AN: Hi, there! Welcome to my story!

Every chapter I will be saying what music goes along with the chapter, or what music I listened to while I was writing it.

Names-

Madison*-Massachusetts

Lyn- New York

Holly*- California

Ash*- Oregon

Rayne*- Washington

Alice- Maine

Winter*- Alaska

Pele*- Hawaii

Snooki*- New Jersey

Austin*- Texas

When Alfred walked into his house, he heard almost nothing at first, which was very unusual. It was usually quite loud, considering he had fifty kids. He put his jacket down and walked up the marble steps, following the sound of piano and violin, and into the music room, where he saw ten of his children, Madison was playing the piano, and Lyn was accompanying her on violin. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Alfred thought almost at once. He and Madi had been taught to play by Arthur a long time ago, before certain events. He had taught Lyn, thinking that she would enjoy playing the piece with Madison. And apparently they did.

They last key was struck, the last note played, and the room erupted in applause. After the applause died down, the first to leave were Pele and Winter. Then Snooki, who was followed by Alice and Austin, so that only Lyn, Madison, Ash, Holly, and Rayne were left in the room with Alfred.

"That was," Alfred paused, trying to come up with a word that could describe what he had felt when he had heard them playing that song, "amazing."

"Epic," Ash said in agreement.

"Beautiful," Holly said.

"It was something that cannot be expressed well enough with mere words. Something that reaches into your soul and pulls out deep emotions that were unknown until music was discovered," Rayne said, ever the poet. And Alfred couldn't help but agree with her, she had said what he was feeling in a way he could not say it.

Lyn only smiled softly as she put her violin away, but Madison, who was also smiling, said, "It brings up memories of when things were slower and calmer, yet more chaotic at the same time. It brings up different memories for all of us," her eyes met Alfred's eyes, knowing that it brought up a single memory for them, "yet we don't want to forget the memory it brings up."

"Ah, my children, ever the poets," Alfred said, meeting eyes with Rayne and Madison.

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition," Holly said, "That was Eli Khamarov. I believe he was Russian, though no one knows much about him."

"Well, we must be going!" Holly exclaimed, "We promised Austin that we'd go see that new movie, True Grit, with him."
"Have fun!" Alfred said as the west coast triplets ran out the door.

"I'm going too," Lyn said, "Alice wants to go shopping."

Alfred nodded as she walked out the door, carrying her piano case. As soon as she was out of sight, Alfred returned his gaze to Madison.

"It's been so long since I've heard that song," He said mournfully, "The last time was before…" Alfred couldn't finish the sentence; for fear that he would start crying.

"I remember," Madison said as she pulled him into a hug. She was as tall as he was, with his same color blond hair down to just below her shoulders. She had blue eyes flecked with green, silver wire-rimmed glasses framing them. He felt her silently shaking, and her tears soaking his jacket. He then realized his face was wet as well, just before a memory came:

It was sunny outside, blue skies with fluffy white clouds. It seemed almost to perfect. Alfred was in the music room with Madison and Arthur. Madison was on one grand piano, he was on the other, and Arthur had his violin. "One,, two, three, four," Arthur steadily said, and on four they all started playing, Madison 3 octaves higher than Alfred, and Arthur right in between them. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, it was what Arthur had last taught them, and they were practicing for a concert that Roderich was hosting. Little did they know at that time that they would not be going. For that was the day of the start of Alfred and Madison's fight for independence. That was the last day they would get along with Arthur.

AN:

Music for This Chapter: Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven

So, the names with the asterisks are those names for certain reasons that have to do with their state, or something that was central to their state, in Madison's case. I'll give you a mention if you are the first one to guess it correctly!

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