Chapter 5- The Invitation
Jaklin had slept fine in her on room, however Jak couldn't sleep out of fear of something happening to her. Eventually he did fall asleep only to be woken up by her a few minuets later because she needed a diaper change. After Jak had changed Jaklin's diaper he looked at her and smiled. She was fine and didn't seem to be afraid of sleeping alone in her new room. He picked her up and went to put her in to the crib but this time she wouldn't let him go and so after five minuets of fighting with her he gave up and went to his room and laid down with her and finally got some sleep.
It had only been three weeks since Jak, Daxter, Tess, Jaklin, and Dez had moved into the nice little house by the lake. Everyday something new happened whether it was one of the girls doing something or some one finding something that used to be Jak's when he was a baby. Jak was grateful for moving in he now had a lot of things that he could use for Jakie. Tess swore up and down that Jakie would rather wear the clothes that used to be Jak's then her own and Jak had no problem dressing her in them even though people seemed to mistake her for a boy and not a girl.
Today however was particularly quiet. Daxter, Tess, and Dez had all gone to the city for the day leaving Jak and Jaklin to their own devices, that is not a good thing. Jak would have been doing something but Jakie had kept him up all night so naturally when Jakie fell asleep on the couch next to him he took the opportunity to catch up on some Z's himself.
("I'm bored,") Jakie complained to herself. She looked around the living room, there wasn't much for her to get in to and since daddy's asleep she had run of the whole house. Jakie crawled off of the couch landing on her butt. Her little belly grumbled so she went to her favorite room in the house, the kitchen. Jakie had learned the art of fast crawling and could zip across the carpet in no time.
Jakie was smart and knew were daddy always kept the food. Jakie mustered up the strength and pulled the fridge door open, however she realized that it wasn't going to just stay open so she looked at the bottom and noticed the crisper drawers. She pulled the left one out and let the door on the fridge go. She giggled when the door stayed open.
("Hey that is the tree things that daddy eats with all the other green stuff,") Jakie said as she reached into the crisper and pulled out the veggie. She took a big bite out of the top of it and spit it back out.
("Yuck! That's yucky stuff how dose daddy eat it? Wait daddy uses that creamy stuff,") Jakie looked in the door of the fridge and found the bottle she was looking for. After a few minuets she finally got it open and pored to not only on the veggie but all over her footie pajamas as well. After one bite with the new stuff she threw it back into the crisper and looked at what else was in the crisper.
("What's this?") she mused as she picked up a small round reddish purple vegetable. She took a bit out of it and threw it on the floor.
(" Yuck, yuck, yuck!") she exclaimed.
Sadly for Jak if he had known that in the past few days Jakie had been teething things might have been different and this disaster may not have happened.
Jaklin getting bored of the crisper looked up to the shelves. There was a lot there and some of it she had seen Tess give to Dez though daddy wouldn't give her any. She pulled one of the cups down and poked a hole in the foil top. Inside was a pink, creamy substance that tasted rather good. Jakie decided that it would be a good idea not to eat it all because thee was so much more to try.
The next thing she grabbed was a larger container of a white lumpy like food that tasted rather good to her. Soon enough a brown bottle caught her attention and she put the tub of the other stuff down however it spilled and mixed with all the other spilled things on the floor. After grabbing the brown bottle she used her new teeth to open the it.
("This stuff is sooo good!") she exclaimed. She liked it so much that that was her new thing and she drank about half of the bottle when she accidentally knocked a jar onto the floor causing it to shatter. This of course woke Jak up. He looked around only to find that Jaklin was not were she was before.
"Jaklin?" he called out to her, she didn't call back like she usually did so he started to worry. So he go up and started looking for her calling for her repeatedly. He was walking back towards the back bathroom when he heard something else break. Jak noticed that the sound came from the kitchen.
Jak walked in to the kitchen and noticed that the fridge door was opened. He walked around only to find that Jaklin was caked in all kinds of food and was busy chugging down the brown bottle. Jak slammed his palm on his forehead, he wasn't mad about Jakie, more of the mess that he would have to clean up or Tess would have his ass for it.
"Jaklin Mara!" he exclaimed at her, she turned her head and smiled at him with the bottle still in her mouth. Unfortunately for Jak he was a sucker for that smile and couldn't stay mad at her. He smiled back at her and reached down and grabbed the bottle to pull it out of her mouth. He wasn't aware of how hard he had grabbed it because the next thing he knew Jakie was covered in it.
Jak smacked himself in the head again, she laughed at him though she thought it was funny. Jak looked at her and picked her up, then put her in the kitchen sink.
"Stay there, do not move" he said sternly and he went up stairs and grabbed some more clothes and the baby soaps so he could give her a bath in the sink. He came back down stairs and noticed that he had stayed right were he had told her too. Though it looked like she was about ready to crawl off.
"You..." he said to her poking her in the belly.
