Disclaimer: Not mine

Juzblue: Yeah, you were right. I just gave Andros and Ashley four children before anyone else is even married. I think that's enough for a few years, don't you:P

Ashley Hammond/Astro Yellow: You can introduce everyone to A and C, but I'm not sure they'll be in the story. I might end it just after... um, you know... I think Wyatt's older. I never really thought about that before, but I want A to be older than C, since A will be a lot like... um, you know..., and it'd just fit A's personality to be born first. How come Sims Zhane got twins? Andros and Ashley should get twins. And of course I want to read your songfic when it's done. But I don't think anyone will call you, the charges would be too much. :P

DizneeDol: Thanks. I love making Andros and Ashley have babies. It's so much fun, especially when it's twins. :P

Melissa: I just did twins for the story. I only like them in stories, actually. If I end up having two sets of twins in real life, that'd be so awful. I don't think my next story will be rated R. Most of it's implied, and there's no graphic-ness, at least not yet, and there probably won't be, because I really, really don't want to write out those scenes. Don't feel bad, I'm older than you, and I'm not supposed to watch R-rated stuff either. (But I do.) :P

Jenny: I couldn't think of another title for the chapter that wouldn't give away what happened in it. Aria and Cathan will make up, but not by talking, at least not about themselves, exactly. And Aria would so beat Cathan dead. I love the little excerpt thingy. And you'd better finish my story in time. :insert threat here:You can have a smilie this time :P

Piper xox Leo: Yup, Ashley's pregnant. Wow, I made her really moody, didn't I:P

Arwennicole: Ashley really flipped out, didn't she? Oh well, she's the one having the babies, she can get as moody as she wants. :P

Chapter 15: An Unusual Morning

"... was saying Justin, we should really..."

Whatever Aria had been about to say to her twin was lost the moment that they entered the hangar bay. Zhane and Karone were the only ones in the room, and both were wearing decidedly guilty expressions and looking anywhere but at each other, at her, or in the general direction of the jump tubes.

"Oh, hell," Aria groaned. "What'd you do now?"

"Nothing!" Zhane wailed. "I swear, we didn't do anything, but Andros won't believe us, and he'll kill me, so Karone and I can never have our own children to replace the ones that we broke!"

"You broke their children?" Aria said, giving him a very strange look. Justin, who was keeping quiet for once, was laughing silently. "Um... explain?"

"Well, Karone needed scissors to cut out a picture of this really ugly dress that she really, really loves-" he ducked as a small spark of purple came in his direction "-but we didn't have any, so I went to ask Andros and Ashley if they had any, and they did, so I took the scissors."

"And...?"

"And what?" Zhane asked, momentarily perplexed. "I took the scissors that Karone needed."

"And got no sleep, apparently," Aria said.

"Of course I didn't sleep, we were trying to fix them!"

"How did you break them?" Aria questioned patiently, rolling her eyes.

"Well, when I went in there, Zoe was crying, and then she saw me and laughed, and she wanted me to hold her, so Andros gave her to me, and then Wyatt woke up, and I said Karone and I would watch them for the rest of the night so Andros and Ashley could be alone, to, you know. So Karone and I were watching them, and then they weren't exactly themselves anymore. And we tried to undo it, but we can't and Karone even tried her magic, but it won't work, because she said it wasn't magic in the first place."

"Uh-huh," Aria said, nodding slowly. "Let's start with something simple. Where are Zoe and Wyatt?"

"Um," Karone said. She slowly got up and went to the jump tubes.

"We blocked it off," Zhane said, at Aria's look. "We just got tired of chasing them."

"Tired of chasing toddlers who can't walk..." Aria's skeptical question dissolved into something along the lines of "oh, my god," as Karone retrieved Zoe and Wyatt.

She and Justin exchanged glances and burst out laughing.

"What were you doing just before this happened?"

"Well..." Karone said slowly. "We played with them for awile, and then they needed their diapers changed. Have you ever seen Zhane change a diaper? It's really funny. And then we were trying - Zhane was trying to teach them... oops."

"Oops?" Aria repeated. "What could you have possibly been teaching them that would end up like... Ghosting? You were trying to see if they could ghost, weren't you?"

"Um," Zhane said. "Kinda."

"Well, then that's why Karone's magic won't fix them," Aria said. "Ghosting can only be undone by the person who did the ghosting in the first place...although it doesn't explain why Wyatt doesn't even look like anything real..."

"Andros and Ashley are in the hall," Deca announced, sounding no less amused than Aria.

"I'll fix them if you stall them," she said to Zhane, who fled the room. "All right, let's do Zoe first. Karone, you hold down her wings, or flippers, whatever those things are..."

Kneeling down, she made eye contact with her neice, and gently began probing her mind with her telepathy, urging her to transform back into a more recognizable shape. Zoe did, her hazel eyes sparkling secretively as she did so. It took a considerable amount more coaxing to get the same result with Wyatt, and in the end, he ended up back a human baby just as Andros and Ashley entered, Zhane shouting after them, "Wait, you can't go in there!"

"What's going on?" Andros demanded, just as Aria straightened up, her nephew cradled in her arms.

"Oh, you know," she said. "Zoe was a penguin for a few minutes there, and Wyatt was whatever you call a cross between a zebra and a chicken. A hyena, maybe. So, you know, the usual."

"Morning, everybody," Gabriel said, entering the room, saving Andros from having to form a reply. He was followed shortly by Cathan. "What'd I miss?"

"Nothing," Zhane and Karone answered together.

Andros shrugged, and looked at Ashley. They hadn't stopped smiling since they'd walked into the room, but Aria noticed that Ashley looked slightly anxious.

"Um, everyone?" she said hesitantly. "We have something to tell you guys."

A/N: Okay, so I'm (very obviously) stalling. I haven't quite figured out who's going to react how when they hear the news. Suggestions? Review please. :P