Jamie chuckled a little, Roxas clapped happily before digging into his food while Jamie got his own hamburger, one hot dog and some of the fries. Jack smiled and got one hot dog, a little bit of hamburger lots of fries for himself.

"Mmm." Jamie ate his meal contently; Jack smiled, having finished his burger first.

"Always delicious love, uhh... Roxas, sweetheart, please don't play with your food, eat it please." He said as he ate some french fries. Roxas used his fries to look like a walrus but at Jack's request he ate them.

"Good job." Jack finished his plate of french fries before eating the hot dog. Roxas smiled a little, munching on the last of his fries.

"There we are, yummy; isn't it better than eating blood?" Roxas shrugged a little even as he ate his hot dog; it was good, but he wasn't sure it was better. Jack smiled, fangs showing.

"Well little later we will go hunting, not before you sharpen your fangs and claws." Roxas knew the rules, if they ain't sharp you ain't hunting. Roxas nodded a little, he knew better; it was easier to hunt with sharp claws anyway.

"For now let's watch a movie, it's Roxas' turn to pick, right Jamie? Hey, what do you wanna watch Rox?"

"Batmans." Roxas replied even as Jamie was nodding in agreement.

"Alright then, uhhh let'sss seee here... I don't think you're quite old enough for this batman... not the modern one... oh here the old one, the original is best." He put in batman, a movie from the eighties not sure how he'd react to it but everything was good once it started. Roxas clapped and sat down to watch happily; Jack smiled at that and made popcorn. Jamie smiled a little as he settled down to watch as well.

"Mmm mmm." Jack settled down with the fresh popcorn, happy at the family time. Jamie couldn't help but smile a little, it was great to have a time with just them; a peaceful time in a while. When the movie ended Jack stretched out, wings and all; his tail had been curled around Roxas.

"Mmm it's huntin' time, go sharpen your claws Rox." Roxas nodded and went to do as he's told.

"Sheesh, I feel so tired but I guess snacking on a couple criminals will do us good." Jack purred as he nipped Jamie's nose for fun. Jamie chuckled and nipped back.

"Can't hurt none and when you're back you can take a nap."

"Yeah could use one big time. YOUR CLAWS SHARP ROXAS?" He called upstairs, hoping he'd sharpened them this time.

"Yes dada." Roxas called back as he came back into the room, he held out his newly sharpened claws for inspection.

"Mmm mmhm, perfect; now let me see those teeth." Jack showed his own very sharp, deadly fangs and teeth. Roxas shows his sharpened fangs too.

"Good lad; well, we're off Jamie, prep that bed for me." Jack took flight as his wings spread out; he looked the part of a horrifying demonic creature slash gargoyle. He'd grown scales a while back, beautiful silver white and blue ones that sparkled like gemstones.

"Come on son." The night was just beginning. Jamie watched with a smile as Roxas spread his wings to follow. Jamie had told Jack, as soon as the scales had grown in, that they were beautiful... and to him they were. He asked if Jack would shed them because he loved them so much that he had thought that maybe if Jack shed them he could make clothes or jewelry out of the memorizing scales. Jack had replied that he would shed at least one everyday; it depended on the demon on what color scales they would get. The same went for Roxas though he would not get any for a while.

"Look down there son, it's a criminal hmm stealing tvs; let's get our lunch hmm? Wait here." Jack hid in the darkness, his gleaming emerald blue eyes in the darkness showed through.

"What you doing there buddy?"

Jamie had gathered the scale Jack had shed for today and had a box he was keeping those scales in for later. He made sure to turn down the bed for when Jack returned so he wouldn't have to worry about that and could snuggle in as soon as he climbed in. Jamie looked at the scales, they weren't just shiny but also strong... he went off to find North to talk to him about the idea that came to his mind as a use for the scales.

Roxas hovered in wait in the dark of night, out of the man's line of sight; Jack grinned, fangs gleaming as the guy shook in growing fear.

"None of your business bozo, now go away." The man produced a knife.

"Hmm, classic, a knife." Jack stepped into the light and before the man could scream blood was sprayed all over; Jack growled, dragging him into dark and nodding at Roxas to come down and eat as he finished his helping, which was the man's head; eyeballs and skull included. Jack smiled as his son joined him and swallowed thickly as he drank the blood and let Roxas finish the man off.

