Chapter 11.

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When Maya woke up, she found herself tucked in her bed. She sat up, yawning. The bright sun had made its way through her curtains, the suns rays visible to the naked eye. She saw a picture in the corner of her eyes, turning, she picked up the frame.

There she saw her family. Her father, John, was balancing Maya on his him with his arm around her mother. They smiled for the camera, trying to make Maya happy in their last moments together. Maya clutched the frame, diverting her eyes on her mother.

Elizabeth. She had medium brown hair, grey eyes and a smile so bright. Her face just lit up at the camera, her brown hair blowing in the wind. Maya let a small smile form on her lips. She couldn't remember much of her childhood, or her mother and father for that matter. But when her eyes finally gazed over her own figure in the picture, she knew she was happy.

Placing the frame back on her bedside cabinet, she threw the silk sheets off and started to walk down the halls. As she reached the kitchen, she saw Jack; his back to her.

"D-Dad?" Maya said, her voice shaky from saying that word. Jack turned around, a smile forming on his face as he saw her. Maya noticed that everything was cleaned up. No bodies were scattered across the floor, the blood had been wiped clean. Everything was perfect and clean.

"How's my sleeping beauty?" he asked, a tea towel over his shoulder, a frying pan in his hand and a spatula in the other.

"I'm good" Maya said, sitting down at the table. Jack grabbed the tea towel from his shoulder and walked over to the table. He placed two plates filled with pancakes and syrup.

As Jack dug into the pancakes he had made, he studied his daughter opposite him. Swallowing the small piece of pancake, he set his knife and fork down. "I guess you'd like to know more?" he asked.

Maya nodded. "Angel?" she asked, swallowing hard.

Jack's face darkened, he knew she'd bring this up. "She's not your sister, if that's what you're asking" Jack answered. Maya just continued to look at him, waiting for more. "Like how your mother and i gave you to the Order, Angel's real parents gave her over to me" he explained.

"At first, i thought she really could be a part of our family. She was adorable and cute, but she wasn't you. Every night I'd-" Jack looked down at his plate. "I'd visit Elizabeth's grave, telling her that I'd find you again. But after you left Athenas, I couldn't find any trace of you" He said.

"Angel wanted to prove herself to me that she could be you; my long-lost daughter. So she used her powers to try to find you. We had plans to find you and explain everything to you but instead, Angel grew corrupted with anger towards me. She didn't want you in the family, Maya" Jack said.

"She found you on the train with the other Vault Hunters, but chose to let you die on that Hyperion train. She was jealous of you. I mean-yeah sure, i tried to lure Vault Hunters on that train but she didn't tell me you were on it! We were supposed to come and get you!" he cried. "That's when i started to get angry with her. I-" Jack stumbled. "I used her to charge the Vault Key-I won't deny it. I thought you were dead and i just got sooo angry. Then she started to help the Vault Hunters to try and stop me" he said.

"I know she made it look like i didn't care about her. But i did. But then- before you's pulled the plug, i SWEAR she smiled at me. Not a sad smile, not a happy smile, but an evil smile. I think- I think she wanted to die just to hurt me. I had been nice to her, i CARED for her. But she didn't want another siren in the family" Jack explained.

"I thought you were dead, Maya. Angel was dead, Elizabeth was dead, i thought you were dead too. I couldn't stand being alone ever again. So i killed Roland. I grabbed Lilith to charge the Vault Key in hopes of unleashing the Warrior. I wanted revenge on the world for taking you's from me. That's-" Jack stopped, looking across to Maya. "That's when i saw you".

"You may not have heard me over the sound of explosions and whatever, but i ordered the Warrior not to harm you. That's why you survived. You didn't have one scratch on you. The Warrior completely ignored you and continued on to kill the others. But i knew you hated me for what i'd done. So i let Lilith kill me" he said.

"You-?" Maya spoke up. "Didn't want the Warrior to kill me-?" she asked. Jack nodded.

"You were my daughter. My ONLY daughter. I love you, so much, Maya. The Wanted Posters i placed everywhere was to try to find you, if you ever survived. No one was sent to kill you, only to lead you to me. Ever wonder why you had the highest reward money above all the others?" Jack asked. "I had to put being a siren as why i wanted you turned in because if ANYONE knew you were my daughter, they'd try and kill you or use you against me. But anyone that tried to lead you to me were killed. I didn't really want you to see my face, giving that-i mean Angel- i tried to kill you" he said.

