Time Warp: The Name Game

[Jonathan & Jacob Bishop]

Summer 2030

It was a beautiful day out for a picnic. Besides the girls had begged their daddies for a to go swimming at the lake. Of course, they had caved before Lily and Iris even finished asking. It was a good thing they weren't old enough for ask to the keys to the car just yet.

"Don't get too far away," Jake called out to the giggling four-year-olds playing tag. One of the many advantages of having three parents was having an extra set of eyes around.

"Daddies will take you in the water in a bit" John added as he spread out the blanket to sit their stuff on.

The both reached out a hand to help their wife get settled on the ground. Being pregnant, they knew it would be a task for her to get down without help. "Need a hand?" "Need a hand?"

They already knew she was having twins, though the ultrasound hadn't been able to say for sure the gender of the babies. The brothers were hoping for boys. Though they loved Lily and Iris to pieces, even they could see how much the girls had them wrapped around their pinkies. Besides, there were so many things they hoped to pass on to sons.

"How about Pete and Repeat?" Jake asked after they had gotten settled on the blanket. It had become a running joke for the twins to try and think of the worst possible baby names. He grinned at Rain. 

"Butch Cassidy and Sundance?" John offered, wearing an identical grin. 

[Rain Tseung]

Knowing that JJ couldn’t say ‘no’ to the girls at all was a bit frustrating for Rain sometimes. Especially now with her being pregnant again, and in her last trimester it was even more frustrating. Just because it was harder for her to do certain things now, and with two girls wanting to do everything all the time it was hard for her to keep up. Thankfully, however, she was glad that JJ was around to keep them occupied, at least that was one good thing.
“They shouldn’t go off alone like that…” She frowned as she watched the girls walk a little ahead of them, yes Rain was a bit paranoid! Though she had to admit that the sound of ‘daddies’ always made her smile inside.

Trying to make her way onto the blanket that was put down she looked at the twins for help. She pouted a little, “Just a bit… Please?” She managed to work her way into sitting down with the help of the twins, “Thanks.” Lily and Iris came up onto the blanket to sit in Rain’s lap, putting their little hands on their mother’s stomach. “when are our siblings coming?” Asked one, Rain chuckled, “Soon I hope.” She ‘booped’ Lilly and Iris on the nose.


“Oh gosh, you two need to stop and get serious…” She shook her head and smiled at the both of them. “Hey, what about… August and Avery?” She had been trying to think of some actual good names, but it had been so much easier with Lily and Iris.. She was also trying to figure out some mutual names that could be good for both girls and boys. “You know, your guys names were so much easier to figure out.” She told the mini twins.

[Jonathan & Jacob Bishop]

It was true that John and Jake were great at keeping their daughters entertained. They never grew tired of tea-parties with stuffed animals or letting the girls give them make-overs with mommies less expensive make-up. That said, the two were really hoping for boys. And though they had been less than serious about the names they came up with for Rain, they were always masculine names. As if even offering up a girls name might jinx what gender would come out.

Still as long as there were twenty healthy fingers and toes, the brothers would be happy with any gender.

"Don't worry, they're nowhere near the water," Jake said, smiling at bit at Rain's motherly paranoia. True, the fathers definitely took a more laid back approach to raising children when it came to rules and safety. But they wouldn't let any harm come to their little angels.

"Just sit, rest, and leave the corralling to us," John added as he and his brother helped Rain down onto the blanket.

Sure enough the girls were quick enough to return to sit with them. John and Jake scooped them up. "You're gonna be good big sisters, right?" "You're gonna be good big sisters right?" They asked, while tickling the girls. Of course the girls were excited about the idea of having babies in the house. They answered their yeses in-between laughter before running away from their daddies, the tickle monsters.

"Serious okay then," "how about Chip" "and Dale?" the brothers suggested, grinning. The each placed a hand on Rain's stomach as their mischievous grins faded into warm smiles.

Though seriously the brothers wanted to give their sons (yes keep saying sons and hopefully it would come true) names that wouldn't turn into some sort of joke. They had heard enough renditions of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt to last a lifetime.

"Avery sounds nice," Jake offered.

"But we dunno about a month name," John added. "Maybe Adrian?"

The brothers offered identical shrugs.

