A/N: This is it, I've loved writing this story and I hope you liked it. I'm still working on getting better, and it'll happen with more practice. Thanks so much to Desna for letting me use her characters and answering the million questions I asked. HM owns the canon characters.

I shifted the bundle of screaming baby in my arms and sighed, this child was giving me a headache. I started bouncing slightly as I walked and held her tighter against my chest, little Layla has been a difficult baby since day one. Rendevere was the angelic baby, but he was three now and was constantly on the move, Emily was somewhere in the middle, she had a difficult streak, but mostly when she was hungry, which was always. Lucy and Kaleb's children were adorable, but I was so glad I could give them back at the end of the night. Not that I didn't love kids, I really did, it might be a slight bit of jealousy though.

Vander had waited until I was finished with my therapy to marry me, and we spent our wedding night learning each others bodies fully. I had seriously lucked out with him, he was a shit a lot of the time, but he loved me so much, and I loved him so much it hurt. We had been married for three years now, and it was a massive change to be married. We argued a lot, and that was okay, I had problems admitting I was wrong and I liked to do difficult things by myself. I was slowly learning that I wasn't alone in life anymore and it barely happened anymore. Van had issues of his own, but we talked about everything, well mostly everything. I knew he had secrets from his old work that he just couldn't share, and that was okay. We worked around things like that and we were stupidly happy.

"Hey babe, where is Ren's weird little cup thing" I smiled at my husband and grabbed him to press a quick kiss against his lips.

"It's in the fridge with his juice already in it" He smiled at me and sauntered back out of the room.

I'm not quite sure how we ended up watching these kids tonight, Lucy had used her puppy dog eyes and boom, babysitting. I'd not told her it made me jealous when I watched her kids, I didn't tell anyone.

I'd been to see a bunch of different doctors and healers in different countries, I knew that I could talk to Cris but he was.. family. They all said the same thing, that there was nothing wrong with my uterus and that it would happen when it happened.

Van and I had spoken several times about starting a family, and he was all for it, he wanted a big family and I agreed. My only issue was the fact that after two years of trying, I'd yet to even have a late period. It was getting frustrating seeing the rest of the family celebrating and having babies when I just could not get pregnant.

I sighed quietly as Layla finally settled down and passed out against my shoulder. I set her into her crib really really gently. I could not wake the monster. I tip toed out of the room and walked to the kitchen where Van was trying to get Ren and Emily to keep the ketchup off of their clothes. I leaned against the door frame and watched the potentially scary ex blood hunter wipe ketchup off of the little girls cheek with a grin on his face. If there was anything close to as good as seeing Vander naked, it was watching him with kids.

"Auntie! Come see what Uncle Van made me!" Ren exclaimed and ran over to pull me to the table. I smiled at his wild dark hair and amethyst eyes, I had been told that he was the spitting image of his father before he had gone into the immaculate light. I wiped a smudge of red off of his chin and took the little butterfly knife from the three year old. I shot my now smirking husband a look and held up the knife.

"Really Vander? A knife? He's three for gods sake"

"It's dull, its mostly to scare his mother" I rolled my eyes and set the knife down onto the table.

"Has Uncle Van talked to you about knife safety?" I asked the small child and he nodded.

"Good, he can show you some of those flippy moves after you finish your supper" The huge grin that split the child's face was adorable.

"Auntie Ash can you take me to the beach" I grinned at the little blonde

"If you can finish all of your chicken nuggets and at least half of your veggies" She nodded and started stuffing her face with food. I sighed, what a little lady, must take after me.

Gajeel and Cobra had moved back to Fiore about a year ago, and I missed them like crazy, but I knew that it was for the best. Gajeel had been offered a job back on the council and everyone knew how much he had loved that job. Kastor was nearly six now and would plan the trips that the little family took to visit us. He ended up being a Poison Dragon Slayer like his dad, but he was so...calm. They hadn't had any more kids, said the one was enough for them both.

