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*Seven & a Half Months Later
Sitting outside during the late spring months was brilliant with the birds singing and water rippling with the crisp breeze. Kisa was finally pregnant and so happy she was just glowing. Richie was ecstatic when he figured that out before anyone else.
Baby Gecko was rolling around all over the place, and chattering all the time, happy to be passed around by his parents. Green eyes lit up for anything and everything as he took in his home. Everybody had adjusted to the infant quickly after his birth and understood that he and any future Geckos would be priority one.
He was exceptionally friendly, sharing his attention with anyone who wanted it, but had quite the possessive streak when it came to his mommas. The little man had quickly shown the Gecko predisposition of driving everyone crazy if he didn't get his way; which included screaming at the top of his little lungs whenever both women left for a girls night.
Unsurprisingly both of his papas were very proud of this development.
Kisa was on the porch swinging as she watched them play. A gentle smile permanently etched across her face. They spent a lot of their time alone like this when the guys were gone, out checking on Jed's.
So, it was a surprise to hear the sound of a motorcycle coming up the side of the house. Kate picked up their confused son from crawling towards her on the ground and hurried up the porch steps. When the little one rested in Kisa's arms, and settled on her small bump, Kate turned away to see who had come to visit.
The shock of seeing Scott in the late evening after so long had her stunned into place. He had just placed his helmet down, unmounted the bike, and met her sight. Deep dark eyes taking in the sight on the porch.
She finally yelled. "Scott!?!"
Running down the steps to meet his open arms for a hug was probably a bad idea when she herd the angry wail her son let loose.
He gave a short laugh as he hugged her back. "Man, you told me my nephew had some strong lungs, but Christ."
She let him go to make her way towards Kisa who was doing her best to hold onto their squirming baby. "The guys think it's funny that he hates when our attention isn't on him."
***
He followed close behind her after grabbing something from the saddle bag of his bike. "Gotta admit it is kinda cute that he has everyone of you badasses whipped."
Kisa glared at him as Kate let the baby grab onto her and took him. "True, but you should see what happened to the last being who thought we somehow lost that 'badassness'."
He was quickly alert and aggrivated.
Kate actually giggled. "Don't worry, Scott. Most of the guys stayed at Jed's to take care of the place and turn profit. However, we have a good few here who watch out for us."
Scott gave her a confused nod and gestured towards the house. Kisa turned to guide them all into their living room. The glare that the Gecko boy gave him over his sister's shoulder was priceless.
"Should I be scared that he's glaring at me?" He asked as he set the bag he carried down and sat on the floor by the baby bouncer.
Kate shook her head and settled her son, who looked utterly betrayed, into the holder. "Nah, like I said, he's possessive and spoiled. Just show him you're like all his friends."
"What?" He tilted a look at her as she settled with Kisa into the love seat.
"He has a momma and daddy that are like you, Scott. I didn't want him to be afraid of them, so I made them show him what they look like sometimes, and he seems to think that anyone else who can do what they do are his friends." She gave him an encouraging nod.
He couldn't help his skepticism. "Are you serious?"
Kisa was already fed up with the awkwardness and decided to shift with a hiss at Scott to enlighten him. The high pitched giggle and gurgling hiss that split through the air shocked him. His little nephew was hissing back and bouncing in delight at his momma.
He seemed to become content. "Kid has no fear does he?"
Kate shook her head, as Kisa let her guise fade away, and they watched as Scott stood to squat in front of his nephew.
"You ready to meet your uncle Scott?" He waited until the caution melted from the babies green eyes and turned into curiosity.
When his visage slipped, and he let out his own hiss, the baby squealed with glee. Little arms windmilling and reaching out to him shocked the fangs away. The innocence of the action was bittersweet.
The split second thought of if this was how his mother and father felt when they met him struck hard.
"I hope mom and dad are watching over him." He picked up the excited child and turned to his big sister with wet eyes.
She got up from the small sofa and came to hug him. "I know they are. Might not be agreeing with all of our decisions, but I think they're glad we're happy."
He gave a doubtful snort. "I really wish I still had your faith."
"I've been to the darkest places you could ever see and lived through it. If the worst things possible can exist I have to believe there is something better, too." She grabbed her son's hand and shook it as he used his other to grab at his uncle's hair.
"Ouch, ya little..."
"Scott!"
Scott gave his sister a sorry look and handed her back the mischievous baby. She just gave him a snort and put the seven month old back in his bouncer. Kisa met her eye with a nod as she grabbed for Scott's hand and led him to the kitchen.
***
His hand was squeezed tight in her grasp as she pulled him towards a small round table. She sat right next to him and began to fidget as if she was nervous.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
"Nothing really. I just want to catch up. You don't call often." Her tone was accusing.
He found himself staring at his shoes as he spoke. "I know. I'm just not ready to completely forgive any of them yet, Kate. And, I know I share the blame for a lot of shit, but all of this," He swept his hand around to encompass the room. "The relationship you all have, it's a bit much for me to accept."
