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Thank you to Liz for reviewing the last chapter. I know it's taking me forever to update, I've been really busy with my other fics, as well as my other Jak and Daxter fics such as Red Twilight. If you guys have a chance, I'd really love it if you could check it out.

00000-shows the end of the flashback from the last chapter. Damn this flashback as been long!

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Jinx opened his eyes to see the ceiling of his bedroom. He wanted to sit up and take a look around but the sudden pain of all of the trauma he had been through shot through him, changing his mind. All of Jinx's limbs hurt, and his face alone was throbbing. He began to bring up his right hand to touch it when a cold cloth moved over his left eye.

"What the?"

"So you're awake," Krane's voice answered.

With a bit of strain, Jinx managed to sit himself up. The pain in his stomach lessened from what it had been before, now just feeling as if he had pulled the muscles around his stomach. He grabbed the cloth Krane had put on his face and moved it back over his left eye, which hurt more then the other.

"How are you feeling?" Krane asked.

"Like shit," Jinx answered with his trademark grin.

Krane twitched. "Well whatever, as long as you're feeling better then you were earlier."

"How are you?"

"Fine," she answered. "The Shadow gave me some Green Eco and healed by wounds right away. Too bad there wasn't enough to take all of the pain out of your wounds."

Jinx twitched from her comment this time. She looked away from him for a moment, and began to stand up when he reached out and grabbed her hand, pulling her back down on to the bed.

"What?" she asked.

Jinx sighed. "I just wanted to say thanks for what you did."

"It wasn't really anything." Krane shrugged. "It's just something to do in the daily route of taking care of you."

"Thanks for that too." Jinx looked away from her. "Ya know I've never had anyone else that's done that for me."

"You let me live here," Krane answered with a slight giggle. "Cleaning this place is the least I could do."

"Lemme tell ya something," Jinx moved closer towards Krane, "how 'bout I do the food shopping from now on as long as you cook the food."

"It's a deal," Krane answered, smiling at the end of her sentence. "After all the first night you cooked when I came here, I threw up."

"Fine!" Jinx looked away, a slight blush crossing his face. "Cook from now on! I hate cookin' anyways!"

"Then it works out for the both of us," Krane answered, shaking her head. "Now why don't you lie back down and try to relax before dinner's ready?"

"Fine."

Jinx fell back into his bed and began to relax when he felt Krane throw another wet towel on his face. Instead of taking the cloth off at first, Jinx left it on, and found himself laughing as he heard Krane walk out of the room.

As he finally removed the cloth away from his face, and found himself looking up at the ceiling, he began to think. The ceiling that was looking down at him was the ceiling that Slain had placed over his head and yet before Krane came, this place was just somewhere that kept the rain off of his body. But now this place was no longer a place to keep the rain off of him, it was a home. A home that would now keep him warm during a rainstorm, instead of just protecting him from the rain.

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"And that's what happened!" Jinx finished. "Great story 'eh?"

"I love that story," Tess said as she petted Daxter until he began to purr.

"Yup!" Jinx leaned back onto his chair. "That was the day I fell in love wit' her!"

Daxter turned to Tess. "We need a story like that baby."

"Don't worry," Tess said gently. "We'll have a story like that to tell."

"Sounds like you really…love her," Jak said, looking back towards the bar.

"I know, I know," Jinx said, taking his cigar out of his mouth. "Now I've just to put the moves on her tomorrow'a and we'll see how things go from there!"

Night had finally fallen onto Haven City and instead of being home with Jinx; Krane stood at the Constriction Site, looking for Overture's body. The new Krimzon Guard had taken the body of the Baron but the body of Overture was missing.

Where the hell could he have gone? Krane thought. Did they take his body as well? Shit now I have to go to the damn morgue.

With a deep sigh, Krane looked up towards the night sky. She didn't know if she wanted to go home, or just stay in this world with Jinx. Her feelings were spilt down the middle as she thought about it but as she let her mind wander; she remembered how Jak and Keira hadn't kissed.

