AN: One quick note, there will be no Torn or Ashelin ships in this story, only some Jak/Keira and Daxter/Tess. Torn is after all mine, no other woman can have him.

"Torn?" Jak asked looking in Torn wide frightened blue eyes.

"Ja – Jak..." Torn repeated his eyes wandering the room as if he were suddenly blind. "Help me... please..." he said in a broken voice, he must not have known where he was.

Jak bit his lip, he didn't know what to say. He was no good at this. "You are safe, you're... you're at the hideout. It's okay, you're safe." Jak said with pity building up in his eyes at the helpless figure before him.

"Hi –hi... hide... out...?" Torn shuddered and looked around before his eyes rolled back in his head and all the stiffness he once held was gone.

Jak cursed under his breath faintly and check his pulse to make sure he was still alive. When he was positive he was his sighed and propped his head on up his hand as he stared at the still figure. He would have to wait for Torn to wake up again in order to explain things.

He just hoped he would be Torn when he work up and not a dark eco crazed monster. He remembered when Daxter told him how he reacted when he first woke up, he didn't remember himself. He had said he was prepared to kill him. But he was only getting treatments for a month; maybe he wouldn't be that bad. And if he did have an alter ego, Jak was sure he could take him, without killing him that is.

He had no idea how the dark eco had effected him. No one did...

Ashelin had left the palace several hours after Jak had gone, to make sure he was far enough away so nothing would look suspicious. After getting the men away fro a while she managed to sneak a peek in the room, there was no sign of Torn in his cell, or anyone for that matter. That meant that if it was Torn or not Jak got the person out.

When she left she immediately took out her communicator and tried to reach someone. She tried Jak first but it must have either been off or out of his reach, he didn't answer, she prayed he wasn't picked up by the guards. Next she tried Jinx. This time someone picked up.

"Jinx." He said over the com. his voice crackling.

"It's Ashelin, did you guys get Torn back? Was it Torn?" She asked worried as she walked over to her KG zoomer.

"Yeah it was Torn, we got 'im back safe an' sound. But 'e's in pretty bad shape, when I left Jak 'e was sleepin'." Jinx replied grimly.

She closed her eyes and sighed in relief, she couldn't help the smile that spread across her face. "Do the others know?" She asked in a happy yet sympathetic voice.

"The girls do, Jak called 'um, we had no idea what to do medical wise." Jinx said. "Aah, I think Tess is gonna to come by the hideout, Vee and Jen are still takin' care of somthin' I think, said they could do it without 'er."

"Good," Ashelin said. "Maybe I can meet her there, I'm headed over now."

"That's probably for the best, Jak could probably use some help. I wish I could be there but I'm kinda busy at the moment." Jinx said sighing. "Ya know, I gotta go, but make sure to tell Jak good luck for me, and make sure Torn gets better."

"I will, Jinx," she said as she entered the slums. "I guess I'll see you later then?"

"Yeah, ya will, maybe even tonight if I finish all this quick enough." He said. "See ya."

"Bye." She said quietly as she heard the communicator click off. She placed hers back down by her hip and flew through the city at a fairly high speed, she watched as all the zoomers around her let her pass. Sometimes she just loved being authority.

As she pulled into the familiar alley way she saw a two person zoomer parked out front and two girls stepping out of it. One had greenish blue hair and the other was blond. Behind them a small orange ottsel jumped out. Ashelin smiled as she parked at the end and walked over to them. "Hey guys," she said and walked over to them.

"Hey Ashelin," Daxter said raising an eyebrow and winking, earning himself a glare and smack on the head from Tess.

"Oh, Ashelin." Keira said with a small forced smile, she didn't necessarily like the red headed Krimzon Guard all that much. But she still tried to be nice around her, maybe she wasn't as horrible as she though. After all, Tess seemed to think she was okay. "Tess told me what happened and I asked her to pick me up, hope that's okay." She said biting her lip; she had just been accepted into the underground, she wasn't quite sure of how everyone thought of her yet.

"It's perfectly fine." Ashelin said with a smile. "Do you know anything about Torn's condition?" She asked Tess. "I heard Jak talked to you."

She nodded, "he did, oh Mar I'm scared to see him. I know I should be there to help him but from what Jak told me it's just terrible." Daxter jumped up on her shoulder and patted her back in a comforting way.

"I know exactly how you feel." Ashelin said, "come on, we better get down there before we're spotted." With that they three girls walked over to the door and let it slide open for them to enter.

