Chapter 11 - Tricked
Jaklin woke up early to Jak snoring loudly, she looked at him and wandered if she should do something to wake him up or just leave the room so he could sleep a few extra minutes so that she could get a head start on causing trouble. ever since her little adventure with the metal head she had gotten in the knack of finding trouble no matter how hard she tried to be good.
Getting into trouble like this all the time had earned her, her fathers name Jak. It wasn't to long after that, that Dez joined in all of Jaklin's fun. Often she was found clinging to the back of Jaklin's shirt it was to cute and they quickly took after their fathers. Jaklin had started to teach Dez a lot of things.
"Daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy!" screamed Dez at the top of her lungs as Jaklin opened the bed room door. Jaklin quickly looked back to see Jak roll over and hug the pillow as if she was still there. Jaklin had gotten smart and would cuddle with a pillow while she was asleep and would get up and daddy would think that it was her and would stay asleep for at least and hour.
Jaklin giggled and toddled out of the room and down the hall making sure to shut the door. Jaklin wandered what she was going to do for the day there was so many things that she could do it wasn't funny. Maybe today she would play a prank on daddy if he didn't drive in his fast car.
("Dezie!") Jaklin called out to her first best friend. They decided that they were cousins because their fathers though different were brothers so that made them cousins. Jaklin got tired of walking and started to crawl. On time Dez fell off the counter and onto Jaklin's back. Tess smiled and laughed at the girls antics.
("What are we doing to day Jakie?") Dez asked happily.
("Dez?") Jaklin asked her friend.
("Yes?") she asked back.
("Your too damn cheery in the morning") Jaklin said to her friend making her laugh.
Not far away Kendra could be seen plotting against Jaklin and her friend. She knew that it had to cause bodily harm to her. Kendra thought that if Jaklin looked weak Jak would get rid of her and then fall in love with her mommy.
Jaklin and Dez went back to the island counter were Tess was making breakfast. Jaklin stood on her tippy toes and Dez stood on her head as they tried to steal some food but it was so obvious at what they were trying to do. Tess laughed at them, it was cute to see the two of them working together like that.
"What can I do for you two?" Tess asked.
"Ookie!" Dez said giving her the puppy dog eyes. Tess had to laugh at her look it was cute but she knew that it only worked on one person. Daxter could not resist Dez's puppy eyes, so naturally Dez was spoiled. Then again now that Tess thought about it, it was Jaklin who taught Dez that look because it worked so well on Jak.
"Its not even lunch time yet silly you cant have any cookies" she laughed. Dez pouted and looked down at Jaklin who only looked at her with a blank stare. She was planning something and Tess knew it. She would just have to catch her in the act.
Kendra came around the corner and looked at Jaklin with an evil smile. Jaklin looked at her but ignored her. Kendra had placed one of her favorite toys onto her daddy's car, hopefully she could get Jaklin to get onto the car and die when her father went to race. She hoped that it would work. Before Kendra had time to taunt Jaklin about the toy the adults walked in.
"Hey, there you are," Jak said to Jaklin as he picked her up then promptly held her out.
"Great holy precursors, you need a change," he said as he walked back to their room to change her diaper. Jaklin laughed all the way there. Jak struggled to get Jaklin ready for the day. He had trouble with the diaper even though Jaklin wasn't fighting with him, she didn't even fight with him when he put her in a pink dress.
Jak was tired as hell, all night he had, had nightmares all night about Jaklin getting killed. Jaklin could feel that was something wrong with Jak that's why she didn't complain about wearing the pink dress. She did however whine a bit so that Jak would pick her up. Jak and Jaklin walked back into the main room.
"You know, except for a little rash in the nether regions, I feel fine. Maybe Krew was bluffing about the whole poison thing?" Daxter was saying as Jak put Jaklin down on the floor. Jak saw Ashlin shake her head.
"I had the bottle analyzed. There was traces of Black Shade at the bottom. A rare and deadly plant found in the Wasteland. We were poisoned alright." she said angrily as she ran her fingers threw Teagan's hair. Jaklin looked at him and he knew that in a bit they would have a talk about information gathering.
