"Mommy we need to put more in the top of the tree!" Ella jumped up and down in excitement, clapping her little hands as she admired the big Christmas tree.

"Come here, I'll lift you up and we'll see if we can reach it".

Ella jumped into her mother's arms as Aria lifted her up and held her next to the tree "Can u reach it sweetie?".

Ella grunted softly "No, you're too small mommy".

Just as Aria put her daughter down, Victor walked in "Need help?".

"Daddy!" Ella ran towards Victor and clumsily hugged his legs "You need to lift me up, mommy's too small".

Victor grinned at his beautiful wife "Yes she is small, but we shouldn't tease you're mom, she's very sensitive".

Aria narrowed her eyes and Victor laughed at her as he strolled forward and kissed her passionately.

"Stop that" Ella said as she made a face and pulled Victor's leg "Lift me up daddy, so we can make the tree pretty".

Victor lifted the little girl up and Ella sat on Victor's shoulders. Together they managed to decorate the big tree.

"We need a star for on top of the tree" Ella said.

"Here it is baby" Aria said as she gave the bright golden star to her daughter.

Ella put it on top and cried out in happiness as she clapped her little hands. Victor put her back on the ground again.

"I want to show Bjorn mommy, can we get him?!".

"When he's awake sweetie, not right now".

Ella pouted "He sleeps all day long, it's so boring. I thought it would be fun to have a baby brother".

Aria stroked her daughters curly hair "That's because he's only a little baby. You also slept like him when you were just born. As soon as he is awake, you can give him the bottle, and then we will show him the tree".

"Will he understand what the tree is for?".

"Maybe not yet. He's too young. But we will show him the tree anyway" Aria replied "And maybe next year he can help decorate the tree".

"I'm gonna show Cora!" Ella decided instead, as she ran off to look for a grown u who would understand what a Christmas tree was.

Victor focused his preying gaze on Aria.

She smiled as she moved in on him "I thought you wouldn't be back before tonight?".

"Disappointed?" he said as he pulled her against him.

She put her arms around his neck "Quite the opposite".

Victor kissed her intensely "You're gonna have to wrap this up because Jesus Christ… I want to fuck you" he growled against her lips.

Aria loved the idea, she hadn't seen Victor in two days and thought he wouldn't be back before tomorrow or at least midnight.

Her hand lowered towards his belt and onto his groin "Why are you home early anyway?" she asked suspiciously as she rubbed him through his dress pants.

He groaned, ready to rip her dress apart "You really want me to say that shit don't you?".

She bit her lip and grinned up at him "Yes" she whispered.

"I missed you" he grunted as he gave in "All of you actually. And that deal went to shit anyway".

"Oh, that's a shame".

"Yeah whatever" he said impatiently as he pulled her arm "Come on, I can't fuck you here since our daughter might walk in, so you're gonna have to follow me to the bedroom. Now".

"No, no, no, I promised Ella to bake Christmas cookies together" she objected meekly.

"C'mon" Victor grunted "She's with Cora now, she'll be in there for a while".

"You know-" Aria tried to explain something to him about raising children and how he couldn't just do whatever he wanted anymore. But Victor interrupted her by lifting her up an throwing her over his shoulder.

"I didn't want to do this baby" he said as he walked her down the hallway.

"Yes you did and put me down!" she pleaded as she laughed and worked his back with her little fists.

"It was so much easier when Ella was still a baby. At least Bjorn sleeps all day" Victor complained as he opened the bedroom door and closed it behind them.

"Pfff!" Aria grunted at him "And you wanted a whole army of cubs. You can't even deal with two of them".

"I'm dealing just fine" Victor replied as he threw her down on their bed "I simply want the mom at my disposal 24/7".

Their mating was quick but intense.

Victor enjoyed coming home the last couple of years and wanted to be there more often than before he got Aria. Of course his cubs had a part in that also.

She mostly liked the simple things. Like falling asleep in his lap, his fingernails combing through her hair and softly scraping her skull. His beard always smelled the same. Like home, like him.

After Ella was born Aria had asked about his contracting job. She never asked anything off him, but this time she had stood her ground. She wanted him to give up the killing, afraid he might have enemies in the wrong places. She had expected him to object, thinking he must really enjoy it. But he didn't object, didn't even argue. He simply nodded and told her he would. Now the only contracting he did was for Eric, tying a few loose ends here and there whenever Eric asked him to.

So he focused on his company and it had made Aria feel a lot safer about her family's wellbeing. Victor didn't mind. He used to do the contracting to kill time. Before he actually had time to kill. That time he now wanted to spend with his family. And not endangering them was also one of his motives for quitting.

"I'm gonna get dressed, get Bjorn and then get back to Ella".

"No" Victor grumbled as he pulled her back against him "Stay a little longer".

"No" Aria spoke determinedly as she got up "I made a promise to Ella".

"Fine" Victor growled softly as he picked his slacks off the floor to put them on.

As they walked back to the living room Victor halted and picked something up from the floor. It was another hair pin. The last couple of months he'd been drowning in the damn things. Pink hair ties, purple hair ties, red ribbons, but most of all: those damn hair pins he stepped on all the time.

"I'm gonna be finding these for the rest of my life aren't I?" he asked his wife.

She turned around the look what he was holding and took it from his hand as she laughed "Oh, this one is actually mine and not Ella's".

"I never even knew what the hell these things were. For 200 years I've lived in complete ignorance of what a hair pin looks like. And now there are women in my house and those damn things are fucking everywhere".

Aria grinned mischievously "Imagine how many there would be if you had carried out your original plan of breeding. They would be everywhere!" she teased him wickedly "You would go mad".

AN: more epilogues to come lol :-D Sorry for the lack of sex in this one ;-) I know you're all perverts like me 3