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CHAPTER 10
"I think we may as well look for a place to live while were here" Keira said as she sat in Jak's arms looking out over the desert from the roof of Spargus Palace the next night
Jak looked at her "You mean you want to live here?" he asked, Keira nodded "But what about the garage?"
"Lee came to see me yesterday, said Ashelin's closing down the palace garage down and he needs a job, I thought he could manage the place, I could nip back once a week to check on the place, I'd have to take the twins to see daddy anyway" she explained
Jak nodded "I would really like to live here, the twins love it here and their closer to the temple and this place is a much better to raise kids" he said rubbing her belly
Keira smiled up at him "So who do we see about getting a house?" she asked
"Well I guess Sig, I think I get a wastelander house" he said
Keira nodded "Do you need to speak to Ashelin about living here permanently?"
"Yup, but like you said we'll be back a couple of times a week, so she shouldn't have a problem with it, does Lee have to give notice? " he asked
"He said he already has" Keira smiled and got up "Come on handsome let's go get the twins and ask Sig about housing, isn't Ashelin and Torn coming to talk about this KG/wastelander thing?" she asked
"Yep I'll talk to them about then" Jak said getting up and taking her hand "Maybe Sig will let you work in the fort garage"
Keira's eyes lit up " Really?" she asked
Jak laughed "Of course, why wouldn't he want the best mechanic in the world to work in his garage, besides I'll need someone to look after my cars, and I wouldn't trust anyone else"
"Neither would I" she smiled.
The next morning Jak sat with Sig, Ashelin and Torn at a huge conference table, Ashelin looked up from a stack of papers "So we'll send you our best candidates and you can thin the heard...any thing we haven't covered?" she asked
"Well I was thinking, it will be much easier if I just live here, come report in a couple of times a week" Jak said
Torn raised an eye brow "And Keira doesn't mind, what about her garage?" he asked
"She's getting a manager to run the day-to-day, and she'll do as I say" Jak grinned
Ashelin laughed "Keira has never done as she's told"
"She does when I ask" Jak said smuggly looking at Torn "So what do you think?" he asked
Ashelin nodded "Sounds okay to me, will you be a wasterlander or a Krimzon Guard?" she asked
"Wastelander, but with us working so closely with the KG, it doesn't really matter" Sig said
Torn nodded and stood up "Well you still have a couple of weeks so we'll see you just before we send you your first victims"
Ashelin stood up "Do you need someone for live ammo training I remember you said you didn't want to do live ammo?"
"Urm yeah, couple of times a week, maybe Jinx, he's good with explosives so he's the best man for the job, and it'll take his mind off getting dumped" Jak chuckled
Torn laughed "You heard about that then, thought he was gonna burst into tears when he told me"
"Well if he was in love, he will be heart-broken, I'd be a right basket case if Keira left me" Jak said
Ashelin smiled "Never gonna happen, right see ya in a couple of weeks, and if Keira's after a manager, Lee has just handed his notice in"
Jak nodded and chuckled as they left and then turned to Sig "Right Sig, can we sort a house out for us?" Jak smiled
"Finally got you in my army, I've just the place for you, and Keira can work in the garage" he grinned as they left the room and moved in to the city.
Sig and Jak wandered through the city streets getting happy greetings from the people they passed, nodded and said good morning back "I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for you to move here Jak, it'll be like having a part of Damas back with us" he beamed
Jak nodded and smiled "I was hoping you could tell the twins about Damas, I don't really know that much about him" he said sadly but quickly brightened when he saw his children running towards him
Sig nodded "They know their Prince and Princess don't they?" Sig asked
"Kinda, we mentioned it to them but I don't think they really understood, so we'll explain better and then you can teach them about Damas" he smiled as he bent down to hug his children, they ran right past him and rushed at Sig
"Uncle Sig, Mama says were coming to live here, we can play with you all the time" Anya said excitedly
Jak stood up and frowned "Don't mind me" he said as Keira slipped her arms around him, he looked down at her and smiled "At least your still happy to see me"
Keira laughed "Their just excited" she smiled "And I'm always happy to see you" she said leaning up and kissing him
Jak grinned "Sig was just taking me to show me a house"
Sig nodded and held a hand out for each twin "Yup, have we to show you cherries your new home?" he asked the twins
"Yes please Uncle Sig" they said in unison
Keira laughed and snuggled into Jak as they followed behind him, he looked down at her "So they didn't bother about moving?" he asked
Keira shook her head "Nope, they said they like it here and they'll be glad to get a new teacher"
"I don't blame them for that" Jak said
Keira nodded "What about Ashelin?"
"No problem with it, now we just have to break the news to Samos and Daxter" Jak smiled
Keira frowned "Daddy won't have a problem with it, but Daxter is another story"
"They could come with us, open a bar here, start a chain of Naughty Ottsels...he and Tess will be arriving tonight so I'll talk to him then" Jak smiled as they came to a halt next to Sig and looked up at the house "Is this is?" he asked
"Yup, right on the beach, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a little garden at the back and a small work shop at the side" he smiled pointing "Now it is furnished but you'll probably want to bring your own stuff" he said
Keira nodded and walked towards the door, pushing the door open, she came to huge lounge, a dining room to the back of it, with a kitchen attached "Wow, its huge" she enthused
"I've heard her say that before" Jak chuckled to Sig
Keira turned and glared at him as the twins ran past her and straight up the stairs "I want this room" she heard Anya shout as she arrived in one of the bedrooms, Keira laughed and followed them upstairs.
