Sometime later...

As Jude had already nursed her baby twins for third time since the beginning of the day as Timothy collaborated with her in cleaning their house, mainly Mr.Howard was doing the majority of the cleaning unlike his wife, who had extra pounds assigned into her body after labouring 2 perfectly healthy babies, cleaning certain things, despite her easy fatigue, that betrayed her body which could handle with its tough, immenseful resilience every prejudice that attempts to prevent her from accomplish whatever she wants. Moreover she changed their diapers per a several hours.

As they had finished with their cleaning process which took within 2 hours, then they had lunch as their meal was Judy's favorite, Coq au Vin. She hadn't eaten the divine meal for a handful of weeks as Ellie and Tristan were sleeping peacefully in their cots.

Afterward they washed along the filthy dishes and silverwares, subsequently they spent some time as they still sitting on the dining table, speaking to each other as they spent some of their time in discussions of variety of topics.

Once they heard babies' bubble, coming from their parents' bedroom, meanwhile the door's ringing, the couple were so puzzled, not having any clue who and what to do on first place. So Jude managed to go upstairs and check on her twins, whilst Timothy promised to answer the door.

As soon as the middle aged lady hasted upstairs as fast as her stamima, strength permitted her, she opened widely the bedroom's door, increasing its walking pace as it prone to be more trotting, taking each twin per a small, howsoever, fragile arm as the twin laid on its back upon her arm, diminishing its bubbling as she rocked, swinging her both twins, shushing to them that everything is going to be alright with composed voice, scarcely apprehending any kind of ferocity emotion to her utterance. Then she left the bedroom as Timothy welcomed warmly the Mother Superior, letting her to step in.

"Hi Claudia!" Mr.Howard greeted her warmly as he smiled hospitably to her, their eyes met.

"Hello Timothy! It's such pleasure to see you again."

"Yeah! How are you?"

"I am doing well, thank you! How about you?" 

"Me too!" Then the both adults chuckled inwardly, hence, Timothy gestured the elder nun to enter in the living room. "Honey!" He shouted out loud, from the top of his lungs, his wife's first name as she rushed to descend the stairs with Tristan and Ellie into her arms.

"I am coming, sweetie!" She exclaimed as she panted, descending the stairs, throughout arriving along in the living room as the older lady sat on the gothic sofa. 

Once Mother Claudia heard the couple's arrival in the living room with the silently babbling babies, she turned her back as she looked over her couch how the former priest, former nun walked up to her as they sat next to the nun, in the meantime Jude rocked her daughter and son into her secure, affectionate arms. 

"Hello Claudia!" Mrs.Howard greeted politely Claudia with a broad smile across her lips as she peeped at the twins.

"Oh hello, dear!" The older lady's azure blue eyes were rather pierced into the little angels, who babbled uncertainly to their mother in rejoicing way. Further she was overwhelmed to behold one of her former sisters to have such magnificent children, who just resemble so much their parents, sharing diversity of physical traits as 2 days old only. 

Then the elder woman cackled when Tristan looked at the Mother Superior with beatific look as he was fascinated to see a nun in their home, in spite of his lack of concept what does nun actually mean as a position, besides not being capable of figuring out what is she currently doing here. Meanwhile the secular face pinched Ellie's nose as they cannot stop babbling to her, rendering the couple in love titter, when they contemplate how their twins, Tristan and Ellie, are actually relishing and having so much in their guest's company as well. 

"Excuse me, Claudia?" Jude cut off the older woman with aloof voice, caughting instantly the nun's attention. In the interim she peeped in perplexed way at the blonde with a broad, warmhearted smile across her natural lips, illuminated face. "Would you like anything to eat or drink?" She continued with her inquire as Claudia shook her head in disagreement, exclaiming "No, thank you, dear!". 

"Alright!" The younger lady's response was obvious enough to evade any dramas with the person she used to work after the run-and-hit accident with the little girl. Furthermore Jude restrained herself from asking more additional questions about to treat her guest, stroking her twins' heads delicately.

"So how are you doing as a family?" Mother Superior questioned the both Howards family members as she cocked up her head so that to be able to face, meet their eyes. 

"We are excellently as a family. Thank you!" The former priest answered frankly as the former nun exclaimed with "Yeah!", grinning, confirming his words as truth as they let out a giggle, fulfilling the room with vitality.

"How about your work and your general condition as well?" Mrs.Howard posed the question in return.

"Oh!" Sighing in a relief as the recent Briarcliff's work tormented Mother Claudia since they had found a new Monsignor, who wasn't as better as the prior one. It was deliriously evident in her body language and speech. "It's not better my work, unfortunately. But I am attempting to cope with anything to be between." She carried on with her narration as her eyes moved from the former secular faces of Boston to the still awake babies, barely opting to take her eyes from them as she was already dazzled by what she had beholded until this moment, smiling broadly to them, meanwhile being prone to purify her mind about the factors that influence her mood negatively, corrupting it with nothing else, nonetheless, negative thoughts that float on the surface.

"Well, that's not okay." Jude replied briefly as she swayed into her arms her mini mes who just resemble their creators with certain physical traits, in spite of their progressive development, grimaced face when she heard Mother Superior's dry words. "Besides the insane inmates..." The blonde was near the verge to continue her sentence until she was interrupted by her guest, who wanted to add a commentary, a little before it she excused herself.