Jamie sat in the room counting the scales he's got so far and looking at the materials North had given him... he said it would make it easier to wash... Well, the important thing would be functionality really, but he decided North had a point that it should be easy washable too.

"Oh man, oh man I'm itching like crazy." Groaning, Jack shed all his scales and skin suddenly; he was shiny now, like a snake after shedding. Roxas itches some of his skin before molting himself, it was his first skin and tiny.

"Goodness, Jamie's gonna have an entire skin to work with here hmm Roxas." Roxas giggled, poking at his molted skin.

"Yes, yes fascinating; just don't poke the new skin son, don't want any unnecessary scars do you?" Jack spread his newly peeled wings, they shone a little bit in the dark before becoming hard as rock as they dried.

"Okay dada." He poked the old skin instead.

"Good, let's get home and surprise papa, you shed your first skin." Roxas giggled, picking up the skin and took flight again. As Jack landed in the window he wondered where Jamie was when he didn't see him, but Roxas was asleep in his arms, skin and all.

"Mmm, guess I'll show Jamie later." He tucked Roxas in and slept on the couch. Jamie comes in the home later to find Jack asleep on the couch. He smiled and draped a blanket over his love before moving to put away the materials that he'd gotten. Jack purred, tail wagging gently; the skin fell from his arms onto the floor, he'd meant to wake up when Jamie had came back. Jamie gently picked it up and stored the shed skin with the other scales... that was a LOT of scales... and more than enough for what he needed. Jack mmed in content in his sleep. Jack awoke to the feeling of the heat of the sun upon his face.

"Mmm." He opened one eye, then the other.

"Morning dear."

"What's cooking?" He chuckled as he sat up and lightly scratched his new scales that were dry and like sparkling silver white and midnight blue stones.

"Breakfast." Jamie handed Jack a plate of an omelette he'd made for them to eat.

"Mmmm yummy." He giggled as he dug in.

"How's Roxas?"

"Still asleep last I checked."

"Oh, okay then." He giggled.

"I think I have something to put in the baby book." He untucked one wing and out dropped a small skin.

"Roxas shed his first skin! I'm so proud." Jamie smiled a little at that.

"His colors are different, but still beautiful." Roxas' scales were a sea green and moon silver.

"I know it's wonderful."

"Okay then, mmm last night was wonderful."

"Good to hear. "

"Yeah, well I was thinking we go for a vacay."

"Have any place in mind specifically? Also, did you mean all of us?"

"I mean all of us to California's Disneyland."

"Sounds like fun to me." Jack smiled.

"We'll plan it as we get him ready for a long flight." Jamie nodded in agreement. It would be a long flight for their son who'd only flown with their father for a few miles.

"For now though it's just me and you..."

"I love you Jamie." He growled deeply and wrapped his arms around him protectively, giving one last nip and loving kiss before he passed out. Jamie nuzzled against Jack lovingly, cleaning them both up before he too passed out. Curling up against Jack in pure content and wrapping them in the blankets. Roxas had woken up and was still playing 'Date' with robin and batman. Roxas eventually got a little bored and introduced his heroes to his dinosaurs. Jack walked in on that little excursion to the mountain chair.

"Hey son, whatcha doing?"

"Dinos make friends with batmans and they going on picnic." Jack smiled.

"Yeah? What are they doing at the picnic hmm?" He sat cross legged as he awaited the answer.

"Gotta climb mountain first. Have picnic on top near lake. Go swimin'."

"Alright then, who else is coming to the picnic?"

"Mr. Steggy and Trici." Roxas said with a smile.

"Oh okay." Roxas had them perch on the chair and eat various things on the picnic... sandwiches and fruits and stuff. Jack smiled but something inside him snapped; he was hungry, really hungry... blood thirstily hungry. His tail swished faster than before, like a cat hunting a mouse and his eyes were on Roxas; sometimes demons ate their own kind from time to time, but only when they're hungry. Roxas, at that, moment was on menu; his eyes flickered from blue to yellow, fighting his inner demon to leave the boy alone. The conflict roused Jamie from his sleep and he got dressed and went to the kitchen. Still a bit sleepy, he made Jack a sandwich from the other fridge and then carried it over to him.

