of it battered him around like a ragdoll, he sniffed.
"I'm g-gonna go make breakfast, please watch the baby." He said a little too quickly as he ran from the room, broken sobs leaving his throat loud enough for Jamie, or anyone, to hear. The orb dimmed, obviously crying itself; feeling its parent's broken sobs and pain upset the little one entirely.
"There, there, it will be okay." Jamie murmured to the orb even as he says over the bond.
Jack, stop blaming yourself. What happened wasn't your fault. I fumbled with the re entry, you had nothing to do with that love. Jack groaned, still blaming himself for everything.
Jack... love. Please stop. Jamie says softly over the bond. Sending the impression of a loving embrace to him; no matter what, he loved Jack and he always would. Jack sucked in a deep breath and sniffed, hugging Jamie back along the bond but the pressure of what happened made the darkness flare out. Jack cried out holding, his heart as if something was consuming it; he sparked with dark energy all throughout his body.
"Jack?" Sensing the flare of pain and darkness worried him. Jack panted, sliding against the wall, his crown pendant hung down loosely as Jack cried into his arms; sick of the pain. Jamie went over to Jack and knelt next to him.
"Hun." Said gently. Jack shifted, a little of his spiky, gravity-defying hair tickled his chin. Jack sniffed, rubbing his emerald-blue eyes furiously in anger; sparks of the darkness flared out, sparking off his body here and there. Jamie ignored the sparks and gently embraced Jack. No matter what, he only wanted to be with him. Everything he'd done since that fateful Easter had been for or because of Jack, and Jamie wouldn't want it any other way. Jack shuddered, taking in slow even breaths that he couldn't control. He shivered, more sparks growing; the darkness moved through Jack as if it owned his body, as if it was it's place to control, making Jack grit his teeth in hatred. That only made the pain all the more agonizing and the darkness took more control, the tips of his hair were blackening, his left eye turned into a golden color, a gold that stared into one's soul... for evil. Jamie met the gaze fearlessly, there was nothing but gentle love in his eyes.
Jack shut his eyes tight, his grip on Jamie's hand was bone crushing and Jack realized he might have broken it. The sparks grew and grew, groans of pain left Jack, suddenly an orb bright as the sun slammed into his chest and disappeared; he gasped, inside there was an entity similar to Jack only his hair was black and a dark, red purplish armor covered him and he was holding what appeared to be a large key with two colors, red and black. It looked like it could spear anybody; the orb floated there, bright and ready to destroy this thing. The other merely laughed darkly, turning he smiled; his voice was a darker version of Jack's own but also seemed mixed with another.
"So you have come to destroy me. How sad that I'll be ending you, an unborn child at most." He lifted up the key with a smirk, the orb suddenly transformed; becoming taller and taller into a form of a child about fourteen. He looked like Jack, only he had Jamie's eyes. He had Jack's hair but it was spiked and he held a staff that held a crown shaped charm at the bottom, like the one that hung around Jack's neck. Outside, with Jamie, Jack was wincing at this.
"No... please, I can't let him fight him he'll DIE!" Jack fought to force his own child out to safety, but it was as if the unborn was more powerful than before. Jamie simply held the orb close. Surrounding it with his magic. He would protect the life within. The other simply held a determined smile to destroy this creature, the dark being leaned back on his key with a smile that meant 'you're no challenge so have fun dying.'
"Oh ho, you're challenging me. You're no match; I can't wait to tell your father, your blood will be spraying the inside of his mind after I'm done taking control." The other said nothing but held his weapon up in a battle stance the dark one laughed, striking first. He was a blur, the child had no time to dodge, they were smacked and cut up in the air before being thrown to the ground and finding the opposing key at their throat, but they blocked and flipped over the other before slamming the weapon into the sensitive muscle in their opponent's back, causing the other to cough up blood; being stunned, it gave the child a chance to smash him into the floor only to be flipped over and stepped on by a spiked armored boot. The child gritted their teeth as pained tears came from their eyes. Jamie couldn't interfere directly, but he was able to give the child strength to shove the dark one off. The other growled there was the clash of metal against wood for several moments before they jumped apart, the child panting heavily; they were fading from Jack's body, they couldn't keep this up forever. The darker was tired as well, but smirked.
