just an fyi those who read the fist chapter might need to reread them i changed them up a bit. thanks for the reviews!!
cookies for you all
Chapter Three-
After that Jak hung up his cell he checked one more time that Jaklin was covered from the weather. He caught the bus at the corner and rode it to the bazaar, then caught another bus to the residential sector of the city. People were still repairing the building from the dark maker attacks that happened earlier in the year. Jak sat Jakie down on a bench for a minute wanting to rest his arm. Jak moved the blanket from the car seat for a moment and took Jakie out.
("oh wow look at all the colors,") Jakie squealed and looked around at every thing. Jak smiled she must have been really bored looking at the blanket for most of the morning. He was already late so it didn't make a difference if he was even more late. He watched her look around at every thing and squeal in excitement.
A light breeze blew threw the small park rustling the leaves in the trees over head. Jaklin looked up in amazement at the green shapes that moved in and out of the sunlight. She squealed with absolute delight and reached up to try and grab them.
("daddy, why cant I reach the pretty green things?") Jakie whined still trying to reach for the leaves in the tree. Jak looked up at the leaves and smiled. Faintly a memory of trees came to his mind but the memory was damaged and gave no details as to what was going on. Jakie gave a frustrated cry that brought him out of the memory.
"You want a leaf, baby?" he asked her as he looked up at the leaves. He always wandered why the leaves seemed to sparkle out of the corner of his eye but never when he fully looked at them. Jak stood up and plucked a leaf off of a low hanging branch and sat down. Jak smiled as he spun it in between his fingers, while Jakie giggled and reached out for it.
The odd thing that happened when the leaf left his hand is that it started to slightly sparkle. Jak tipped his head and touched the leaf. Then it hit him, yes the leaves really did sparkle. They sparkled because of eco, in this case green eco. So his baby was just like him, an eco channeler.
("ooh daddy look at it sparkle!") she cried out with glee. Jak had to smile it was odd sometimes hearing the occasional thought come from her. He looked around the small park, he had been here not to long ago defending the headquarters from KG blaster bots. There were still some parts left here and there. Jak sighed and realized that he was glad Jaklin hadn't been born then.
"Hey, don't eat that." Jak said as he put his two of his fingers in her mouth to pull part of the leaf out. He threw the slobbery leaf onto the ground and wiped the slobber that was on his fingers onto his pants. He put Jaklin back into the car seat and took off his backpack. The backpack was so much more easier to carry things in than that big ass ugly diaper bag.
Jak dug threw the bag and finally found the can of formula that he was looking for. He frowned when he opened it and looked in. there wasn't enough formula to make a bottle and he knew that Jaklin was hungry by the way his left ear was twitching. He tipped down the can so Jakie could see in it.
"there's not enough in there for you," he said and he pored the miniscule amount that was in the can out and it blew away in the light breeze. Jakie whined at him and held her hands out and wiggled her fingers. Jak sighed and shook his head, he put the lid back on top of the can and gave it to Jakie to munch on until he got to the meeting. He hoped that Ashlin or Keira would have some even though their kids were eating normal food.
Jak then realized that they had been in the park for an hour and headquarters was only a short walk away. He snickered and buckled Jakie into the car seat and threw the blanket over her again. She didn't even notice as she kept chewing on the cardboard can.
Jak waked to the entrance of headquarters and hopped on the elevator. Jaklin made a sound that made Jak think that the sudden motion of the elevator scared her. There was the same boring music play in as it reached the top Jak had to roll his eyes and wander why it was even playing.
Jak stepped off of the elevator and walked down the hall. He stopped at the door and listened to the muffled voices on the inside. He couldn't make out what they were saying but, he did know the sounds of the voice who were talking. He didn't know if he was ready to face every one, sure they knew but he didn't know if he wanted to share Jaklin with the rest of them or not.
