Éclair/Eclipse AU

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)

Éclair stopped cutting up some peppers and sighed slightly as she ran a hand over her swollen stomach. It had been two years since Lumiere had gone nuts and had to be locked away in a high security mental institute. Right now Éclair was preparing supper for her family as she ran a hand over her swollen stomach. She was expecting her third child in about two months, her new body being more suited to birthing now than her old one had been which should make it a little easier on her this time around.

"Mama?" A small voice asked from behind her, causing Éclair to turn around and smile at the sight of her twin two year old daughters wearing cute matching white and blue outfits Tweedle Dee had bought for them last week, although they were wearing each other's outfit instead of their own.

"Yes Nichi?" Éclair asked causing the twins to look at her curiously, they could confuse everyone else by switching cloths but they've never been able to confuse their mama or papa.

"S'owy?" Tsuki asked looking up at her mama with wide hopeful eyes that were quickly copied by her sister, neither of them able to pronounce their 'T's or their 'R's properly yet although Éclair knew what her daughter had meant.

"Sure sweethearts. Get in your seats and mama will tell you a story while she finishes cooking." Éclair said smiling at her daughters, they were her pride and joys and both of them were so excited at having a little sister on the way.

"Which one do you want to hear tonight babies?" Éclair asked smiling as she turned and continued to chop up peppers to add to the saucepan.

"Lumi bye bye!" The twins cried in unision, they had always wondered why their aunties and uncles would talk about a 'Lumiere' and yet they had never met her before. Their mama also would sometimes tell them about some of the more hilarious things she and Lumiere had done over the years as a bed time story. They wanted to know what happened to her, their innocent exclamation causing Éclair to freeze mid-chop.

"I see." Éclair said softly as she took a deep breath and put down the knife, she should have realized they would want to know what had happened to Lumiere and why they weren't allowed to meet her.

"It started just after you two were born, no that's not quite right. It started long before you two were born, it just did not become noticeable until after you both were born." Éclair said turning off the stove and sitting down on a comfortable chair where the twins eagerly scrambled up into the seats next to her.

"You see, a week or so after you had been born I was talking with your papa in her office when your Aunty Mer came in and told us that Lumiere had gone nuts." Éclair said putting a finger to her head and making a circular motion, causing Nichi to giggle slightly while Tsuki frowned. It wasn't nice to call someone nuts.

"Now I didn't know it but Lumiere had liked me for a long long time before the two of you were born." Éclair explained carefully causing the twins to look at her curiously.

"Like papa love mama?" Nichi asked tilting her head up at her mama curiously and causing Éclair to giggle at how adorable the two of them were.

"Not quite. Your papa loves me more than Lumiere ever could, that's why I married your papa. She loves me and I love her, it helped that we had two adorable little ones of our own." Éclair said tickling her daughters slightly and causing them to giggle and laugh as they squirmed away from her tickling hands to hear the rest of the story.

"Lumiere didn't like the fact that I married your papa and that your papa is your 'father' as it were instead of her. She wanted me all to herself, she didn't want me to be with anyone but her." Éclair said remembering how that day had gone, how could she ever forget it?

"Lumiere what's going on?" Éclair asked running into the training room where Lumiere had gone berserk, Eclipse right behind her while Mercredi and Armblast stayed with the babies.

"Éclair! I told you to stay in my office with the children!" Eclipse said catching up with her wife and standing in front of her protectively when Lumieres rather disturbing grin and eyes turned on her.

"Why?" Tsuki asked tilting her head curiously, wondering why her papa hadn't wanted her mama there.

"I had gotten hurt when having you two and your papa didn't want to risk me getting hurt again so soon." Éclair explained easily to her daughter who nodded slightly while Nichi was nearly bouncing around wondering what was going to happen.

"Éclair? Éclair!" Lumiere said happily once she realized who had just walked in, before the others could react Lumiere was already in front of Éclair and shoving Eclipse out of the way. Before Eclipse or Éclair could realize what had happened Lumiere had kissed Éclair soundly on the lips despite their height difference.

"EWW!" The twins shouted at the word 'kiss', it was gross to them whenever their parents would kiss a lot. This caused Éclair to giggle again as she rubbed a hand over her stomach, her daughters reaction to her and Eclipse kissing was always funny to the adults.

"GET OFF OF MY WIFE!" Eclipse roared the moment she realized what Lumiere had done, literally ripping Lumiere off of Éclair who wiped her mouth harshly for a moment.

This part caused the twins to giggle, it was always funny watching papa get mad when someone made mamas face turn colors.

"Are you alright Éclair? She wasn't wearing some kind of poison on her lips was she?" Eclipse asked fretting about her wife worriedly while Éclair repeatedly wiped her mouth.

"I'm fine Eclipse but yuck. She's been drinking liquor recently." Éclair said pulling a face, the taste of liquor on her lips was not a good one.

"Wha l-liqa?" Nichi asked curiously and causing Éclairs nose to scrunch up, before her bonding and pregnancy she could stand liquor but after being bonded she didn't like it as much and then she couldn't stand it after getting pregnant with the twins.

"It's a nasty adult drink." Éclair said causing Tsuki to look curiously.

"Bea?" Tsuki asked curiously and causing Éclair to nod but stare at her daughter.

"Where'd you hear about that from?" Éclair asked furrowing her brow, neither she nor Eclipse could stand beer so where had Tsuki heard about it from?

"Dumby an' Unny." Tsuki said causing Éclair to glare slightly, looks like she'll have to have a small 'talk' with those two later about their influences on her children.

"That would probably be why she went nuts on us." Alv said dryly while everyone else was surprised. The most alcoholic drink Lumiere had ever had that they knew about was her 'aged grape juice'.

"No! Why didn't we bond!? Éclair is mine!" Lumiere screamed angrily as she got back to her feet.
"Bond?" Nichi asked curiously.

"Get married." Éclair said figuring they were too little to understand all of it and just giving them the gist of it.

"I'm not a possession and I've already bonded to someone else!" Éclair screamed right back at her former partner; punching her for thinking she could own Éclair.

"Éclair will never be yours because she is my wife!" Eclipse said grabbing Lumiere by her throat and slamming her into a wall before the blue haired girl could get her breath back from Éclairs punch.

"Papa save day!" Nichi exclaimed happily, she loved her mama and papa equally but her papa was her favorite. Just like how their mama was Tsukis favorite. Éclair giggled as she remembered when the other E.S. members had found that out. Alv had laughed and said the Nichi must be Éclairs new mini-me and Tsuki was Eclipses…well before she cursed at the thought of a second Éclair and Eclipse.

"Yeah your papa saved the day. When Lumiere started attacking us your papa protected me and made sure that Lumiere wasn't dead but was beat up bad enough that she wasn't a threat. And when Lumiere tried to go after you two I made sure to knock her out for a few months." Éclair said grinning down at her daughters who cheered at this, it was a happy ending…that and it had fighting which both of the children loved!

"And that was before I got to her." Eclipse said appearing behind Éclair and wrapping her arms around her wife while the twins cheered happily at the sight of their papa, who just kissed Éclairs head and rubbed her hands over the swollen stomach.

Éclair smiled as she stood up to finish dinner, having had to get Eclipse to help her get out of the chair. She may have lost one of her friends to insanity but she had her wife, her other friends, a mother figure, two adorable daughters, and another adorable baby on the way.

'Yes.' Éclair thought as she quickly finished sautéing the rest of dinner and put it over the rice, sitting down gently while Eclipse served the food as was normal for the family.

'Life is good.' Éclair finished as her plate was set in front of her, judging by the kick on her stomach the baby agreed with its mother.