Hello everyone I finally finished this last chapter. I thought that I would never get it all done, but here it is. There's some time jumps and I might add more later if enough people want me to, but not for a while. Thanks for all the reviews on the last chapter I'm glad that you've enjoyed the new parts I added.
Brittany POV
I know that she's not going to be happy when I tell her what my plan is, but they have to learn sometime especially if she doesn't want they to pushovers or sold into slavery. Hopefully she understands and doesn't kick me out of bed again.
"Brittany where are you hiding?" she shouts looking around the house for me.
"Back here!" I shout steading myself for the verbal battle I'm about to get into with her.
"Please tell me that you're not planning on taking my babies out on a hunt." she says frowning as I put several axes and bow in my pack.
"San, I have to teach them to hunt." I sigh knowing that this is not going to end well.
She looks like she's about to argue with me, but then she does something completely different as she grabs a sword and axe from the wall along with a bow.
"Fine then I'm coming too." she says giving me a look that says don't you fucking dare argue with me.
"I thought that you never wanted to go on a hunt as it's too dangerous." I softly say wrapping my arms around her.
She turns around in my arms and starts sobbing, blubbering something that I couldn't understand. I really didn't know what to do she's never been like this before. So I do the only thing that I can think of to do which is to wrap her even tighter in my arms pulling her into me. It takes her a good twenty minutes to finally calm down.
"What's got you so worked up?" I ask softly.
"I don't want them to get hurt." she says trying not to sob.
"Hey, baby I'll be with them I'm not about to let anything happen to our kids." I whisper kissing her cheek.
"I know you would never let anything happen, but it's still scary. They're growing up so fast soon they won't need us anymore." she sobs into my shoulder.
"Well if you want we can take in an orphan."
It's something I've been thinking about for a while now. I know that she misses having a baby around the house and she's right with the kids growing up in only a few years they'll be wanting to move out. This is one of the only times I wish I was man so I could her more kids, but I guess they're other ways.
"Really?" she asks looking up at me. "We can do that?"
"Yes I'll talk to my mom about taking in any orphan babies." I tell her keeping her wrapped up in my arms.
No One's POV
"Come on mom, mama!" Nik shouts running far up the path.
"Nik slow down!" Santana shouts worried that something's going to up out and attack him.
"Mama can I run with Nik?" Ingrid asks pouting up at Brittany who is holding her hand as she hadn't been feeling well that morning which almost cause Santana to cancel the whole hunt.
Brittany who would let her if her wife wasn't here looks over to Santana to see what she wants to do. She knows that her wife isn't trying to be overbearing, protective or unfun like their kids seem to think she just gets worried for their safety. It honestly doesn't surprise her after everything she's been through that she'd want to make sure that their kids don't ever have to deal with anything like that.
"Sure, just be care." Santana softly says after much internal debate.
"I'm proud of you." Brittany whispers wrapping her arm around Santana's waist as they trail after their kids.
"Yeah well I hate when she cries and I could see that she was going to pull out the water works if I didn't let her." Santana sighs snuggling into her wife.
"You're an amazing mom baby, I couldn't do what you do every day for them." Brittany whispers smiling when Nik stops to look back and waves at them.
"Well they would have starved without me." Santana agrees.
"No San, if anything were to ever happen to you I don't know what I'd do. I doubt that I could raise them unless I have you by my side." Brittany softly whispers kissing her cheek.
Nik and Ingrid come running back hiding behind Brittany's legs.
"A bear mama, a bear!" Nik shouts a huge smile on his face even though he's hiding behind Brittany's legs.
"It was only a little bear Nik, mama's not going to kill a baby bear." Ingrid says slipping in between her parents just in case.
Brittany stops and knees in front of the kids looking them in the eyes. She feels Santana's eyes on her, but right now she needs to find out everything they know.
"You saw a baby bear?" Brittany asks.
"Yes about two hundred yards that way." Ingrid says pointing to their left and up a few hundred yards.
"You're a hundred percent sure?" Brittany asks standing up.
"Yes mama." Nik agrees with his sister.
