Author's Note: Happy 2013 to everyone who's already there, and if you're not, read this again at midnight! Please, have a happy and safe holiday. :)
Sarah's POV
"I just... Don't see why he's so mad." I pet Ludo's fur.
"He's mad you told me before him." Elizabeth took a drag off of her cigarette.
"No, he's just a little ass." I smiled at Hoggle.
"He's not that bad."
"Yeah, and he has to be damn good in the sack for Sarah to fuck 'em." Elizabeth laughed as Ginger took a drag.
"I don't want to hear about that..."
"I do!" Konohanasakuya-hime laughed. "Story time!" I rolled my eyes. "Okay fine. On a scale of one to ten..."
I thought. "Nine."
"Gimme that." Elizabeth took a huge drag, and I doubled over. "Yeah. You're going to like it when I sleep with your son, and then discuss it in front of you."
"Oh god. This is awkward, isn't it?" I laughed. "I didn't realize..."
"Honey, it's fine."
"Still gross." I giggled at Hoggle.
"Sarah... Baby?" I nodded, rubbing Ludo's back again.
"Yeah."
"How far along are you now?" I shrugged.
"One month? Two? All I know is Jareth's still pissed."
"How the... You're around twenty weeks." I looked sick.
"Really?" Ginger nodded, laughing. "Wait... That means I can figure out the sex?"
"I guess. Does Jareth want to know?" I shrugged.
"Hand me a rock." They threw me a few pebbles, and I threw them at the window. Jareth popped his head out. "Jare, can I find out the sex of the baby?" He rolled his eyes.
"Sure." I smiled, and made a heart sign with my hands.
"Now how?"
"Vampires can see through skin." I raised my eyebrows at Ginger. "It's true! Do you want me to?"
"Uh... Sure." I raised my shirt over the small bump, while she and Elizabeth stared at it.
"Oh my god." Elizabeth squealed.
"Girl." Ginger smiled at me. "Or, you know, two." My jaw dropped the slightest, while Konohanasakuya-hime and Lilith squealed, and Hoggle groaned.
Back in the throne room, where Jareth had set up a second throne for me, we were sitting, both somewhat bored. "Do you want to know?" I smiled at him, and he returned and empty gaze. "We know." I smiled again. Most of the goblins were asleep, the girls had gone to their separate kingdoms, and the candles glew in the dark room.
"I think it's time to go to bed." I sighed getting up. He got up to, and I walked to the middle of the room, next to the pit.
"Come on Jare." He walked after me, curiously, and I smiled. I grabbed both his hands. He tried to squirm away. "No." He sighed. "Jareth." He looked into my eyes. "Girl..." I placed one of his hands on one side of my stomach.
"Girl?"
"And... Girl." I placed his other hand on the other side. He looked at my stomach, and then back at me. "Twins."
He stammered a bit. "I still don't forgive you... But... Twins?" I nodded, biting my lip. He pulled me into a big hug. "Twins..." He laughed a bit.
Jareth's POV
"Jareth." I turned over, and Sarah hit me. "JARETH!" I looked at her, groggily.
"Wha-hat?"
"I think... I think that was my water breaking." I eyes widened, all tiredness out.
"And... And you're sure?" She nodded, the blood running out of her face. "I'll get Ginger, you fill the tub." She nodded, getting out of bed. I helped her, and wrapped her in a hug. "I love you." She laughed.
"Love you too." She waddled into the bathroom.
In a few hours, Ginger and Mother were here. Ginger went in with Sarah in the bathroom, and mother sat in the bedroom with me. "Are you okay?"
"Honestly? Not at all." I sighed. "I mean... Listen to her. I've never felt more... Helpless. I've always liked to be in control, but to listen to her in there... Screaming from something I did to her... It's just... Horrible." I was tearing myself to pieces, and mother could tell. "I feel like a terrible father saying this... But I don't think I could love anything that caused her so much pain." Sarah's screaming had morphed into crying, and I put my head in my hands.
"Elizabeth." Mother patted me on the back, and went in the bathroom. They were in there for about fifteen minutes. "Jare? You have company." I walked into the bathroom, and mother and Ginger shut the door, leaving Sarah and I alone.
"Hey." Her voice cracked. "Do you want to... You know... Hold them?" She looked hopefully as I took my gloves off, and grabbed one of the babies, wrapped in a fluffy pink towel. I parted it away from her head, and she stirred. Her perfect little round face, her bright blue eyes, her little button nose, and her perfectly pink little lips. "And she looks just like her. Identical, really. But she has my eyes, brown." I looked, and, sure enough, the one she was holding had brown eyes, the only difference.
"What are their names?" She shrugged. "What was your mother's name?"
"Alice, but I don't think that-"
"Alice is a lovely name." She smiled at me. "And for a middle name?"
"Her middle name was Victoria." I nodded.
"Alice Victoria Jones. Now, which one?" Sarah nodded.
"This one. My mother had brown eyes, and I can almost see her in her face..." I smiled at Sarah, but she was too busy looking at Alice.
"Another name?" I thought for a moment.
"Do you have one?"
"Well, uh, I may have... One... But uh... It's not..." Sarah placed her hand on my shoulder. "Madeline Yvette." She smiled at me.
"Does that name have any significance?"
"Not really... Uh, Madeline, for my younger sister who lived in the mortal world, during the fifteen hundreds, and Yvette for her uh, partner, that they both got stoned for."
"That sounds significant to you. And anything that is significant to you is significant to me." She ran her finger over Madeline's head. "Madeline?" She opened her wide eyes, and looked at Sarah. "It suits her." I smiled at her. My daughter. Mother and Hera came back in.
"You take it back now Jareth?" I nodded, smiling to the little girl.
"Take what back?" I smiled at Sarah, and then back down at Madeline.
