Okay, first of all- I am so, so sorry I haven't updated in like forever. When I saw in the trailer for series four of tdg that Kingsley was going to be in the series, I wanted to watch that before I wrote this chapter- therefore I couldn't write it until now. But, here you go- the last of the characters coming in as of Tracy Beaker returns.

You know, in the first profile they made on the CBBC website for Jody it mentioned she would sometimes be so hungry she'd eat dogs' food… well… Either you remember or not I remember so… here it is….

Jody Jackson

Jody Jackson sat on the floor in the flat of hers, her mum's and her brothers'- oh, and the dogs'. Actually, the dogs were the only ones home with Jody now. She hadn't seen neither of her brother's- Luke or Kingsley all day, neither their mum Denise. Which meant nobody had been there with any food and Jody was starving.

"Here Rory." Jody almost whispered, even though the only ones to hear where the two Labrador's- standing by her. "And here Moose." She sat by the dogs' food bowl. Taking pieces of dog food up from it, breaking each piece into three smaller pieces, then gave one to Rory, one to Moose and ate one herself.

With every piece she put in her mind she pressed her hand against her mouth and her lips together. The sauce the pieces of meat the dog food was covered in was disgusting. Every new bite made her gag, and the only things that kept her from throwing up was pure willpower, while she swallowed every bite as soon as possible and clenched her hands against Moose's collar so hard her knuckles whitened.

"I can't do this anymore."

Jody Jackson dropped the last piece of dog food into the bowl again- she hadn't managed to eat a quarter of it. And while she expected the dogs to ignore her and attack their food she pulled up her knees, hugged her legs and sniveled while the tears started rising in her eyes.

Rory did what he was expected to do and attacked his food, Moose on the other hand came trotting over to Jody and sat down close by her. And it was more than clear that he wanted to comfort his youngest owner, while he leaned against her chest so salt, warm tears dripped down into his chocolate brown fur.

"I'm so hung…"

Jody didn't have the time to finish the sentence before she heard footsteps on the front porch. She looked up and her eyes grew wider in fear as she pushed her hands towards the floor and further into the dark- please, don't let it be Kingsley…

She drew a deep, relieved breath when the door was opened and showed her youngest oldest brother- Luke. It wasn't that he was always nice- sometimes he wasn't very nice, it was only that he was nicer than Kingsley. And if he got mad he didn't become half as mad as Kingsley or their mum could.

"Hey Jodes." He dropped his bag on the floor, then froze in the same movement as he rose again and reached for the zipper of his jacket. "Geez. Did you eat of the dog's food again?" Jody froze and crawled as close back towards the wall as she could.

"Please don't be mad… I was really hungry. I haven't eaten since…" Luke sighed and stroke his forehead. "I haven't eaten since…." Jody tried to think back- but she just figured she couldn't have eaten all day, or evening the day before- it would be lunch the day before. "I…" Luke sighed again. "Please don't be mad at me."

"I'm not." Luke grabbed his bag again and went to the room right next to the hallway, threw his bag at his bed (he and Jody shared a room). "Come on. Mum and Kingsley are on their way home with pizza. Come." Luke grabbed the shoulder of his little sister- hard- too hard, spit on his sleeve. "I know it's disgusting but…" he wiped, hard towards Jody's lips and around her mouth. "If mum or Kingsley sees it."

Jody didn't do anything to protest- although she for sure didn't like the idea of Luke's muddy shirt with stains of his saliva against her lips and face. And she knew Luke was right. If mum knew she had eaten dogs' food again.

"That will do…." Luke reached down in his bag and pulled up some tissues that he used to wipe Jody's hands in his big ones. "…I think you're safe. But come on, eat dogs' food…" He kept on mumbling something Jody couldn't hear while grabbing a memory game of a shelf and sat down on his bed. "Come here. I was supposed to be home earlier and mum will be angry with me if she finds out I wasn't. So don't you say a word about this to her. We've only been playing this for two hours okay?" Jody nodded and sat down while Luke put out the game. Then patted on the quilt so Moose would jump up and lay down next to her.

Luke glanced towards the foot of the bed, Jody knew he usually didn't like the dogs up in the sofas or beds. But now he kept silent and kept lying out the memory-bricks in between them.

"Hello."

Not five minutes after the game started- and while only one of them (Jody) had grabbed a pair the door was opened and Kingsley came in. Jody didn't look up, even though there were days Kingsley was nice she knew there were the opposite days and she just had a feeling… a really, really strange feeling.

