A/n - I wnat toddler ghouls. You want toddler ghouls. We get toddler ghouls.

"Ember!" You shout, chasing your youngest son through the ministry halls. His powers came in, he's only five, "Ember please stop running!" You shout as he dodges your hold once again. Sodo left to tour with the band. Terzo wanted to start the project back up, leaving you with the toddler fire ghoul twins to deal with alone. Ember laughs as he quickly rounds another corner, leaving a trail of sparks behind him. You have to be careful with touching the twins, they can be hot to touch. Your hands and arms were covered in burn scars because of it.

Ember laughs and laughs, his trail of sparks becoming small flames. You decide to stop chasing him. If he calms down, he will find you and hopefully not catch the building on fire. You turn and head back to the nursery, slowly in case Ember catches on that you've stopped chasing him.

You make it back to your room, no child running behind. You sigh. Ember has always been independent, and although ghouls develop quickly, he was still a toddler. You open the door slowly, seeing a sleeping Phoenix cuddled up in your big bed, you smile, shutting the door as quietly as possible. You walk quickly back through the halls, searching for Ember.

After a few minutes, you hear screaming from some of the siblings, they run around you, fear evident in their eyes. Some were praying. You pull one aside, "What's happening?" You ask with wide eyes, "The chapel is on fire!" The sister screams, running back into the crowd, "Shit." You mumble, starting to weave through the chaos to get your son.

"EMBER!" You scream, opening the hot doors. You gasp at the destruction. Flames engulfed the pews, the wallpaper turned to ash, "EMBER! IT'S MAMA COME TO MAMA!" You scream over the roaring flames, your dress catching fire, you don't care. You can't see Ember, but you know he's in the ablaze room. You take a deep breath and run through the flames, "EMBER!" You scream again, trying to keep your eyes open through the ask and smoke, "Mama?" You hear whispers behind you. You turn quickly, gasping at what you saw. Ember stood in the middle of a flame, his horns poking through his forehead, tears in his eyes, "Mama it hurts." He cries, reaching and moving towards you. You quickly scoop him up into your arms, "It's going to be okay, Ember, it'll be okay my little spark." You comfort, sitting on the tile, the flames engulfing you both. The heat and burns spread across your body, the dress becoming cinders every passing second, "Mama's here now." You kiss his forehead, between the two small horns now poking out of his skin. Your lips burn, but you don't notice.

"I want daddy." He cries, his tears feeling like lava. You sigh deeply, "Ember, you know he's not here buddy. What can Mama do for you?" He sobs harder, "Get daddy." He shifts in your lap, wrapping his arms around your neck, the flames grow, so do his sobs. You rub his back softly, "I can try." You whisper, kissing the side of his head as he keeps crying into your shoulder, "I will try and get Daddy. Would that help? Just seeing him?" Ember shakes his head, 'no'.

Usually face timing Sodo was enough to calm him, but he does miss his father, you do too, "Okay, okay just let Mama do something real quick. I can get daddy here." You smile, knowing that this is going to work, Ember stops sobbing, the flame surrounding you and him dies down slightly.

You reach into your pocket and pull out the small dagger, "Okay, mommy needs you to stay still and close your eyes okay?" Ember nods and nuzzles closer to your body. You remove your hand from his back, making sure that he'd stay against you. You take the dagger, suck in a breath, and cut your arm. The blood immediately drips to the floor.

Sodo made you his mate years before your wedding. If your blood was spilled he could sense it and always immediately rushed to you. You say a silent prayer, the burns starting to numb, your consciousness starting to waiver, "Daddy will be here soon." You whisper, moving your hands to hold Ember. You would just throw out the clothes he had on because of your blood staining them. He smiles, "Thank you mama!" He says and quickly kisses your cheek, the flames extinguishing lower and lower. You giggle and kiss all over his face, the points of his horns finally poking through his skin. You keep note of them as you start to tickle his sides, "MAMA!" He screams laughing and wiggling, the flames completely diminish. You sigh in relief.

You stop tickling him and he notices the smell of blood, "Mama...what's that smell?" His nose twitches. You gasp, his ghoul abilities are coming in, he's growing up too fast, "It's, um." You panic. You don't want to scare your son about being hurt, he'd cry and start an inferno, "It's just my new perfume." You lie. He smiles and sits in front of you, "It smells really good, Mama!" You smile, "Thank you, Ember, that is very kind of you." A loud bang causes Ember to jump into your arms. You look at the doors, now on the floor, bursted off of their hinges.