"...are going to get me in big trouble and I have a big mess to pick now because of your silly little butt." Jak said making Jakie laugh more. Jak removed her old clothes and threw them away he then went to remove her diaper only to find that not only did she manage to get food in it but that it was dirty.
"Arg! A dirty diaper too, what is this make daddy clean day or something?" he asked her as he poked her again. The phone started to ring, just as Jak finished cleaning Jakie's butt. Looking at the caller id it was Keira, he sighed. Jak just let the phone ring and went back to Jaklin who was playing with the faucet.
Jak turned the water on and made sure that it wasn't to hot or cold and started to fill the sink up as Jakie splashed water every were. Jak sighed as he started to wash Jaklin who was doing her best to make sure that daddy was completely soaked before the soap was rinsed off of her.
"Jaklin please stop," Jak tiredly pleaded with her. She smiled at him and started to gnaw on the rag that Jak had let fall into the sink. Jak rolled his eyes at her.
"What's with you and putting things in your mouth lately?" he asked her as he pulled the rag out of her mouth though there was a red stain on it that he thought might be blood but he wasn't sure so he would just check it out. He put his finger in her mouth and felt around but she bit him and he pulled his finger out of her mouth.
She had bitten him hard enough to draw blood. Jak was surprised and just looked at Jakie, who looked back at him confused about what he was doing. Jak sighed and realized that Tess had said that Jaklin should start teething soon and he should watch out for it when it happened.
"You could have told me you were getting teeth silly girl," he said to her, she just laughed at him and pointed to the baby food jars that were sitting out. These ones were different Jak had wanted to try then when she got some teeth they had small chunks of food in them for her to chew on.
"Are you kidding you just ate a whole bunch and your still hungry?" he asked her. She hadn't eaten a lot lately but that was because she had a fever. He gave her a look of skepticism. He got one of the jars down and popped it open and grabbed a spoon. Jakie didn't eat just one jar she ate three!
"Great precursors are you full yet, or are you gonna eat the house?" he asked her wile he threw away all the jars. Her response to that was a big yawn and a lazy smile, this made Jak smile. Maybe just maybe he could get her to sit on the couch and fall asleep he could clean the mess up before Tess and Dax got home. He pulled some juice out of the fridge and pored a little into a bottle and then added some water and gave it to her.
Jak picked Jaklin up and was walking by the door when there was a knock at it. He stopped and opened the door but sighed inwardly when he noticed that it was Keira. Jaklin glared at her for a bit before burring her face into daddy's shirt. Jak let her in and she had a piece of paper in her hand.
"Can you hold her wile I get the play pen set up?" he asked her handing Jaklin over to her. Keira smiled and took her in her arms and held her. Know one knows why but lately Jaklin has been rather mean to Keira, so the moment that Keira had her in her arms Jaklin started to call for Jak and cry.
"Jakie what's wrong with you?" asked Jak as he looked at her wile he put the play pen together. Keira made the mistake of turning her around so that she could see her face. Jaklin wasn't very happy about the fact that Keira was holding her and decided to vomit all over her.
"Jaklin!" Jak said knowing full well that she had done it on purpose.
"Its fine Jak I'm sure she's just sick or had to much to eat, do you still have those extra clothes that I left her that one day I did laundry?" she asked oblivious to Jaklin's intents of getting rid of her.
"In the basement on the dryer," he said as he took Jaklin from Keira, the moment she was back in his arms she grabbed a fist full of his shirt and refused to be put in the play pen. Jak was slightly annoyed by this, he didn't know what was going on with her and it made him worry.
"Jaklin what the hell is wrong with you, I know you threw up on her on purpose why what did she do to you to make you act so evil?" he asked and he waited for her to say something but nothing came. He frowned and Keira came back into the room in some new clothes.
As Jak reached for it Jaklin growled this was definitely not like her at all and Jak was even more worried.
"What is wrong with you?" he asked her holding her up so he could see he face. She seemed a little pale but that was it. Keira stood silently thinking for a moment when a odd idea hit her.
"Hey Jak, I know this is a sore subject for you, but when you use dark eco do you ever get to much?" she asked.
"Like and over charge?" he asked curiously
"Yes like that, and have you picked any up lately?" she asked
"Yes, why?" he asked not sure why she was asking he these questions.
"Maybe she siphoned off the excess eco that you had and has an over charge herself?" she asked. Jak hadn't thought about that and looked back at her. He knew that she had a fever and that she had been teething lately. It wasn't just Keira she had been short with though either she had tried to push Daxter off of the couch the other day.
"I didn't think about that I know that she has been teething, so she's not getting a lot of sleep with a fever," he mused knowing that he himself had problems with the dark eco when there was a lack of sleep. Keira reached her hand out to run her fingers over Jaklin's head but immediately pulled her hand away when she snarled and several small volts of dark eco crackled over her.
