31st July 1990
Harry's eyes flickered open, he was lying on his side in the large bed, golden sheets over his body, he turned to face the bedside table, he reached out and took his glasses, he slipped them onto his face, he turned back over when he felt warm hands around his waist pull him back. He turned and found himself in the arms of a sleeping and very naked Susan, she buried her head in his torso, her tail around his legs, though chronologically she was only ten years old like they were today her actual body was thirteen, well her true body was, her human one was synced to that of the twins, their physical bodies eleven in age and in perfect health thanks to their bond four years prior, they would have aged further but thanks to the treatment they'd sustained at the Dursleys and through the bond Susan's human form was locked to theirs(1). The scar that had once being so clear upon his and Raven's foreheads were now faded and hardly noticeable since the Horcrux had been removed.
His gaze lingered on the sleeping face of his mate. Pure innocence etched into her features, his gaze began to drop down to her chest or what he could see of it as she clung to him, while not even close to being fully developed she was starting to blossom, his cheeks burned with embarrassment. A cute giggle reached his ears; he glanced up to see Raven hugging Susan from behind, looking at her brother with an amused expression.
"Embarrassed brother?" Raven teased, her stutter had dramatically improved over the years though she would still occasionally slip back into her old habits it wasn't nearly as bad as it had once being.
Harry sent her a mock glare in response, Raven released another giggle, the sound like music to Harry's ears, after all those years of abuse and only hearing his sister cry herself to sleep every night, hardly ever smiling and stuttering every other word, her laughter seemed almost magical. Harry's glare dissolved on itself and a small smile graced Harry's lips though his blush never dimmed but neither did it intensify, he glanced down at the sleeping redhead before back at his sister.
"You think we should wake her up?" Harry proposed with a shark-like grin, Raven imitated the smirk.
"What did you have in mind?" She asked.
"Oh nothing cruel, maybe a bucket of ice over her body or perhaps an indoor cloudburst? What do you think?" Harry proposed.
"I like the first one." Raven answered "After all, I'd rather not get the bed soaked." She continued.
"Bucket of ice it is then." Harry said, he turned and reached into the draw beneath the table his glasses was on, upon opening it he found his wands, he took out one and with a single flick of his wrist the covers shot off of them, Raven's eyes shot wide, she brought her legs up to her chest, lightly shivering at the sudden drop in temperature.
"Err Raven?" Harry began, Raven turned and sent Harry a small glare "Why are you naked?" He continued, raising an eyebrow, his blush deepening at seeing his sister naked.
"Well since Susan seems to like it so much I thought I'd give it a try and I've got to admit that last night was the best night sleep I've ever had." Raven admitted, her smile returning despite her sudden chill of losing her covers.
"Uhuh." Harry muttered, he flicked his wand once again and conjured two buckets, both hovering above the sleeping Lamia, filled to the top with ice, with another flick of his wrist the buckets turned and dropped their contents on the sleeping, nude, Lamia.
Susan's eyes shot open, she released her hold on Harry, sitting upright, her tail coiling beneath her as she began rubbing her arms, trying to warm up as ice fell about the bed, her teeth lightly chattering. Her gaze shot round at her mates.
"What ya do that for?" Susan yelled, about to go onto a rant only to be stopped when Raven pressed her warm lips against hers, it was a simple peck on the lips but it did the trick. They parted, Raven smirked when she saw Susan's cheeks burning redder than her hair.
"We just wanted to wake you up so we could enjoy your company more." Raven said in an innocent tone as she began to hug the redhead, inwardly smirking as she used her hormones against her (2).
The door opened, silently, none of the trio noticed. Lily stepped into the room, slowly closing the door and just as silently as she had opened it, she began to approach the trio, frowning as she took in the sight of a naked Raven and Susan hugging each other, Susan blushing, while Harry watched. She raised an eyebrow, stopping when she reached the bed; she extended her hand and placed it on Harry's shoulder.
"Ayahh." Harry yelped, reflexively bouncing on the mattress, turning and falling on his back in a single motion, his eyes wide, his heart pounding from the shock his mother had given him. Lily just stood there looking over them with a calm expression, Raven and Susan quickly separated, both blushing a deep red.
"Good morning you three." Lily greeted.
"Err…morning mum." Harry greeted nervously.
"Morning mummy." Raven said in an innocent tone.
"Morning Aunt Lily…we weren't doing anything." Susan stammered, Lily light hummed.
"I bet you weren't." Lily responded, placing her hands on her hips and leaning forward, unaware of how her breasts hung loosely, her shirt giving them a pretty good view of her breasts as they lightly shuck from the movement, Susan's blush deepened as did Raven's, Harry's resurrecting with new vigour.
"But we weren't…we were just waking Susan up." Raven argued.
"Oh, so is that what you kids call it now a day's?" Lily responded, their blushes deepened, she stood back upright "Anyway, get up you three, get dressed and meet us in the dining room and if you take too long I'm going to come back up here and drag you down by your ears and none of you will be getting any cake." She threatened before turning to take her leave, opening the door, she glanced back.