You sigh in relief, the adrenaline and motherly panic finally wearing off of your body, the pain starting to grow in intensity, "Ember, look who it is." You say with a smile, he picks up his head and slowly turns to look at the door, "DADDY!" He screamed, scrambling to run over to Sodo. Sodo's chest rises and falls drastically, clearly stressed and scared. He bent down and picked up his son, "Hi, Ember, what happened to Mama?" He asks, placing a kiss on his son's head, quickly walking over to you.

He kneels beside you, placing Ember on the ground beside him. He moves you to lay in his lap, you wince as your bare, burned back makes contact with his black jeans, "Sodo, I'm okay." You whimper, trying to stay strong in front of Ember. Sodo moves a few stray pieces of hair from your face, "Why did you summon me then, love?" He asks, knowing that Ember must have set the now burnt cathedral on fire, "I-" You try to explain, "Ember missed you." you looked into his fiery eyes, desperate for him to understand the subliminal message you tried to get across.

Sodo pulled out his phone, "Hey! Uncle Aether!" Sodo greeted, Ember's ears perked up at the mention of his uncle, "Ember has been a good little ghoul! Can you take him and Phoenix out to the garden?" Ember smiles as Aether agrees, "Great! We're in the Cathedral." Aether hung up and was there in less than a minute. Ember ran over to him. Aether's eyes went wide looking around at the burnt cathedral. He gasped looking at your burnt body, Sodo shooed him away, "Phoenix is in the room." You weakly inform, Aether nods and picks up Ember, leaving the cathedral.

"Why the hell didn't you call for help?" Sodo scolds, gently picking you up,

"I didn't want to bother you." You whisper, scared of angering him,

"You are never a bother, Y/n." He says carrying you out of the Cathedral and towards your room,

"Ember's horns came in." You say, starting to drift off in his arms,

"I saw. He looks more and more like me everyday." Sodo beams, rounding the corner

"He can smell blood now too." You add, curling more against Sodo,

"Already?" He asked shocked, you nod, "When I cut myself he noticed." you mumble,

"Where is your fire protection?" Sodo asks, almost to your room, he noticed that his hands were touching your skin, not the thin suit,

"I'm their mother. I don't need protection from my children." You fire back, Sodo sighs,

"You're too stubborn."

"Look who's talking." You both laugh

"Y/n, please, in all seriousness, be more careful." He whispers, opening the bedroom door, "I can feel the third degree burns on your back that's not okay." He continues to reprimand, contemplating how to help you, "You're practically naked, Y/n." He growls, annoyed that Aether saw you in this state,

"Sodo. I'm fine, please." You try to calm him, noticing his hands heat up,

"I-I'm sorry." he says, calming himself down, "I'm going to lay you on your stomach, just don't move okay?" He orders, you nod.

He gently rolls you onto your stomach, sucking in a breath at the red, bloody burns that covered your back, "Satan, Y/n." He runs into the bathroom and grabs one of the many bottles of aloe. You try to breathe deeply, but each breath causes pain, making you whimper. Sodo walked over, quickly straddling your hips, and squirting globs of aloe out of the bottle and onto your back. You moan at the cooling sensation, "Y/n. We can try Aloe, but I think we're going to have to call a nurse." You whimper, "No, Sodo. I'm fine." He only rubs in the aloe, not responding, angry that he wasn't here to stop you from getting hurt.

After a while, Sodo sits back on his heels, "Y/n. I hate that you do this to yourself." He groans, moving to clean his hands off, "I do it for our kits!" You weakly argue back, the other burns flaring up. Sodo comes back in with a new bottle of aloe and bandages, "I need you to sit up so I can wrap your torso." He says numbly, "Sod-" "No." he interrupts, the anger clear in his scowl as his eyes roam your body.

The burns were the worst they've ever been. Sodo knows he needs to get you medical attention, but also knows that you will only reject it and cause an argument, "Can you lift your arms?" He asks, kneeling in front of you, squeezing more aloe into his hand. You go to move your arms but wince and let out a pained sound as you quickly return them back to your sides. Sodo looks at you with sad eyes, "Can you put them on my shoulders?" He asks, you nod and place your hands on his broad shoulders. He quickly starts to rub the aloe on your sides and stomach, cringing each time you flinch at his touch, "Stay still." He orders, going to wash his hands again. He runs back out and starts to wrap your entire midsection with bandages, "How does it feel now?" He asks, finishing off the bandage, "It's okay." You mumble, the pain making your brain feel dizzy, "Hang in there, Y/n." He says standing and kissing your cheek,

"Let me take care of your arms and hands so you can sleep while I bandage your legs, okay?" He whispers, starting to look over the ones on your arms, you nod, desperately wanting to sleep the pain away. He opens the aloe again, gently grazing the gel over the burns, you flinch when he passes a bad burn, he giggles softly at the handprint on your right shoulder, "Well. I knew you'd want to get tattoos for the kits, but it looks like you're going to have a brand instead." You laugh with him, although his words seem to sound faded.

