Chapter 16

Sugar Rush

Jak woke up the next morning alone in bed. He looked around for Jaklin but couldn't find her in their room. Jak couldn't even feel her eco pulse. Something told Jak that today was going to be a long day. It didn't take long for Jak to figure out where Jaklin was, the sound of something shattering was heard in the other room.

Jak got up and walked out into the kitchen, the sight he saw made his eyebrow start twitching. Sugar was every where on the floor along with a lot of soda. Jak slapped himself in the face, he hadn't really given Jaklin any sugary things before and last night he had given her both cake with icing and soda.

"Oh my god," Jak said as he realized what he might have just done to the world. He had no idea what Jaklin was like when she is hyper. He could feel her eco pulse now and it was fast and irregular. Jak has always been able to feel other peoples eco pulses it went along with their heart beat most of the time but some times it didn't.

Jak crouched down and leaned against the island counter that was bolted in the middle of the kitchen floor. He looked around one of the corners. There was nothing but the sugar and soda mess on the floor. He looked over on the other side and saw at the other end of the island was a small purple foot with the big toe popping out of it.

'Time to get new pjs, haven't really had time to take her shopping for new clothes, she's gotten so big.' Jak thought and he crawled quietly up to her. Just then he felt something odd. He could feel blue eco near the door of the kitchen behind him but yet the same eco right in front of here where Jaklin was. Jak moved his hand to grab her but two things happened. Jaklin's eco pulse fluxed and she blinked.

Jak knew what it was that he was feeling and knew now how Jaklin was able to blink. Jak turned around and looked at her with a smile. Jak wandered if he could do it as well, he had the concept of it he just needed to try it. From the feel of the place every one have left to do what ever it was that they had planned for the day. Maybe he could convince Jaklin to teach him some of her tricks.

Jaklin gave Jak the cutest smile she could muster to get herself out of trouble. She knew from the look on his face that he had figured out how it was that she was able to blink. Her cute smile turned into a slightly evil smile when Jak laid on the floor and wiggled his finger at her telling her to come to him.

("So daddy wants me over there?") she said in her baby babble even though her vocabulary was picking up quickly. She gave a small evil little laugh that made Jak worry about what he might have gotten himself into. Jaklin would be one foe that he knew he would never be able to defeat.

Jak felt the familiar displacement of blue eco right in front of him. Then Jaklin disappeared again but this time she didn't reappear right in front of him and the displacement was gone as well. Jak looked around and was about ready to get up when something hit him in the back hard sending a small shock wave of dark eco threw him.

'Did she just try to dark bomb us?' asked Jak's dark side. Jak blinked for a moment and reached behind him and grabbed Jaklin. She had knocked the wind right out of him when she had done that and the release of dark eco didn't help at all either. Jak rolled over onto his back and held Jaklin on his stomach.

At fist Jaklin was giggling a little but once she realized that Jak wasn't breathing right she stopped and stared at him. Her tiny little green eyebrows furrowed as she looked at him. Jak knew better than to chastise her about hurting him like that. He knew from last time that she had accidentally hurt him not to say anything about being hurt she would let him put her down just so she could make sure he was ok.

It was to late Jak had taken to much time to think about what happened last time, she started to cry but no matter how many times Jak told her that he was ok she wouldn't let him put her down. Thankfully for Jak that didn't last very long as Jaklin was hit with a major sugar rush. Later on Jak would call it the sugar rush from hell.

Jak chased Jaklin down the hall and to their room, Jaklin crawled under the bed, Jak hadn't been that far behind her saw that she had hidden herself under the bed. Jak's cell started to ring and he heard Jaklin's sad sigh from under the bed, she was having so much fun and didn't want to stop now. Jak smiled and turned his cell off so that he and Jaklin could keep playing it was just the two of the for the moment and he wanted to make it last. Jak got down on his hands and knees and crawled over to where her face would be. He grabbed the edge of the blanket and pulled it up.

"Boo!" he said to her making her scream a little, Jak gave her his trade mark grin as he reached his hand under the bed more slowly than what he normally would have. He know Jaklin was on a sugar high and it would be easier if he just chased her around the place for a while and wore her out.

