Sunlight flooded the bedroom with one tug on the blinds. Kurt sat down on the bed next to his still sleeping husband, kissed him on the cheek, and quietly started singing.

"Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime
Say the word and I will follow you
Say you need me with you here, beside you
Promise me that all you say is true
Love me, that's all I ask of you"

Kurt was about to keep singing when Blaine suddenly opened his eyes and pulled him into a kiss. "Hey," scolded Kurt teasingly. "You pretended to be asleep again."

"Only for the first thirty seconds." Blaine yawned and sat up in the bed. Kurt giggled and brushed back Blaine's un-gelled curls unsuccessfully. "There's something I have to show you. Come here."

Blaine followed Kurt to the spare room and gasped a little when he saw what was different about it. The walls, which had been grey the day before, were now pure white and decorated with wall decals of adorable smiling moneys, elephants, and giraffes.

Kurt glanced over at Blaine. "Do you like it? I know it's a little early, but I wanted to go with a unisex theme anyway, so I thought…" he was interrupted by Blaine pulling him into another kiss.

"It's perfect," Blaine insisted. "Let's get something to eat. I think Rachel said we should meet her for the doctor's appointment around ten."

In Lima, Ohio, Artie was sitting in bed feeding Anna Carly a bottle of warm milk. Tina was in the living room, probably talking to Mike about something again.

"Is Daddy really really getting sick of living with Uncle Mike?" crooned Artie to the little girl. "Yes he is!" The baby just cooed in response. Artie had to smile. It was difficult to stay upset around Anna Carly. Especially since she was really bonding with them now.

"Did you and Mike make any plans for today?" asked Artie sarcastically.

"Mike just left," said Tina. "He's going to stay with his brother for awhile."

"Whew," said Artie. "Surprised he didn't say goodbye. Any idea why he just decided to leave now?"

"Um, well, he…" Tina bit her lip. "He sort of admitted that the reason he was staying here was because of me. Like, because he likes me."

Artie sighed bitterly. "I knew it."

"It doesn't matter," said Tina quickly. "I didn't know until just now, and nothing's ever gonna happen."

"Do you wish you'd ended up with him?" asked Artie.

Tina's eyebrows shot up. "How could you even ask something like that?"

"Aren't we, and half our friends, living proof that high school relationships can last? You easily could have ended up with him. Don't you ever wish you were married to someone who could give you children of your own?"

Tina's jaw dropped open in shock. "N…no, Artie. That's never occurred to me." She moved closer and sat down on the edge of the bed right next to him. "You, me, our baby, our jobs at the school…this is all I want. It's all I've ever dreamed of."

She leaned and planted a long kiss on her husband's lips, and then they all got up and got ready for breakfast. All were content.

Kurt and Blaine watched intently as Rachel's obstetrician ran the usual tests, checked her vital signs, and asked her about symptoms. Their faces broke out into grins every time he said something was going well, and the rest of the time they just sat there hanging on his every word and glancing repeatedly at Rachel's stomach where they knew their child was growing even though she wasn't even remotely showing yet.

"You two look like kids on Christmas morning," Rachel teased.

Blaine turned to Kurt. "Do you realize that by next year we'll have a kid on Christmas morning? We can get one of those Baby's First Christmas stockings and everything."

"Everything definitely seems to be going well thus far," said the doctor. "But because you underwent fertility treatments we'd like to run an ultrasound just to be sure." He hesitated in case Kurt and Blaine started worrying that something might go wrong. Instead they both squealed.

"We get to see our baby for the first time!" said Blaine.

"Will you be able to tell if it's a boy or a girl?" asked Kurt.

"Not this early, no."

Rachel laid back patiently and let the ultrasound technicians come in and cover her flat belly in the cold goop.

"Is that the baby?" asked Kurt as soon as something came up on the screen.

"I'm not sure," said the doctor. "I can't see much yet. Do you want to hear the baby's heartbeat?" Kurt and Blaine nodded vigorously and squeezed each other's hand, then Kurt grabbed Rachel's hand too and nearly crushed it.

"Nervous?" she whispered.

"Very."

For a split second, Rachel was terrified that the doctor was going to put the stethoscope to her belly and there wasn't going to be a heartbeat. What if the embryo hadn't stuck after all? What if she'd failed them?

Kurt, Blaine, and Rachel all breathed an audible sigh of relief when the stethoscope was amplified and the steady heartbeat echoed through the room.

"That's my baby," whispered Blaine. He and Kurt both moved closer to Rachel's stomach as if that would help them hear the heartbeat better.

Rachel looked up at the doctor sharply. "What's wrong?"

Kurt froze. "What do you mean what's wrong?"

"I've had children of my own," said Rachel worriedly. "My baby's hearts weren't beating this fast."

"Hold on a minute." The doctor moved the stethoscope around a little bit as she felt Kurt's hand grow cold in hers. He looked up at them after a minute and smiled.

"There's nothing wrong with the baby's heart. It's simple: both of the embryos we implanted stuck.

Kurt's head shot up. "W…what?"

"Mr. and Mr. Hummel-Anderson, you're having twins."

That was when Kurt's heart started pounding.

