A week later saw Odd playing with his children at home. The hospital had finally been happy enough to allow him out.

Odd had a new found fondness for simply sitting around, watching Twinkle play, listening to Serenity sleep and watching television.

Unbeknownst to him, Sam was watching him. It had been a long week for her. Its not that she wasn't happy to have him back, nor was it that she wasn't thrilled to see him enjoy normal adult life, its just that she was getting sick of the sight of Sissy. Everyday since Odd has returned from the hospital, Sissy had hung outside their house in skimpy outfits trying her damn best to tempt Odd. So many times, she and Yumi had gotten into street brawls with her, only to be dragged away by their husbands. She swore that is she saw Sissy there again, she would kill her. And they all believed her.

"Hey" Sam said as she knelt down beside her husband. "Twinkle, its time for your nap! You know how cranky you get!"

"Hey" He smiled at her watching his daughter leave the room grumpily. "You look nice"

She laughed.

She was wearing tight black jeans and a 'My Chemical Romance' skinny t-shirt.

"This outfit is so simple" She giggled.

"That's true, you just make every outfit look glamorous!" He laughed, putting his arms around her and pulling her into a hug.

"God, you are so corny!" He looked up into her eyes "I love it" He laughed with her and pulled her down on the floor where a playful wrestle ignited.

Thirty minutes later Sam and Odd were lying flat on the ground exhausted from their wrestling. Sam turned over on her side to face him. Odd repeated her action so that he too was facing her.

"I love you Odd, I really do"

"I know Sam, trust me, I do. After everything, I know you do. And I love you too"

"You'd best do!" She laughed bobbing her tongue out to him. To which he took full advantage of and lunged onto her, kissing her furiously and hungrily.

Sam began tugging at his shirt and he stopped.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes" Sam said impatiently kissing him again.

Four hours later, Odd took Serenity out in her pram for her for a quiet walk. As he rounded the corner, he soon found out it wouldn't be as quiet as he had hoped for.

"Ah, she's finally let you off the leash then babe?" Sissy squealed.

Odd ignored her and carried on pushing the pram along the sidewalk.

"Babe! Don't ignore me. You know how much you love it" Sissy squeaked

Again, Odd continued to walk towards the shops ignoring her.

"Oh, I get it. You're with the slut's little offspring, so I'm out of bounds"

He ignored and carried on walking.

"OI! You know you never ignored me while I gave you multiple orgasms!"

"Sissy, shut up for god's sake. It was a stupid little mistake. You were a mistake. I was unwell when I did that. I'm not now. So for once in your life, do as you are fucking told and leave me alone. I hate the sight of you, you ugly cow"

"ME? UGLY? YOU HAVE NO RIGHT CALLING ME UGLY WHEN YOU ARE WITH THAT MINGER"

Sam saved Odd the trouble of hitting Sissy.

As Sissy's whores helped her from the ground, Sam linked arms with Odd and they walked to the shops together laughing.

"Where's Twinkle?" Odd asked as they started to walk home.

"Oh, Aelita took her, as she is on her way to Yumi's to tell her some news which yeah I have to tell you about actually"

"Oh?"

"Honey?" Yumi called from the kitchen.

"If you're talking to Daddy, he's asleep on the couch" Krystal informed her Mother without looking up from her schoolbook.

Yumi peered around the door to see Ulrich indeed sleeping peacefully.

Yumi noticed that he had files in his hand from work still. She smiled sadly. He was getting tired a lot faster than he used to. Lately she would just find him, sleeping in a random place or just generally looking white from being so tired.

Ding Dong

Krystal raced towards the door to see her friends smiling at her.

"Mom, it's my friends, I'm going to my room!" Krystal yelled waking her father up.

As the children raced upstairs, Aelita walked into the living room smiling brightly.

Ulrich looked up at her with squinted eyes.

"What you so happy about?" he asked

"I'll tell you and Yumi together" Aelita replied as Yumi entered the room with three glasses of wine.

Yumi saw Ulrich awake and looking rather grumpy. He hadn't quite caught up on his sleep when he had to take her mom to the airport early in the morning.

She sat beside him and stroked his arm sympathetically.

"Right, well here's the good news. Me and Jeremie have been offered promotions!"

They both smiled and congratulated her.

"Yah, the pay is so high and we even get a house for it too!"

"That's cool!"

"There's only one huge bad thing about it" Aelita sighed.

"What's that?" Ulrich asked tiredly.

Yes, I know its short. Yes, I'm sorry.

But itd a filler, and once I get some reviews, I'll update it.

This cliffy is probably really easy to figure out but oh well!