Part III: Family Matters

Chapter: Epilogue

Myers was sitting on Margot's bedside, holding a miracle in his arms.

Sean and Amy.

Their tiny, newborn bodies weighed so little, and yet the love that washed over him was bigger than life. He bent his head to give them both a kiss on the forehead, and inhaled their scent - a sweet mixture of milk, soap and cotton. Breathing it in, felt like breathing not air, but love, and it cut right through all his defences, past everything that had once been important, changing his life once and for all.

The babies were both awake, they stared at him with the amazing, blue eyes of newborn babies, with wonder and wisdom that made him shiver.

"Hey, little ones." he said, his voice raw with emotion. "I'm your dad."

"They know." Margot whispered. "They've felt your mind so many times, heard your voice for months. They love you already."

"Then they know that I love them too."

Myers turned to look at Margot, who was lying on the bed on her side, her face pale, shadows of the excruciating pain still in her eyes. He had never loved her more than on this moment.

She was a superhero, for giving him the most amazing gift a man could ever have.

"Try to get some sleep, you must be exhausted." he said. "I'll take care of the babies."

"I'll sleep in a minute." she breathed. "I like watching them."

"Yeah, me too."

He turned his eyes back to his kids, to their enchanting gaze.

He knew that in a minute they'd have to open the door of this room and let everyone come in, to meet the babies, to bring flowers and chocolate and balloons and happy wishes. Kat was probably pulling her hair already, and Margot's mom too, who had spent the past two weeks here waiting for the babies to be born.

But this was a private moment. The rest of the world could wait.

Sean, his baby boy. He had the red, fuzzy hair of his mother, that made him look like a little fairy, he had chubby cheeks and the incredibly soft skin Myers could not stop caressing. And Amy, a tiny little thing, smaller than her twin brother, her hair just as wild and thick as Sean's, but dark as night, her cheeks rosy and the look in her big, blue eyes sharp and concentrated.

They were a miracle, and already they held Myers' heart in the strong grip of their tiny newborn hands.

"I miss feeling their minds." he said after a while. "I can't do that anymore, now that they aren't a part of you."

"I suspected as much." Margot replied. "I can still feel theirs, though. But I think they might not be telepathic. At least not the way I am."

"We might not know before they grow up."

"Yeah, we might not." Margot was silent for a while. "But you know what? I don't care either way."

"I know." he said.

He didn't have to continue that sentence. They both knew what he had meant.

That with or without special abilities, their babies were perfect. They were heavenly creatures who had somehow descended to this world, for Myers to take care of and to protect.

And suddenly he saw the future in front of him - an ocean of uncertain fates, of unimaginable dangers and unknown destinies - and it terrified him.

"Don't be scared, John." Margot's fingers gripped on his arm. "We'll do it together."

And that was the only thing that mattered.

This was in a way the final chapter of this story.

There will be a part IV, but it takes place 20 years after Sean and Amy's birth, so for now we will say goodbye to young John and Margot, to their happy married life, to all ups and downs they will have when bringing up the kids.

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