As far as things went the party had been a success, and really that was the good side to this week, it was something Gwen had to remind herself. The bad side was the house hunting she and Kevin had been doing, the paperwork she'd been forced to write through, the explanations and migraines along with her cousin and his morning sickness, and even worse were the questions she kept asking herself.
It would all be ok though, today was a good day and she had to keep telling herself that, it was Friday after all. That of course meant in a few measly hours it would be Saturday. Saturday meant she could sleep in with Kevin, whom she'd gladly taken as a giant bed pillow ever since the knocking at the door started.
Today though, Kevin had thought of everything to ease her mind by taking her on a 'date', even if it was only for five minutes. Right now they were on a nice, quiet date in the middle of some no where park, nestled comfortably on a tire swing she was pretty sure hadn't been there the day before.
"So... I'm really your boyfriend now?" Kevin finally asked the red head after a sigh, a hand rubbing at her side as she smiled and nodded up at him, she was so tired and he was there not driving her crazy.
"I thought it wise, seeing as we're supposed to have kids together later on in the future, you know what I mean right?" Kevin laughed as Gwen looked back at him, their hands finally looping together as she rubbed her forehead and sighed again.
"Now see, you told me-"
"I know what I told you, Kevin... and I take it all back. All the bad times we can just wipe from our memories, ok? I'm just... too tired to worry about anything else..." she smiled as he hummed in approval and started looking up at the stars with her. After a pause Kevin shifted, his right leg tossed over the ledge of the tire while his left tucked into the rim.
"This just complicates things and makes them perfect at the same time, you know that right?" Gwen looked up at Kevin again with a tilt of her head and a puzzled expression as he chuckled. "This is a gross violation of my parole Gwen, not to mention your sanity and mine." he laughed for her, because truth have it she just couldn't laugh right now.
"It's ok, I'll sort it all out..." she gave his hand a tight squeeze before muttering the rest, "I'm not losing you again like this. I won't let it be my fault."
"What about this one?" Kevin turned the page upside down on the table and pointed to a picture for the red head across from him; she leaned over and steadied a yawn as she read from the booklet before nodding.
"Just add it to the maybe list, ok?" she muttered, blinking profusely before the man across from her raised an eyebrow. Gwen shook her head at his questioning gaze, at that moment Edwin walked in from the other room, thankfully Ben had agreed to share his place until he and Edwin found a new one. "Hey Eddie..." she yawned this time, hand coming up over her mouth.
"Hello Gwen." Edwin started, and watched as the pierced and shaggy black haired male scooped the red head up and headed toward the direction of their current bedroom. "Bye Gwen, sweet dreams." he waved and heard her mutter a sloppy 'I'm not sleepy though' and chuckled. She'd been pushing herself farther than anyone had wanted her to.
"Eddie!"
Oh right, he had something to be getting, the ice cream from the fridge. Ben was 'starving' again and also currently 'in the mood' as Verdona kept putting it, much to his ongoing embarrassment. After grabbing the small pint and a spoon he headed back into the bedroom and handed them both over. "Here you go Ben, don't eat it all too fast, you'll make yourself sick." he smirked when Ben glared and pointed at the pillow he had been sitting on prior to leaving. Ben was awfully cuddly these days.
He sat down as directed and let Ben snuggle on top of him as he ate, listening to the hum from the brunettes headset. When they weren't on his head Ben had them snuggled to his stomach as he played soothing and horribly cheesy music, ever since he found out they were both girls at least.
"Mmm... this is like… terrible good..." Ben slurped at the melted portion of ice cream from his spoon and looked up before offering Edwin a portion. "Try it." the hero offered, smiling when his boyfriend slipped his tongue around the spoon and took it from him.
They went back to their silence and continued to just enjoy each others company, something they both needed. "... Eddie" but of course no silence can go on forever when there's an actual plot and an author trying to wrap things up.
… ignore me breaking the fourth wall right there.
"Yea Ben?" Edwin asked, running a few fingers through his boyfriends' hair with a smile.
"I've been thinking... about the baby names." Edwin nodded as Ben took off his headset and placed it on the nightstand. "Now it's just a thought, so if you don't like it just tell me." Edwin laughed and couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Out with it Ben, as long as it's not something horrible." he muttered, tired slightly from the days previous of constant vomiting and food cravings his boyfriend produced.
"Well... I was thinking of naming them... Beny and Tamy..." he was looking down as he said it so he missed when Edwin discolored and tensed … though when he looked up with a real questioning gaze at Edwin he couldn't keep a grin from cracking on his face.