She gave him a sad smile. "I get that. It can be a bit much for me sometimes, too."
He pulled his fingers through his hair as he tried to explain. "Don't get me wrong, Kate. I still love you, you're my big sister, and I love my nephew regardless of who his father is, but it's not easy to just..."
"Stop." Her hands enveloped around his as she leaned into him. "You don't have to justify your reasons. We both know how hard it can be to accept a new reality."
He rested his head on their hands and sighed. "I know you wanted me to come by sooner and see the house. I was just busy roaming the states and didn't want to stop."
Her eyes lit up with a smile. "You've become a wonderer."
He nodded, pulling his hands away, so he could tug at a lock of her crimson hair. "Yeah. When I called and you told me about the baby I freaked and drove till I was on the other side of the continent."
"Jesus."
He could not help the sharp laugh he gave at her exclamation. "I called yesterday before your boyfriends left and they told me to come by while they were gone."
She sat back with a stunned expression.
He let loose a chuckle.
"They left so you would visit?"
"Yep. Never thought they'd be considerate of my feelings, but here we are."
Through the shock Kate rolled her eyes and quipped. "They didn't do it for you."
"No. I don't guess they did." The disbelief he had shown since he got here seemed to melt away. "Think they love you more than I dislike them and that's enough proof for me."
Her brows furrowed. "What does that mean?"
"Just what I said. I mean, if they both love you enough to go away for a while, so I can see you, well I'm not gonna waste the opportunity." Scott shrugged guiltily. "I'm still trying to figure out how to be the brother I was before I went and fucked everything up in spite. And it's hard to do that when their around."
She didn't lash out at him when he was done, her eyes just softened, and she lept over the table to squeeze him into a hug. "I'm glad you finally showed up despite all of that. You need to spend some time with your nephew before the family gets any bigger."
He quirked a brow at that. "How do you guys even work? I mean I don't get it, those assholes don't seem to be the sharing type."
She laughed outright at that assessment and tried to explain. "They're definitely not but they don't have a choice. Kisa and I can NOT handle them separately, that's how everything went to hell last time. So, we sort of move around each other and just do what feels right."
Scott couldn't help but to tease her for her blush as she realized her innuendo. "Really!?!"
"Not like that. I mean yes we..." She paused as she tried to straighten out her thoughts. "We're together, the four of us, but we don't share. We each need something from the other that the other is lacking and it works for us. I mean I've never been with Kisa in that way, and to be honest I probably never will, our relationship is more about the emotional support and understanding."
She stopped to give him an intense glare. "Seth and Richie aren't incestuous either, if that's what you're thinking."
He shook his head and talked quickly. "Didn't think anything. That's why I was asking."
She wrapped her arms around herself and huffed. "I know it's an odd relationship for you to grasp but it works for us. Richie's so much calmer now, Kisa is happier than we ever thought she could be, and Seth doesn't try to shield himself from us anymore, Scott. I don't think I have ever been more at peace with my life than I am right now."
He sat back in his chair and smiled. "I know you are, Kate. I wasn't trying to attack your lifestyle or anything. Just wanted to understand it a bit better. Like how is Kisa even pregnant?"
She flushed deep once more, got up, and went back to the living room. He hopped up and followed her as she passed her son and began gesturing wildly at him as she spoke to Kisa.
Kisa's eyes met his when Kate finished, lips tilting into a mocking smile. "You do remember that we are the split, reincarnated, and mirrored guardians of fertility, right?"
He gave a slow cautious nod of understanding.
"Well, we have the urgent need to act on that compulsory feeling constantly in order to fulfill that requirement."
He waved that away."How did you get pregnant though, and spare me the details."
"Over the last year and a half we've come to the conclusion that Richard and I wouldn't be able to conceive together, or at least not as what we inbody, under normal circumstances. Kate had a thought that it might work if we..." She paused in concern and then shrugged. "Well, to be tactful, switched partners. So, we did and now I am pregnant."
He couldn't hold back his cringe but decided not to think too hard on what he was just told. "Wow, ok."
Wondering to take a seat, and let all of that sink in for just a beat, he swung to look at them in reluctant concern. Maybe it was the years of supernatural comics stuck in his head, or the idea of his sister being unhappy with an incomplete family, but he found himself speaking up. "How does Richie feel about all of this, cause I don't see him being very happy?"
Kisa shrugged in discomfort as Kate caressed her arm with a frown on her face. "He's looking into a different way for Kisa to have a child with him and doesn't seem too upset about trying with me in the meantime."
Scott physically flinched from that statement but plowed on and tried to offer his help in the only way he could. "You remember all the Manga I used to read?"
Kate nodded as she settled by him and watched Kisa pick up their son to take comfort in him.
"I was reminded of something when Kisa mentioned if I remembered what we were told." He took only a moment to think about if he really wanted to say anything to help out the culebra he despised so much. 'Fuck it' he thought, his sister's happiness was worth more than his dislike of her lover's. "If Seth and Richie are mirrored reincarnations of a Sun God and you two of the Moon Goddess, then maybe it will only work for them during an eclipse."