Nik doesn't understand why his mom is suddenly so nervous it's not like she's never taken on a bear before that's how she got the scar on her cheek. He really wants to help her take down the bear cause that would defiantly top Kauko's first hunt kill. But the look on his mom's faces he gets the feeling that that won't be happening.
"We need to go now." Brittany says scooping up both Nik and Ingrid in her arms as they take off in the opposite direction of the bear.
They don't stop moving until Santana can literally walk no farther. So Brittany does the only logical thing and puts the kids down to run and scoops her wife up.
"We can't stop yet we're not far enough away yet." Brittany says kissing Santana before taking off again at a slower pace so the kids can keep up.
By the time they finally stop all four are still exhausted. Not even bothering to build a fire or anything aside from eating some meat they all curl up together and fall asleep. Brittany is the big spoon spooning Santana from behind while Ingrid presses herself into Santana and Nik trying to be a man sleeps next to all of them.
"Britt, I think I heard something." Santana whispers poking her shoulder.
"So," Brittany groans wanting to sleep more, her muscles are sore from yesterday.
"It's your job to protect us." Santana reminds her.
"I know, I know, but I'm exhausted can't Nik go look?" Brittany asks rubbing her eyes to try and wake up.
"I'm not sending our seven year old son to go see what rabbited beast is out there." Santana harsh says pushing Brittany away from her.
"Sorry honey, I know, I'll go look." Brittany says getting up.
Ingrid huffs as she's cold now that she's not wrapped up in her mom's arms and their bickering has woken her up. She doesn't like when they fight not that it happens often. In fact all of her friends are always talking about how their parents fight and don't get along only to start fucking each other all over the place. She used to think that it was weird that her parents weren't like that. Sure she knows that they have sex, but they never do it in front of her or her brother. Some kids used to tease her and Nik about the fact that they have two moms until they saw their mama kill a troop of Britain soldiers that tried to invade their village. Ever since then she's been really glad that she has two moms cause their mama is more like a father than a mom.
"Mommy, why do we look different from mama?" Ingrid asks pouting as she looks at Santana.
Santana shoots up when Ingrid asks this. She didn't think that they would have to field questions like this for a while. Looking over at Brittany who has an axe in her hand as she tramples around scaring whatever is around them she just wants her back here now to help with this question she doesn't know how to answer.
"Who's our dad?" Nik asks sitting up next to Ingrid.
"Umm…..let's wait for your mama." Santana finally says thinking that this night just got worse.
"Whatever was out there is now long gone." Brittany sleepily says dropping down next to Santana kissing her cheek.
"This hunt is horrible." Santana whispers in Brittany's ear not letting her lay back down as the kids stare at them.
"What?" Brittany sleepily says rubbing her eyes.
"Mama's back." Nik points out and Ingrid hits him on the head.
Nik pouts and crawls over to sit next to his mama. He doesn't get why his sister often treats him like a child even though she's the same age as him. As he curls himself next to his mama he wonders for like the hundredth time who his father is. It's not like he doesn't like that he has two moms especially since his mama is a better hunter than any of the fathers of the other boys, sometimes he wishes that he had a dad.
"Who's our dad? And why don't we look like mama?" Nik asks as Ingrid nods her approval.
Brittany sighs and grabs Santana's hand squeezing it tight.
"I don't think that this is a conversation that we should have right now. Let's just get some sleep so we can be refreshed for hunting tomorrow." Brittany says knowing that this is going to be very hard for her wife. "Plus you two are too young."
"We're seven and you were five when you first went on a hunt." Nik argues.
"Mommy please," Ingrid pouts.
"We'll tell you when we get home okay." Santana finally says feeling like maybe they should know about where she comes from and where they come from.
Luckily both kids accept this answer and lay back down to sleep. Santana curls into Brittany trying not to cry.
"Shh, baby everything will be fine." Brittany whispers running her fingers through Santana's hair.
"They're going to hate us." Santana sobs silently.
"No they won't. Sure they might be upset for a while, but we're their moms and that means more than anything." Brittany softly says.
