“Wife. What is it?”

Candace shook her head, her face scrunching up. She was barely able to breathe, her pain was so strong.

With a quick touch of his finger onto her temple, Leonardo

Leonardo pulled himself out of her and began doing an impromptu physical check-up.

Gone was the lover being dominated by his woman. Back was the doctor trying to care for his patient.

His hands began to glow a blue color as he checked her abdomen for any internal bleeding or blockages.

What he found shocked him to the core.

‘Oh my God. You guys!’ He called into the mindspace that Candace had set up for the brothers.

‘What’s up?’ Slate was first to respond.

‘Hey Leo! Welcome to Candace’s Husbands Club!’ Jared whooped out a greeting.

‘What’s going on?’ Dante asked, a little distractedly due to his work.

‘Something’s wrong with Candace. She’s in a lot of pain.’ Leonardo yelled into the mind-space. ‘You guys need to come to her bedroom. NOW!!!’

Without waiting for them to respond, he disconnected and went back to concentrate on Candace. He didn’t have time for chit chat.

He quickly got himself dressed and cleaned her up with a wet towel before throwing a clean sheet over her naked body.

At this moment, she was no longer an object of desire. She was his patient.

Leonardo went back to monitoring her womb with his medical energies.

She had collected all seven shards and they were floating within her body, but it wasn’t a random meandering. It was a strange purposeful float.

He projected what he could feel into a virtual monitor above her bed and continued to move his hands around on her abdomen to maintain visuals.

When he found what he was looking for, he locked the frames into position to maintain visuals of her womb.

Within a matter of minutes, all his brothers had burst into the room and were gathered around her, panting and heaving from having to rush there.

“What—what’s that?” Lucas asked, pointing to the image on the virtual screen.

“Looks like it’s our Avgo shards, dancing around in a pattern.” Dante squinted at the visuals trying to see clearly, the shards among all the background noise of her internal body.

“Recognize the pattern?” Leonardo asked.

“It looks like a—a heptagon?” Lucas responded.

“Close. It’s actually a heptahedron.” Leonardo nodded. “Seven-sided, three-dimensional structure. This is one of the sacred geometries of life.”

“Wait, wait.” Byron held up a hand. “I remember the twelve sacred geometries when we were learning basic magic theory from our teachers, but I never heard of the heptahedron being a sacred geometry before.”

Leonardo sighed. “The twelve that you’re talking about, Egg of Life, Flower of Life, Tree of Life, et cetera, has to do with the basic shapes that make up the universe and life in general. This one is different.”

He indicated at the visual that was occurring in real time coming from Candace’s body.

“This is a sacred geometry that forms in order to receive a soul into a new vessel that is being formed.”

“What???” Dante gasped

Leonardo’s face twitched. Being the most intelligent brother has its drawbacks. What was to him, simple to grasp, was complex to others around him.

How could he find words and make it simple enough so that his brothers could understand?

“Okay, so we all know that the Avgo isn’t just some random gemstone. It’s actually alive. It chose all of us as its father, remember?”

The brothers all nodded.

“But it couldn’t form for the longest time until all the fragments had been collected.”

Slate crinkled his eyes at Leonardo. “Hurt like hell, didn’t it?”

“Like a heart attack.” Leonardo admitted with a shake of his heart. “I thought I was going to die and leave her a partial widow for a moment there.”

All the brothers chuckled and nodded with understanding. They remembered all too well the pain they each felt at the moment the Avgo tore away from their heart.

Leonard pointed to the virtual monitor above Candace’s sleeping form.

“Look at the way it’s moving!” He pointed to the motion of the seven shards. “It’s forming into a seven sided heptahedron.”

He used his finger and drew a blue shape into the air, infusing it with magic so it would remain as a 3D shape. Then he twirled it so that it spun lazily in the space between the brothers.

“See that? There are seven sides and each side has exactly the same surface area.” He pointed to various areas of the spinning shape. “There are four equal triangles and three equal four-sided shapes that look like kites.”

He gestured with emphasis. “Each of those triangles and four-sided shapes come from one of us. This shape needs all seven of the shards to be able to create the heptahedron.”

His six brothers stared at what Leonardo was pointing at and gave vague nods. They understood basic magic, but the geometric mathematics were more complex to grasp.

“So what does all that have to do with the shards and Candace?” Slate stared at the blue heart that was moving the blue fumes around inside it.

Leonardo pointed to the visuals monitor above Candace’s head.

“Gentlemen, you are seeing in real time, our tiny child being created.”

As they stared with fascination at the spinning points of light that Leonardo pointed out, they suddenly noticed that it was going straight for the egg, which looked like a huge round sphere hovering in the background.

In no time flat, it had been subsumed by the egg and had disappeared.

“And BAAM!!!” Leonardo announced with great cheer. “Her egg has been fertilized by the Avgo shards.”

“Wow that’s a huge egg!” Lucas murmured, fascinated.

Leonardo laughed. “It’s magnified so you can see the details. This is so tiny that we wouldn’t be able to see anything just by looking at its actual size.”

“That heptahedron fertilized only one egg.” Dante mused. “Looks like we’re only going to be getting one child.”

“But what about the sex of the baby?” Jared asked.

“Doesn’t that depend on the individual sperm?” Jason added.

Leonardo nodded. “Normally, yes. But this is the Avgo we’re talking about. It’s so far beyond my level of understanding that all I can do is continue to observe what is happening to her.”

“I’m okay with only one child.” Slate murmured, and all the other brothers agreed with him.

But then suddenly, before their eyes, the egg split into seven separate eggs.

“Holy Mother of the Universe!” Byron breathed.

“Does that mean we each get our own baby?” Jason rubbed his jaw.

“No.” Leonardo stared with fascination at the turn of events. “It means we share in parenting all seven children. Do you not see what just happened?”

He glanced at each of the brothers, swearing to himself. Why was he the only one who understood basic human physiology?

“The seven shards combined into one and fertilized the egg.”

The men nodded.

“The egg underwent mitosis that resulted in seven individual eggs.”

The men nodded again.

“This means each child will have half its genes from Candace and half its genes from our combined genetics.. What each egg gets from us men is luck of the genetic draw, but for the most part, we are fathers to all the babies, not just one.”