Here you go, Chapter 10. 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

Now alone, Jak wasn't sure what to do. He wandered over to the family waiting area and took up pacing through the empty space. He had been pacing for ten agonizing minutes when the sound of an irritated old man reached his ears. Jak looked up and sure enough there came Samos looking amazingly grumpier than usual scolding a young nurse.

"I don't see why I can't see my daughter. Do you know who I am? I'm the Green-" he cut off as he saw Jak pacing anxiously "Jak, my boy!" he clomped over with his shoes made out of logs and the branch still in his hair. The little bird was nestled in his hair and sleeping deeply. "Jak you- uhh… you look like crap actually. What happened?" he stopped to stare at Jak.

Jak looked down at himself "Oh yeah" he was still wearing his rain soaked, vomited on jacket and everything else on his was still wet and a little mud was on his pants. "Well, long story short Keira and I took a ride in an opened top zoomer in the rain and then she threw up on me before they took her." He jerked his thumb in the general direction of the maternity OR.

"Eww" Samos said screwing his face up in disgust.

"Yeah, I suppose. I've been in worse." Jak shrugged. He started to take his jacket off when he remembered he was only wearing his pajamas, and he didn't sleep with a shirt on. He sighed and donned his jacket again, there were some things that even he couldn't get away with in a hospital, and sitting around half naked was one of them. Jak went into the bathroom and washed most of the vomit off with a damp paper towel. He returned to the waiting room to find Samos had taken his place pacing. Jak sunk into one of the chairs suddenly exhausted, his thoughts raced through his head at a dizzying speed "I hope Keira's fine. How long can a cesarean possibly take? Was the baby born yet? Do I have a new son or a new daughter? What if something goes wrong?" Jak shuddered to think of losing either Keira or the baby he forced himself to focus on something else. His thoughts turned to his dreams; they weren't just any normal dreams. Jak distinctly remembered the day the first half of his dream took place. That was the day before his ninth birthday; he spent those two days in joyful bliss until in the evening he disturbed a whumpbee's nest on a dare from Daxter and then he spent the next two weeks bedridden with a nasty fever, sore and swollen from the stings. At least Keira and Daxter kept him company. Jak smiled a little remembering how much Samos yelled at Daxter and the funny shade of purple he turned. Then Jak's thoughts turned to the second half of his dream. Jak was perplexed; he had a vague idea what he had seen. Actually, as he thought about it more "I know exactly what I saw" he thought to himself. Jak had painted himself a pretty good picture of what had happened without looking at Vin's footage of what had happened. That day had already been painful enough for him, he did not want to relive it, but now that day was haunting him in his dreams. Jak rubbed his eyes and thought groggily "why does everything have to happen at 4am?" he glanced up at the clock "5 am, whatever, it's still an ungodly hour"

"Do you think we should call the others? Tell them what happened?" Samos asked breaking Jak out of his reverie.

"Huh? Oh no. I think we should wait. Wait and see how Keira is, and the baby. Let them sleep a little longer." Jak said. He saw Samos was fiddling with his communicator "Put it away, Samos." He yawned and glanced up at the clock. He had only been waiting for twenty minutes. It felt like two hours!

Samos gave an irritated sigh and put the communicator and drummed his fingers on the arm rest of his chair before deciding to pass time meditating. Jak sighed and leaned his head back against the wall. He stared at the ceiling and thought about resorting to counting ceiling tiles to keep his mind from wandering to the dark possibilities of things that might go wrong. With another sigh he started slowly counting. He got up to 42 before he heard footsteps echoing down the empty silent hall.

A nurse stood in the entrance to the waiting area beaming "Would you like to come see your new daughters?"

Jak stood up quickly "Sure. Wait… you said 'daughters' as in more than one?"

The nurse smiled even wider "That's right. Congratulation's Mar, you are the father of the first twins born in Haven City for twenty-seven years. You have two beautiful and healthy daughters."

He though back and dimly remembered the doctors referring to their baby as them a few times I guess I was too preoccupied with other things to notice. It took a moment for the news to sink in and for it to register in Jak's brain, but he got it. To say Jak was excited would have been an understatement, he was elated. He turned to Samos and saw the sage was still meditating. Jak rolled his eyes and thought I swear the man would meditate through anything. He remembered back during the Metal Head War when Jak had to protect the younger Samos and the guy still did his thing while under heavy fire from the KG Yeah… he would. "Samos! Samos!" Jak shook his shoulder.

"What? What is it, Jak?" He said opening a reluctant eye "You interrupted my meditation."

"Twins!" Jak said too excited to contain it "Keira had twins! Come on!"

The sage was so shocked he actually fell out of his meditation hovering "T-t-twins!?" he choked out as she stood up "She had twins?"

The nurse was trying to contain her laughter and managed to choke out "Follow me and you can see them. They're still stitching Keira up but you should be able to see her soon."

Grinning like a kid who had just been given the best gift in the world, Jak followed the nurse to the nursery. There, sitting in two adjacent bassinets were his daughters. Their skin was all wrinkly, red and blotchy and they had goop on their eyes and their faces were screwed up in protest of leaving their warm home, but to Jak those two babies were the most beautiful babies ever born.