"Happy Birthday." Lily said as she gave them a warm smile.
As soon as the door closed the twins slid out of bed and headed to the wardrobe to get dressed, Susan got out of the bed, dropping to her knees she reached under the bed and pulled out a green dress that she had placed there before she got into bed with her mates.
"Mama what'ssss going onnnn?" Hissed Eleena as she slithered out from beneath the bed having decided to sleep there the night before, over the past two years she had grown a total of one point three inches (3). She slithered over to Raven's feet, looking up at her 'mother'/ mistress.
"It's mine and Harry's birthday again." Raven hissed back, a large grin on her face as she slipped on a black dress, neglecting to put any under garments on like her mate, Harry though did where under clothing, he slipped on a pair of light blue jeans and a black sleeveless shirt.
'Must be a girl thing.' Harry inwardly remarked as he rolled his eyes.
Harry turned to see Raven twirling in her dress, letting it rise just short of her crotch as she enjoyed the breeze she generated, enjoying the free feeling the lack of undergarments and skirt provided her, Eleena lightly curled around her neck as she had taken to doing soon after she hatched. Susan was sat on the bed in her dress, simply watching as Raven played with her dress.
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In the dining room Lily sat between Amelia and Sirius in their usual seats, Nymphadora sat opposite of Sirius having arrived early that morning when her parents went out for their anniversary and rather than stay home alone bored out of her mind until the arranged time she called ahead and received permission to come early.
The door opened, everyone turned to see the trio enter the dining room, their eyes widening, smiles breaking out when they saw Nymphadora sat at the table, the charged towards to the table, Harry and Raven taking seats on either side of her, Raven sitting opposite Lily and Susan took a seat beside Raven and opposite her aunt.
"Nymphadora you're here!" Raven greeted, hugging the left arm of the seventeen year old.
"You're early." Harry stated, a small smile on his face as he placed his hand on top of hers, resting on the side of her chair.
"Yeah, mum and dad left for their anniversary day out and Aunt Lily and Amelia were kind enough to let me come over early. "Nymphadora greeted "Happy birthday." She continued.
"Thank you." Raven replied.
"Thanks." Harry said.
"Okay, now that everyone's here why don't we have our breakfast and then we can move into the living room for presents." Lily said, the twins' smiles grew as they heard what their mother said, with a wave of her wand the meals teleported from the kitchen to the table, stacks of pancakes for the kids and Nymphadora, a bottle of blood for Lily and sausage and egg for Sirius and Amelia, Lily lightly sipped at her blood as she watched her children eat.
'Their tenth birthday…I'll have to take them hunting soon…they're growing up so fast' She inwardly sighed.
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Soon the small group were in the living room sat upon the sofas with Raven and Harry sat on the new red rug in front of the roaring fire. Since Nymphadora usually used the floo method of travel Amelia was eventually forced to purchase a rug for her to land on to be on the safe side. Susan was the only one absent from the room; after she finished breakfast she vanished and had yet to return.
"So shall we start with the presents?" Sirius proposed.
"Shouldn't we wait for Susan?" Raven objected, lightly picking at the fibres of the rug, Lily couldn't help but smile at that, the small sign of maturity warmed Lily's still heart, she was so proud of her daughter just from her simple gesture.
The door opened, everyone turned to see Susan enter, a silver platter in her hand with a chocolate cake upon it, scoops of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream forming a ring on the top of the cake with eleven blue and pink candles in its centre.
"Happy birthday." Susan said warmly as she placed the cake in front of her mates (4).
"Thank you Susan." Raven replied as she slid closer to the still crouching redhead and gave her a peck on the cheek, Susan's cheeks flushed red.
"Yeah, thanks." Harry said as he gave her a kind smile, the twins turned to the cake, taking in a deep breath before blowing out the candles.
"Did you bake that yourself Susan?" Amelia asked as she arched her eyebrows, admiring how fast her niece's culinary skills had developed.
"Well Teesy helped a little." Susan admitted.
"So she stopped you from slipping in a love potion." Amelia teased, Susan cheeks burned red as her eyes widened slightly, the adults began to lightly chuckle, more so from the redheaded Lamia's reaction than the actual comment.
"Like she needs to add such a thing." Raven objected as she pushed Susan onto her behind from her crouching position and sat in her lap, bringing her arms around Susan's neck before leaning in and kissing her on the lips, a quick peck, when they parted Susan quickly responded by giving Raven a kiss on her lips.
"Hmm, indeed, perhaps it was a lust potion." Sirius remarked, this had Amelia and Sirius bursting with laughter, Raven blushed, Lily's eyes narrowed at the very idea, Harry blushed much like his sister and Susan grew a contemplative expression as she pursed her lips, placing her index finger upon it.
