Yo everyone. I have writers block and if figured I would try to blast it away with a new story… hopefully it works and doesn't back fire on me.
The die comes from a few places but the basic idea is kind of a mix of the Potters are alive plot with Harry has a twin and the wrong boy who lived (boy). A few stories influenced this but I can't remember, if anyone sees a similarity tell me so I can give credit where credit is due.
Strongly influenced by my ideals of balance. Not order, balance.
Chapter one: Strange
Think of the world as a coin.
There are two sides to everything and anything. Hot and cold, night and day, bright and dark, ice and fire, white and black, men and woman, the list continues and continues. Depending on what culture you are from they either complement or contrast each other.
Both are right in a sense. But some truly see what they are, they are the same whole. Without one the other couldn't and probably wouldn't exist, they need the other to hold it in place and to truly be.
Some people scorn one half and love the other. They totally reject one half and become blinded in the ideals of the other half. So blinded they do not truly understand what is in front of them, no matter how old or wise they may be.
A person is the same as any other force, filled with conflicting forces swirling and blending, mixing together to make who they really are. Some seem brighter than others, some seem darker but the brighter people aren't always the better people and the darker people may truly be the kindest people you would ever meet. But one blinded by one side can never truly see that.
One Lily potter thought of none of that as she rubbed her eight month swelled belly. Any day now she would give birth to not one but two beautiful children. She didn't know the sex of either or if they were identical. She didn't really care and wanted it to be a surprise, much to her husband's carnage.
But even with her excitement of being a mother she had to wonder if she was doing the right thing to be bringing children into the world in this time of war.
A war that made her and more importantly her babies a target. A war based solely on predigest and nothing else.
Because a few people felt that their blood made them better than other.
Right now there wasn't many loses on either side but there was plenty of fear. It was guerrilla warfare on both sides with the structured government not knowing who they really should help. By law they should be stopping the people who dubbed themselves 'Death Eaters' and many of them would help out of moral outrage but many in the higher offices sympathized with the terrorist and shared the views of the terrorist leader that many feared to even speak his name in fear of attracting his wrath. Like he was a monster from a story book, which many times he seemed to be.
Lily sometimes wondered if she should have even opened that letter when she was eleven or have listened to the little boy who was once her friend and entered this world. At first she was mesmerized and amazed at what she saw. A world many would have called her crazy to believe in or have called it a child's fantasy. A world of literal magic. Where with a wave of her wand she could do almost anything but what scared was that so could everyone else.
They could brew potions to cure near any ailment, with a swish of a wand mend bones in a matter of moments, create a charm to protect someone from burning to death but at the same time they could take away memories, invade minds, control another person and with just two words take a life. It was such a wonderful but frightening thing.
But despite the fear she had of it she loved to learn more of it, to dabble so far into it, to find to find new ways to use it and help others understand what she knew. Of course she hadn't tried anything dangerous since she found out she was pregnant but she still felt like the same little school girl when she found out something new. According to her husband James she got quite the adorable look on her face when she did find out something new.
She giggled a little as she felt one of the babies kick her hand. She knew it wasn't the place for that seeing as she was at a meeting discussing the war and a giggle probably sounded so wrong when talking about death but her mind didn't really care that she got a few stares for it.
"What is it Lils?" Lily looked over to see her husband staring at her large belly with a fascinated stare, like he couldn't truly believe what was growing inside of her.
"One of them just kicked is all."
"Really?" James said nearly shouting as he placed his hand on her belly "Do you think he'll do it again?"
"I'm not sure, and we aren't sure that either of them are a he yet."
"But there is a good chance, like a fifty fifty, that one of them is a boy so there" Lily smiled at her husband's logic before looking up and putting a sheepish look at all the looks they were getting.
"Sorry." Her voice was like a mumble but the whole room heard her, including her husband who just looked up for a moment before going back to rub his hand over Lily's pregnant belly like he was willing a reaction.
"It is quite alright." Said a grandfatherly voice at the end of the table "We were just disusing the recent quite period we have been having in the last few month, nothing of great importance."
Lily smiled at the old man. She had always liked her former head master, he always to take thing easy but knew exactly what to do. Maybe that was why everyone liked him so much, Dumbledore was like that bright light that kept all the nightmares away. The fact he looked like a more extravagant Merlin did help with that image.