"I see you can't stay long how about you just leave and I take control?" For the first time since the child entered Jack, it spoke.
"Never." It was older, but like silk; soft and quiet. Then there was a flash of blinding light surrounding the child, the light so bright the darker had to cover himself; standing before him was a taller, older version. Same colored eyes, only brighter and the hair longer, draping down the back, the tips were white and the child held a new weapon. A key, it looked like a regular key only it had a mouse charm at the end where the gold gripping handle ended. The 'teeth' of the key looked like a crown.
"I won't lose my father to you." The child stared, dead serious, at the dark one who just snickered.
"I'm done playing games now. Now it is your time to die." A black aura burst from the dark being and slammed into the man that was the child still, the child glared at the other as he blocked it and every attack before using a type of spell.
"THUNDER!" Lightning slammed into the being and the child attacked with all of the strength they had, metal clanged on metal for a minute before the dark one's own weapon was slammed out of his hand and now the child had an upper hand. Their key pointed to the other's throat.
"Do you give? I want you to leave my father's body this instant." They said flatly. Jamie could only watch, sort of, as it seemed to play out before him. He wasn't entirely sure what this was but he knew he needed to protect Jack. Jack grunted, the pain hurt like no other.
"J-Jamie..." The darker smiled.
"No, you haven't won. I was only stalling for the real power to come to me." Before either could realize, darkness surrounded the anti-Jack and slammed the child against the wall. They cried out, Jack's eyes widened and he screamed bloody murder as the darkness was taking over and the fact that his child was hurt now was also a reason. Jack squirmed and thrashed in Jamie's grip, the dark aura surrounding his body completely.
"NOOOOO!" The anti-Jack walked casually up to the restrained child.
"Guess you weren't as powerful as you thought. Now I'll be kicking you out of my body. I'd rather kill you once I take over." The other chuckled as he watched the child struggle against the shadowy binds.
"Father... I failed, please forgive me." They reached out to Jamie, telling him that as Jack was still thrashing and fighting the poison that was now taking over. Jamie's aura surrounded his child, blasting the darker back.
"You will not touch our child." Jamie stood between the two, glaring at the darker.
"I will not let you destroy what I have worked so hard for!" The darker smirked.
"So you decided to join the party after all." He held out his weapon, and with dark intent slammed Jamie about like a ragdoll; deflecting any and all attacks from the child who stood next to Jamie.
"DAD WATCH OUT!" He yelled but Jamie couldn't dodge the attack after him, it was a burst of fire. It slammed into his body like a bowling ball before constricting darkness tried to restrain him.
"DAD!" Jamie knocked the fire aside after a moment with a blast of cold that's beyond freezing. His eyes glinted dangerously.
"Nice try. I'm not a novice." The other dodged, smirking and dodging the ice energy; using his darkness to engulf Jamie.
"Finally more of a challenge then the brat and Jack here... or should I say the keyblade master since you don't even know whose body you're actually fighting in." He slammed the butt of his weapon into the side of Jamie's head before sweeping him off his feet. He tried to suffocate Jamie only for a burst of light to slam into the darker being, he didn't get back up right away; he was shocked, that had actually hurt.
"T-That actually h-hurt... how the hell." He looked up at the furious looking child, an aura of pure light surrounding him; his voice suddenly sounded wiser and angry.
"Stay away from him." Jamie rose to his feet, a blade of ice forming. He doesn't give the other time to recover, launching at him. He yelped and couldn't defend himself, he shook with pain before pulling out the blade; shakily standing up.
"You m-may have won this round but I'll be back and next time your precious Jack will be screaming in more pain and suffering, as well as killing you." He smiled darkly before, particle by particle, he disappeared into darkness; after that Jack went limp and the child glared at the floor, hearing this, but returned to the orb... a baby once more. Jamie sighed as he opened his eyes. This was a problem they needed to deal with soon and fast. The orb floated next to Jamie; it looked bigger than before, it was then that Jamie realized soon, maybe within the hour, the baby would be born. The orb left from the room to the nursery. Jack grunted, regaining consciousness.
"J-Jamie?"
"Hmm?" Jamie murmured once he's fully come to again.
"W-what happened back there?" He said, fear in his voice.
"Uh... well... best I could tell... the darkness tried to take over... I'm not sure I can explain any of the rest..." Jack shuddered the pain all too real; his body was raw with pain and he gasped for breath. The scars were slowly healing, he cried.
