There's Love in Information
C23: Life Goes On
Standard Disclaimer: I don't own any of the recognizable characters
Three months after the wedding Nymphadora was already completely done with being pregnant, especially after it had been confirmed that she was pregnant with twin girls, which led her to be quite ungainly already.
That's why she had confined herself to desk duty at the office along with Hermione, Luna and Fleur, all of whom were three months pregnant as well, and of course the older blonde was still the picture of composure even with the slight bump that started to form.
Since the trial the Department had turned a bit of a corner, now actually providing information through various sources they now employed while they sorted through everything gathered and took care of the interrogations for the Aurors.
This had led to most of them being relegated to desk duty, which no one actually seemed to mind, since the informal atmosphere in the Department had made sure that it felt more like a family gathering than a day at the office, which made Fabian especially very happy, since it made his girlfriend happy.
They had also talked at length about marriage at some point and had in the end come to the decision that they would get married once their girls were at least five years old and could act as flower girls with their cousins.
"I have to say though Dora, the further along you get in your pregnancy the more radiant you seem to become. I'm a bit jealous." Hermione said with a soft smile.
Dora smiled at the brunette. "Oh please, I don't look radiant. I'm pretty sure I'm starting to look like a blimp with each passing day, I'm starting to feel like it too. Honestly I don't even have to try and stay afloat whenever I'm in the pool. I've accepted that I am basically a buoy right now."
Hermione giggled at that. "I am sure Fabian dotes on you at every possible opportunity and that he makes sure you feel beautiful every single day."
"He does, and I can't help but love him more for it. Which I why I feel so bad that I do nothing more than snap at him. Sometimes I really hate my inherited temper." She said softly.
"Since we're talking about my step-son here, I doubt he holds that against you." Hermione said with a soft smile.
Nymphadora smiled at that. "I suppose, although it is still weird to hear you call him your step-son. Not to mention the fact that you're basically pregnant with his sister. It does weird things to my brain."
Hermione laughed lightly at that. "I know, and usually I only say it to get a reaction from him. I just couldn't resist this time. My impulse control has been shot out the window ever since I entered my second trimester. I also blame Bella for this. Her daughter is making me more like her."
"I doubt it is completely my mother's fault Hermione. You two have taken a lot of traits from each other over the past year or so." Luna said with a soft smile as she saw her mother come up behind the bushy haired brunette.
"Why thank you sweetie. How is the Mommy corner doing?" The raven haired witch asked with a soft smile.
Hermione smiled and accepted a kiss from her wife. "I think we're all feeling the same love. Bloated and a little bit miserable."
Bellatrix smiled and took a seat on the desk next to her wife. "It'll all be worth it in six months, my love. Have you felt anything today?"
"No your daughter is uncharacteristically quiet today. I have a feeling Fleur's calm aura is helping with that." Hermione said with a smile.
Fleur smiled serenely at that. "As much as I would like to take credit for that, this calm I am radiating is all from my Veela side. Personally I'm just as nervous as everyone else is, but my Veela doesn't allow that kind of feelings towards our offspring, so she released pheromones to keep me calm."
Luna smiled and rolled her chair next to that of her lover. "That certainly explains why I'm so damn hot for you right now."
Fleur smiled and kissed her mate softly. "Later cherí. When we're home we'll blow off some steam, again."
Luna smiled and returned the kiss as they lost themselves in each other's eyes again, which was happening more frequently now that they were both pregnant.
"Speaking of blowing of some steam. I need to go and find my boyfriend so I can tell him exactly what he has done to me." Dora said as she slowly stood up and waddled into the office where her boyfriend was working.
"I have a feeling there will be silencing spells cast in the next few minutes." Bellatrix said with a soft smile.
Luna smiled at that. "Along with a few others I think. I know that look in her eyes all too well. It isn't the first time this happened."
"You're not telling me that they are actually going to have sex in his office right?" Hermione asked with a quirked eyebrow.
"Not exactly love, but it is true that because of her Metamorphmagus abilities she has an increased libido which her pregnancy will only heighten. I have a feeling that he'll give her plenty of pleasure in there, but it won't escalate to sex. She's just frustrated and horny and needs a little something to take the edge of. It's something they've done for as long as they've been in close quarters with each other. We always knew it was an inevitability." Bellatrix said with a soft smile.
Hermione nodded at that. "I never realized for how long they've been dancing around each other. Now it makes a lot more sense that Dora is almost desperate for him at this stage in her pregnancy."