Jak followed but before he entered he turned to Sig "Thanks Sig, you coming?" he asked
"You have a look, I'll wait here" he smiled
Jak nodded and went upstairs to find Keira, she stood in the largest room looking around "This will be our room, it has a bathroom attached" she smiled pointing to the huge windows "Look at that view" she grinned
Jak looked and wrapped his arms around her "Its great here" Jak breathed just as he heard two little voices
"Daddy come look at our rooms" they shouted
Jak rolled his eyes "Do you think we could leave them with your father?" he smiled
"Yeah, I'm sure he won't mind that" Keira said sarcastically
Jak laughed and lead her out to look for the twins.
A few weeks later Jak and Keira had settled into live in Spargus easily, Jak had begun training the KG in the ways of the desert and the twins loved their new school and being called Prince and Princess whenever they left the house. Jak was wandering around the market with Taj one afternoon when he bumped into Jinx "Hey boss, what you doing?" he shouted happily
"Taking a walk with my son" Jak frowned "Aren't you supposed to be on live ammo training?" he asked
Jinx looked down at Taj and smiled "Hey Taj, I think your father is about to give me a telling off" he chuckled
Taj giggled as Jak looked down at him and smiled "Taj, Jinx here thinks that he can slack off just because he's a friend of mine, rule number one, when you're in charge and at work you don't have any friends"
Taj nodded and looked around already bored with adult conversation, Jak looked back up "Well?" he asked as he let Taj pull his hand free watching him as he wandered off, he knew he was safe but he wanted to be sure.
"Their a bunch of wuss' a few explosions and their cowering like babies, I had to let them go before I blew them all up" Jinx was saying.
Taj wandered over to the light eco vent in the market, he'd seen it before and would often watch as Jak stood in it to top up, he watched it rise and held his hand to it, feeling the cool, calm feeling he pushed his hand further in, closing his eyes and turning his hand over, he opened his eyes and pulled his hand out cupping the ball of light eco, he looked up and toward Jak and shouted "Daddy!" he yelled as he ran to his father "Look!" he said excitedly
Jak looked down at him and his eye went wide "Have you just been in that vent?" Jak asked
He shook his head "I only put my hand near it and I could pull a bit out" he smiled looking down at the ball of light eco swirling around in his hands "What should I do with it?" he asked looking back up to Jak as Jinx looked on open-mouthed
Jak knelt down and looked at Taj "Firstly, how does it feel?" he asked
"It feels nice, cool and warm all at the same time" he smiled
Jak nodded "Okay, now lets see if you can soak it up, close your hands around it slowly" Taj did as he was told and the ball began to become smaller spreading in to Taj's little fingers, and moving up his arms, Taj closed his eyes as it reached the top of his arms and his face began glowing, moving down to his chest untill it had nearly disappeared. He opened his eyes and looked at Jak smiling "How does it feel?" Jak asked
"It feels nice, like being all snuggled up in bed" he grinned
Jak laughed "Well son, you have just channelled light eco, well done, I'm very proud of you"
"My knee doesn't hurt anymore" Taj stated referring to when he fell off his jet board a couple of days before and grazed his knee
Jak lifted his shorts up a little to see his knee sure enough the graze was completely gone "Thats one of the things light eco does, it heals" Jak smiled standing back up
"Like green eco?" Taj asked
Jak nodded "Yes, only much better" he smiled taking his hand again, he could feel the warm residue of light eco radiating from him and smiled wider, looking back at Jinx "I want a full briefing tomorrow morning, nine am sharp" he snapped
Jinx blinked "Yeah yeah boss, so pal did I just see that, is he a channeller?" he asked
Jak smiled "Well he is my son, and I am a channeller"
"Wow, I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before in my life" he looked around the market "Why is everyone just wandering about like nothing has happened?" he asked bewildered
Jak shrugged "They see me topping up on eco all the time, why would it be strange that my son can do it, besides alot of the towns people use the light eco vents, its nothing new around here...right I better go tell Keira...see ya tomorrow" Jak said cheerily as he and Taj walked off Taj chatting excitedly as he went.
Jak and Taj walked into the kitchen to find Keira sat at the table reading a magazine she looked up and smiled "Did you know some woman like a million miles away gave birth to a twenty pound baby, and it was all natural no operation or anything, god how the hell did she push that out" she mused as she looked back down
Jak smiled and kissed her head before sitting down "Where's Anya?" he asked
"I sent her to tidy her room, she's only been in it a couple of weeks and it looks like a bombs gone off...my guess is she's found something to play with and is making even more mess...where's Taj?" she asked
"Probably gone to tell his sister what he's just been doing..."Jak took a deep breath but before he could say it an angry little voice interrupted him
"Daddy, I want to channel light eco" Anya snapped running into the kitchen, Taj behind her grinning
Keira's mouth hung open "He's been channelling light eco, when?" she asked
Taj moved over to his mother and sat on her knee, Jak smiled "I ran in to Jinx at the market and was talking to him, Taj went to look at the vent and the next thing I knew he had a ball of light eco in his hands"
"Did you soak it up?" she asked Taj
He nodded happily "It felt great Mama, like having a great big cuddle off you" he beamed
"Wow" Keira said smiling at him "Sure is his fathers son"
Anya frowned "I want to channel light eco, when can I do it daddy?" she whined
Jak smiled and picked her up, sitting her on his knee "Next time we go past a light eco vent, I'll let you have a go angel"
"But I want to have a go now, it's not fair, Taj always gets to do things first" she moaned
Jak sighed and stood up, carrying Anya "I'll take her to the vent, see how she gets on, wanna come have a look?" he asked Keira
"Damn right" She said jumping up with Taj and heading for the door.
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