I do not own anything, except Taj, Anya, Damas Jnr, Lexa, Rio, Lucie and now Marissa.

I'm so sorry this update has taken so long, y'see I went away for the weekend and stayed for two weeks and then when I got home I had no internet. But I hope it was worth the wait and you enjoy. Thanks for waiting. Love you all and all your reviews.

CHAPTER 4

Jak walked into the throne room of Haven Palace the next morning with Damas. He smiled as Ashelin's son Tory came running up to them, he was so much like his mother, red hair, strong, tall but he had them piercing pale blue eyes of Torn. Jak smiled down at him "Hi there Tory, how are ya?" he asked.

"I'm good Commander Mar" he answered cheerily "Can Damas play?" he enquired.

Jak looked down at Damas, he was amazed at the friendship that had formed between the two boys and knew how hard it was on Tory growing up in the Palace, unable to go and play with his friends. He was thankful he and Keira had made sure their children had had such normal lives considering who they were.

Damas looked up and smiled at Jak "Can I daddy?" he asked.

Jak nodded and smiled "Only for ten minutes" he said laughing as the two boys cheered and ran off.

He looked around the room and spotted Ashelin sat at her desk in the back office, he marched in and dropped Anya's history book down in front of her.

Ashelin frowned and looked up "What's this?" she asked.

Jak flipped a few pages over and pointed at the picture of the two of them "What the hell is that doing in my daughter's history book?" he demanded.

Ashelin looked down "Your part of history Jak, the children should learn about you" she smiled.

"But it's not true, I have never been with you, ever...and why do they need to know about Keira and Torn?" he asked bitterly even after fifteen year he still hated the fact his wife had been with Torn first.

Ashelin shrugged "Keira is the mother of the descendants of Mar, people want to know about her".

"I want it taken out, all of it" Jak demanded.

Ashelin got up and picked the book up, reading it "All it says is that Keira was in a relationship with Torn, nothing else...she's quite famous in her own right you know...mother of future Kings and Queens, owner of the most successfull garage and race team in Haven City, you should be proud of her" Ashelin said.

Jak took the book off her and slammed it shut "I am proud of her, but I want it taken out, this kind of thing doesn't need to be in a childs history book" he snapped.

Ashelin rubbed her eyes "You have no authority to demand this be taken out, I am still the Governess" she snapped back.

Jak stepped forward "While I have Mar's blood running through my veins, I have all the authority, now take it out or I'll do it myself"

Ashelin folded her arms over her chest and leaned back on her desk "Speaking of which, I heard you dragged the twins out of school yesterday, said something about Taj not needing all the crap they've been teaching him once he's king, what the hell was that about?" Ashelin demanded.

Jak shrugged and grinned "We had a family emergency yesterday and that prat tried telling me what was best for my kids, I just reminded him who we are, that's all" he turned to leave "Now sort the book Ashelin or I'll do it myself" he said leaving the office and going in search of Damas.

Taj and Anya stepped into Haven Forest and started to make their way to where their Grandfather could be found at the other end of the forest. Anya turned to Taj "Maybe I'll be a sage like Grandpa" she said.

Taj frowned "Still don't wanna be queen then?" he asked.

"I don't know Taj, maybe I could be a sage or a mechanic like Mama" Anya said "I just don't know what to do" she said shaking her head.

Taj stepped over a branch and smiled "So Lucie still fancies me?" he asked.

Anya laughed "Geez Taj, is that all you think about?" she sighed "Yes she still likes you, but you should be more carefull with her heart you know Taj" she warned.

He nodded "What about Marissa, she's hot?" he grinned.

Anya frowned "How do I know about her, I'm not really her best friend am I?"

"I think I'll ask her out" he nodded.

Anya stopped and looked at him "What about Lucie?" she asked.

Taj shrugged "I'm not ready to settle down, I'm too young Anya, I like Lucie but I'm not ready for her, not yet" he said shaking his head.

"Just be carefull with her Taj, I don't want to see her get hurt" she smiled "Or my bonehead big brother either" she teased nudging him.

Taj laughed and ran off up the ramps.

Keira walked into the Naughty Ottsel with Lexa later that morning. Lexa ran up to the bar and jumped up on a stool looking behind the bar she grinned "Hi Aunt Tess, can I play with Tex?" she asked.

Tess looked up and smiled "Sorry sweetheart but Tex has gone with her daddy to the Bazaar" she said jumping up on the bar as Keira sat down next to her youngest daughter.

"Oh" Lexa said disappointed.

Tess smiled "How about you go see what toys she's left out the back and I'll make you an ice cream float?" she said.

Lexa looked at Keira "Can I Mama?" she asked.

Keira nodded "Yes but leave the door open and if you see anyone you don't know your shout and scream, right?" she said.

Lexa nodded and jumped down off the stool and ran behind the bar to the store-room.

Keira sighed and rested her head on her hand watching as Tess made the float. Tess frowned and looked at her "You okay?" she asked.

Keira shrugged "It's just been a bad week" she said.

Tess nodded "Dax said Jak had mentioned something, how is Damas?" she asked.

"He seems fine now he's got it off his chest, but how could I not notice how miserable he was" she looked at Tess "Did Tex say anything?"

Tess nodded "We asked her and she said some of the boys had been calling her names, but she didn't seem to be too upset about it".

"How can children be so cruel, they wanted to hurt him, make him hurt himself?" Keira said shaking her head.

Tess plopped a cherry into Lexa's ice cream and came over to Keira "What do you mean hurt himself?" she asked.

