Disclaimer: Sinister, DareDevil, and any other Marvel characters who appear in this fic are not my property. This is a non-commercial venture.

Disclaimer 2: Any OC's in this fic are the property of WesternBlakeHawke and myself. The two AU's in this universe are the work of myself (AoS 2), Blake (AoS 2), and various admins at http:ageofsinister. (AoS 1). Various aspects of the kids' profiles will be revealled during this fic, which will hopefully keep running...

An hour later, and various kids were splattered with various forms of sauce, soft drinks and baby food. Ethan kept trying to eat his finger instead of the food Nate was patiently attempting to spoon into his mouth. Eli was sucking on a bottle being held for him by Cade, the one year old having attached himself to the two-faced mutant after smelling chocolate on him. Erin was happily being fed by Chris, who had apparently mastered the art of feeding one of the triplets and eating her own meal at the same time.

"So, what are we going to do about sleeping arrangements until the extension is complete?" Will asked.

Cooper grinned.

"Allie's easy," he joked. "She'll sleep in the bath."

"Hey," Allie said. "That's not a bad idea."

"I was only kidding," Coop frowned. "Didn't think it'd be taken seriously."

Leah looked at Will, shyly, and spoke up.

"Two of the kids can bunk in mine and Dec's room," she said. "We're moving out."

"We are?" Dec repeated.

Leah nodded.

"I went to the med bay today," she said. "To check something out."

She looked at Dec, and smiled.

"I'm... I'm pregnant, Dec."

Cade stared at Leah, mouth wide open.

"Congrats, kiddo," Will said, hugging Leah. Dec just stood there, gobsmacked, before hugging Leah too. Everyone took turns hugging Leah, and when Coop hugged her, he looked at Cade and burst out laughing.

"What?" Cade asked. "What's funny!"

"Y-ya g-gonna f-fall off ya ch-chair," Cooper warned, laughing so hard he could hardly talk. "L-Leah's h-having o-octuplets."

Leah looked at Coop, and OOB-ed before fainting, her astral form disappearing. Dec recovered just enough to catch her before she could hit the floor, while Matt caught Cade before he could knock Eli's highchair over. Eli's lower lip started to wobble as Cade left his side, so Matt hastily steadied the younger man back next to the baby.

"Hey, Cade," Nate said, "I think Eli likes you."

"Maybe you should room with him tonight," Chris suggested, cheekily.

Cade looked absolutely terrified, glancing at Will, as if she could get him out of the situation. Will grinned evilly.

"I think that sounds like a good idea," she said, seriously.

Cade turned even paler. Alec smiled, as Dec lay Leah out on the floor.

"Think about it, bro," Alec told Cade. "Babies are a real woman magnet."

Cade brightened up, but Will frowned.

"In that case," Will said, "the three babies can share the room next to mine and Matt's. With connecting door."

Eli started screaming as Will announced this, reaching out for Cade. Cade picked Eli up, reluctantly, as if the baby were a bomb, and Eli immediately stopped screaming and grinned. Will rolled her eyes.

"You can share until Eli comes to his senses," she said. "Or until you lose the scent of chocolate, Cade."

"And you hold a baby like this," Chris said, taking Erin from her highchair. She moved the baby girl so that her right arm supported Erin's bottom, so Erin could wrap an arm around Chris's neck. Her left hand she crossed across the back of Erin's back, so she couldn't fall backwards. Erin stuck a thumb in her mouth, and rested her head on Chris's shoulder. Cade looked at Chris, and after a minute or two passed without Erin showing any signs of screaming, he copied her. Eli coppied Erin, sucking his thumb and resting his head sleepily on Cade's shoulder.

There was a knock at the door, and John Deacon teleported into the room, with three carry-cots, which he nearly dropped as he saw the bunch of kids in the room.

"Which orphanage closed down now?" he asked, looking at Will. Then Sam smiled, and ran at him, jumping up and hugging him.

"UNCLE DEAK!" the blind boy yelled. "You said you weren't gonna come!"

Deak dropped the cots in surprise, and hugged Sam, who had wrapped his legs around Deak's waist. Nate smiled at Deak.

"Guess you're this dimension's equivalent of our uncle," he said. "You don't look like him, but Sam should know. You smell the same. He's blind, y'see."

