After a two-day stay in hospital, to ensure both Lily and the twins were ok, James brought Lily and the twins home, and by home well, I mean Manson. James and Lily originally lived in the in the East Wing of Potter Manor, while James' parents lived in the West Wing. However, with the twins being born James' had moved his parents, Charlus and Dorea Potter, into the grandparents' suite on the third floor, moved himself and Lily into the East Wing and set up rooms for the twins in the East Wing.

The twins' rooms were set up next to each other with an adjoining door. Their rooms had their names printed on the doors. Inside the rooms there was the bedroom and three doors on the opposite wall to the adjoining doors. The first lead to a 10ft by 5ft walk in closet, the second lead to a ensuite bathroom complete with a small pool for a bath tub, the third and final door lead to a play room for the individual child to play in if she wished to play alone. The rooms were painted white as James and Lily were unaware of the gender of the twins. So as they set them down in their cribs for the night, Ivy first then Holly, James and Lily left their sleeping babes, feeling content. To their own room that was across the hall.

However, they had a shock when they returned in the morning. Ivy's room was pained Gryffindor red with Gryffindor gold accents and carpets, while Holly's room was a mixture of all the house colours evenly, she had one wall, Gryffindor red with gold lions, one Slytherin green with silver snakes, one Ravenclaw blue with bronze eagles and the final was slightly backwards as the wall was black and the badgers were Hufflepuff yellow, while her floor and doors were the colour of Hogwarts stone and wood respectively.

Now James new the legend, and had explained it to Lily, that after a child's first night in their nursery the parents woke up to fine the room painted the colour of the child's Hogwarts house, but never had a parent come in to find the room painted the colour of more than two house and they were very rare if at all countable as they still had more of one colour than another. This was how families could say they were generational of one house.

James and Lily did not know what to make of Holly's room colours as it was almost unheard of having that many colours all so evenly covering the space of their eldest room. "James this is exceptionally weird! How can it be so many colours?" Lily whisper as she was too shocked to talk much louder. "I have no idea Lily. This has never been seen before." And mentally decided to have a chat with his parents.


That evening after the twins were put to bed.

"Mum, Dad, are you in here?" James called to his parents, while knocking on the door to the grandparent's suite.

"Yes James dear, come in the doors open" James' mum, Dorea, shouted back to him.

James and Lily entered the room looking slightly nervous. "Hi Mum, Dad, um… you know how the colours of children's rooms tend to show their future house for the first day and then return to the colour they were before?" James mentioned to his parents.

"James why would you mention that, is something wrong with the twins? Did the walls stay white?" His mother asked slightly scared.

"No mum, Ivy's showed up in Gryffindor colours…"

"Oh that's lovely James." His mother exclaimed happily "They'll be in the family house!"

"Mum, we're not exactly sure both the twins will be in Gryffindor, because… well because… um" James began to stammer

"Because Holly's walls were all the house colours, with their emblems painted on too." Lily supplied when her husband couldn't.

"What were her floors like?" James' father asked almost scared his grandchild would get sorted into the snake pit.

"They were wooden father, like all her doors were." James responded almost scared at what his father was planning.

"I hate to tell you James both yours and Sirius' were Slytherin green doors and a silver carpet." James' dad supplied.

"Hahahaha. Good joke dad." James responded.

"It's no Joke James, but it's only a legend, I'm sure it doesn't happen to muggle-borns. Does it Lily?" Dorea questioned Lily, i.e. demanded an answer.

"Not as far as I am aware Dorea." Lily responded because she had never thought to ask her parents had something like this happened to her room, on her first night in it, while James just sat there shocked.

"Well then it's settled as a fluke accident, we should only worry if it is still like that in the morning." Dorea ended the conversation and James and Lily got up to leave.

"Goodnight Dorea, Goodnight Charlus" Lily called as she pulled James out of their suite.

"Night Lily, Night James" His mother called back at him.


The next morning in door way joining Holly's and Ivy's room.

"James should we be worried now?" Lily asked as she looked around their eldest room.

"No Lily we shouldn't. Let's Just try to forget about this weird situation and spend time playing with our daughters." James said although he could see the worry etched across his wife's brow, he was also worried himself about what this would mean when his daughter got to Hogwarts and whether she would be able to go at all. "Maybe we should bind their house elves, hey." He mentioned to try and distract her and apparently it worked.

"James, I told you I don't mind them being bound to the Manor but I am not having them bound to our children!" Lily was almost screaming by the end of it, which cause Ivy to begin crying, while Holly just looked curious as to why her mother was shouting and her sister wailing.

"Lily love, its tradition, all pureblood families do it. Come on dear please?" James said while trying to calm Ivy down, not noticing that Holly was not crying.

"James… Holly isn't crying… like at all…" Lily whispered

"What do you mean she isn't crying?" James said as he turned around to look at his eldest child. "Why isn't she crying… she's just staring at us like we're the ones doing something odd? She should be crying."

"I've noticed she doesn't like the attention as much as Ivy does." Lily mentioned while thinking of reasons that would mean that Holly didn't cry. Lily was also pondering a way to get around the house elf situation. "James what if we bound the house elves to a bracelet that only you me or the twins can remove instead of actually binding them to the twins?" this was the solution that she had managed to come up with in the last few minutes.

