mizzrazz72: sure is :D

J.F.C: well lets see if ******* will let that happen ;)

melamariannie: they will :) with time

awkwardtimeagent: *highfives*

Sorry for the delay! Im still not home yet. out of town for the summer.

Orphaned No More

Chapter Eleven

Tom hid behind the door of the shed as his mother started to turn to leave. She was not supposed to know that he knew that she knew that he knew about her ruse.

Riddle family politics got too complicated sometimes.

Mary slowly freed her hands from infantile grips as she sighed and made her way out of the shed.

"Why did Tom's mistakes have to have his face?" she thought to herself. She loved her boy and knew that separating him from his children would devastate him.

If the way he was hiding behind the door was any evidence, he did care about them alot. Mary made sure to open the door a little too wide to hit Tom slightly on her way out.

She loved him to death but no mother liked the idea of being lied to by her only child so she was slightly angry.

The decision of what would have to be done about Merope would require more finesse and more shrewder planning, now that she had decided to accept the babies as her grandsons.

Tom managed to muffle a groan as his mother stubbed his toe with the door.

"The things we do for love" he mumbled as soon as his mother was back inside the Manor.

Small giggles caught his ears as he looked at the other occupants of the room.

His boys. He stared at them awestruck, and then very slowly walked over to the bed.

They were wearing bibs with names on them.

"Tom" he said looking at the very slightly larger child earning a smile from him and "Harry" as he looked at his other boy.

The both of them gave him radiant smiles and then Harry proceeded to vomit on his own bib.

Their father got taken aback by the sudden antic and rushed to look around for a soft cloth to wipe the gug off his boy before he swallowed it again.

It used to disgust Tom Riddle to be near babies. They shat and puked like crazy and were prone to excessively annoying crying.

But something was very different here.

They were his. His little boys.

As he wiped harry's stout little chin, the soft black haired infant grabbed his hand.

Tom Sr. managed to hold back a chuckle as he put the cloth aside and picked Harry up. Followed by picking Tom up with his other arm a few moments later.

He looked around at the shed.

They would not be staying in here anymore.

...

"Lycoris Black" said the female Auror as she introduced herself.

She half expected her partner to follow suit but he was too busy sneering at Unspeakable Raoul.

She nudged him with her elbow surprising him and gave him a half smile as she nudged towards the people present around them.

He looked at her and for a minute there was a distant look in his eyes as his eyes found hers but then he painfully looked away and said:

"Joseph Prince" he paused and said "and I'm not convinced whether or not the 'muggle' qualifies for Magical awareness."

His emphasis on the word did not go unnoticed by Raoul who retorted almost immediately: "Well thats tragic really, but at the same time of no importance, because it is the Wizengamot we have to convince not a mere auror."

Prince glared back in reply to the implied insult but before he could say anything he felt a wand poking at his throat.

At the same time, so did Raoul.

"Boys!" Lycoris snapped

"Civility!" added Merope as both of them slowly got their wands off the mens' throats.

Both men seemed to back down at that and then the fifth person present finally made her presence known.

"What are you people talking about? What is an Auror? And what in blazes is this Wizengalot?"

Raoul smiled at her innocence as he finally turned to face her, looked in her eyes and said: "Wizengamot, Jenny" she blushed at her mistake and in general at him looking at her so deeply.

As the aurors began explaining side along apparition to Jenny and Merope, the latter gasped and said:

"My boys!" as she ran in the direction of the Manor and the others followed her.

As she entered the shed she nearly screamed. Her babies were gone.

...

I hope it was good enough despite the delay! please R&R! :)