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"What did you say, Neal?" Dom asked momentarily forgetting to call his cousin Meathead.
"Um I said Kel is having triplets." Neal supplied. Dom gaped at his cousin.
"I don't believe you." Kel said crossing her arm across her chest. "This is some kind of conspiracy." She declared.
"I can run the test again." Neal answered.
"What makes you think I'll believe you if you run it a second time?"
"I can ask my Dad to do the test again then."
"No you can't because Dom hasn't told the rest of your family that I'm pregnant."
"You two should really get on that."
"You're missing the point." Kel answered.
"Fine, I'll get Alanna to do it then, do you think Alanna would quote 'conspire' against you?"
"No." Kel said sullenly.
"Good. I'll go get her." Neal said leaving the room. Dom was still staring open mouthed. Neal returned five minutes later with Alanna.
"What's this about, Nealan?" Alanna asked.
"Kel doesn't believe me about what I found during her exam so she wants you to give her a second opinion."
"About what?" Alanna asked as her hand lit up with a purple glow.
"Just give her the exam and you'll see." Neal answered. Alanna mumbled about impudent former squires before placing her hand on Kel's stomach much like Neal had done and closed her eyes.
"Mithros! Kel did you know you're having triplets?" Alanna asked.
"See!" Neal exclaimed.
"…"
"Kel? Hellooooooooooooo?" Neal asked waving a hand in front of her face.
"Do you remember that conversation we had when Neal and Yuki first had the twins?" Kel asked Dom her tone dangerously soft.
"Um…no." Dom said.
"Allow me to refresh your memory then. The conversation where you told me that we would never have to worry about having more then one kid at a time because Neal got it from the other side of his family."
"Oh, well it may have er slipped my mind that triplets do run in our er family?" Dom asked phrasing it as a question rather then an answer. He glared at Alanna and Neal who were taking bets on whether Kel would hit Dom and if she did hit him how hard she'd do it.
"Just SLIPPED your mind?" Kel asked. Dom stood up nervously and smiled at his wife.
"Um…yeah?"
"She's going to hurt you, you know that right?" Neal asked his cousin.
"No really, Meathead? I couldn't tell." Dom said sarcastically.
"I'm not the one who forgot that there have been oh about three sets of triplets in our family in the last six generations."
"Three sets?! Three? THERE WERE THREE SETS OF TRIPLETS IN YOUR FAMILY AND YOU DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS SIGINIFIGANT?" Kel exclaimed.
"Um…" Dom said right before he ended up on the ground.
"I think you gave him a black eye." Alanna commented. "It's turning purple." She added. "Is it bleeding?" She inquired.
"Yeah, I think it is." Neal answered.
"Could one of you just heal my eye?!" Dom asked.
"No, I don't heal idiot husbands who don't tell their wives such important things." Alanna answered.
"And I don't want Alanna or Kel to hit me." Neal answered. "But there's some ice in the other room." He added as an afterthought. "I'd have run away before she hit me." Neal observed when Dom came back into the room.
"Yes, well I'm braver then you are." Dom answered holding the ice on his eye which had swollen shut.
"More like stupider."
"And what standard of intelligence are you using for this analysis?" Dom inquired.
"Again who didn't remember that there were three sets of triplets in six generations?" Neal repeated. Dom waved the hand not holding the ice to his face dismissively.
"That's just a lack of long term memory. It has nothing to do with intelligence."
"Do you hear yourself when you talk?"
"That depends on whether you can…" Dom's retort to his cousin was cut off by Alanna who had grown bored with their bickering.
"Be quiet, children." Alanna said. "Oh and Dom stop trying to escape from the room." Alanna said referring to the fact that Dom had been backing steadily closer to the door throughout the entire conversation.
"I'm not trying to escape I'm uh taking a stroll around the room."
"Right." Neal said sarcastically. "I thought you said you were 'braver' then me?"
"I am." Dom said taking another noticeable step backwards.
"What did I tell you two about arguing?!" Alanna exclaimed.
"But…" Neal started.
"The next one of you who talks is coming to the practice courts with me." Alanna said causing both men to close their mouths with an audible click. "Isn't the silence lovely, Kel?" Alanna inquired winking at the other lady knight.
"Why, yes, yes it is."
"It's so peaceful when these idiots shut up." Alanna commented.
"I agree with you there. Such a shame that situation with…" Kel started
"Yes, it really is a shame, it's such a scandal." Alanna said continuing with the process of baiting one of the boys into talking.
"What? What happened?" Neal burst out.
"Nothing." Alanna said with an evil grin.
"You just talked, Meathead, which means you get to go have some more big fun sparring with Alanna." Dom said with an evil grin. Neal turned pale realizing his mistake just Alanna grabbed him by the arm and dragged him from the room as she waved good bye to Kel. Dom realized that he was now alone with his wife who probably still wanted to kill him. He turned around when he heard the door slam shut. Dom hadn't even heard Kel come up behind him. "Hello, dear, lovely morning isn't it." Dom asked nervously as Kel grabbed the collar of Dom's shirt pulling him down a few inches so that his face was level with hers. "It's not like I knew you were going to get pregnant with three kids."
"Actually, you knew there was a good possibility would." Kel replied.
"But I forgot." Dom whined.
"Yes well that's all fine and dandy but you aren't the one who has to give birth to three kids. Do you have any idea how much that would hurt?" Kel inquired as her husband turned pale shaking his head. "Let's put it this way when Alanna first went into labor with one kid she broke George's hand, actually she pretty much smashed all of the bones in it. Took the healers awhile to figure out how to repair it."
"Erm…I think I here Raoul calling me." Dom said managing to free himself from his wife's grasp. He then turned and headed at a rather fast pace from the room. Kel shook her head at him, it really was quite fun making him squirm, actually although she'd yet to tell Dom this (because really he deserved it for forgetting that triplets run in his family) she was quite happy with the prospect of having three kids at once now that she had thought about it. Their were several benefits to it, 1st that triplets are just so cute, and 2nd that this way since she'd wanted to have at least three kids eventually she would have to take less time off work if she had them all at once.
Raoul and Dom and Neal…
"What happened to you two?" Raoul asked upon seeing Dom and Neal slumped over in the mess hall. Neal was covered in a smattering of bruises which were turning colors Raoul hadn't thought possible and various cuts and Dom's eye while already swollen shut was now an interesting shade which bordered between blue and purple.
"Lady Knights." Neal mumbled not bothering to lift his head from the table.
"Ah." Raoul said. "I'm assuming you both lost the fight."
"For all you know Alanna and Kel could be lying in the infirmary as we speak."
"Actually based on my powers of deduction which include A. Neither of you would actually hit Kel in her current state or really at all for that matter, B. Even if you would you'd lose, C. Neal you've never beaten Alanna nor have you, Dom for that matter, and D. Kel had an appointment with Neal today which leads me to the conclusion that she found out something she wasn't to thrilled with and punched Dom."
"Okay, so maybe your right about the Dom part but you never said how I ended up sparring with Alanna yet again." Neal mumbled.
"Isn't it obvious? You said something stupid and Alanna dragged you forcibly from the room to the practice courts."
"How does he do that?" Neal exclaimed.
"Years of practice." Dom answered fighting the urge to glare at his commander.
A/N Next chapter will have lots of lovely fluff in it. As long as I get lots of reviews!