"Not Arette silly!" she cried, spinning around the room, "For the babies!"

"Babies!?" Both Ayden and Josselyn ask at the same time.

"Arette's pregnant?" Ayden continued.

Carmein placed her hand over her womb. "I want babies..."

Ayden stood up and walked over to Carmein. "We will...someday, we will. Be patient, love." He kissed her once more.

Josselyn snickered. "I'm surprised you aren't already, considering how busy you guys always are," she teased.

"As are you!" Ayden shot back.

Mei knocked him down and sat on him. "I win!"

"You will always win, Milady," Ayden commented, grinning.

"I just have one thing to say to that: Ewww..." Joss responded, looking away. "Take your lovey dovey stuff somewhere else."

"To the market!" Carmein shouted, shooting to her feet. "oooh, thank you!" she said to one of her cats, who brought her a dead rodant. She began tearing the little body apart, humming happily.

"You know what," Joss said. "On second thought, you two go to the market. I'm going to stay here and wait for Alagan to get up."

"You have to come," Carmein said, not looking up from the rodent. "Pregnacy is why there are female chevaliers. This is your duty."

Josselyn groaned. "God, do I have to? Gross, that's all I have to say."

Mei giggled and threw the rodent's head at her.

Joss dodged it, kicking the bucket for their waste in the direction of the head, so it landed inside it. Amazingly, she had started to get used to the craziness that was Carmein. Now she was only a mild nuisance.

"Let's go!" Mei shouted, jumping to her feet and hopping around Joss going "Lets go lets go lets go,' over and over agian.

"Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay," Joss replied loudly. "Let's go. And I hope you didn't wake Alagan up."

Alagan rolled over in his sleep, nearly crushing a cat, but didn't wake up.

Carmein squeeled in glee and hugged Joss.

Tom jumped in the market basket.

Joss picked up the basket with Tom in it. "Let's go already. Bye Ayden."

Mei skipped over, kissed Ayden on the head, and ran out the door before Joss could.

Joss followed Carmein.

((Where to?))

((Streets work.))

When Joss popped them back in, Carmein squealed and shot strait to her boy toy while the miserable cat went off to a corner to be sick.

Ayden received Carmein happily. "How was shopping?" he asked, kissing her.

"We went to see Arette instead. Oh! And I saw who was inside the round lady. It hit me with a book," she replied cheerfully, jumping off him and skipping around the kitchen, humming.

He looked at her curiously. "The baby hit you with a book?"

"Uh-huh," she said, heading into the other room then back again, darting in and out of the door like a hop-scotch player on replay.

"Are...are you all right?" he asked, watching her dart in and out the door.

"Weeeh!" she cried, throwing herself through the door. She returned a moment later, holding something between her stomach and her dress and skipping back over to him. "Looky!" she giggled, turning this way and that to show off the bulge. "We have babies too!"

((And now I'm suddenly reminded of River and Simon in 'Our Mrs. Reynolds.'))

Ayden chuckled lightly. "Milady, we don't have babies...not yet. Perhaps someday we will."

Carmein pouted. "We do so have babies," she said. As if in agreement, the bulge moved and let out a plaintive meow.

Ayden chuckled. "The cats and kittens do not count, Milady." He walked over to her and kissed her.

"You'll crush the babies," she said. One of the cats climbed up and poked its furry little head out of her bodice, meowing. She giggled and patted it, then pushed it back down.