"That may work as the elves would still be attached to the girls but we could also stop them having access to them if they are bad." James thought for a moment. "Let's as the elves if they are willing to do that. Apple! Ashton! Bianca! Birch!"

CRACK! Was heard loudly into the room as the four elves in question popped into the room. "You called us Master James?" Apple asked wondering if they were in trouble.

"Yes I did Apple. Now I know I said you were going to be bound to the twins but there is a minor problem with that plan as Lily doesn't want you to be bound to the girls..." James was interrupted by the cries of Ashton who was under the impression that they were now going to be sacked at they would not be needed.

"Whats… we done… wrong Master James… we didn't… mean to be bad elves…" Ashton choked out.

"Ashton, you've done nothing wrong, I just don't want the girls to be able to call you when they are in trouble or grounded to get the things they want. We were hoping you would agree to a partial bond through the form of a bracelet so they can't over work you." Lily responded while gathering the elf up and giving him a hug.

"Oh, I's sorry Mistress, I's is miss understanding what Master James was saying." Ashton said once he had stopped crying.

"It's ok, now how do you all feel about the idea? Hm?" Lily asked speaking quietly as to not startle the poor elf.

"That would be wonderful Mistress, most pureblood children do miss use their elves." Birch happily accepted the offer for all four elves.

After hearing that the elves were happy with the idea James pulled out two bracelets that held both girls' names. Holly's was black with gold and silver accents, while Ivy's was silver with gold and red accents. James then bound Apple and Ashton to Holly and the bracelet while Lily held her. Once the two elves were bound they bowed to their Master and Mistress as well as to their little Miss and disapparated from the room with a CRACK. When James placed the bracelet on Holly she just looked at it like it was the first thing she had ever seen, which was both true and untrue.

James then did the same to Ivy and her bracelet with Bianca and Birch, but once James started chanting Ivy started crying even though she was already in her mother's arms.

"She's gonna be a handful for us Lily." James said over his youngest wailing. Lily just huffed and went back to trying to get Ivy to stop crying.

CRACK "Master there is an old man downstairs demanding to see you Mistress and the children immediately." An elf named Dexter informed them.

"Please, tell them we will be down shortly, Dexter." James told the elf who disappeared with another CRACK. "Must be Dumbledore, wonder what he wants?"

"Well then James, pick up Holly and let's go see."


Once downstairs James and Lily greeted Dumbledore, as James suspected.

"I am dreadfully sorry to be here today Mr and Mrs Potter but I come baring life changing new for you and your children." Dumbledore informed them once they were sat inside one of the parlours.

"What's the matter Professor?" Lily asked thinking the only bad news he could have was that he needed one of them on the front line, or maybe both of them.

"Lily, James, Last night during an interview for the divination post at Hogwarts, the woman I was interviewing started to speak in a raspy voice, one that is associated with prophecies. She mentioned how a child born at the end of July this year that would defeat the Dark Lord in the future, but he would mark them as his equal. There are only three children born at the end of July and two of them are in this room." Dumbledore explained.

"… NO! … Why us James… He's going to come for our babies… What are we to do?" Lily said through her tears while struggling for breath.

"We'll hide Lily… He'll never find us… We'll stay there forever if we have to." James tried to stop his wife crying so much as she just set Ivy off. The strange thing was that Holly was still not crying and looked as if she was trying to find a way around the prophecy.


Ten minutes later

The shock finally wore of James and Lily as they realised the severity of the situation they are in. And they realised that life was never going to be the way they thought it would be for their twins.

"James, how are we going to hide from Voldemort? Even the most powerful charms and spells will keep him out for ever." Lily said practical as ever.

Without realising Dumbledore was still there James suggested "We could use the fiedlus charm to protect a new property no-one knew we owned... At least I think that would work, right?" James aimed the question at Lily but Dumbledore answered.

Dumbledore said "That is a splendid idea James and may actually work, as long as you choose someone responsible and unbreakable for your secret keeper."

"Sorry Professor, I didn't realise you were still here." Lily said once she had registered who spoke. "Do you really think the fiedlus charm would work on someone so intent on killing our children?"

Dumbledore thought for a moment before replying "It may not stop him permanently, but it is the best option we have Mrs Potter."

"Ok then," Lily said her brain propelling into overdrive to figure out the best way for this to work. "We need a new house, a person we trust with our children's lives and someone to cast the spell for us… that's all the basics I think."

"I would like to volunteer myself to be your caster." Dumbledore informed the young couple. "However, may I recommend you choose someone who would rather die than reveal your secret, might I suggest one of the children's godparent?"

James replied instantly saying "That's a great idea Professor, can we get back to you on the finer details before we tell you something that isn't true."

"Fair enough James, my boy, just send me a patronus of where to meet once you have everything ironed out. I must be leaving however; I still have to visit the Longbottom's before the end of the day. And that could take a while as Alice is harder to calm down."

"Bye professor" James and Lily called to him.


Wolf Out x