The boys and Jenny are back! But it really took long enough. This time it will really go haywire. Let's hope that Jenny can keep it up. But at least those who haven't gone crazy yet are helping her. So look forward to a new chapter and this time with a lot of chaos.

Greetings Petit Erik

Note: The song that Jenny plays is 'Cirice' from Ghost

23.7.2022

Today she would be back again. Jenny really missed everyone. She packed up her stuff, carefully stowed away the souvenirs she had bought for everyone. Then she put everything in a corner and checked again to make sure she hadn't forgotten anything. After checking everything, she took her luggage, ran down the stairs to the exit of the house, handed in the keys and then took the bus to Innsbruck to the airport. Soon she was on the plane and it was off again towards Paris. About 1 hour later she had landed back in Paris, waited for her luggage to arrive and then headed straight home. She got on the metro, rode a few stops, got off and walked quickly. When she finally saw the big house, a happy smile crept onto her face. She set her luggage down just outside the door, took out her cell phone and activated the Bluetooth connection, turning on one of her favorite songs and setting the speakers to full volume. Shortly after, there was an immediate rumbling sound that could be heard even from outside.

"What the fuck is that now!" someone shouted.

"Angel! Watch your language!"

"Sorry, love."

Jenny grinned to herself. Kerik and his form of swearing. When the music was really playing and apparently no one had found the cause yet, Jenny ran to the door with an innocent look on her face. She stopped in front of it, dug out her key, put it in the lock and opened the door. She went into the hallway, put down her things, took off her shoes and hung up her jacket. Then she went further into the hallway that separated all the rooms and floors.

"Can someone turn this shit off!" again Kerik's voice boomed through the house.

Jenny took her cell phone again and pressed stop on her playlist. Immediately the music was off and everyone was dead silent. Then the first one looked towards the door.

"JENNY!" exclaimed Keegan, running into her arms and hugging her tightly.

"Hello, little one. How are you?"

He broke away from her and looked at her.

"I'm wonderful. And you?"

"Likewise. I'm glad to be back."

Before Keegan could answer her, several voices shouted at once: "JENNY!"

Almost all of them ran toward her, and she was nearly crushed by hugs.

"Hey. It's good to see you guys again, too."

"We're glad too," everyone replied.

"Guys, I brought you something, so please let go of me so I can get it."

She was let go and went to get her bag where she had stashed everything she had bought. Everyone got something else as a gift and was very happy about it.

"And what did you all do during the time I wasn't there?"

Many of the Phantoms and the Christines blushed. Crawford groaned and buried his face in his hands, as he had done a few days earlier.

"Are you all right?" asked Jenny of him, concerned.

He just nodded into his hands and moaned again, while about half the Phantoms and Sopranos grinned.

"Okay, I won't wonder," she said.

"Better not," Crawford muttered into his hands.

Jenny was now grinning at Crawford's 'desperation' as well.

"What on earth have you done to poor Crawford?" she asked the others.

"Nothing," Murphy said, grinning wider.

"Oh man, I think I can guess," Jenny muttered, walking over to Crawford and patting his head.

"Poor Crawford."

He nodded and she hugged him, while Sarah hugged him from the other side. Jenny glanced at the others, who were still grinning.

"Well, I guess we'll soon find out what happened. And if there will be any repercussions."

Everyone agreed, assuming nothing would happen until then. However, if they only knew...

August 10, 2022

Okay, something was definitely going wrong. Normally, the Christines would have asked Jenny to get new pads for them, but that didn't happen. Weird. Yet they were already a week over. Jenny wanted to know exactly what was going on. So she went to the drugstore, bought 30 pregnancy tests, for which she got many strange looks, and then went home again. Then she rounded up all the Christines and pressed a test into each of their hands.

"Just to be safe," she said in response to the questioning looks.

For a few minutes all the ladies disappeared into bathrooms and the boys and Jenny, who were already sitting at the breakfast table, waited anxiously. The ladies came down, each with a sign on her test, so that one could also recognize who which belonged to and now everyone waited. After 5 minutes, a clear result emerged. More than half of the Christines were pregnant. While those who were not were relieved or disappointed, the others who were positive were elated or simply shocked. Schaefer swooned when he saw Julia's positive test. She smiled and walked over to him. Meanwhile, others were in tears. Robson, Cortes, Murphy, Gerry and Piterman wept unrestrainedly with joy. Meanwhile, Kerik and Panaro revved up to full speed.

