ForcedTogetherpart34

�Mommy, Daddy.� Hannah whispered as she hopped up into the bed and scooted up and snuggled under the blankets with her parents. �Daddy.� She cooed as she scrunched up next to him and began to rub his ear.

�Piglet?� Michael asked as he yawned.

�Santa been her Daddy.� She told him earnestly.

Michael turned and looked at the alarm clock. �Piglet it�s only 4:30 in the morning. Your gonna have to wait a few more hours to see what Santa brought. Come on and go back to sleep.� Michael whispered to his little pixie in hopes of not waking Maria. She was exhausted and he was worried since she was six months pregnant with the boys.

Michael pulled Hannah into a hug but was surprised when she began to squirm away from him. �No Daddy I wanna cuddle with Momma and my brothers.� She argued softly.

�Hanna Banana is that you giving Daddy a hard time. You know Santa is still watching you and can come back and take your toys if your naughty.� Maria said as she turned her head a little and shared a smile with her husband over their little girls head.

�No Momma, I�m being good. I just wanna cuddle with you instead of Daddy, he snores when he sleeps.� She explained, she didn�t want Santa to come and take her presents since she wasn�t being naughty on purpose.

Maria couldn�t help but to laugh when she saw how Michael actually had the audacity to looked shocked by his daughters observation. �Ok baby, come over here and keep Mommy and the boys company.� She told her daughter as she scrambled over to her and wrapped herself around Maria�s body, resting her head on her mother�s tummy.

�I do not snore.� Michael huffed as he rolled on his back and attempted to fall back to sleep.

�Sure honey, you don�t snore. You don�t fart in your sleep either.� Maria said, she started to giggle when Hannah went �EWWW�.

�Very funny Maria, I wouldn�t comment on the farting if I was you. You let when go a little while ago that would have knocked a lesser man unconscious.� He teased.

Maria couldn�t help but snort when he said that. �Hey that�s what happens when your pregnant. So consider it your fault that I have lesser control of my bodily functions.�

Hannah sat up when Maria said this. �Mommy why is it Daddy�s fault? Did Daddy put Lucas and Matthew in your tummy?�

Michael laughed. �You said, you explain it. Good night Piglet, night Maria.� He said as he closed his eyes and drifted to sleep to his wife trying every trick in the book to get her curious daughter to forget about how the babies got in her tummy.

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�Oh Mom, Dad it�s beautiful.� Emma gushed as she opened the blue velvet box that held her first necklace, it was a gold rope chain with a heart shape pendant on it.

Michael shook his head, he still thought she was a little young for something so grown up but Maria said that she thought it would be a nice surprise for her. That she wasn�t a baby anymore and that she should start getting more grown up gifts. Michael didn�t see anything wrong with giving her Barbies, that�s what she got last year.

�I�m glad you like it Pumpkin, come here and let me put it on you.� Maria told her as Emma sat on the floor in front of her and lifted her hair up so that her mother could secure the clasp.

�Well that�s everything.� Michael said with a wink to his wife, she smiled and shook her head yes. Michael got up and walked around the room pretending to check for any unopened presents, stopping when he looked into the dinning room. �Hey, I see one. Santa must of left it here by mistake. Let�s see who�s it for.� He said as he made a big production of looking at the tag and reading off each girls names.

Hannah and the twins were practically jumping out of there skin in anticipation and Emma was trying very hard not to act too excited, but was failing miserable. Michael carried in the box and placed it on the floor in front of the four girls, who promptly started to argue about who was going to open the gift when suddenly they heard. �WOOF.�

�A PUPPY!� They all shouted at once as they flipped open the box and peered inside to see a tiny little basset hound puppy looking up at them. Michael and Maria looked up in time to see John wave and sneak back out through the kitchen as all his granddaughters gushed over their new pet.

�Mommy Mommy look.� Sarah and Becky shouted happily as they tilted the box enough to let the dog hop out.

�I see Honey. He�s very cute. Santa must have thought you girls were all very good this year.� She said as she reached down and scratched the dog behind his ear.

�Hey, I bet Santa left the puppy a bed, food and some toys somewhere. Why don�t the twins and Hannah try to find them. Emma, would you mind cleaning up the papers and ribbons so that he doesn�t eat them and get sick. Then we all can have breakfast and come up with a name for him.� Michael said as he and Maria chuckled at how quickly the girls got up and went to work.

Michael reached down and picked the puppy up and settled him on the couch in between him and Maria. �I hope Santa knew what he was doing when he brought this little guy.� Maria said to him with a wink. Where he didn�t agree with the necklace, Maria wasn�t too keen on the dog.

�Santa�s always right Honey.� Michael said as he picked the dog up and cuddled him against him.

Maria laughed. �Aaah, does Michael feel neglected because Hanna wouldn�t cuddle with him this morning due to his loud snoring.�

�Yup he does. You won�t desert me, will you little fella.� He said as he scratched the top of the dog�s head.