By the time morning comes Santana feels slightly better and really wants this hunt to start hoping the questions will be forgotten. Brittany wraps her arms around Santana as they wait for Ingrid who has decided to cook them breakfast since Nik has started going with Brittany on her night watches.
"We have amazing kids." Brittany whispers in her ear.
"Yes we do baby." Santana says turning around to kiss her.
An hour later they are on the trail of a herd of deer. Santana is staying right behind Brittany still not fond of the woods and terrified that something will try to attack them. Nik is running in front with Ingrid not far behind him trying to track the herd.
"Mama, is this right?" Nik asks pointing off to the left down an old trail.
"Yes buddy they defiantly went that way." Brittany says smiling as Nik smiles a proud look on his face.
"See Ingrid I'm right." Nik says pushing Ingrid who pushes him back.
"Don't push your sister!" Santana shouts.
It falls on deaf ears as both are racing down the path trying to find the deer first.
"Are you sure that they can handle killing a deer? Why couldn't you start them off on hares or something small?" Santana asks plastering herself into Brittany's side.
"I was planning on that, but then Ingrid saw the deer tracks and it's not like I can tell them they did wrong when this could actually be really good for us. We need to stock up on meat especially with how much Nik eats." Brittany whispers stopping them to kiss her.
"Mama," Nik whispers coming back quietly. "We found them in a field up there." he whispers pointing down the path.
Ingrid is waiting for them hidden behind a couple of trees. Nik hands her a bow and couple of arrows that Brittany had been carrying. Brittany helped Santana cock the arrow and aim at the closest deer. Both Nik and Ingrid already knew how to shoot bows so they didn't need any help.
"Okay everyone on the count of three let loose." Brittany whispers still standing behind Santana.
Nik and Ingrid both hit the same deer taking it down and with Brittany's help with aiming Santana hits the largest one in between the eyes.
"Oh my god." Santana gasps completely shocked she actually hit it.
"Good shot baby." Brittany praises kissing her cheek.
"Way to go mommy!" Nik and Ingrid shouts jumping up and down hugging her legs.
"Did you take down one too?" Santana asks bending down to hug both of them.
"Yes," Ingrid says pointing to the deer. "We both shot it."
"Good job babies." Santana says kissing both their cheeks.
"Ingrid help your mom with the weapons and our bags. Nik come help me." Brittany says heading down to the two dead deer.
Twenty minutes later Brittany has made a travois to drag the two deer behind her and Nik. By the time they finally got back it was dusk and Brittany's mom had made them dinner.
"I thought you'd get back today." she says ushering them in.
"Mom we have a lot of cleaning to do they killed two deer." Brittany says a huge smile on her face as she squeezes Santana to her.
"So now everyone can hunt." she says smiling as she heads out with Brittany to go clean the deer leaving Santana to finish up dinner.
Brittany POV
I'm really glad that my mom decided to stop by and could help me skin and clean the deer. As much as I would love to teach Nik and Ingrid how to do this I know that Santana would have killed me if I did. Though now that she's left and we're all sitting around the fire pit I see that look in Ingrid eyes that Santana gets when she wants answers.
"Mommy I want answers now." Ingrid says glaring at us.
"Yeah you promised." Nik adds.
Santana looks up at me with pleading eyes. I guess she wants me to explain this. It's a very hard thing for either of us to talk about. Taking a deep breath I ready myself for all the questions that they will defiantly be asking as they are only seven and a half.
"Well what do you want to know first?" I ask grabbing Santana's hand as we wait to find out if we'll have to tell them the one thing I've always been afraid to talk about since it happened.
"Why don't we," Ingrid says pointing at Nik, herself and Santana before continuing. "Look like you?"
Santana sighs pulling both them into her lap kissing their forehead. This is the easy question so I let her take it as all I remember is that she's from Spain and they'll probably have a bunch of questions that I've never even asked her. All I've ever cared about is protecting her and I've never wanted to bring up any painful memories from before we met.
"Well what you have to understand little ones is that I'm sure that you've heard from other adults when we're in town that I'm not from here." Santana starts sighing.
"Yeah, I never got why they always say that I mean we've always lived here." Ingrid says her thought face on.