("daddy, I'm hungry!") Jaklin whined at him as she hit the can with her hand. Jak bit his lip, there's no time for pride to get in the way he needed to get her some food. He took in a deep breath and quietly turned the handle to the door and opened it. No one saw him walk in but Jakie decided that she was done playing with the formula can and threw it out of the blanket covered car seat. The sound of the can hitting the floor startled every one into turning around.
Jak froze in place his ears turned a really nice shade of red. For a minuet they all were looking at him, thankfully though Jaklin decided that she wanted to start talking again. An evil look came over all the girls in the room. Jak almost started to walk out of the room but Keira was already on him.
Keira marched right up to him and looked him in the eye, and he could tell that she was pissed off. So fast did she move that Jak hadn't realized that Keira had taken the car seat out of Jak's hand. Only when dark had mental slapped him for letting it happen did he snap out of it. Keira and Ashlin were looking at the tattered blanket that coved the car seat.
"Jak what on Econia are you thinking?" Keira exclaimed. Jakie started to kick her feet wanting to know what was going on. Keira removed the blanket to see what jakie looked like. Needless to say she was even more pissed off and ashlin was sending him death glairs.
"Yes, well because I had to spent two hours in the damn hospital to get a test done that should have only taken and hour, plus I had to be here I didn't have time to go get proper clothing for her," he snarled at them. Jaklin's car seat was sitting in position so that she couldn't see Jak but she could hear him and he didn't sound happy.
("wait where's daddy at?") she started to cry as she looked around for jak. However Keira wasn't going to let Jak get off that easily she kept glairing at him daring him to try something. Keira walked in front of the car seat and was going to take her out but something happened.
("your not my daddy,") she cried and a volt of dark eco crackled over the car seat and a small odd colored dome appeared around it. The elder ottsel who had been standing on his floating disk just smiled. He was hopping this would happen. Jak on the other hand was scared shitless.
The elder ottsel floated in front of her and gauged the power of the eco that she was putting off. She was already powerful enough to do simple things with the eco. She wasn't as powerful as Jak and the old ottsel knew that she would be able to give Jak some of the odd colored eco. Jak was at wits end but Keira stood in his way.
"now, now there's no need for tears," said Kas, the elder ottsel. Jaklin stopped crying and looked that the odd thing in front of her. She tipped her head looking at him trying to figure out what he was.
("what is it?") she asked. Kas smiled at her and moved closer to her.
"I am an ottsel, what are you?" he asked with a smile on his face.
("I am a Jaklin,") she said making him laugh. Keira looked at kas with her eyebrow raised. She walked back over to the car seat to look at her but the shild that had just gone down popped back up making kas chuckle.
"A Jaklin you I have never hear of one of those," he said, Jak smirked kas may be old but he knew how to read eco and what was going on in it.
("where's my daddy?") she asked him, she knew that she could trust this guy, it remineded her of the orange people that she had see last night at home.
"he's behind you silly girl." he said and Jaklin tried to look behind her but the car seat was in the way. If there was a way for her to get behind her she could at least see him.
("try blinking,") came another baby. Jaklin looked around but didn't see anything until there was a soft blue flash and a small orange thing was in her lap.
("hey I know you I saw you last night!") Jaklin squealed.
("yup your daddy is my daddy's friend!") said the small ottsel.
("we can be friends to?!") Jaklin asked as small sparks of eco danced on the table.
("yup yup!") chirped the little ottsel.
(" I am Jaklin!") she said.
(" and I am Dez!") said Dez, who was happy to have some one to hang out with seeing as the older kids didn't want to play with her.
("how do I blink?") asked Jakie.
("use the blue stuff inside you!") Dez said and she vanished and appeared next to Daxter, who just rolled his eyes. Jakie crinkled her nose and thought for a moment then though about the blue stuff that she had inside her and then she thought about her daddy.
"what are they saying?" asked Jak, he knew that those two were going to be trouble. He had to smile, they were going to be just like them.