Deak relaxed. Alternate dimensions he could deal with. He wasn't sure he was completely happy with it, but he could deal with it.

"I got a call from Mrs S, saying three cots were needed here," he said. "She sounded kinda confused. Guess that explains it."

Nate smiled.

"Quick intros," he said. "Youngest to oldest. Eli, on Cade's shoulder, Erin, Ethan, Ben, Bret, Sam, who has wrapped himself around your waist, Sean and Sophie. They're all Murdocks."

Deak nodded. Now he took time, he scented Will and Matt on all the kids. Only, not quite Will and Matt.

"Then there are Adam, Amber, Amy, Cooper, Cassidy, Carrie, Jen and Jess," Nate continued. "The Blake-Debonnaires. Which leaves the adopted kids, the Templetons. My lot," Nate continued. "Ashleigh, Dean, Allie, Rowanne, Ryan, Ames, Christie and me. Nathaniel. I prefer Nate. Your alternative in our dimension sent us here so we'd be safe from Sinister. X-Corps was destroyed there."

Deak frowned.

"He got X-Corps and the academy?" Deak said. "Better tactician than our version then."

X-Corps was a replacement for the Xavier Institute, and for Bayville High. It offered education to younger mutants, sanctuary to those whom Sinister had not yet corrupted, and opposition, albeit seemingly futile opposition, to Sinister's plans for world domination. The institute had been blown up by Emma Frost, killing Charles Xavier and Scott Summers. Many of the students at Bayville high, both mutant and human, had been killed by Sinister's Marauders, headed by a re-biologicalised Malice. Those that survived were few, some captured by Sinister, others retreating to South Africa, then later to Geneva, where X-Corps were now based. Attacks on Sinister had lead to further losses, to those of the siblings, Hannah and Richard Sharpe, who had previously run the combatitive section, with Deak's help. But never making any dent in Sinister's armour.

"With ours," Deak said, "you can count on sickness, and on general unadulterated evil. He knows exactly what buttons to push. Only he pushed my buttons too hard, and triggered the Kaos effect. Which accounts for the looks."

Cade, Chris and Conn settled the triplets into carry cots, while Will led the younger kids, from aged seven downwards, towards their bedrooms so they could sleep, as more than a few of them were starting to yawn. Once the kids were off, Sean with a power inhibitor collar borrowed from Dec, since Leah needed hers more, it was time for a better explanation of the situation, so Dec carried Leah into the family room, laying her out on a couch, and sittting down on the floor near her himself.

"Why is Leah unconscious, anyway?" Deak asked. "Empathic overload?"

"Pregnant with octuplets," Dec supplied, totally deadpan. "So yeah, I guess you could say empathic overload."

"Octuplets?" Deak said. "Is there any way to stop the pack from getting any bigger?"

"If there is, I dunno what," Nate said, as the older kids filed into the room, followed finally by the rest of the adults. "But I would like to know the history of this universe. I know we're in Geneva now, and that this is the secondary base. Safer from Sinister, our Deak said."

Deak nodded his agreement, and let Will take up the history of this universe's 'pack'.

"Me and Mike met when I was eleven," she started. "He was fourteen, and Alec was a very cute lil five year old. We married, secretly, when I was eighteen. Were going to marry a few days after I turned 16, but Mike had a feeling it'd be a bad idea, and so we agreed 18 instead; he was insistent that it felt like a bad idea. When his parents found out, they disinherited him. Not because I was a mutant, only Mike, Alec and Sophia knew about that. They thought Mike had married below his station, and when he refused to annul the marriage, they struck him from their wills. Mike took my surname, not me taking his. We didn't really care for the Davenports, other than Alec and Sophia. They still cared for both of us, and we had the cash to live on. At twenty, I gave birth to quads, to sets of identical twin boys, so close in looks they looked to be identical quads. Jay, Jake, Josh & Joe."

"That's us," the cubs chimed in.

