Jack’s Resolve
PRELUDE
Jack Plaise is the Holder of Strength, and decided to use
his powers to help fight during The Holder Wars after his wife was killed
during the first of the raids which started the war. He, his wife, and his son
lived in the city that was first attacked, and during that time, his wife was
killed. The attack was a failure for the enemy, as Jack used his powers, along
with the other men in the town who fought, to defeat the enemy raiders. When he
joined the military, he was placed in H Company of the 169th
Division, which was the company for Holders. However, after joining, his son
also became a Holder, the Holder of Ingenuity, and basically became the
company’s engineer. At the end of the war, during The Battle of the Gods, which
was the final fight that ended the war and was being led by H Company of the
169th Division, Jack’s son died. After the war, Jack decided to join
Alex and the crew of the Valkyrie in their travels. Now, he acts as fatherly as
he possibly can towards Rikku, Kevin, Sierra, and Alice. While Kevin and Rikku
actually do think of him as an uncle Alice and Sierra did not, and Jack wanted
to change that.
“Uncle
Jack!” Alice and Sierra called simultaneously.
Jack
awoke from his nap on the lounge sofa as happy as can be. ‘Finally’, he thought to himself,’ they think of me as their uncle!’
“Coming!”
he called out as he got up from the couch and jogged to the kitchen. As he
opened the door, he saw in front of him Alice and Sierra holding cameras, ready
to take pictures. Then, the bucket of water fell on his head. The water, AND
the bucket. They didn’t even tie a rope to it.
“Cheese!”
they yelled as they began taking pictures and laughing at my pain.
He
got up, and must have given them a terrifying look, because they immediately stopped
and got quiet. But, he just drooped his head and walked back out the door. As
Jack walked through the corridors and back to his room, Alex met him in the
hallway and said,” Jack? Why are you covered in water?” he asked,” And why do
you have a big bruise on your head?”
“Alice
and Sierra pulled another prank on me,” Jack explained,” This time they went
with the ‘Water bucket over the door’, only they didn’t use a rope to keep the
bucket from falling on my head.”
He
sighed in frustration. “Jack, have you even told
them that you just want to get along with them?” Alex suggested.
“Well,
I mean, no, not exactly,” Jack admitted.
“Well
then do it already!” Alex yelled.
He
stood up straight, held his head high, and said,” Alright. I’ll do it.” Jack
turned around and walked straight back to the kitchen to face them. “Now,
listen girls, I need to talk to you about something,” Jack said with a stern
voice as he entered the kitchen.
“Ughhhhhh,”
they moaned while sitting at the table and editing the photos they took on a
laptop to look comical.
“What
do you want, now?” Sierra complained as she scrolled through the photos.
“Look,”
Jack explained,” All I want is for you two to treat me with some respect, and
treat me as though I am your uncle. Ever since I lost my son I’ve thought of
you all as my children. Also, why do you hate me so much?!”
“Ugh,”
Sierra moaned while rolling her eyes,” The reason we do that to you is because
we don’t LIKE the fact that you act like you’re our father. I’m a cyborg, and
have no father, and don’t need or want one.”
“And
I,” Alice added,” am a witch, and
being a witch, I was constantly hunted. Whenever I tried to become friends with
a normal girl, it was dads like you
who would try and keep me from hanging out with their daughters. And here you
are, trying to act like you’re my dad.”
“But,
Sierra, didn’t you used to be human?” he pointed out.
“Yes,”
she answered,” I WAS a human, until
my birth father experimented on me by making me into a cyborg.”
“In
short,” Alice said as she got up and started walking away,” we don’t like you.”
“Exactly,”
Sierra added.
And
with that, he broke down in tears.
LATER, AS SIERRA
AND ALICE WERE HIDING IN THE AIR VENTS
“Hahahaha,”
Sierra laughed,” Look at his face!”
The
two girls sat in the air vents with the laptop in Sierra’s lap, and Alice
resting her head on Sierra’s shoulder so she could see the screen more clearly.
On the screen, they had one of the pictures on a photoshop program and were
morphing his face into all shapes and sizes.
“Hah,
yeah,” Alice agreed,” that was pretty funny.” Alice sat for a moment and
thought about something. “Hey, Sierra, do you think we were a little TOO mean with that water bucket prank?”
Alice suggested.
“What
do you mean?” Sierra asked, flabbergasted.
“Well,
I mean, we could have at least tied the rope to it,” she said, looking down at
the rope in her hand.
“Oh,
well, I mean I guess so,” Sierra said,” but then again, I’m a cyborg with no
emotions, so how should I know.”
Just
then Alice remembered something she saw Alex and Kate doing. Alex was teasing
Kate and messing with her, but Alice thought it was pranking, so she asked if
she could help prank Kate, but Alex explained he was flirting with her, which
is a way of showing your love for someone.
“Sierra,”
Alice said,” What if we actually DO like
Jack as an Uncle, but just express it by messing with him, like what Alex
sometimes does to Kate.”
Sierra,
who KNEW the difference between
flirting with someone and messing with them, thought about it while scrolling
through the pictures on the laptop. “Y’know what? You’re probably right about
that.”
They
sat in an awkward silence as the realization sunk in, until Alice finally broke
the tension by saying,” Should we go tell him? ‘Cus, I mean, he looked pretty
sad.”
Sierra
looked down at the picture she was playing around with on the laptop
sympathetically, remembering what it was like to be without any loved ones.
“Yeah,” she finally said,” Let’s go tell him.”
MEANWHILE, BACK IN
THE KITCHEN, THE REST OF THE CREW WAS TRYING TO MAKE JACK STOP CRYING LIKE A
LITTLE GIRL WHO LOST HER DOLL
“Jack,”
Kate said in a strangled voice as Jack held her while he cried,” Please let go
of me. I can’t breathe.”
“Sorry,”
Jack whimpered as he let go of Kate,” I’m just sooooo saaad.”
“Jack,”
Rikku interjected,” Why does this make you so sad? I still think of you as an
Uncle.”
“Me
and my wife had always wanted a daughter, but with you it’s like it’s past
adorableness of childhood, and straight to the teenage angst,” Jack explained,
barely able to hold a breath.
Rikku
grimaced at Jack.
“Uncle
Jack! Uncle Jack!” Sierra and Alice exclaimed as they entered the room,” Guess
what?”
“What?,”
Jack responded in the whimpiest and most unmanly voice there has ever been.
“We
figured it out!” Alice said,” We figured out why we like to pick on you so
much!”
“And
why’s that?” Kate asked.
“It’s
our way of expressing our love for you!” Sierra said.
“Yeah!”
Alice agreed,” Y’know, like flirting!”
And
with that, the whole room got awkwardly quiet as everyone’s jaws dropped at the
sudden ‘news’ presented by these two sweet and innocent young girls. Then,
knowing that Alex overreacts to anyone even THINKING
about Kate in the wrong way, everyone slowly turned their heads toward him
to see what he would do.
“What?
She’s not my kid,” Alex said,” Well, not technically,
at least.”
“ALEX!”
Kate nagged,” How many times do I have to tell you to treat Alice as though she
was our own child?!”
“Ughh,”
Alex moaned,” Fine.” He then got up, walked over to Jack, and gave him a light,
almost whimpy, karate chop to the head, and said,” No! Bad Jack!” But Alex, not
knowing his own strength, sent Jack toppling to the floor.
“We
love you Uncle Jack!” the two girls said simultaneously.
“I
love you too,” Jack sighed, still on the floor.
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