She closed her eyes. This timeline has suffered from me being here. If anything, I should leave before something worse happens. Overture…you fought to keep this timeline straight, and I'll be dammed if I screw it up.

And that was it. Krane had finally made up her mind about what she was going to do, and there was nothing that was going to change her mind once more. This was the way things were going to be, and nothing would get in her way. Her mission would finally end, and she would finally be home where she belonged.

The next day had been a long day for Jinx and Krane. They had been on their date all day long, which consisted of walking around, talking and eating at random places. Jinx stayed away from the Hip Hog, fearing that he would tormented by the other regulars at the bar. The strange thing was that the two were together but they never said anything about what they really wanted to talk about: the love for one another.

Growing bored of walking around; Jinx finally managed to grab a zoomer and drove off towards Haven Forest. Once they walked in, Jinx took Krane over to the platform where one of the gears had been Jak needed to gather, back in the start of his adventure. Once they stood on the platform, Jinx walked over to the edge and sat down.

"Why did we come here?" Krane asked, placing her hands on her hips. "I thought you were taking me to—"

"This is the place," Jinx answered, not bothering to turn around to her. "We just gotta wait until night comes!"

"That's going to be forever," Krane said with a twitch.

"So? We've got forever don't we?"

Krane hung her head at that comment. She had no idea how much longer she was going to stay in this world, even though a large part of her wanted to go home right at the moment. Shaking her head, she walked over towards Jinx.

"Do you miss your sister?" Krane asked, sitting down beside Jinx.

"Yeah." He nodded. "It's been a few years since she died but hey, everythin' always feels better with another day going by. Have you ever lost anyone?"

"Once," she answered, looking up towards the sky. "An old childhood friend named Ryan. He moved away when I was younger but a while after he left I found out that he died."

"Always hurts." He sighed loudly. "Ya know what worries me?"

"What?" she asked, looking towards him.

"I've got a bad feeling 'bout somethin'. I don't know what it is, but I've got this really bad feeling that somethin' is gonna happen soon," he answered, staring up towards the sky with a serious look on his face.

Without saying anything else, Jinx stood up as the sun began to set in front of him. The warm light hit the two of them, making the edges of their clothing glow brightly, and making Jinx's eyes stand out more to Krane.

"Hey," she began, "what did you mean that you would straighten the ocean out for me?"

"Sig told you that?" he asked, the serious look still on his face.

"Yeah."

"It means that I would straighten out the ocean so I could see you on the opposite shore," he answered, causing a bright blush to cross Krane's face. "I said it when I thought you were going to leave."

Krane turned her head away from him. "You're such an idiot!"

"Why!?" Jinx yelled, now facing her.

"Because you are!" Krane stood up. "I'm going somewhere else! Come if you want!"

Jinx turned around as Krane walked away, the same way he had come with her before. With a heavy sigh he followed her, shoving his hands down into his pockets.

Meanwhile, Ashelin and Torn were standing in front of a large table that moved down the middle of the large room they were in. In each of the chairs were the council members, Veger being at the very end of the table with a large book in his hands. Ashelin moved towards Torn, only have him to move away, and look towards Veger.

"So Ashelin, you are now the Governor of Haven City, what are your plans?" Veger asked, lacing his fingers together in front of his face.

"Commander Torn and I are going to start a new type of guard," Ashelin explained. "We want to start the Freedom League."

"Very good," Veger said with a nod of his head. "But remember, we still have to clean up the city. Is Torn such a good choice for a Commander? After all, he does have past with the Krimzon Guard."

"Such as?" Ashelin asked, raising her right eyebrow.

"Don't say anything!" Torn hissed. "That has nothing to do with what we're doing now!"

"Oh it doesn't?" Veger laughed. "When Torn was much younger he was found to have illegal amounts of Eco in his possession, when the guards entered to removed the Eco, he put up a fight."

"Shut up!" Torn yelled, clenching his fists together.

"The fight ended with the death of his daughter," Veger finished with a sick grin.

