DARK ACE POV

I watched her, I know I shouldn't of but I did. The way she was with her kids, my kids. They looked like me, had my black hair and eyes, had the angular jaw line but their mothers nose and high cheek bones. Their personalities were different but similar in some ways and even though I knew I shouldn't be thinking it I was.

"Are you just going to sit there and let us rot in here?" She snapped.

"I don't have a choice."

"You are so full of shit, everyone has a choice."

"I'm not getting into this argument with you." I retorted sharply. She gave me a death stare then looked away angrily. Ravess came through to assist me and looked down at her.

"Pathetic." She murmured.

"Like you can talk, I think the jail cell you got locked in when you were in charge of Cylonia for a whole day is down there if you wanted to visit." A smirk rose to my lips and Ravess saw sending me a death glare.

"Watch your tone child." She said bitterly.

"Go play your music, you know the only you can do right." Jet rolled her eyes and Ravess walked off angrily. I couldn't stop the smirk from coming to my lips, I heard Ravess cursing from down the hall and I couldn't help but let out a small snort. She looked up at me and then let them lay on the bed while she put the food aside for them when they woke up.

She walked around the room stretching her legs and back. I couldn't help but look, she was still beautiful after all these years, still her. She looked over to me and I quickly darted my eyes away, she laughed coldly to herself.

"She likes you, you know." She said. I raised my head.

"What?"

"Ravess, she likes you." She said as if it wasn't obvious. I raised an eye brow, Ravess was good to look at sure but she was well, in nice words petty and annoying.

"No chance in hell." I mumbled. I looked back down to my hands before looking up to her.

"Hey, you know the boys…"

"Caden and Ashton?" She asked lifting and eye brow.

"Yeah, what about them?"

"You did well Jet." I whispered, her face softened and she leant down in front of the bars.

"Blaine-"

"No just listen, I need to tell you this even though I know I shouldn't." I don't know why I was talking but I was, I felt guilty. I hadn't felt that in years, not in a long time and it made me feel almost human again.

"I'm so-" An announcement came over the speaker interrupting me in the nick of time and I couldn't have been more relieved.

Dark Ace and prisoners to my chambers now.

It was Cyclonis, Jet looked over to Ashton and Caden and nudged them carefully whispering for them to wake up. Their crimson eyes fluttered open, the same colour as mine. I unlocked the cell and she pulled them up putting them in front of her as I put my hand on her shoulder leading her through. She didn't look the tiniest but frightened as Talons passed her, she looked protective and fierce of the two boys in front of her.

When we reached the room Cyclonis had two crystals in her hand and I knew exactly what they were used for.

"Grab the boys." Cyclonis said to me. I did putting one of each side of me, Jet looked back and to me eyes pleading.

"Keep them safe." She mouthed. A guilty look must of come across my face because a tear slipped out of her eye but she quickly wiped it away looking at Cyclonis.

"I need your help." She smiled cruelly at Jet and she shrugged.

"Not happening." She retorted bluntly. A smirk formed across her mouth.

"I need you to signal the Strom Hawks for me, when you do I intend to capture them."

"I'll refer back to my first point, not happening." Cyclonis started to rub the two crystals together and a vibrant red came from them, electricity. She shot it at Jet.

"Agh!" She let out a blood curdling scream as the boys tried to run for her.

"No!" She screamed to them in the midst of her own, I pushed them behind me as they tried to reach their mother. I lowered down to their level.

"She will be OK, please just stay behind me." I murmured softly to them, their eyes were wide with fear as Cyclonis shot Jet with a harsher voltage; I closed my eyes and looked to them, the spitting image of me.

"Please help her!" Ashton screamed to me trying to push past me. I put them firmly in place and looked back to Jet who was looking at me, no tears just silent messages and I knew exactly what it was. She was telling me to protect them, to protect my sons. I had no duty or obligation to them, I didn't even know them until two weeks ago. But my body was telling me, screaming at me to protect them.

I once again pushed them behind me and then grabbed them by the shoulders.

"Please, please don't interfere, Jet will be fine she's strong but you got to- just be safe." I said. Caden didn't listen he was still thrashing to get to his mother but Ashton nodded at me, it was a small scared nod but he understood, he knew I wasn't lying or tricking him. He still looked as if he was about to throw up but he moved behind me and grabbed his brother.

"Tell them!" She let off the electricity for a minute and she breathed hard.

"No…" She said in a heave on energy trying to get but was shocked again. I looked away, it was cowardly but I did. The boys were crying now.

"She's going to die." Ashton mumbled through a waterfall of tears and this time I couldn't comfort him. Cyclonis had the look on her face, a look of hatred and pure evil. She stopped again.

"You think you can take what's mine then just pretend like little miss innocent?" She snapped. Jet looked up at her.

"This isn't about the Storm Hawks…is it?" Her face went cold hard as she pulled out a knife from her back pocked slamming it into her leg. Something had cracked in Cyclonis and it was written all over her face. Jet didn't scream but made a grunting sound then panted hard. The boys were now screaming angrily and sounded just like their mother when something she didn't like happened.

"You know exactly who it's about."

"He was mine before he was yours." She whispered quietly to her, her face grew dark as she looked up at me. Cold stares hit me, it was always purely physical I had thought, no emotion intended. She was nineteen and in charge of the whole of Cyclonia, my best bet to the top. Cyclonis walked away leaving Jet on the floor with a knife in her leg.

"Lock the boys up back in there cell and come back to get her, clean up the mess." She said to me leaving the room. My eyes widened, I picked up both boys kicking and screaming for their mother and ran back to their cell placing them lightly down.

"What about my mum?!" Caden screamed.

"I'll help her, I promise you." I put my hand to his shoulder and her looked up at me, scared and in a strange place he didn't like.

"Promise me you will be safe until I get back?" I asked with a bit to much worry in my voice. They nodded and I left before I dug my hole deeper.

I locked it and ran back down the hall to Jet, where she was crawling to try get up. I bent down and examined the wound.

"We have to clean it, wrap it up before-"

"I bleed out?" She asked in pain. I nodded, placing my arms softly underneath her thighs where the knife was implanted I rested my other arm on her back and placed her arms around my neck. Her head fell into my chest not because she was trying to flirt, because she physically had no strength to hold herself up.

"Hang on Jet, just hang on." I begged.

"Thank you for taking care of them." She murmured. I reached the infirmary in no time, it was empty as per usual, talons were expendable so no one ever really got taken care of.

I placed her down on the table and she closed her eyes.

"Pull it out."

"It's going to hurt."

"Just do it." She snapped.

"Alright…" I said quietly grabbing it.

"On three, one, two." I pulled on two and she screamed loud before punching the table. I quickly grabbed some antiseptic and poured it all over her leg and started to stich it up. She was breathing heavy.

"She tortured me because she thinks I'm going to take you away from her…are you and her?"

"What? No, well sort of, yes but it's not-" She punched me hard in the face. I wasn't expecting it and flew back. I rubbed my jaw.

"Why you-" I didn't finish because when I looked up she had her hand over her eyes with tears running down her cheeks.

"I don't want to care! But I do, and I'm not angry that you did it I'm angry that she felt the need to torture me in front of Caden and Ashton all for that! I could have died, what would they have done? Where would they go? I don't want to die for this." She cried heavily. I moved closer finishing off the stitches and then wrapped it up in a bandage. I gave her two pain killers which would have helped I'd hoped.

"Jet…" I mumbled, she looked down to me in the chair.

"Yeah?"

"I need to tell you some things…come clean about some stuff." I mumbled to her and she nodded slowly.

"I'm listening."