Seven years later

He knew something was up with his terrible twosome the moment they stepped off the elevator and he didn't have a lap full of exited muchkin. He's fairly certain that if he could harness their excitement it would be the next clean energy alternative.

He silently watched them, waiting for them to come to him. It took them forty minutes of almost absolute silence while they had a snack and did the homework Pierre had sent upstairs with them before they came to him.

They quietly climbed in his lap, watching him. Aurora finally broke the shell of silence that had prevaided the penthouse since she and Xavier had entered. She was never good at beating around the bush 'Just like Darcy.' so he should have expected the question that came next.

"Daddy what happened to mommy?"

'Oh.'

He really hadn't expected that.