They walked down the steep stairs and into the main room. At first the three girls didn't see Torn or Jak, but then in one of the beds further up they saw Jak sitting next to a bed with a still figure in it. They all exchanged looks and walked over him.

"Jak?" Keira asked placing her hand on Jak's shoulder which made him jump, apparently he was asleep.

"Oh, Keira," he said sitting up and rubbing his eyes. "What are you doing here?"

"I heard you found Torn, so I asked if Tess could come by and pick me up."

"Oh..." He said and looked at the other two girls. "Hey guys."

Tess walked over to Torn and looked at him with pity, Daxter got on the bed and got a closer look at Torn. "So, how's he doin'? Did he wake up yet?" Daxter asked looking up to Jak.

"A little while ago, he was all delusional, didn't know what was happening, still thought he was back at the palace..." Jak said looking at him. "Kinda glad he passed out again I'm not sure how I should respond to any of that."

"Typical male, can't express any sort of feeling." Keira said sitting down next to Jak.

"Not our fault." Jak said and looked down at Torn. "Hey Tess, when should his bandages we changed?"

She looked and at him sighed biting the side of her mouth, thinking. "I dunno... depends how bad they were, were any of them infected?" She asked looking back up at Jak.

He looked like he was about to say something but then just closed his mouth and shrugged.

"Well just to be safe maybe in an hour or so. But other then that change them every day, we don't need them getting worse from the icky bandages." She said and rested her elbows on the bed.

"No... We really don't need that..." Jak said and leaned back.

Keira leaned over and felt his head. "I think he might have a fever." She stated and looked nervously around.

Ashelin walked over to her and bent over, feeling his bruised face as well. "I think you're right. Jak do you have any cloth handy so we can try and bring this down?"

"Uh, yeah, I'll go get it." He said and stood up.

"I'll help ya, Jak." Keira said and got up as well, following him into the back room.

"Oh God, Torn..." Ashelin mumbled as she pulled the sheet down a little bit to get a better look at his chest. The bandages were stained with red blood and through the bruises he held it was hard to tell where the multiple KG tattoos on his chest and arms began and ended.

"He'll get better, sweet stripes." Daxter said using the nick name he gave her when they first met.

"I know he will..." She replied and gave a genuine smile in Daxter's direction.

Keira walked into the kitchen behind Jak. She noticed his fatigued look and sighed, she walked over to him and rubbed his shoulders, surprising him. "Everything's gonna turn out okay, you know that right?" She asked him with raised eyebrows.

"I know, just worried, he was injected with dark eco. What if he's like me?"

She looked down, she had seen Dark Jak and she hated him. It was pure evil, he was a monster but she would never tell that to Jak, he wasn't a monster himself, but the dark monster inside him. "Even if he was, it wouldn't be that bad, he has you to help him. You're friends, admit it, you care about him, he cares about you. Even if you're both to stubborn to say it." She grinned at him as Jak wrung out a wet cloth.

"I'll never admit to anything." He smiled back at her as she picked up the bucket of cold water; they walked back to the main room with the items in hand.

They reached the room again to see Torn still unconscious and the members of the underground hovering around him. "Did you bring it?" Tess asked looking up at them.

"Yeah, here it is." Jak said and placed the cloth on Torn's head. "Hopefully this'll bring it down."

"I hope." Ashelin said, the two of them had known one another or years, when he was still in the guard and even when he was in training. She had a close relationship with the Torn, she loved him... as a friend. They both made it clear long ago that that was all they would ever be. But she still cared about him.

Later that night everyone had either gone back to their homes or were sleeping somewhere in HQ. Jak was the only one still awake, he should have been sleeping but he just couldn't... not now. If Torn woke up he wasn't sure how he would react if he was alone in the dark with no one there.

Jak yawned and glanced at the clock on the wall. It was not getting to be early morning. He realized his blinking was getting heavy, and he blinked hard a few times to make it go away. But soon he couldn't help the sleep that was taking over. Moaning, he laid his head down on his arms and closed his eyes, he didn't mean to fall asleep, it just happened.

Jak wasn't sure what woke him up, but he remembered lifting his head and looking at the clock, the sun should have been rising in a few minutes.

"You still here...?"

Jak stilled and looked over to see Torn with his head turned slightly to the side looking at him. Jak opened his mouth over and over again like a fish out of water, unsure of what to say.

AN: Okay... I left it exactly the way I did last time. But this time I have ideas for the next chapter. So I'm not clueless like last time, I mean I'll have to write this conversation out eventually, I just needed, as much as I hate to say, a filler chapter for you guys until I could get some decent ideas. So... ya know... review and... yeah... bye!