A couple of weeks later...

30th of September, 1966

The weeks passed reluctantly quick in a matter of abundance of authentic, unique family memories and moments in Howards family. The summer passed as the autumn days have already approached with its rainy, colder days.

Furthermore, it was the twins' anniversary though it was somewhat contentious, in fact Tristan was born a several hours after his elder sibling Ellie. Although their birth time difference, Tristan's first birthday anniversary was considered either too, fortunately.

Judy and Timothy couldn't be more than euphorically excited for their children's first birthday, planning to celebrate it at home as Timothy left work earlier, factly to buy for Ellie and Tristan presents, whilst Jude was tidying and cleaning the house, cooking and baking a home made vanilla biscuit cake.

The first days and weeks after the couple's trip to Ireland, Jude felt her soul and spirits purified as she had never been in a foreign country especially an European one, as a result of her abstinence and lack of opportunity for almost over forty seven years. One of her main wishes once one of her biggest miracles came true to have her own family, husband and children is actually to travel worldwide especially wherever she and Timothy want.

But what was bothering Jude in the last couple of days was actually her condition. She wasn't exactly ill. Nonetheless, her morning sicknesses were tormenting her body, facing her tough challenges that she used to face her pregnancy with Ellie and Tristan the last year. Not only her morning sicknesses were exhausting her, further, let's not forget, on other hand, her body's energy was drained almost instantly just like a stardust in a vacuum. Timothy was indisputably aware of her condition, supposing her imminent pregnancy via the symptomps she exposed. It was deliriously evident a new life was inhabiting her tiny, swelled bump for a month and a half.

Whilst Timothy was gone at work as Tristan and Ellie were playing with their new toys which their mother gave them as birthday presents earlier today, Jude was baking the cake in the kitchen as she was in the middle of baking process, sensing her beginnings of sharp pains in her back overtaking her brittle skeleton.

A hand touched her lower back, the exact spot where the agonising back pains were gnawing her slowly. As her another hand opened the kitchen window's curtain to stare out through the window as the pouring rain from heavens resembled more like profound , endless weep. The idea of watching the extraordinary natural scenery was soothing for her, diminishing her pain backs as she have omitted them spontaneously. A raspy gasp escaped her lungs, floating in the kitchen as single sound source bringing the dull room to life.

She hadn't tested herself if she was pregnant, nor she hadn't announced Timothy about her second, impending pregnancy. If he had heard the enthralling news of expecting a third child, he would have been on 7th sky just like his wife. In spite of not having a grave discussion of having more children, heirs in their family as well. That was a chivying, vexed topic for both of them especially Jude herself. She had wondered as she was upset in the same time, asking herself questions with complicated answers. She have thought when they welcome one more family member as a new heir arrives officially in Howards family, either a girl or a boy, will earn much more affection and attention rather than his or her siblings.

By the way, Mrs.Howard was hysterically impatient and excited to celebrate with her husband and children one of the most prominent days in their lives as an entire, harmonious family with values, traditions.

"All I want is he to be here with all of us and celebrate this marvelous occasion as a whole family." She thought inwardly to herself, hearing her inner voice spelling her thought as a genuine smile lit her fresh, soothed face as her eyes darted to mist, soaking window glasses with its interminably tumbling millions of rain drops that invaded the ground, a sparkle of dew flashed in her eyes.

Furthermore, she spent all day with the chidlren and in preparatiom for their birthday as well. Whereas the cake was baking, she walked away from the kitchen as she rushed to climb the stairs, walking up to the children's room as she opened the door, noting the twins were already asleep with their toys in their arms.

She couldn't help but cackle faintly to herself as she stood on doorway, thus walking up to them as she crouched down, picking them up as she lifted them in her arms, placing in their cribs to sleep with their toys aside.

As their arms tightened around their new toys as their obsession was visible, Mrs. Howard watched the sleeping twins with a broad, radiant smile across her lips as her hands stroked their tiny heads, sensing the softness against her hands' skin. Her hazel eyes flickered as a sheer spark twinkled in her eyes.

"I couldn't be much luckier to have you a year ago, Ellie," She paused as her hand stroke the eldest sibling, looking down at Ellie's elegant face. "Tristan," Jude admired their cuteness as she looked down at the younger twin as she spelled her son'sname in velvety voice.

"Sweethearts. I love you more than anything." In the meantime, she leaned as she kissed each twin's temples lightly.