"Hungry?" Jamie murmured before yawning and holding the plate out to Jack. He looked at the sandwich, licking his chops; he shook his head and took it. Eating it ravenously.

"Thank you." Jack hated himself for almost trying to eat their son, even though he, himself, had flared his wings out; claws ready to gut Jack if he'd tried anything. Jamie just smiled a little and picked up the agitated Roxas.

"It's okay son. Calm down." He murmured, gently bouncing the boy. Jack had warned him early on, after all, about the hunger and how he might try to eat Jamie or Roxas so Jamie had always made sure to have something on hand to keep the hunger at bay and assure that it didn't happen. Jack sighed.

"Sorry I ruined the picnic Rox." Roxas shrugged a little, yawning.

"Looks like someone needs a nap." Jamie replied and went to tuck Roxas into his bed for said nap. Jack looked down, he felt bad for what had almost happened but cheered up because Jamie had been there; he'd helped. Jamie was plenty awake once he'd settled Roxas down for his nap.

"You still hungry or was that enough?" Jamie asked when he came back.

"Still feel hungry." He purred.

"Might want to go hunting then. I don't think there's enough in there to satisfy you. There's maybe enough for one more sandwich."

"Oh... yeah, I guess so." He looked outside, it was still light out.

"I can't; not when it's still light out."

"It's only light out here. There are other parts of the world where it's not love."

"Yeah, but I might start a mob again if seen in daylight." He growled, remembering the last time.

"Perhaps so... but you've never had a problem before flying high enough to not be spotted by believers. I don't see why now it would be a problem."

"Look, it's complicated; if I told you ya wouldn't be too happy."

"What are you talking about?"

"NEVERMIND. UHH, IT'S DARKER NOW. BYE." He took off without another word.

"Jack..." Jamie sighed. Now what was it he was keeping secret? Honestly... why was it so hard to get Jack to just tell him something? After all they'd been through hadn't he proven himself? He shook his head. It was always something... wasn't it? With Jack gone and Roxas asleep, he propped himself up against a wall to think.

"Stupid, why wouldn't you let me tell him?" Jack snarled at his demonic half who'd pushed him back to take control and use his voice to kick Jamie off trail.

"Do you want him to know how many believers you've eaten during daylight? Not just bad ones, I'm talking your believers, Jack; what do you think Jamie will say when he finds out you're eating innocents?"

What could be so bad that Jack wouldn't want to tell him? Hadn't he proven that Jack's nature didn't bother him? So Jack ate people... so what? If that was how he had to live, well, so be it. He wasn't human after all so it wasn't cannibalism... not like when Jamie had agreed to try some... Why had he ever agreed to that? He shook the thought away. It wasn't like Jack went out of his way to terrorize the populace and openly eat anyone and everyone he saw. Although the look he'd been giving Roxas earlier had sent a little chill down him he'd calmly dealt with it. He was unnerved, not by the fact that Jack had been staring at their son like that... but just that things had gotten that close. Jack had warned him after all... Jamie sighed. What was Jack afraid of now? Jamie hadn't left him after finding out that he was a demon who needed humans to sustain himself... what could possibly be worse than that? Jamie considered a lot of things and was a little surprised that he wasn't just traumatized by all this... After a moment, he began to come to the realization he'd sort of detached himself from humanity as a whole. Well, why not? He wasn't really human anymore was he? He had been through things no human should or even could experience. He didn't have a family anymore outside of Jack, Roxas and the Guardians... He was a spirit. He realized he had, at some point, stopped thinking of himself as being one with the rest of humanity. Perhaps that was just as well, he was an immortal being after all... one who set out to protect human children but was no child himself. He hadn't been a child in a very ... very long time.

"LET ME BACK IN CONTROL NOW YOU FUCKER!" The demon within him seemed to ignore him.

"Hush, I'm getting us food so you don't end up eating your mate and your brood." Jack growled at the way he called Jamie that; well yes he was, to Jack, a mate and Roxas his brood but he didn't like the tone the other used. A homeless woman was hacking up a lung in a corner, no one cared whether she was there or not as she was dying.

"Perfect."

