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[everymonstrousthing]

They find a rhythm. Two babies means there's always something to be done, something that needs to be happening and, gradually, they figure it out. For the first time in his life, Kaz trusts other people with his businesses so that he can stay home with his wife, his children. His family. Maybe a time will come when thinking that word doesn't feel like somebody has suddenly kicked him in the breastbone.

Inej is sleeping. There's laundry running, bottle sterilsing and both of the children are quiet but alert in their bassinets. The alertness might last, the quiet probably won't. Kaz knows that it's a while until their eyes start to focus, but, sometimes, he could swear that they're watching the world go by.

When the doorbell rings, he buzzes Marcus up and leaves the front door of the apartment ajar, going back into the kitchen.

"We're through here," he calls, when he hears boots at the threshold.

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[pushbackthedarkness]

It's an incredible thing to hear, something Marcus had never imagined for himself. Never expected. Something he thought he never really wanted either, but he doesn't mind having been proved wrong in this instance. Everything he's always been good at, protecting others, it can mean something else here but still be of the same importance.

"Want to switch?" he asks, grinning over at Kaz.

[everymonstrousthing]

"Absolutely," says Kaz, shifting so that they can start the process of transferring the babeis between them. "Though, you should be warned - she's got her mother's temper."

[pushbackthedarkness]

"Well, as her mother's never been anything but terribly kind to me, I should figure that's a good thing," Marcus answers, grinning as he takes Ana and transfers little Jordie. "Though she does put up with you, so I suppose there's quite a fierce woman behind all the kindness she's shown me."

[everymonstrousthing]

"That's because you're on her good side," he says, settling Jordie into his arms, curled into the crook of his elbow. "Long may you stay there. You wouldn't want to be on the other side." Kaz has been there himself, one or twice. It's not necessarily a fun place to be.