A/N: This has to be one of my FAVORITE chapters, because it shows Jack as a true fatherly type. I love it, I love it!! So, as soon as this goes up, so will the pictures of the Genisis Kids; Rori and Suri Pedrosa, Betsy Bailey, and Alexis Spicer. And yes, this does mean that Clay married Ashley. I don't know WHY I did that, but I did. And Betsy turned out really cute, so I don't REALLY care. :) Yay. Alright, enjoy the chapter!

PS: The pictures for the Genisis Kids can be found RIGHT HURR, on my DeviantArt page! Viola!

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Daddy Dearest, Mommy Fearest

Jack sat in his basement lair, working on the wristband device that Alexis made. He had to get his mind off her for a while if he ever wanted to formulate a plan.

It was, however, no use. How could he feel so strongly for someone he had never known, for someone he would never know, for someone who had just popped into his life?

Spicer stood up and walked around the lair. She seemed so excitable. So full of energy. Everything she did, even when swearing, he felt it was just to impress him. And he WAS quite taken with her. Smitten, even. Not in a weird boy loves girl way. In a weirder father loves daughter way. What would happen if he never got her back? The world would be a dark place indeed, he felt. But what if he DID get her back? Would he be able to part with her again when it came time for her to go back to the future? It isn't FAIR! He thought, slamming a fist into the table, breaking a few glass vials on the ground. "How can I love someone that just... pops into my life like that, claiming she's my daughter? How do I even know that's true?" He asked thin air. But before he could ponder the question any further, he heard a soft, but firm voice from the stairs.

"Jack?" He turned. It was Mikaela. She walked down the stairs and rushed into his arms again. "I thought I heard you talking. Is everything okay?" She asked.

He shrugged. "I don't know." Was all he managed to say. Mikaela hummed slightly, but was looking around the lair at the same time.

"Where's Alexis?" He bit his lip, not wanting to say. "Jack? Alexis ISN'T your sister. Is she?" Jack bowed his head, and pulled himself away from the girl he loved.

"How... are you... did you know... or find out..." For some reason, he couldn't make the words he wanted come out, or make proper sentences, for that matter.

But Mikaela's voice was, as always, calm and even. "It was her eyes. They're not your eyes, she's wearing contacts. And their not your mom or dad's eyes. When I looked into them, I saw... well, I saw me, upside down and small, but I saw something else. I saw myself, you know, like, my soul. What's inside me, only in her."

Jack turned quickly to look at her. "So... you mean... you know?" Mikaela rolled her eyes, and put her hands in his, speaking slowly enough to make him feel stupid.

"Jack, sweetheart, it's kinda hard NOT to. I mean, I'm sorta used to bleeding my guts out my ass and getting monthly stomach torture, and when it didn't happen, I sorta suspected SOMETHING was up." Mikaela didn't really need to ask. She knew of time travel. Jack told her about it a few months back, about a portal he invented for such a venture, one day. The same thing could only be EXPECTED from the boy genius's own daughter. Jack laughed dryly. "She turned out cute." Mikaela offered, but that only caused Jack to swallow hard, and stare off into space for a while.

"She has your face. And your hair type. And your eyes, apparently." Jack pointed out.

Mikaela cuddled against his chest. "Yeah, but she takes after YOU. She looks just like you, she even took your... y'know... swoosh. Among MANY other things." Spicer scoffed and held her out at arms length.

"You're kidding! The girl swears like there's no fuckin' tomorrow."

"Like YOU don't?"

"Uh, hell no."

"Jack, honey, you're swearing right now."

Jack's eyes widened. "Damn. I guess she did get it from me." He said, stunned. Mickey looked up at him.

That was one of the things she loved about him. He was so cute, no matter what he was doing. "So, where is she?"

Jack looked directly into her eyes, his own brimming with tears. "You remember how I told you about Chase Young?" Her eyebrows knitted together.

"The baddie with a 'Take Over The World' penchant?"

He nodded. "The one and only. He has her. And... And I don't know what he's gonna do to her, or if she's okay--"

"I don't get it. Why does he want Lexi?"

"Probably to mess with me. Or to get information out of her on how to, I dunno, destroy good or something, cuz she's from the future. I don't know." The young man allowed a few tears to fall from his eyes, which his girlfriend immediately wiped away.

If anyone could console him, she could. "Jack. She's resourceful. And she's a Spicer. I think we can trust that she'll be fine." Jack stayed quiet, his face in her hair, and her face against his chest.

"He touched her ass." That got to her.

"That son of a bitch! Why are we still standing here? Jack, we've gotta DO something!" Jack looked at her with deadly seriousness on his face.

"No. I have to do something. You need to stay here. If you got hurt, I'd never forgive myself." She looked up at him, a fiery passion burning in his eyes. She kissed him again, not wanting to let go. What if something happened? What if she lost the boy she loved forever? She wrapped her arms tightly around his neck, while he embraced her around her tiny middle.

Jack, however, was battling with other inner demons. How was he supposed to break it to her that he wasn't going to be there for their daughter? What was he supposed to say, 'My daughter told me in the future I'm dead. Sorry, but you're on your own with her.'? Not gonna happen.

Jack sorrowfully let go of the girl, looking into her face with the utmost of regret. "Mikaela..." She looked up into his ruby red eyes.

The thing that first caught her attention about him. Taking a deep breath, the young woman made her decision, well aware of the consequences. "Go, Jack. Get her back safely." He nodded, and then, savoring the moment, leaned close to her and muttered into her ear.

"I love you, Mikaela."

He was gone not too long after that.

Mikaela sat down on the table, looking up and around her. It was weird, the way they met, almost a year ago. Jack was new to the university, while she had been going there for several months. He had accidentally crash landed into her using his helipack, and she was about to forever brand him a freak, when she looked into his eyes; those deep, ruby red eyes. After that, being with him just felt natural, right even. Being alive without him just seemed to be a stupid idea. And then, not even two months ago, they had spent the night together... an amazing and wonderfully romantic night together. That was undoubtedly when... She patted her stomach.

"Alexis Joanne Spicer. You must always know that you have two parents who love you, very much. And we'd never actually abandon you. I only say this because... I feel something's going to happen. I know it. I just hope you won't be involved... my beautiful daughter."

A/N To ALL girls who may take offense to this: I KNOW that you don't have your period out of your ass. I know that. I am a girl. However, for the sake of the character hereby known as Mikaela, she says that just for the affect of it. She's not serious, she doesn't really mean that the blood is gushing out of her ass. Thank you. As always, please review. It makes me feel a little better knowing I'm not doing this for no reason.