sorry for the delay in this chapter i didnt know what i wanted to do with it i may change some things later on.

Chapter 4- A New Home.

Jak knew that he was going to need the sandshark from Keira if he was going to go to Crystal Lake. That visit hadn't gone as planed. Keira wouldn't give him the sandshark because it wasn't ready and because it wasn't safe for Jakie. So he ended up with a larger enclosed vehicle that he didn't like. He looked in the rear view mirror to see what Jakie was doing.

It must have been very boring because she was out cold. Jak smiled, he found that he was doing that a lot more lately. He felt… new, like the world wasn't as bad as it was when he first got here. Jak almost missed his turn but was able to get it with out waking up Jakie. The road turned to dirt after a half a mile with lots of pot holes and bumps that did end up wakening Jakie up but she seemed to enjoy it for the most part.

Just over a small hill was a two story house by its self. It was a sand stone color and was a short walk to the lake. There were plenty of trees and grassy areas with wildflowers that were just starting to bloom. The smog from Haven didn't reach here and neither had the metal heads. There was also a green forest not far either all in all the place was gorgeous.

Jak finally pulled up to the house. It was a lot bigger than he thought it was going to be and it also looked like it was going to need a lot of repairs. Jak sighed and rubbed the back of his neck, things were happening way to fast for him. Jakie started to babble in her car seat at him and he knew what she was saying, she needed a new diaper.

"Look it, Jakie," Jak said as he pulled her out of the car seat to show her the house.

"Its home" he said to her softly as he let her face the house. She babbled and wiggled around excitedly wanting to get down in the grass and play or eat what ever she could get her hands on. Jak walked up the wooden stairs on to the front porch it was dirty but it was sturdy. Jak unlocked the door but noticed how dusty it was on the inside and decided that it would be best if he let Jakie sit out side wile he quickly opened the windows.

Jak pulled the car seat out of the car and set it on the porch. He was really beating himself up over not coming here sooner. He had waited almost two months before coming here, he had been afraid of what he was going to find. However he was forced to come out of fear, some one had threatened to have Jaklin taken from him if he didn't find a better living place for her.

Jakie could hear daddy inside the house opening the windows. Jaklin was a little mad at him because he had put pink socks on her feet. It wasn't her fault that he didn't know she was going to have a d.b. (diaper blowout). She leaned forwards only to realize that daddy, in his haste to get the windows open didn't buckle her in. so she ended up toppling out of the car seat and onto the porch.

Jaklin was fine with that it gave her the opportunity to remove the precursor awful socks that were on her feet. She had surprised daddy a few days ago when she started crawling around the tiny apartment. Though Jak had been thrilled that she was moving it had scared him when she found his small ammo crate and was chewing on some of the Vulcan fury rounds.

A purple and blue butterfly fluttered by Jaklin and she squealed and gave chance to it. She stopped when she got to the stairs and looked down them. How was she going to get down them? She tried to crawl down them normally but almost fell on her face she sat there and thought for a wile. She knew that the pretty fluttery thing was going to get away if she didn't do something. So scrunching her nose up she turned around and backed up down the stairs.

However Jak had heard Jaklin squeal and wandered what it is that she had seen to excite her. He had just finished opening the windows up stairs and had raced down the stairs to see what she was up to. He slammed his palm onto his forehead when he realized that he hadn't buckled Jakie into the car seat. Thankfully she hadn't gotten very far, just down the stairs he quickly grabbed her up.

"What do you think your doing?" he asked her holding her up over his head. He hopped that she wouldn't throw up on him like she had before.

("It's going to get away daddy!") She babbled as she pointed to the butterfly. She whined and wiggled but Jak's grip was stronger and he was able to hold her. Jak looked at what she was pointing at.

"A butterfly? What do you want with that?" he asked her.

("daddy its pretty I want to eat it!") She exclaimed. He laughed at her.

"You can't eat that, why do you want to eat it are you hungry?" he asked her.

("Yea,") she said. Then the butterfly that she wanted so badly landed on Jak's ear making Jakie squeal with happiness when she saw it. Jak tried to make it go away by wiggling his ears, a rare trait he was told by the doctor, but it wouldn't move. Then Jakie tried to climb up him to see it better. That of course failed and she just sat there staring at the butterfly.