"When the kids turn dark it hurts them, it gets easier and less painful the older they get and the more training they have but right now it hurts him, not to mention what he could have done to them boys" Keira explained.

"Oh my god, I hadn't even thought of how much it hurt him, I remember when Jak first started the pain he'd be in for days afterwards" Tess remembered.

Keira nodded "And he was what seventeen, not an eight year old child".

Tess nodded "Poor Damas, how about we cheer him up with a sleep over tonight?" she asked smiling.

Keira smiled "Thats really nice of you Tess but the twins are babysitting tonight, its part of their punishment, although Jak did invite Lucie and Rio over so I guess it's not much of a punishment now, how about Tex comes to ours, we can have a night out in The Spargus Ottsel?" she said.

Tess nodded "Sounds like a plan, I'll go give this to Lexa" she said picking up the float and jumping off the bar.

An hour later Taj and Anya stood in Haven Forest with their arms out stretched while Samos took measurements and grumbled around them. Taj rolled his eyes and looked down at his grandfather "Is all this really necessary Grandpa, we know how much we've grown?" he complained.

Samos sighed and looked up at him "Yes Taj it is, I know you two grow by the second but I just want to know if the eco in you makes anything bigger than it should be for your age" he explained.

Taj chuckled "I know one thing that seems bigger than most others"

Anya blushed and nudged him looking over at Samos who seemed oblivious to Taj's comment "So Grandpa, I was thinking that maybe I would give Damas the throne of Haven City and I could just be a mechanic or maybe a sage" she said casually.

Samos looked up at her "You want to give up the throne?" he asked frowning.

Anya dropped her arms and nodded, she plopped herself cross-legged on the grass and looked at her grandfather "I just don't think it's really my kind of thing, I mean I look at daddy and how happy he is and I wonder if he'd be just as happy if he'd took the throne, would he have met Mama, would we even be here?" she asked.

Taj sat next to her "Don't be daft Anya, dad and mama are soul mates of course they would have met" he snapped.

Samos nodded "Taj is right, they are soul mates but I doubt they would have met under the same circumstances"

"How did they meet?" Taj asked.

Samos frowned "Haven't they ever told you?" he asked shocked.

"We never asked" Anya shrugged "They just seem so perfect together we just hate to think about them not being together, but we did find out the other day that Mama went out with Commander Torn once" she sighed.

Samos nodded "That was long before she met your father, she was young and thought she was in love, but all that changed one day when she just happened to walk into one of the KG outside the throne room" he smiled.

"Please tell us Grandpa" Taj asked.

Samos nodded and sat in front of the twins "I'll tell you what I know but your parents will have to fill in the blanks okay?" the twins nodded and listened as Samos told them the story. (A/N I am not going in to how Keira and Jak met, if you wanna know then read Secret Love).

"And then about nine months later you two were born" Samos smiled finishing the story.

Anya wiped a tear away "It's like a proper love story, they loved each other but weren't allowed to be together but they couldn't stand to be apart, it's so romantic" she gushed.

"And Commander Torn actually threatened dad, wow he must have really wanted Mama back" he chuckled "Dad would have killed him though".

Samos laughed "Yes he would, but there was never any doubt that as soon as your parents met somehow the stars seemed to line up" Samos got up and walked around the twins "I think we're done here, you two can go" he smiled.

Anya got up and walked over to her grandfather, she bent to kiss him on the cheek "Thanks grandpa, we'll see ya during the week" she smiled.

"Yeah thanks gramps" Taj waved.

Samos chuckled and watched as they head towards the exit of the forest "If only they knew how much like their parents they are" he chuckled shaking his head.

"The twins should be back by now" Jak said throwing a magazine down and looking at the clock above Keira's work bench in her garage.

Keira turned around from the zoomer she was working on and looked at the clock "Their only half an hour over, and you know what my fathers like for lecturing about eco" she giggled.

Jak nodded "Of course I do, the amount of sewer patrols I've had to do because he made me late for my shift is still imprinted on my brain" he chuckled, he looked towards his two youngest children sat watching cartoons in Keira's office and smiled "Can them two just stay that age and not grow up?" he joked.

Keira laughed "I wish, I wish they could all just stay Lexa's age"

"Who could stay Lexa's age?" came Taj's voice from the door, Anya following behind.

Anya flopped down on the old couch next to Jak and closed her eyes "I wish I was Lexa's age, before all this eco training started" she yawned.

"So why you two late?" Keira asked wiping her hands.

Taj jumped up onto the work bench and smiled "Gramps was telling us about when you met, about how Commander Torn threatened to kill you dad" he chuckled.

Jak frowned "Why would he tell you that?" he asked.

"We asked him" Anya shrugged "We wanted to know how you met"

Keira smiled "Well its quite simple, we met, got wasted, and fell in love".

Taj frowned "Grandpa didn't say you got wasted?" he enquired.

Jak laughed and moved over to Keira pulling her to him "Yup, the first night we met we were in the Naughty Ottsel and we got hammered, and then we fell through your mothers front door".

Keira laughed as Anya got up "Maybe that should be in our history book" she smiled.

Jak kissed Keira on the forehead and looked at his two oldest children "Your mother is the best thing to ever happen to me, if anyone ever tried to hurt her or take her away from me I swear I would rip them apart with my bare hands" he said seriously.

Taj put a hand on his father's shoulder "We know dad, we'd do the same".

Keira smiled "Now enough about that, let's get home" she said going into the office to get Damas and Lexa.

As ever thanks for reading and I hope it was worth the wait. The next update will be sooner I promise. X X X X