Lana, Fiza, Shalt, Caser and the twins with little Angelina Rosalina wrapped tightly to Lana's chest had just entered Earth's atmosphere when a message had come in. She hit record instantly then listened carefully. She then contacted the Cursed Ship looking for Sam and was told he was on Earth as well and given the coordinates. Megan told her to just report in person since she had not done so in a few months due to her own schedule. Megan informed Sam she was on the way but Sam kept it to himself as they were busy with planning for the war. Lana was only given a slight detour as she was here for her own business.
She landed in the stadium and had noticed directions to the room they were meeting had been delivered to her watch so the entourage went straight there. Lana was in a terrible mood, not due to the meeting she was getting ready to attend but due to the initial reasons she had traveled this far. She was planning to go back to the orphanage.
As she entered the room, Sil and Quinn had their backs to the door but Vorden and Raten got up immediately and headed to Caser to take the twins.
Raten looked at Lana's face and said, "Sil, you're up."
Sil turned around to see her, especially the look on her face and he quickly approached her, put his arms around her and lifted her up against the wall while holding her and had her legs around her waist.
"What's going on? Is the baby okay?" fear covered his face.
Lana gulped and whispered as quietly as she could, "the baby is fine. My nightmares are worse so I am heading to the orphanage to try to face things and see if it helps." She opened her vines a bit to show him the baby suckling as she had gotten hungry.
Sil looked in her eyes with extreme sadness and in the same volume said, "no, you are not going there without me!"
Lana started to cry, "I have to stop these nightmares. I can't sleep!"
"We are getting ready for the last push. The war is almost over. I will take you there myself. Please, I can't have you go through this without me." He held her head gently making her look him in the eyes, "I love you and this is too much for me to let you do on your own. I am your husband and I NEED to do this for you. PLEASE."
Lana hugged him tightly and relented, "okay but the sooner the better."
Shalt and Fiza had stopped when Lana did and Caser returned to their side once turning the twins over to the loving arms of the Uncles. Sil finally put her down having been careful to prevent others from seeing how distraught she was and allowed her to regain her composure… For the most part.
There was still the matter that his little baby was this close to him and while Lana walked to the end of the table to stand beside Sam and transfer the files she wished to share, Sil was right there, holding her from behind while holding out the top of the vines to watch Angelina eat as though there was no one else in the room. Lana observed that Vincent was no longer in Quinn's body but had his own. By the looks of it, it as a clone of his own body. Everything she could see looked the same except the hair and he was wearing a mask.
Trying to ignore Sil, she went into her watch and transferred the three files. Or so she thought. "Sam, did you get all three files?"
"Um, no. I got 2. A video file and a document file," Sam replied.
"Which document?" she inquired feeling quite uncomfortable with the number of eyes on her at this time.
He told her then she started fumbling with her watch. At this time, she noticed a man sitting at the corner right next to her.
She gasped, eyes wide, "Owen Greylash! It's good to see you!"
Her face suddenly going redder with her husband's behavior in front of such a man.
The man chuckled softly, "It's good to see you as well, my dear. How are you?" while glancing at Sil.
She threw a quick reproachful glance at her husband but he was oblivious. "I'm as well as expected, thank you."
Lana heard, "Wait, is there a baby in there?" and looked up to see Mona Bree looking back at her. She smiled at Mona and nodded.
Lana then heard a few gasps around the table followed by "What? Are you saying Sil is the father? How is that even possible? Has he even been back nine months? Noone even knew about him before then!"
Quinn spoke up, "Layla…"
Lana put her hand out for him to stop. "Actually, Layla, Sil knew about me the first full day of school after that horrid display at breakfast and I knew about him just a few days later. To be quite frank, I was immediately enraptured. Of course, I had to go through Vorden to get to him and it was quite the fight but eventually I won. Quinn, with his position as Leader of the Tenth married us and it was written in the ledger of the Tenth Family that first day in the castle, before Edward was even called away. We were married before you fought that battle to rescue Fex."
"But…. How?"
"That's between him and I. His existence was a Blade Family secret and we had to keep our relationship a secret. So, we did. My choice of my future worked well with keeping that secret. All three of these babies are his."
For the rest of you, "I would like to apologize for my husband, we have not seen each other in a few months due to our schedules and he missed the birth of our daughter days ago. He's a bit… enraptured by her right now. She's eating so I can't pass her over just yet." She looked rather embarrassed and quite nervous. She was not used to addressing this number of important people. She said under her breath "I feel like an ant among giants."
Quinn laughed softy, "The only person other than me who took down a Dalki mother ship, an ant?" and he raised an eyebrow at her.
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This story has been re-written as an original story called Feisty Fae. I took my experience from this writing to make the story better. The new version is Romance/Fantasy Adventure. I hope you enjoy it.