Kate looked at him with hope flicking in her green eyes and he flinched from memories of the last eclipse they had endured. "How did you think of that so quick? Do you really think it might work? We have literally been wondering for months about that but couldn't come up with a reason to wait and try."
He huffed and turned away as he sat back. "InuYasha."
She blinked confusidly. "What?!?"
He rolled his eyes as he turned back to look at her and explain. "That's what I was thinking of when Kisa said she and Seth had conceived. Wondered if the kid would be half demon like him before remembering that he turned completely human on the new moon. Thought from there that maybe if an eclipse occurred again..."
Through an overprotective glare at his first thought, she interrupted. "Then maybe they wouldn't be affected by the culebra curse."
He gave a shrinking nod as he tried to put distance between himself and what he was gonna say next. "Think about it for a second, Kate. If the eclipse in the sky helped them both fight before without their weaknesses hindering them, then maybe it also weakens the culebra inside of us enough to let them be human, or at least human enough to conceive a child between the two."
He didn't have enough time to jump out of the way as she pounced on him and smothered him in hugs and kisses. "You are the best little brother in the world."
He tried to keep the blush down as he caught Kisa's dazzed look as he pushed Kate away. "I know."
She was jumping up in excitement as she darted towards Kisa. The hopeful look spreading as she snatched the phone from her jeans. He heard the speaker phone come to life as it began to ring and she sat herself back down beside him.
They all heard shuffling in the background as Seth spoke up. "Kisa, what's wrong?"
Kate spoke up quickly with excitement in her voice. "It's me."
"Princess, what's up?" He heard the confusion through the phone as it clicked over to speakerphone as well.
"Scott's here catching up with me and Izzy for a while. And, Kisa and I were explaining about this past year of our lives, and we think we've figured out what we were doing wrong." She blurted out in quick succession.
Richie spoke up through the phone after a little scuffle was heard. "What do you mean doing wrong?"
Scott watched as both of the women in front of him mellowed out at his tone.
Kisa spoke up. "It's not anything bad, Richard, it just has to due with us having a child."
Kate nodded at the phones silence with a scared look, and sighed when she heard Seth cursing at Richie, the sound of tires squealing loudly as he slammed on his breaks.
When they could hear over the commotion Seth had caused, Kate turned away with a frown, and spoke up once more. "I think he's right. It makes sense, Richard, but I think it's gonna be a while before we can see if it works."
They all heard his sigh after she had finished. "Waiting for an eclipse then?"
Seth swore vehemently in the background.
She seemed to deflate. "Yeah."
There was another scuffle as the phone clicked and then Seth was on the phone with demands. "Kisa, I need you to put Izzy to bed. Scott, you need to sit with Kate until we get home, which will be in about thirty minutes, give or take a few minutes, and then I need you to be scarce. Got it?"
Scott knew that sound in his voice, calling to mind plaster falling down around his head, and Seth's erie chuckle. "Yeah, man."
"Good. Kate, baby?" His voice was real tender again, like every other time he had heard him speaking to his sister.
"Hmmm?" He wrapped an arm around his upset sister and wondered how they had ended his visit on such a sour note.
"Richie's an asshole." He growled down the line. "He's gonna make it up to you as soon as we get home." They both flinched when Seth hit something. "He just don't like it when he isn't the only one with an ingenious idea. He'll get over it and be more than happy to make a baby..."
They listened but heard only the dial tone.
***
Scott held his sister close as they waited, listening to Kisa murmur to the unhappy baby, and tried not to feel bad about voicing his idea earlier.
"I'm sorry about all of this." Kate whispered into the room, as she pulled her knees up, and held herself together.
"Don't be, I'm happy to make you happy. Didn't factor in if Richie would be ok with it."
She gave him a sweet smile. "He is happy that someone else agrees with him. I just don't think he has come to accept the fact that he'll have to wait for Kisa to give birth."
He hoped he was wrong with his assessment of things but the watery confusion in her eyes as he stared at her incredulously verified his thoughts. "Kate, are you ok?"
She shook her head and burried it in her knees as she began to cry. "He's been a little off with me since Kisa admitted to him that she was pregnant and I'm not sure why but it hurts. Don't get me wrong he'll still hug and hold me, but the farther along she gets, the more he pulls away. Kisa and Seth have noticed and tried to help, but I'm not sure he cares, as long as he can still take Izzy whenever he wants."
His anger began to boil as he listened to her. "Thought you guy's had worked out this little quartet?"
Kate faced him with shining green eyes and sighed, hands swiping at her tear tracks, and began to answer through a broken hiccup. "We have. That's why I am so upset right now. I'm not sure what I have or haven't done to upset him so much, he's a big boy so normally I would't care, but this hurts so bad that all I can do is blame myself."
He frowned at her, but kept himself quiet, and just sat with her and waited for the Gecko brothers to get home and fix this.