*Warning* so this is going to ruin what happens in this chapter but I couldn't not warn so this chapter is about them not being able to have any more kids - it is totally for weird, made up omega reasons, but I didn't want anyone to be made uncomfortable/upset reading this (however that covers the entirety of what happens, so feel free to skip to the next chapter)

Chapter 4

After the stress of the birth and their first few days, Leo and Jemima were happy and easy babies. They settled in at home and their siblings loved watching their every move. Dazai and Chuuya were both quite afraid of how well their kids had taken to the new babies, and were waiting for the day they decided they wanted them gone.

Eulalia and Fabian had settled back into school, Dazai and Chuuya had been relieved to find the spiteful lady, and a few of her cronies had taken their children out of the school. The parents that were left apologised for their behaviour, and were slowly becoming friendlier.

The only problem was Dazai's heats, well lack of them. The babies were now four months old, and Dazai hadn't had a heat since the night they were conceived. He and Chuuya had a quickie in the shower around when his heat was due, and Dazai was convinced it had been the few hours before his heat and that he was now pregnant.

They were on the way to the hospital for a check-up. They had brought Leo and Jemima with them, Dazai still felt guilty about missing their first three days and couldn't bring himself to be parted from them. Chuuya had only agreed because the appointment time had coincided with naptime, and he knew it was a battle he would lose. A nurse had come to the house a few days earlier to take a blood sample, to make the appointment as quick as possible for them.

"Chuuya what if I am pregnant? I don't think I can do it again, but I love our children and I couldn't imagine getting rid of any of their possible siblings" he had been repeating this frequently each day whenever they had been alone together.

"Dazai will you relax, its going to be fine, whatever it is we'll work it out together okay?"

"Okay,"

They got to the hospital, clipped the two car seats into the buggy base, and made their way to the doctor's office. It was a quiet day and they were seen immediately.

"How are you both?" the doctor greeted them,

"Fine" Chuuya replied

"Nervous"

"Well, I've got your test results here Dazai. You are not pregnant,"

"Really?" Dazai asked

"Thank god," Chuuya muttered (he was never going to tell Dazai that the idea of him having to give birth again was terrifying)

"Yes," the doctor showed him the result, "but you will never be able to have another child."

"Oh. Why?"

"We're not really sure why, Omega's aren't studied as much as Beta and Alpha's. We think it's when Omega's have long, difficult births their Omega instincts try to protect their bodies and ensure they stay alive for the kids they have. Your very early heat was supposed to be your last, you shouldn't have been able to conceive during that heat at all. The only reason why you did, was because you two are fated mates. Your body was already at its limit and it is why that sick bug and fever affected you so badly, if you'd picked it up earlier in your pregnancy the babies probably wouldn't have survived."

"So, I'll never have another heat?"

"It's unlikely you will, over the next five years you may have the occasional heat, as your body gets used to not having them, but you won't be able to conceive. If we'd found out earlier there would have been some options for you to have more biological children, but the lack of a heat after birth confirms it would not work."

"We saw Leo and Jemima as our last children anyway," Dazai answered

"Eight children are enough," Chuuya added.

The doctor smiled, "I thought that may be the case, but I wanted to make sure you had all the information. I know this is a lot of information to take in, do you have any questions?"

"Not at the moment," Dazai replied, as Chuuya shook his head,

"I'd like to schedule a check-up for six months' time, just to check if you've had any heats."

"Okay, thank you for your time,"

They thanked the Doctor and left, finding a quiet spot to ring Ane-san, they didn't want to have this conversation in front of the kids (they would tell them, but with a lot less detail.) When she answered Chuuya put her on loud speaker,

"Everything alright?"

"Yeah, I'm not pregnant," Dazai replied a little too gleefully,

"But he can't have anymore kids," Chuuya added,

"What do you mean?"

"It's a weird omega thing, basically the fact all of our children's births have been long and difficult forced my omega side to stop my heats to stop the pregnancies from killing me. If we weren't fated mates, we wouldn't have Leo and Jemima."

"Are you two okay with that?"

"Yeah," they both replied, "we will be,"

"You still need to have a break from all eight children, so every two months, when your heats would have been, I'll babysit them for you, a few hours, all day, whatever you're comfortable with,"

"You don't have to" Dazai replied

"I want to, I love babysitting your kids, they're always ever so good for me,"

"That's a lovely offer, thank you Ane-san, we'll be home soon," Chuuya hung up.

They made their way back to the car, Chuuya pulled Dazai in close as he pushed the buggy,

"Are you sure you're okay with this?"

"Yeah, I'll be honest I was dreading my next heat and the possibilities that come with. I really didn't want to experience a birth like that again, it made me forget so much and it wasn't fair on you."

"Okay," he kissed Dazai lightly on the forehead, he didn't point out Dazai's logic was wrong, he knew it was something Dazai was working on with his therapist (the babies came to that with him too, leaving Chuuya with their other children.) "Let's go home then, I promised the kids pancakes for dinner."

"Chocolate chip?"

"and fresh strawberries," he laughed.