Leon was woken up gently by a small hand shaking his shoulder, upon opening his eyes he was met by a small but familiar figure of his eldest daughter. Natalya, or Nat for short, was 10 years old with her father’s orange hair, with matching orange tiger ears, and her papa’s warm brown eyes, she was recently confirmed to be an Alpha which didn’t surprise anyone. She had a finger to her lip and pointed to Ethan who was snuggled up against his back. She clearly didn’t want to wake him but she motioned to him to get up. Slowly and confusingly doing so he moved his pillow into his mate’s still sleeping arms to keep him asleep. Nat pulled him out of the room to where his 4 other children were eagerly waiting in the hall. Their five year olds Leon, Leo so not to get confused with his father, and Maxwell, Max for short, were their identical twin boys with their papa’s curly gray blue hair and white tiger’s ears and their father’s Amber eyes, next to their was their triplet sister Delilah, Deli for short, with both her papa’s blue gray hair, but her’s was longer and straight, and his brown eyes but she also had white tiger’s ears. Holding her hand was his youngest Sara, the little female clone of her papa except she had her father’s amber eyes, she was an Avian and she was almost as tall as the triplets. She looked half asleep still, Leon felt his heart filled with warmth seeing his children all dressed in their Christmas Pajamas standing there together.

“Were you excited that you all woke up early?” He asked, crouching down to their level.

“Yes, but we wanted to make papa breakfast together first.” Nat told him.

“For his birthday.” Deli added. 

They all nodded in agreement, even little Sara who was rubbing her eyes still half asleep. Leon smiled and then looked back into the room where Ethan was still asleep, it was not only Christmas but his birthday as well and though he was sure they were eager to open their gifts they had collectively decided to wake him up first to make breakfast together. 

“Well, I think we can make that happen.” he said, rubbing his stubbly chin. “Sara, I have a really big important job for you.”

“Okay?” She said, looking suddenly eagerly at her father. 

“I need someone to snuggle up with papa so he stays asleep, do you think you can do that for me?” He asked her seriously. She nodded and ran into the room and climbed onto the bed he saw Ethan stir and then he lifted the cover for her to snuggle in next to him. “Now that papa is properly occupied we have time to go make him some breakfast.” Leon said with a smile as he closed the door. The twins raced down the hall and into the kitchen followed by Nat, Deli took his hand and the two walked into the kitchen where Nat was giving the twins orders to get the big mixing bowls. “What are we making for breakfast?”

“Bacon Pancakes!” The twins shouted from the other side of the island.

“Do we have the ingredients?” He asked curiously, he couldn’t remember if they had bacon.

“Yes!” Nat said, pulling out the eggs and bacon from the frig. “I had uncle Mark buy what we needed.” She informed him they had clearly planned this in advance. Leon ruffled her hair and then pulled out the two large skillets and set them on the stove. She grinned broadly as he did and flicked her ears happily. 

“That’s my smart big girl.” He said proudly. 

“Daddy, here!” Deli said, holding up an Apron for him. 

“Thank you Deli.” He said, taking it from her.

These had been a family present, they had all gotten Aprons this year as one of Nat’s friends' mother suggested they do cooking together once a week for family bonding time. Ethan had bought them in their favorite colors then let them decorate them all. They both had all of the kids hand prints on the chest and then their names. Leo and Max both had navy blue, Deli’s was a dark purple, Nat’s and Ethan’s were Orange, Leon’s was Black, and Sara’s was a Baby blue. Leon put his on and then tied the apron’s for the triplets. 

“Alright I’ll start on the bacon while you guys mix up the pancake batter.” He turned the oven on low and took the bacon packages from Nat. 

Nat was the born leader of all of her siblings and was second in command, the only one they listened to more was their papa, Leon was tied for second with Nat. One would think he and Ethan would be tied for first but his birdy had learned some tricks for child taming. Leon was always happy to let him be in charge, after all he spent the most time with them he knew them better. He got out a wire rack and paper towels as he waited for the skillets to warm up, and watched as they started to make the pancake batter in 2 bowls. He was a little sad Ethan was missing this but he did take his phone out and set it on the counter to record it for him. He was so proud of the beautiful family that they had raised together. 