"Oh my god," he whispered. Blaine wrapped his arm around Kurt's waist.

The doctor glanced up in concern. "If you aren't comfortable with that idea, we could see if Rachel is eligible for the two-minus-one procedure."

"No, no," said Kurt and Blaine in unison.

"This is amazing," said Blaine. "Terrifying, but amazing."

Kurt nodded in agreement. He wasn't sure whether to squeal or scream when the image of his two miniature unborn children came up on the screen.

"My babies."

Within an hour, everyone in the Hudson-Hummel-Anderson-Berry clan had heard the news that Kurt and Blaine were expecting twins. Blaine's mother half-screamed into the phone and then immediately sent over a box of matching unisex outfits. Francey congratulated them and demanded more information about Rachel's symptoms in medical terms the rest of them didn't even understand. Burt and Carole were secretly a little overwhelmed by the thought of two new grandbabies at once but were thrilled at the same time. Ariana immediately offered to babysit and push them in her doll stroller. Aiden started asking several times a day when the seeds were going to finish growing. Lily went straight to making room on her family tree for two new cousins.

That night, Finn went into Lily's room to tell her to go to bed. "Just a few minutes, Daddy," said Lily. "I have to finish my homework."

"Fifteen minutes and not a second longer," said Finn.

"Okay," said Lily.

"Hey, Drizzle?" Lily looked up at Finn with her sparkly green eyes. "What do you think about Kurt and Blaine having twins?"

"Awesome," Lily gave a thumbs-up. "I hope they're girls! Then you'll really be outnumbered!"

"Hey."

Lily laughed. Then after a second, she asked, "What do you think about it?"

Finn shrugged. "If Rachel's going to have two babies for Kurt and Blaine, they might as well be both at once."

"Yeah," said Lily. "Imagine the kicking."

Finn had to laugh. "Goodnight, Drizzle."

"Night, Daddy."

As soon as Finn left the room, Lily opened her backpack and spread the little homework she had left to do out on her bed. Just half a page of math problems a paragraph left on her essay. She finished quickly, repacked her bag, and then grabbed the yearbook from her shelf and opened it to the page with her mom's pictures on it. She always looked at it once before going to sleep. Lily ran her finger down the side of the page and felt something bumpy. She flipped through the book and found a study envelope inside with a note on the front that said, "You ar not allowd to menshon these until I tell you you can". Lily smiled and set the book down on her shelf and opened the envelope. Inside there was no note, just a small stack of photographs with dates on them so Lily knew they were taken mostly on August of 2009. The first was a picture of her mother and Santana in cheerleading uniforms chatting in the hallway. The second was a picture of a cheerleading pyramid with Quinn on the top. The third was a picture of Finn and Quinn sitting together in the choir room going over a script together. Lily immediately put that one aside and decided it was her favorite. There weren't that many pictures of her parents together, so those were special. She looked at her newest one and wished whoever had taken it had been a better photographer. As was, half of Finn was cropped out.

The fourth picture was of Quinn sitting outside on a bench reading a fashion magazine. The fifth was a picture of Quinn doing a cartwheel on the field. The fourth was a picture of Quinn in the choir room singing with Brittany and Santana.

Suddenly, Lily noticed that Quinn was never actually looking at the camera in any of these pictures, not even the ones where she wasn't performing. Maybe these were supposed to be candid shots. Or maybe Quinn hadn't realized they were being taken at all.

The next three pictures were of Quinn eating in the lunchroom with Finn and the other football players and cheerleaders. One of them had only half of Quinn's face and mostly just her chest. "Gross," mumbled Lily as she flipped to the final photograph. What she saw made her freeze and almost drop the stack of pictures in shock.

Dated early September 2009, exactly nine months before Lily was born, there was a photograph of Quinn sprawled out naked on a flowery bedspread. Her cheerleading uniform was in a pathetic heap next to her elbow, and there were about six small empty alcohol bottles scattered around.

The sloppy handwriting had been one thing. The strangely worded notes. The pictures Lily had never seen.

But why would my father give me a nude photo of my own mother?

Between the questions popping up in her mind and the fact that just seeing the picture all by itself had scarred her for life, Lily Hudson got about four hours of sleep that night.

"Lily?" Lily woke up with a start when Rachel pounded on the door a second time. "Time for breakfast!"

Lily's head was pounding as she dragged herself out of bed and to the bathroom. Besides being exhausted, at this point she felt like she was going to be sick. Especially at the thought of seeing her father at breakfast after he gave her at that.

"Rachel, where's Daddy?" asked Lily when she got downstairs and didn't see him.

"He left for a conference," said Rachel. "It's only a couple of hours away, so he'll be back by tonight. Will you do me a favor and feed your brother while I get dressed?"

"Okay," mumbled Lily as she sat down across from Aiden's high chair and tried to coax him into eating his cereal.

"Mommy has an audition today," chirped Ariana. "So you, me, and Aiden get to go to Uncle Blaine after school!"

"Great," said Lily sarcastically. Which meant that Aiden would probably be staying with Blaine all day, too.