�All set Dad.� Emma said as she got the last bow off the floor and into the trash bag.

�We found the puppy�s stuff Daddy.� The other shouted from the den and kitchen.

�Well then, let�s eat breakfast and think up a name for this little guy.� Michael said as he placed the dog back on the floor before helping Maria up as they all headed into the kitchen for breakfast.

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Later that afternoon all the families were gathered up at the inn celebrating Christmas. After all the kids opened up their presents from their aunts, uncles and grandparents and had dinner the adults sat down with the children to figure out the rest of the story they started to hear the night before.

�I have a question.� Marc announced. �If Ruthie was an alien, then why would she donate her body to science?�

�And where did she get her money?� Karen chimed in.

�I don�t know where she got the money Mom she never told me and Em that, but she just donated the body to science that she had inhibited when she came here.� He explained.

�Inhibited?� Everyone questioned at once.

�Yes Dad, that�s how Auntie Ruthie explained it to us.� Emma said as she sat down on her father�s lap.

�Well, why don�t you explain it the same way Auntie Ruthie explained it to you.� Maria said as she sat next to Michael and Emma.

�She told us that when she decided to come here that instead of shape shifting into a form she transferred her essence to a elderly homeless woman. She had decided that after she performed her duties she would let her essence fade as the body she took died of natural causes. She said that she couldn�t bring herself to live for eternity.

�What, that doesn�t make sense. I can�t do any of those things. At least I don�t think I can and are you saying that we live indefinitely.� Michael questioned clearly shocked by this information.

�No Dad, Auntie Ruthie was born on Antar, you and the others were developed here on earth.� Emma told him.

�Developed.� Carrie and Maria said at the same time.

Michael sat back further into the couch, trying desperately to understand the information just divulged. �I was developed.�

�Uncle Michael, I�m sorry but Ruthie said that when The Elders decided to forge ahead with The Legacy that you and the other three�s essence was sent here to be combined with human DNA. This was the only way they could insure that you would be able to fulfill your destiny.� Josh said as he sat down on the coffee table in front of his uncle.

�Wait, Hannah told us there were eight last night.� Peter said, trying to understand all his son was telling them.

�There is Daddy, they were all developed with the same essence.� Hannah said.

�You mean that I have a twin out there.� Michael asked.

�Not really Daddy, The Elders made two sets of hybrids. One set had a greater amount of your Antar essence and the other set was made to be more human. You were of the more human set.� She explained.

Maria watched her baby closely as she crawled up onto her father�s lap across from her sister. �Em, Josh Auntie Ruthie never said anything to you about the other set?�

�No Auntie Maria, she never said anything. The first time we heard of them was last night when Hannah talked about them.� He told her.

�Piglet, you said last night the others were coming. Did you mean Daddy�s brother and sister were coming?� Maria asked her little girl.

�Yes Mommy.� She confirmed softly.

�Do you know when they will be coming Baby?� Michael asked as he wrapped his arms tighter around his two daughters.

�Soon Daddy, they will be here soon. They have completed their journey and know that it is safe for you to be together again.� Hannah told him.

Karen sighed. �So basically, we know that Ruthie was really an alien who took her essence and invaded old bag lady body. She planted false memories into a whole town, big wow on that one. When she let the body died, she donated it to science knowing that it wouldn't be putting suspension on anyone and she probable thought it was funny too. Donating a body to science that had been used by an alien, sorto of like her own version of "Alien Autopsy". She and this other one called Nacedo made a deal where he brought you two together and then sent you on the run after betraying the other and sending them to the FBI, but hey he redeemed himself by getting them out, but then he still betrayed them somehow. We know that you were made to fulfill The Legacy, which from the looks of seems to be basically breeding like bunnies and that we were chosen to provide the mates for your children. Oh yeah you and your brother and sister have a twins, who from the sounds of it wasn�t mixed to well and went a little bonkers.�

�Basically.� Carrie and Maria said together.

"What I don't get is why she was the one who didn't think you and Maria should be together when we found out about Michael." Marc voiced out loud the question that bothered Maria last night.

Emma turned around to her uncle. "I know why, she said that it was so that Grandpa could become a father to Dad. She said they needed to bond and that the only way for Dad to form his attachment completely was for them to be together. She said that it was necessary so that when he and Grandma Jeanie were married that the three of you would become brothers."

"Wait, she knew that Dad and Grandma Jeanie would end up together." Michael asked.

"Yup Uncle Michael, Auntie Ruthie was like Hannah. She could see what would happen in the future." Josh explained.

�So now what.� Jeanie asked.

�Now we wait for the other to come and fill in the rest of the blanks.� Michael said as he watched Becky and Sarah climb up onto the couch and snuggle next to Maria, each placing a hand over her stomach, forming a connection with the babies. He smiled as Maria looked up at him. He didn�t know what was going to happen next, but he knew he could handle anything as long as he had Maria, his girls and his family by his side.

TBC