I am sick. I managed to squeak this out. Enjoy.
Belle had taken to treating Jay, Mal, Evie, and Carlos like her children years ago, but she never felt the need to mother Audrey.
Audrey used to be too much of a perfect princess. A little stuck up, bossy, kind of annoying. She got better once Ben broke up with her and even more fun once she had started dating Jay, but she still had her own parents and even her grandparents.
Well, she did, until she told them she was pregnant. Then they all but stopped speaking to her and it tore the poor girl apart.
Audrey had begun to spend more time at the castle than she had even when she and Ben were in a relationship. She was frequently lonely with Jay at Tourney so often and no parents to visit. Everyone felt bad for her and Jay, but no one could come up with a solution.
Luckily, Belle was very close with Aurora and called her to talk some sense into her old friend.
Belle was as polite as usual, but she used that tone of voice she possessed that could make anyone squirm.
She was on the phone for quite some time, but all remarks lead back to Audrey.
"How dare you treat the poor thing like this. Jay's a sweetheart. He's always been a sweetheart. They're so happy, I don't see what the issue is here. I've never seen her cry before this. I've never seen Jay look so worried. I don't care what Philip or Leah think, she's your daughter. She loves you and all she ever wanted was your approval. You always told me you wanted grandchildren and now you're getting one and you won't even speak to Audrey. No, it's not different. We both knew they weren't going to last. She's happy with Jay. She has been for years. I know you love her. You have to apologize- and mean it- if you want your daughter back."
It, amazingly, worked. Audrey was surprised when, prompted by a knock, opened the door to the apartment she had finally decided to start referring as hers as well, only to reveal her mother standing in the hallway.
There was a lot of hugging and Aurora apologized. Apparently, Philip and Leah were coming around to the idea too, though gradually (Stefan had been basically indifferent the whole time). Aurora had even apologized to Jay.
Because everything smoothed out so surprisingly easily and quickly, Audrey invited her mother along to the appointment where she was supposed to find out what her baby's gender was.
The appointment told them much more than that.
They hadn't even made it out of the doctor's office by the time Audrey and Jay simply had to call someone to tell them. They were simply too excited.
Evie and Doug were back at school, Carlos and Jane were spending the day with Fairy Godmother for whatever reason, Lonnie was traveling, Chad was with his parents, and Ben and Mal had taken Henry and gone somewhere for the weekend. They didn't really feel like bugging any of them, but there was someone they could call.
Audrey was shaking with excitement as she dialed the phone number. Jay was hugging her from behind and wouldn't stop and she didn't want him to. Aurora was beaming at the two of them from the other side of the lobby. They deserved a moment.
"Hello Audrey," Belle greeted pleasantly on the other line.
"Hi," Audrey replied.
"Pardon me for asking, but it everything okay? You sound sort of unlike yourself."
"Everything's okay. We just finished with the appointment."
"Oh, that was today! How did it go?"
"It went really well."
"Did you find out if it's a boy or a girl?"
Audrey laughed a little. "Yeah, we did. It's a boy. Actually, it's two of them."
"Two? Audrey, you're having twins?"
"Yup! Twins!"
Jay kissed the side of her head. It was a bit of a surprise to find out that they were suddenly expecting two babies instead of one, but he had definitely warmed up to the whole 'being a dad' thing over the last couple of weeks as Audrey had grown excited about being a mother and he definitely, definitely wanted a boy. Now he was going to have two.
"Oh Audrey, that's wonderful!"
"And they're identical!" Audrey added.
"Identical? Oh goodness. That's-"
"Crazy, I know. But we're excited."
"I'm excited for you! Congratulations!"
"Thank you!" Audrey replied.
"Alright, I'll let you go now. I know there's probably other people you want to call. Congratulations again. Bye."
"Bye!"
Belle hung up and Audrey put her phone away. She was giddy and smiling brightly.
"Audrey," Aurora walked towards her daughter and Audrey went to hug her. "I'm so happy for you..." Aurora looked up at Jay. "Both of you."
Jay smiled.
Aurora pulled Jay into the hug too.
"It's been a long time since there's been a little one around and now we're going to have two. Two little boys. How exciting!"
Two little boys, two little princes, bound to be active, athletic, and excitable. Auradon was definitely in for it.
A/N: Look out, Auradon. Two twin terrors are coming your way! You get to meet them next chapter!
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