("Daddy I wants to see it,") she whined. Jak sighed and reached up with his hand and surprisingly it fluttered onto his hand and he brought it down so that Jakie could see it. She gasped in delight looked at it. Jak sat her back into her car seat and sat down next to hit holing the butterfly out for her to see. It sounded like it was whispering something just beyond his understanding.

("daddy what dose it mean when it says welcome home mar, who's mar daddy?") Jakie asked tipping her head. A strange feeling over came Jak at that moment as he looked at the butterfly. Then a memory of Damas telling him that when some one dies they become a butterfly and watch over their loved ones. Jak smiled as he knew what it was now that he felt.

"Baby that's granny butterfly, and Mar is daddy's other name," he said to her and the butterfly fluttered up and landed on Jaklin's nose and she gasped and twitched her nose. The edge of the butterfly's wings took on the same color as the eco shield that Jakie had made. Then the butterfly landed on her ear and Jakie smiled.

"Hey!" Jak said suddenly making Jakie look at him funny.

"Were did your socks go?" he asked already knowing that she had thrown them some where. She gave him a little evil giggle.

("I throws them away! They is icky!") She said mater of factually.

"I see this im going to have to buy more now." Jak said with a smirk.

("Daddy I is hungry but I don't wants a bauble, I still ams hungry after its gone") she explained to him. Jak didn't get time to reply to her because another two cars pulled up. Torn, Ashlin, their son Teagan, Keira and her two kids, Daxter, Tess and Dez all piled out along with Samos. Jak to say the least was surprised to see them.

"We heard that you were finally coming out here to check the place out, we are here to help you with what we can," said torn. Jak smiled and nodded his head then rubbed the back of his head, where do they start? Jakie made it known to him that she still wanted some food.

"I have no idea were to start with this, and I need to run to the store and get Jakie some food other wise she might eat her car seat," he said. They laughed and Jak went to the car and asked that some one would watch her wile he was gone. This was the first time that he would be leaving he with some one and he really didn't like the feeling of leaving her there. Snickering Keira walked up to him.

"Do you know what type of food to get her?" she asked him. She laughed more when he shook her head and reached into her diaper bag and pulled out a small jar. Jak took the jar and looked at it with a raised eyebrow.

"That? It looks like something I would find in her diaper," he said and she laughed again.

"Yes it's like this because she can't chew and its easier on her stomach, I'll feed her these both of the twins have eaten already. You owe me a jar though," she said to him. Jak nodded his head and hopped into the car and drove away. Jakie didn't like that and started to whimper. Luckily Tess was there to stop the water works.

"Daddy went to get some food for your tummy wile Keira gives you some of the stuff that he is going to get." Tess said, for a moment Jakie just looked at her and blinked.

"Jakie," called Keira. Jakie looked around her moth making an 'o'.

"Look what I got for you," she said as she showed her the jar of baby food.

("oh oh oh! What is it? What is it?!") She asked she knew that they couldn't understand her like daddy could but that was ok as long as what ever was in Keira's hand was food she didn't care. Keira popped the top off of the food and stirred it with a small spoon then put a little on it to give to Jakie if she didn't like Mac and Cheese then she would question if she was Jak's or not. Jakie already had her mouth opened and when Keira had put the food in her mouth she at it and squealed.

("Oh this is like the stuff daddy eats all the time") Jakie said promptly trying to grab the jar making most laughs. In the end Jakie ate the whole jar. She smiled sleepily as Tess put some blue socks on her feet. Tess said that she would stay out side with Jakie and Dez wile some went inside and cleaned out some of the dust.

Jakie fell asleep not long after most every one went inside, together they had removed almost all of the dust and even had a play pen for the kids set up. It was a good thing when Keira came out side to get Jakie, Tess and Dezie it was clouding up to rain. No sooner had Keira brought them in did it start to rain.

After another hour Jak came back with a few bags of food and not just baby food but other food too. He was kind of surprised when he hopped into the house to see that the front room was mostly clean. Jakie was asleep he noticed. Keira told him of what happened when she had fed her the macaroni and cheese.

Jak could only laugh at that but secretly he was sad that he hadn't been the one to feed her that for the first time. He looked at her and noticed that she was looking at him with a smile, it wasn't the kind of smile that said hello it was the smile that plainly said 'daddy I have a present for you in my diaper,' Jak shook his head and quickly changed her then put her in the play pen with the other kids.

Jakie crawled away from the other kids and sat down next to Dez who was smaller than the others and no one ever wanted to play with her but Jakie. Most of the rest of the day was filled with moving things form one place to another. There weren't a lot of things that Jak brought from his old apartment, most was discussing and he had no idea why he let Jakie live in some place like that for so long.