"Is our baby ok?" That's only thing, besides Jamie, that he was worried about.
"I... I think he's about to be born..." Jamie said, looking in the direction the orb had gone; getting up to go watch it carefully.
"H-He is?!" Jack said, shock in his eyes; he felt it too.
"Oh God... Bunny said it's a self sustaining orb, right? We wouldn't feel anything... right?" He held his stomach, apparently Jack felt some power leave him to the baby, to help it be born.
"Jamie... the nursery. Help me to the nursery now, the baby needs us." Jamie helped Jack up to the other room where the orb was floating. The orb glowed brighter and brighter, it looked like a crack was appearing on the orb.
"Jamie, what do we do? Should we watch, help him out... what?" Jack asked all at once as the crack moved completely down the middle, light of birth seeping through the orb's crack.
"We just watch... any energy he'll need he's already gotten from us." Jamie replied, anxiously awaiting to welcome their little boy into the world. It slowly broke apart, steam and magic rising from it and inside was a baby boy with reddish brown spiked hair, like cinnamon and he had the bluest orbs he'd ever seen. Jack grasped the child first, in his grip the baby giggled.
"A-a baby b-boy." Jamie smiled, getting the swaddling blanket to wrap him up in.
"What shall we name him?" Jack had one instantly in his head.
"Roxas." The baby giggled, loving the name.
"His name is Roxas." Jack breathed. Jamie smiled.
"Has a nice ring to it." Jack nodded happily; he looked at the baby whose eyes now turned to Jamie and he giggles as Jack hands the baby off to him.
"Roxas this is your daddy." Jamie took Roxas with a smile.
"Hey Roxas, welcome to the world." The baby gurgled and giggled; Jack smiled, tears in his eyes. This was their child, their little baby, Roxas. Jack collapsed from the exertion of everything; the baby giggled.
"Meeme modomd." It's all he said but over the bond to Jamie it sounded much like "dada fall down." Jamie settled Roxas in his crib.
"I'll be back a minute. Your dad needs to take a nap and the floor isn't the best place." Jamie then picked Jack up and carried him off to his bed to settle down and rest. He's a little concerned about it and wanted to stay close but he knew he needed to see to Roxas too... with a sigh he went back and picked up Roxas; settling into a chair in the nursery as he held his son close. Jack slept deeply, slightly whimpering and crying from nightmares, but it evened out when he thought about Jamie and Roxas; meanwhile the baby decided to go exploring. From his point of view everything was big, tall, like miles high; he looked at a chair and imagined it as Mount Everest. Jamie kept a close eye on Roxas. Roxas giggled, climbing the 'mountain' and made it after a moment.
"Baba boogy." What he was saying was the opposite of baby talk to him.
"I DID IT! I DID IT! I CLIMBED MOUNT ARMCHAIR!" Jamie smiled a little as he watched the child, wondering if spirit children grew faster since he didn't remember his baby sister being able to do this so soon after she was born. The baby giggled before looking at Jamie with blue orbs that sparkled like the sky, but also looked to hold all the knowledge of a wise knowing person beyond his non-years. Jamie just smiled, watching the little one. He couldn't imagine how their child would know much of anything at this age; after all, he had been born only a short few hours ago. Roxas rubbed his eyes in protest, feeling sleepy; he became fussy then, like 'I don't want to go to sleep.' Jamie picked him up, gently rocking him as he hummed an old lullaby that his mother used to use on his sister. Roxas' eyes closed slowly until he was sound asleep, his thumb in his mouth suckling gently. Jamie tucked him into his crib, once he's fast asleep and then went to check on Jack. He slowly awaken, emerald-blue orbs looked at Jamie; he smiled and thought about Roxas.
"How's Roxas, how long was I out?"
"He's fine, just put him down for his nap. About a couple of hours." Jamie replied. Jack smiled.
"Okay." He kissed Jamie gently, smiling.
"So what do you wanna do until Roxy wakes up?"
"I hadn't really thought about it." Jamie replied after returning the kiss. Jack smiled.
"Well let's go through some books or maybe..." He gently blew air into his ear, as Jack had ensnared him.
"Have the rest of our fun upstairs." He whispered directly into the shell of Jamie's ear.