Nik is quiet as always letting his sister do all the talking. Unless it involves fighting, hunting or loot he takes a backseat and just in takes all the information.
"That's the thing you've always lived her, but not me. When I was younger fifteen my dad sold me to some English lord who hit and raped me until one day when I was dress shopping and your mama rescued me." Santana says leaving out the fact that she was almost raped by several of my fellow raiders. "She brought me back here and I've been with her ever since. You're both half Nordic and half Spanish. I'm from Spain and maybe one day we'll all go visit for a raid." she says scooting closer to me.
"So mommy you were a thrall?" Ingrid asks frowning.
"No," Santana says looking up at me for help.
"When I first saw your mom I knew that I wanted to protect her and would love her until the day I die. I brought her back here to live with me and I was lucky enough that she loved me back." I softly say looking directly into her eyes.
"So we're half Spanish half Nordic and that's why our skin is different colored than everyone else." Nik says finally speaking up.
"Yes," Santana says laying her head on my shoulder.
"The other girls sometimes like to tease me because of it." Ingrid softly says.
"Do I need to beat someone up?" I ask growling.
"No mama, Nik took care of it." Ingrid says climbing into my lap.
Santana POV
"I like that we are different cause all the girls are going to want up on this." Nik says smirking much like me.
"Get someone pregnant before you commit to them and I'll make sure you never have kids again." I growl not wanting him impregnate a woman he can't take care of because he's in love with someone else.
"Same goes for you Ingrid no coming home pregnant unless you're committed to either the man or woman." Brittany growls.
I love how Brittany doesn't care wither our kids marry a man or woman so long as they are happy. I'm also very surprised that they're taking the news of their heritage well, but then again I guess with my Britt as their teacher I really shouldn't be surprised. She's never cared that I'm Spanish and look different than her.
"Your mom is the love of my life and nothing will ever change that." Brittany tells them and I can't help, but curl into her side and kiss her neck.
"And I love your mama more than anything except for you two of course." I says smiling as Nik grins.
"Okay now that we know why we look different who's our dad. If we're half Norse that means that our dad is Norse so who's our dad?" Ingrid asks.
I look very worriedly at Brittany who is looking very worriedly back at me. This is the one thing that has terrified me since I found that I was pregnant. What if they hate Britt for killing their dad. Surely they have to understand that he hurt me and their mama couldn't and wouldn't let me be reminded of that pain by letting him live.
"I want you both to know that I have loved you both since the day we realized that your mommy was pregnant." Brittany softly says.
I feel Brittany wrap her arms around me tightly. She knows how hard this is for me and as always wants me to know that she'll always be here for me.
"When I first saw your mom she was being attacked by three men who were raiding with me. They were my age and I stopped them from raping her. At first I was worried that they might try something when I brought her back, but two of the men Sam and Finn are too scared of me." Brittany pauses as she tries to stop herself from crying. "Several months after we got back I took your Uncle Harold's night patrol and your dad Puck came in and raped your mom. I walked in earlier than I thought I would and saw him on top of her." she stops again and I can tell that even after all these years it still pisses her off. Nik looks like he's ready to kill something and Ingrid just looks sad as they obviously know where this is going. "I pulled him off and beat his head in. I didn't even realize what I was doing until after he was dead."
I can't tell if their upset or sad or what. It scares me that I can't read them that I do the one thing that comforts me no matter what I curl myself into Brittany's body even more.
"So our dad is dead?" Nik half states, half asks.
"Yes your mama killed him in a very brutal way." I softly tell him hoping that he won't be mad.
"So that's why grandpa always gets so mad whenever anyone mentions the Puckerman's." Ingrid says looking between her parents.
"Did you make him suffer?" Nik asks timidly.
"Come here," Brittany says standing up and hugging Nik into her body. "It's okay to want to make him suffer even though he's the man that helped create you and is dead. I still want to when I think about it even though I'm the one that killed him."
"Mommy, thank you for telling us." Ingrid softly tells me.
I smile and look over at Nik and Brittany who are whispering to each other. It's good to know that despite all of this that we're still the same family we were before. I honestly don't know why I was so worried I should have known that they wouldn't think any different of me or Brittany.
