"Please, Master!" Trophy begged as her body writhed sensuously on the dining room table where he had her partially restrained, with her hands tied up.

"Please, what?" Baralai asked her.

"Please finish fucking me!" she pleaded.

"Then say it." he demanded as he pinned her arms above her head and her legs with his own to hold her still. "Say it!" he snapped when she didn't reply right away.

Trophy gave up her futile attempts to get him inside her and ceased struggling, bowing her head in submission. "Happy anniversary, Master." she said obediently.

"Happy anniversary, Trophy." Baralai smiled as he forcibly took his willing slave wife.

"Did I make a good present for you, Master?" Trophy asked as they were enjoying the afterglow.

"Your performance was excellent as usual." he praised her.

"But our dessert…" she said as she noticed the untouched decadent chocolate cake still on the plate waiting to be sliced and enjoyed.

"I'll show you something special for that later…but first I should give you my present, shouldn't I?" he casually remarked, smiling again at her excited response to him.

"Oh yes, please Master!" she exclaimed.

Just as Baralai got off the table, the hymn of the fayth started playing, and he rummaged through his discarded clothes and pulled out his phone. "Hello?" he answered discouragingly, not at all happy at the interruption. "Now?! Of course, we'll be there as soon as we can."

"What is it, Master?" Trophy asked, becoming intrigued at his reaction to the call. The look of awestruck surprise on his face was new to her.

"Get dressed." he ordered her as he started to himself. "We've got an unexpected present…Yuna just went into labor. Gippal's on his way here to give us a lift."

"Oh!" Trophy hurried to get her clothes on.

The flight to Mt. Gagazet seemed to take forever for Trophy, and she passed the time by going over the past year in her head. The constant time spent at the medical research facility between Djose and the Moonflower until Yuna was successfully impregnated with her own fertilized egg had been helpful in taking her mind off the revelations that kept coming over and over again…

Leblanc hadn't been willing to help them at first, still bitter that she would never be with Nooj and Trophy's part in it, but the threat of facing charges for conspiracy like Alase changed her mind. It had disturbed them all to learn that the resurgence of hatred against the Al Bhed was because of their part in helping Yuna bring the Eternal Calm, destroying the order of Yevon and any use for summoners in the process. People had secretly nursed their grievances until vengeance became all they could think of. Trophy was a target not only because the leader of New Yevon marrying the leader of the Al Bhed's daughter was unforgivable to them, and they also wanted to make Yuna suffer as well, stripping her of everything important as punishment for her 'crimes'. So Kimahri offered Yuna and her family sanctuary on Mt. Gagazet for the duration of the pregnancy, her location kept well hidden from everyone, who were only told she was taking a sabbatical.

Baralai was also fighting impatience, but he was distracting himself with thoughts of the future. Remembering that they were interrupted from their private celebration, he pulled a small box out of his pocket. "Hold out your hand." he ordered his slave wife, placing the box on it once she obeyed. "Now open it."

"A butt plug, Master?" she asked after looking inside the box.

"The room is finished." he explained. "And I wanted you to have that before we christen it, because…"

"My ass is yours." she repeated automatically, looking adoringly at him. "Thank you, Master." She had confessed her nightmares to him, and after talking about it for a while, she also admitted that she was more scared that they might actually be some hidden/repressed desire of hers than she was of essentially being held prisoner and raped. So after more discussion, they decided to make some adjustments to the playroom, building that little 'prison cell' exactly as it had been in her nightmares, and the next time they had a party there, she would be chained up naked in there, and it would be open season on her. They each had their own stipulations though. She wanted the neck collar to be customized somehow so it would release her if she whispered their safe word and she could return to her Master's side,. He didn't mind her getting firsthand experience with other Masters, and probably a few Mistresses, but Baralai wanted her ass to remain for him alone, and she had agreed, hence the butt plug. Looking at it in the box, all she could think of was how lucky she was…her Master was giving her the support she needed to face and overcome her fears, and to her this was a symbol of that unwavering support. She would always be his, so her fear of being abandoned by him was definitely meaningless.