Ashelin looked towards Torn in shock. "You had a daughter?"

"That's none of your business!" Torn barked towards Ashelin. "This has nothing to do with what's going on! I've been assigned Commander, and if you don't approve I will prove myself through this year!"

Veger sighed a bit. "We can arrange that. Torn, through out this year you will be monitored. But remember, one little slip up and you'll be demoted down to a Private."

"Fine," Torn spat.

Torn then turned his back on Veger and the rest of the council and walked out of the room without another word. Ashelin walked after him, somewhat angry that he hadn't told any of this. After all, she had to know of his past before she hired him but he hadn't told her anything like this.

As they walked into a long hallway and were alone, Ashelin caught up to Torn, and grabbed his right wrist. Torn stopped in his tracks when he felt Ashelin's hand on his, but he did not turn to face her.

"Why didn't you tell me about your child?" she asked in a low, gentle tone.

"You didn't need to know," he answered coldly.

"I'd like to," she admitted, releasing his wrist.

"It's nothing." He shook his head slowly. "It doesn't matter, my child is gone now. She's dead."

"I'm sorry." Ashelin looked down towards the red carpet. "How old…was she when she died?"

"Five," he whispered. "She was five years old."

He couldn't take talking about it anymore. It was something that only he and Jinx discussed in private, and he didn't want to hear anything more about it. With nothing more to say, Torn walked forward, leaving Ashelin behind to wonder about what else Torn was hiding from her. The one question she couldn't help but wonder and wouldn't stop lingering in her mind was who had Torn had a child with? And where was this woman?

Jinx and Krane were now sitting underneath the tree where Samos had looked at the Life Seed, and where she and Jak had to defend the older man. They weren't saying another to one another while the sun above died, and the moon came to life. Krane looked up towards the large Haven City moon and finally let out a low sigh.

"Hey Jinx, about what you said earlier," she said gently, "I just wanted to tell you that I am sorry."

"For what?"

She moved her knees up to her chest and rested her chin on her knees. "When you told me that you loved me, I had no right to react the way I did."

He shrugged. "Nothin' big! I'll get over something stupid like that."

"You don't need to."

He looked towards her, only to find her staring off into the distance. "Why not?"

She took a big breath inwards as she prepared to spill her feelings. How she had allowed this to happen she didn't understand. "Because I think I love you too."

"Ya think?" he asked, trying to play off the blush rapidly crossing his face.

"No," she answered with a laugh. "I know. I love you Jinx."

He moved away from her, sticking his nose in the air. "You already know how I feel 'bout you so I don't have'a say anythin'!"

"Don't then."

"What?" He moved his face to look at her.

"Don't tell me if you don't want to," she said. "I know that you love me no matter what you say right now."

"How do ya know that?"

"Because," she turned to him, "you're blushing."

"Dat ain't nothin'!" Jinx moved his right leg up to his chest and moved out his left one as he once again turned his head away from hers. "It's just hot out here!"

"Alright then." Krane moved her legs away from Jinx. "Don't say it back to me. I know you love me and that's all that matters to me."

It was strange for Jinx to have her actually say it back to him. He didn't want to believe that she was really saying it to his face without being pressured at all, but then a small tinge inside of him told him to believe it, no matter what the other part of him said. For an entire year Jinx kept his love a secret and wished for her to say it to him once just once. But now she had said it…and Jinx didn't know how to react to it.

"What was romance to you when you were younger Jinx?" Krane asked.

"I don't know." He shrugged. "Why?"

"Because when I was young I wanted my first love to be something I sacrificed for," she answered. "There have been people I've fallen in love with, but they really don't love me like I loved them. But if you're willing," she moved against Jinx's arm, "I'll give up something for this love."

"What?" he asked, moving towards her as well.

"I'm willing to sacrifice my heart to you," she whispered. "But remember, if this doesn't work out, you have to promise to give it back."