"I knew while pregnant that they had my abilities… well were canines, because I could sense them. Mike, Alec & Sophia were delighted with the news. All was fine until Mike was diagnosed with cancer when the cubs were two months old, and given a year - 18 months at most - to live. He died fourteen months later, I was almost 22. I lost the cubs. Mike's parents decided they wanted the boys and because I'd taken the 16 month old boys into the wilderness with me, they got temporary custody, citing my mental state. I was actually fine, well as fine as one can be after loosing their mate and best friend. Sophia was given charge of the boys, since they knew her. She and Alec were totally against the families actions. The Davenports also got a restraining order on me, using a trumped up psyche report. I broke it. Got caught playing with the cubs, backed into a corner. Instinct took over and I bit. Got locked up for almost a month, on a psyche hospital in solitary, lost custody of the cubs. When I got out I was threatened, leave and never contact them or else we will put them up for adoption, separately and you'll never see them again. It broke my heart, but I agreed, on the condition that Sophia got guardianship. The Davenports jumped at that. The chance to be rid of me, but not lose the grandkids. And not have to see the grandkids much either. They looked like Christmas had come early."

Matt hugged Will, giving her a little support, and she smiled as she continued.

"Sophia and Alec kept me updated, by e-mail and video phone. I wandered. Ended up back in New York, working as a court clerk. Thing is, Davenport saw me, and had the restraining order expanded, kicking me, effectively, out of New York. so I wandered some more, and ended up here at X-Corps about two months back. Met Matt, who'd just become leader back then. Whirlwind romance, started when we took the fight to Sinister. On our way back from that, we got a phone call from Davenport, saying something along the lines of 'You have full custody those mutant brats are not Davenports! Get them out of my city now!'."

"Blake tried to hijack the aircraft," Matt said. "She couldn't wait to get the cubs back."

"And we're glad it happened too," the cubs stated.

"Then, a month ago, me and Matt got married. Leah and Dec at the same time. We adopted the others about a week after we got back from New York."

"That means that the Davenport air crash in our universe was the one thing that kept us with you," Coop said, seriously, hugging Will. "Meaning Alec was still a Davenport there. How about here?"

Alec smiled.

"I hated what my parents did to Will. This made me even more rebellious than I already was. I got kicked out of a couple of schools and ended up in a military academy until I was 18. As soon as I graduated I legally changed my surname to Blake-Debonnaire. My parents flipped, and I left New York, to travel around the planet, getting involved in anything that interested me, be it a cause or a fun activity, until boredom set in, then I'd leave. They disinherited me, hoping I'd come to my senses after being cut off. Didn't work; I had an allowance from Greg Davenport's dad too, lived off that."

"We both kinda did," Cade said. "I got kicked out of home when I started displaying mutamt abilities at ten, my parents were kinda crap anyways. Ran away from foster homes, survived picking pockets, scamming people. I met Alec at military academy, where I was posing as a 16 year old to get the education. We hit it off immediately. And have been getting into trouble ever since. We met Leah soon after the attack on the Institute. She was running from an anti mutant mob, and while she was hiding we accidentally startled her making her astral project. Took us the next two hours to talk the terrified girl into trusting us, and she finally paid attention to her empathy crawling out of the hole she was hiding in. She quickly formed sibling bonds with us both as we got her to our apartment and got her clean clothes and fed. She's stayed with us from then on, until Dec got here. Dec's been real good for her."

Dec nodded.

"Which is saying a lot, since the first time we met I nearly gutted her," he said, with a smile.

"I was a mutant hater," he said. "With good reason. Like you, I'm not from this dimension, but a worse one than your own. I've always been part wolf. My father made me so to save my life. But essentially, in my world, I was human. And if you were human, you were slave to the rulers. Mutants, all of them. But some mutants, very few I could name, weren't Rulers. That started when humans lost the War, when I was six. My dad was a General, so they killed him straight off, without hiding it from me. Killed him in front of me, then enslaved me. Few years went by, with beatings and baitings and the like, then I beat the crap outta this Ruler kid. They damned near beat me to death. Woulda been better for them if they had done, 'cos the mutant who bought me was a healer named Gradion. One of the better mutants. He healed me up, taught me a loada stuff slaves didn't need to know, then unleashed me on the Rulers. How I got here, I don't know, but I'm glad I'm here. Although Deak did give me some X-genes 'cos I was dumb enough to try take Sinister on alone. That was painful, and not something I'll do again any time soon."

Dec stopped talking and looked at Leah as she started to stir.