Interrupting her thought was a wet sensation between her legs "James, did you spill my water?" she asked almost hopeful but she had a good idea on what just happened.
"No, why?"
"Then, my water just broke and you need to get me to St. Mungo's, NOW!"
The next few minutes seemed to be just one giant rush for her. From her husband yelling at his two friends to get the bag they prepared for the birthing and to go to the hospital to tell them that they were coming. The last thing she saw before her first contraction started was Dumbledore charming a pillow he summoned from the den to act as a portkey to take them to the hospital.
God, it hurt more than she imagined but she fought through it and listened to whoever was next to her to keep on taking deep breaths. She wasn't sure who it was now, it started as her husband but after one very long contraction it changed to who she guessed was a healer.
She pushed and pushed, doing as the healers told her and wishing that they gave her more pain killing potions.
"Oh my." That didn't sound good.
" "oh my" What?" Lily nearly growled wondering why in god's name it hurt so much. Sure she knew it was going to hurt but this was almost too much.
She didn't get an immediate answer just the hurried mumbling of the healers talking to each other. "What is going on?" Was there something wrong with her babies? Did she do something wrong? Was everything going to be okay?
"Mrs. Potter Your twins may be tangled or even conjoined. We are going to have to perform a Caesarian section to retrieve them safely."
All Lily really heard was safely and yelled at them to just do it.
Lily didn't even feel the pain any more as the doctors gave her a fresh potion to take away the pain as they cut her uterus open. The only thing she really even noticed of the world was the first sounds her babies made when they entered the world and the shocked gasp heard from the doctors as they got a look at them.
After she felt one of the attendants use their wand to mend her cut she managed to croak out her question "Is something wrong with my babies?"
"No," One of the nurses said as she cradled the babies in her arms and brought them over to their mother "We just never seen anything like it before"
Lily looked at the nurse odd as she seemed to be holding her children in one arm and held in a single blanket. Making her worry that they were conjoined and needed to go through surgery but what she saw when the nurse placed the gently in her arms blasted that out of her mind.
While not conjoined it seemed the children may have preferred it that way. The two were hugging and snuggling into each other, squirming slightly in her arms to get comfortable with the other.
She had never seen a more beautiful thing in her life than watching her two children.
It was immediately obvious that they were fraternal twins. The one on the right was a beautiful baby boy with a bit of black fuzz on the top of his head that screamed that it would be just like his father's messy mop of hair. Just by looking at him she knew he was going to take after his father in the looks department, which disappointed her a bit since she wanted a bit of herself to be on her baby.
On the left cuddling into her brother was a little girl with little strands of red hair that she could already tell was going to be darker than hers. She wasn't sure but she felt that she was going to grow up looking a lot like her mom, something that she was happy about but again she wanted her children to be a mix of both their parents. Not that it mattered, they were both perfect in her eyes.
"Lily?" said woman looked up to see her husband staring at her as he entered the room. She had just noticed that she was the only person in the room save her babies.
"Hey James, come meet your children." Lily said in a tired voice, inviting the man to join her.
Said man slowly made his way to sit next to his wife and stared down at the two cuddling babies in her arms. "Wow, Lils, they're beautiful."
"Yeah." She said fondly looking from him to the children in her arms. "Do you want to hold them?"
"Yeah, um, which one should I pick up?"
"I… I'm not really sure. They were like this when they took them out of me. Just pick one up"
"Is it safe for us to separate them?"
"It should be, they said they weren't conjoined."
James gave her a small nod as he reached down and started to pick up the little girl, only to pause as his hazel eyes met a pair of bright green that didn't belong to his wife. "Wow, just wow, he has your eyes Lily."
Lily looked down and confirmed what her husband said, she let out a satisfied smile seeing both set of babies' eyes opened and examine the world around them "And she has yours."
"Really" James said excitedly looking at the newborn baby girl in his arms. She indeed had his eyes, a bit darker but still his eyes and they looked to be watering up. Looking at her he saw her little hands making a grabby motion towards her brother who was doing a similar gesture but seemed a little more angry over the change in position. "Uh-oh"
"What?" Was all she got out before the two babies started to cry.
There's chapter one hope you enjoyed.
