The Contest Results, Leon Wins!

Cynthia, Leon, Jay, Bree, Holly- all older than twenty-four at the end

Family Restaurant Tickets

Leon cuddled the newborn baby girl to his chest, amber eyes soft and gentle, "Thank you," he said to Cynthia, looking at his exhausted and literally dead tired wife, "She's going to be daddy's princess," he looked down at the baby girl whose hazel green eyes looked at him sleepily. 'I'm in the lead, this little angel's the first one.' "Lixa Leana Bramble. Welcome to the family princess."

Holly cradled her son, body language tired but happy and content, her firstborn was named Connor Carson Fillip, and that made her tied with her younger brother Leon in their contest on who would have the most kids. 'Three's my limit, and I doubt Jay or Leon will have more than that.'

"He's perfect, Holly," Finli whispered in her ear, brushing his thumb over the baby's cheek.

"I know."

Cynthia's blue eyes slowly opened, her vision was foggy before she blinked a few times and Leon's face came into focus. Leon's mouth stretched into a soft smile, amber eyes gleaming with relief, "Cyn," He smiled, leaning over and kissing her forehead.

"I feel awful," Cynthia groaned, looking at him, blue eyes glazed with exhaustion.

"Well, you had a seizure about half way through." Leon pointed out before kissing her crown, "but you're awake and that's what matters."

"Where's…" She trailed off, not sure if he had named the baby.

"He's a boy," Leon smiled widely, taking the swaddled infant from a nurse and gently transferring him to Cynthia's arms, the infant already dozing, one hand in his mouth.

Cynthia was too tired to particularly care that she won the tiny bet between them and named him anyway. "Flynx Frederick Bramble." She mumbled, blue eyes sliding closed once again.

Leon wrapped one arm around her shoulders and pressed a short kiss to her temple, "Go to sleep Sunshine," He murmured and that's what Cynthia did.

"Hi," Bree mumbled sleepily when Jay entered the room, still groggy from the anesthesia used on her for the C-section, looking at him tiredly.

"Hey," Jay replied, using one hand to guide him toward where she was, their newborn daughter nestled in his other arm, the baby girl's weight was strange and it made him that he was going to drop her. "How're you feeling?" He asked, his voice still as curt and grumpy as usual.

"Like I got hit by a truck," Bree replied with amusement before struggling into a sitting up position, her amber eyes lighting up at the sight of their dozing daughter. "Ooh! Let me see her!"

"Calm down, you're supposed to be resting," Jay grunted, gently pushing her back down into the half sitting up position she had been in before. "You don't want to hurt yourself."

"Jay, let me see her!" Bree whined, not putting up a fight when he pushed her down, "please!"

"Okay," Jay carefully found Bree's arms and carefully placed their daughter in her arms, silently disappointed that he couldn't see either of them.

Bree seemed to sense hs dreariness and she spoke, describing the baby girl to her blind father. "She has a little bit of fuzzy dark brown hair, a small nose, chubby hands, and freckles along her cheeks." Bree described her before letting out a small gasp when the baby opened her eyes and looked at her mother. Bree's amber eyes softened with love as she held the baby's gaze, "her eyes are an icy blue, lighter than yours."

"Caylee Caprice Bramble." Jay decided and Bree smiled, pulling him down to be sitting next to her.

Holly's green eyes were bright and soft was she looked at the little girl nestled in her arms, she loved her already. "Your turn," she said quietly, looking up at Finli with a soft smile, "What do you want to name her?"

Finli smiled, his green eyes bright with love for his expanding family, "What about Minerva Melissa Fillip?"

Holly cracked a grin at the first name and chuckled, "It's perfect, Finli." She looked down the girl in her arms who looked back at her with sleepy blue eyes, "hi Minerva," she cooed, brushing the back of one of her fingers against the infant's cheek.

Finli held Minerva on his lap while he sat in a visitor chair next to Holly's hospital bed. Holly was introducing Connor to his youngest sister, the three years old excited at the prospect of his new sibling and was trying his best to be careful and gentle like his mother asked him to. "Mama?" Connor asked his mother, "can I touch her?"

Holly smiled, green eyes a little tired, but awake and loving, "Of course you can Connor, but be gentle."

Connor nodded and carefully touched the baby's cheek before giggling and looking at his mother.

Minerva babbled to her father, round blue eyes happy and curious.

Finli smiled as he watched his family, this was how they always wanted it, three kids of different ages.

Holly smiled as she watched her family, 'there is no way I'm going to lose now, not after Flynx's birth. I love these guys, they are the best thing that has ever happened to me.' She looked up at Finli, "Kia, Kia Kira Fillip."

Leon grinned widely at Cynthia, who looked like she was about to pass out, the twins had kept her in labor for thirty-six hours, a record that utterly annihilated their previous one of twenty-four hours with Flynx. "They're finally here Cyn, the twins are finally here."

Cynthia shifted into a little more comfortable position, she was holding the girl of the twins who was much smaller and weaker than her brother. "Yeah, after putting me through hell and back." She said with a hint of sarcasm, shifting the little girl who was lying against her chest, too tired to properly hold her.

"Worse than Flynx?" Leon asked her, settling in the visitor chair next to the bed, the boy twin in held in his arms.

Cynthia gave him a bland look and lifted one arm, displaying the IV she had in and had been connected to for the past few weeks, "What do you think."

Leon chuckled, "what're their names? I vote Miles Mathew Bramble for the boy."