Bellatrix smiled at that. "It's a part of being a Black love. Women in our family not only have more sensitive pregnancies, but also increased libido, needing to be sated daily in the last months of pregnancy. Combine that with Dora's Metamorphmagus blood, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point she'll beg him for release at work."
Hermione only nodded, for once glad that she wasn't born a Black but had married into the family, since she was sure she would never be able to ask Bella for something like that while at work.
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In Fabian's office, Dora had just perched herself on his desk while he had already warded his office. "Am I right in assuming that you're horny love?" He asked with a soft smile.
She nodded at him as she planted her feet on the armrests of his seat after hiking up her skirt. "Of course I am. Your daughters are making sure of that, so it's once again up to you to help me find some relief."
"And you know I gladly help you find some relief baby, since I'm responsible for you being in this state in the first place. Is there something special you want?" He asked softly.
She smiled and just vanished her skirt with a flick of her hand. "While I would love to feel you inside of me again, I don't think our colleagues will appreciate that, but I desperately need some form of release, so please baby, I don't care what you do, but please make me cum."
He smiled and pulled her into his lap before kissing her deeply. "I think I have an idea that will work for both of us in this instance love." He said lovingly as he vanished his pants and underwear. "It's been a while since we have actually had sex, I was thinking of remedying that tonight, while for now we can get each other worked up while also bringing you plenty of pleasure."
"You just want me to grind against your dick again don't you?" She asked with a soft smile.
He nodded and smiled at her. "Of course. We can't really fuck each other now, so why not do the next best thing for both of us. I know you love it and I can't deny that I'm craving the feeling of your body against mine too."
Dora smiled at him as she slowly started to grind against him while also taking off her top so he could also touch her breasts, which was her way of showing that she hadn't become a selfish woman over the course of her pregnancy.
As expected he latched onto one of her nipples, lavishing the pierced bud with his tongue, making her moan loudly. "Have I mentioned recently how much I love the fact that your breasts are getting bigger?"
"Yes, I am very much aware of the fact that your are attracted to my boobs, but my back does not agree with that particular fact." She said with a slight pout.
Fabian smiled and kissed her softly. "If it comes down to it, I will carry you everywhere, on my back if I have to. The last thing I want is to add to your discomfort."
She smiled and nuzzled her nose in his neck. "Everything you do these days is for my comfort love, I can't ask more of you, and the only reason my breasts are bothering me so much right now is because my body is preparing for our daughters. Breast is best after all."
He smiled at her as she let his hands roam down to her butt, giving it a soft squeeze as she started to speed up a little. "I love you so much Dora, and I can't wait to enjoy parenthood with you."
"I love you too Fabian, and while I am very nervous to become a mother, I know with you by my side I can do anything. I'm also very curious what our children are going to be like. I know they're going to be curious by nature, and that they're going to be mischievous, because there is no way in hell children of our genes won't be both curious and mischievous, which will undoubtedly drive their grandmothers mad." She finished with a grin.
He smiled and kissed her. "Oh I have no doubt about that, and they'll drive us mad too, and our mothers will see at as a sweet form of revenge too, all the while doting on our baby girls."
Nymphadora smiled at her lover. "That'll be a given, and I wouldn't be surprised if our girls are going to be raised a siblings to your new sister and our other nieces."
"They'll be thick as thieves and a constant source of joy and worry in whichever home they are in, although I suspect it will be difficult to teach them that they will not be allowed to tear their clothes off at Mom's house. That might lead to more issues than we are willing to deal with." He said with a soft smile.
Nymphadora smiled at him. "We'll teach them when it's appropriate to be naked love, that's not something we should be worried about. What I am worried about is if either of them will inherit my Metamorphmagus abilities, because that will require some extra effort for both of us. It's very hard to learn how to control those things."
"We'll ask your mother if that happens love. She has done wonders with you after all." He said with a loving smile.
She blushed a little at that. "Thank you love, and I'm sure if they exhibit the signs Mum will be all over that with help and advice. I'm just worried what it will mean for them in those early years. People will look at them like they looked at me when I was young, and I really want to avoid that, because I know neither of us will react well to that."
He just smiled at her as she suddenly shuddered against him, moaning softly as she clutched at him, and as he usually did he brought her down from her high with soft kisses to her neck, although she didn't seem particularly inclined to move from her spot in his lap.
