After Rail left her apartment Keria felt sick. Not sick as if you will throw up but sick as in dirty. She couldn't believe what she had done and what she had said. She looked at the imprint she and Rail's body had left on the bed and began to cry. She didn't even hear Jak come in until he was at her. He tried to hold her but she slapped his hands away.

"NO!" she yelled. "DON'T TOUCH ME." Jak backed away, confused. She began crying now hardder and flung her amrs around him. Jak was even more confused but he hugged her back, rocking her back and forth, letting her tears fall on her shoulder. "I'm sorry," she wispered. "I'm so sorry Jak."

"Shhh," wispered Jak. "It's alright, I'm here. What's wrong?"

"I... I kissed Rail. I don't know why but I asked him to. I made up. I acted like a total slut."

"Shh," said Jak as he held her closer. "I'm here, everything's okay."

Keria continued to cry into Jak's shoulder. She didn't know what she was thinking when she was hitting on Rail. Something was making her, something or someone was controlling her.

"Jak.." she wispered, crying in his arms. "I'm scared."

"There's nothing to worry about. We'll find a way to deal with Metal-Heads." said Jak trying to calm his blue-haired lover. Keria began shaking her head quickly.

"Not that," she said. "When I was hitting on Rail... something was makng me do it. I was trying to stop but I couldn't."

"Shh.." said Jak, petting her head. "It's alright, it's alright."

"How can it be alright?" she cried. "I've turned into a total whore!"

"You're not," said Jak firmly. "You're not that now and you never will be."

Keria didn't answer. She fell to the ground and began crying and screaming. She was thrashing around in pain. She was grabbing and tearing at everything she could reach. Jak tried to subdue her but she threw even him off of her. Jak grabbed his comm and called the emergency number, 199, and told them to come over here.

"199, what is your emergency?"

"I need an ambulance over here now, the adress is 301, Stadium sector. Bring something along that will knock someone out." He snapped the communicator off and three minutes later the medical team came. An intern asked Jak a lot of questions as the team subdued and hauled Keria away. Jak tried to climb in the ambulance but the doctors told him no.

"This won't hold anyone else, we'll give you a call as soon as we have some information about her condition." they slammed the door before Jak could protest and sped off into the night.

For a while Jak was numb. He had just found a book that had been written about him, he found out that his lover had been making out with Rail and now he had just put everything that mattered to him in that ambulance. He walked back into the house and went to the closet. He pushed aside all of the boxes and lifted out his Morph-Gun. He checked the ammo and strapped it onto his back, along with his JET-Board. He stepped outside and stared at the mountains. The mountains that hid the deep Wastelands and the massive army that lay there. Suddenely Jak was slammed to the ground with pain. Images and sounds were flying through his brain. He saw the city, it was in flames, Metal-Heads running everywhere. And above them all was Drakken. He stared right at Jak and Jak stared back at him and there in that moment Jak lost all hope. When he awoke he was still outside his house but Sig and several Wastelanders were running up to him. Sig helped him up.

"You all right chilly pepper?" he asked.

"Yeah," said Jak, in a voice that told them all that nothing was alright. "I need to get to the palace, Keria's not here anymore so you guys aren't needed. Go home and get some sleep. Something tells me you'll need it."

Jak turned from them and stared his long walk to the palace.

The Palace:

Rail watched Jak go out of the palace and Rail took his place at Samos's side.

"How are things looking?" he asked.

"Not good," said Samos, clopping over. "Things are going to be very difficult for the next few weeks, espically on Jak and yourself."

"Why me?" asked Rail. "I mean I'm just an ordinary KG officer, When the fight comes that's where I'll be."

"No you won't Rail." said Samos. "Jak is fighting, anymore, for one thing because that's all that matters to him anymore."

"Keria," said Rail.

"Yes," said Samos. "I can see in your eyes that she means more to you than your life does."

"She does," said Rail, sitting down as her face filled his head. "Even though she'll never love me again." The two heard the door to the elevator open and Samos went to greet Jak, Rail was afraid he'd get his teeth knocked out of he looked at Jak.

"Rail," said Jak. "Did you do anything to Keria when you were with her?"

"No," said Rail. "All I did was kiss her and I don't know why I did that."

"Because you love her and you wanted it to be true that she felt the same way still."

"That about covers it," said Rail.

"I went to her and she broke down, starting screaming and wailing. I called an ambulance and she's in the hospital now."

"Is she going to be alright?" asked Rail.

"She'll be fine, I hope."