Soon the bacon was cooked and the batter was ready he had them choose how they wanted to put the toppings in and then putting the batter into a squeeze bottle had each one up to make their own pancake for papa. Deli crumbled the bacon into her’s, Max just plopped two strips next to eachother on top, Leo broke his into large bits and put them on top, and then Nat snuck in chocolate chips and bacon crumbled into her’s. Leon made one from Sara with just chocolate chips in it. After that he made a large batch of scrambled eggs in one pan and then made chocolate chip pancakes for the kids as they cleaned up. He kept everything warm in the oven and once everything was washed except the skillets he had the triplets set the breakfast table while Nat went and got Ethan and Sara.

“Good morning.” Ethan said sleepily as he shuffled into the kitchen with Sara in his arms, she was snuggled up on his shoulder still half asleep.

“Good morning love, Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas.” He told him as he walked over to see if he could help. He kissed his cheek and felt Ethan’s feather’s fluff up with joy. “Go sit down, we have made you breakfast.” He told him giving his ass a playful smack as he walked away. 

He gave a twitter of surprise and then looked at him over his shoulder as he continued to walk over to the table. Here he got a good morning hug from his children after he put Sara into her chair. It made him happy to see all of their children sitting together, each and everyone was precious to him. “So we’re going to have breakfast then we'll open some presents.” He said as he sat down. “What did you all make?” He asked them curiously, as if he didn’t know.

“Bacon Pancakes!” The triplets said in unison. 

“Bacon Pancakes? That happens to be my favorite!” 

“We know that’s why we made them for you Papa.” Nat told him with a firm nod. 

Leon walked over with a plate in each hand and set on in front of Ethan with the pancakes they had made for him. “Happy birthday Papa!” They told him in mostly unison. 

“Oh I’m so lucky, thank you everyone, these look so good.” He told them. 

Leon smiled and then served up everyone’s breakfast and then sat next to his husband and smiled as they ate. After that the kids ran into the living room as Leon turned on the tree lights and they first went to the stockings with their practical and small gifts as well as candy. Leon sat on one of the couches next to Ethan and they both smiled as they watched the excitement of their children tearing open gifts with both joy and annoyance when they got clothes. Leon took his hand and laced his fingers with his and gently kissed his knuckles, Ethan blushed and leaned up against him squeezing his hand. Eventually gifts were slid over to them, messy taping, crinkled paper, some tears here and there, some were just pieces of artwork done in school, some were gifts they had bought with their own money, or their parent bought for their other parent. Soon Mark and Felicia came over with Lucian and Keith as well as more gifts that got passed around, then Lorain and Naomie came with more gifts. Nathaniel and his husband Rick came over with their two children, both were bickering but later Ethan ran into them in the hallway kissing so they had made up. Mike Showed up with his very pregnant wife and their two kids, followed by Louis and James with their three kids, Michell, Kaitlin and little Robert. The house was so full of family and children and it made them happy. Toy’s had to be kept track of but other than that there were no problems. Mark and Ethan worked on dinner together with help from the other’s and they set out the large leaflet and set the table. It was a very wonderful day. There was even cake for Ethan which they all sang happy birthday to him when it came out. 

At the end of the night Ethan snuggled up to Leon in their bed. “Today has been such a wonderful day I’m so glad we found each other.” He told him.

“I am too, you are my fated mate, my soul mate and my one true love, and I’d never, not in a million life times, would want anyone but you.” Leon told him as he caressed his face. 

Ethan twittered happily. “I agree.” 

He leaned up and kissed him only meaning for it to be a quick loving kiss but Leon deepened it leaning into it. He could smell his pheromones and he thought ‘having one more wouldn’t hurt.’ as he deepened the kiss back putting his arms around him. They could afford it and well he was sure this would be the last one. He knew Leon would love him even if they couldn’t have any more kids, he wasn’t like his father, they would love eachother till they were old and gray, he was sure of it.