***

"Rare bird, I am home." Timothy shouted as he was kicking off his shoes, dousing his leather jacket as he hanged it on a hang.

Meanwhile Jude was wearing an apron as soon as she finished with baking the cake, leaving it in the oven. She hasted to walk out of the kitchen to welcome him, jumping in his arms immediately.

"Timothy!" She was beyond euphoric about their prominent day when they welcomed two new family members, two more heirs who can inherit wealth, property. She clasped her arms around his waist.

"Judy!" He dangled his strong, muscular arms around her waist, pulling her in a warmer, firmer embrace. He didn't render an exception as his visible euphoria.

After they broke off the hug, their faces approached as their lips weren't inches away from another one. Lips were exactly densely close to one another, pressing on each other as their sweetness, insatiable sensation felt so good for them in matter of hours of abscene. When they broke off the kiss, they walked up to the kitchen.

For Timothy's surprise, the twins weren't in the kitchen as he was panicked to find the kitchen empty. Moreover, she explained to him they were sleeping.

"Guess what I have bought for them." Mr. Howard sad playfully.

"What?" She enquired profoundly excited as he concealed the presents that he bought for them with a smirk across his lips.

"These." He demonstrated to his wife the presents he brought for Ellie and Tristan.

"Aww." She covered her mouth with her elegant, flimsy hands as she stared in awe at Tristan's new rocket toy and Ellie's new doll house.

"That's tremendously adorable. I like them so much." She expressed her frank opinion as her voice was beyond ecstatic.

"I can already imagine their shining faces once they behold them."

"Yeah. Just after they wake up." A smirk curled up in the corner of her naturally rosy plump lips as her eyes darkened.

***

"Happy Birthday, my little precious angels!" The both parents shrieked beyond excited as Timothy helped a bit to his wife with serving plates with food and cake on the dining table. In the interim, the both, bigger nowadays toddlers, Ellie and Tristan giggled joyfully as they sat in their high chairs, 

It was true, Ellie and Tristan had grown a lot in the past weeks, besides developing their vocabulary as they started speaking a bit more words than they used in the beginning. The new toys which Timothy brought for them were spilled over the kitchen tiled floor. They really liked them from first sight, in fact they were obsessed with their new toys that their parents have brought them with all love.

Likewise the couple were sitting next to one another. Jude and Timothy tossed their glasses of some red wine that Jude fell in love just 2 years ago after they left Briarcliff, their old life behind forever. 

"Cheers, sweetie!" Jude yelled as she giggled softly, the glasses clinking after tossing, thereafter sipping of the authentic British red wine.

"Cheers for everyone of us from this marvelous family! Especially having this miracle accomplished just a year ago."

The twins couldn't be more than euphorically excited and proud when their parents were crucially talking about them as their wee smiles formed on their fresh, sparkling faces. Moreover, Jude and Timothy watched in hush their cheerful children as the idea of having them delivered in this world a year ago was more than overwhelming. Not on account of anything. It was just one of the grandest miracle that have ever happened midst them especially in Judy's life as she had always wanted. Before her nunnery and during her nunnery, she has always wanted to have her own children whom to teach and love, despite believing in the bluff of having syphilis as her fertility was taken away.

Further when the both parents's eyes darted to Ellie and Tristan as they have noted significant changes them such as not only getting bigger, additionally their sparse hairs had grown fairly enough in the past months as they started wearing a bit larger sized clothes unlike the old days in the tiniest garments that they have ever worn since their birth. Hazel and chocolate eyes radiated astonishment, delirious glee and most of all encucumbering them with plenty of questions whose certain answers were found at last. 

Today they had received many phone calls from friends such as Kit, Grace, Valerie, Velika, Jude's colleagues, Jonathan and Mother Claudia who congratulated them for twins' first anniversary. Even some Timothy's family members whose platonic relationship with his mother Julietta, his brother John and father Timon didn't miss their opportunities to congratulate the former priest and former nun.

***  

Later that night...

Jude stirred as she wanted to take a pregnancy test in the bathroom without being caught by her husband, scarcely wishing to wake him up in the middle of the night. Once she woke up in the lurking darkness in their room that embraced her though sensing the warmth that absorbed their clinged bodies. She attempted to wriggle, releasing herself from Timothy's secure, loving arms without hesitation and waking him up as she sat on the bed, hopping up in slippers, reeling directly to the en-suite bathroom as she shutted the door behind herself once she stepped in the compact but spacious bathroom, turning on the lights. 

