Not the only one
by: Miyoko Sanyu
chapter 4- My Name!
For some reason, Jak couldn't sleep. It wasn't Daxter's muttering in his sleep next to him, it wasn't Torn's light snoring across the room, and it wasent the girl's slow breathing below him. He kept thinking about what Reden told him, about her not being able to talk and about her not having a proper name.
Jak lay there, looking up at the dark ceiling, thinking about when he was in prison. Just those thoughts made him angry, but thinking about it, he was the lucky one. He was only exposed to dark eco, but to be exposed to five defferent types is real torture. She must be all confused, Jak thought, living for more than five years in the Baron's prison and then about two in an old, abandoned prison in dead town with a crazy old man...
Daxter muttered loudly, so Jak's thoughts were interrupted. I wonder why Reden never gave her a name? Jak thought.
Torn let off a big snore, so Jak lost his train of thought again. Jak looked at the clock above the table on the back wall. It read 5:37 AM, almost sun rise. "I wonder where everyone else is?" he wispered, there were usually about two other men sleeping at the base, but tonight they were nowhere to be founed. They must have a new safehouse up, Jak thought.
The genetically altered boy sat up quietly. He decided to watch the girl until she woke up, so he slowly got down off his bunk and sat down on the opposite bunk to the girl's. Jak couldn't see well in the dark, but he could tell the girl was still sleeping; her light breathing told him so.
About an hour later, Daxter got up. "When did you get up?" he asked in a hushed voice. "About and hour ago," Jak said. Daxter was usually the first one up, so this was something rare to see.
Daxter hopped onto the girl's bunk to get a closer look at her face. "She's probably sixteen," Daxter mused.
Just then, her eyes popped open right when Daxter turned to look at her. She let out one hell of a scream! So Daxter started to yell, too, and of corse it wakes up Torn.
Something Jak and Daxter learned from experience is that Torn is not a morning person, and with all the yelling it doesn't increase his morning mood. "WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!" Torn yelled, jumping out of his bed. The girl had stopped yelling and was now hiding under the blanket and was pressing herself against the wall, probably hopping to fall through it.
Jak hit Daxter over the head to shut him up. He was now tryng to get the girl to calm down. He wasn't even going to try to get Torn, too; it would be safer for Jak to go up a kick a sleeping Metal Head in the ass when he has an 'eat me' sign on then to try to calm Torn down.
Jak started to rub the girls back gently, but she pushed his hand away with more power than she apeard to have. OK, Jak thought he sat there for a minute, thinking and then said "Don't be afraid. My name's Jak and the orange idiot is Daxter." She peeked out from under the blanket and looked at them. It was the first time Jak had seen her eyes. They were gray; not just gray, but molten silver. It looked like the first time she had actually seen them. She sat up and looked at Daxter first, and then she did somethig very odd; she poked him! Like it was the first time she had ever seen an ottsel. Daxter didn't protest. Then her attention went to Jak. She looked at him, and then she reached out and touched his shoulder, but she barely had time to understand when Torn came in.
"What the hell was that all about!?" he demanded, "do you realize what time it is?!" Jak looked at the clock; it read 6:46AM. Torn didn't care what Jak had to say, so he stormed into the other room.
"That was Torn," Jak said to the girl. She had a confused look on her face. "Can you talk?" Jak asked. He thought he already knew the answer to that question, but she nodded her head yes. "You can? Well, say something?" Jak was eager to hear her voice. She just sat there a minute and then opend her mouth to talk and said "Jak," she pointed to Jak, "Daxter" she pointed to Daxter. Torn just walked into the room. She pointed to him and said "Torn."
Jak was in shock. She could talk! "Well, do you have a name?" Jak asked. He hoped that Reden was wrong about that, too. She sat for a minute, thinking, and then said, "Elemental experament 001. ID number 7034. Cell number 13."
That wasn't what he wanted, but it gave him a chance to hear her voice more. "No, your name, not your ID code," Jak told her. She thought for a minute, and then said "I don't have one." Looking arouned her, now curious about where she was, she then said "Is that bad?"
"No, not really," Jak said. He was thinking fast. "Can I give you a name?" he asked.
She nodded her head yes. OK, Jak thought, she doesn't look like a Brenda... or a Cassy... or like a Sonya...
Somewere deep in his subconscious, a name popped up and just came out of his mouth. "Tena?" And she smiled and said "I like that name!"
Just then, Tess and Kaira walked in. "Hi, Jak! Hi, Daxter!" Keira said.
"Hey there, ladies! Why you two here so early?" Daxter asked, leaning on the bed post.
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