"Cleo Cassandra Bramble for this one." Cynthia decided, rubbing her tiny daughter's back, smiling at her husband's choice of name for their second son.

Leon cracked a grin at the casual blending of their names to make their second daughter's name.

Leon grinned at his siblings, the three siblings were over at his and Cynthia's, the three siblings, Bree, and Cynthia all visiting with each other. "I win the bet." He grinned smugly at his brother and sister from his position sprawled on part of the couch."I have four kids!" His grin changed to triumphant.

"And you are not getting any more!" Cynthia retorted hotly from where she was lying on her stomach on the floor with the pair of eleven-week old twins who of which were lying on their stomachs on a large soft blanket. Cleo was sucking on her mother's pinkie, apparently content to softly suck on her mother's fingers. Miles was cooing at his mother, raising his head and looking happily at her, occasionally reaching for her face, "No more kids!" Cynthia exclaimed, looking up at Leon, her blue eyes sharp with both playfulness and seriousness, she did not want any more seizures, headaches, and all of the other issues that occurred when she had been pregnant with Flynx and both of the twins.

Holly laughed, she was curled up in a recliner with a decently thick book, "I admit defeat," she said, looking up from her book and at her siblings, her brothers and her two sisters in law, "my three are enough."

"I'm dead last," Jay grumbled, he was sitting near his brother on the couch, blind eyes gazing distantly out in front of him, playing with a lock of Bree's hair as he did so.

"Sorry Jay," Bree laughed and paused the random game she was playing to kiss him on the cheek.

"You two have it easy… Flynx! Come back here Mr.!" Cynthia said, catching sight of her oldest son trying to escape with her phone out of the corner of her eye. The four-year-old was trying to get the device to turn on so he could play a game on it. "Park your butt right here, Mr," Cynthia said, pointing over to his racecar blanket on the carpeted floor.

Flynx didn't dare disobey her and pouted before he scurried over and plopped down on top of the blanket, fumbling with the small device and trying to turn it on for a moment before he gave up and tugged on his mother's shirt, "Can you help me?" He asked with a small whine, "it won't go on!"

"How do Bree and I have it easy?" Jay asked indignantly as Cynthia unlocked her phone and opened a game for her son to play, "I have to deal with both Bree and our daughter, and for Starclan's sake, she's Bree's daughter, meaning she is even more hyper than her mother."

"Hey!" Bree complained, "I am not annoying!"

"I didn't say you were annoying Firefly," Jay replied, using his preferred nicknamed for her (Firefly for the light they provide in the dark) "I just said you're hyper."

"Well, I'm hyper enough for both of us then!" Breen chirped, looking back down at her phone as Jay rolled his eyes.

"While you have one hyper child," Leon chuckled, amber eyes gleaming with laughter, "we have three."

"Which one's the calm one?" Holly asked, looking up from her book.

"This one," Leon grinned, picking up Miles from the blanket and tickling his stomach, getting a happy giggle from the infant and causing him to grab onto his fingers.

"He's the calm one?" Holly asked in surprise, "That's not calm Leon, he's pretty hyper."

"Maybe so," Cynthia interjected as she kept an eye on three of her kids, "but he isn't as bad as his twin, and even Lixa is more hyper than Miles." As she was talking, Cleo grabbed onto her mother's face and cooed. Cynthia then rolled her onto her back so Cleo could see her easier with her new found sight before she cooed back to her daughter, gently tickling her.

"I find that hard to believe, "Holly snorted, returning to her book after glancing up at Lixa who was playing quietly with a bunch of stuffed animals and was using her mother as the perfect playground to the stuffed toys.

"She's quiet right now because someone, said he would take her to the park later and play soccer if she was quiet." Cynthia glared at Leon,

Leon grinned guilty, carefully putting Miles back down on his stomach, "guilty as charged. But still, I win!"

"Yes Leon," Cynthia sighed with a roll of her eyes as she sat up and picked up the twins, noticing the slightly screwed expressions on the infants' face like they were going to cry soon, "You won your bet."

"Only because you and Cynthia are more frisky than the rest of us," Holly playfully teased and looked up to see their reactions.

Cynthia blushed and moved a little faster as she left the room while Leon didn't react and instead watched her leave before turning back to his siblings, "You guys totally owe me both the twenty dollars and the restaurant tickets," he said with a smug smirk, "I've been waiting to win this thing before I took her there."

"Really?" Bree looked surprised, "you haven't taken her there yet? Jay took me a while ago and I'm pretty sure Finli's taken Holly a few times."

Leon shrugged, "I wanted to both win the bet and prove there was a reason to my madness."

"Well I'm sure she'll love it, Leon," Holly smiled warmly at her brother, "I mean it's a tradition at this point, we have to go to our grandparents' restaurant with our partner."

"Yup, and that is why I wanted to win the bet so badly."

"Have you noticed that all of your kids besides the twins are three years apart?" Bree asked curiously.

"And that you have the oldest and youngest kids?" Jay inputted and Leon blinked in surprise.

"Huh, I didn't even realize that it makes it seem like we planned it didn't we? Well we didn't, all of them were quite the surprise, Lixa the most."

"Sure it was, Leon," Jay rolled his eyes.

"What? You don't believe me?"

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Cynthia – athleticsapphiresinger

Leon – athleticgoldenboy

Bree – cheerfulcuriosity

Jay – perfectgrumpytone

Holly – emeraldintelligencequeen

Fini – gingerandwhiteteenager

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