Chapter 5:

"Oh my god!" she said in a hushed whisper coming to her feet without actually thinking to. Slowly she walked across the room and peered into startling blue eyes before looking over at an identical pair, "It's you!" Her head aching fiercely as she was consumed with a wave of dizziness Andrea felt a strong grip stopped her from falling as she swayed on her feet, "Isabella!" she shouted her eyes darting back and forth between the two identical redheads standing before her.

Isabella heard Andrea's shout and darted out of the office and to the front quickly grabbing Andrea from the man holding her up as she looked around at everyone in the room her eyes stopping on the twin redheads standing before a blonde woman. "Oh my god... Andy… are they… do you… wow."

The man watched them for a moment before he finally spoke, "What did we miss here? Do you remember Caroline and Cassidy?"

Andrea shook her head slightly before shakily walking back to the desk and pulling the chair out and collapsing into it. She watched Isabella leave the room only to return a few seconds later with a sheet of paper in her hands, she handed it to one of the twins before walking over to Andrea and handing her a bottle of water.

The gasp from across the room brought their eyes back to the four people standing across the room. One of the twins looked up before moving over to the desk, she laid the picture down and looked from Andrea to Isabella and back, "You did this?" she asked hesitantly

Andrea stared at her for a moment before nodding slowly. She looked back at the other girl before returning her gaze to the twin standing before her, "I used to see you in my mind. After the gowns came to me in a dream I attempted to put them to paper. For months I tried with no success. A week before we moved here I was sitting in my living room and your faces floated through my mind. Then it all just fit the gowns flowed onto the page. That is the original copy you see sitting there. Of course in the image you look about 7, maybe 8. I had no idea you actually exist."

"Miranda Alexandria DeMarzio, what did I tell you when I walked out of that office?" Isabella said loudly enough to reach across the room as she stared past everyone in the room into the hallway. Lexxi peeked into the room looking guiltily at her Nana and then her Mommy.

"I'm sorry Nana. I got scared. Rory won't wake up and that lady that yelled at Mommy came saying mean stuff and… and…" she broke off choking on a sob. The twin standing nearest to her kneeled before her gently wiping her tears away.

"Hey there little one," she said gently, "princesses aren't supposed to cry. Dry those tears. My name is Cassidy. This is Brittany and over there with your mommy is my sister Caroline. You see the big man over there? His name is Nigel. And did your Nana say your name was… Miranda?" She shot a look over at her sister whose eyes were showing the shock she was attempting to hide before glancing quickly to Andrea.

"Le… Lexxi. My name is Lexxi." She stated looking back and forth between Cassidy and Caroline. "You're the girls in the picture! Mommy look, it's the ones you drawed when we live in the other house."

Andrea chuckled softly and walked over to Cassidy and her daughter, "Yes munchkin they are. We were just talking about that. Momma, would you get Rory. Might as well introduce her as well. She'll never forgive us if Lexxi had the chance to see them all grown up in person and she didn't."

Cassidy stood and walked over to her sister and picked up the picture from the desk, "Carrie look at this, she managed to distinguish the differences even through her artwork. Mom should really see this."

Isabella walked back into the room with Rory while Brittany made a choking sound and looked back and forth between the twins before turning to Nigel, "What am I missing here? How is it possible this Italian woman was able to see two children she has never met?"

Before anyone could speak however another voice joined the fray, a soft voice that sent a shiver up Andrea's spine causing her to tremble slightly, "She's not Italian and she has met them, on more than one occasion."

The owner of the voice seemed to float into the room her cool blue eyes focused intently on Andrea who had picked up Lexxi and stood leaning against the wall. She watched the silver haired woman walk over to the twins and Andrea knew instantly that this was their mother. The similarities too many for her to be anyone else.

Isabella moved to stand near Andrea, Rory tucked into her side staring at the people gathered in the room around them, "Miranda Priestly in living color, well I'll be." She murmured causing all eyes in the room to turn to her.

"You know who she is Nana?" Lexxi asked her voice muffled because her head was tucked into her mother's neck again.

Andrea gasped when her eyes met with the icy blues of the silver haired woman and grabbed her head as a sharp pain shot through her skull. Voices she couldn't place ran through her mind, half sentences and broken words flooding her as images ran rapid behind her closed eyes.

"Andrea! Andrea, look at me." Isabella's voice broke through the pain the urgency causing Andy to open her eyes and stare into the older woman's, tears causing them to blur, "What is it sweetie? Another migraine?"

Shaking her head and taking a deep breath Andy put Lexxi down and massaged her temples, "Partial memories I think. Too many voices and images. Sharp pain." She panted slightly closing her eyes again trying to hold onto any of the images trying to make sense of what she was seeing. Her eyes shot open and she stood shakily walking over to the twins and there mother. Looking at the older woman closely she frowned, "I know you, I just have no idea how or who exactly you are, but I know you."

Isabella gasped and looked down at Lexxi, "Dear God, now I understand!" her declaration drew all eyes in the room and Andy frowned slightly watching her eyes shoot from her to Miranda to Lexxi. "The dreams you had when you were pregnant with Lexxi. They were incomplete, do you remember?" When Andy nodded she continued, "You kept hearing the name Miranda but you couldn't figure out why. Every morning when you woke up you would draw, do you remember what you drew?"

Andrea gasped and swayed where she stood. Two pairs of hands grabbed her and eased her down into the desk chair slowly, "Oh god… those eyes… they wouldn't leave me alone." She looked at the twins and Miranda then back to Isabella, "I remember sitting on the beach drawing for hours. Every picture, every image had those eyes staring at me. I couldn't get them out of my mind. I thought I was going crazy. Then finally it stopped, that was when the other dream started."

The room was silent for a long while before Isabella spoke again, "The first time you told me about it, I tried to figure out anything I could about your past. Nothing came of it. Your parents had relocated, no one else could tell me anything. We couldn't even figure out where you worked. Where you lived. It was all so very stressful. Now it all makes since."

Cassidy spoke next slightly confused, "Wait, what makes since?"

"When Andrea set out to return to America years ago she was in an accident that caused head trauma. Over the years she has regained some of her memories. Some things however still elude her no matter how hard she tries to remember. Much like the picture there of your sister and you, some parts of her past would come to her in dreams or just flashes of images. She dreamed of these eyes for months during her last pregnancy but she couldn't figure out why. They haunted her. After about 4 months they abruptly stopped." Isabella paused and sighed pinching the bridge of her nose, "When they stopped another dream started. She would hear people talking but even in her dream she couldn't find the owner of the voices, all she could remember were things they were saying. The name Miranda was one of the things she retained. She told me and Sergei about them when she'd see us the next day. Up until the day before Lexxi was born her dreams would all somehow come to this person, this Miranda. No matter what we tried we couldn't figure out who Miranda was. Sergei decided that it was a sign that their daughter should have the name. Andrea of course had already chosen a name so they compromised on the name and that's how we got little Lexxi's name."