Here you go, Chapter 7. It should go without saying that I do not own any of the Jak and Daxter characters. Dr. Lucie and all other OCs are my creations.

-Becks


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The single tone jerked Jak out of his light doze. Panicked, he looked around the room and his eyes fell on the EKG monitor, the single green flat line.

"No! No no no-no… no! It can't be! Ike!" Jak practically jumped out of the chair and ran over to Ike's bed. "Ike!" he yelled shaking his son's shoulder, who heard and felt nothing. Jak was about to summon his Light Eco power and use it on Ike but the door burst open and in rushed Dr. Grzyvinski and other doctors he did not recognize. They ran over to the bed and one of the doctors pushed Jak out of the way. Jak stumbled numbly over to the wall and gripped it with his hands afraid he would fall if he let go. He stood there shaking his head quietly muttering to himself "No no no no this can't be happening. No! No!"

"CLEAR!" came the strong voice of Dr. Grzyvinski as she pressed the defibrillator pads to Ike's chest trying to jump start his heart. THMP! Nothing. "Clear!" she did it again. THMP! Nothing again. "Is this at its max? We need more power!"

"Lucie we can't give it anymore power! Not for a child, it would cook his heart not start it!"

"CLEAR!" She cried again, getting desperate. THMP! Nothing. "CLEAR!" THMP! Again, nothing.

Everything moved in slow motion for Jak. He heard every heart beat in his ears; it was so loud it almost drowned the cries of Dr. Grzyvinski. Jak flinched as he watched them shock Ike again and again, his little body arching and twitching with every shock. Four ... Four agonizing shocks from the defibrillator before they stopped.

"Can't we do anything else?" Someone asked, their voice shaking.

"I'm afraid not, we already know eco won't work on him, we tried that. And it won't bring someone back to life." Another doctor replied.

"I'm… I'm afraid little Ike is lost." Dr. Grzyvinski said with a sense of finality "There's nothing we can do. Go back to where you were before. I'll call the coroner and grief counselor."

Jak watched numbly as the doctors cleared out of the room somberly. Why were they moving so slowly? Why did they stop? One more shock could have saved Ike. Jak thought as he watched them, unnoticed by everyone until Dr. Grzyvinski was the only other person in the room. Slowly she pulled the white bed sheet up and over Ike's head. She walked over to Jak and paused placing a hand on his shoulder and looking into his eyes.

"I'm sorry Jak. We all tried. If you need to talk to someone the grief counselor will be there for you and your family."

Jak looked at her slowly, he saw her eyes were brimming with tears, but it didn't register to him why. He then focused his eyes on the bed again. He hardly heard what she said; his heart was still beating in his ears. He couldn't say anything, he could hardly breathe right. It felt wrong to him, this ragged breathing. The fact that he was still breathing when his son was not was almost too much to bear.

Dr. Grzyvinski left the room leaving Jak alone. The click of the door latch brought Jak back to his senses. His heart stopped pounding in his ears and in a split second he was beside the bed. He focused and let his eco energy flow out from him and onto his son. It has to work this time! Jak thought frantically as Ike's corpse was bathed in white light. Nothing happened. Jak tried again and nothing happened. Jak was ready to try it again when a voice spoke to him.

"It won't work Jak. It didn't work on your father and it won't work now."

Jak spun around to see the three Precursors standing there looking somber. "You promised!" Jak hissed at them through clenched teeth. "You said that making him a channeler would save him! You PROMISED!"

"There is no promise to living, Jak. You should know that."

Jak was beyond rational thought, if he had any Dark eco in his system he would have changed right then and there, but he had no Dark Eco and he used all his light Eco. Instead he lunged at the leader Precursor and lifted him off the ground and held him against the wall by his throat.

"First you promise me my son would live if you made him a channeler, but then here he is dead! And you come waltzing in here saying that the promise you made me meant nothing! Come to rub it in that he's dead with your philosophical talk! I don't want to hear it! I want my son back!"

The leader Precursor replied weakly, for Jak was starting to crush his wind pipe "We … can bring … Ike back….." Jak released him and he fell to the floor and sat there coughing

"How?!" Jak demanded "HOW?" he yelled when the Precursor didn't reply.

"We didn't realize it when we made Ike a channeler, but that would not save him from the eco already in his system. The eco would disappear, but his organs would still be poisoned, he still would have died. We have been spending the last week desperately searching for and old magic that would reverse the affects of the eco and save Ike, and we found it. We knew we would be too late though, and then we stumbled across something else. Here we are, too late for our first incantation, but when we work our second one, we should be able to use our first one."

"Then get started! What are you waiting for? An engraved invitation?"