"Father never cut corners. Trust me, it's the real deal." Rayn put her two cents in, Jaklin looked at her and glared a bit at her and Teagan crawled down onto the floor and sat in front of Jaklin. Kendra toddled sweetly over to the two of them intent on fooling the other in making her look like the victim of Jaklin's "violent" nature.
"Never fear… when the going gets tough… Jak will get us out of it!" Daxter chimed, at that time Daxter thought Jaklin was going to get up and step on him with the look she gave him, Daxter wasn't the only one who had noticed Jak had noticed it as well.
("I haven't come across any new info on this poison deal, nor about what Kendra is doing listening in on what we are talking about") he said as he looked at Kendra.
("I just wanted to let you know that I put little icky Dez's toy on your daddy's race car, I hope you can get to it before they race other wise its bye, bye little toy") she said mockingly. Jaklin growled at her, she knew better than to act on her anger right now she knew her dad was watching her. Dez was sad and wanted to cry.
("Don't worry we'll get your toy back,") Jaklin said.
"We're just gonna have to win the whole thing." Jak was saying to the other adults not watching as Jaklin crawled out of the room and walked down the hall to were the car were kept. Now all Jaklin had to do was find her dads car and get the toy back before they left to race.
"Against those lunatic racers out there? What are the odds?" Daxter whined out loud as Tess went to look and see what the girls were up to.
"You don't wanna know." torn said as he picked up Teagan and hugged him.
"No offense guys, but I'm not going to trust my life to anyone but me. Just stay out of my way, I'll win." Ashlin said as she went to load up in her car after she hug and kissed Teagan.
"Well, somebody here had better win, or I'm going to be very pissed… and very dead." Daxter said. Both Jak and Daxter looked to kiss the girls and tell them to be good for Tess but they couldn't find then and Jak never really liked leaving with out letting Jaklin know. He sighed and knew that he had to leave soon. He did manage to come across Keira.
"Have you see Jaklin or Dez around?" Jak asked worried that he wouldn't have time to see her before he went out to race. The only thing she could tell him was to hurry up and get into his car, normally they would check to make sure that the car was safe but he was running late already, if Jak had taken the three extra seconds to look he would have see that Jaklin was right there.
Both Jaklin and Dez's hearts jumped when the engine started and the car began to roll. There was no jumping off it was to dangerous. Jaklin was trying her best to keep her composure. She knew that Jak could still slightly feel what she was feeling and if she was afraid then he would know and get worried.
Jaklin only started to get scared when they started to go way to fast for her. Jak started to notice small sparks of fear coming from Jaklin and only could hope that whatever she was doing she was safe. It didn't take to long for the other racers to start shooting at him. Jak swerved to avoid a turret that had been laid out by one of the other drivers.
Jaklin toppled over in the bottom of the car. She was scared beyond imagination so much so that Jak could feel her freaking out. He was unable to really focus on what he was doing as he tried to send something to calm her down. The only thing that brought him back was the sound of the Vulcan Furry bouncing off the metal of his car.
'Damn it, how can I calm my own child down if I have to pay attention to what I'm doing, gods Jaklin be safe until I can help you,' Jak thought.
Jaklin grabbed onto one of the rods on the inside of the car so that she wouldn't fall out of the car and end up road kill. One of the bullets grazed Jaklin's leg and a sudden down wards motion jarred her and she smacked her head and leg. It didn't take long for some of the paneling on the car to fall off letting Jaklin see out.
Some of the metal around her was hot and burned her hands and feet a little. Jak continued to race unaware that Jaklin was right under him. A jolt of energy zapped the car. Jaklin holding onto metal could only take the shock. Dez was knocked out cold from it and Jaklin knew that if she fell off of her it would be her end.
Jaklin did the only thing she could and held onto Dez. It was hard for her to do that and on many of the turns she lost her grip and smashed into one of the panels. There were a few times that Jaklin almost fell out of the inside of the car from one the holes. More bullets and other random things.
A small spark of anger flooded Jaklin as she realized that it was Kendra who had done this on purpose to try and get her killed. Jak felt Jaklin's anger and was even more worried he hoped that she could keep her anger under control. She hadn't changed since the time with Keira but that didn't mean that she couldn't.