"We still have a little time to think, right?" "We still have a little time to think, right?"

[Rain Tseung]

Even though their children at the moment were girls, didn’t mean that Jake and John couldn’t do activities with them that they would do with boys… Though maybe they couldn’t know… the two acted like princesses, granted very well behaved princesses (most of the time). Rain really did love how much the boys bonded with their daughters… She hoped they always carried out that bond, even when they moved out of the house.

Rain just worried that she will have six daredevils run around, and she didn’t want to be seen as the bad cop all the time… Granted, Jake and John were pretty good at defending Rain when it came to punishments, and not letting the girls go against their mothers wishes.


“thanks,” At least there were two of each, as long as the kids didn’t go into the water without John and Jake, or went too far, they were alright, she guessed.

Rain giggled at the playfulness of both set of twins, and shook her head, the tickling brought back memories of when they were teenagers. She smiled affectionly, “Sometimes I miss the days when we were first dating..” Random statement, but it meant something to Rain. Although she loved her children, and love being married to John and Jake, there was just something innocent in their first days of being a couple that wasn’t there anymore.

“That’s not being serious! But fine, lets name them Chip and Dale, those are wonderful names.” She just gave up on trying to be serious with them. “or what about Simba and Nala, if we have a boy and a girl.” She teased them, seeing how they would like how it felt.

“Hmm… I don’t know, Adrian sounds a little girly to me.”

“We have a month, so you have a little time to think. But I would like to get names before I go into labor.” She rubbed her belly sympathetically. “Why was it so much easier coming up with Lily, and Iris?”

[Jonathan & Jacob Bishop]

Though the girls were starting to learn that it was a good idea to ask their daddies first for anything, the brothers did still stand behind the rules and limits set by their mothers. The girls might have John and Jake wrapped around their little fingers, but it was Rain who'd first captured their hearts.

As for worrying about six daredevils, it was true that John and Jake were a bit more lenient than some parents when it came to safety. They didn't believe it was good for kids to grow up in a protective plastic bubble. That said, anything more dangerous than a scrapped knee was enough to have them concerned. Kids needed to be able to play, but the brothers didn't want to see them hurt.

The brothers broke out laughing again at Rain's random statement. Sure, it'd be nice to go back and fall in love all over again. Still...

"Seriously? We were fools," "Tripping over each other trying to figure out our feelings," "Then trying to figure out how to put them into words," "We still don't understand what you saw in us." Still even they couldn't help but smile as they remembered their younger selves.

"Great problem solved," Jake said, knowing full well that Rain wasn't being serious.

"Though Mufasa sound's more distinguished," John added.

"Because you're the queen of flowers," Jake answered. After all, Rain was fairly good at knowing plant names. Once they'd decided to use flowers, it'd been fairly easy from there with Rain's help.

John nodded, smiled, and leaned over to kiss Rain on the cheek. "How about some lunch, my queen?" He gestured to the picnic basket. After all Rain was eating for three these days.

[Rain Tseung]

Rain agreed that the children shouldn’t be kept in a plastic bubble, they needed to learn their own limits, for their own good. She just didn’t want them to get hurt enough to go to the doctors, but she wouldn’t stop the children from doing things that might land them with a broken bone, there was only one way people really learned lessons.

Rain chuckled, “Oh stop. I thought you guys were cute that way, and I wasn’t any better than you.” She smiled softly at the twins, “I saw two very handsome teenagers, who understood me better than anyone else ever had in my life.” Not many people understood her views on life, and her love for nature, and all the other things she loved more than herself. But the twins ended up completely understanding her, and loving her for all her weird tendencies. She still remembered the first set of Christmas presents they had gotten her, and she would never forget them.


“Mufasa died though… We could name them Mufasa and scar…” Both those characters ended up dying though…

Rain laughed a little, “Good point.” Once her art shop picked up a great deal, she ended up making a green house right in town where she could teach people about flowers, and where anyone could grow plants and garden in their own time. Once the flowers fully grew people either took them home to plant, or Rain would plant them in the forest where they could live forever.

Rain smiled as John kissed her, “Lunch sounds good right about now.” She rubbed her stomach lovingly.

