I know I haven't worked on this one in a while, but I'm trying to update different ones as often as I can. Sorry it I'm being a pain, just virtually slap me if need be :P

"I've been told you play the violin." Darcy nodded. "Show me."

"But it's upstairs."

"Get off your lazy ass and get it then, genius." Finn smirked. Darcy pinched his leg and he yelped, adding an extra whack as she jumped to her feet, stomping on his toes. "She's mean to me, Dad." Tobias just laughed. Finn pouted sulkily. His father did his best to look apologetic and pitying, but he still found it funny. "Why are sisters so violent? Darcy beats me up and Sam launches surprise attacks, day and night. You might want to lock your door at night."

"We don't have a lock."

"You do now. Mom installed one a few years back, when Sam first climbed out of the cot and scared the crap out of her."

"I kind of wish I had seen that. Ah, Darcy. Finn says Sam creeps into other people's bedrooms?" Darcy just nodded, resuming her seat and setting her violin case at her feet. "Ever fallen victim?"

"She put a spider on my pillow."

"A toy?"

"A real one. Woke up to it crawling over my face." Darcy shuddered. Tobias smiled sympathetically while Finn scrambled his fingers lightly up her back, making her squirm and squeal. "Get it off!" He waggled his hand in her face and she gave him a vicious Chinese burn. Finn yanked his arm away and went to nurse his wounds in the armchair. "Wimp." Darcy acknowledged triumphantly. Finn scowled and turned his back on her. Tobias was watching curiously. "He'll get over it. He'll have to. Games start tomorrow, brother."

"I know that, sister. I will break your winning streak."

"No you won't."

"Wait, time out. What games? Winning streak? What's going on?"

"Monday to Friday, everything is a competition. We keep track of points on a sheet on the fridge. Whoever has the most points at the end of the week is the Alpha and gets the Omega's favours and servitude for the weekend." Darcy explained.

"Favours," Finn continued, "are whatever we like most at the time. Darcy keeps stealing my DS."

"It's not stealing, it's part of the Twin Deal, remember?" Finn made a face at her. "Anyway, I've won the last three weeks and that means he has to buy me a present now, doesn't it, brother dearest?"

"Shove it."

"In other words, he's broke."

"I will take the crown!"

"What crown?" Tobias puzzled.

"We made a crown when we were five. It's nothing fancy, just a cardboard cutout covered in tinfoil with stickers on. We made it big enough to fit Mom in the first place, so it's fine now, maybe still a little big." Tobias nodded.

"Twins are weird." He concluded.

"Love you too." They muttered.

"Violin." He prompted. Darcy retrieved her favoured musical instrument, something that was not up for a Favour in the Games. Finn sat up straighter.

"Do the cowboy one."

"Cowboy one?" Tobias raised a brow. "What?"

"To practise," Darcy told him, "I play some of Lindsey Sterling's music." At Tobias's confused look, she continued, "she's a famous violinist on YouTube, I'll show you later. But she's one of the reasons I took up violin in the first place." Tobias nodded again, intrigued. Darcy put the violin beneath her chin and set the bow steady. Finn grinned at her encouragingly and she started to play.

Sophia had told Tobias Darcy was good, but Tobias wasn't expecting sound heaven to roll off the strings. It was bouncy, light-hearted, but in places mysterious and suspenseful, smoothly performed as though she had been born specifically for this one purpose.

It took a moment for him to realise that she had finished, he was so amazed. Finn clapped and Tobias joined in. Darcy smiled bashfully. Sophia emerged from the kitchen, grinning proudly.

"Told you so." She said smugly, kissing Darcy's forehead. "What did you think?"

"That... wow, Darcy, that's amazing."

"It wasn't when she started. Pretty sure I've got an-" Finn made a high screeching noise with an air-violin- "stuck in my head for eternity."

"Shut up, Finn." Darcy put the violin back in its case. "You play the triangle."

"And I mastered that in thirty seconds. So smart, I am."

"So Yoda, you are not."

"Twins." Sophia warned lightly. "Behave."

"RRRAAAAAAARRRR!"

"Gods of Olympus, what in the name of Poseidon's rubber duck is that?"

"It's me!" Samantha said proudly. Tobias, now on his feet, stared at her in sheer bewilderment. "I made you jump! Yay me!"

"My life just flashed before my eyes... better than I expected, actually."

"And what exactly did you expect?" Sophia quizzed, coming across as light-hearted, but her eyes flashed dangerously. Tobias had to answer careful.

"Um, happiness and love and family and... cookies?"

"And it's better because?"

"Because... I... have... you?"

"You're an idiot."

"You've been waiting years to say that, haven't you?"

"No."

"Liar."