Darkness Returns

Chapter 15: Be Brave

Authors Notes: This fic has my full attention now. I will be finishing it over the course of a few days.

Darkness Returns

Chapter 15

Be Brave

Kairi sat at the table with Edna and smiled down at the photo album before them. Of course Edna didn't hold back when she asked the old woman what Jay was like as a kid. It passed the time and they were able to wait till Ed came back in with the medication. Luckily when the child woke up she seemed to be doing a bit better. Ed was glad even though he walked to the market. He needed to anyway, they were out of milk, and bread. When he got back in, both girls were giggling at a photo of little Jay who was stuck in a tire.

"It took us two hours to get enough grease to soak him in to get that tire off. Poor little guy cried the entire time. So cute. Oh I miss him at that age." Edna mused and sighed looking down at the photo album.

"Oh dontcha worry about that Edna. We'll have someone new to fawn over soon enough. You know once Nya has the baby." He held up a pair of infant sized overalls he had found at the market. Edna giggled and took them from him and placed them into a small box.

"But it's a girl." Kairi giggled.

"Oh girls can wear overalls and play in grease too kiddo. Don't forget, Nya also works on engines too. This kid is going to have a lot of mechanical knowledge." Well they were right. There was that story that Kai told her about Jay putting on a wig and dress once upon a time. She smiled thinking perhaps clothes don't make the person, it's the person who does. Right?

Ding

Edna looked up at the stove and walked over pulling out a pan. Within was a Lasagna.

"Alright dear, lets get that book back on the shelf so we can eat." Ed put a towel down on the table so Edna could put the pan down to cool. The whole room began to smell wonderful to Kairi. She didn't have anything to eat in some time. Not for the lack of trying. She got to take a few bites of the salad while on the train. But that was it. Once the food was place down in front of her, she couldn't stop herself. Two days without food, she was starving.

"Whoa, eat slow...ow!" Ed pulled back away from the child who had bit him. She just shoving fist full over food into her mouth. She didn't even act like this when they first found her.

"Hey now, you should apologize to Ed." Kairi blushed having finished off the lasagna pretty quickly.

"Sorry, I just couldn't help myself. I haven't eaten in so long." She told them licking her fingers. Ed looked at his hand and wiggled it. "I haven't felt that hungry in a very long time either." She blushed and tried to hide behind the napkin she was given.

"Ah I'm not going to say this was a bad little one, but you do have to watch out alright."

"I don't plan on starving anymore then I have to." She giggled but noticed the look on Ed's face. He watched something run by.

"Hang onto something..." He whispered as the loud roar of a diesel vehicle filled their senses.

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Jay sat behind Nya who was reading through a book. Not much else she could do. So Jay massaged her shoulders and Echo massaged her feet. Nya was in heaven, well almost if it weren't for the insistent kicking within. But that was normal for an expecting mother.

The door shook, rocks began to fall all around them as if something huge was jack hammering the door.

"Jay?" Nya asked. Echo pulled Nya to him protectivally as he pushed her into the lightning jet.

"Come on...you'll be alright in here." Jay told her. Nya shook her head, she knew the jet was a one seater. She turned around to call back to Jay only for the jet's canopy to fall back in place and the sling shot fired it into the sky. It was their only jet. There only means to quickly escape.

"Echo?" looked at Jay who looked back at him.

"She'll be okay...right?" Echo asked. Jay nodded his head unsure if he spoke out of desperation.

"Of course." Jay pulled him close and kissed his head. "She'll be fine. The jets going toward my parents' place. They'll take great care of her."