Kerik grabbed the positive test from Kristine, ran around the kitchen with it, and exclaimed loudly: "Look what I did! Look what I did!"

He grinned like a total maniac. Panaro did the same. As the two paced back and forth, Lewis and Stolle stared at the positive tests. When the former saw that the test didn't change, his face broke into a smile and he hugged Anna tightly, who snuggled into his arms. When Stolle still hadn't moved, Ali came to him and gently put a hand on his arm. He turned to her and looked at her.

"Aren't you happy?" she asked him.

"More than you can imagine," he replied.

With that, she took his face in her hands and kissed him. Gant twirled Holly around, bouncing up and down like a bouncy ball, while Derik hugged Teri and kissed her lovingly. Edenborn and Roxmouth just looked at each other, grinned and gave each other a high-five.

Crawdaddy, meanwhile, looked at Emilie, grinned and said only: "Oopsie."

She laughed, came to him and snuggled into his arms. Mackintosh embraced Kaley in a bone-crushing hug and kissed her hands.

"Oh my God," Jenny said, and did the same as Crawford.

She put her face in her hands and groaned loudly. Everyone else, who were now parents again or for the first time, laughed.

"How am I going to get through this?" she mumbled into her hands.

"Don't worry," said the remaining Christines, "we'll help you."

"Thank you," she murmured.

"And we'll help the expectant fathers," the remaining Phantoms declared.

The others grinned and they could finally have breakfast. Kerik and Panaro had calmed down a bit and could now concentrate a bit on breakfast.

"How am I going to do all this?" asked Jenny Liz in a whisper.

"Don't worry. We'll help you," she reassured her.

"But I have to take them to the gynecologist, too."

"Oh, that's right. Now that you mention it."

Jenny just laughed and looked again at the 16 phantoms who would now become fathers again or for the first time. Panaro and Kerik grinned the whole time, chatting excitedly with each other.

"He's certainly getting tips from him, since Kerik is already a father," Katie whispered in Jenny's ear.

"I think so too," the latter returned.

"Okay. I guess I'll have to call the gynecologist soon and make appointments because it's not just one woman."

"True," the two women agreed with her.

"And I'm sure they'll want fathers along, too," Liz' husband, Mauer, mentioned.

"They're already dying of nervousness on the way there," Liz replied.

"You're right, too," her husband replied, giving her a quick kiss.

So Jenny had a task for after breakfast. And that was to make a gynecologist appointment for all the Christines who were pregnant. Right after breakfast, she went to her room to make an appointment. Her gynecologist laughed at first but after she told him the situation, he gladly made an appointment. All the Christines were on in order and of course the fathers came too. Jenny hung up the call and went into the living room where everyone was waiting for her.

"Okay, sorry I couldn't do it sooner but you have an appointment in 4 weeks. And the fathers should all come, please."

Everyone nodded and they continued chatting. Jenny sat next to Murphy and he was literally glowing.

"Boy, are you all right?", Lewis asked him anxiously.

The younger man looked at him.

"Now don't tell me you don't feel the same way."

"I do but don't you think you're exaggerating a bit?"

"Nah. Be happy, now we can finally be with our kids."

"You could have before," said Anna and Meghan, who looked at their Phantoms with twinkling eyes.

Cortes got the same look from Rachel. Jenny knew that sometimes the Love Never Dies phantoms still blamed themselves for leaving their Christines back then. Their sons also felt sad about not being able to meet their fathers from the beginning.

So one day they asked their fathers why they had left then. Everyone else from the house had holed up, so the three boys and their fathers were really alone.

"Why, dad? Why did you leave then?" asked Jake Murphy.

The other two boys looked at their fathers as well. Murphy sighed.

