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But this time it would be different, this time he wasn't going to let her go -- he didn't want her to get hurt again, and he specifically didn't want her to be anywhere but right here by his side. Eljay wasn't even sure what he was doing, beyond a point of rationality and thought and fully emerged into the world of emotion and instinct. He looked at his mother with pleading eyes but all he got in return was a hard wall of rejection.

When she commanded him to stop he took a step back, lead by the other side of instinct, head lowered and tail tucked. There was a lingering moment of silence between them where he looked at her stone cold face with emotion shimmering in his eyes. Little Jay was tucked only a very little bit back when daddy spoke. He spoke in a calm and comforting way, a way that would normally calm him, but there were three words that knocked all of his progress down like a house of cards; let her go.

The thought that he had to let mommy go, combined with all of the accumulated fears that he wasn't need anymore and that they didn't want him anymore, was just too much for Jay to handle. He moved forward, tail still tucked and ears pinned back, towards mommy as he reached out to try and lick her chin. "Why don't you wanna be with me, mommy?" he asked, desperation in his voice, choking back a sob halfway through the sentence. He still understood of little of the why's and how's, but he knew somehow that it was the most important thing in the world to stay with mommy now.