A/n: Wow it feels like ages. It's a pretty short chapter because it's the penultimate one. The next/last one will be longer I promise.

Chapter:

Zoey did most of the taking care of the girls. When she was busy she left them with Chase. It hurt her like hell that he wasn't talking to her but she stuck to her guns. She had meant it when she said she wasn't ready for marriage. Or at least she thought she had. A day or two after her period was due Zoey was frightened. Incredibly.
"Logan can you watch the girls I have to go somewhere." She said off handedly.
"Sure... hello you two." Logan was good with the girls. Zoey had seen that from him. She had tried to tell him they were his and he had gone stony faced and punched a wall very violently. He had told her to shut up in not so polite terminology.

Zoey watched him pick up Angel, Midnight sleeping contently in her carrier. She knew he wouldn't listen to her, no matter what she said. She was struck with lightning. A bolt from the blue. She was so shocked as to why it had never occured to her before. She hurried down to Quinn's room. Explaining her idea.
"Well... it's conceivable... infact probable... just get me something of Logan's and something of a twins..."
"Ok... uh... Quinn can you drive me to the drug store?"

"Here!" Zoey threw the envelope infront of him.
"What's this?" Logan asked curiously.
"Open them. I haven't looked." Logan opened the envelope curiously. He paled.
"Oh my god..." He breathed.
"Paternity test. They're yours..."
"I said... I called her a... Oh my god." He repeated. he stared at the two small children sat gabbling away in baby-talk. He swallowed hard.
"We tried to tell you. She was in a car crash when she was 8 months pregnant..."
"A car crash!" He asked in disbelief.
"Yeah... They had to deliver them as an emergency..."
"Oh..." He didn't know what to say. Instead of looking at the girls as he had done as long as he'd known them, he instead looked at them as his daughters. He choked.

"She hates me..."
"She came all the way over here to try win you back and you dissed her... But I think she still loves you."
"No way! After what I said..." He reached out and touched one of the twins cheeks softly. She was as beautiful as her mommy but she had her daddy's eyes.
"She thinks you're a prat but it doesn't mean she doesn't love you."

Zoey's phone rang.
"It's her... you wanna talk to her?"
"No!" He didn't know what to say especially over the phone! Zoey answered. Diamond's voice was frantic.
"Calm down." She said softly.
"Zoey they bumped up my tour I can't get back!" She cried.
"Shh, ok shh."
"If I pay plane tickets can you and Chase come up and drop them off? PLEASE Zoey please! I need to see my babies!"
"Sure." She sighed.
"The flight leaves tomorrow the tickets will arrive in the post explaining eveything Thank you so much gotta dash ciao."

Zoey didn't feel like going on a plane ride... much less with Chase. She lowered her hand to her stomach. Would a ring on her finger make this easier? Or more difficult?
"What's wrong?" Logan asked noting the long silence.
"I have to fly all the way up there to deliver her kids to her."
"You're kidding... can I come? I'll pay my own ticket and stuff I swear!"
"Logan... I don't know..." She was a little apprehensive.
"I wanna go!" Screamed Lola suddenly, appearing from nowhere.
"There's two tickets. Lola keep an eye on him. Yes you can both go."
"Thank you!" Squealed Lola. Logan lay back in his chair.

Zoey took the twins into Chase's room.
"Oh hey, they asleep?"
"Yeah... can I talk to you?" She sat down cautiously on the end of his bed.
"What's there to talk about?"
"I love you." She whispered very softly.
"And I love you too but if this relationship isn't going anywhere then why are we even bothering?" he gushed.
"Chase you scared me... proposing so suddenly and stuff."
"Yeah I know I screwed up." He sighed.

"Chase maybe I'm reconsidering."
"Maybe I don't want to marry you anymore." That hurt. Zoey blushed.
"Mm... ok... uh..." She tried not to cry. She stood up and looked down at him. "What if the situation were reversed?"
"Huh?" Zoey sank to the floor.
"Chase... I love you more than anything and this is really scary. I can't lose you... So I'm down here on one knee asking...no begging... for you to marry me." There was a very long pause. "Chase? There's a reason why girls don't do this."
"No... No I won't marry you..."
"What!" Zoey couldn't believe her ears.
"Doesn't feel nice does it?" He sighed. He stood up and crossed to the girls carrier praying they'd woken up so he'd have a distraction. They hadn't.

