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Chapter 1
"T'was the night before Christmas, and all through the house," started a soothing and familiar voice, "and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse..." Two little children lay cuddled in their mother's lap, listening to her read. Next to her was their father, and their mother's husband, fast asleep, with another little child in his lap, also fast asleep.
20-year-old Sasami Jurai, now Sasami Yuy, sat in her couch with her three children and husband, Heero Yuy, tired like the day she gave birth to the three of them. She had been reading book, after book, after book, and there was pile, after pile, after pile of books on the floor, next to her. And the one they picked for her to read wasn't even necessary. It was no where near Christmas!
"Sammy. Kathy." she sighed, "Take an example from your father and baby brother, go to sleep! It's 3:00 in the morning, for heaven's sake!" The twins looked over at their father, to see him in a peaceful slumber with their one-year-old brother in his arms, cooing happily in his sleep. They turned back to their mother. "We don't wanna!" they squealed in unison.
3-year-old Kathy Yuy and Sammie Yuy were identical twins, Sammie older by three minutes. The doctors said they were identical, but the only difference, and way to tell them apart, is their eye color. Sammie has her father's eye color, while Kathy has a mix, making it a lavender/purple kind of color. Otherwise, they looked the same. Same hair color (their mom's), the same hair length, the same height, and the same similar sounding voice.
There's another way to tell them apart, though. Their attitude and behavior. Sammie is like her father. He had to pick her about eight times from her pre-school, for beating up the several boys, some on a higher level than her even. Kathy is more like her mother, even though she got her name from her godmother, Katherine, who they like to call "aunty." Kathy keeps to herself, gets along with her friends, and even some of the boys ^-^.
Both sisters will stick up for the other if she's in trouble. They have a special bond, being twins and Jurains. They know what's happening to the other at the moment it happens. Like the day a fellow classmate had actually beaten up Sammy. He'd punched her in the stomach. Kathy doubled over in pain in her classroom, as Sammy did out on the field. Once you get past their difficulties, and every other bad thing about them, Sammy and Kathy are really sweet kids.
Now, their brother is a different story. From the day, Joey, came home from the hospital, which was January 25, he's been a nuisance. Sasami had to lock all the pictures, of her and the gang, away, along with Heero's guns and all other weapons. Jurain weaponry, too. They even hid Sammy and Kathy's toys; even his own! He's nothing but a walking, crawling time bomb.
He crawls all over the place, picking up stuff, stuffing them in his mouth, throwing them, even standing on some! Sasami had sent him up to a Jurain daycare center one day. They sent him back; said he destroyed that whole area of Jurai, luckily no one was hurt. They had to leave him with Trowa and Kiyone, or sometimes Ryoko and Quatre. With those four, he would always behave. No bad things to report, or messes to clean up when they came to pick him up.
Chapter 2
'There's really no use fighting with these two.' Sasami said to herself, 'They'll always win.' She sighed in defeat. "Fine. But let daddy read for you, I'm going to sleep, he already had his." she told them."Yay!" they giggled. Sasami plucked Joey from Heero's arms and replaced him with Kathy and Sammy. She held Joey in her arms, as he continued to sleep, and giggled.
"Daddy!" the twins squealed, grabbing Heero's bangs, "Mommy said to read to us!" They pulled on the bangs at the same time, resulting in a real wake-up for Heero. "AAARGGGGHHHH!!" he screamed, bolting up in the couch. Sasami covered Joey's head softly. "Shh! Heero, you'll wake the neighbors and our little baby boy." Sasami implied, trying to contain her laughter. "Well..." he said, prying his daughters' hands from his hair,"I wouldn't have to if it weren't for someone."
Sasami inhaled sharply, face turning slightly red. "I don't know what you're implying, but your daughters want you to read to them." He looked down in his lap as Sammy and Kathy smiled up at him, holding up their own books. "What about you?" he asked Sasami, taking the books from them. She smiled at him. "I'm taking this little one to bed." she said, holding up Joey. She got up and kissed Heero, then stepped over the pile of books, and headed for the stairs. "Ta-ta!" she said over her shoulder.
"Poor Heero," she said aloud, giggling to herself, "I actually feel sorry for him. Isn't that right, Joey?" She tickled him on his tummy and he wiggled, moving a bit, but staying asleep. "You'll grow up to be just like my boy, your father." She reached his room and opened the door. She flicked on the light switch and the room filled with a dim light. She walked to his crib and rested him down. She pulled the covers up to his chin and kissed him on his forehead. "Goodnight, little one." She walked away from his side and turned off the lights, shutting the door quietly behind her.
