A/N:OI! SO SORRY! GOMEN NESAI GOMEN NESAI!  I swear I did not intend for it to take this bloody long for me to get a new chapter up.  I don't know exactly what happened with me, but I got distracted a few times and had a boat load of work for school and even now I should be working on my school work instead of this, but one of my classes tomorrow is cancelled so that gives me the extra time I need.  Thank you all whom have reviewed, you are so great and wonderful.  Now please without further delay read along.  And if you want to know since most of titles of my chapters come from songs, no this one did not come from the song family portrait by pink, it's just coincidentally named Family Portrait and not after any song.

Randomness of the moraco:  By terms of GOF Bill is actually 23  by the end of it which would have made him 22 around the beginning of it, depending upon his birthday, but if his birthday is in the fall after the Hogwarts semester starts, then he's 23 throughout most of GOF and will be 24 in the beginning OOTP.  Sorry, just my quest in finding out Weasley ages, and near the end of GOF Bill says he hasn't been in Hogwarts in 5 years, and if that was when he graduated, my age calculations are correct.

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No One Can Stop Us Now
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Chapter 13
 Family Portrait
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            Months passed along and as usual summer came just like it does every year.  The students left and Severus stayed a few more days to complete all of his work before coming back.  When Severus was done with the school for the summer they all went to their home in Cliburn.

            The twins were now set up in their own little nursery that had been set up for them over the winter break.  Harry brought the magical baby monitor that they were using at Hogwarts so that they could hear the children cry from their own bedroom.

            Harry and Severus slept in the same bed they'd been sleeping in at their home.  After a 3:00AM feeding for both the twins they came back to their bed to attempt some sleep.

            'They're getting bigger,' Harry muttered as they were trying to fall asleep.

            'They're supposed to,' Severus replied.

            'They're gonna be giants by the end of the year.'

            'No they won't, now go to sleep.'

            Harry complied and closed his eyes and they both drifted off to sleep for the night

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            A month passed and not much changed in Harry and Severus' routine.  A Saturday night rolled around and Hermione volunteered to baby sit for the twins to give Harry and Severus a night alone.

            As soon as Hermione left and Harry kissed his children goodbye, he turned around to Severus with a wicked grin on his face.

            'It looks as though you have something in mind, Harry.'

            'You'd better damn well believe I do,' Harry replied.  Harry sauntered up to Severus and looked him in the eyes seductively.  'It's a little activity involving you, me, and a bed.'

            'I like the way your mind thinks, love.'

            Harry smiled and grabbed by the sleeve of his shirt and the older man let Harry lead him up the stairs to their bedroom.  They spent the entire night into the wee hours of Sunday morning making love to each other.  The eventually dozed off sometime early in the morning. 

            When Harry awoke he realized that Severus was already awake and looked dreamily into his eyes.  'I've missed this.'

            'So have I,' Severus replied and kissed the top of Harry's head.

            There was a knock on the door.

            Harry and Severus both looked at the clock on the wall by the desk.  It was 3:00PM, when Hermione said she'd bring the twins back.

            'Are you two awake,' they heard Hermione's voice ask.

            Harry got up from the bed, quickly putting on a bathrobe before opening the door a crack and slipping out into the hallway.

            'Hello, Hermione,' Harry said.

            Hermione giggled at Harry's disheveled appearance.

            'What's so funny?'

            'Nothing,' she replied.  'The twins are asleep, and I fed them before I brought them back so they should probably sleep for a while.  At least long enough for you and Severus to make yourselves appropriate looking fathers.'

            Harry chuckled.  'Thank you Hermione.'

            'Oh it was a pleasure watching them, though I admit, Mum and Dad, helped a bit, since there's two of them of course, but I it took a bit of explaining to do that their nappies didn't need to be changed because they're self cleaning.'

            'And what a wonderful thing self-cleaning nappies are.  Just imagine Severus trying to change one if they weren't,' Harry said.  They both chuckled.

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            Time passed as it so often did normally, or as normal as possible for the next few years.  As this time passed  Hermione had become a Weasley.  A year after the previously mentioned summer Hermione and Charlie were married and a year later they had a daughter who they named Chelsea.  A year after that Ron and Draco finally decided to unite in matrimony, but neither agreed to change their name and couldn't decide who's name would come first if they were to use both names, so they were simply Draco Malfoy and Ron Weasley.

            Harry and Severus continued their jobs at Hogwarts, over the years teachers volunteering to watch the twins during their free period.  The twins were now six years old, running around, and thriving.

            Harry had decided to keep the Snape family tradition of have family portraits and such, so he'd arranged for a wizard photographer to come and take the portrait.  Not just any average joe wizard photographer, but Collin Creevy, who over these past years had become a quite well known photographer.  He did several photo shoots for the daily profit and other wizard magazines, but he and his brother had also gone into business with their very own portrait studio.  Severus kept wanting to know why the portrait had to be taken at the house and not at the studio, like normal wizards.  Harry wanted to keep with tradition though, seeing as how every picture he'd seen of Severus' family had been taken in various rooms of the house, some of which for many years hadn't been touched and were obviously the same place the photos were taken.

