Stories Under a Weeping Willow

Aurora and Severus were readying the twins so that they go to the start of term feast for Harry Potter's sixth year.  Severus packed their bag.  Sinistra placed the bag on her shoulder.  Severus handed her Katia and picked up Nadia.  He opened the door and he and Aurora walked to the Great Hall, twins in tow.

The students were all catching up with each other in the great hall while they waited for the feast to start.  They, as all students do after a long break, were catching up with each other.  Ginny and Seamus were making Ron sick with all their catching up.  It's not like they didn't sit together on the train and Ginny did go visit Seamus over the summer and vice versa.

Rom was a little grumpy because he didn't get to sit with Cho on the train.  Cho was head girl and therefore had to sit with the prefects.  He hung out with Hermione and Parvati because both of their boyfriends had graduated.

"Herm," Parvati had whined, "I'm happy for George, don't get me wrong, but do you have any idea how far away Germany is?"

"It's ok, Parvati."

"See you both are lucky, Fred is working at the ministry and Cho is still here," she told them, "But George and I are writing to each other."

The students were watching and looking for new teachers.  There was a new muggle studies professor and Fleur was back as the DADA professor.  Jaws dropped as they watched Snape enter the hall in his normal black robes carrying an ocean blue baby basket.  Professor Sinistra was behind him with a matching sea green colored basket.  They set their children on the table and sat down.  They watched in shock as the other teachers cooed over the babies.

"Snape was the father of Sinistra's babies?" a shocked Colin Creevy said. 

"Yeah, didn't you listen to me last year," Seamus asked.

"I was a little busy," Colin said.  Colin had had a growth spurt over the summer.  He grew a good seven inches and filled put playing football he put on some muscle.  He was now a good five inches taller than Harry.  A fact that would cause the boys to tease Harry about, even Colin's brother was catching up to Harry in height.   Harry was shocked when he saw Colin, at first he didn't recognize the younger boy, once he did his jaw was practically glued to the floor. 

Headmaster Dumbledore entered the hall and it got very quiet suddenly.  He stood at the head of the hall to make his beginning of the year announcements.  He cleared his throat and started his announcements.

"As everyone knows the Forbidden Forest is still off limits.  Any student caught in there without a teacher will be given a detention with Mr. Filch, no questions asked," he went on about some new changes and introduced the new teacher for the term.  The Slytherins were surprised to learn that Professor Vladimir would be living in the dungeons with the Slytherins, but Snape would still be head of house.  He also decided that introducing the twins at dinner would be a great idea.  As you may guess one surly potions master did not agree.  "Lastly I would like to introduce two new faces that will be here for many years to come.  Professors Snape and Sinistra have twin daughters named Nadia and Katia." 

The hall awed in unison which led Severus, though he was quite proud of his girls, to sneer and scowl at every table in the hall a good dozen times.  With that everyone returned to his or her dinners, all chattering about this and that, their summers, what classes they were taking, the quidditch teams, and Snape and Sinistra having twins. 

Severus and Aurora waited until the end of the feast and took their children outside for a while.  They sat together under a weeping willow.  Severus was telling a story about princes and mermaids to the girls as they sit into there in their baskets.  Sinistra lay with her head in his lap as Snape finished his story.  The girls had quickly fallen asleep.  Severus played with the dark red hair that was fanned on his lap.  He looked down at Aurora; she lay there with her eyes closed.

"When did you get glasses?" he asked suddenly.

"Did you just notice that I had them?" she asked keeping her eyes closed and a small smile playing on her lips.

"No," he said quickly, "I was just curious as to when you got them."

"When I was a sixth year," she said fingering the small black frames.

"They are crooked," he commented.

"They are always crooked."

"Have you tried fixing them?"

"What do you think?"

"Hmm…no?"

"Git.  Yes I have."

"Then why are they crooked?"

"I don't know."

"Maybe your face is crooked," he smirked.

"Don't make me wipe that smirk off your face."

"In front of the children?"

"I hate you," Aurora said giggling.  They picked up the bassinets and walked back to their new rooms.  Later that evening after they settled the twins into their crib and leaving the door ajar they went into their own room.  They had no lesson plans to work on so the astronomy professor got out the wedding pans.  She placed everything on the bed so that she could change into her pajamas.  Once she was ready she crawled into bed and waited for her potions master to grace the room with his presence.  He soon climbed into the bed yawning; he was then handed many different invitation and announcement designs.

"Good god woman," he sneered looking at the stack that was in his lap.

"That's all of them, I have not picked any out yet."

"So you trust me."

"No, I just want your opinion," she smirked as she flipped through wedding apparel magazines.

"What about food?"

"We will get there, Severus."

"Will this thing be planned by December?"

"It is our wedding, Severus, not a thing", she said, "and yes it will be, Severus, what are you wearing?"

"Currently my nightclothes," he said coolly; not responding to Sinistra glare, "Oh, you meant the wedding…clothes."

"Robes, tuxedo, other family traditions?"

"Robes," he said without pause, "you?"

"I'm not sure."

After a few hours Severus rolled over and tried to fall asleep.  In the three hours that they worked on the wedding they had set a definite date.  December 16th.  Aurora had narrowed down the invitations and announcements to five choices that she loved.  She and Severus picked out a wedding cake.  She still had to decide on what she wanted to wear.  She had decided to go with traditional wedding robes as well.  Now she just had to decide on which ones.  She put her magazines away and picked up a Sherlock Holmes book and read until she was tired.  Her body was still on al different internal clock than Severus'.  After an hour she ridded the room of light and wrapped her arms around Severus' waist before falling asleep.  She kissed his temple and slept until her daughters decided that they were hungry. 

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