Nine Years Later
No One's POV
Looking around the Jarl's longhouse Santana still can't believe that they live here now even though it's been three years. Three years ago the late Jarl and his wife were killed by a raiding party from up north who had heard about the fortunes of the village. Not that they lasted long after killing the Jarl as both Nik and Brittany had hunted them all down and killed each and every one of them.
"Baby," Brittany whispers wrapping her arms around Santana who has their three year old daughter in her arms.
"I just got her to sleep." Santana whispers looking over at their eight and eleven year old sons who are skinning some rabbits across the hall.
"You were thinking pretty hard." Brittany says lifting their daughter into her arms and carrying her over to their bed.
"I was just thinking about how much I miss your parents. I can't believe it's been three years since they were killed." Santana says wrapping herself around Brittany knowing that it's still hard for her to think about it.
"I miss them too, but just think we wouldn't have little Rika here if Nik and myself wouldn't have gone after them." Brittany says always trying to think of the positive especially since they named her after her mom.
"Mama, is Nik going to come by soon?" Hord asks always wanting to be around his older brother.
"I don't think so and before you ask your sister isn't coming either." Brittany says ruffling Tuff's their eight year old son's hair.
After they told Nik and Ingrid about their past Brittany had decided that they should try and adopt a baby as she could tell that her wife was missing having a baby in the house. They hadn't expected to get both Hord and Tuff whose parents were killed by a bear, but when they didn't have anyone else Santana had begged her wife if they could adopt the then four year old Hord and one year old Tuff. Unable to say no to her wife Brittany had convince everyone that they would be the best one to adopt the brothers as they could take both of them.
Nik POV
"Gunhild!" I shout running after the young warrior.
"Nik, what are you doing here I thought you left yesterday on the raid." Gunhild says looking me up and down.
"Yeah well it's my mom's birthday tomorrow and with Ingrid out on a raid already I didn't want to be away on her special day." I softly says kicking the dirt in front of me.
"That's so sweet." Gunhild says giving me a flirty look.
"So I was wondering if you wanted to maybe come with me out to the house for her birthday?" I ask hoping that she'll come.
"I don't want to intrude on a family thing." Gunhild says looking down at the ground.
"You won't be my mom will be extremely happy she really likes you so does my mama, but she doesn't show it too much. Plus it's out at the cabin and you haven't seen where I spent most of my childhood and I want you to see where we could live if we were to commit to each other." I say half shocking myself with my confusion.
She looks shocked at what I'm saying. I don't get why I've been courting her for the last six months and even though her mom hates me her dad really likes me and the fact that mama saved him from losing his hand last year on a raid.
"I guess I could come, but first I'll have to ask my dad." Gunhild says smiling as I takes her hand.
"One day I'm going to have enough money to take care of you and I'll ask you to commit to me." I tell her causing her to smile even more.
"So when you do this will we live in the shack that you currently live in alone as you just can't stay with your moms." Gunhild says sarcastically as I walk her back towards her house.
"Well no like I said we'll live in the cabin so we'll have our privacy. My mom's already promised me that I could have it when I find the right woman. It's not like my sister has any plans to commit to any man. That's part of the reason why I'd really like you to come out. You need to get to know them and my siblings better." I softly tell her.
"I'd really like that to get to know your family better." Gunhild says laying her on my shoulder.
I want to commit to her more than anything and I know she wants to commit to me, but our parents think we're too young. I don't get it mama was only a year older than me when she committed to mom. Though I'm not about to go against what our parents say for now as we do need their blessing especially if we want to stay here which I know Gunhild does.
"Nik, thanks for walking her home." Harold says slapping me on the back.
"Um….Harold I was hoping that Gunhild could come to my mom's birthday tomorrow over at the cabin. I know that it's not a public place, but both my mom and younger siblings will be there." I softly say trying to make my argument.
"Please dad, we want to commit and it would help if I could go his mom is the Jarl after all." Gunhild pleas with her dad.
"God, it's not like I was going to say no you two. Your mom is one of my best friends." Harold tells me and I'm shocked I never realized that they were friends.
