PurpleYin: Eight in total. Maigan and Ava, James, Lucy and Alex, Keayna and Helen and Andrew.

vampiregirl081: Glad you like it. Here's more.
Gater101: Okie dokie.
Jan: I'll do my best to make it less confusing. If I fail - tell me.

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Chapter 4

Later that afternoon Ava and James had woken up and Maigan led the way up to the conference room where Elizabeth and the others were waiting. Carson was with them as well. The eight 'children' stood in the doorway for a moment before Maigan came forward. Ava looked like Maigan but with lighter hair and James looked liked a slightly younger version of Aiden.

"Anyone mind if the really little kids sat on them?"

"Yes," Rodney was the only one to reply.

"Anyone else?"

They all remained silent. Lucy skipped over to stand next to Aiden and smiled up at him, a hopeful look in her eyes.

"Alright," he grinned before picking her up and sitting her on his knee.

Maigan sat down and Alex climbed onto her. Keayna, Ava and James sat in the three other chairs leaving no spaces and Andrew and Helen standing in the doorway. Helen went over to Carson and he nodded before she smiled and carefully sat on him.

"Dr. Elizabeth Weir, would you mind if Andrew sat on you?" Maigan asked.

"No," she replied after a moment.

Andrew quickly walked round and Elizabeth sat him on her knee.

"Sir, myself and Lucy have been discussing something," Aiden smiled at John before passing him the teddy, "Ted needs to sit on someone."

"Okay," John said slowly before taking the bear and sitting it at the edge of the table so you could only see its head, "maybe we could build a special chair for little bears that want to listen in."

"Maigan, could you explain who everyone is please?" Elizabeth began the meeting.

"As you know that's Andrew," Maigan told them, "John's got Lucy's teddy, Aiden's got Lucy, and this is Alex. Carson's got Helen, I'm Maigan, next is Keayna and if can distinguish where one ends and one begins you've got Ava and James."

"Very funny," Ava remarked sarcastically.

"Are you sisters?" Teyla asked looking between the two of them.

"Twins actually," Ava smiled, "so are Alex and Lucy."

"Any other relations?" Rodney asked looking around at all of the children.

"James is mine and Lucy's big brother. And he's going to get married to Ava," Alex spoke up.

"And Ava said me and teddy could be bridesmaids," Lucy added, "then me and Alex and James and Ava and Maigan are going to be related."

"And Helen is my younger sister," Keayna added in a slightly Scottish accent.

"How did you know Major Sheppard ID Code?" Elizabeth asked Maigan.

"To explain that you need to understand that gate travel can result in the sending forward and backwards in time," Ava spoke up.

"Let me use my amazing psychic powers I received yesterday," Rodney pretended he was thinking for a moment, "you lot came… back in time?"

"Well done Uncle Lemon!" Alex and Lucy exclaimed together.

"Uncle… Lemon?" Aiden repeated.

"Yep. He doesn't like lemons," Lucy smiled up at him.

"So that's how we remember he doesn't like lemons," Alex added.

"How am I your uncle?"

"Coz daddy said so," Alex said as Lucy started sucking her thumb again, "there's Uncle Carson as well and Uncle John and Auntie Lizzie and Auntie Teyla."

"So where does Ford come into all of this?"

"That's not important," Maigan replied, as she sat back.

"Yes it is. Now where does ford come into all of this?" John repeated, his anger beginning to rise.

"Nou," Maigan said firmly, daring him to go on.

"Why won't you just answer the simple question?"

"Because it's not that simple and you won't understand."

"You'd be surprised at what grown people can understand," Rodney put in, "we grown people understand a whole lot of stuff."

"Well you 'grown people' obviously don't understand English. You - won't - understand," Maigan stated.

A silence descended.

"How about you put it in simple terms for us?" Aiden looked up from his conversation with Lucy.

"By Teeri you're hopeless!" Maigan exclaimed.

"They'll figure it out sooner or later," Ava told her sister.

"They won't," James replied, "Maigan's right, they're not that smart."

"But they could still figure it out."

"Let them."

"But…"

James just looked at Ava and she fell silent, sitting back and crossing her arms. Lucy looked over at Maigan who sat back and closed her eyes.

"Fine, tell them," she sighed.

"He's daddy," Lucy told them.

A/N: Ooooh, what do you think of that? And what about the rest of the kids, who are their parents?