the seal..

Sienna didn't say a word about what she knew, but everyone noticed that she suddenly seemed happier than before. Talis was growing up fastly, and he had just started going to high school, when Sienna's pregnancy was showing off slightly (on the picture it's Talis and Tristan.)

Everyone wondered about Sienna, but she seemed happy and no one wanted to make her miserable again, so they didn't ask her about anything. Diego was still trying to think positively, he was truly trying to convince himself that she'd found a new love, and that the child was not Samuel's. He didn't know much about her private life, since she never really talked to him. So he wanted to ask her straight out, what was going on, and who the father was. He knew, if she told him it was Sam, that they'd been seeing each other even after he forbid them this relationship.

The "showdown" took place in the children's room, it was pure coincidence: Talis was playing chess again, that boy was a true genius, and Sam had just wanted to bring Tristan to bed. Sienna has been watching Sam and Tristan play before. Then Diego came in.
"Sienna, you have truly no right to keep things from us any longer."
"What do you mean, father?"
She was feeling only despite for her father, she could not help but hate him for what he did to them. She was convinced that he destroyed their love, she fully blamed him on how Sam was reacting the morning after their reunion, and that he rarely looked her in the eye since. She blamed him for the pain, the grief and the despair.
"Why should I tell you who the father is? What does it mean to you, anyhow. You hate me. You hate us, me and my children. And this, I will neither forgive nor forget, ever."
"It's him. I can't believe you lied to me. Both of you!"
"I can't believe you made me lie to you!"
Diego smiled bitterly. This man seemed broken.
"This family is cursed. And you will burn in hell, that's for sure." There came no more reaction from him, and he left the room. Sienna didn't know what to do, but she was as confident as ever. She loved her children, and she would not let anyone harm them. She was kind of relieved that her father knew the truth now, the only thing she feared was Samuel. She hadn't told him it was his child she was bearing, and she didn't know what to expect when he finds out.

She gave birth to her and Sam's third son Théo three days later. It seemed tradition, that the names of their children began with "T", so they had decided after the birth of Tristan, because their names started with the same letter as well. Not only this had made Sam realize it was his son. He had of course heard the conversation between his sister and his father the other day, and he still haven't talked to Sienna about the child really being his son yet. He thought she'd found a new love, he knew he should have been happy for her at that moment, he knew he should have wished for her to have a normal life, like she deserved it. But inside, he felt lost and broken, and suddenly wished for nothing more than to go back in time to that infamous morning, and tell her that it was not a mistake, that he loved her and wanted this. So the news he heard that day, that it was indeed his child, made him realize, that he could not reject Sienna anymore, and that he should not even want to, for it made even their children feel guilty and unhappy.

"Sienna, wait. We have to talk about this."
She smiled, and came closer to him. "He's yours, Sammy. I thought you knew."
"I believed you found someone else. Someone who could love you like you deserve it."
"I cannot love another man the way I love you, Samuel. Don't ever forget this again."
"Sienna, I don't want to stay away from you anymore."
"Then don't."
"But you know what that means.."
"It means we love each other. And that only."
And they sealed it with a kiss.

one night's suite

Life went on, even for Sienna and Sam. They finished high school, and Sam started to work for the army, as their father. Their children grew, Tristan took a great deal after his mother, and Talis showed a big interest in all kind of brain teasers, as chess. Still, everyone felt the strange, undefinable tension between the two. Meanwhile, the only thing they could feel, were two aching, longing hearts. They both knew, they could not exist any day longer, pretending not to be more than siblings, pretending to ignore each other, pretending to still have a life that's worth living.

"What.. what are you doing, Sienna.. we can't-"
"Shush, Sammy, just let me touch you, just for tonight. I can't, Sam, it's like telling me not to breathe." "Sienna, he's gonna-" "Please, Sammy."

So they reunited for one night. They had so much to make up for all those weeks, all these nights she was crying herself to sleep, all the restrained desires and urges.

But the next morning, waking up next to each other, she felt as if she was reborn, but she was alone with this feeling, for her brother didn't seem to feel anything but guilt.
"This was a mistake" he said, and left her behind.

Diego did not know anything, he thought everything was working out just fine. His son was working for the army, which made him really proud, and he thought the two finally overcame their odd phase. He truly believed they did not feel anything greater than siblings do for each other. This was probably one of the most peaceful times in Diego's and Briana's life. They did not know what hell their children went through every day, especially Sienna, who was terribly losing weight and if you knew her well, you could tell she was miserable.

However, Sienna has been keeping a lonely secret herself. She wasn't feeling well in the mornings, and she had a strange appetite lately. Sienna knew very well, that those were pregnancy symptoms. The reunion night has left it's track behind.

eternity itself..

Talis Cortes was born on a monday morning, and he was a healthy little boy. Sienna and Sam were happier than ever, but their fear lashed with every day that passed. One evening finally, Briana and Samuel got to talk and he told her everything that has been happening and after she asked, if Talis was the child he conceived with his sister, he affirmed. No one could have known, that at this moment something inside Briana broke. Her children were throwing away their lives, and the grandson she and her husband came to love so much, was the result of their sin. She couldn't help blaming herself, and still promised her children, she would not tell their father anything, but that he would probably already know.

