Well, I know the last few chapters have been slightly depressing, so this will be a bit more cheerful!

Claudette's POV

"What does dad want us for?" I asked.

"We don't know, Sweets didn't specify the reason." My mother responded.

"Okay then, we better get going!" Stinky said in his usual, self loving, narcissistic, manner.

After a few minutes of walking, with Runt whining and Stinky nearly getting us lost most of the time, we arrived at my dad's den. It wasn't as nice or big as Mom's, but it was good for an Omega. Mom had ordered that they be given a good sized den, almost to keep herself happy with herself. We saw Dad sittings outside eagerly watching us with his tail wagging thoroughly behind him. We had only seen him once or twice since he got engaged, and we hadn't seen Sweets for at least 2 months.

As soon as i saw Dad, I ran towards him and hugged him, as did Runt. But Stinky just stood there and extended his paw to his father. Dad was a bit taken aback by this, but shook it anyway, all be it without his former enthusiasm.

"I'm just kidding Dad!" Stinky said, and then proceeded to pull Dad into a large hug. At this time, Stinky was already the size of Dad, and would probably dwarf him very soon. I saw both of them grow far happier from the moment.

"Dad, you wanted to see us?" I hastened.

"No I didn't," which confused us, "Sweets did."

We turned around to see our future stepmother lying down with her tail twitching, as if covering someone or something that was moving heavily. As we looked at the blonde female, she suddenly lifted her tail revealing a grey ball of fur and a blonde ball of fur moving just behind her. Runt and Stinky looked confused, but I understood completely. I ran to Sweets, who was looking very pleased with herself, and embraced her in a large warm hug which she received and replicated.

"What are they?" Runt asked. Dad face pawed and Sweets looked at him both annoyed and with the most subtle indication of anger.

"You're new brother and sister." Dad eventually said, slightly patronisingly. I froze in my place as my hope was confirmed.

"Are you seriously saying you two have had children together already?" Stinky returned.

"Your dad here doesn't bother pulling out." Sweets said. That caused Dad to blush heavily and me and Stinky to nearly vomit. Runt looked confused.

"What does that mean, Dad?" Runt asked.

"It means," Sweets began, but Dad halted her.

"Sweets, be a bit more sensible!" Dad scolded, causing me and Sweets to giggle at his attempt at intimidation.

The two cute pups behind her began to cry, so all attention was put towards them. It was a dreadful sound, Runt nearly pulled his ears out. Sweets stared nuzzling both pups while making small cooing noises and tickling them until they started calming down. Dad sat behind Sweets and helped settle them down as well.

"They're so cute!" I said, maybe a bit too loudly.

"Shhh..." sweets whispered, "You'll wake them up, we've just gotten them to sleep."

"They're a little weird looking, Dad." Stinky said callously. Sweets glared at him almost violently.

"You looked like them at one point! I remember nobody ever called you weird looking. You definitely were more than these two angels." Dad responded, causing me and Sweets to giggle and Runt to have to hold his mouth over his muzzle.

"Okay! Okay! They are pretty cute." My brother finally retorted, exposing his softer side which we all knew was somewhere, deep, deep, within him.

"Hello there little bro!" Runt said to the blonde pup.

"Err... Runt. That's the girl one." Dad corrected, causing Runt to blush red with embarrassment and walk towards the grey one. "So this is my little brother?" Runt asked, Sweets nodded. "Oh, great! I'm not the youngest anymore!" He shouted.

"Shhhh..." We all said in unison.

"Maybe you two should go back to whatever you were doing." Dad said.

"Okay." We all said, but Runt added on something extra when Stinky had ran out and I was just in earshot. "Bye Dad, bye Mom." When he caught up, I asked him why. He just blushed "I didn't notice. They just seemed like Mom and Dad where."

But what really made me confused was what Stinky said next: "Sis, Fleet said he wanted to see you. He said he had something very important to say to you, life changing even." Oh great! Two life changing things in a day!

Sweet's POV

Did he just call me Mom? Oh my god! I'm a Mom! I just looked down to the two little sleeping pups as Humphrey put his head on my right shoulder. They were the cutest and most beautiful little things I'd ever seen. To think they would grow up to be maybe as strong as Stinky, as clever as Claudette or as kind as Runt warmed my heart so much.

"So what are we calling them?" Humphrey asked. I'd spent so much time playing with them and teasing them with my tail I hadn't thought of that.

"Well, maybe I have some ideas." I responded.

So that was the eighth and forth to last chapter of 'The Problem'. Please review with your thoughts. PM me with any suggestions.

I told you it would be a bit more heart warming than the previous chapters!