            This family portrait would be taken in the library, despite Severus' protests about having a picture taken at all.  Though for the past 6 years now Harry had put up with Severus' protests because every year since the twins were born Harry made sure they had a family portrait.  Harry helped Amelia get dressed in a new purple set of dress robes and Breen in a light green set.  Harry himself wore emerald green robes.  As they gathered in the library waiting on Collin to show up Severus came down wearing his usual black.  Harry glared at him for a moment. 

            'Severus, you're supposed to be wearing the new robes we bought last week for the picture.'

            'I think this colour suits me better,' Severus replied.

            'We talked about this and you promised when we bought them that you were going to wear them.  Now go back up stairs and put them on before Collin gets here.  He's due any second.'

            Harry glared his best death glare and Severus and the older man glared back.  The twins were standing near Harry, and Amelia walked across the room and tugged on Severus' robes.  Severus looked down, still glaring.

            'B-but, Dad, I like the b-blue robes,' Amelia said a little scared by the glare.

            Severus looked up at Harry and back down at Amelia who was staring up at him with her pleading purple eyes.  Severus sighed.  'I'll be back in a minute,' he said.  He walked up the stairs unhappy with his defeat.

            Amelia smiled and skipped back over to Breen and Harry.  Harry picked Amelia up into his arms and gave her a kiss on the cheek.  'I've taught you well haven't I?'

            Harry sat on the couch with the twins while they waited.  Severus was coming down the stairs in his navy blue dress robes, bought especially for the picture, just the time that Collin was arriving through the fireplace in the drawing room.

            'Ah Mr. Snape,' Collin said as he met Severus at the bottom of the staircase.  Collin had been the one who'd taken the family's picture every year these past years.  He'd come to calling Severus Mr. Snape seeing as Severus hadn't wanted to be called Professor since Collin was no longer his student, nor was he fond enough of Collin for him to call him by his first name, so Collin settled for Mr. Snape while he still called Harry and the children by their first names.

            'Everyone's waiting in the library,' Severus said.

            Collin with his camera, followed Severus to the library, where Amelia and Breen immediately ran up to him.  'Mr. Creevy!  Mr Creevy!,' they both shouted in unison.  They loved family picture day, because they got to see Mr. Creevy, who told them many stories about their Daddy Harry and his adventures when he was a student at Hogwarts.

            'And what new story have you prepared for them this year, Collin?' Harry asked.

            'Why of course about the time you survived the likes of the evil lord Voldemort...,' he paused.  'for the 4th time.'

            Harry lightly chuckled.  'Well let's get the picture first before these two get too rambunctious and won't sit still,' Harry said.

            'As you wish,' Collin said setting up his camera.  'Go ahead and get in the pose you'd like.   I'll fix anything that needs to be fixed once I set this up.'

            'Okay,' Harry said.  'Now, Sev you come and sit beside me and Amelia and Breen you both sit in our laps,' Harry said giving his family instructions.

            Severus sat down beside his husband and Amelia immediately climbed up onto the couch and sat in his lap.  Breen came over to the couch and Harry seeing that Amelia had picked her place lifted his son onto his lap, who was holding his favourite stuffed bunny.

            'Now Breen we need to sit Mr. Siri aside for the picture,' Harry told Breen.

            'No, Mr. Siri is family too,' Breen protested.

            'Breen give me Mr. Siri,' Harry told him.

            'No,' the small boy whined, his eyes welling up with tears.

            'Harry, just let him keep it.  It's not going to kill anyone having a stuffed bunny in the picture,' Severus told him.

            'Besides children and stuffed animals are cute together,' Collin said.

            'Okay go ahead and keep it Breen,' Harry said.

            Collin began to check to make sure his camera was in focus and would capture the picture appropriately.  'Well, the camera's set, now let's look at you.'  Collin looked at the Snape family who were in their pose for the picture.  'Harry, good as always, Breen, lift your chin up a bit over the bunny's head, Amelia, darling as always, Mr. Snape.  I'm afraid Mr. Snape that it's appropriate to smile for a picture.  I know the past ones I've taken haven't shown the greatest when it comes to your smile,' Collin said a little uneasily praying his former potions master wouldn't hex him.

            Amelia turned around on Severus lap and sat on her knees facing him.  She took the index fingers of both her hands and stuck them on the sides of Severus' mouth lifting them up in an attempt to see what he'd look like if he smiled.  'Dad should smile,' she said.

            'Amelia, stop that,' Harry said.  'Severus you should at least try to smile.  I know you can.'  Harry turned to Collin. 'Just take the picture, he'll smile before the flash goes off  if he wants.'

            'Okay, everyone set,' Collin said from behind the camera as he held his thumb over the button for the picture.  'Smile,' he said as he clicked the button.

            After the flash had gone off Harry looked over to see that Severus actually had smiled.  He leaned over and whispered in the older man's ear, 'Thank you.'

            'You owe me,' Severus whispered back, which made Harry chuckle.

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A/N: Well that's all for that chappy.  Hope it wasn't too…whatever it is or could be I don't know….it's mainly progressing to a big event which will happen soon so bear with me through my development.  Please drop me a review you kind wonderful lovely people whom I love.  I was bored earlier and was shocked to find out that I'm actually on people's favourite authours lists…I was shocked beyond belief and nearly fainted.  Thank you all so much.