Jak stopped for a bit and looked at Jaklin with an odd look.
"Something wrong?" asked Keira
"The dark eco, it feels different, normally it has a slight sting but this is different" he said not sure of what to make of it. Was it because of that forbidden eco that she had in her or was it because he was immune to her eco? He wasn't sure but he might ask Kas the next time he is on the planet.
Jak sighed he knew what he needed to do, he needed to force Jaklin in to her dark eco form and hope that it would drain the excess eco out of her system. Jak took his free hand and pulled Jaklin's hands off of her shirt and sat her in the play pen were she looked at him begging him to hold her again.
"What are you doing Jak?" asked Keira who didn't know what he had planned.
"I'm don't have a choice in making her go dark, I don't want to do this but I don't want to think of what could happen if she went dark and we weren't home." he said. It hurt him to leave her there in the play pen crying he knew she wasn't feeling well and that all she wanted was daddy but she needed to get rid of some of the eco in her.
Jak moved close to Keira knowing that for some reason Jaklin didn't like her all that much. Jaklin kept crying she didn't understand why daddy didn't want to hold her, was it because the mechanic was here? Or was daddy mad about the food in the big white box? She didn't get time to really think about it because she threw up again.
'She's not going to go dark any time soon,' came his own darkness.
'What makes you think that?' asked Jak
'Because she doesn't know who to and the only way is for us to show her how, that means that you would have to let me out wile holding her,' he said Jak was iffy about that but if that was the only way then he would do it for her sake.
"I need you to stay here wile I take her down into the basement" Jak said to her as he picked up a vomit covered Jaklin and headed for the basement. There was a room in the basement that was eco proof and that's were he went to let dark out so he didn't go mad. Jak shivered when he walked into the room and locked the door. No matter how hard he tried nothing he thought of could cause him to generate the hate he needed to let out the darkness in himself, that was until the light said something.
'Why don't you try to think that some one its going to take Jaklin?' he asked. The moment that thought crossed his mind he was dark and looking around the room to make sure that no one was really there to take her away. He as crouched low to the ground Jaklin bit him hard in the arm and he almost dropped her on the ground.
Jaklin started to thrash around in his arms needing to be let down. Jak put her down only after he realized that she was doing some damage to him. Once she was on the floor she looked around the room and then at him. She hissed at him and dark hissed back at her, she scrunched up her nose and swiped at him but it was easily dodged by him. she still couldn't walk so she just ended up falling over and watched Jak threw squinted, black eyes.
It took about an hour but finally Jaklin passed out from the eco use. She was going to be so sore tomarrow meaning that there was no hope in doing anything. All she was going to want is for daddy to hold her and would cry until she either passed out or he picked her up. Jak picked up Jaklin and walked up staires most of the cuts and bites were already healed but the blood stains on his clothes were still there. He'd have to change into some of the new clothes that he bought yesterday.
"Wow looks like she did a number on you, I'm really going to hate to see what she would be like when she is older," said Keira with a somber tone. All Jak could do was nodd his head. The very thought of an older Jaklin that was more powerful than himself scared the hell out of him. He went to put her back in the play pen but he couldn't put her down just yet. He felt bad about forcing her to go into her dark form he had prayed that she didn't have it. He still had that mess in the kitchen he needed to clean up and he didn't know if he was going to get to it or not.
Finally knowing that Daxter and Tess would be back soon he laid her down in the play pen and walking into the kitchen with Keira and he started to clean up the mess and he told her what had happened and what had caused the mess and how much Jaklin had eaten. Keira only smiled and told Jak that she more than likely was going to go threw a groth spurt soon. Jak thought about that as he finished cleaning up the mess on the floor, he didn't want Jakie to get any bigger because he wouldn't be able to carry her around any more.
"So, I tried calling you but you didn't answer so I had to come out here," she said.
"For what?" Jak asked
"An invitation to go to the hearing of Krew's will, the letter was addressed to us all and said that the on who sent it was his daughter Rayne." she said holding out the letter to Jak. Jak took the letter and read it with a raised eyebrow. This was curious indeed but he couldn't go he had Jaklin to worry about and he wouldn't leave her at a babysitters because that would run the risk of her going dark because daddy wasn't there.
"Is any one going to watch the kids or is every one supposed to go?" he asked her.
"Every one is bringing their kids with them because there is no one to watch them, it should be a go hear the will and come home" she said but Jak knew that this was going to go bad and he didn't want any of the kids in any danger but there wasn't much choice in it was there?
Who knows maybe he would get something good out of it. Krew had been a BIG crime lord so maybe he got a new toy or something. With nothing else to go on he planned for the four of them to go to the will reading he just hopped that Jaklin wasn't sick any more because things were going to get weird. Jak's ability to preserve things had been much stronger now that Jaklin was in his life. He just prayed that nothing bad would happen wile they were there.