Hello Duckies! Okay for anyone who doesn't know, this is going to be a mass crossover (which I wish there was a category for) between Sanctuary and the fallowing shows: CSI: Las Vegas, Bones, Torchwood and in rather non-direct ways for the time being, The Justice League and Twilight. No Edward Cullen and Bella Swan will NOT be in it. Anyways, this story is a series of one shots about the children who grew up at the Sanctuary and how they became Helen's kids. I hope you enjoy this, none of the shows belong to me obviously, if you don't enjoy... well that's your problem, stop reading and don't whine to me! ~ Tygger
Intro
When Helen was young, she used to dream about the children she might one day have. She wanted four of them, she'd decided, she'd always loved big families. They would be beautiful two girls and two boys. The girls would have her blond hair and John's gentle blue eyes and the boys would have John's brown hair and her inquisitive green eyes. Her life was going to be perfect. Of course, like all dreaming little girls, one day Helen grew up. She gave up on her fairytale life with John and her dream of a big family. She stopped her pregnancy, froze it, saved it for later when she would be ready for him or her to come into the world. She waited decades, pushing her dreams to the back of her mind while a rotting knot of loneliness grew in her chest. She got old and bitter, watching those she cared about grow elderly and die around her while she stayed physically young and fresh. One day she decided it had to stop, she couldn't take it any more, the loneliness; she decided to complete her pregnancy. John, after all, had to be long gone by this point. Just months later, she couldn't believe her luck as she stared at the ultrasound. A successful pregnancy with a frozen embryo was difficult and usually failed, but to have it work and to be twins? It was practically unheard of. She decided she didn't want to know the genders just yet, so she picked two girl's names and two boy's names. She'd sort out middle names later on, but she wanted to be sure she was ready for any combination. For boys, she decided, she liked Alexander and her father's name, Gregory. Girls were more tricky, she hadn't had a lot of women she looked up to over the years to name her daughters after, there was always her old friend Delilah Whitaker of course, but things hadn't ended so well for Delilah. She'd hardly ever gotten along with her sister, Paula, and her mothers name, Mary, was too plain and old fashioned. She briefly considered Nicola, but dismissed it when she found she couldn't keep herself from laughing. Lydia, she thought, she'd always liked Lydia. It ended up being Big Guy who suggested Ashley. Helen had to think about it for a while, when she was coming from, Ashley was a boy's name, but it had just seemed to fit so well. When the day finally came, life went easy on her for once; named her son and daughter, Gregory Alexander and Ashley Lydia Magnus.
That was the intro... duh. It will get better from here, I was just giving the back story for anyone who's not completely familiar with the story of Helen Magnus. ~ Tygger