223 Twins have arrived

" I wanted to thank you for helping to release me. I am also sorry for the pain I caused you. I sensed your fear of fire and used it to hang onto you. At that time I only wanted to cause pain. The child reminded me that I had never hurt anyone and that I was still good inside. If fate had not brought you to that shop I would have eventually caused someone's death . It would have dammed my soul and made me no better than the ones who betrayed me. So thank you for helping me to go to a better afterlife. You know the girl had the courage to even ask God to not send me to hell. She has no fear, I could barely open my mouth during my judgement. She just asked him for mercy for me no one has ever done something like that. You have a remarkable child in her and you have a hero's heart . Live long and be happy." 

Dude takes his hand and shakes it. Dude looks at Crystal smiling at him, he tells the man . 

"That imp is remarkable and precious,she has no fear but a heart as big as the universe. She saved us both, I used to be jealous and angry over things not in my control. I plotted against my sister and tried to hurt her. We are not that different. I'm glad that God has given a favorable judgement for you. Gives me hope that I can redeem myself in his eyes as well. " Crystal comes over and takes Dude's hand and tells him. 

"It's time for us to go we must hurry Aisling needs you." Waving goodbye at Morrigan and the man she leads Dude back to the lake .

Dude awakens with a start and runs back to the house. Calling out to Maureen as he passed to get the uncles Aisling needs help. When he gets to the house Aisling is walking down the back step yelling for him to hurry. 

Dude looks at his sister her pants are wet like she peed on herself. On no he thinks her water has broken. He quickly gets her into the car as the uncles with Maureen and William pull up behind him. 

" her water broke , call Astila and Moll let them know we are on our way to the hospital. Call uncle john he will call everyone else. " Dude is speeding down the mountain when he sees blue flashing in his mirror. Cursing he pulls over. Terry walks to the window. 

when they arrive at the hospital Astila and Moll are waiting. By the time they get Aisling in bed the babies head is already crowning. These girls are coming quickly. 

Eight minutes later Dude hears a baby crying, two minutes after that another cry lets out. The girls have made their entrance into the world. Terry and Dude look at each other and whistle. 

"Wow if you had stayed to let me give you that ticket . They would have been born in the car. Since it was an emergency I will let You off this one time. " Terry takes a seat in the waiting room. He wants to congratulate his long time friend . The rest of the family start to fill the room not expecting to be told that the twins are already here. 

Salali comes in just as Astila comes to tell everyone that they have arrived. 

"So Aisling gave birth after ten minutes of labor . The girls and mom are doing fine. Though done be shocked when you see them . The first one was born dark the second smaller one is white with flaming red hair."Astila quips making everyone in the room laugh. Inola smacks his nephew on the back and tells him. 

"That means we have one that looks like you and one that looks like their mother . It's perfect. " 

" Have you thought of names yet?" Yona asks . 

"Well we called them lotus and Lilly the entire time she was pregnant so I'm not sure we didn't really talk much about it. I actually like the names Lotus Nymphaea and Lillie rose. But Aisling will have to decide." 

Dude looks at him and teaseshim

"You don't love my nieces do you ? Do you know how much they will be bullied with those names. You need to think of some news ones I don't want them teased. " 

Astila stares at everyone as they all are nodding their heads in agreement. Sighing he goes to see Aisling. 

masking smiles at him when he walks in and he is frowning. 

"Hey , what's wrong why are you frowning?" Aisling asks him 

" I'm worried about their names, the ones I like they all agreed that they would be teased. I don't want them to be teased, they may have difficulties enough depending on their gifts. " 

Aisling thought about the same thing though she wants to keep their names lotus and Lili. Maybe the elders will have some ideas for them. Aisling sighs and snuggles with her husband and falls asleep. 

the family is gathered around the nursery window looking at the twins. Crystal looks at them and asks. 

" which one is lotus and which one is Lili? " 

Remi looks at her daughter and answers. 

" I'm not sure which is which, I guess we should ask Aisling." 

Salali looks at her nieces wondering if they will keep their names , she likes their names it's just they are the same name . Hopefully the elders will help and pick good names for them. 

The relatives flowed in and out of Aisling's room over the next few hours congratulating her and Astila, when the last person left Astila pulled out the cot so that he could stay the night with his girls. Aisling whispers good night but Astila is not tired. 

" Aisling what do you want to name the girls?" Astila asks 

Aisling knows he wants them to have a name in Cherokee and English but he also wants names they will like. 

"I want to name lotus - Lotus Ama and Lili -Lili Woya. I really got attached to the names lotus and Lili when I was pregnant and I want to keep them. I think once the girls realize that they are named after flowers they will like them." She looks at Astila's face and sees that he is relieved that she wants to keep their pet names as the girls names. He nods and closes his eyes within minutes he is asleep. The girls keep the busy throughout the night finally Aisling sends Astila to the on call room so that he can get some rest. He has hard surgery in the morning and will need to be alert. Luckily it is also his last day of work for a few weeks since he will be home with her after that. 

Remi and Yona come for a visit, Aisling knows something is up by how fidgety Remi is. Waiting for her to stop fussing over the twins So that she can tell her. Finally Yona can't take it anymore. 

"Crystal is right we are having a baby, we are here for Moll to check for sure but Remi has been a little nauseous and has only had spotty periods since February. So we really have no idea how far a long she is. " Yona blurts out he knows Remi is self conscious about telling others that she may be pregnant but he just doesn't have the patience. 

Aisling starts to giggle and tells the 

"Oh is that all, you know Crystal has been saying her mommy is pregnant since the morning you left for Japan. Personally I hope she is right. Will you two get married instead of just handfasted?" Aisling's inquires so that she will know to plan a wedding. 

Yona looks at Remi and she smiles sheepishly at Aisling. 

"We already did that, we got a married at the courthouse not long after we were handfasted. I didn't want a big wedding and Yona didn't want to pack everyone up to go to Tennessee so we just went the two of us. Like he said on the day of our hand fasting it was our wedding day. " Remi looks at Aisling hoping that she isn't going to say anything. 

Aisling takes Remi's hand and tells her. 

" what ever you do is your business no one else's and I'm happy for you. Make sure to let me know what Moll says." They hug and Remi takes Yona's hand as they go to meet Moll .