[Jonathan & Jacob Bishop]

"Well we can always go back to blushing if you think the color looks cute on us," John said, laughing. Really it was a miracle they hadn't developed some sort of medical condition from all of their blood constantly rushing to their faces.

"You were always better," Jake argued.

"And hotter," John teased, whispering so the girls wouldn't hear.

The twins still had the little Pokemon Rain gave them on their first Christmas. They kept them in their sock drawers and smiled each time the cute little guys tumbled into view when they opened the drawers.

"Okay. Okay. No Mufasa," Jake said. "Or Scar." They didn't want to even joke about having a death related name tagged to their children. They still woke up in the middle of the night sometimes worried that they would loose each other. Now that Rain and the girls were in their lives, they worried about loosing them too.

The twins couldn't wait to see Rain's art shop take off. They loved seeing her so happy.

"So what are Timon and Pumbaa hungry for today?" Jake asked, laying a hand on top of the hand Rain had on her stomach.

"Looks like we've got egg salad, turkey, and peanut butter and jelly," John said, holding up a few sandwiches.

[Rain Tseung]

“Are you saying that I don’t make you blush anymore?” She teased, though she really wondered if that was the case… Was she really unable to make the twins blush now that they were married, and been together for so long?

" I might have acted in a certain way… But I was always completely insecure about.. being.. Just one person..” And then dating two.. Two bodies, and one mind to other people, but to Rain they were both still two people, and the two people she met when she was fifteen. Just now their personalities were a little more mixed, she still saw both Jake, and John in their mixed personalities.

She blushed, looking at the girls to make sure they weren’t paying attention. She leaned into John to whisper back, “I’m not the one that has abs…” She winked at Jake, showing she was talking about both of them, because why wouldn’t she? But she always made an effort to make sure they knew she was.


Rain knew about those too… While being pregnant she taken time off from her shop, leaving other people in charge, which had been a really big step for her because her shop was her baby; she had spent time doing house work, which meant doing laundry and ending up putting the twins clothes away. She never said anything about it though. She still had everything the twins had given her that Christmas, the bunny cactuses were in the girls rooms, because they asked to keep them in their room after hearing their dads were the ones to make them. And the plants were in the living room.

Rain chuckled, seeing how she at least got through to them about those names. Sometimes it slipped her mind that they still worried about that. Rain didn’t want to lose the boys either, or her girls, but it couldn’t be something any of them worried about. Because in the current world, stepping outside the house made the opportunity to lose anyone.

Raising an eyebrow at the new nickname she shook her head. She placed her hand on Jake’s, smiling at him. “Bugs apparently..” she mumbled, and the girls laughed at her joke, ”Are bugs good for babies?” they asked.

“I’ll take egg salad. If no one minds.” She was completely glad she got past morning sickness.. She was also pretty sure everyone else did too.

[Jonathan & Jacob Bishop]

The twins put on their fake shocked faces and then started grinning. It was true that the brothers were a bit more secure in themselves. And their relationship with Rain. Still even though they had years under their belt, their wife still found ways to surprise them. And they were sure she could still make them blush. In fact, trying got think of ways she might do so was making them blush right now.

"No..." "...we were't saying that." they said, blushing and grinning. Though they couldn't really go too far into why they were blushing with the little girls right there.

In their younger days the brothers had always been so surprised to hear Rain admit that she was just as lost and confused as they were. Now they knew her better, could peek inside her head now and then, and still they were surprised to know she sometimes felt just as lost and confused. She was so wonderful with them and the girls and her shop...with everything really. They couldn't understand how she couldn't always see that. So they had made it their life goals to make her see just how great she was as much as they could.

"It's true we do have amazing abs," John teased, flexing his arms for show as well.

"But you've got something better in your middle." Jake added.

They laughed along with the girls. "Bugs are good for little girls too, especially tickle bugs," "Bugs are good for little girls too, especially tickle bugs," they said, reaching out to pull them in for a tickle.

John handed an egg salad to Rain tossing his twin a peanut butter and jelly without being asked. Though the brothers had made a few exceptions over the years, they were still vegetarians.

"How are you feeling today?" "How are you feeling today?" they asked. The morning sickness seemed to be over, but they still asked Rain how she was all the time. It may have gotten a bit much to be babied a little by them, but it was the least they could do. Rain the was the one doing all the hard work.