"Daddy why haven't you said that before?" Gunhild asks and I really want to know as well.
"Cause I thought you both already knew." Harold says shaking his head as he heads in.
"Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow." Gunhild softly says.
"Yeah I'll pick you up two hours after dawn." I tell her giving her a gentle kiss on the cheek before leaving.
I hope that my moms will approve of our commit soon. I hate that I don't get to spend nights with her.
Ingrid POV
"Stand together in the center of the room and no one will get hurt." I shout as all the priests scurry to follow my orders.
This raid is going much better than I thought it would. I was hoping that I might make it back in time for mama's birthday, but her birthday's in three days and there's and it's not looking promising for us to make it back in time though we didn't travel that far down Britain so there's still a bit of hope if we leave soon.
"Captain, we found a chest of gold hidden in a casket." one of the younger boys says coming up next to me.
"Good job, take it back to the ship." I order before turning back to the priests. "Okay who's going to help me?" I ask in their language.
They all look at me like I'm a fucking demon which I take personally so I grab the oldest looking one who I assume will know where everything is. I drag him out of the room nodding to two men to go search the room.
"You're awfully young for being in charge." he says as I drag him across a courtyard.
"My mom's the Jarl and this is my sixth season of raiding." I tell him cause for some reason I actually like this old bat.
"Where are you taking me?" he asks.
"You're going to show me where all the gold is. If you don't I'll have my men kill all the priests." I lie as I know that I can't kill them my mama would be beyond pissed.
"You already have all the gold we're a poor parish." he says and for some reason I believe him.
I let him go there's no need to bring him back. Walking back through all the building I collect all of my men after tying up the priests as we go. I only have five men and three women with me. We're a really small raiding party.
"Well we got a good haul for only being gone five days." Iris says to me as we walk side by side back to the ship.
"Yeah, I wish that we could bring more back you know I want to prove to my mama and everyone else that I can lead bigger raids like Nik." I tell her looking around to make sure no one's watching before kissing her lightly on the lips.
"Maybe if you just told your moms they'd let you do more after all it's not like they're going to disown you or anything." Iris says and I know that she doesn't want to hide our relationship anymore.
"Why don't you come with me to meet my moms when we get back." I softly say knowing that this is all she's ever wanted.
I honestly don't know why I've never told anyone, but Iris that I like women. She's right that my moms wouldn't be mad cause hello I have two moms. I guess if I'm completely honest with myself I'm scared of what everyone will say. My mama is loved by our people because she found my mom and didn't take any of their daughters away along with the fact that she's perhaps the best fighter still to this day. I wish I was as good as her.
"You promise that you'll introduce me to your family as your girlfriend?" Iris asks grabbing my hand and pulling me behind a tree after waving everyone to continue on to the ship.
"Yes baby I promise that you'll meet then and they'll love you." I promise kissing her lightly on the lips before continuing to walk back to the ship.
"I'm holding you to it."
Santana POV
"Mom! I brought someone for you to meet." Nik shouts and I run into his arms.
I didn't think that he would be here for my birthday, I thought he would have gone on the raid that left yesterday. So the fact that he's here means the world to me.
"Okay mom you can let go I'm here, but I do want you to officially meet the woman I'm courting." Nik says motioning for Gunhild to come over. "Mom this is Gunhild."
"Nik I know who Gunhild is. I was there when she was born silly boy." I say pulling Gunhild into a hug.
"What's going on here?" Brittany asks walking over giving Gunhild a soft smile.
"Mama I just want you to officially meet Gunhild the woman I'm courting." Nik says and the look on Brittany's face is priceless.
I know that Brittany and Harold are dead set on this match not happening right now they think that they are too young. I get where they are coming from though. I don't know what I would have done if someone would have tried to keep Brittany away from me when we first met. So I've been working on Britt late at night and I think she's close to breaking and allowing them to at least live together while they're courting and preparing to commit to each other.
"Hi Jarl, Mrs. Pierce." Gunhild says.
"Gunhild it's so wonderful to see you again." I say elbowing Brittany in the gut.