"How is she?" Trophy asked Kimahri when they arrived.

"Come this way." he replied in his usual taciturn way as he turned and started walking down the snowy path, leaving Baralai and Trophy to follow him. They started hearing Yuna's pained cries from the contractions halfway there, Tidus' supportive comments becoming audible a little bit later. They also heard a voice they didn't recognize.

"It's about time you're here, I don't think this is going to take much longer." Tidus exclaimed and when they entered the hot springs cavern, Yuna being attended by a Ronso midwife, a sign of the great esteem Yuna was held in by them, since most Ronso women gave birth on their own without any help. Only the Elder's mate was usually allowed the honor.

"Why the hot springs?" Trophy asked as she let Tidus drag her to Yuna's side, suddenly feeling reluctant to see this through.

"Khlarn said it's the best place for the 'hornless' to give birth." he explained.

"I'm glad you're here." Yuna panted, grabbing her cousin's hand. "Bracht wasn't like this."

"Twins." Khlarn finally spoke as she finished checking Yuna over.

"Twins?" Baralai uttered as everyone stared at Khlarn in surprise.

"Oh I…" Yuna stopped talking as she was hit by the strongest contraction yet, and things proceeded from there. Khlarn started chanting something they didn't understand as she put her hands on Yuna's stomach again, and then urged her to push.

"Head visible. Push harder!" Khlarn said. A few moments later, the first baby was delivered.

"What's wrong?" Baralai asked Trophy when she didn't take the baby from Khlarn who was holding the newborn girl out to her.

"I…am I really her mother?" Trophy sobbed, her emotions running the gamut from joy to despair, and she realized it started when she saw Khlarn. Their own midwife Dolna had been part of the conspiracy, and it was her being pregnant that sent them over the edge, considering the unborn child an abomination.

Baralai took their daughter from Khlarn just in time as the other baby was ready as well. "Hold your daughter." he gently told her, but her hands wouldn't stop trembling, so he supported her just as Tidus took the boy from Khlarn to hand to them.

"I'm…I'm glad you have your family now, Rikku." Yuna said tiredly.

"Thanks to you, Yunie." Trophy couldn't quit crying, not caring what her cousin called her right now. "I didn't know…"

"None of us knew it was twins, but two babies for our second anniversary works, doesn't it?" Baralai asked her as he took hold of their son.

"It's not that." Trophy said brokenly. "I…we wanted to be surprised if we were having a boy or a girl, so I don't know what we lost."

"What we lost is in the past now." he reminded her. "This is our future."

"I know, but can we name her Saudade, Master?" she asked.

"And what of our son?" he wanted to know.

"How about Yunan?" she suggested.

"Very well." he agreed.

Their daughter started crying then, followed by their son, and Trophy couldn't resist loving them anymore. Baralai helped her hold their twins as she tried to soothe them, since she never had any real experience with babies. "Why aren't they stopping crying?" she asked.

"Hungry." Khlarn said.

Sadness now started to overcome her again as she had to relinquish them so they could be taken back to Yuna for their first feeding. "Will they still love me even though I'm only half a mother?"

"There's no such thing as half a mother." Yuna managed to summon enough energy to speak. "I had doubts about myself when I had Bracht. It's perfectly natural."

As soon as the twins had drunk their fill, they fell asleep, giving their parents a chance to reclaim them. "It's a good thing we've got plenty of formula at home." Baralai said.

Gippal came hurrying into the cavern. "How's everything going? Fine it looks like, congratulations you guys! But it's getting late, do you want to head home now?"

"Are you coming too?" Trophy asked her cousin.

"No, I've been too spoiled with these hot springs, I think I'll stay another day or two." Yuna replied sleepily as Tidus picked her up to carry her to their special cave accommodations. "I want to enjoy them now that I can get out of a chair again without a crane."

"Then let's go home, Mom." Baralai said.

"Yes, Master." she replied and let him lead her to the airship. "I love you two." she told them as they took off, thinking that he was right, they needed to focus on the future. Memories are nice, but that's all they are, she reminded herself. "I'll do everything I can for you two." she promised them.