A/N: Please R&R. Sorry longest chapter so far! WARNINGS: Childbirth. Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Blessed Be J.K.

Due Date

June

Forty Weeks

It was the wee hours of the morning and Lavender Brown woke suddenly in the night. She looked around drowsily, trying to determine what had woken her. She looked to her right and saw Hermione Granger fast asleep in her bed across the dorm and to her left; Parvati Patil was snoring on the pillow next to her. The girls had agreed to share a bed to make room for the cribs. They had grown as equally close as Harry and Ron had. Lavender shifted in her bed and noticed a warm wet patch underneath her. She sat up horrified and turned to Parvati.

"Parvati!" she hissed, poking her friend. Parvati grumbled in her sleep. "Parvati…wake up!" Hermione stirred across the room.

"Whas' the problem?…" Parvati mumbled.

"I think I pee'd the bed" at this Parvati sat up and shot out of bed.

"What do you mean you pee'd the bed!?" she practically yelled. If Hermione wasn't awake before, she sure was now.

"What? It's after one in the morning! What's the matter?" She asked grumpily through the darkness. Hermione climbed out of bed and the girls lit the candles. Lavender threw her blankets back and sure enough there was a large wet patch staining the sheets.

"Does it smell like pee?" Hermione asked matter-of-factly. Lavender looked at her as if she had lost her marbles. "Well if it's not pee then its amniotic fluid."

"WHAT!?" she said alarmed.

"Your 'waters' may have broken; it's an early sign of labour" Hermione informed the panicking teenager. "It's all right, we have been preparing for this" she reminded her. "But we best get down to the hospital wing"

"Parvati, will you help Lavender put on some dry clothes? I will pack her 'go bag'." Hermione delegated. The 'go bag' was a back pack with the things Lavender and her babies would need for a short stay in the hospital wing. A few changes of clothes for her and the twins, nappies, wipes, bottles, teddy bears etcetera.

Once they were dressed and ready the girls started making their way down the staircase, across the common rooms and out the portrait hole. The fat lady, snorted indignantly at the three, she didn't appreciate beginning woken, in the middle of the night. They ignored her protests and carried on through the quiet castle. Just as they entered the ward, Lavender felt the first tightening in her stomach. She let out a wail and stopped dead in the doorway. Madame Pomfrey was with them in a flash.

"Come now dear. Let us get you into a bed, so I can assess you." She waited a moment more until the contraction passed and Lavender could stand, then lend her to the nearness cot, where she collapsed on her side.

"I don't want to do this any more! Why couldn't we have C-sections like the boys" she whinged unhappily at the medi-nurse.

"Lavender dear, please lay on your back and remove your pants I need to examine you" While Lavender did this, complaining the whole time, Madame Pomfrey explained. "The reason I would prefer you to deliver your babies naturally, is because it's safer for baby and mother" Lavender whinged from more. "Alright girls, tell me what happen"

"Her waters broke about fifteen minutes ago" Hermione said promptly looking at her watch.

"She didn't hurt until we got here" Parvati said looking worried.

"Okay that was the first contraction?" She asked taking note. The girls nodded.

"Alright, girls, find a cot. You might be here a while, I suggest you try getting a little more sleep." Madame Pomfrey ordered, ushering them away from Lavender's bed and pulling the privacy curtain around. Parvati and Hermione reluctantly climbed into a bed each and listen as the medi-nurse exclaimed their friend. Lavender gasped in pain.

"I'm sorry dear, I'll only be a moment." Poppy soothed her. "Right!" they heard the snap of an examination glove being removed. Then she was pulling back to curtain.

"You're just about one and half centimetres dilated. Get some sleep girls, the baby is in no hurry yet. I'll come and check on you, in a little while." She told them all. Lavender looked almost relieved. The girls snuggled down under their blankets and tried to sleep.

Healer Tugwood had been given accommodation at Hogwarts until after the birth of the last of the 'Hogwarts Babies' as they had been dubbed. So when Madame Pomfrey returned about fifteen minutes later the Healer was with her, wearing her dressing gown, her hair was still in rollers and she still wore a night cap. She checked Lavender over too and asked her lots of questions.

"And the contractions have become more regular?" Lavender nodded and moaned, biting her lip.

"Wonderful" said the Healer Tugwood and Lavender glared at her. "It means your progressing as you should be and it will all be over with sooner" this brought relief and a little determination into the girl's face.