"nothing much," kas said with a smile on his face. Jaklin suddenly got what Dez had said than suddenly disappeared out of the car seat. Keira gasped and started to look around for her.
"where did she go?" she asked, everyone started to look for her. Jak went to move forwards but felt something heavy on his foot. He looked down and there she was sitting on his foot. Kas floated just above the car seat and looked at her. Her mouth was in an almost perfect 'O' shape and her eyes were large.
("I wanna do it again!") she cried out squealing with delight. Jak slowly knelt down and snagged her causing her to squeal again in surprise.
("daddy did you see did you see what I did?!") she babbled excitedly waving her little arms around. Keira crossed her arms and Jak glared at her. This time he wasn't going to let her bully him. Keira walked over to him but Jakie already had her shield up around them. Jak was surprised at how strong the eco was. He had never felt it before and was curious at to what kind it was.
Jakie had wiggled herself into Jak's jacket. She glared at Keira and then snuggled close to Jak. It didn't take long for her to fall asleep using that much eco in one time at that age Jak would have thought she would have fallen asleep sooner. Jak took a seat at the table calmly and nodded to Kas who just smiled at him. Daxter, Tess and Dez took the spot next to him and Sig sat on the other side. Keira sat at the very end of the table looking perplexed as to what happened.
"good now that we are all here, I would first like to congratulate Jak and Daxter on their new families. Its been some time since an ottsel was born. Jak I must say out of all the Mars you are the most unusual one." he said.
"wait all the mars?" asked Daxter.
"yes every other generation in his family is named mar, and I tell you what I'm sure that they are all in an uproar right now," he said with a smile. Jak was kind of confused he didn't know much about his family, Damas had died before he could get to know him.
"Jaklin is the first living girl born to the house of mar, that and Jak is the only blonde all those who were ever named mar had black or brown hair with green or brown eyes," said Kas.
"odd ball out of the family eh Jak?" asked Daxter laughing. It didn't bother Jak he was glad he couldn't be classified with all those other mars.
"wait you said living girl," came Keira at the end of the table. At this the old ottsel sighed.
"it is something that I am not proud to admit. About one hundred generations ago, one of the mars had a daughter, the leader at the time chose to test the baby to see what kind of eco powers she would have, not a lot of people know this but there is an eco that is forbidden and she had it, the leader then tested the blood of mar and found that any girl born into the family would have this eco, which she could then share if she so chose to do so. In fear of what could happen with that much power, the elder killed the baby and cursed the house of mar to only have boys for the next hundred generations and left instructions to kill any girl there after," he said sadly.
Jak sat there ready to fight if he had to, there was no way anyone was going to kill his baby. Then Kas smiled making Jak uneasy he wasn't sure if it was a good thing or not. All were quiet for a long time thinking about what was said.
"how ever she is already able to use the eco that is forbidden so she is not possible to kill, and I wouldn't do it any way, she so adorable!" Kas said with a large smile on his face. Jak relaxed a little, all he needed to worry about was Keira now.
"oh yes by the way here is a key to your father summer home, it's a short drive out side of Haven city, the house sits on the lake shore of Crystal Lake, very nice two story house," Kas said with a wink. Jak smiled and nodded his head taking the key. This solved one of his problems. Now all he had to do was get other baby things and he would be golden.
"what about the mother?" asked Ashlin.
"sadly the mother died shortly after giving birth, she was attacked by a metal head on her way to the hospital," said Kas sadly. Honestly Jak didn't couldn't see himself with the any one right now except maybe Keira if she stopped acting like she was. He wandered why she was acting like that in the first place she was never like that before.
Jaklin twitched and shifted in her sleep drawing Jak's attention down to her. Jak moved his hand under his jacket and rubbed her back. He was tired himself and wished that he could take a nap too, he had so much to do. Kas looked at every one and smiled.
"what is the name of the eco that she uses?" asked Samos the green eco sage.
