Athena

The Next Generation//story fianlly

11 months later

Apollo

I paced back and forth outside of Nora's hospital room.
"Relax, Apollo." Aphrodite said. "She's fine."

Kristen came out of the hospital room and called me in.

I froze when I saw Nora cradling my son, Cyrus.

Nora

Apollo teared up as he came closer to me and my son. "Here." I held him up and gave my child to his father.
Apollo gasped with a bright smile as he held him. "Hey, little guy." He sniffled and chuckled. Cyrus cooed. Apollo rubbed his fingers in the baby's cheek.

Apollo

Cyrus scrunched up his small baby face and held onto my finger. My heart exploded with love.

"I'll go let the team come in by small groups." Kristen said quietly.

Athena

"Hey, little man..." I smiled softly when Aphrodite laid him in my arms.
He cooed as I cradled the small child.

Anthony

I peered over Athena's shoulder to see Cyrus. Just the way my wife acted with her nephew just made me want to have kids with her even more.

Willow and Chris just had the twins a few months ago and Kristen and Aphrodite had just adopted.

9 years later.

Willow

All our kids were playing together in our training room except for Athena's daughter. She stood behind her mother, holding Athena's comfort teddy bear.
She isn't the biggest fan of socializing and loud noises.  She panics at extremely loud noises.  She only speaks to people she really knows too. The team, her childhood friends, not her classmates or teachers. Her sister is older than her and her twin brother by a year. She the only really shy one out of the whole family/team.
The twins are 7 and she's 8.

"Come on, honeybee." Athena looked back at her. "Go play with your big sister and your brother."
She shook her head.
We all chuckled softly.
"She takes after her mom." Lucy said.

"How's the academy going?" Chris asked.
"Academy?" Lynn asked.
"She was born with more powers." Anthony started "We thought it was best to test young kids in some academy to be a 'guard' for her."
"So like mid evil royal times?" Grey said.
Athena shrugged. "I think it's great. There's already one boy top of his class. It's gonna be good for her to grow up with someone around her age that will protect her. " She sighed "I just hope she doesn't react the way I did."

My twins ran behind Athena's young daughter, chasing each other. She clammed up, holding the bear close to her chest and tightly gripping onto her mother's sleeve.

Athena

It was a stormy night and I was reading a book in bed with Anthony fast asleep next to me.
"Mommy?" I heard softly at the door.
I rested the book in my lap and saw my 7 year old daughter holding my teddy bear I passed down to her.
"What's wrong, honeybee?" I smiled as she came closer.
"I'm scared." I lifted her up and sat her on my lap.
"It's okay." I cleared the hair from her face.

All of my kids have a some what fear of being alone but my daughter fears loud noises. She's a quiet kid and likes everything quiet. I have a feeling for when she grows up; she's gonna be soft spoken but a wild and tough spirit. Same with my son. Well my son and oldest takes after their father mostly.

Kristen

I was cuddling my wife while we were watching a movie late at night when our daughter out from the dark, covered in blankets.
"Hey, sweetheart." Aphrodite sat up from my lap.
She climbed up and curled up in my wife's arm. "What's going on?" I came closer to the two.
Aphrodite pulled the blanket tighter. "I couldn't sleep." My daughter snuggled her face in Aphrodite's chest.
"Here." I said laying along the couch and Aphrodite and my daughter laying between my legs.

Chris

"No!" I groaned trying to get my son and daughter to bed.
I tripped as they ran out of the room laughing. I groaned and laid my face in the floor.

"Let's go you two." I heard Willow coming closer to the room as I stood back up.
I saw her carrying the twins with both arms. "If you don't stay in bed, we won't be going to the park tomorrow." She set the down and they immediately climbed into bed.

I sighed in defeat.