"Yes it's wonderful to see you again." Brittany says sighing. "Nik I need to speak to you."
Brittany drags Nik across the yard and into the cabin.
"I'm sorry," Gunhild softly says. "I'll just go."
"Sweetie you don't have to go." I say grabbing her arm. "You should know that we both think you're a wonderful match for Nik it's just that my wife worries about wither Nik can take care of you and your future children. It may seem like we're being unfair, but we really aren't."
"Nik and I want to start a family and I think that he can take care of our future family." Gunhild says looking me in the eyes.
"Mommy, Hord took my bow." Tuff shouts running over.
"Hord give your brother back his bow." I shout picking up Rika who was tugging on my leg.
"Mom!" someone shouts that sounds a lot like Ingrid.
Turning around I gasp when I see that it is in fact Ingrid walking towards me with Iris in tow. I wish that they would just admit that they're in love and get together.
"My babies are all home!" I shout running with Rika still in my arms to my daughter.
"You didn't really think I'd miss your birthday did you?" Ingrid says hugging me tightly.
"Britt, come see who decided to come home!" I shout smiling as I walk towards the house with Ingrid.
I wish that she would come home more, but no she likes to raid just like her mama. I'm just happy that when Britt took over as Jarl that raiding officially off the table for her.
"Baby girl," Brittany says pulling Ingrid into her body. "I've missed you."
"Mama, I want you meet Iris." Ingrid says motioning for Iris to come forward.
Brittany put her arm around my shoulders smiling at the woman our daughter has finally officially brought home. I can't believe that she thinks that we didn't actually know that she's been in love with another woman.
"It's very nice to meet you." Brittany says smiling at Iris.
I turn back to Gunhild and push her towards Brittany.
"Baby, both our kids have found love can't you be happy about that." I softly ask her.
I know that it's hard for her to deal with the fact that our kids aren't kids anymore and that she's worried about them committing too soon.
"I am happy it's just that they should both be building their own cabins not trying to take ours." Brittany softly says and I finally get why she's been telling Nik he can't commit yet.
"Is that why you and Harold keep saying no?" I ask.
"Yes,"
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A few hours later we're all seated around the fire. Rika is snuggled in between Brittany and myself an Tuff is curled into Brittany and Hord snuggled into me. Ingrid and Iris are snuggled together next to me while Nik and Gunhild are snuggled together next to Brittany.
"I have an announcement." Brittany says smiling over at me before standing up.
"In honor of my beautiful wife's birthday I've decided that Nik you have my permission to commit to Gunhild if and when you build yourself your own cabin to live in." Brittany says smiling at our son.
"Really?" Nik asks unable to believe what he's hearing.
"Yes, I talked with your mom earlier and she made me see that I should explain why Harold and myself have been against you two committing to each other." Brittany says before looking over at Ingrid. "The same thing goes for you Ingrid."
"I know mama," Ingrid says smiling widely as Iris snuggles more into her.
"Good now that that's done why don't you kids take the younger ones to bed." Brittany orders scooping up a sleeping Rika and puts her into Ingrid's arms.
"It will be good practice for you think about having your own kids." I tell Nik handing a sleeping Tuff.
"Mama, mommy," Hord whines as Brittany wakes him up.
"Come on little guy we've got to go to bed." Gunhild softly says smiling at Nik.
"Thanks for letting me stay." Iris softly says before following Ingrid, Nik and Gunhild into the cabin.
Brittany waits until the door closes before she scoops me into her arms cradling me to her chest as she walks into the woods towards our special clearing.
"Hum, I wonder what you got me for my birthday." I softly whisper smiling against her shoulder.
Brittany POV
I love how she's nuzzled into my shoulder so trusting just like she was the first day I met her. Nothing has changed between us just that we can't get it on nearly as much with five kids that are constantly coming and going and me taking over as Jarl. Though I wouldn't change a thing for the world.
"I love you so much baby." I whisper putting her down on a pelt.
"Not nearly as much as I love you." she whispers pulling me down.
"Thank you for making me whole." I softly say kissing her deeply.
"Thank you for saving me." she says kissing me back wrapping herself around me.
The End (at least for now)