The Moosehead Tavern [2]

I smiled, "Thank you. Their amazing. But their also Jace's so don't give me all the credit." I said sitting down next to him, with both the twins in my lap.

Kelly Myers

I giggle slightly.

"Yea cause I'm sure he had a heck of a time with you in bed." I snicker.

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lol, LHeart. Lol.

Jace smiles at Rayah but is soon forced back into his thoughts, watching everything around him as if his body belonged to someone else.

I look over at Kelly and shake my head., laughing, trying to conpose Logan. I look over at Jace and see that somethings going on with him. I nuge him with my elbow, "Hey. You alright?"

Jace comes out of his thoughts and nods, having barely heard her question.
"Yeah, same as before." He says.

I nodded, "You need some rest." Logan jumped out of my arms and tackled Riley to the floor. I sighef and and tried to stop them from fighting I grabbed Logan trying to hold him back. "Stop!" I yelled and they all stopped and looked at me. I nodded, "If you guys do that one more time then your not getting any ice cream tonight, you understand?" They nodded and I took a deep breath. "Good."

Jace smiles at the way Rayah handles things, but argues about his need of rest when she sits back down.
"I'm fine." He says. "I'm just thinking. This place brings back a lot of memories."

I looked over at Jace. "It does," I said calmly. Logan was about to tackle Riley again and I shot him a look and he stopped looking innocent.

Jace sighs and orders a soda, still immature when it came to intoxication. He sips on it and watches the kids.

"Just wait until they turn nine..." I said shaking a head at them. Riley smiles a baby toothed smile at Jace and turns to me pulling my hair. "What do you want?" I asked Smiling.

Jace watches, something - a distant memory, one he'd forgotten - coming back to him. In Riley's place stands him, the three year old version, and in Logan's place sits Nic. But it fades before he can make sense of it, the faces of his kids returning and his reality regaining clarity.

I look over at Jace and smile, holding his hand. "You'll get over it. Don't worry. I lost three sisters. Just don't think about it. Get your mind off it by something else." I shrugged. "It works."

Jace smiles, giving Rayah's hand a squeeze, but inside he knows he couldn't do that. His brother wasn't meant to be forgotten, to be pushed aside and left on the shelf. He died for them. Once again, Jace is reminded of the full circle, ironic this time. His life ended the same way it began. In a shroud of light, fighting a hero's fight.

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Lol. sorry about Jace's sudden depression (though I love the last sentence in this) I'm reading a sad book for school and it has inspired this grief and ironic death.

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Lol. Aww...I'm like crying now.

I knew he wasn't gonna do that. Just forget about his brother. Suddenly I felt horrible. A tear ran down my cheek, "I miss him too."

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Lol. Sorry.

Jace toughens up and wipes the tear from Rayah's eye.
"He doesn't want this." He whispers to her. "He would want to be remembered, not mourned. I-I shouldn't have brought him up..."