She opened the cabinet that stood in front of her, searching for the pregnancy test. Once she found it, she took it in her trembling, timid hands as she looked down, awaiting in impatience for the imminent results that might either shock or not shock her. Her hazel eyes grew anxious as they built crystal tears, pouring down her precious, pale face. Looking down at her feet as she lowered her head, her forehead pressed against cabinet's opened door. One hand held the pregnancy test as another hand massaged her unshaped, small yet bump, sensing her palm's warmness protecting the unborn life that lived in her during her first trimester. She prayed inwardly to herself, whilst caressing the still small bump, smiling tremulously.

"No matter if you are either a girl or a boy, I will always love for who you are. I love you, honey!" She whispered as she looked at her pregnancy test, lastly showing the final results. She couldn't be more than positively mortified of eyeing two lines that displayed on the test. 

She sobbed quietly to herself as her tears trickled down her face, sliding slowly as she sat on the tiled bathroom floor, hugging herself as her knees to her chest, looking up in dimly lit ceiling. Jude haven't discussed with Timothy of having more than two children as it scared her idea away, in spite of she would prefer to keep the still growing unborn child in her rather than having an abortion as this idea profoundly revolted and terrified her. She detested the abortion as it can not only endanger her baby's life as it murders the unborn one inside her bump, furthermore she can lose her fecundity forever like she thought in her 20s. 

In a matter of minutes, she took her time to soothe herself, figuring out the circumstances as she wiped her tears from her dry face as she stopped sobbing and weeping, scarcely daring to rose her body from the floor to go back to sleep.

All of a sudden, she heard light footsteps approaching the bathroom as she stared at the shutted door as soon as the faint door taps taunted her ears, hearing Timothy's voice from outside.

"Jude? Are you okay, dear?"

She didn't answer as she watched sinisterly timid the door as she was inches away from it.

"Rare bird? Is there anything wrong?" He tapped for last time until he pressed the doorknob, opening the squeaky door as he saw his wife hugged herself as her knees were brought to her chest. That panicked him as she kneeled down to cup her cheek with one hand as his another managed to reach for her one that was on her knee.

"Judy, are you upset about anything?"

"We haven't even discussed it though you already know it."

"What are you talking about? About kids?" He inquired as his warm sensation felt uniquely good for her, comforting her. His chocolate eyes met her hazel as he noted insecurity in hers.

"Yes. I am pregnant again." She said in desperate voice as she allowed herself to be embraced in Timothy's arms. 

"But sweetheart...that's great news. Why are you even desperate and ashamed to announce me such God blessing news?"

"Because we haven't even discussed to have more children besides Ellie and Tristan. Moreover imagine them to be abandoned and being less loved by me when I deliver a baby in the next 7 months and spend more time with the youngest family member." She stated through salty tears that poured down her face as her face was burried in his chest, moistening it with her tear stained face. 

"No, no, no, rare bird! I don't mind to have more children as it's up to you if you have the wish. Furthermore, we won't neglect Ellie and Tristan when we have another baby." She couldn't feel less insecure once the hug, warmness, support and love that she was being ensured by Timothy soothed her, preventing her from crying and feeling down again. A wee, genuine smile curled up in the corner of her lips after hearing those heartwarming words from the person she loved mostly after her children.

She was beyond speechless after hearing those kind words as she couldn't be more grateful to him for granting her support, love and respect in almost 2 years as they were officially together far away from the snake pit that brought them a lot of misfortunes back in their forbidden years of closer, intimate interraction. 

After they broke off the hug, she offered possibly one of the most beautiful smiles that she had ever given to him especially in rare, prominent moments.

To be continued...

Author's Note: In the next chapter expect 2 years later in the future of events (not mentioning which are as it will be considered as a spoiler) as I don't want to spoil so much the story with plenty of chapters though I would like to, but I can see how the followers and the readers are getting tired easily after 124 chapters in matter of 3 months. I know how difficult is for me to publish a chapter daily as I opt to write it as perfect as possible though I have future projects that I am extremely impatient to publish and share with my readers as soon as possible, regardless before the Christmas holidays or after them. If I need to be truthful, I don't want to end this book early as I love to describe and write piece of adorable moments with my favorite AHS ship/couple of all time (besides Jessica Lange's characters' love interest). On other hand, I have to end this book as I am going to skip some timelines for example couple of weeks later and so forth. 

Thank you so much my dear reader! xoxo

Alex <3