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A/N: Here's the sequel. I hope you guys like it, and as always, your input is always valued. Please give me feedback to tell me how I'm doing.
Summary: Set 12 years in the future. Jack is now 12, but he has a little 8 month old sister, Eva. The Coming came and went, the Familiars are all dead, and the transgenics are accepted in the world. Max and Alec are married and the regular crew's still around. Jack, like his father, is a ladies man, but when it comes to one girl in particular he gets shy and doesn't know what to do with his strange feelings. He's not going to do anything about it until his family, and especially his demonic (figuratively speaking) little sister intervenes. As they say, little girls are more cunning than little boys. Lets see how Jack deals when he gets a little taste of his own medicine.
Jack laughed as his best friend Marcus did a fine imitation of their boring history professor, Mr. McGinnis, and his rich voice resonated down the hall. He ran a hand through his dark hair as his bangs fell into his face and the two girls behind him swooned. He tossed them a grin but a third girl, lagging behind the four of them scoffed and tossed her long hair over her shoulders, refusing to make any eye contact with them.
Jack turned and offered a smile but she only glared in return.
"What's with you, Eve?" he asked. "You've been acting weird all day."
"She's weird everyday," Marcus said. "I think she's just mad that we're making fun of Mr. McGinnis. She's probably got the hots for the guy."
The two girls cackled and Eve's expression didn't falter. Her glare only intensified and Jack's smile fell off his face. He didn't know why – they were only teasing her after all – but he felt bad when she was like this. Like it was all his fault.
Eve, Gem's daughter, born during the siege at Jam Pony, was Jack's best friend and confidante. She was cold towards most of the ordinaries excluding the Jam Pony crew because of her mother's death during the times the transgenics were at war with the world. She stayed with Syl and Krit – who Max had reunited with during the siege – most of the time, but otherwise she crashed at Max's and Alec's. He enjoyed teasing her and she teased right back, but it was times like this that for whatever reason clammed her right up. He shrugged it off but made no further attempt to bug her.
Jack swung his backpack around and rooted around for his keys for a moment, then when he finally found them he inserted it into the keyhole to his apartment and walked in, his friends in tow.
"Mom! Dad! I'm ho – " Jack froze when he saw his parents' positions.
"Oh crap," Max muttered as she hastily reached for her shirt hanging off the back of a chair. "I forgot about the get-together for his project."
Jack groaned. "Mom. Dad. That's just sick. I don't really want to come home to find my parents in a make-out session. That's seriously gross. Couldn't you at least have taken it to the bedroom where you wouldn't be PDA-ing everyone?"
"A, Eva's asleep in our room. B, you make it sound like we're old," Alec said. "I'm 34, kid. Besides, it's all your fault."
Jack rolled his eyes. His parents had told him countless times how he was an evil baby who schemed and played cupid, not giving up until they gave in and admitted that they fell in love with each other. It was one of those boring, fond moment stories and he was too young to actually remember it, so whatever.
"Yeah, whatever," Jack said. "Could you kiddies just please get some proper clothes on?"
Max grinned and ruffled her son's hair, making him roll his eyes again as he attempted to flatten it. "You're the only adult around here, huh?"
They ran off to the bedroom to straighten up when Jack turned, eyes closed, to face his friends. When he opened them he saw them almost bursting with laughter.
"Sorry guys," he said.
"No, it's cool," one of the girls said. "At least your parents get along with each other. My mom and dad? They can't even decide what TV channel to watch."
Jack snorted at the thoughts of his parents getting along. Yeah right. If they "get along" so well then how come the last time dad pissed mom off he was tied to a pole in the garage parking lot?
Jack went into the kitchen and jumped up onto the counter to grab a bag of chips in one of the cupboards. He poured them into some bowls and snatched a few cans of pop from the fridge, which he promptly handed to his friends. Then when he was sure no one was looking, he snuck a can of his dad's beer but his whole body froze when a hand rested on his arm.
"Don't drink it now. Even though you won't get a hangover, you still need your brain cells. You can have it later but don't tell your mom I said that or else she'll kick my butt."
Alec felt a hard smack on the back of his head and he groaned.
"Idiot. He can't have that," Max said, snatching the beer out of Jack's hands. "I knew he got all of your bad genes. And how could you offer him beer when he was a baby? I swear that it's all your fault."
"Isn't everything all my fault?" Alec asked.
"Aw, honey. You understand," Max said.
Jack shook his head and returned to his friends, this time with a Coke in hand.
"Can't you just do it all with that enormous brain you have?" Marcus asked.