"You cant get away from me" he said with a weird voice that he only used when he was playing with her. Usually it was the same voice that he gave the rubber ducky when she was in the bath tub. Jaklin crinkled her nose at Jak and zipped out from under the bed and raced down the hall way screaming like most little kids do.

Jak got up and chased her around the couch, threw the kitchen and down the hall to the garage. Jak knew that she was inside it, he really didn't want her in there. Jak opened the door and walked in. he slowly looked around and crept quietly. He was hoping that he could catch her off guard.

"Jaklin," Jak called out to her.

"Be careful Jaklin I don't want you to get hurt," Jak called out to her. Jaklin knocked something over a canister of something that made Jaklin run over to Jak and hide behind his leg. She whined a little and pointed to it and hid her face. Jak walked over and looked at it.

"Eco Neutralizer" Jak read out loud. He didn't like the sound of that, and when he reached up to place it back he couldn't even hold on to if for more than a few minutes. Jak grabbed Jaklin and moved her away from it. Now that Jaklin could walk and get into places that she shouldn't he worried that if the stuff acted like it did with him then what would it do to her and her tiny little body? Jak shook his head he would talk to Keira about it later. Jak walked out of the room and locked the door behind him.

"Ok hot shot, any room but that one its not safe with that stuff in there." he said to her, Jak was still trying to shake the feeling of the neutralizer off of him. He prayed that he didn't get any one him. Jaklin started blinking every where she could making Jak chace her around the entire place. Jak had to give her credit though she was wearing him out real good. Thankfully he knew that she would sleep well tonight, Jaklin managed to get herself caught by Jak three times. the first time was an accident when she blinked on to his foot. After the last time he caught her he thought that it might be time to eat something, he sat her down on the couch and gave her a juice box. Jaklin gasped suddenly and put her hands on her mouth. Jak wandered what it was that had made her do that and watched as she started to run.

He fallowed her and she lead him right to the bathroom where she managed to get her pj bottoms off. Jak stopped and bit his lip to keep him from saying anything, he had no idea if Jaklin could tell when he used one of his eco powers but he decided to try and use his invisibility. Unfortunately Jaklin could and it helped her learn just how to do that.

Jak watched as Jaklin fiddled with her diaper for a while she was finally able to pull the straps off of it and she threw it in the trash. Jak smiled Teagan, Kyle and Kendra all just left them lying on the floor when they were being potty trained. Jaklin was so small her chin could rest on the toilet seat how was she going to get up there.

Jaklin stood with her nose crinkled thinking of a way to get up on to the toilet seat so she could go potty she didn't want to have to be made fun of anymore by Kendra. Teagan had told her to take her time with things like that because it would make her daddy sad. Jaklin had asked him why her daddy would be sad and he had told her that it would be because she was growing up and relying on him less.

"Come on baby you can do it," Jak said under his breath. In his heart Jak didn't want her to, but that would mean that he wouldn't have to change another diaper again. No more diapers he knew that he would miss it soon Jak was lost in his own thoughts. Jaklin felt what Teagan meant about using the potty and she started to cry.

At hearing Jaklin crying Jak snapped out of his thoughts and looked at her. She had taken so much time thinking about what to do that she had peed on the floor. Jak picked her up and put her in the shower and washed her off real quick then put some clean clothes on her. He smiled at her, he wasn't going to force her to do it she could do it on her own time.

"Let me know when you need to go potty and I will help you up there so you don't potty on the floor," Jak said to her with a smile. Jaklin just looked at him for a moment the look on her face was a sad one she didn't know if she was ready to be potty trained or not. Jak ran his hand over her wet hair.

"When your ready Jaklin, when your ready." he said to her putting her down on the floor after he hugged her. Jak wished he could have more days with her like this. The racing season what going to pick up after this week until Halloween. It was a holiday so they would have that off. that's when it hit him, he could take her trick or treating this year and he wandered what she wanted to go as.

"Jaklin what do you want to go as for Halloween?" he asked her and his answer was a great big grin from her.