"Well, they did save your life, didn't they." Edwin said as his grin turned into a smirk.
"You like it too? Good, I think it's perfect!" and they kissed briefly before Ben sprawled back down and put his headset back on.
So he didn't know what was behind his words, he hadn't put two and two together. Beny and Tamy were their children, even now they knew just what they were doing... and they weren't even born yet.
Private schools for sure.
A few months later Gwen was napping quietly in her new home office when she told everyone she was actually meditating, but she knew no one would believe her if she'd just said she was napping. Kevin was in the double car garage that he'd nearly squealed over, all while never making a single facial change.
Paperwork had been ripped from her arms by her grandfather and other plumbers, and Kevin Ethan Levin was put into her custody for three years. They'd both become close again, and while Gwen hated... ok not so much hate anymore as aggravated her to say it, she couldn't do this without him. He was there for her, and she'd buried her concentration into his mana to unwind it for months.
Everything was finally back to semi-normal at least, everything was back on track and she didn't have to worry about anything because it was all taken care of.
... Except for her new home phone, she needed to shoot that.
"... Hello?" she nearly groaned into the plastic, and frantic panting and screaming met her ears.
"He's in labor! Gwen get here please, Ben's... please just get here!" Gwen could honestly say she'd never had a need to fly down her stairs until that moment as she screamed for her boyfriend.
"They're so precious." Ben muttered as he watched the tiny pale newborns yawn at once in his arms. Even this small their tails needed separate slip covers, but that didn't stop both parents of the fraternal twins from showing them off to anyone who was willing to see.
"They are." Edwin sat beside his now fiancée as they both gazed longing at their children, and as weird as the thought had been during pregnancy and childbirth, which I'm probably not ever going to get into unless I'm bribed, now they were completely and utterly in love with their daughters.
"Which one's which?" Kevin finally asked to break the cooing over the newborns. Edwin looked up but Gwen cut him off before he could explain.
"Black hair is Beny, tawny hair is Tamy." Gwen told him and he nodded in realization, rubbing his temples with a sigh.
"Well at least you guys know, right?" Ben hummed as he never let his gaze pull away from the babies on his arms. "They're just so tiny, how on Earth did I get them out?" he muttered the rest as Edwin leaned over to kiss his forehead, smiling happily.
"You were an alien Ben, don't question it any farther than that." Gwen ruffled her cousin's hair before turning and nodding toward the door. "Kevin, let's give them some privacy before all the other relatives show up, ok?" the tallest male nodded and turned with her as they slipped outside and onto a balcony. Out here the only noises were birds chirping at three in the morning and the slight brush of wind here and there against the trees, no street lamps in their direct line of sight for miles.
Gwen stood against the railing, watching the leaves stir in front of her as Kevin came up behind her, arms around her waist as he smiled. "It's been pretty crazy lately, hasn't it?" he muttered, watching the stars twinkle here and there. "At least we know we don't have to worry about Ben going hero any time soon, Edwin would tear him another new one." Gwen laughed and Kevin just smiled.
"Yea, I can see that happening." she muttered it out and kept looking up at the sky. "Speaking of happening..." Gwen paused to turn around in Kevin's arms, looking up to catch his gaze. "I have something to tell you..." she watched as he looked away slowly, his gaze suddenly fixated on something off in the distance."... Kevin, I'm trying to be serious with you." she snapped a few times and watched as a light flickered in Kevin's eyes. "God damn it."
She turned just in time to see something crash land a few miles away, a small rolling dust cloud waving toward them, but the disturbance would never make it past the break of the trees. "We better go handle that." Kevin muttered, rubbing his temple as he used his other hand to grip the railing and absorb the pipe onto his skin. "We'll never live this down if that thing gets in earshot of Ben." Gwen smiled as Kevin readied to jump over the railing.
"Kevin will you marry me?" and when he jumped he missed his landing and fell on his side, shouted repeated curses as Gwen peered over the railing before flying down to check on him. "You ok?" she muttered, rubbing his back as he sat up and glared.
"What in the hell are you on abo-"
"Because I think I'm pregnant. For real." they both just sat in silence before Kevin opened his mouth and then closed it before nodding.
"Yea... let's do that... get married, I mean... I mean... you sure?" Gwen nodded and he stood, brushing off his encased body before sighing. "Fuck this is awesome. Let's go kick this things ass!" Kevin started off at a run and Gwen laughed as she went after him.