"You're moving along quite quickly considering it's your first pregnancy. I believe that will have something to do with the magical nature of your conception." Tugwood commented. "You're at five centimetres, so half way there. Not long now dear, get some more rest while you can" She ordered kindly.

The girls managed to get about an hours sleep, before Lavender could stand the pain no longer and insisted she be checked again. During this time Lavender's parents arrived at Hogwarts.

"Do you feel the need to push? Pressure in your bum?" Madame Pomfrey asked bringing her some more pillows to prop her up.

"Ah ha" was all Lavender could say, wincing with pain and nodding.

"Good, when you feel the next contraction coming, I need you to start pushing, right down into your bum, as hard as you can, for as long as you can"

"Okay" She squeaked sounding more like the fourteen year old teenager that she was, then a women giving birth to twins. "MUM!" She moaned and the older women moved her chair closer to the bed, taking her hand.

"Is it coming dear? Are you ready to push? I know you can do it!" Leila Brown reassured her. Lavender squeezed her hand tightly and started to push.

"Baby's crowning!" Healer Tugwood said from under the sheet. Lavender stopped pushing took a deep breath and started swearing like a sailor. The adults looked at her with some surprise. Hermione and Parvati who were sitting at a safe distance on cots across the hall, giggled at her foul language. This process, of pushing then swearing like a trooper, continued until; at last, she gave once huge heave and Healer Tugwood lifted a small squealing infant up to show Lavender what she had done.

"It's a girl!" Mrs. Brown announced proudly. Robin Brown was standing at a distance, he looked a little queasy.

"Mum…I'm going to call her Leila" Lavender was crying now, with happiness and discomfort. While the baby girl's cord was cut and she was being cleaned and wrapped Lavender felt the urge to push again and started breathing deeply.

"Well done dearie, but we still have to get this boy out." Madame Pomfrey reminded them. Lavender shifted uncomfortable and taking a deep breath began pushing again.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, breathe" her mother helped her count. Again Lavender preferred to swear rather than rest. Taking another huge shaky breath, she pushed again. Two or three more times like this and Tugwood, pulled a screaming baby boy up and placed him on Lavenders chest.

"Robin" she whispered his name and her mother cried with joy and kissed her daughter, grandbabies and husband repeatedly. Hermione and Parvati were allowed to come over and hold the twins shorty after.

"I love my babies, but I'm never doing that again!" Lavender told her friends very seriously, they looked nervously at each other.

"They are so sweet! I know that was painful, Lavender. But I really want my babies to come today too." She told her best friend honestly. The group of students, healers and guests, all found a place to sleep for a few more hours, somewhat disrupted by the new-borns, of course.

When the sun had fully risen and Lavender was relaxing and would spend the rest of the day nursing and caring for her twins and spending time with the proud grandparents in the hospital wing, Hermione and Parvati had hatched a plan to kick-start their own labours. Hermione had been to the library and hired out as many books about natural remedies as she could find, without going into the restricted section. They tried everything they could think of from evening primrose oil and red raspberry leaf tea. Eating everything from pineapple to dates to spicy curry. The tried having hot and cold showers, they tried walking up and down all the stairs and around the grounds of Hogwarts. They thought about trying castor oil, but as it caused diarrhoea, they decided against it. The girls blushed and dismissed the advice that Madame Pomfrey gave them; that an orgasm and/or nipple stimulation could encourage the womb to begin contractions but she warned that latter had been known to cause long painful contractions. They tried massage and meditation and when that didn't work; Hermione had ended up threatened to curse, Seamus and Dean and Parvati smacked them around the ears, when they offer to 'assist them'. Hermione and Parvati had tried everything they could think of shy of losing their virginity, so as a last resort; that night they decided to wear their best dress-robes to bed, because Murphy's Law would state, that their 'waters' would break and ruin them, but they just ended up hot and uncomfortable and removed them soon after they had climbed into their beds.

However they must have done something right, because they had been in bed no longer than an hour, when Parvati woke with a shout that started Hermione awake. She was having pains in her stomach, so the girls hightailed it down to sickbay. Lavender was awake, feeding her son, when they walked in, she was delighted to see them.

"Hurts. Doesn't it?" she asked with a knowing expression on her face. The Healers had Parvati in a bed and examined before they knew it. Parvati was in labour, but her waters had not yet broken. After this was done manually, her labour progress so quickly after that she almost delivered her first baby without assistance.

"AH…Healer, the head is already out!" Hermione had yelled and the adults had come running.

