Selene jolted awake and whipped the gun out from under her pillow. Exhaustion instantly washed over her and she identified the noise that had awoken her. Her maternal instincts kicked in and she weakly stood up and walked the few feet to a crib where her newborn twins were crying. She carefully scooped both of them up and they both instantly quieted down. The unnatural blueish black eyes slowly faded back into brown and pointy teeth receded. She knew Michael had been slightly surprised by the unnatural appearance of their daughters, but he loved them already.

The previously mentioned hybrid made a low growling noise in his sleep. Selene smiled and looked towards the bed. He was dreaming it seemed. It was good, he was almost as tired as she was. Considering she had just given birth to not one, but two, healthy hybrid daughters just hours ago that was pretty damn tired. Never again. At least not for another hundred or so years. She honestly didn't understand how Siri had seven kids, a few only a decade or so apart.

She looked back down at her yet to be named twins and smiled, then again... They had both curled close to her and were breathing heavily, asleep again. Selene smiled, they were so adorable. They need names. Michael had claimed no creativity when it came to girl names and left that honor up to her. She had no idea.

She was brought out of her thoughts by the sound of Michael getting up and walking over smiling. He gently took one of the twins from her.

"Any creative names come to you in your sleep?" Selene asked shifting her daughter carefully in her arms.

"Actually..."

"Go on"

"Anne and Mary."

"Hmm..." Selene said pondering, better than anything she could come up with.

"There's also a few others, but they aren't great."

Selene looked down at the little one curled against her. "Anne... " It felt right for some reason.

"So?"

Selene smiled at her mate "Perfect"

"So Anne" He said looking at the one cradled in Selene's arms "and Mary." the baby in his arms shifted slightly letting out a yawn.

Selene smiled and lied the baby in her arms gently in the crib, Michael following suit,

"So, with the next batch, can it be sons?"

Selene rolled her eyes and swatted him "What makes you think I'm going to do that again? Nope, Siri is putting me back how I was. No more little hybrids terrorizing the earth."

Michael gave her a kicked puppy dog look "Not even in a century or so?"

"Give me 700 years to recover and then we'll talk." Selene said. She was still sore everywhere, her body felt like it had been burned and then healed over, then burned again, only ten million times worse.

He smiled at her and scooped her up and draped her over his back,

"Ow. Michael, down." Selene said, pressure was being applied where there shouldn't be pressure.

"Was planning on it." He said lying her back down on the bed, "I got them the next times they get up. You sleep"

"I can do it, There is no-"

"No, sleep, I will get the twins" He said crawling in next to her.

She knew there was no wining when he was this determined, so she gave in and wrapped her arms around him, letting herself drift into an exhausted sleep.

Michael faithfully got up every time his girls started to cry. They quieted down upon being picked up usually. Selene said that Siri said something about them recognizing their parents scents more than either of them could pick up any scent. It was supposed to calm them down or something.

Looking down at the one that had woken up this time he smiled. She was now breathing regularly again, sound asleep. Little Anne, she seemed to be the one that woke Mary up in the first place, Mary seemed content to sleep the night away, if Anne would stop thrashing around and waking her up.

Ensuring that Mary was deeply sleeping, he carefully placed her back in the crib. The only time he'd ever fallen in love with anything or anyone this fast, was meeting Selene. It had taken a few days, he'd loved these two before they'd even entered the world. He knew what Corvinus had faced now, because he knew.

He knew, deep inside, no matter what they did,would love them, forever.