Disclaimer: Marieke: -bows to Tal- Thank you for donating Izerac. –bows to Arwen and Phantom- Thanks for helping me with picking hellion Jarnyr's name.
Summary: 'You're the only truth I know, you're the road back home.' After years apart, Andros and Ashley can finally start building their life together with their children. Sequel to Secrets Untold.
PrettyDiva: Andros is definitely sexy! And irrational. But we all love him for that. I'm sure you'll love this chapter.
Star Fata: Your update was great! Thankies! Glad you liked mine, here's the next.
Johnny: Oh, Chris definitely inherited that temper, and Chyler too, but she has more control over it. I'm actually now going to use that piece of information Ashley provided in the future. Look out for it after chapter 14.
Tal: No you cannot else Chris will leave you.
Phantom Rogue: They hadn't tried it yet. Those two are just too in love to pick a fight. Everything is right when Andros is cute being an idiot since he's cute PERIOD!
SweetSas: Glad you like it. Ash was lucky to find Andros so fast.
Dragoneyes5000: Andros definitely acted a bit irrational, but that makes him cute.
Arwennicole: Ashley is Andros's sense. Here's another chapter.
Tay: Oh no, Danne is still on Earth with Ashley's parents and Noah. Andros definitely overreacted, but he's so cute and Ashley got to knock some sense into him.
Alexandra Khayman: -drools- Andros loves Ashley more dearly then anyone else. He just doesn't want her to get hurt and all.
Zeopurple: Actually come to think of it, he wasn't totally irrational, just very afraid to lose Ashley again. But It's good Ashley got through to him.
The-power-of-love: Glad you liked it. Here's more.
AA Lover: They had an enjoyable evening before that already too. They'll have a rather enjoyable honeymoon too if they keep going this way.
Slytherin-Angel44: Well, no need to wait, here it is.
Mz. Daydream: Andros loves that kind of making up. Yeah, Josh was never around before and it just never got up in conversations and it's good it happened here or else Andros might have done something he'd regret… like beat Josh?
Mita427: I'm not updating that fast, am I?
BellaCordelia: That's really okay. Yes, here is the sequel and it's already starting to become longer than I was planning with all new ideas I just had for it. Here's the next chapter. So I hope you enjoy.
Living Truth
Chapter 10: Love Struck
Chris and Chyler could feel the eyes on them as they sat on the stage at the Karovan school. They were supposed to be listening to the headmaster's speech about how honoured the school was that the Terrans had come here for their 'field trip'. Instead they were quietly whispering, completely ignoring all stares and everyone around them.
"Every Terran student will be paired with one of our, carefully selected for their Karovan grades, students." The headmaster's words now caught the twin's attention.
They waited patiently until their names were called.
"Christopher Lee Hammond."
Chris winced at his full name and reluctantly stood up to meet his 'buddy'.
"Jarnyr, son of Zalvec."
Chris smiled painfully at the beaming boy his age. Suddenly he was very grateful for the morpher resting on his wrist, the Megaship with Deca circling the planet and Chyler's promise of sticking together.
"Chyler Lynn Hammond."
Chyler stood up and waited for her own buddy, seeing Chris lingering around the edge of the stage waiting for her, Jarnyr desperately trying to catch his attention.
"Leigh, daughter of Izerac."
Chyler smiled pleasantly at the shy girl walking towards her. Her hair was short, dirty blond with auburn highlights, bouncing joyfully at her every step. Her eyes were a misty grey with a hint of blue-green.
"Hi." Chyler greeted softly, holding out her hand, mildly surprised when the girl shook it without hesitating.
"Hi." She replied just as quietly as she indicated with her head to the edge of the stage where Chris was waiting.
Together the two walked off and Chyler had to keep herself from giggling when she noticed her twin's expression as he caught sight of Leigh. She shook her head ever so slightly with laughter. This was too good to be true, but she was going to take full advantage of it.
"Stare any harder and your eyes will pop out of their sockets." She told him silently with an innocent expression on her face.
Chris glared at her for a moment, but fell into step beside them without a word. Chyler sighed softly at the uncomfortable silence that settled over the four, though Jarnyr was coughing to try and get some attention.
"We don't bite you know." Chyler sighed. "Just because we happen to be rangers…"
"Doesn't mean you're not like the rest of us." Leigh finished with a faint smile. "I know, my mom pretty much beat that into our heads."
Chyler smiled at that and nodded.
"So…" Chyler dragged out, knowing Chris wasn't going to say anything soon.
"We'll be allowed to run soon enough, then we could show you around. Right Jarnyr?"
"Yeah." Jarnyr agreed. "You've got to see everything."
"So, you're what? Sixteen, or so?" Leigh inquired.
"Just turned seventeen last month actually." Chyler replied. "What about you two?"
"I turned seventeen about three months before." Leigh giggled. "Jarnyr is turning 16 next month, but he got to skip a class, so he's in the same class as me."
"And the day I turn sixteen, we're getting married." Jarnyr added boastfully, though Leigh looked less happy about it.
"Ah, the infamous betrothing tradition." Chyler noted, trying to conceal her distaste. "But I thought you'd get betrothed to someone about your age, not over a year younger?"
"Yeah, well, they made an exception for us, I guess." She shrugged helplessly, before adding lightly, "My mom's not too happy with the tradition though."
"Don't be silly, the tradition should be celebrated. It's a great tradition, everyone should be obligated to keep to it." Jarnyr contradicted.
"Our family decided to drop it." Chris cut in, speaking for the first time. "If it wasn't for that stupid tradition, our parents would have been married from the start and we might have grown up as we should have."
After that Jarnyr stayed suspiciously quiet, but it did spark a conversation between Chris and Leigh. Chyler watched the two bond bemusedly, finding they had a lot in common. It amused her even more when a faint blush crept onto Leigh's cheeks when Chris complemented her homemade necklace made of small native Karovan seashells.
Earth
Ashley looked up from her book when she heard the cabin door open. She smiled when Andros walked over as he shrugged his jacket off and placed a tender kiss on her lips as a greeting. He dropped down on the couch, right next to where she sat curled up.
"Hey." He greeted softly, placing some papers on the coffee table.
"Hey." She greeted back, looking at him oddly. "Where were you this morning? It's our honeymoon and I expected my husband lying next to me when I woke up, but instead I found not only an empty bed, but also an empty cabin."
"Sorry." He offered plainly. "I'll be there all the mornings to come. I promise. I just had something to do."
"And that would be?" Ashley inquired, putting her book away and scooting over to him.
Telekinetically he pulled the papers from the table and into his hand, waving them in front of her face.
"I wasn't joking last night you know."
"About what? What's going on? Andros!" She demanded again.
"One word, that's all it takes. One word and this is ours."
"You didn't!" Ashley gasped.
"Yes I did." Andros grinned. "All I need is one word, we sign the papers and the cottage is ours."
With a shriek Ashley launched herself at Andros, causing him to fall back onto the couch with her on top of him. He laughed lightly for a moment before the sound was muffled by Ashley's lips.
"I'll… take that… as… a yes." Andros gasped between kisses, grinning as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"You know." She commented offhandedly. "I'm feeling a little hungry – maybe we should get some dessert?"
No more words were spoken for quite a while.
A/N: Hope you liked it. Review.