"Hello Monkey."

Jody shivered, she hated that stupid nickname Kingsley had given her.

Flashback

Jody Jackson, five years old laid in her bed in her and her brother Luke's room. Luke was at a friend's for studying and wouldn't come home until tomorrow. So right now, there would be nowhere to run or hide from Kingsley and her friends that sat in the kitchen laughing and joking loudly. Only going more and more drunk.

Jody wished her mum would be there to comfort her. But Denise Jackson too was with her son around the living room table. And her words sounded so unsteady-just like they would when she would not listen to anything Jody said.

"Oh Jo- Dee." A voice was heard through the hallway. Jody recognized it but couldn't place which one of Kingsley's friends' it was. Either way it was making her shiver all the way into the bones. "Joooo-Dee."

Jody pulled her quilt over her head- if that person would only think she would have gone with Luke and leave the house. But of course- that big lump of a small girl under the quilt on the bed was very much visible even in the dark room. And when the person sat down on the edge of the bed Jody could hear the person's deep breaths- wheezing after God knows how many years.

"Jo… Dee…" When the person pulled down the quilt slightly and the young child looked up she could see it was Dean. One of Kingsley's friend that she hated the very most. "Come on, come on." He slowly pulled the quilt down and ignored the fact that Jody was trying to sneak away from him- or maybe he noticed anyway, because he grabbed Jody by the shoulder and leaned so close Jody could feel his warm- tobacco- smelling breath towards her neck.

At that moment Jody's reflexes set in, or maybe it was some kind of the intelligence of a young child about to be raped… But she threw her head backwards as far as she could- then forward as hard, and like she had hoped her forehead hit Dean right over the nose.

"OW." Dean flew backwards with his hands stained by the blood streaming from his nose. "You stupid kid! KINGSLEY. YOUR SISTER JUST…"

Jody didn't stay for long enough to hear what Dean thought she had done. She crawled onto her feet and crawled over Dean's shoulders and sprinted out the room and towards the front door of the house.

For a five year old Jody was quite short, and it was only barely she could reach the door handle and run outside. The October night was dark but that didn't matter- she'd find her way to her climbing tree in her sleep. And in seconds she was there and quickly climbed up as high as she could possibly get.

Not until the branches started bending by her weight she stopped on a wide branch and looked down. Right beneath her she couldn't see much. But on the front porch in the light from the hallway stood Kingsley, Dean and all of the other friends- and Denise.

"MUM"

"Oh damn." Kingsley was the first to say anything. "You can stay there if you're so determined to stay away from my friends… one night won't kill you." Jody pulled her arms into her thin pyjama shirt and shivered. "Don't even try it young lady. Come on you guys."

"MUM."

Denise didn't even look to her daughter while all of the friends on the porch turned around and walked back into the house- last of them Kingsley and Jody could hear the door being locked before trying one last time.

"MUM."

End of flashback

"Great." Luke stood up from the bed and grabbed one of the boxes Kingsley had in his arms. "Pizza time." He opened the box. "one with ham and mushroom for me and the very own- Miss Jody Jackson." He slumped down on the bed again and Kingsley handed him a large bottle of coke. "We'll just stay in here and finish our game."

Jody breathed out when Kingsley just smiled and closed the door to hers and Luke's room and took two pieces from the box. They could hear Denise Jackson- all of their mum coming home as well. And Jody could hear on mum's voice she was angry today.

"It's okay." Luke said and nodded towards Moose on Jody's side. "He won't let anyone touch you and you know that." Jody nodded- but couldn't even force a smile while she scratched Moose behind one ear and he growled in well- being. "I wonder how he ended up here anyway."

Flashback

It must have been no more than two or three weeks before this chapter started that a dog- now named Moose had ended up at the Jacksons' front porch. He had been lying there nonstop for almost a week now. And he showed no signs of wanting to leave.

"Jody if you keep on feeding that dog he will never leave us alone." Luke stated with a smirk when Jody once again gave him some leftover pieces of chicken. It might have been she could eat those for lunch- but the dog seemed to need it more than her. "Oh well…"

"I don't want him to leave us alone." Jody sat down on the ground, Moose- named after the fact that all of his ribs were showing in a way that made it looked almost as if he had moose antlers under his skin. "And I don't think he wants to leave neither. Please mum…" Denise had just entered the garden and Jody looked up at her with her best puppy-eyes. "…I bet he has an owner who doesn't care enough to even give him food." She felt against Moose's short fur where she could feel his ribs. "Please mum I…"

"You're not getting that smelly dog Jody Denise Jackson." Jody sighed at her mother's words. "He smells, his dirty and… Get away from me- and you stop giving him food." Jody pouted and stood up from the ground- her mother and brothers could think what they wanted. Moose was hers and that was a fact! "Where are you going?"