Cristoff had found his mate a year before Vander and I married and was very happy with Wendy. They had twins that were going to appear any day now. I was very happy that he had found the perfect person to share the rest of his life with, he was such a sweetheart. Wendy was even sweeter, she was just so cute and she always saw the best in everybody. They were kind of a perfect match, I mean.. other then the dragon thing.

I stretched my arms above my head and set my pen down, I needed to go grab something for dinner. Van was coming home after a long mission and I was so stupidly excited to see him again. We were getting together with nearly the whole family tomorrow night and I wanted some time just for us tonight, so take out was happening. I called the restaurant on my comm and grabbed my coat, it should be ready by the time I walk the block and a half there.

I stared at the man in front of me and said nothing. He lifted his hands from my body and nodded again and I felt tears start falling down my face.

"Are you sure Cris?" I whispered, I was too nervous to speak any louder.

"I'm positive, four months along" my face cracked into a smile and I started sobbing. Cris gathered me to his chest and rubbed my back.

"I told you it would happen, it just wasn't the right time, but it is now" I was just so...ecstatic.

"How do I tell Van?" I could do this so many ways...

"Do what you're best at" Cris gave me a smirk and a great idea popped into my head.

"Why is it always the super fine glitter" He sighed and shook out his hair. I was waiting for him to see it.

"What's that?" He bent down to pick up the small photo from the ground. I held my breath and watched for his reaction.

"What is this Red" He lifted his eyes to mine and I moved my hand to rest against my lower abdomen. His eyes went wide and he took the three steps to me and lifted me to spin in a circle.

"Are you serious!" I laughed and nodded

"I'm going to be a dad" he whispered, setting me gently on my feet.

"You're going to be a dad" He dropped to his knees and lifted my shirt to expose my stomach.

"We did it" He looked up at me with so much love that I started crying again.

"Yeah love, we did" I cupped his cheek and leaned down to kiss him softly.

"Parents Ash, we're going to have a baby" I laughed and he pressed a kiss to the little bump between my hips.

TIME SKIP

"Jerico Tesion Pradesh you put your sister back on the ground right now" The devious little smirk I got from my son reminded me so much of his father.

"but Mom" He whined and I shot him a look

"You are sixteen years old Jerico, why are you whining at me like a toddler" He sighed and dropped the magic surrounding his sister, who landed on her butt with a thump.

"thanks a lot Jer" She muttered and stood to dust off her dress. Lilith was my little monster, she had her fathers magic, and had been in training to control it since she was able to. Lil was a little clone of Vander, from the hair to the eyes to her attitude. She'd had sass since she was born, and she was not happy about being born second to Jerico even if it was only by six minutes.

"Mum, can Ren come over later?" I saw Lil's eyes light up at her brothers question and rolled my eyes. Jer got along with Ren, but with Lilly it was like they were the same person just separated at birth or something.

"Yes Ren can come over, why don't you invite Layla and Em over with him? You could all go swimming" Jerico rolled his eyes

"I don't want to spend all day with a bunch of girls" I raised an eyebrow and he conceded

"Okay, not with a bunch of girls I'm related to" I nodded and turned back to the house.

Nineteen years of marriage and twins was something to be proud of. I had a great life, a wonderful husband and a beautiful family. I really couldn't think of a time in my life when I had thought I'd get this. I leaned against the counter and watched my sexy husband work on dinner, he was singing softly and I smiled.

"Hey love, can you grab me the celery from the fridge?" He shot me a look over his shoulder and I laughed, of course he had known I was there.

"Yeah" I brought the two sticks I'd gotten to the sink and started washing them.

"I love you so much Shadow Man" He stopped cutting the carrots and gathered me in his arms

"I love you too Red" He dipped his head and kissed me breathless, after so long together he still had kissing down to an art.

I pressed a kiss against his neck and brought my hands up to cup his cheeks.

"I really am so lucky to have you"

"I know you are" He winked at me and I went to punch his shoulder, but he had disappeared in a swirl of shadows. I rolled my eyes, I married that.

FIN

A/N: Thank you so much to everyone that has left a review, I hope this was an okay ending. I am still going to be writing, but maybe more in 3rd person... Have a good day :D