Prompt: #7 Abnormal
Summary: They definitely were not a normal couple.
A/N: This expands the Eclipse Series verse.
Non Normalis is Latin for "not regular".
Non Normalis
You need to come, right now.
Without even thinking about all the other pressing things at that moment, he teleports to his wife in response to her urgent plea for him. It did not require thought. Nothing was more important than his wife and his children. Everything else was always pushed aside. There was nothing else that truly mattered when compared to the ones that he loved and he loved his family completely. He knew that his wife would not even be calling to him at this hour unless it was something exceedingly urgent. So there is no hesitation when he does come as soon as she calls. He finds her quickly, through their connection and is beside her in the blink of an eye.
"What is it?" he asks immediately. "Is everyone all right?"
He goes so far as to check her person to make sure that she is whole and unharmed.
"Yes, I am fine," she says with a breathy laugh.
"Are you sure?" he asks to reassure himself. He holds the side of her face to look into her eyes.
"Yes," she laughs, reaching up and kissing him soundly. "I am fine."
"What was the emergency then, love?" he asks, looking around the room.
"The children are not here," she says loudly and her eyes rove around the room conspiratorially.
He can hear the barely suppressed giggling that sound close, but muffled.
"Where have they gone?" he asks just as loudly and he raises an eyebrow in question.
"One of them might have teleported," she theorizes, with a long suffering sigh.
"Teleported," he repeats. It had become a code word of sorts for them. It signaled that their little ones were up to something. "Do we know which one?"
"Not yet," she says. "Now they have just vanished into thin air and I am oh so worried!" She says this dramatically while leaning into his chest to hide her chuckle.
"I am sure they can't have gone too far," he says, running his hand through her hair soothingly. He can hear the giggling getting louder. Do you know where they are, Bright Star?
They are watching us from under the covered table this time. They will not come out unless they see you.
"We are here!" cries Lunae as he rolls out from under the table. "Father! We have something we must show you!"
"What is that?" he asks. "Risking your mother's heart for this?"
"Sorry Mother," says Lunae with a thoroughly chastised face.
"That is all right, my dark prince," answers Stella, clutching his collar as they both look at their children. "What was the very important thing that you needed both of us to see?"
"Mina!" cries Lunae as he moves the table covering aside to expose his little sister.
There is a moment of silence before the little bundle of blonde comes rushing out on her feet. As only parents with unnaturally fast reflexes can, Stella moves away so Noctis can teleport in front of them hobbling toddler just in time to catch her as she falls neatly into his arms. He has been thankful of his gifts many times already for helping him prevent many a close call concerning his children.
"She can walk now!" announces Lunae proudly.
Lumina looks up into her father's face and grins a toothy grin in satisfaction of her accomplishment.
"You will stop my heart if you run like that, Sunshine, " he says to the ray of light in his arms. He lifts her in his arms as he rises to his feet so Stella can see her too. "What a delightful surprise this was!"
Lumina drools a happy laugh as she returns his smile before looking at her mother to laugh again.
"You little wonder," cooes Stella as she takes her in her arms and whirls her around.
Noctis bends to lift Lunae so that they are all at the same level together.
"Sorry if we bothered you, Father," says Lunae, looking a little apprehensive now.
"I would rather you bothered me than anyone else, my son," he says honestly. He presses his forehead against the smaller one of his boy's before they smirk at each other. "Besides, it was something I needed to see right away."
How often did a parent get to witness the first few steps of their child's life? He can clearly remember Lunae's, but does not mention it because it still made Stella nervous when she recalled it. Truthfully, he cannot help but be thankful too at how close they had been that time to each having a heart attack.
A wacky knock sounds at the door and they all know who to expect when it swings open a moment later.
"Where are you, Little Misfit?" cries Des coming in through the doorway.
"Here!" cries Lunae.
"And where are you taking Lunae?" he asks, already knowing it was something mischievous. He is not so sure how mischievous when he sees Vires walk in right behind Des.
"Vee!" cries Lumina, reaching her arms out to him.
"How come I don't get a hello?" cries Des in mock hurt.
Lumina gurgles a laugh and blows a kiss at Des. Something she learned from him a week earlier and was doing to everyone who talked to her in a chiding way. Their daughter already knew how to manipulate people with her charm. She would be lethal when she actually mastered speaking. Stella already tells him that he will be unable to refuse anything she asks of him then. He already knows such powerless. He can never deny his wife anything either. His children were both growing up to be more dangerously charming than even Des. Well, they are learning from the best.
"Cheating me!" cries Des, coming close so that his face is in front of Lumina's. "I want a real smooch, Cheeks."
She leans in and gives him a very sloppy kiss on the nose that looks more like she wants to eat it that has Des flying backwards with a laugh that sounds like both a howl and a laugh.
