He had never been this worried. It didn't make sense really, she had been in much more dangerous situations than this many times, but he couldn't help her out of this one. So he did the only thing he could do: pace back and forth and wait for word from the doctor.

Max continued to watch him pace and tried to reassure him.

"Ben, she'll be fine, she's strong and she has the best doctor you could ask for with her."

"Yeah, I know, but I can't help but be worried."

As Ben continued to pace Gwen's dad Frank also looked, well, at least apprehensive, Carl looked kind of amused at Ben's current state. Sandra and Lilly were lost in their own conversation.

"Ben," Xylene said. "Will you please sit down, you're making me nervous."

Ben grinned at this, making her nervous, not likely. She was just trying to change his focus…it worked.

"Okay, anything for you GRANDMA."

Xylene pretended to dislike being called grandma, but everyone could tell she liked it. She had grown quite fond of Max's Family, now her family, over the years. Ben sat next to her.

"She'll be fine, you'll see."

Ben smiled at her reassurance.

A short time later a nurse came out to the waiting room. "Mr. Tennyson" Four men looked at her; she clarified. "Mr. Ben Tennyson"

Ben walked over to her more afraid than he'd ever been, but also more hopeful.

"Is she okay?"

The nurse smiled. Wow, that smile must get a lot of attention. It would from me if I were single, Ben thought.

From that smile came a very calming voice. "She's doing fine, she's resting now, you can see her latter. In the meantime why don't you meet your son…and your daughter?"

The nurse led them to the nursery and to two basinets. Ben was awestruck at the small forms in front of him. He knew that being opposite genders that they couldn't be identical twins but they looked like it; both had brown hair with a hint of orange in it and both had green eyes like their parents.

A short time later Ben was with Gwen in her room. Gwen had the two babies in bed with her and Ben was fawning over all three of them.

"So, given any thought to names?" Ben asked.

"Yeah, I don't know, for the boy how about Kenneth?"

Ben smiled, "Ken…why, just to rhyme?"

"No, the name came to me in a dream once. I dreamed that I had a brother named Ken, I Never had the dream again but I thought it was a nice name."

"Sounds like a weird dream."

"I haven't told you the strangest part, but for now let's keep our eye on the baby naming ball."

Ben laughed. "Okay, but how about we name him after a real relative, how about Maxwell."

"Perfect, Maxwell it is, now what about our baby girl."

"Hmm, How about naming her after your mother, Lilly"

"Well, I've been thinking about that for a few months now, I kind of like the name Jennifer, Jenny for short."

"You know everyone will call her Jen."

"Yeah, I guess they will. But I'll call her mommy's baby girl." Gwen said as she looked lovingly down at her daughter.

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Ten years later Ben and Gwen were relaxing in the lounge of their headquarters. They heard the twins playing, Ben loved that sound.

"I'm so glad that those two get along so well. We could hardly stand each other at that age."

"Yeah, I remember. You know I think you finding the omnitrix is what kept us from drifting apart any farther than we had."

"Fighting for your life will do that." Ben thought back to that summer when he had found the onmitrix, instead of its intended recipient Max.

Gwen interrupted his thoughts asking, "So, any decisions about birthday gifts?"

"Well, like we thought Azmuth will only make one; so we have to decide which one gets it."

Gwen nodded adding, "And how to prevent the other from feeling left out."

"Yeah, and I think we both know who should get it."

"I know," Jen was the obvious choice; but Gwen worried that her son would fell like he had no place in the family business without something unique, something to set him apart; she didn't want him feeling like a sidekick, a tag along… Would he be okay just using plumber tech to fight alongside his sister and the rest of his family. Maybe Max was a more fitting name than she could have known.

"Fortunately they don't get jealous of each other much. Hopefully it won't be too much of a problem." she said. Now can I convince myself of that? She thought.

They went to the next room where Max and Jen were playing with the family's pet cat; a solid black cat that Ben had insisted on calling Lucky Girl. The kids had Lucky Girl chasing a toy mouse on a string. They would run the mouse across the room so she could run after it and lift it in the air to watch her jump to a height equal to Max's height and taller that Jen. All three of them seemed to be having fun.

"Where did you get the idea to get a cat for us Ben?"

Ben smiled at the memory, and the sight of his kids playing with the little animal. "I was talking to an online friend of mine, he goes by the name darthdragon, he was telling me about his cats and I thought you and the kids might enjoy having a pet here." Ben paused to watch the cat try to 'gut' the mouse she had just caught.

"When I found this little black cat it just reminded me of your old costume and I decided to bring her home."

When the kids noticed their parents enter the room Max handed the string of the cat toy to his sister and came over to them.

"Mom, what's that book on the third shelf over there?" He said as he pointed to a book that once had belonged to Charmcaster.

"Yeah and why can't I read it?" Jen added

Gwen was both surprised and very happy; one of her children was taking after her. "But you can read it? "She asked Max

"Yeah," he answered; "There's all kinds of cool stuff in there."

Gwen walked over to the shelf and picked up the book, surprised at how excited she was. She walked back toward the lounge and motioned to Max to follow.

"Come with me and I'll tell you all about it."