After several close calls to wear Jaklin got even more injuries the car finally came to a stop. Jak got out of the car and talked with the other racers and received the prize money and drove back, his intuition was telling him that something was really wrong with Jaklin. Jak pulled into the garage only to be met with a frantic Tess.
"What's up Tess?" Jak asked.
"The girls, I cant find the girls!" she said to them. Jak jumped out of the car and raced into the living area. Were Keira was with her kids, Samos had left for a few days to get out of baby duties. Jak looked around half afraid that Jaklin was in really big trouble.
Jaklin could feel that Jak knew she was missing and that she was more than likely in big trouble. She could feel that he was scared, like when she killed that thingy that had the big shiny on its head. Jaklin waited until Jak left the room so she could climb out of the car. She almost landed on her face when she toppled out of the car.
Jaklin picked up Dez who was asleep for a while Jaklin just stood their spacing out unaware that some of the injuries were bleeding pretty badly she moved a few feet then sat down on the floor she was dizzy and tired she didn't know why daddy wanted to do something like this she would never let him do it again.
"Were are the girls?" Jak asked Keira a very small a mount of fear in his voice that only Daxter and Tess heard. Keira didn't even look at him.
"I don't know they may be playing in something they shouldn't be, I haven't seen them all day" Keira said lazily.
"You didn't think that they could be hurt, or even dead, you didn't even look for them!" Jak snapped. Still Keira didn't look at them she just shrugged. Jak growled and walked off just in time to see torn and Ashlin hugging Teagan.
Mean while Jaklin managed to climb out of what was left of the car and toddle towards the exit to the garage when Jak, Tess and Daxter came storming in, they had already looked everywhere and Tess knew there was only one place left to look. Jaklin had hoped that she would at least make it to the kitchen before her father found her.
Tess had stopped putting her hands over her mouth when she saw what shape Jaklin was in. she couldn't speak, or even call out to Jak that she had found them. It was only when Daxter came looking for her did Jak know what had really happened.
"JAK!" Daxter yelled startling Jaklin into putting up a shield around her and Dez. Jaklin's eyes had glassed over as the eco inside her took control to protect her. Jak came running and stopped short when he saw Jaklin. He didn't know what to do his mind was a messed up thing of panic.
What had happened to her? Where had she been? Jak walked closer to the shield only to be zapped by a volt of dark eco but he didn't pay it no mind he laid his hand on her shield and it started to flicker, then it faded and she passed out. Jak scooped up Jaklin and pried Dez from her hands and handed her to Tess and Daxter. Nothing was really wrong with her.
"They are just like you two." Tess said as she looked over at Jaklin. Tess looked at the small trail of blood and saw that Jaklin and Dez had both been in the car. Tess knew that the girls were smart enough to not come near the cars they would have had to have been tricked in order to come in here. She saw Dez favorit toy, she walked over to the it and picked it up.
"Something else is going on here with the kids," Tess said but didn't say any thing else she just took Dez and went back into the living area with Daxter. Jak was left sitting there with Jaklin in his arms. He got put and walked straight to his room and ignored Keira when she had asked him if every thing was ok.
Jak sat down and called for light to heal Jaklin the best he could and he did so there was only a small scar on her leg were the bullit had hit her and that was it. It took and hour for her to wake up but the more Jak sat there and thought about it, the more the fear turned into anger and the more the anger built the more he started to pace around his room.
Jaklin did wake up and Jak looked at her. She just staired at him, she could see how pissed off he was and she knew that she was in trouble. Jak had noticed that Jaklin was awake but he was to pissed to say anything to her, he also didn't say anything out of fear that he would say something wrong.
'Daddy is so mad at me I bet he hates me, maybe I should try to tell him what happened, but would he believe me? I guess there's no hurt in trying maybe.' Jaklin crawled off of the bed but Jak picked her up and put her back down on the bed. Jak hadn't realized that he had done it a little roughly. So Jaklin started to cry, Jak really didn't know what was going on any more.
While Jaklin was still crying on the bed he walked out of the room and shut the door and sat down on the floor right in front of the door. Jaklin ended up crying herself to sleep that night and Jak slept right out side the door. Jaklin came up with a plan if Jak didn't listen to him she would make him.