Maya thought this over. It made sense. But she still couldn't let the anger go. Jack had killed Roland. He had killed hundreds of people. Thousands, probably. And the thought that made her gut turn, was because he did it for her.

Jack looked over at Maya, studying her face. Sighing, he stood up. "I get it if you want to leave. I just- I just thought we could be a real family again" he said.

He started to make his way out of the kitchen. He looked back over his shoulder. "I've stopped killing people, Mye Mye" he said, almost reading Maya's mind.

"After i saw you for the first time, something broke in me. The anger in your face broke me. Elizabeth would have wanted you to be happy, not devoting your life to killing me" he said. "I'm leaving Pandora. And once I'm gone, you can have the company"

Maya looked up, shock on her face. She didn't know what to say. She wanted to be with her father. But it was the fact that her father had KILLED people just to find her. He had destroyed small towns in hopes of finding her. But she couldn't just left her only family leave.

Maya jumped from her seat, straightening her back and pushing back the tears well up. "You're not going anywhere!" she exclaimed, making turn around in confusion.

"You've been searching for me for years. Well," Maya said, walking up to her father. "Now you found me" she hugged Jack. She hated him and loved him at the same time.

"But, Mye Mye-" he said before being cut off.

"NO. I forgive you for what you've done. I hate that you did it, but i forgive you. I can't live with you, but i'm more than happy to visit every few days..." Maya said sternly.

Jack smiled at his daughter. "Of course! We can do daughter-father stuff! We can-" Jack frowned. "Go shopping...?" he asked. Jack didn't really know what girls did on Pandora.

"No." Maya said.

"We can..." now even Maya frowned. "Ummm..."

"It doesn't matter! We can do whatever you want to!" Jack laughed. Jack put his arm around Maya and led her to the couch.

"Now, tell me about you and this Vault Hunter" Jack said.

Maya blushed. "I don't think i want to talk about my love life-"

Jack interrupted her, "I'm your father. So i have to act like one, now don't i? So... Axton... huh?" he nudged her with his elbow.

"Dad..." Maya slumped down in her seat.

"You should invite him over for dinner. I would like to have a talk with him" Jack said.

Maya shook her head. "No!" she laughed. "Besides, we have to fake your death again" she said.

"Everyone knows that you're alive. I'll tell them that you had a double. I'll say that when you invited me back here, i killed you, okay?" she explained.

Jack crossed his arms. "No fun" he sulked like a child. Maya chuckled.

"I better get going then" Maya stood up. Jack stood as well, following her to her room.

"Meet me at Opportunity. I'll make it look deserted so no one suspects I'm still alive. Look for the building with 'MYE MYE' written on it. I'll be waiting for you around there. There will be a few Hyperion robots patrolling but I'll order them not to fire at you. Just make sure no ones following you" Jack said as Maya packed her bag, neatly tucking the photo frame of her family inside.

Maya walked into her bathroom and closed the door. She started to get changed into her usual combat suit. She walked out the door to find Jack handing her a blue teddy bear.

"I brought this for you. But i never got the chance to give it to you" he said. Maya took it from his hands, looking down at the bear's feet, she saw her nick name on both. It was stitched in a navy blue cotton.

Maya placed it in her bag, and turned to Jack. She leapt up to him, digging her face into his shoulder as he hugged her. They pulled away, a few tears coming to both of their eyes.

Jack unclipped his mask, handing it out to her, "Here. This should be proof enough that you 'killed' me. Maya took the mask and looked up to his real face. There was the Vault symbol burnt into him. She reached up and lightly stroked his cheek, feeling the burn marks.

"My father did this to me when he found out you were a Siren" he said, not understanding the real reason. Taking her hand in his, he said, "I would NEVER do this to you"

Jack led her out to the exit and found herself somewhere in Friendship Gully. She made her way out to the dust, looking back to find Jack waving at her. She waved back, smiling. She ran to a near-by 'Catch-A-Riide' station and digistructed herself a vehicle. She flicked back on her ECHO device she forgot she turned off and made her way to the Bloodshot camp her friends would have been.

"Guys, its Maya. I'm coming back" she smiled.

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