Jakie watched every one do things and she felt left out. Why did she have to sit in here she was a big girl right? She crawled over to were the play pen could be opened and some how managed to open it and crawl into the kitchen. She knew that Jak had brought home some more of those jars and she wanted to know what they tasted like.

Secretly she had been practicing two things, one how to say daddy and two how to walk. She hadn't gotten walking down yet but she could say daddy without much problems, maybe she would play a game with daddy when he called for her. Jak had left most of the bags of groceries on the floor. Jakie looked at them but they just weren't interesting enough for her so she crawled on keeping an ear out for when daddy started to call her.

Then a great idea hit Jakie and she giggled evilly. She noticed that the cupboards didn't have any baby locks on them so she could easily hide in one when they started to look for her. It wasn't hard for Jakie to find just the right one and crawl into it and hit having the cabinet door just barely open to let some light in.

Teagan had seen Jakie go into the kitchen and was going to fallow her but he ran into Ashlin's leg before he could get very far. He looked up and her and she looked and him and he tried to crawl as fast as he could away but she was able to grab him and put him back into the play pen.

"Any one been in the play pen lately?" she asked and she locked it back up.

"No why?" came Keira?

"Teagan got out some how," she replied.

"I thought that would be something that Jak's kid would do," laughed torn.

"Now that you mention it she's not in here," Ashlin said.

"What?" came Jak slightly alarmed.

"Nope there's no little Jak in here sorry but Teagan was heading for the kitchen," Ashlin said Keira was already in there and notice the cabinet door was slightly open but when she went to open it she could barely hear Jakie saying something that made her eyebrow rise.

"Why don't you try calling for her?" asked Keira as she came out of the kitchen pointing into it. This made Jak raise his eyebrow and he walk by the kitchen.

"Jakie?" he called you

"dad-dy" came a soft reply. Jak stopped both of his ears twitching, and a grin coming across his face. Every one who heard it was smiling Daxter gave him a thumbs up but was on the phone with some one and couldn't join in the congratulations of the first word.

"Jakie," he called again looking at Keira who pointed out the cupboard that was slightly open.

"Daddy!" she giggled she liked this game she would have to play it more often with him. Jak quietly walked over to the cupboard.

"Jakie," he called quietly.

"Daddy!" she squealed thinking that he had walked passed her but the he pulled the door open. Jakie got a surprised look on her face and she gasped loudly and Jak grabbed her out of the cabinet and carried her into the living room. She was laughing her diaper off at how fun her little game had been.

Every one was happy to know that Jakie was well on her way to being a carbon copy of her father but Jak wasn't sure what was going on he saw Tess and Daxter out side looking a bit unhappy. He frowned at this he had never liked it when Dax was unhappy and to be honest living in this house with out him was going to be a tough thing.

"What's up?" Jak said as he walked out side to talk to them. Tess looked at him with tear stained eyes.

"We lost our apartment and now we need to find some place to go until we can get another place but I don't know if that will be possible seeing as people thing we are just animals," Tess whimpered. Well this just made things for Jak and he smiled.

"I'll take you guys to get your stuff and you guys can live with me and Jakie, and you wont owe rent or any thing, and you can just not worry about moving into some other place because you both know as well as I do that you'll be back here, Dax and I don't split up that easily," Jak said Tess laughed and Daxter smiled.

"Daddy!" Jakie called from the door.

"Da!" came Dez.

"Oh no, precursors have mercy on the world!" said Tess as she started laughing and pointing at the door. There standing in the doorway was both Jaklin and Dez. Dez was hanging onto Jaklin's shirt the perfect image of their father and both Jak and Daxter started to laugh. It wasn't hard to tell that they were going to be just like their fathers, Tess took a picture of it and Jak put them both back in the pen.

"Stay in here this time or your not going to get any of the food daddy bought you," this made Jakie gasp in horror, putting her little hands over her mouth. Every one stayed until late in the night. Dez was finally able to at least say dada and did so for an hour before she fell asleep. Jakie of course was the last baby to fall asleep and that is when every one decided that it was high time they split.

Jak was a little apprehensive about making Jaklin sleep in a room by herself but Tess had said that it would be better for when she was older. Jak sighed and crawled into his new bed he spent a lot of money today and he didn't even want to know the dent in his bank account. How ever every orb was worth it.