As Talis grew bigger, he took extremely after his father, but had the eyes of his mother. He was the little mirror image of his daddy, Sienna adored him all the more because of that. She found their love's immortality in her child, and she couldn't help but wish for more children..

Diego noticed, of course he did. Not only the similiarities between Talis and Sam, but his children's tender relationship and the look Sam had on his face when he was with Talis, but the fact that Talis had called Samuel "daddy" was more than enough. But he didn't say a word. Even if he would have wanted to say something, he was too devastated to face this kind of situation.

Time passed pretty quickly, and things seemed to be normal. Even as Sienna confirmed her second pregnancy, Diego didn't dare to ask who the father was. The atmosphere in the house was more than tense, but Diego seemed too busy with his work at the army, that there was practitcally no opportunity to solve things out. Sienna and Sam were still in their teens, and a second pregnancy only hardened school life for both of them.

They still had to hide their love, but since their parents weren't often at home anymore, life became easier, more normal, as it should have been from the start. Their second son, Tristan Cortes, was born during this, almost carefree time.

Until one night, they had been more careless than usual, and have been longing for each other already all day, and as the twins were kissing in the living room, their parents came home. The secret was oficially out, Briana seemed to have a breakdown, but Diego simply told Sam, he'd want to talk to him outside.

Samuel expected rage and anger, but Diego was more than exploding.
"Is this what I have been teaching you about family life?" he cried out, and nothing than charges and suits were to follow. But even Diego knew, that separating the two of them now would not help, and his grandchildren would need both parents, so he simply said, he didn't want them to sleep together anymore, and he forbid them to have any sexual or romantical contact, otherwise he swore, he'd turn Samuel over to the police department, for incest was strictly forbidden.

Sienna and Sam had to end their bond. They didn't want to be separated, so they sacrificed their hearts. Yes, it was true what their father had said, incest was forbidden. It was wrong. They stopped sleeping in the same bed, neither did they touch or talk anymore. It was too painful. All they could do, was long for each other, long for what was forbidden. The last thing Sienna said to Sam, before they decided to end it, was "Our love was not made for this world. Neither was it made for this life. Our love is eternity itself. I cannot extinguish it, and neither do I wish to do so. But I know that it does not die, just because we can't live it."

the beginning...

Diego & Briana Cortes, just moved into their new home with their children, twins Samuel and Sienna. They moved to a place up in the untrodden hills of Sunset Valley.

The twins took a lot after their mother Briana, but especially Sam had his fathers features.
The two of them spent all of their free time together, and were inseparable even in school. But whenever Sam would talk to other girls, or followed them with the eye, his twin sister would become jealous and not talk to him for a while, but he never found out what exactly made her become mad at him. Even then, as a child, she loved him more than she should have. Their parents knew, but they found it must have been some odd childish quirk again.


Sam and Sienna have been rased with a stern discipline. Diego was a high-ranked military, and Briana was working part time at a library. Both of their children had been class winners up until their teenage years, for at that time, a lot changed for the Cortes'.

Sienna and Samuel have been flirting a lot, and after Sienna confessed to him, that she had always loved him far more than she should have, Sam softened a great deal towards her. They had difficulties at dealing with this situation at first, but they simply could not have ignored their racing heartbeats when they were touching, and their dreams and fantasies about doing so. Of course they have been hiding everything from their parents, especially from their father, who would probably have separated the twins in no time.

It was on a friday evening, that they made love for the first time. They haven't officially been a couple, how could they being brother and sister. Both missed going out in the public together, and even in their own home they had to hide.

Sienna's love for Samuel probably exceeded what he felt for her, but they surely loved each other more than one could love another being. Mantaining their secret love was difficult. People began asking about their love lifes, and their parents wondered why neither of them ever brought any friends or boy- and girlfriends home.

Months and weeks passed, Sam and Sienna loved each other secretly, their parents wondered and worried, but no one ever lost a word about anything. But eventually the day came, when Sienna found out she was pregnant. She told Sam on the spot, and neither of them knew if to be happy or terrified.

However, both of them pretty soon decided to keep their child safe, no matter what.
Yes, they would have to tell their parents about everything, this surely could not be kept anymore. At the latest in nine months.


But the day eventually came, they have been wanting to tell their parents about their relationship and about what they kept from them. But Sienna suddenly decided against telling them the truth. She simply could not survived being separated from her brother, her lover, the father of her child, her Sammy. And she knew, telling her father everything, would provide this.
So she decided she'd tell him, that she was pregnant of one of her mates, and that she did not want him to know about the child. Diego and Briana were shocked, but they had a social image to mantain, and so everyone seemed to decide to keep the child from his mock father.

Nine months passed, and Sienna's pregnancy way more than obvious by now. Going to school was difficult for her, everyone knew she didn't have any previous boyfriends, or not officially, so people were talking. Sam and Sienna were still teenager, still going to high school. They had kept their love from people's eyes, and now they were chronically afraid of what the future might bring them. Yet they were happy, for they were still together.