She walked down the hall to her own bedroom. She opened the door and turned on the switch. Her room was then bathed in light. She stretched and headed for the closet. She opened it and pulled out the drawer at the bottom. She pulled out a pair of female boxers and a Tee. She discarded the clothes she had on and put on the ones she had just taken out. She walked back to the light switch and closed the door also. She flicked it off and walked to the open window.
She and her family were living on the border of the, once again, re-built Sank Kingdom, Relena's hometown. She was often able to visit Tenchi on vacation time from work. She'd sometimes carry Heero and the twins, so they could meet the gang and get to know them better. The whole gang always new the right time to visit Tenchi, those gems helped. Sasami looked at hers on her wrist and smiled. 'Won't they be surprised when they see Joey.' she thought, laughing a little, and closing the window.
She sighed happily and turned around, heading for her bed. She climbed in, under the covers and closed her eyes. She smiled thinking about Heero downstairs with Kathy and Sammy, reading his poor soul out. She rolled over and faced his side of the bed and smirked at the wide open space. She snuggled under the covers a little more because it had suddenly gotten colder. She went further under and then sat up, wrapping the sheet around her shoulders.
She shivered slightly and looked at the window. It was open again! She
slowly got out of bed, dropping the sheet, and walked back to the window.
She reached up, mumbling to herself and started to pull it down. As soon
as she touched her, her body jumped, and images raced through her mind.
She gasped and let go of the window, moving back several steps, but the
images still flowed through her head.
Chapter 3
She held her head and dropped to her knees, squeezing her eyes shut. "What's happening?" she cried, shaking her head. She touched her elbows to the ground and then gasped, straightening back up. The images had stopped flowing, almost as quickly as they had started. She looked up and outside the open window, was the outline of someone. She gave a small scream and yanked the window down, pulling the curtains across.
She knelt there, taking short, uneven breaths. She was holding her chest and had the other hand on the ground, keeping her upright. "Some-something's gonna happen." she breathed. She held onto the window and pulled herself up. She leaned against the window and tried to calm her breathing. She was so into her thoughts that she didn't here when Heero came into the room. She pulled herself together and started to turn around.
Heero grabbed her around the waist and she spun around, stopping the punch inches from his face. She dropped her hand and fell to her knees again, talking calmer breaths. He kneeled next to her and held her shoulders. "Sasami, what's wrong?" He took her in his arms and carried her back to the bed. He sat her down and sat next to her. He brushed some fallen hair away from her face and repeated his question.
"You've never acted that jumpy...not since the last five years we've been together. Four actually." She looked up at him with tear-stained cheeks. "Something bad is going to happen and I'm the only who will know what it is." She leaned down and cried on his shoulder. He patted her back and calmed her down. "I had a premonition." she whispered. Sasami felt Heero's hand stopped touching her and looked up. "That's what worries me." she finished. Heero was staring straight into her eyes.
He pulled her closer and moved into the middle of the bed, laying himself and Sasami down. "It's gonna be alright. We'll figure this out and be able to prevent whatever is supposed to happen, from happening." She twirled her fingers in his bangs and sighed, "I guess you're right, but I still think we should be careful." She looked up at him with eyes that now sparkled and held that well-known "Sasami gleam". "How did you get away from Sammy and Kathy that quick?" Heero laughed and held his finger. "Now that...is a secret."
Sasami laughed and flicked him on the nose. He laughed also. He kissed her deeply and she kissed back. She stopped him as he trailed the kiss further. He smirked and pulled the covers up. "I'm off tomorrow." Sasami replied, "I guess I'll drop the kids off at pre-school, and take Joey to Washu's, or Ryoko's." Heero gave a small nod and pulled the covers all the way up over theirs heads. They soon fell asleep moments later.
But that night, Sasami had a dream that wasn't too sweet, or peaceful:
She was walking home from a day of shopping. She walked up the sidewalk, greeting everyone who passed her, when she walked past a certain place. She started having another premonition. She dropped to her knees, on the sidewalk, holding her head. She squeezed her eyes shut and shook her head back and forth. "Leave me alone! S-stop this!" People stopped what they were doing and looked at her. She could see the images more clearly. It was two guys, she couldn't make out the background or their features. They faced a figure unknown and Sasami saw the glint of a knife as one of them twirled it in his fingers. He brought it down on the person. In her dream, Sasami screamed loudly.
She woke up screaming.