"Good morning, children," said Carole as she briskly entered the room and planted a kiss on each of her grandkid's heads. She stopped for a moment when Lily wrapped an arm around her.

"Grandma, can I talk to you for a second?" asked Lily quietly.

"It's not a good time, dear," said Carole. "Your Grandpa Burt and I are finally leaving for our honeymoon!"

"What?" said Lily. "You've been married for ten years!"

"Back when we got married we needed the money for a down payment on our new house and to help Uncle Kurt get into private school," Carole explained. "So we never got to go. But this morning, Burt surprised me with tickets for a cruise to the Bahamas."

"When do you have to leave?" asked Lily.

"Two hours!" said Carole. "Good thing he already made arrangements with Blaine to take care of your brother, huh? Imagine all the packing I have to do!" Carole dashed back upstairs to decide what clothes she wanted to bring.

Lily had to force herself to keep eating her cereal as her head continued to spin. She couldn't talk to her father or either of her grandparents about what she'd seen, telling Rachel would just be embarrassing, and Kurt was probably busy if Blaine was the one watching them.

As soon as Rachel got upstairs, Kurt started texting her frantically to call him. Eventually she sighed and picked up. "Yes, your babies are still fine. Now can I please get ready?"

"I was just calling to ask if you heard about Sunshine," said Kurt gravely.

"Nope."

"She was pronounced dead of a drug overdose early this morning."

"Oh my god," said Rachel, pausing between the closet and the vanity.

"I just talked to Mercedes about it," said Kurt. "There's going to be a private memorial service tomorrow afternoon in Manhattan. They said it's for family and friends, which I guess means us because Sunshine doesn't have any current friends."

"Did Mercedes say she was going?"

"Yeah. Mostly to see us again though, I think. Sunshine shut a lot of people out towards the end. Artie and Tina say they're too busy with the new baby to come, and Brittany and Santana just outright refused. Blaine and I are going, though."

"I definitely want to. I'll talk to Finn about it."

"Great," said Kurt. A pause. "Crap, I need to go pull my souffle out of the oven. See you in forty-five minutes?"

"Yep!"

As Rachel sat down and fixed her hair and makeup, she thought about what might have happened if she had been the one to land a recording contract straight after high school instead of Sunshine. She and Finn probably never would have gotten married, for one thing, which would mean her children wouldn't exist. And the possibility that she could have ended up as selfish and messed up as Sunshine in the end was very real. Even in high school and at NYADA she'd been a diva at times. Luckily she'd always had Kurt around to yank her down off her high horse and Finn to remind her of who she was.

By the time Rachel got downstairs, she only had five minutes to go before she had to drop Lily and Ariana off at school. She sighed when she saw Lily still wasn't done feeding the baby or eating. "Lily, hurry up," Rachel half snapped. "You're gonna be late for school."

Lily shook her head. "I don't want to go to school today."

"Don't be ridiculous," said Rachel.

"I put on my preschool clothes!" cheered Ariana. Rachel just sucked in a deep breath when she turned around and saw Lily was wearing her sweater inside out and a shirt and pants that didn't match at all.

"Sweetie, go change into your blue flower T-shirt, okay?" said Rachel.

"I don't want to," said Ariana.

"Ariana, I told you to change now!" snapped Rachel. She regretted it when she saw her little girl's lip quiver right before she took off to go change.

And that was when Lily burst into tears.

"Hey, what's the matter?" said Rachel. "Are you not feeling well?" Lily shook her head, put down the spoon she was trying to feed Aiden with, and hunched over in her chair. "Do you have a sore throat?" Lily shook her head. "A headache?" Lily shook her head. "A stomachache?"

"A little," Lily whispered.

Rachel was about to get out the thermometer when she remembered Finn had mentioned to her that Lily hadn't slept as much as she should have. "How much sleep did you get last night, Lily?"

Lily shrugged. "Four hours? I don't know."

"What on earth were you doing?"

"Nothing," Lily mumbled. "I was just laying there."

Rachel sighed. "Okay, fine. You can stay home today. Stay away from the TV and the cookie jar, and don't get out of bed until you've gotten some sleep."

After sending Lily back to bed, Rachel managed to wrangle Ariana and Aiden into their car seats and drop Ariana off at preschool. She came back home to fix her hair one last time before taking Aiden over to stay with Blaine. As she walked out the door she checked on Lily one last time. The girl was laying in bed with her arms wrapped around part of the blanket and her eyes closed, so if she wasn't asleep she was at least trying to be. Then Aiden and Rachel had to say a quick goodbye to Burt and Carole, because by the time Rachel got home from the audition they would have packed off already.

At preschool, Ariana and Jackie were playing together in the sandbox.

"I brought two things for you today," said Jackie proudly. "A cookie, and one last spy mission."

"Last one ever?" Ariana questioned.

"Yeah," said Jackie. "I'm going back to California soon. Daddy says we've almost gotten what we came here for."

"Aww," said Ariana. "I'm gonna miss you."

"I'll miss you too," said Jackie. And to her surprise, she actually meant it.

"What kind of cookie did you bring?" asked Ariana.

Jackie grinned. "Peanut butter." And the two went back to building their sandcastles.