He didn't mind since he loved to feel her body pressed up against his, especially when he knew that it would help her settle her worries about their daughters.
Six months later, St. Mungo's Hospital
Bellatrix was both supremely anxious and over the moon with excitement. It was the day her daughter would come into the world, and while she had been very content in her role as grandmother to Fabian and Dora's twin daughters Carina and Nova, she knew it paled to the joy of soon holding her daughter in her arms, and apparently it was clearly readable on her face as she sat next to her wife, holding her hand as the brunette was being prepared to give birth.
"I swear Bella, if your daughter doesn't hurry up I'll be reaching in and getting her out myself." The brunette said in a huff.
Bellatrix smiled and pressed a kiss to her wife's sweaty forehead. "How you remind me of myself baby. I said exactly the same to Cissy when I was ready to deliver Fabian, like our daughter he took his sweet time too. I think I was in labor for nearly thirty hours."
Hermione groaned loudly at that. "It already feels like I've been here for thirty hours even though it's only been four hours. Are we decided on a name by the way? Or did we have to go through our list again."
"Yes love, we're decided. Rosalind is a beautiful name." Bellatrix said softly.
Hermione smiled and motioned her wife in for a kiss as Narcissa and Andromeda walked into the room in their medical robes. "Hello ladies. Are we ready for this joyous event?" The blonde asked with a very uncharacteristic grin.
"Ready for this to be over with, yes I am. I don't know if I would survive thirty hours like my wife did." Hermione said with a slight hiss as a contraction hit her out of the blue.
Andromeda gave her a sympathetic smile. "It'll be okay Hermione. Women in our family often go through long labors. As you already know Bella was in labor for thirty hours, Cissa was in labor for a little over a day and I was in labor for nearly two days with Dora, but I have a feeling that it won't take as long with your daughter."
Hermione smiled at her. "I hope so, because I honestly never been in so much pain as I am in right now. Even Bella's curses during the war didn't hurt this much."
"We can get you a potion to help cope with the pain Hermione. It's works a lot like and epidural without actually having to use a needle. I remember being very grateful for it when I was in labor." Andromeda said with a smile.
Hermione nodded vigorously at that. "Yes please. I don't know how long I can endure this pain."
Andromeda smiled at the brunette as she went in search of a Medi-witch to get her sister-in-law a potion for her labor pains.
"Is there anything else you need at the moment Hermione? I'm more than glad to go and get it for you." Narcissa asked with a kind smile.
Hermione smiled and shook her head at that. "No not right now. I would like to know something though. Are the others here already and has Fabian brought my nieces?"
"Yes and yes. They're patiently, or as patiently as they can be, waiting in the family room. Carina and Nova are especially well behaved at the moment. I swear those two have definitely inherited both of their parent's intellect and know that today is a very special day." Narcissa said with a soft smile.
Hermione smiled at that. "I'll be honest and say that I might have had something to do with that. You can't start early enough with a proper education. It is one of the things I've picked up from you over the past months."
Narcissa smiled at her. "That means a lot to me Hermione, but I think it'll be futile in the end. They are the product of both Fabian and Hermione, who both were very mischievous when they were younger, and I am very sure Carina and Nova will be no different, if not worse than their parents."
"I don't think so love. While it is true that Fabian and Dora were quite mischievous in their youth, I've already seen in their eyes that they will have a love for learning rather than mischief." Bellatrix said with a soft smile as she tucked a few strands of hair behind her wife's ear.
Hermione smiled and kissed the raven haired witch softly. "Perhaps, but above average mischief is to be expected, it's in their genes after all."
Bellatrix only nodded and smiled at her as Andromeda came back with a potion and a Medi-witch. "Shall we see how much your daughter wants to join you all today?"
Hermione nodded at that as the Medi-witch cast a Diagnostic Spell. "Good news Lady Black, with the way things are looking right now, we'll be bringing you into the delivery room somewhere in the next hour. You're almost there. I'll go and inform your doctor and then she'll make the final decision."
"That's okay, I really just want this to be over with as soon as possible, because this pain is like unlike anything I've ever experienced, and given what happened to me in the War, that is saying something." Hermione said softly.
As Hermione's regular doctor walked in, she smiled at the young brunette before ducking under the sheath to take a look. "It seems your daughter is ready to meet her parents and family. Let's get you to our private delivery room."
Hermione only nodded as she was suddenly swept up in a rollercoaster of things that happened and two hours later she was tired, but very happy as she held their daughter Rosalind in her arms, who had been cleaned and bundled up in a fluffy blanket. "We did good love." She said softly.
