February passed quickly and in early March, Aquilla was invited for the Carrow twins' birthday, and to stay overnight. She was excited about it, as she was never invited to a birthday party before. Draco's birthday didn't count. Staying overnight just added to the thrill.

'So what would we buy as birthday gifts, sweetie?' Lucius asked when the two of them were in the Diagon Alley. Aquilla frowned, thinking over it.

'Maybe bloomsticks?' she asked. 'To they would play with us and no one would be jealous.'

Lucius chuckled and nodded. Then they bought two broomsticks suitable for four-year-olds. They had them wrapped as gifts and they returned home.

Aquilla didn't mind combing her hair this much anymore, but she preferred to keep it loose, only with a few slides to prevent it from getting into her eyes. This time, however, Narcissa made her two pigtails with bright green bows. The girl liked them a lot. Soon she was ready for the party. She grabbed the gifts and her overnight bag and leaned towards Narcissa, who Apparated with her to the Carrows.

'What time should I pick her up?' she asked Alecto. The Death Eater woman shrugged.

'About ten maybe? They should get up by this time' she said. Narcissa chuckled.

'Aquilla will wake up about dawn' she warned. 'And she will want company...'

'Happy bilthday, Flola!' Aquilla squealed, hugging her friend and handed her the gift then. 'Happy bilthday, Hestia!'

The twins' room was already scattered with small pieces of wrapping paper, and someone (probably Amycus) moved there a small table, which held loads of food, mostly candy. Colorful baloons were lazily floating slightly above the girls' heads, shining and raining glitter, which vanished before it reached the floor.

'Auntie Alecto gave us skipping wopes!' Flora exclaimed. 'With a long one!'

'Gleat!' Aquilla clapped her hands. 'Will you unwlap youl gifts?'

She grinned as the twins gazed at their new broomsticks. They never had anything like this.

'Wow, Aquilla...' Hestia whispered. Flora was speechless. Then the door swung open and Amycus came in.

'What did you... oh, I must smack Lucius for spoiling my daughters' he shook his head, and the twins knew he wasn't serious. Amycus hardly ever was; he was quite an opposite of his sister when it came to this. He picked Hestia up, hugged her tightly and put down again. Then he reached to his pockets, drew his wand and put two tiny cubes on the floor.

'Engorgio!' he said, pointing his wand at them. They were another birthday gifts. Flora and Hestia squealed in joy and unwrapped them. Then Alecto came in and Amycus lit the candles on birthday cakes. They sang Happy Birthday and the twins blew the candles. The adults clapped and Amycus cut the cakes into pieces. Soon the kids were all covered with cream, chocolate and other sweet stuff. Even Alecto was smiling and laughing together with her nieces. The twins of course wanted to try out all their new toys. They were spinning the long rope while Aquilla was jumping.

'Do you know any jumping poem?' Alecto asked, obviously amused. Aquilla frowned and shook her head, still jumping.

'What al they like?' she asked. Alecto smiled again.

'One, two – how are you? Three, four – who's at the door?' she started. Aquilla grinned.

'I'll make up some!' she said and swapped with Flora for a while, and while the other girl was jumping, Aquilla was thinking over rhymes. Then Flora tripped and swapped with her twin, and by the time Hestia got tired with jumping, she had her poem ready.

'One, two – we'le waiting fol You-Know-Who. Thlee, foul – he'll open Azkaban's dool. Five, six – to flee his selvant, Bellatlix. Seven, eight – fol this I'm gonna wait. Nine, ten – he will sulely come again.'

Alecto laughed aloud.

'I like this poem! A lot!' she clapped. Aquilla beamed with pride. Alecto hardly ever liked anything.

The girls played for the whole day, eating only candy, sometimes being entertained with multiple spells which Amycus performed, like the Spinning Spell or the Dotting Spell. Alecto tried her best as well, but the girls didn't really enjoy Levicorpus.

'Come on, Lectie' Amycus said, 'we are evil, but we can give good things to our kids, right? Can't you just use fun spells?'

Alecto ended up levitating pillows at her brother, who tried his best to defend himself, and the result of the innocent levitating spell used by Alecto was a regular five-way pillow fight. A few pillows ripped apart, showering everything with tiny feathers, but the adults actually found it funny. While Muggle parents would yell at the kids, they just knew that there were suitable spells, including Reparo. About three hours later the girls were so exhausted that they fell asleep right on the floor, in a pile. Amycus took a photo of them.

'I wish we had such a birthday' he murmured. Alecto smacked him jokingly.

'Wish! Wish! Wishing won't change anything, Micky!' she shook her head. 'We can only make the girls' childhood happier than ours was.'

'Uhum...' Amycus hugged his sister. 'Thank you, Lectie. For everything. For... for being here. And for taming the girls.'

'Taming?' Alecto smiled. 'Well, Micky, they love you... and fear me.'

'Safer to be feared than loved, huh?' Amycus grinned. 'I could never do this.'

'You'll learn' Alecto shrugged. 'But I see why you don't want the girl to fear you. Aren't you still just my sweet little Micky?'

Amycus jokingly elbowed her.

'Only if you're still my supporting big Lectie' he chuckled. 'Always ready to help me, and always knowing when I needed a hug and when a smack...'

Okay, so this time I wanted to take care about the Carrows. No, there isn't any incest going between them! Alecto is just helping her brother with the kids and thus she moved in. Leave a review please!