A/N: I'm putting the epilogue here. It's set about three years (and tears - from me) into the future... Ahh...
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(Gemma's POV)
I watched, amazed, as Ash and Anisa toddled swiftly over the grass, black, curly hair blowing gently in the breeze. They chased my own two children - Jacob and Kailyn. Jacob had been born one month early, six months after Ash and Anisa. Kailyn was hardly walking, but Jacob pulled her along happily. Kailyn was just over a year younger.
"Careful!" I heard Mia shout. I turned my head and grinned. Sandra, Mayra and Kierra, their three children, were rolling about in the grass, getting their clothes filthy. Kierra, the youngest, was only four months old so she was more kicking her legs on a blanket next to Mia and David.
Ethan and Eliza were by them, sitting on the ground. They had a pair of twin boys play-fighting, even at two years old. Luke, Poppy, their daughter and the currently unborn child sat on a bench behind them. I let my eyes drift over to Jason, Caspar and the three children sitting sleepily on their laps. Sophie and Caspar's sister, Theodora, had agreed to be surrogate mothers. Two of them were from Sophie, and one from Theodora. Two boys and one girl - all with blond hair, brown streaks and either blue or green eyes.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" I whispered to Dan, who nodded. We were all married. Ethan, Eliza, David, Mia, Luke and Poppy had all had a triple wedding. Sophie got married to Phil in almost secrecy. Only immediate family attended. Jason and Caspar had gone to South Africa to get married, declining four weddings in one night.
Our YouTube careers had slowed, but only slightly. We uploaded once a week to our family's channel, once a fortnight to TheDragonAndHerFriend and Dan and Phil were still as inconsistent as ever. We had, however, scored numerous TV interviews, public speaking, adverts, commercials, radio shows and even one movie. As major roles. Not boasting here.
"Happy birthday, though." Ethan declared as we all sat around the dining table later. We'd bought a huge dining table to fit the large family (of 23, soon to be 24) into the same room. A few opened presents lay to the side. "We have one more present to share."
"Another?" I giggled. "Let's see." Bianca bought out a large, cardboard box and placed it gently onto the table. Jason, Sophie and I gathered around it, placing our hands on the flaps. It would be amazing - there was a lot of cameras.
We pulled it open and gasped, hands flying to our mouths.
A pile of fluff, a pathetic excuse of tough, was the fluffiest, smallest thing sitting there, peeking up.
A husky.
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(Sophie's POV)
Hands shaking, I cradled the puppy to my chest. It licked my cheek and I melted. "What is it?" I giggled, gently handing the pup to Jason and Gemma.
"Female. And a dog." Luke winked as we cooed over her.
"She's Yuki." We all said firmly. "The Japanese word for snow." I added.
"Your choice." David shrugged. I slipped the light yellow collar over her neck, embedded with fake gems. Or real. I wasn't sure. A tiny tag hung from the front, in the shape of a silver bone, which we were going to put her name on.
"Beautiful." I whispered.
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Next month
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(Gemma's POV)
"Mia, you've lost Sandra!" I carried the squirming girl back upstairs to her bedroom. We'd had most of the sixth floor guest rooms remodelled into a huge playroom, a bedroom for each child, a quiet nursery, a changing room and a large closet. By huge... I meant you could fit thirty elephants in there. Maybe. Maybe not.
"Thanks." Mia took Sandra off me and placed her back in the playroom. We did a quick head count then locked the four doors. We didn't want to loose everyone.
The sixth floor had the west side made of guest rooms (about twenty) then everything centred about the playroom. The nursery was to the north, the changing room to the east and the closet to the south. Then, the bedrooms slotted around them, the child's name painted onto the door to avoid confusion.
Luke and Poppy's newest (and provably last) child had been born four days ago. A little boy called Max. We had the bedrooms running in a loop, oldest to youngest. So, Ash then Anisa, then Sandra, then Jacob, then Chase, then Liam (Ethan's sons), then Charity (Luke's daughter), then Kailyn, then Mayra, then Alec, Josh, Emma (Jason and Caspar's children), then Kierra then Max. Remind me why there was so many kids?
"I'm shattered." I flopped down onto a couch and yawned. I had honestly not just turned twenty five. It made me feel a bit better that Ethan was thirty and a half.
We were all on emergency contact for Vita et Mors - only to be approached if the situation was dire. We'd only been on two abroad missions since we retired. Well, were released.
"Penny for your thoughts?" Dan asked me as we sat in our sitting room, with coffee. I rolled my eyes.
"Don't try to be posh. And I was thinking about the kids." I yawned. It was ten o'clock, so they were all long asleep. We had soundproof doors as well, so if they woke up, the only people who got woken were the parents through a baby monitor. Can you imagine fourteen screaming children? No, thanks!
"You're off again." Dan laughed, scrolling through twitter. I stuck my tongue out at him from my editing.
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A/N: an odd place to leave it, but there's no plot anymore... It's over. I want to write more, but there's nothing to write.
I'm going to go... Write the last chapter?
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