Sorry it took so long! DX I was real busy and didn't have time to type up the chapters I wrote. But I do now! (YAY! XP) So, hopefully I'll be able to upload them soon! CB Lol, anyway, enjoy! X3

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Ch. 6

"What the HELL were you doing out there!" Tess and Vin shrunk against his harsh words and booming voice. My ears fell. I forced a small smile and looked at him.

"Hey there, Big Guy... 'Sup?"

Jak glared down at me for a moment before before turning back to the cowering couple.

"What the Hell were you doing out there?" This time his voice was much quieter, but filled with just as much malice as before.

Tess opened and moved her mouth, as if to speak, but no sounds came out. So, I decided to explain it for her.

"Aw, Jak, don't g'it 'ch'a undies in a bunch, we was jus--"

"I wasn't talking to you, Daxter."

And that was it. Nobody talks to me that was. Laugh at me, make fun of me, point all you want. But you don't right out tell me to shut it. Nobody talks to me that way. ESPECIALLY not JAK.

"Well, Tess?" he went on. "What the Hell were you thinking? And with Dax? Are you stupid! He's got a broken leg! And isn't it enough that's he's just as wanted as I am!"

"J-Jak, I--"

"You what! Don't you get the danger you put him in! I--"

"SHUT IT JAK!"

And he stopped. They all stopped. And stared at me. Like I was somebody else. Like I couldn't possibly say that, couldn't explode like that.

I turned and looked angrily up at the shocked look on Jak's face.

"If you're gunn'a get all pissy at somebody, at least don't be a dumb hypocrite about it!"

"... A... wha--?"

"A hypocrite, Jak! A big, stupid, HYPOCRIT! You get all up in Tess' face for yankin' me out'a bed for an hour when, before this, who was the one always yankin' me right out in't'a th' middle o' metal heads? KG swarms! Any DANGER he could g'it his hands on! YOU WAS JAK! YOU was the one gettin' us int'a shit! Gettin' ME int'a shit!" I took a deep breath and continued.

"I'll be FINE, Jak! Tess'll take care o' me! Hell, I'LL take care o' me! I took care of myself for two years without you, Jak! TWO YEARS! You think a little broken bone's gunn'a stop me? You think it's gunn'a cripple me! No! I'll be fine, Jak! Stop baby'n me! Stop treatin' me like... Like your favorite PET! I c'n take care o' myself and I don't need you screamin' at people for HELPING me! Tess saved my life today, Blondie! Yeah! You ain't the only one who can anymore, Jak! SHE did! And what'd she save me from? FROM YOU! YOU were the one out there messin' people up! It's not your problem Jak! You're the one who keeps goin' out there when you ain't gott'a! I know you got bones t'a pick, but all the useless stuff you do-- it's USELESS! You just wann'a rough somebody up 'cause you're hurtin' inside and you wann'a take it out on somebody! Grr, Jak! Just-- GRR!"

After the 'two year' remark, I knew there was no going back. Jak's face was blank the entire time I was ranting. Heck, don't ask me why I was ranting. But I just couldn't help it, y'a know? I just started and one thing lead to another and soon I just couldn't stop! ... I hate it when I do that.

I finally caught my breath and turned away from the stunned blonde. I couldn't look at him, for some reason. I just... couldn't.

Suddenly Tess spoke. "J-Jak, I-I'm sure he's just... H-he doesn't mea--"

"I know what he means." I almost shivered at the ice in his voice.

The next thing I heard was his heavy foot steps clicking away from me. As the door whirred open and closed behind him, I realized I'd made an inevitable and unavoidable mistake. The type of mistake that, no matter how implied or delaid it was, it would always come.

We were never very good friends anyway.

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DB aww poor bubbies! What'll happen in the next (coughshortcough) installment! Oo