No matter how long he thought about it, Jamie really couldn't come up with anything so he simply went to find himself something to eat in the meantime.

People had screamed as blood was shed and now the entire city was in an uproar as apparently they were now hunting him; the "homeless" woman wasn't homeless or sick... or dying. It was bait and he'd fallen for it. He was cut up, burned and very tired when he arrived home.

"Damn humans trying to capture me..." He mumbled as he walked into the kitchen and ate regular, raw hamburger meat.

"Jack?" Jamie said, going into the kitchen when he'd heard the noise. Shock across his features as he took in the sight before him.

"Jack... what happened?"

"Erm... girl scouts can be really mean." He said with a half grin.

"Ah geez." He got the first aide kit and began patching Jack up.

"Do girls taste sweeter?" He asked after a moment. He was just curious.

"No." He growled a little, hissing at the disinfectant swab and licked at the wounds much like the Beast from Beauty and the Beast. Jamie ignored the protests and did it anyway. He hissed at Jamie every time and finally ran under the bed, not even close to having been finished being disinfected. Jamie followed him under the bed, cornering him beneath it to finish the disinfecting part and then wrapping up the wounds. Jack bit him a couple times but not very hard. Jamie ignored the bites as he finished patching up Jack, used to his antics by now. He licked at the patches still, tail flicking back and forth hungrily, having forgotten to eat in the mayhem.

"Cut that out and come have lunch." Jamie said after several minutes. He grunted in response before following behind Jamie and, much like a dog, sniffed him all over for the hidden food he wanted. Jamie chuckled a little and steered Jack to the table where he'd set the food.

"Silly." He looked at it, eyes slitted once more like a dragon; his wings flared out and he hissed at the sandwich as if it were going to bite him. Jamie had made it into a hamburger with only cheese and a touch of ketchup. He growled at Jamie as he didn't like him so close to the food; obviously his demonic traits were showing. Jamie rolled his eyes a little.

"Seriously, just sit down and eat." He growled in response, flicking his tail before he gobbled down the sandwich like yesterday's lunch.

"Better?" He asked after a few moments. Jack sighed anger in his veins at all this. Jamie simply waited quietly for an answer, he could always make more of course. Jack looked down.

"Better." He whispered before he left the room. Jamie only nodded a little, only partly satisfied with the answer; he wasn't sure what to make of the anger he'd felt. He growled as again his darker side tried to take control of the anger and spin it out of control. Jamie was worried about Jack, but what could he do? Jack went to bed; the instant Roxas awoke he wanted to play.

"No Roxas, get off." Jack said as he swung on Jack's tail; suddenly there is a cry of pain, not from Jack, but Roxas as he'd been tossed aside with his demon's irritation... Having taken control of his tail in to flick Roxas off him like some annoying fly. Jamie picked up Roxas and headed to the other room.

"Let your father sleep. I'll play with you okay?" Jack purred happily as he went back to sleep. Jamie entertained Roxas for the next few hours so Jack could sleep. They played dinos, colored and read books. Jack woke to a major headache. Jamie wondered if he should get Jack some aspirin for it. Jack flicked his tail about viciously; anger... hate... all rolled into one. He kept spilling out hate for his darker side; he was unknowingly making it stronger and giving it more control the more he fed it his anger, negative thoughts or feelings. After Jamie put Roxas down for a nap he went over to Jack.

"Want something for that headache?" He asked gently. He could sense the anger and hate, he wasn't sure what he could or should do about it though.

"Yes, please make it stop." Jamie nodded and got Jack some aspirin and a glass of water. Jamie handed Jack the aspirin and the water and then sat down next to him, he decided to attempt a light massage of his temples as well to see if maybe that might ease the pain a bit while they waited for the medicine to kick in. Jack groaned.

"Oh yeah, so much better." Jamie smiled a little, keeping the massage light and gentle.

"Mm ooh." A thud. His tail went limp as his wings felt weightless at the moment. Jamie kept up the gentle massage; Jack purred.

"Mmm Jamieeee you're so great." Jamie didn't respond, he simply smiled a little. Jack purred, snickering.

"You know I can give you a massage too."

"Eh?" Jamie didn't seem to get what Jack meant by that. He wasn't the one with the headache after all.