"I'm not sure, we have never named it, it's a mix of all the ecos know and unknown, some she may not be able to use some though," he said. Of course Jak didn't here any thing because he had nodded off. They were silent for a while and Dez started to fall asleep.
"well I guess its time to wrap this up I see several people are tired and I know there is going to be a lot of things that need to be done, good day to you all," kas said and disappeared from the room much like Jaklin and dez had done earlier. Keira was the first to get up. She walked into another room that was just off of the one they were in.
"hey cherry," Sig said as he gently shook Jak awake. Jak woke up and stretched and looked around. He bit his lip when he realized that he had fallen asleep, he had also noticed that Keira was gone.
"sorry, I didn't mean to fall asleep," Jak said sheepishly.
"not to worry ma' boy it happens to the best of us," said Samos with a smile. Daxter had to smile as well he could see the changes in Jak and he had only had Jakie for one day. A cuple of kids came running out of the other room talking wildly. A red headed boy came running up to Ashlin who picked him up and carried him on her hip. It was easy to tell that the boy was Torn and Ashlins some how Jak wasn't surprised at all. What did surprise him what when a smaller, black haired boy came running out and up to Sig.
"since when do you guys have kids?" asked and astonished Daxter.
"two years for my lil cherry," came Sig.
"cherry cherry!" came the little boy laughing. Jak smiled that kid was gonna be so much like him. So was the red head.
"Jak, Daxter, welcome to the club," laughed Ashlin as she and Torn made their exit. Sig got up and walked to the door and left with out saying anything. Keira walked back in with the twins. Jak had to smile, they both looked like Keira, though Kyle had Biz's eye color, Kendra had his hair color but that was it. Jak had been the one to help Keira with that problem. Biz was not a good person and Keira had been fooled by him, but she with her fathers help was doing a good job.
"Jak I'm sorry I over reacted I had forgotten that this was new to you," she said.
"its fine just don't do it again," Jak said. Keira smiled and put a bag on the table.
"I got mad when I saw the blanket because it reminded me of what Biz used to do to the twins, but I did bring some of Kendra's old clothes and shoes so she doesn't have to wear those any more," Keira said as she picked up Kyle and Samos took Kendra. Jak smiled happily and started to look threw the clothes that Keira had left.
Jaklin decided that that would be the perfect time to wake up. She started to whimper and Jak pulled her out of his jacket. He put the clothes he was looking at on the floor and then sat down with Jaklin in his lap. Of course that didn't last long as Jak could smell what needed to be done.
"Ug, Jakie your ass stinks," he said making both Tess and Daxter laugh. Jak smiled and pushed the cloths out of the way and layed her down so that he could change her. He had gotten a lot better at changing her diaper since the first time. During that time Tess had given him some helpful tips about how to use the diaper wipes. She also told him about diaper rashes and what to use for them.
Wile Jak was fishing out another diaper from his backpack Jakie thought it would be a good idea to give daddy a run for his money. She smiled a little evil smile and rolled over. All she needed to do was find away to move. She was unable to get her legs working right so she decided to blink just far enough away that he wouldn't be able to get the diaper on her. Jak turned around to find Jaklin just barely within his reach.
"hey you get back here and we'll look threw these clothes and see what ones you like then we can go look at our new house." Jak said to her. Jakie just babbled at him and laughed. Jak leaned forwards and grabbed her foot and pulled her back. After another brief battle of diapering (Jak was victorious) he learned that in no way shape or form should he ever attempt to put anything pink on her.
The results were disastrous for him at least after the seventh zap of dark eco he decided that pink and Jakie don't go together. At all. At the end of an hour, Jak had put Jakie in a blue top and kaki colored pants and a pair of black boots. Daxter and Tess had left some time ago and it was just Jakie and him. She looked up at him with tired eyes, Jak smiled at her and grabbed her car seat and put her in it. Jak picked up all the clothes and put them back in the bag, he picked up the car seat and left headed to his next destination.