Jinx's heart slammed against his ribcage as his heartbeat created a loud boom within his ears every time it pumped. He had always thought that he was going to be the dominant one in this relationship he had been thinking about but Krane was overpowering him. She did all of the talking, and did all of the pushing so far, and Jinx, no matter how much he lied it, found it growing a bit…tiring. He had to prove that he was going to be the dominant one, no matter what.

"Hey Krane," Jinx said, looking down towards her.

"What?"

Jinx moved his face down towards Krane's, closing his eyes as he moved downwards. Krane blushed as Jinx's face came down but decided that now was better then any other time to do this because of the short time she had left here. Their lips finally met, and softly pushed against one another until Krane pushed a bit harder against Jinx. Wanting to prove that he had something to offer as well, Jinx moved his hand to the back of her head, pushing harder into the kiss.

The competitiveness of their first kiss stopped after a few seconds, and the kiss became gentle once more. It was then, through their kissing, that Jinx felt something strange, it was almost as if words were behind the kiss, like Krane was thinking about something.

I'm leaving.

Those words ran through Jinx's head and made him pull away. Wondering what was wrong, Krane looked up at him, and blinked.

"Something wrong?" she asked.

"No." He blinked and looked away from her. "It's nothin', come on, let's get back to dat place over on the other side."

"Why?"

"You wanna see the stars don't ya?"

"Yeah."

Jinx stood. "Well then come on! We gotta be there to see 'em!"

Jinx and Krane walked back to where they had first been and sat down the same way they had before, only this time, the stars shined down on them along with the large full moon. They sat there in silence, looking up towards the sky when Krane moved backwards, resting her weight on her hands.

"Here are my rainy melodies, here are the songs I listened while the rain pounded down beside me as I waited for you to return," Krane whispered with a slight melody in her voice.

"What?" Jinx asked, looking back towards her.

Krane closed her eyes. "It's just a song. A song someone back home wrote."

"What's it 'bout?"

"The stars," Krane answered as she laid down on her back. "My missing you is unbearable and I pray to see your face while I sleep. I want to hear my name whispered on your lips once more." she whispered.

"Doesn't sound like it," Jinx said, looking away from Krane once more.

Back home. The feeling he had gotten when they had kissed was returning to him once more. What if she did go home? What would happen? He didn't know what he would do if Krane just picked up and left one day. Especially after everything that had just taken place as such a quick rate.

"I don't know, I didn't title it," Krane answered, breaking Jinx out of his thought.

They silenced once more, allowing the noises of the nearby waterfall to take over their conversation. With a deep sigh ripping through the night, Jinx finally found something new to talk about.

"So did ya hear that Torn is gonna be the new Commander for the new Krimzon Guard?" Jinx asked.

"Yeah."

"He's gonna call it the Freedom League ya know."

"He could have come up with a better name at least," Krane answered with a laugh. "But it doesn't matter, he'll run it well. Are you gonna be in the guard this time?"

"Maybe as a demolition expert," Jinx said with grin.

"Good. You need something to do that will get you outta the house," Krane said with a grin.

"Ya know you like me in the house all the time."

"Only at night."

"Can I ask you somethin'?" Jinx finally asked.

"What?" she answered with a light sigh.

Jinx paused for a moment. "Are we goin' out now?"

"I guess."

Jinx turned to Krane with a look of shock on his face. "What!? You're just gonna sit there and tell me that!?"

Krane sighed once more. "I don't want to make any more decisions Jinx, every time I do they turn out wrong."

"Are you sayin' this will turn out wrong?"

"No," she answered as she shook her head. "This is going to be the last big decision I'm going to make for a while. Jinx, I wanna be your girlfriend."

His trademark grin returned. "Good cause I wasn't gonna take no for an answer."

With that finally set into place, Krane sat up and moved over towards Jinx. She grabbed his hand, and laced her fingers with his as she moved her head against his shoulder. His grin faded as he moved against her as well, but returned once she rested her head on his shoulder.

Jinx was right. This place was the perfect spot to see the stars above, as well as the bright shining moon. But even though the moon made them feel so alone and like things were finally begin to turn around, Krane's decision had already been made, she was going home.

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