"Perhaps we should move on." Lily stated, eager to move from the current topic of discussion which was quickly heading to, if not already there, her prepubescent children's sex lives. Sirius began to nervously sweat, recognising Lily's warning tone as the one she used with James and the rest of the marauders when they were bordering a certain line that shouldn't be crossed, he'd been hearing it more and more since he was released from Azkaban.
"Presents?" Sirius suggested, hoping to avoid being hexed by the redheaded vampiress, Lily sent him a nod. Sirius turned back to the twins, one of which was still sat in Susan's lap and was even resting her head against her chest, Sirius dip his hand down and behind his chair before retracting it to reveal one large gift wrapped in black wrapping paper with golden spirals upon it.
"Happy birthday you two." He said as he handed it to them. Harry moved the cake to the coffee table and positioned the gift between himself and his sister, they were used to getting gifts to share, not that they minded it. They both tore open the wrapping paper to reveal a small pile of books; three tomes; each on battle spells.
"Thank you Uncle Sirius." Harry and Raven said as one, large grins upon their faces.
"Battle spells?" Lily questioned.
"They'll be going to Hogwarts soon and I don't trust Dumbledore will make it a relaxing experience." Sirius answered, Lily wasn't too fond of the idea of her children learning to fight but she knew it was inevitable and Sirius did make some rather good points on Dumbledore, all she could do was let out a small sigh as the giving of gifts continued.
Amelia was next, with a wave of her wand two long objects, wrapped in grey paper and string shot through the door to the living room, stopping in front of the twins.
"This is from both your mother and I." Amelia said, the twins tore the paper from their gifts, Raven began bouncing in Susan's lap with joy as her gaze landed on her new broom, her very own Nimbus 2000. Harry's eyes were wide, he lightly stroke the broom, the top of the range model, it wasn't even supposed to be released until next year.
"How'd you get it?" Harry gasped out.
"You're Aunt Amelia has some powerful contacts and a little money never hurt, with our combined efforts it was easy to get a couple of brooms before the official release date." Lily replied, a warm feeling spreading about her body as she watched the reaction of her children to their gifts.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" The twins chanted.
"Me next!" Nymphadora declared as she handed the twins too boxes, one bink with a bow, a darker shade of pink, binding it, the other black in colour with a blue ribbon, the two opened the boxes to see a variety of chocolates.
"Transformation chocolates!" The two declared as one with smirks adorning their faces, Sirius and Amelia paled, Lily couldn't help but smirk, the last time Nymphadora had bought them those chocolates the twins had crushed a couple of them and added them to Sirius and Amelia's desserts, they turned Sirius into woman and Amelia into kitten, it took a month for the transformation to where off, Sirius hadn't being too disappointed with his form, until that certain time came, oh Lily enjoyed that, watching Sirius suffer his monthly. Oh and Amelia had been so cute, with cat instincts, she so loved being scratched behind the year, oh did Lily enjoy teasing her about that after the month was up.
"Please remind me why I let you and your mother back into the house of Black?" Sirius muttered.
"Thanks Nymphadora." Raven started.
"You're the best." Harry finished.
"I know." Nymphadora responded smugly, not even bothering to object to the use of her name, it was very clear that the twins were never going to stop using it.
"Well there is one more gift." Lily said, seeing the twins about to move onto asking for a slice of cake thinking the presents were done, they turned to her with wide eyes and giddy expressions, Raven started bouncing again, not that Susan minded too much.
Lily summoned two packages, one wrapped in light green wrapping paper and the other in silver paper, they floated over to the twins, they shredded the paper to reveal a book on Legilimency and Occlumency, they looked of her with looks of excitement.
"That's right, I'm going to start teaching you two on Legilimency and Occlumency." Lily said, Harry and Riven looked about to burst with excitement about learning about such advanced and high level subjects.
"Yes." The two cheered as they high fived one another, the sudden motion catching Susan off guard and causing her to fall back with Raven remaining atop of her, now scrawled over her, her arms around Susan with her knee inches from Susan's crotch, her both their dresses riding up from the fall and there position, their faces burned crimson with embarrassment.
A/N Well there's going to be another time jump chapter, but the next one will include the hunt, can't believe how long this chapter got with such a simple event though, oh well, hope you all liked the update and it wasn't too dry, open to suggestions and please review.
Considering bringing Nymphadora into the harem, suggestions.
Poll on my profile for if Lily should be in the harem or not, no guarantee regardless of results, just want to check the interest of it and opinion of readers, but either way she will not be single.
(1) With this I'm just going to go with Hogwarts letters going by physical age, not magical. No letters have come because to Hogwarts they've only just turned ten.
(2) Since Susan's Lamia body is older than her human one it is subjected to hormones that her human form has yet to endure.
(3) You wouldn't believe the hell I went through trying to get the annual growth measurement for a Basilisk that would match J.k's fifty foot nine hundred year old Basilisk and for those who want to know the rounded measurements 0.65in per year or 0.05ft per year.
(4)Basically Susan baked a cake with Teesy's help, using her house elf magic to speed things up a bit so Susan didn't miss the presents.