Des ends up sputtering melodramatically while wiping his nose. "Woah! Now that was a smooch!"
Lumina laughs again before turning her attention back to Vires.
"Only missing one more," comments Stella with a smirk.
"My ears were burning," says Sapien dryly, walking in at last to make the picture complete. His head is already bowed, looking at the screen of his handheld. His closest brother has been rather busy lately and it is good to see him outside of their official meetings.
"Sailin'!" cry both children. He does not think they will ever stop calling his brother that, but Sapien does not seem to mind.
He watches as Sapien looks up then and smiles at each of them warmly. "Cherub, Moonlight. What was the emergency?"
"Mina can walk!" cries Lunae excitedly.
"What!" cries Des. "I've been here a minute longer and you didn't tell me that!"
Lunae rolls his eyes while Lumina smacks her lips in an air kiss to Vires before reaching out for Sapien to hold her. He takes her easily after making sure to put his handheld away in his pocket first. Both children had already broken a few already. Not to mention the many destroyed glass frames. Lunae was still young, but he was already rolling his eyes at Des' comments. He thinks that maybe they needed to be conscious of not doing it in his presence anymore. He does not think the council would appreciate that habit in their young prince.
"Can you show me how you walk, Cherub?" Sapien asks Lumina softly and she nods her head enthusiastically. He kisses her forehead before lowering her down to settle her on the floor.
"Wait! Let me get the camera!" cries Vires.
"I wonder who the real parents are," says Stella smugly as she wraps her arm around his waist while he holds her around her shoulders. He leans his head atop hers and inhales the scent of her hair.
"Maybe they can babysit this afternoon and you and I can run away for a bit," he suggests. Her hand stroking the hairs on his neck tell him that she likes that idea.
"Hey look at that!" booms Vires proudly as they all watch Lumina raise herself to her feet and race five steps before Sapien needs to catch her as he had earlier.
It is another close call that would have caused a head injury to the little ray of sunshine.
"Well done, Cheeks!" praises Des. "We have to celebrate now!"
"Ice cream!" shouts Lunae.
"Not too much!" protests Stella.
"What flavor would you have, Cherub?" Sapien asks Lumina as he lifts her up in his arms again.
She only laughs at him while petting his chin excitedly. They would be picking her flavor when they got there.
"Can we, Father?" asks Lunae.
"Of course," he says with an indulgent nod.
"Please make sure they do not get more on themselves than in their mouths," Stella tells Sapien and Vires. She already knows Des could not be trusted not to have it all over himself too.
The two friends smirk at her before giving her small bows of compliance.
"No promises, Stell!" winks Des.
"Do you want to walk or be held, Dark?" Vires asks Lunae.
Lunae actually stops to think about this before answering. Then he wordlessly raises his arms for Vires to lift him up.
"Faster," Lunae says by way of explanation.
"Why not me, Little Misfit?" asks Des with a mock look of indignation.
"Because you'll probably drop him in your excitement," counters Vires.
"I would not!"
"All we need is you getting two scoops of ice cream on your shirt anyway," Sapien buts in before another argument can erupt.
"Yes! Can't risk another shirt!" agrees Des and everyone rolls their eyes this time.
The five of them leave in a jumble of unorganized chaos and then it is completely quiet in their rooms. He holds Stella tighter against him and she sighs in relief at the unusual silence. Her delicate hand reaches up to grasp his face and pulls him down for a leisurely kiss. Years of practice have made them very good at kissing and he easily parts her mouth to deepen it. There is no rush as they enjoy the feeling of their mouths so fused before he ends it with a last, promising press of lips and leaning back to take a good look at her face.
"Are we actually alone?" she asks hopefully. There is an excited blush tinting her cheeks and he leans down to kiss each in turn.
"Yes," he answers, busying himself with kissing all the skin that he can reach.
"Do you have to go back to your meetings?"
He did, but this is more important.
"No," he says without pausing in his kisses. His hands are moving to the edges of her clothes to take them off her at the same time his lips head lower on her body. He needs to feel more of the softness of her skin.
"How long do you think we have until they come back?" she asks and her hands and lips are not idle either.
"Not long enough," he comments and she giggles in that feminine way that causes reactions in him.
"Our family is a bit abnormal, isn't it?" she asks.
He does not stop his pursuit of simultaneously undressing her and leading her towards their bed.
"True, but I would not have it any other way," he says.
She hums her agreement.
"To think we will soon have another addition in Mira," she says happily.
This time he hums and they have finally reached the edge of their bed where he pauses to look into her face again.
"We can talk about that later, Bright Star," he says. "Right now I would rather show you just now how much I do not have to be at any meetings this afternoon and I mean to do it before our brothers return with our children."
She laughs but does not say anything else as they both fall onto their bed with him on top of her.