Bellatrix smiled at her. "Immensely so I would say. She's absolutely adorable."
Hermione smiled at that as she handed Rosalind to Bellatrix, since she really couldn't keep her eyes open anymore. It hadn't been a particularly long labor, but it had taken a lot out of her, and all she wanted to do now was sleep. Everything else could wait until later.
Two years later, D.M.I.I. Office
It had been a crazy two years with every couple in the family having started their own families. Luna and Fleur had each given birth to two beautiful baby girls, named Victoire and Pandora, the latter after Luna's late mother, both having been born a few weeks after Bella and Hermione's daughter Rosalind.
Ginny and Pansy's son Pastor was now a little over a year old and universally loved by his nieces at the Department, since he was the only boy there. Because of this all of the girls were very protective of him, usually only letting either of his parents take him away.
Draco and Astoria had a daughter named Violet, who seemed to be a carbon copy of her grandmother Narcissa, already being haughty and fussy whenever she was not in the vicinity of her 'sisters' Rosalind and Pandora. Narcissa usually only glared at people whenever this was pointed out which was a source of constant amusement in the Department.
Nova and Carina, being the eldest children in the Department, usually took charge of things in their own little 'Department' as they had come to call their area. The two also proved to be very intelligent and almost stubbornly independent, since they were already talking in relatively understandable sentences and were even beginning to read books on their own if they had the chance, much like their father had in that aspect.
To help with childcare Fabian had commissioned a room to be added within their offices that would be for the children of the Department, since their endless scouring for information and possible threats had been exactly that. Endless. They still all worked normal hours as much as possible, but sometimes extra hours were inescapable, hence the childcare unit which was supervised by everyone at all times, most of the times by Daphne or Andromeda, although this was mostly to make sure that they always had food and juice if they needed it. Nova and Carina were very adept at taking care of their nieces and nephew after all.
Fabian and Nymphadora never would've dreamed that their children would take more after him, although at home it was easy to see that they were just as much their mother's daughters, often chasing each other through the house and scaring their mother whenever they had the chance.
One thing Dora had been very happy about was the fact that they hadn't inherited her Metamorphmagus abilities, something that had weighed heavily on her mind in the later stages of her pregnancy.
Right now they were sitting in his office, relaxing a bit after a particularly long and tedious case on a bunch of pureblood supremacists who thought they could become the new Dark Lord, but in essence had been nothing else than a bunch of entitled young men with more money and ideals than brains which had the eventual arrest by the Aurors shockingly easy.
"Sweet Merlin I'm so glad this case is over. It has really cut into our family time over the last few months." Dora said after she had crawled in his lap, which was still her favorite place in the entire world.
He smiled and pressed a kiss to her cheek. "I know love, thankfully summer is almost here and then we can let loose for a couple of weeks. I have a feeling the girls are going to love Italy."
"I know they will, since it is the home of ice cream, and sometimes it seems like our daughters are made of ice cream." Dora said with a soft smile.
"I wonder who they got that from?" He said teasingly.
She stuck her tongue out at him. "I neither confirm or deny that statement. I certainly did not enjoy it as much as they do."
He smiled and kissed her softly. "I was teasing love. It's just funny to see how much our girls actually resemble us in some areas, and in others they are complete opposites of us."
"We both know that is aunt Cissa's influence love. Something I am sure McGonagall will be very grateful for in a couple of years. Who knows what would've happened if they were exactly like us and how many times we would've been called to the school because of it." She said softly.
"That may still happen love, they're going to be in the same year as their nieces and nephews after all, and that is just mischief waiting to happen. McGonagall is going to have her hands full with all of them." He said with a soft smile.
Nymphadora smiled at him. "I wouldn't change a thing though, even if we're going to be called to the school every week. I feel so incredibly blessed with our family that I sometimes still can't believe it's real, or how it all started." She said with a loving smile.
"Sometimes, neither can I, but then I wake up next to you every day and I know it's all real." He said with a similar smile.
Dora smiled and kissed him softly. "I never would've thought that my dreams would come true. Not just the girls, but that I got to have them with the man that I love more than anything. I never thought this was a possibility even after the War."
He just smiled at her. "Well love, that we were going to get together was a given, no matter what would've happened. The biggest surprise was Hermione and my mother. I never heard of such a bond through a Prophecy, but apparently, There's Love in Information."