I know, a bit of a wait between chapters. Sorry. I'm a little sad to see this fic go...its my longest yet. Thanks to all my readers who stuck through it all. Any reviews would be greatly appreciated.

Jake awoke in the dead of night.

He had been moved from the examining table, and was now laying in his own bed at Skellington Manor. His room was luminated by the moonlight poring in from his window. How he had gotten there was unbeknownest to him.

How he was alive was a mystery as well. It felt as if a demon was pounding railroad spikes into his skull. He gently lifted his hand to his face, and felt the rough stitching running up his skull. He looked at his other arm. Since he had no shirt on, he saw the bolts and screws holding his arm together. As his sockets ran down his arm, he found a hand holding his. He looked to see his mother, slouched slightly, as she was asleep. Her hand was gripping his as if he might run off and die again if she let go.

Jake tried to feel his legs. He lifted the rich wine colored blanket to find one of his legs had a rod sticking through it to help it heal. It was not pretty. He was not going anywhere for a while...

Suddenly a candle was lit. Jake, startled, looked up to see his father holding a candle stick across the room. He was sitting in an armchair that had been moved up to Jake's room, and and his expression was impossible to read. To be honest, Jack looked just as surprised to see Jake as Jake did him.

"Dad?" he croaked. His voice was hoarse. Jack cleared his throat. "The gas wore off? You're back to normal?" he asked. Jake nodded.

"Do you remember what happened?" Jack asked. Jake struggled to recall. "Its still foggy..." he admitted. "Understandable." said Jack. "How are you feeling?" he asked.

Jake chuckled in spite of himself. "Like it might've been a lot less painful to have given up." he joked. Jack didn't laugh.

"Your mother was terrifyed...we all were. And when you were delirious, we thought you'd went mad. I was certain that I'd lost my son, or at least his mind. Sally was beside herself with worry. Even Sam bit her nails to the quick about you." Jack said seriously.

"Oh." Jake said quietly. Sam had worried about him? His show-up sister? Anything Jake did she could do better was her motto after all.

Then he remembered that he did, in fact, sneak out. "Am I in trouble?" he asked. Jack chuckled.

"Well, your mother and I thought being stuck in your bed for two weeks was punishment enough." he said. "Two weeks??!!" Jake exclaimed. Sally roused.

"Jake?" she asked, then squeezed him tightly. Jake let out a yelp of pain. "Mom, could you please let go?" he asked as politely as he could. Sally did so.

"I just told Jake of his sentence." Jack joked. Sally nodded. "You're lucky the doctor was able to do this much. You could've been worse." she said. Jack nodded.

"We're happy you pulled through" said Jack. Sally agreed.

"What am I supposed to do for two weeks?" asked Jake. Jack chuckled darkly.

"Well, theres always your homework."

Two months later...
Jake was sitting in a church. These stupid dress clothes were so stuffy...but he was the ring bearer. He had already done his duty. Jack was up at the alter, as Spike's best man. Over the past two weeks they had grown close.

Apparently so had Jamie and Spike or Jake wouldn't be sitting through this wedding. He had no complaints about the couple. They seemed made for each other. But why did weddings have to be soooooooo long?

Currently he was sitting in between Sally and Sam. Sam also had a part in the ceremony, as the flower girl. Sally had made Jamie's wedding dress. Which led Jake to entertaining the thought that was this Jamie and Spike's wedding or the Skellington's?

Of course, Spike had to use his legal name for the wedding. It was Erik. Erik and Jamie O'Rielly. Hmmm, a good name. Jake prefered Spike personally.

But he had time while he sat through the holiest of ceremonies. He thought about his whole Halloween incident.

So, pretty much nothing had gone according to plan. Instead of going with Jack, he skipped school and sneaked out. He got busted in the Human World and broke his family out of jail. Then he got stuck in the Human World. And fell off a building. Then died and lived again. Then spent two weeks catching up on all that homework he didn't do before.

But some good things had happened. For example, his dad gave Spike the ring. And now they were getting married! Jake learned some good scaring tips from his father. And he experianced death. (Not that that was really a good thing).

Seems life had a way of working things out by themselves. And Jake supposed he could go into great detail and all, but for now the wedding was over, and Jake was looking for some cake.

End

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