"Daddy!" she cheered. He couldn't help but smile it wouldn't be that hard for him to make her look just like him. Jaklin took off running down the hall again screaming her head off. Jak started to count then took off after her. He walked down the hall and saw her disappear around the corner and back into the large area that most have called home for the last two and a half months.

Jak looked every where but he couldn't find her. He looked in the kitchen, the cabinets, the bathrooms, the living room but no matter where he looked he couldn't find her. Jak could still feel her eco pulse and thankfully it had leveled out. He would keep monitoring it more carefully to make sure that the neutralizer didn't get on her when she knocked the canister over.

There was a sudden spike in her eco pulse, then with in a few minutes Jaklin started to cry. Jak fallowed the sound of her crying, he found her in the bathroom in their room sitting on the floor covered in vomit. Jak sighed and looked down at her as she looked up at him. Jak just shook his head he felt another spike and knew that she was going throw up. He quickly picked her up and held her over the toilet while she started to throw up. He rubbed her back while she was still throwing up. Eventually she stopped and only whimpered.

Jak realized that the two of them had spent all day running around the place. Jak stripped Jaklin of her pjs and put her in a warm bath. He knew why it was that she had gotten sick, all that sugar and soda that she had eaten while he was asleep. She looked at him as he washed her face and neck. He could tell that she was slightly embarrassed about it and she felt sick still.

"I guess you wont be eating that much sugar again will you?" Jak asked her and she shook her head and almost fell backwards in the bath tub. Jak gave Jaklin some toys to play with but she just looked at them and threw them back out of the tub. Jak took that as a hint that she was far to tired to play. Jak picked her up out of the bath tub and wrapped her in a towel she laid her head on his shoulder. He would try to keep her awake for a few more hours so that she would sleep good that night.

Jak smiled at her as he dressed her again into some pjs he frowned as he realized that they were going to have to go shopping soon which meant that he was going to have to save some of his winning money this coming up next race for the task. He knew that Keira was going to be pissed because he was really the only person that was giving her money to fix the cars with.

Speaking of Keira she had just entered the main room and Jak knew he was going to have to talk to her about the stuff that was in the garage she was more than likely going to get mad at him telling him that she needed the stuff for something but that shit was dangerous and it could kill not only kill one of the kids but any one of them. The eco neutralizer would go threw the entire body and destroy any eco there was it was said that it was the most painful thing to go through.

Jak sighed and went to put Jaklin down but she had a death grip on him. He checked her and her eco pulse was normal. He looked at her and all he could see in her eyes was the fact that she just wanted him to hold her for as long as he could. She snuggled as close to him as she could get.

Dinner was nothing special as usual but that didn't make a difference Jak had managed to get Jaklin to let him go for a few minutes so that he could talk to Keira and as Jak had thought Keira got mad at him saying that he was snooping around in her personal stuff. Jak had told her that if she didn't get rid of it her would call a haz-mat team to come and get it. It was to dangerous to have around the kids. He the scared the shit out of her by asking her what would she do if one of the kids got it on them it would kill them almost instantly.

Jaklin had been crying ever since Jak had put her down. Tess had come over to her to see what was wrong. She noticed that Jaklin was running a high fever and looked a little paler than she normally did. Tess tried every thing to get her to stop but it didn't work. Jak walked back in and picked Jaklin back up who tried to hide in his jacket. Jak noticed Tess had a thermometer all she did was indicate that she was going to check Jaklin's temperature.

Jak knelt down so that Tess could stick the thermometer in her ear and check it. It was one-hundred-one point five. Jak took Jaklin into their room and laid her down on the bed. He looked at her from head to toe hoping that the neutralizer didn't get onto her. He hoped that it was just the flu.

Jak took Jaklin to bed and gave her a fever reducer so that she could sleep. He waited for her to fall asleep before he joined every one else in the living area. Keira had just come back from disposing of the eco neutralizer but said nothing to Jak. She didn't want him even more mad at her. Kendra was pissed about all that was happening and the fact that she knew it was all Jaklin's fault. She needed to get rid of her fast and she knew just the thing to do it with.