A/N: Hello awesome people! How are you guys doing? Do you like the story so far? Feed back is highly appreciated (I work for it…and food…and love…this just got weird…) Sorry, what? I'm strange. Anyway, here is the next chapter. Soon there will be adorable winged babies, I promise. Enjoy!

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From Dusk and Dawn

Chapter 3

A sigh of contentment left Eos's lips softly. The cool twilight air kissed her skin affectionately, much like Astraeus was doing at that very moment. They were sitting underneath a sycamore tree in her sister's garden holding each other and occasionally passing along chaste kisses. Astraeus skimmed his lips across her forehead, to the tip of her nose, then finally reaching her sweet lips and devouring them with passion. Eos giggled softly when he grumbled in disappointment as she pulled away. He pouted, simply begging with his eyes as a puppy would.

"We can return to that later," she assured him, "but first, I have something to tell you."

He eyed her carefully. "And what might that be?"

The confidence she mustered began to falter the longer she stared into his hazel depths. She thought back to that night when they had confided into one another their feelings. It had been late spring. Now it was midsummer. So much had happened in such a short time. Her gaze involuntarily shifted to the wedding band on her finger, a golden ring embroidered with topaz and rubies.

He cupped her cheek and turned her face, so they were seeing eye to eye once more. "What is it you need to tell me?"

She bit her lip nervously. "I… I am…with child…"

It seemed as though time itself had stopped for a moment. His eyes became unreadable and it frightened her. Ever so slowly, his jaw went slack and his lips parted in awe. Just as quickly, however, his face split into the widest grin she had ever seen. Chortles and chuckles of merriment filled the air as he pulled her up and twirled around with her in his embrace. Tears of joy gathered around the rims of his eyes as he kissed her face sloppily in his excitement.

"I am so full of mirth, you have not the slightest idea," he cried into her hair.

Eos was unable to speak. She was so flustered by his reaction she was not quite sure how to respond. Eventually, his giddiness slipped into her skin and coiled around her heart warmly. She returned his embrace.

"When did this become known to you?" he asked as they pulled away.

"Mere days ago. I was feeling ill and spoke with my sister. She advised me to see Apollo and he was had diagnosed my illness as a symptom of pregnancy."

He gently brushed a russet curl behind her ear. "Thank you."

She looked at him curiously as if asking to explain. "Thank you for giving me a family."

She threw her arms around his neck and smothered his lips with her own. "Thank you for making me the mother of our future child."

He sighed. "Now we must inform your brother and sister."

Eos grimaced as she thought of the shriek that was guaranteed to emerge from Selene's throat. "I suppose we must. I wish to tell Selene first."

"Tell me what exactly?" said moon goddess asked as she emerged from the shadows.

Her black tunic billowed around her body as if she was underwater. "What is this news you seem so joyous about?"

A silent discussion passed between the two. At last, Eos sighed. "I am pregnant, sister."

Immediately it felt as if she had hit a wall. Selene's arms constricted around her torso and nearly crushed all the air out of her air. She was tossed into the air and spun around, much to her discomfort. Selene then let her down and cupped her face.

"I am so happy for you!" she exclaimed.

Eos was breathless for a moment. "Thank you."

Selene then danced around the couple singing of how much she would enjoy being an aunt. "Helios will be just as excited as I. I am sure of this."

"I am sure he will," Astraeus said as he slipped an arm around his wife's shoulders and gave her a soft kiss on the temple.