JKA: Aaand here's the tenth and final chapter for you all. :D Another one I'm not particularly fond of, to be honest, but I suppose it was a good song to round off the drabbles with. Usual disclaimers apply. Read, review, and I'll be seeing you all around in the near future. JKA, over and out~
I Do - Colbie Caillat
Keira had never been much of a romantic. She'd always preferred to spend her time tinkering with machines and zoomer engines, a wrench in her hand and grease splattered in various odd places. Outlandish flights of fancy held no interest for her; she didn't need a man to swoop in and sweep her off her feet. There was nothing more she could have wanted out of life than the satisfaction of completing a new invention, always dreaming of the next mechanical marvel she'd create rather than candlelit dinners and bouquets of roses.
That was before she'd met Jak.
She could still remember the day she'd first spotted him, lounging by the fountain in the Sandover village square and listening with good-natured exasperation to one of Daxter's long-winded rants. They had been at the age when boys and girls could easily be friends and think nothing more of it, because they were simply too young to understand — or care about — such concepts. But even so, Keira had known immediately that there was something about Jak that she liked, and had wasted no time in introducing herself to him.
Nowadays, whenever she pictured that fateful day that had earned her a best friend for life, she wondered how she couldn't have seen the future coming, even as a tender youth. It seemed inevitable to her now that she'd been destined to fall in love with the shy mute that had been her closest childhood companion.
The two of them had played together as kids, matured together, and been to hell and back together. They'd experienced the defeats of Dark Sages, a ruthless baron, a schizophrenic cyborg, and a twisted race of Dark Precursors. They'd survived being separated, torn apart by anger and fear, poisoned, and nearly blown to bits several times over.
Somewhere in the course of their chaotic lives, Keira had realized just how much Jak meant to her. He was her true other half, an irreplaceable part of her, as she was of him.
She'd never wanted to bother with a relationship before, but being with Jak was different. Whenever he was around, she felt as if she could climb the highest mountain, or swim the deepest ocean. She belonged with him.
And there was nothing anyone could say or do that would make her change her mind.