Twins by Overdrabble

Perry couldn’t believe her ears, had she heard correctly or had she been mistaken? The little elf wrapped her arms around her belly and looked to the medic.

“Y-You’re sure?” She asked.

The human woman, who had hair like the sun and eyes like the sea, nodded with a smile. “Yes, twins. I cannot tell you yet what they will be, but you are indeed carrying twins…”

Perry pouted and pressed her nose into the book, oh what was she to do? She had been told the news nearly a week ago yet she couldn’t quite grasp that it was actually happening. She was actually having children with the love of her life. With a defeated whimper she pressed her entire face into the book. How was she to tell Khadgar?

Khadgar, Archmage and leader of the Kirin Tor, sweet Khadgar who had been her friend and lover since their teenage years. Eighteen years had passed since she last saw him, since he disappeared into the dark portal with his friends Alleria and Turalyon. When he came back he looked visibly older, no longer the young brown haired boy she once knew. Now he was a man, a human of forty-six years with hair white as snow, hair like her own.

She thought of their reunion, of how a simple “hello” turned into tears and “I missed you”s. How he had been hesitant to look her in the eye because he feared he wasn’t the same person she’d fallen in love with. “Are you not?” She had asked. “Let me see, hm, right.Your hair is white, like mine! And that is a scruffy face. But, oh, look at that. Those eyes, they are just the same- oh! And that smile too.” The mage pulled her in for a gentle kiss which led them to make up for their lost time.

Perry squirmed on her tree branch and ran every possible scenario through her head. Khadgar would be delighted to have children right? That was something all humans wanted. Unlike elves who once lived forever they had no reason to reproduce…but humans didn’t live forever. Would he still desire children this late in his life?

Her ears twitched at the sound of grass crunching beneath a set of boots, the sound stopped at the base of the tree. A familiar voice urged her to peer over the side of the branch and into the eyes of her lover.

“Ah, I knew I would find you here.” The mage smiled. “This was your favorite place to sneak away to when we were young.”

With a smile to match his the elf leapt from the tree and into his arms, the mage laughed and spun her around, he held her close like he used to. In a single moment the present time melted away to reveal the past, Perry giggled at the memory of the first time she pounced the mage. He hadn’t expected her to leap from her tree, he barely caught her before falling flat on his back.

“Khadgar!” The elf smiled and kissed his nose. “I’m pregnant!”

Khadgar felt as though he’d been hit with a frostbolt, his eyes widened and a smile slowly crept onto his face. One of his hands fell from her hair and to her had a slight bump but was still relatively flat.

“Do you know what it will be?” He asked

Perry shook her head, “We’ll find out what they will be the next time I see the medic.”

“They…?” Khadgar breathed. “Twins?”

Perry nodded and Khadgar scooped her up and held her tight, Perry squealed happily and kicked her legs.

When he put her down the mage kept his arms around her and his face buried in the crook of her neck, she felt tears.

“Are those happy tears?” She whispered, stroking his back.

He nodded and fell silent for a moment,“I thought of you every day that passed, every moment of every day for eighteen years. I missed you so much and now…”

He lifted his head and met his gaze, “And now we’re together and have a family…I missed you Khadgar. I thought of you every day.”

The two joined in a kiss and Khadgar sat with Perry under the tree where they talked about names and where to raise them…

Nine months later Perry strolled the streets of Dalaran with one of her children strapped to her back and the other in her arms, she’d given birth to a boy and a girl. Both half elven with their mother’s pointed ears and glowing silver eyes and their fathers nose and skin tone. Perry waited at the steps of the Violet Citadel for her lover who was in the middle of a meeting with the council.

Once the meeting was over he flew down the stairs and swept up his lover and children. The family laughed together and Perry shared another kiss with her mage.