Samos peered through the glass at his granddaughters and he let out a tender "Aww" and his usually hard eyes softened. He looked up to say something to Jak, but Jak had leaned his forehead against the window and was staring at his daughters with a content smile. Jak drank in his daughters like a man dying of thirst. He loved everything about them, the little pink knit caps on their head, their tiny grasping fingers, the creases of their eyes which were shut tight, Jak loved them. It was love at first sight and somewhere in the back of his mind Jak knew he would die for them, just like he would die to protect Ike and Keira.

The doctor came up behind Jak and he cleared his throat to get Jak's attention. "Congratulations, they are healthy and beautiful babies. Keira is just fine. She's asking to see you now. If you will follow me, I'll take you to her."

Jak followed the doctor into a small room where Keira was laying on the bed propped up with a bunch of pillows. Her hair was a tangled mess and it was plastered to her face in some places. Her face was flushed and there were small cuts from the mirror.

"Hey beautiful." Jak said as he sat next to her on the bed and kissed her gently "How are you feeling?"

Keira screwed up her face "Eww. Jak, I look like shit. Even you don't have to say I'm beautiful." She laughed weakly "Well, besides not being able to feel my legs yet and the drugs making everything a little trippy, I guess I'm okay."

Jak shot a panicked look at the doctor when Keira mentioned her legs "It's just from the epidural. She's not paralyzed" the doctor assures Jak.

Keira leaned against Jak and sighed "Ohhh, I'm exhausted. Eww ,Jak, what's all over your jacket?" She picked her head up and stared at his jacket.

"Hmmm? Oh, you kind of threw up all over me. I don't think you were exactly with it then."

"Jaaaak, gross. Why didn't you go home and change?"

"Well I wasn't going to leave you here without knowing how you were doing was I? Now what kind of husband would I be then?"

Keira leaned back against the pillows and closed her eyes "Well I suppose. But go home and change clothes. I'll be fine here. I'm just so…" She yawned "… so tired… I think I'm going to sleep now."

"I'll stay here with you" Jak said quietly.

Keira opened a sleepy eye and poked him weakly "oh no. You are going to go home and clean up and put on some clothes. You better be clean when I wake up. Got that buster? As much as I enjoy seeing you walk around without a shirt on, most of the hospital probably doesn't appreciate it as much as I do. So go home and change… before… Pecker eats… all the bananas…" She closed her eye and quickly fell asleep. Jak tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear and kissed her gently before getting up and walking out of the room. Samos was still by the nursery staring at his granddaughters with the same water smile he had on five minutes ago.

"Hey, Samos. I'm going to run home and clean up. I'll probably contact the others too. Ike will be excited." Jak smiled as he imagined his son's reaction so see not one new sibling, but two. "Go see Keira if you want, but she's sleeping right now." Jak pated the sage on his shoulder.

Jak waited until he was a safe distance from the hospital and he took a quick glance around the street, but it was still barely dawn and the streets were empty. With a great yell he launched himself into the air and soared around the buildings in his light form.i Oh, Precursors. I forgot how good it felt to fly like this!/i Jak thought to himself, grinning like an idiot and laughing out loud. Jak let out all his pent up excitement in the air while he flew all the way to New Palace. Jak relished the cold winter air rushing against his face; he did a few mid-air flips before he perched on the roof of New Palace. Hanging onto an antenna Jak let out the most jubilant yell he could muster. Words could not convey his joy. Breathless Jak jumped off of the roof and glided back down to earth. He landed in the front lawn of his home. He took a moment to compose himself before he walked through the massive front door.

"What happened? Is Keira okay?" Vin's voice greeted Jak. Jak noticed that he seemed more stressed than normal and he put on a sober face before he walked over to a monitor to face Vin.

"That's not a good face… Jak what happened?!"

"Vin, don't you have access to the hospital's video files?" Jak asked seriously.

"N-n-no! I have only taken the time to set up access to their communication system. Jak…. W-w-what happened? Is Keira alright?" The projection of Vin looked close to tears.

Jak broke into a huge grin "Keira's fine, and so are my daughters."

"Don't do that! You know how paranoid I am! Wait a minute … Daughters? As in more than one? How many? Since when? Jak! Do you know how RARE twins are? There hasn't been a set of twins born in Haven in… twenty-seven years, four months and twelve days!"

"I know! Oh Vin, I wish you could see them. They're beautiful." Jak sighed happily. "Hey, can you do me a favor? While I'm cleaning up will you get the message out to the others? Don't tell them about the twins; just tell them to be at the hospital by… 7. Oh especially don't tell Ike or Sig. I want it to be a surprise for Ike. Will you do that for me?"

"Sure I can."Vin replied. Jak nodded happily and turned and practically skipped to his room.

Jak showered, in record time, shaved, changed clothes and packed a few things for Keira. He had forgotten about the broken mirror and Keira vomit on the bathroom floor but he pushed them aside with a towel. He would get someone to clean it up later. Jak was running down the hall way and he was too excited to notice he ran into one of the house keepers.

"Oh! My Lord." The maid lowered her eyes respectfully "Forgive me, I wasn't watching where I was going"

Jak righted her and smiled "Don't worry about it. It's no big deal. Um, there's a bit of broken glass on the bathroom floor, you might want to be careful while you're cleaning that up." He started walking backwards down the hall way.

"Uh ... well ... I was just coming to to wake you and Madam Keira up… err…" She dropped off uncertainly "Uh what would you like for breakf—

"Don't worry about breakfast! We won't need it. Probably won't need dinner either." Jak called over his shoulder "or lunch!" he ran down the hallway and left the flustered maid standing there.

To Be Continued...