"I thought it was what she wanted. That she had only come to me out of pity. She was supposed to marry the viscount. He was rich, handsome, had a title, and she would have been happy with him. Instead, the night before her wedding, she came to me. I was the complete opposite of the viscount. Well, I was rich too but I was by no means handsome like him. I am not and never will be. I told her then to go back to him but she would not. She clung to my arm and begged me not to send her away. I sighed. I knew I couldn't resist her."

Murphy looked at Lewis as a sign for him to continue. He nodded and turned to Jack, his son.

"I agreed. Christine could stay with me that night. But she was tired. She asked me where the bed was and if she could possibly sleep now. Of course, I allowed her to. The bed was relatively narrow and I wanted to lie down on the floor but she insisted that I join her. I wanted to protest at first but you know your mother is stubborn."

Jack smiled and so did his knew it was true.

Then he continued: "So I carefully laid down next to her. I thought she would recoil from my touch, but she didn't. On the contrary. She came closer to me. I looked at her in surprise but she just smiled. Then she gently put her delicate hand to my mask. I stiffened. I thought that she wanted to tear it off again. But she gently took it off along with my wig and put it on the nightstand. Then she looked at me. She did not flinch or do anything like that. Gently she put her hand on my cheek and stroked it. I leaned into her loving touch. 'My angel,' she murmured, 'my phantom.' And then she kissed me."

Lewis sighed and looked at his son. Then he looked to Cortes to continue with the story. The latter nodded and looked to his son, Christian.

"She kissed me. Again. I didn't think she would ever want to do that again. But she did. And eventually the kiss led to more."

At this point, all the fathers blushed slightly and their sons grinned.

"After it was all over, she snuggled up to me and held me close. And I wrapped my arms around her to hold her close. Thus, we fell asleep together. However, I woke up just before sunrise. I looked at the window and saw that some light was already coming in. And that's when I got scared. Afraid to know what she would think of me and that she would fear me if she saw me in the light. So I gently forced myself out of her arms and gathered my clothes. After I finished dressing, I went to her once more, kissed her gently on the cheek, and then quietly disappeared. And never saw her again. Until, after ten years, she came to New York to sing. And there she saw me again. I must confess, when we met again, I really thought she would slap me for what I had done ten years ago."

He grinned and looked at Murphy. The latter smiled and continued the story.

"I convinced her to sing for me instead of Hammerstein. And just as she was about to decline, all of a sudden a little boy came running out."

He smiled at his son and he grinned back. Then he went on.

"And this little boy now wanted to know Phantasma. But not the beautiful corners that everyone could see, but the dark and hidden ones. I promised him to show them the next day, and so it came to pass. I saw how fascinated he was by my world. And I was amazed at how well he could play the piano. So I decided to really show him everything. Unlike others, he was excited about the creatures and was curious instead of being scared. And I thought he would be the same with me."

Murphy felt his son put a hand on his. He looked at him.

"Why? Why did you run away from me then?"

Jake looked down.

"It was too much. For me, it was like I was in the dark all the time and all of a sudden a bright flash came and lit everything up. It was so...unexpected. I never wanted you to think that I didn't like you. Because even then I found you very interesting and I wanted to spend time with you. But I didn't think you wanted that after that day."

Jake looked at his father again. He had tears in his eyes and not a second later he was hugging his son tightly.

Jack grinned and whispered in his father's ear: "I caught you at the beginning."

His father turned to him with wide eyes.

"Where?"

"When we arrived with the ship. I saw someone standing upstairs and looked to you. But you only had eyes for Maman. And all the time I wondered who you were and why you insisted on waiting for us to arrive, too. I had made such a small decision to look for you on my own sometime later. But then I didn't have to at all."

After saying this, he grinned.

"I would have loved to run away from Maman and the Vicomte and follow you then," Christian told Cortes.

"Really?"

"Yes. I would have loved to see everything and explore on my own. But I wasn't allowed," he replied, pouting.

His father smirked and looked at the other two fathers.

"Our sons are just like us."

They agreed with him and Lewis grinned.

"I just hope they really do become like us in the good ways and not like the Vicomte."

"Dad!" exclaimed Jack but his father just grinned.

The other fathers and sons laughed, too, and each father cuddled his son close. They had abandoned their sons and Christines once and there was no way they were going to do that again.