Jody didn't answer the question asked, she couldn't bother as she knew Denise didn't care anyway. And down the road she walked with Moose by her side. She'd like to believe it was because he liked to stick by her side but it might have been more because he would like the chicken pieces she still had in her pocket.

"Come here boy." Jody almost whispered when they came into town. There were more people around them now and to catch Moose's attention she picked up a few pieces of chicken to hold in her hand and started jogging slowly.

"Come on boy." She started jogging a bit faster, and almost shouting for Moose people turned to look at her. "Come on. Come on boy." She ran towards the great big fountain in the middle of the square. "Come on." She jumped over the low hedge around the fountain and into the water. Moose followed- especially when Jody dropped the few pieces of chicken into the water and he had to dig around to find them.

Jody slipped and fell on the wet stones of the fountain. Usually she didn't like water or getting wet, but boy, was it possible to do else than laugh seeing Moose dig around in the water, shaking and then sprinting towards Jody's pocket to find more chicken?

End of flashback

Moose turned over on his back and put his legs in the air. It was like he knew that when he and Jody came home both dripping wet but both clean. It was like he felt the happiness that always roared up inside of Jody when she remembered how Denise looked first at herself then towards Moose and then to Jody again with a deep sigh.

Denise still hadn't said a single word about keeping Moose. But at least she didn't- like before try to get him away. And since that day Moose hadn't left Jody's side one single time- well, he'd have to when school started but except for that…

"Jody." The young girl sighed when she could hear Kingsley's voice in the hallway again. And with that looked up from her and Luke's memory game while Kingsley came and leaned against the door frame. "You know, the social worker is coming in a couple of days…"

Jody shivered, she didn't hear the rest of the words Kingsley was saying. Moose whimpered as he felt her feelings while she scratched her arm slightly- the social services didn't come to visit quite so often now, at first they had done it twice a week. And every single time Jody had to have a bath and Denise and Kingsley would sit by her in the bathroom and scratch her with a hard brush until the skin was red and sore all over her arms and legs- and then they'd hold her under the water and painfully pulled her hair to get it cleaned…

Flashback

"NO MUM." Jody slightly got her head above the water in the bathtub and did her best to shout. "NO KINGS…" The rest of her oldest brother's name drowned in bubbling when she was under water again. Kicking and hitting even though she could feel Kingsley holding her and trying to hold her still. "NO MUM…"

"GET UP" Denise pulled Jody- half by the hair and half by her arm up off the tub- not caring about that Jody wasn't wearing a single thread. "Here. Get in these clothes." Denise handed Jody a large hoodie and some sweatpants- it would cover the red and skin on her arms and legs.

Everything to make them look good in front of social services…

End of flashback

"But come on Luke. We need to go and…" Kingsley didn't finish the sentence but nodded towards the door and they could see Denise in the hallway trying to get her shoes on. "Jody. You stay here, you've got Moose and pizza and…"

"NO." Jody flew onto her feet when she understood what was going on. "Don't leave me alone for one whole night… please… please…" Kingsley just pushed his little sister back into her room so she fell and Moose started growling. "Fine, fine… I barely touched her." Luke sent an apologetic look towards Jody and then they all left- along with Rory and Jody was left alone with Moose.

As if that would change anything Jody walked out of her room and walked through the whole apartment once- twice- three times, over and over and over until she just fell and buried her face in Moose's fur.

Jody couldn't have been lying like that for more than half a minute until she saw a light flashing. Looking up, she could see a light through the window telling her about a police car's lights blinking. But sure- they only found the wrong house. Even though she could hear the car doors slamming on their driveway they must have found the wrong place…

Moose stood up when he felt Jody's fear and started growling. Jody pulled herself as far into the corner as she could but her vision was almost forced towards the flashing lights outside the window…

I have changed some things that I found on the Tracy Beaker wiki- there it says there's only one dog and it was only once Jody had almost been forced to eat dogs' food. But I hope you can live with those changes.

Until next time…

Random fact

I was actually a bit confused writing the end- you know those flashing lights on police cars? Yeah- are they blue in Great Britain too?

Merry Christmas and happy new year- or as I'd say it, god jul och got nytt år.