You close your eyes, "Sodo, please hurry. I feel light headed." You mumble, leaning your head against his body, he hurriedly wraps your arms, "Okay, lay down." He helped shift you against your pillows, you immediately fell asleep, your brain shutting down.

Sodo bandages your legs then lays beside you, he gently lays an arm over your waist as he watches you sleep, "You are too much sometimes, Y/n." He laughs exasperatedly, "I love you." He whispers, gently kissing your cheek. He laid with you for a few more minutes before leaving to find the kits.

He took his time walking through the halls of the ministry, it has only been a few months since he left to go on tour, but he did miss this place. Sodo walked out to the garden and shouted from the steps, "EMBER! PHOENIX! COME HERE!" He looked over the fields for a second before seeing his kits and Aether ran towards him, he started running down the stairs to meet them.

"DADDY!" Phoenix shouted, quickly jumping into Sodo's outstretched arms. Ember jumped soon after his brother, "I missed you both so much." Sodo whispers, kissing their heads and hugging them tightly. Sodo never thought that he would be a father, or more so never thought he would want a family, but you changed that. He started to tear up as his kits babbled on and on about what he had missed, about them setting things on fire, and about their horns and tiny tails that started growing, "Why are you crying, daddy?" Phoenix asked, wiping away his father's tears,

"I just missed you both so, so much." Sodo says, trying to keep it together, "We did too daddy!" Ember says hugging Sodo's neck, "What do we say to uncle Aether for playing with you?" Sodo asks the kits in his arms, "Thank you, uncle Aether!" The two kits say in unison, "Anytime fireworks." Aether says waving and walking back towards the fields. Sodo feels a pit in his stomach, "Come on guys, I think Mama needs us." He put both kits down and held their hands as they all three walked back to your room.

You groan, the pain all over your body absolutely killing you. Plus, you woke up alone. No Sodo. No Ember. No Phoenix. You hated being alone. You move to sit up, but immediately crash back onto the bed in pain, you could feel one of the scars bleed. You sigh, knowing that Sodo is probably going to run back worried and scared. You hated the fact that when you bled he knew, it made you feel weak, like a pathetic, useless person.

A few minutes later, you hear your husband's voice, "Alright, shhhh, we have to surprise Mama." The door slowly opens, "Sodo?" You ask meekly, a little concerned as to what was happening, "We love you Mama!" The three boys cheer. Ember and Phoenix held small bouquets of flowers they must have picked from the garden, Sodo held a rose, "Oh, my boys! Come here." You say holding your arms open. Sodo had a concerned look on his face, but you waved him off. It didn't matter how much pain you were in, you would be the best version of yourself in front of your kits. Ember and Phoenix practically threw the flowers at Sodo as they jumped into the bed. They both cuddle into your left side, "Daddy come on!" Ember pouts. Sodo laughs and smiles as he places all of the flowers into the vase on the window seal, "I'll be over in a second."

Phoenix snuggles into your side as Ember stares at Sodo with sad eyes, "Daddy." He whines. Sodo quickly crawls into bed, Ember cuddles into his side, he purrs. Phoenix starts to do the same thing to you, he purrs as well. Sodo then purrs. You can't purr, so you don't, "Mama why don't you make noise like we do?" Phoenix asks.

You look over at Sodo with wide eyes. You haven't had the talk about being an entirely different species to the kits yet, "Mama is different because she is older." You lie, it was a dumb lie, Sodo had to hold back a laugh. Phoenix cuddles back into you, accidentally hitting a very sensitive burn. You suck in a breath, trying to control your body's reactions. Sodo notices and turns on his side to face you and the kits, "Are you okay, Mama?" He asks, you nod, "Just sleepy." Your eyes say differently, but Sodo doesn't pry, "Do we want to have nap time now then?" He asks the kits, they cheer and say a mix of yes and please,

"Goodnight, Ember, goodnight, Phoenix, goodnight, Y/n." Sodo whispers, noticing how the three of you already started dozing off. He smiled watching his family at peace, although you did get hurt, and although these kits were stubborn to raise, he was the happiest he's ever been. All thanks to you.