It's back and all new! Even though my life is now busier than I ever dreamed, I still like writing about these two, and I had more ideas, so this came to be. I hope you enjoy! Your reviews help fuel my writing, so yeah.

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT DO NOT READ BEFORE OTHER FICS

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"Baby, you need to be more careful," Jemmea hollered to her son. Zero sat beside her, attempting to talk to her, but her attention kept getting pulled away by the twins.

The adults were sitting on a bench in an enormous playroom that was more or less an indoor playground in the Kaiba Mansion. It had slides, swings, structures, diggers, you name it. There was a loft that the kids could climb to, having the option to climb up by staggered levels, nautical netting, or a rock wall, complete with another slide for them to get down. A stream embellished with exotic fish ran under a thick sheet of glass, connecting a fountain near where the adults sat to a boat that rocked on the safe small area of water it covered. A cave lit only by tiny dazzling lights separated the boat and the loft, it just went on in the big open room. All this was to be expected, however, as their father owned the largest and most successful chain of amusement parks in the world.

Jackson was running and had fallen. He was ok, but still on his hands and knees in the moment of shock. Jemmea saw the problem. "Jackson, walk over here, please," she firmly requested.

He pulled himself up and came over to his mother, who pulled him up into her lap. "I don't know why we have shoes that lace for you, but Mommy's over them," she began, all done with the magical children's laces that never stayed tied.

At this point Artemis had slowed, turning back to see what was going on as being chased lost its fun without the second person. She watched as Jem pulled the shoes off, tossing them over her shoulders as she removed each one. After she quickly pulled the socks off, she held up her hands. "No shoes!" she said to her son, Jackson watching her. He smiled, then climbed down, running back to his twin as though playing with no shoes was the coolest thing in the world.

"You seem happy," Zero commented. "You like this mom thing, huh?"

"Who knew, right?" she replied, sitting back and crossing her arms. "You know, my whole life I was so busy focusing on what I didn't want that I never really stopped to think about what I did want. After meeting him, it became quite obvious to me that I wanted Seto, but I think what I always wanted was a loving family. A functioning, normal, loving family. So yeah, I am happy."

Artemis was suddenly envious of Jackson's bare feet. "I don't want to wear shoes!" she cried.

Jem sighed, having to be fair. "Ok, come here." Artemis quickly ran to her and Jem hauled her up, discarding her Mary-Janes and then pulling at her tights. "You know, Grandpa Avery dresses you very cute, but I don't know how practical it is for a four-year-old," Jem quipped. Artemis just laid back into her mother, watching and waiting. As she worked, Jem finally returned to her friend. "Sorry Zero, what were you saying?"

He had just waited a very long time, and no longer felt like he wanted to spend time on a prelude for this. He just cut to the chase. "I'm marrying Serenity."

Jem raised her eyebrows and sighed. It was good for Zero, but she still found Serenity annoying. She finished with the hosiery, pecking her daughter on the head and sliding her from her lap.

"You sure about this?" she asked as she watched her daughter run off.

"I am," he answered. "Mostly I'm telling you because I want you to be there." He turned to watch the children with her. "I would prefer it just be the two of us, but she has all her family and friends and wants them there. You're the only friend I have in my corner."

"Ugh, fine. I'll go and I'll do my best," she conceded.

"And it's not a plus one, unless you bring Mokuba. Your husband didn't allow me at his wedding so I don't see why I should allow him at mine."

"You say that as though my husband would even take a second to consider going," Jem replied dryly.

"Perfect, Serenity and her friends all hate him."

"I'm pretty sure he hated them first." She sighed. "Have you selected a date yet?"

"It's next Saturday," he answered.

"What? That's fast."

"No," he replied simply. "We've been engaged for almost a year. I didn't tell you because if you had enough time to think about it, you'd get too worked up over the social situation to go." Zero reached into his pocket and extracted her invitation, extending it to her between his fingers. She accepted it. "I'll see you then," he offered as a farewell, standing and starting to walk away.

"Zero," she called after him. He paused to look over his shoulder. Just as he had declared before her marriage, she told him, "You're an idiot." Since that was all, he just turned around and continued.

Artemis heard this and stopped, thinking this was funny, and turned to look at him. "Ha, idiot!" she called as he closed the door.

"No!" Jem snapped, her head whirling towards her girl. "Only I call Zero an idiot. That's a Mommy word."

"And a Daddy word," Artemis added confidently, nodding in a very know-it-all sort of way.

"'Idiot' is definitely a Daddy word," Jem uttered mostly to herself.

"Yeah, because Daddy calls Zero and idiot too, right?" Jackson piped up, seeming to think he was contributing something meaningful to the conversation.

Jem just looked at him and sighed, never hearing this from Seto, but not surprised in the least. "Your father would call Zero an idiot." She couldn't dispute it, nor could she control it. All she could do was love him. "But you don't. Now go play."

Next Chapter: Monsters

"Jackson, what is it?" I implored.

"Monsters- are out- to get me," he heaved hysterically before beginning to sob again.