"Besides the insane inmates, we had found a new monsignor who is far worse than the prior one." 

"Well..." Timothy struggled to utter a word as he was almost numb, possibly speechless after hearing the nun's monologue, understanding her situation. "What about him? With what he differs me but in the less virtuous sphere?" The former priest was undeniably inquisitive to find out what anguished her as he didn't dare to touch or do any physical contact with her since she is a nun. The handshake was the sole possible physical contact which legally can be implemented, according to the church's rules.

"He is worse than you, Timothy! Trust me!" She paused as she requested the middle aged mother to deliver her guest a glass of water as she accepted mousily, handing the twins to Mother Claudia as she asked her if she could spend some time with the twins, besides holding them, subsequently receiving the direct response. 

A couple of seconds later, the former nun was back with a glass of water, giving it directly to her guest as she thanked in return, sipping a handful of sips from the fresh, cool water as she regained more vocal endurance after her throat was moistened. In the meantime, Jude sat by the right side of Mother Superior, listening to her friend and husband's conversation, wearing a little, timid smile across her lips.

"He yells at the sisters! He totally ignores their complains and had fired, put a few of them in the solitarity, stripping them off their positions due to their complains about the unfair treatment of the inmates. Moreover the death rate of patients in Briarcliff had drastically increased since this institution's conditions became worse, for sadly."

Once the couple listened to the shocking monologue of the secular face who works in Briarcliff yet, Jude's smile vanished as her frown loomed on her amorous, smooth face as a mossy peach, meanwhile Timothy's face became pale due to what he hears, besides he had paid utterly attention to each uttered word as he pitied the asylum patients who currently are straining with their recent horrid conditions, tearing up their lives like a light cloth's fabric, easily being ripped off on more pieces. 

"Isn't he actually collaborating with Dr.Arden?"

"No, he's not, Jude! Dr.Arden isn't..." Sipping of her glass with water, lingering her reply. "Midst Briarcliff's staff anymore!"

Initially the couple was astonished, timidly believing any word when it had to do with Dr. Arthur Arden, the barbarian doctor, the doctor of science in Briarcliff, as he was well-known, although his sadistic, merciless experiments on innocent patients, whose wretched lives were fated to spend the rest of their lives in a mental institution, where no one is an angel to you, in spite of the belief in God which is amidst the last hopes of any inmate to pray, to think of God's patronage over themselves, observing each action, being either forgiven or punished in their final days, weeks or probably months of their lives. 

"Dr.Arden..." Mrs.Howard placed a palm under her chin, supporting her head's balance as she stared straightly at the elder woman's glacial blue eyes. "isn't working in Briarcliff anymore? Is that what you mean to tell me?"She enquired fully her enquire with an arched eyebrow.

"No, dear Judy! He had already passed away."

"He passed?" Mr.Howard asked bewildered.

"Yes, that's right! He cremated himself with Sister Mary Eunice in the crematory furnace after her loss which he scarcely couldn't handle anymore, as he gave up to behold the meaning of living his life." 

Then the intense silence floated in the living room's air, fulfilling the ambience with mysticism as Howards family was rather dumbstruck to utter a single word after hearing about Dr.Arden's death and the new monsignor, who dooms the mental facility with every passed day. At last the iceberg's peak shined.

"If you say so...let's just change the topic."

"Oh yes, Judy! You are right, let's talk about something more positive rather than this snake pit." 

Afterwards the nun's eyes looked down at Ellie and Tristan who babbled friendly, open mindedly to the guest though they didn't have any clue who she was actually as their big, mesmerised eyes were pierced into her wrinkled, however fresh, glinting face. 

"Oh, look at yourselves, you little angels!"

"Aren't they actually cute, Claudia?"

"Of course, they are, Jude!" Rocking in her arms each baby twin, smiling to them. "I pressume the girl is Ellie, right?" Then the couple nod their heads, confirming the answer as lucid, bold "Yes!". 

"How about the baby boy?" The Mother Superior kept on with her inquire.

"He's Tristan Martin Howard!" Timothy replicated.

"Ah! Haa! Tristan!?" Consequently the baby didn't stop babbling to her in gleeful way, gazing at her completely innocently, unblemishedly. "What a lovely and different name than a biblical one for baby boy!" 

Then the 3 adults chuckled together.

"Well, yes! Something indeed different!" 

"Tristan and Ellie are definitely as lovely as both of you, of course!" She kissed each baby's temple. "Tristan really looks like his father's blond version whilst the little Ellie is her mother's brunette version with a few exceptions as well." The secular personality exclaimed proudly and boldly with blissful voice as her heart was moltening with every passed second, due to the twins' murderous cuteness.

"Yes! But certain facial features differ between our little angels and us."

"You have got it right! I would like to ask if they are baptized."

"They are actually christened today, Claudia! We have even a photo after the baptize with the priest and our family altogether." Jude said cheerfully as she poked, pinching faintly each twin's nose, a little after she stood from the couch as walking up to the cupboard, delving, searching for the photo album where the family gathers photos of their early life, including their contemporary days as an united family. 

As soon as she found the photo album, sitting back on the sofa, opening the photo album's cover, showing the guest's recent professional photograph with Father Malachi, Judy, Timothy and their children smiling along as their faces sparkled through the photo.

"You look incredible!"

"Thank you!"

To be continued...