"MY BABIES!"

House's mom bolted down the front stairs and grabbed the twins into her arms. House smirked at Allison.

"I used to be her baby."

Allison grinned.

"You still are a baby."

House pouted. "Does this mean I get to play with mommy later?"

Allison laughed and gave him a kiss.

"Only if you're a good boy."

"Oh, I'll be good alright."

Grandma looked over at them and frowned at the make-out fest.

"Okay, okay. Keep it G for the little ones."

House pulled away from Allison.

"What fun is that?"

His mother raised an eyebrow.

"The sooner the bags are put away the sooner you get to eat."

House grabbed some of the bags and went for the House with the speed he normally reserved for dodging Cuddy. Cameron just rolled her eyes and grabbed the remaining bags, following her bolting husband. Grandma just smiled at Allison.

"Hello dear. My son behaving alright?"

"Does he ever?"

Grandma nodded.

"Good point."

Ten minutes later they were all sitting around the kitchen table eating chicken, mashed potatoes, carrots, and milk. The twins were making a mess, which Grandma was quick to clean up. Grandpa just shook his head and winked at Allison.

"They remind me a lot of Greg when he was younger."

House frowned.

"I was never that messy."

Grandpa looked over at him.

"I remember-"

House sighed and Allison leaned forward, smiling.

"I remember when you decided to make a smoothie and put all the fruit in the blender. Then, without putting the top on, pressed puree."

House speared a carrot.

"There wasn't that much of a mess."

"Grape juice stains!"

Grandma looked over at Allison.

"What are the kids into now?

Allison smiled.

"Nathaniel is learning how to play the piano from Greg."

"Really?"

About six months ago, House had been playing a few classical pieces on the piano when Nathaniel crawled onto the piano bench next to him.

"Teach me how to play, daddy."

House had pulled him onto his lap (weight on his goods leg), showed him where to place his hands, and showed him how to play the Rugrats intro that he loved so much. When Nathaniel had picked it up in two tries, House taught him the beginning to a much harder piece. Nathaniel got that one too. House and Allison woke up the next morning to Nathaniel playing the more difficult piece over and over again. It was one thing to play the piece right away but another for a young child to remember it the next day. Deciding that he had talent, House immediately began teaching him how to read music and how to play the sheet music. His son was a prodigy and he was going to make sure that he was trained properly.

Grandma smiled. "And Emma?"

"Emma is in a junior lacrosse team. Greg wanted to make sure that Emma's competitive nature was put towards something productive instead of kicking his piano all the time to get Nathaniel's attention."

About the same time that Nathaniel had discovered the piano, Emma had crawled up onto the couch next to House while he was screaming foul at the lacrosse game on TV. She tugged on the end of his shirt and loudly told him to explain it to her. After reminding her that you're supposed to ask for things instead of demand them, he gave in and explained the basic rules. She was surprisingly quick to pick it up and at the end of the game, she turned her bright blue eyes up towards him and –

"Daddy? Can I play the game like the people on TV? Pretty pleeeeeeeease?"

A quick trip to the sports store had been made and less then 24 hours later, Emma was happily playing catch with House… who was sitting in a chair of course. Cameron thought it was cute to no end that the children seemed to take after him in so many ways. The children took after her too but it was much more subtle. Nathaniel seemed to have her love of books and the quiet. He sometimes only sat in his room in the dark listening to classical music. Very eerie for a child but completely normal since he was trying to pick out the notes. It had gotten to the point where if he recognized a certain set of notes in a row, he could go to the piano and play it. Emma was her child in every way. Even though she was loud, she often apologized for things that were an accident even though she didn't have to. She also had the ability to charm her father, just as Cameron did. There was no doubt about it who these children's parents were.

She was pushed from her thoughts as House's hand found hers. Five years and they were still going strong. He smirked at her and she knew what he was thinking about. Yesterday, they had brought the children to the daycare on the second floor and not more than an hour after dropping them off, both of their pagers had went off. Rushing upstairs while expecting a disaster, they had been astounded to find out that it was the day-care lady and not the children who had been crying. The children had terrorized the poor woman because she wouldn't let them run inside. While Allison was quick to chastise them for not behaving and disturbing mommy and daddy at work, House had just stood back and grinned proudly. Behind her back when he thought that she wasn't looking, he gave each of the kids a thumbs up. The day care lady had almost keeled over at his expression. His attitude was reincarnated all right.

"So when will we be able to expect more grand-children?"

House choked on his potatoes and took a sip of water to clear his throat, shaking his head.

"MOM! Are you all trying to gang up on me? First Allison and now you two. Again, when it happens."

"Well if you want some tips, try using the karma sutra. That-"

"AHHHHHH! Not needing to hear this!"

Allison smiled at Grandma. "We already talked about this. Greg and I aren't using any protection so we're just letting it happen. No pushing or anything against mother nature."

Sensing that it wasn't the best time to trod on this particular subject, House's mom decided to change it.

"Dear? Isn't it late? The children's room has been made up for them."

Emma and Nathaniel were practically falling asleep in their chairs. Smiling, Allison got up and picked them up, turning to House.

"Let's go, dad. Time to help put our demons to bed."

The children giggled against her shoulder and House limped after them up the stairs once his parents assured them that they would take care of the dishes. After their pajamas were on and a story was read (The Three Little Pigs with interruption from House's part about how the wolf was misunderstood), they were asleep. Exhausted from running after them all day long and then carrying them everywhere, House and Allison barely had enough strength to haul themselves off to bed. Just before they fell asleep, House gently pushed on Cameron's shoulder to get her attention.

"What?"

"Did you mean what you said?"

"About?"

"Letting it happen."

She opened her eyes and looked over at him, confused.

"Do you not want any more children?"

He shook his head. "I want at least one more but it's just that we both know that I'm not exactly young and it's going to get harder every year."

"So you want to try more than usual?" she asked, trying to make sense out of his words.

He nodded and she snuggled up against him.

"Does when we get back home sound good to you?"

"Sounds great."

Content, they fell asleep, not noticing that his mother was standing outside the doorway, smiling at her son's stubbornness. Leave it to him to tell her just before they slept. It didn't matter, she thought. As long as I get more grandchildren.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Another chapter done. I've learned that I get nowhere if I try to write down the chapter before I type it so this one was almost all off of the top of my head. R&R and shower my exulted presence with compliments and chocolate! Lol. Peace and Happy V-Day -Amanda