Zoey felt the tears thick and fast. They spilled down her nose and into her mouth and she could barely see.
"Chase..." Zoey pleaded.
"Zoey look... I know you don't want it. And to be totally honest you're probably right... it's too soon."
"Chase... we're having a baby." Chase paused and then turned to her.
"Seriously?"
"Seriously..." She nodded and avoided his eye. "Don't be mad!"
"I'm... I'm not..." He breathed in shock. Zoey wiped her eyes. She stood up.
"I do love you... but if this is it then..."
"C'mere." He wrapped his arms around her.

For a long time there was silence.
"Chase... we can make this work."
"Yeah we can..." He stroked her face softly and kissed her for the first time in 2 weeks. He thought fast. "But... I still don't think we should get married."
"You don't?"
"No... if we get married now people will think it's just because of the baby. I don't want that."
"You're right... Chase I don't need a ring on my finger to know you love me. Just reassurance every now and again."
"You got it..." He whispered wiping her tears away gently.

Logan sat with Lola on the plane. He had Midnight on his lap, Angel was asleep laid against Lola. Logan's mouth was dry. When he got off the plane he felt sicker than he had done on the plane and when he got to the stage he felt ready to pass out. Lola waited backstage. Logan couldn't. He took the girls in their stroller and stood to the side of the stage.

"Hello!" Diamond screamed into her earphone mic. "Love ya and leave ya I'm afraid! I literally sing a few of my greatest hits, step off the stage then fall into a limo! The things I do for fans huh!" She looked beautiful. Her jet black hair left loose and wild, her outfit sexy but not slutty, her make up carefully and deceptively done to make her look as innocent as her childhood days.

"So I'm gonna sing my new single SOS for you guys..." As the music started she saw him. Logan Reese stood side stage with their daughters. She completely missed her cue, and just stood staring awkwardly.
"Hi..." He said shyly. She could hear him but nobody else could.
"Hi..." She whispered into the mic. 10 million people heard. Logan walked very cautiously onto the stage. A stagehand ran on ready to take him off but Diamond held up her hand. "It's cool, everybody this is my... friend, Logan Reese." She introduced him. He put the girls between them should she get the urge to smack him. The stagehand handed him a mic and then ran off.

"Hi..."
"You already said that." There was an awkwardness between them that scared him.
"Um... probably..." He trailed off.
"Logan thanks for dropping the girls off..." She turned to the audience. "These are my daughter's, Angel and Midnight Clarke..."
"They took your name then..." he said awkwardly.
"Duh..." She whispered but whispering into a microphone hooked up to speakers and satellites and stuff doesn't make it any less of a whisper.
"Oh... Diamond I'm sorry ok."
"Apology accepted."

"I screwed up... really bad. And I got scared ok. I was stupid I said some horrible stuff and I accused you of some pretty nasty stuff... You're right I'm like a total jerk but..."
"You're not a total jerk." Diamond blushed.
"Yeah I am..."
"Well, if you insist." She said with a smirk.
"There's the girl I know..." he smiled. She glanced at her infants.
"Um... yeah if you say so. I'm kind busy right now so you can go home if you like."
"I don't want to go home. I'm an idiot. I'm not letting you go again."
"Logan..."
"Diamond I love you... I thought I didn't and I wanted so badly to hate you for leaving but I can't... I have been in love with you since I was 13..." The audience 'Awwwwww'ed' loudly.

"And since I turned 15 we've barely seen each other. I moved on, I've let things go..."
"And like me you've regretted them." He said.
"Somethings yeah... others not so much. Logan I'm in the middle of a concert right now..." She knew how awkward this could turn out.
"Diamond..."
"Logan I'm not discussing this with you on worldwide TV ok..." She snapped. He stepped forward and suddenly kissed her. Much to the shock of her and her fans. She pushed him away. "Logan! I said no now go wait backstage if it's really urgent that you talk to me ok."
"I need to know if..."
"Logan, go wait backstage, I'll talk to you afterwards I promise." She turned away from him and signalled for the music to start again. Dejectedly Logan pushed the girls sidestage.

One question rang in his mind: Would she?

A/n: Please review...?