"There's always the chance that it won't work Jak. Ike still may be dead. And if that happens, we're sorry Jak. We all tried."

"Just get started. Maybe if you try I'll choose to not kill you for giving everyone false hope." Jak growled dangerously as he stood back with his arms crossed, pinning them against his body before he broke one of the small ottsels.

The leader nodded to the other three and they took positions on the bed, one at Ike's head, the leader in the middle and another at his feet. They started chanting in the ancient language and Ike's corpse was covered in green light until the green was not covering Ike, but in him. His skin, hair and clothes turned green as the precursors chanted faster and faster. Then without stopping they switched their chant seamlessly. The green left Ike's body when they changed and as soon as it did the EKG started beeping and Ike's chest rose and fell slowly and deeply, like he was sleeping. The Precursors summoned Light Eco and it sank into Ike's body. It was in for a few seconds before it rose out of him. Jak noticed the Light Eco seemed darker, or dirty. Then it disappeared and the Precursors stopped chanting and turned to face Jak.

"It's done. It worked! Ike's alive again and his organs are clean of the Dark Eco. This won't happen again." The leader said beaming triumphantly.

Jak was speechless for a moment "But…. But how did the Light Eco work for you, but when I used it, it didn't work? How?"

"You do not have the power to send the Light Eco into the body to purge the Dark Eco out. That's what we used it for. It still would not have brought Ike back. That's why we had to bring him back first."

"That's just … amazing …. I can-" Jak was cut off by the door bursting open and a confused Dr. Grzyvinski ran in followed by two people Jak did not recognize, nor did he care who they were. The Precursors dashed under the bed to hide before they were seen, they disappeared in less than a second.

"What the hell is going on?!" Dr. Grzyvinski cried out running her hand through her hair. She ran over to Ike's bed and checked everything. "By the Precursors, it's a miracle! He was dead five minutes ago! We shocked him four times and nothing happened?" She turned to face Jak, but he just shrugged not hiding his delight that Ike was alive again. "It's like you said, it's a miracle!"

Dr. Grzyvinski started laughing shakily but then Jak joined in and they started laughing louder until it was a full out laugh fest. They couldn't stop. Then the door burst open again and in came a haggard Keira and a rumpled ottsel riding on her shoulder.

"Jak!" she ran over to him and he hugged her tight "Jak why are you laughing? Vin woke me up ten minutes ago and said that Ike died! What's wrong with you?"

Jak just laughed harder at the look on her face but then stopped long enough to say "Ike's not dead Keira! We are truly blessed by the Precursors. Ike isn't dead anymore! Look for yourself!" He steered her shoulders to face the bed as he started laughing again and her eyes widened as she saw the signs of life from Ike. She started laughing too with Jak and they kissed long and loving. Dr. Grzyvinski took that as her sigh to leave them to this miraculous reunion. Daxter jumped to the floor and waited for Jak and Keira to come back to reality, they didn't. The three Precursors came out from under the bed and the leader cleared his throat bring Jak and Keira back to reality.

"Thank you!" Keira said to them, her voice thick and her eyes full of tears.

Ike stirred on the bed and sat up looking around blearily as if he was awakening from a deep sleep. "Mommy?"

Keira sat down on the bed next to Ike and let her tears flow freely as she furiously hugged Ike. He squirmed under her but she didn't let go. He asked, his question slightly muffled by her coat she had thrown on over her pajamas. "Mommy, why are your eyes leaking? Are they broken?"

Keira laughed through a sob and replied "I'm crying, Ike"

"Why are you crying?"

"Because I'm so happy. Everything is going to be all right now. Everything will be alright now."

"Oh… but I thought people cried when they were sad?"

Jak laughed and answered this question "Sometimes they do, Ike, and sometimes people are just so happy for what they have that they can't help but cry."

"Oh" Ike replied then he rubbed his eyes and looked up to Jak and then back to Keira who was gently stroking his hair and humming to Ike. Jak noticed Ike's eyes had returned back to their normal blue, like nothing had happened.

The Precursors decided it was time to leave, while Ike was distracted and everyone was happy again. They were gone in a flash of blue light, but no one saw. Daxter Jumped onto the bed next to Ike and ruffled his hair. "Hey buddy."

"Uncle Daxter!"Ike cried as he threw his arms around the ottsel and gave him a hug. "When did you get here? Did you hear? Mommy said everything was going to be alright now! Everyone's happy now!"

"Ha ha ha! You're right there, Shorty. Everything will be okay now. He ruffled Ike's hair and started telling him some story about a crocadog and a yakcow, which Ike found absolutely hilarious. No one saw Jak wipe the silent tears from his eyes. Everyone was happy. Everything was finally right.