"Wonderful Parvati, you're doing great. Now just bear down during the next contraction and we'll get those shoulders out" Parvati let rip a terrible war cry and pushed down as hard as she could. Healer Tugwood, assisted in bringing a beautiful baby girl onto the bed in between Parvati's legs.

"Well done. You have a daughter." Tugwood congratulated her, she quickly snipped her cord and handed the infant to Madame Pomfrey. "Now, if you want this boy to be born on the same day as his sister, you will have to deliver him as fast as your daughter, it nearly midnight." Parvati nodded, but when after ten minutes, she still felt no urge to push, they became concerned. Healer Tugwood, upon examination, discovered the baby was breach.

"If we cannot, get him turned around we will have to go into surgery." Parvati looked panicked. "I'm sorry, dear but I have to warn you, turning the baby manually is very painful, I won't lie and you scream as loudly as you want." Parvati burst into tears.

"I want my mummy!" she wailed.

"I'm sorry Parvati, your labour progressed very fast we have not had a chance to contact her. Hermione, be a dear and get Suri Patel here." She asked turning to the worried Gryffindor.

"Of course" Hermione nodded and walked as briskly as her nine month pregnant belly would allow. It was more of a fast waddle.

"Lavender, are you able to come hold her hand. She is going to need it." She turned to the young mother across the ward. She nodded and quickly put her son back in his crib and joined her best friend at her bedside. Healer Tugwood positioned herself over her belly and looked her in the eyes.

"Are you ready, girl?" She asked in a very serious voice. She wasn't kidding it was going to hurt. Parvati shook her head fanatically. Lavender released her hand and took hold of both sides of her face, placing their foreheads together.

"You have to do this, Parvati!"

"Do it!" the other girl gasped. Tugwood took her at her word, and began pushing hard on her stomach. First from the bottom, above her pubic bone, then at the side. Parvati didn't remember anything but the pain after those movements. She let out one blood curtailing scream, after another. Lavender tried her hold her still, while she thrashed and cried out. Once it was over, she lay limb and cried.

"I'm sorry…" Healer Tugwood was choking back tears at having to do this relatively common procedure, on such a young, much unprepared teenager. "…I believe his head is down now, but do you feel the urge again?" Parvati just nodded and wept.

"Good girl, come on now, push him out now, you did so well with your daughter, you can do this in no time" she said encouragingly. Still crying uncontrollable, Parvati managed to pull herself up into a better position. Lavender helped her hold her legs up, while she started pushing on the next contraction of her womb and in just two pushes, Parvati's son took his first breath.

"You did it Parvati!" Lavender cried her own tears of joy. She hugged and kissed her traumatised friend, just as Hermione returned with Mrs. Patil and Parvati's twin sister Padma.

"I will named them for my parents, just as you have" Parvati managed to say in between sobs.

Over the next couple of days, the rest of the Gryffindor's found the time, while juggling new-borns of their own and end of year classes, to visit the new additions to the group. When they had everyone in the room at one time, they could perform the paternity spell on the babies. Parvati and Lavender were stoaked to find out that both; Lavender's son, Robin, named after Mr. Brown and Albus, for the Headmaster of the school and Parvati's daughter Suri, named for Mrs. Patil and Padma for her aunty, second parents were each other. But the group was very surprised when only Professor Snape's daughter Eileen had lit up with Parvati's son, Jaiveer named for Mr. Patil and Ekodar because it means brother and Lavender's daughter, Leila for Mrs. Brown and Sybil for Lavender's favourite professor, Sybil Talawney. This showed they shared blood, meaning Professor Snape, who was not in the room but had become a father again, gaining a another daughter and a rather dark skinned son. The girls didn't know whether to be delighted or horrified. Only time would tell.

A/N: Please remember to review! What did you think? Do you like the names? Born in this chapter; Robin Albus Brown; Son of Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil was born on 9th June 1995 at 40 weeks, vaginally at 2.45am, 6 Pounds, 3 Ounces. Leila Sybil Brown; daughter of Lavender Brown and Severus Snape, was born on 9th June 1995 at 40 weeks, vaginally at 2.38am, 7 Pounds 6 Ounces. Suri Padma Patil; daughter of Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown, was born on 9th of June 1995 at 40 weeks, vaginally at 11.57pm, 6 pound 5 Ounces. Jaiveer Ekodar Patil; son of Parvati Patil and Severus Snape, was born on 10th of June 1995 at 40 weeks, vaginally at 12.22am, 6 pounds 3 ounces.