"I'm too lazy to," Jack replied. "Guess you bums will have to help me. Sorry."
"I don't feel like doing it either," the other of the two girls whined. She pointedly looked at Eve and Eve just gave her trademark glare. After a second, Eve snatched up the paper.
"Fine," she growled, and then she trudged off to Jack's room to do it in silence.
Instantly, Jack was filled with guilt. He knew he shouldn't have let his friend do all the work, but then again, it wasn't as if she actually had to work. With their transgenic abilities, she could probably be finished in an hour depending on how fast she could write.
Jack tilted his ear slightly and Marcus noticed the strange behaviour.
"What's up, man?" he asked.
"Someone's coming," he said, hearing footsteps still a fair distance away. He got up to answer the door and missed Marcus' funny look. He was good friends with Jack and accepted him as a transgenic, but he didn't like it when he openly used his strange skills if it didn't benefit them. So, to distract himself, his eyes observed the room and they landed on Max's butt that was sticking up in the air as she searched for something.
He heard a chuckle behind him and turned his head to see Alec laughing quietly.
"She is pretty hot, huh?" Alec said. Marcus looked flustered and his whole face turned beet red when Alec called, "Hey honey. This kid thinks you've got a great ass. Not that he's wrong, of course."
Max straightened up and crossed her eyes at Alec. He crossed them right back and Marcus' embarrassment faded as they forgot about him.
"Cindy's here," Jack announced, stepping back inside with Original Cindy. Max dropped their eye game in an instant and walked over to greet her friend.
"Hey boo," Cindy said. "I see Jackie here's got some friends over. It's already cramped in this tiny-ass apartment but got room for one more?"
"Always," Max said.
"Where's little Eva?" O.C. asked, taking off her jacket.
"She's sleeping," Max answered.
"Well, I was passing by the psychiatric ward on 3rd and Maple, and I thought I'd give Logie a visit," Cindy said. "Poor boy's still rambling about needing to save the world from the evil Coming. Still doesn't understand it's already been here and passed."
"Thank God for that," Max said. "I was starting to look like a freak, with those tattoos everywhere."
"I thought they made you look hot and dangerous," Alec commented. "It's always good when scary people come with a warning."
"I see Golden Boy hasn't grown up yet," O.C. said, hitting him upside the head. "Who knows? Maybe it'll happen in his 90's."
"If I even live that long," Alec said. "Maxie here might have other ideas."
"Why would I off you baby?" she asked. "A punching bag's a vital thing to have. If I get rid of you, who would be left?"
"I'm so glad that I'm so special," Alec said sarcastically, but still with a smile on his face.
"'Course, Alec," Max said, planting a kiss on his cheek. Alec's smile grew wider as he slung an arm around her shoulder.
"I just love it when you're nice. It makes being married to you so much more bearable," he said, which earned him a nice smack to the arm.
"Abusive woman. Is this how we're going to raise our children?"
Eve rubbed her bleary eyes and set down the pen she had been writing with. As she rested her head on Jack's desk, she caught sight of a metal rectangle hidden under Jack's pillow. She went to retrieve it and found an old photograph of Jack and his family with her. She smiled sadly at the picture. As much as she loved Jack's family, she missed her mother. A tear ran down her cheek but she wiped it away and put the picture back where she found it.
Faintly, she heard someone stirring in Max's and Alec's bedroom, so she quietly moved into the hall and opened the door to the master bedroom. She closed it and hurried over to the tiny baby who was just starting to wake up, picking her up and rocking her as Eva began to cry to announce that she was hungry. Eve sat on the bed, holding the baby whose name was so close to her own, and she began to cry along with her. Eve rocked back in forth, trying to comfort Eva as well as herself, clutching the baby to her body as she cried with it.
"I miss my mommy Eva," Eve whispered. "I miss her so much."
Eva stopped crying but Eve continued to, spilling many secrets to the baby in the need to talk to someone.
"And, you know your brother," Eve hiccupped. "He changes all the time. When we're alone he's nice to me but when he has his friends over he's not. They're his friends, Eva, not mine. None of them like me. You're my only friend, Eva. My only real friend. You know, I like Jack so much but he doesn't even know it." She continued crying as she talked to the little baby that she was holding.
And because she was so caught up in her own emotions, she didn't see Max or Alec huddled close together near the door, watching her with sad expressions.
She also missed the determined look in Eva's eyes.
A/N: So how am I doing with this? This isn't going to be such a long fic, but I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Tell me how I'm doing. Am I setting this up right? Or should I go into more detail as to what happened in the past? Your feedback would really be appreciated!