Title: Baby Boom! 10/18
Author: Mariann
Rating: R
Pairing: Sirius/Remus
Category: Between Fluff, Fun and Fighting
Summary: Sirius and Remus grow up, find love, start a family and fight the Dark Lord
Disclaimer: Belongs to JKR - no money's made from my poor attempts at writing
A/N: AU - The Willow Incident does not happen in this story. Peter is loyal and a spy for Dumbledore. Remus and Sirius are destined to fight Voldemort - will they succeed? A fair amount of children are born in this story - to spite the Death Eaters of course!
10. Weddings
James and Lily got married on the second Saturday in August. They had chosen the date to be as far away from the full moon as they could find for Remus to really feel well on the date. Sirius was the best man, a duty he fulfilled with great enthusiasm. That's what he called it, Remus rather tended to call it exaggerated exuberance. But Sirius had fun planning a few funny schemes and he was exhilarated that the wedding was going to be a wizarding wedding.
Security had to be tight. The young people around James Potter had all become a very dangerous sign for all Death Eaters as they were able to thwart many of the Death Eater's schemes in their earliest stages. In the past four months Remus had done a lot of travelling to apply his new knowledge about very specialised and personalised wards onto endangered people's houses. He had warded off Andromeda and Ted Tonks' house as well as the houses of some very prominent wizards. So far none of his wards had been breached. Dumbledore was quite pleased seeing his special pupil make some name and a bit of money for himself. Remus was happy to be able to earn some money of his own and help protect people. It had given his self-confidence an enormous boost.
Sirius had been a bit more domestic watching the children for the most part, though both men continued to nurse their children. While he had always been the one who couldn't sit still he was now the one who didn't really mind being glued to the library and the home with the children.
But of course he brought the old Padfoot back out for James and Lily's wedding! To be able to celebrate with no fear Remus had warded off a country inn somewhere in Essex and all the guests were brought in by Portkey. They didn't know where the Portkey took them, only Remus and Sirius knew. They personally made all the Portkeys which were the name tags for all the guests, preset on two o'clock, Saturday, seventh of August and took them to all the guests. The number of guests had to be limited to forty, so there were only the closest relatives and friends. James had his parents, Lily had her parents. Her sister had declined an invitation as soon as Lily said the wedding would be magical. Dumbledore officiated, Sirius was best man and Dari was maid of honour, together with their partners that made for the first eleven participants. Then there were Peter and Sabina, Professor McGonagall, all the members of the last Gryffindor Quidditch team apart from those who were there anyway and the closest colleagues from work.
Because they had to fear attacks it was a small wedding party, but the intimacy of it made for a very fun party. All the people who wanted to could stay overnight, the nicest rooms had been reserved for the newlyweds. The Potters and the Evanses had paid a fairly high price to rent the whole inn for the weekend, so that the problems would be controllable. And through that they were able to enjoy a wonderful afternoon and evening. James and Lily radiated and looked very happy. Remus and Sirius enjoyed their time, even though Sirius had a few things to look after. They had left Vega and Polaris back at the Lupins, who were happy to look after them.
After the official part and Dumbledore bonding James and Lily there was a bit of socialising before the big dinner was served at five thirty in the afternoon. For two hours they enjoyed the excellent food. Sirius had organised a few little games to entertain them all during the meal and to get some good laughs. Peter and Sabina had prepared a little show in which they played a few scenes about marriage clichés. Everyone enjoyed that a great deal, as it was extremely funny. But Dari got the biggest laugh - she went behind the scenes and came back wearing the most awful robes with lots of little things attached. Her hat put old Mrs Longbottom's to shame! She came back in, Sirius got the room's attention and then she started bawling in front of James. Everyone screamed of laughter when she acted out his old lover, chucked out for his new bride and gave him back all their 'souvenirs' which she plucked from her robes. They ranged from an old pair of boxers over the squashed tube of toothpaste to the last remaining condom and she had fabricated a little story to each of the items.
They had just dried off their tears when the dessert was being served. Dari went back to get out of the dreadful clothes. When she sat down again Lily grabbed and embraced her.
"That was brilliant, Dari! No one could have acted that out as well as you did! Thanks so much for embarrassing James to the bone!"
James actually still looked rather red. Dari sat next to him and gave him a little shove. He grinned a bit sheepishly and said:
"You know, some of that might actually hit a bit close to home. I had two or three girlfriends while I was actually in love with Lily and I'm sure that's about how I treated them..."
"Forget it, James. You're together now and that's all that counts."
After dinner the dance started and everyone got up to the floor to enjoy some music and a lot of dancing. Sirius could finally relax, because now his duties were more or less over and he could just enjoy himself with Remus. They were both staying over at the inn as well and were looking forward for a night of undisturbed rest.
"...and hopefully some good sex, love! We're not getting any as often as I'd like..." Sirius whispered into his husband's ear.
"I'm longing for you, Padfoot! Don't know when it's been that we had a whole night free. But it doesn't look that bad, I mean, Polaris is already sleeping through very nicely. Vega is fighting with her teeth, so that makes her a bit crankier, I can understand that..."
Sirius smiled. So much of their lives now turned around their children and every conversation started somewhere else still landed with the little ones at some point.
"Do you feel robbed of something, because we've had them so early?" he asked.
"Well, yes, a bit if I'm completely honest. We could go out more and enjoy ourselves, but I'd do it with a very bad feeling. So I do feel a bit cheated out of that young adult time, but we have them, so it's just that. I love them so much and I feel their trust and love, so that's more than a reward for the things we do for them... besides having experienced that was amazing."
"I agree with you. They're also going to be great fun and I can only say, woe to Minerva McGonagall when these two come to Hogwarts as students!"
"Obviously they're going to be brought up to become the most insufferable pranksters," Remus said.
"That's fate, Moony! How can they NOT be with two fathers like us?" Sirius was offended.
Remus just laughed. He pulled Sirius into a kiss that lasted so long, that Sirius wanted to get out of the room, into theirs and into the bed.
"Can't, love - you're the best man..." Remus reminded him.
Some time after midnight the party started to wind down and some of the guests, especially the older ones, left the inn to apparate home. While there had been anti-apparition wards set up to apparate in, they could all leave without any problems. Mr. and Mrs Evans had received a two way Portkey, so they could just use their name tags to get back home. Remus activated the Portkey for them.
The younger generation of course held out until way after two in the morning. Sirius and Remus asked to leave a lot before that and were granted the wish, because they would have to go back and pick their children up again. So the two men bid goodbye to all who were there and went up to the room they had chosen. It was small, but still big enough to hold a double bed, a dresser and two armchairs next to a fireplace. They went straight to bed. They were so hot for each other, they could hardly wait until they had torn their robes off. But somehow they managed and then they fell into the bed naked and greedy to have some good sex.
Their still somewhat untypical male bodies made for some funny love-making. Both of them enjoyed it immensely to suck on each others' breasts, as these nipples were much more sensitive than what they had been used to before. They had quite well formed breasts, Sirius' were a bit more prominent than Remus'.
Remus cupped them with his hand as he moved on top of Sirius, rubbing their erections together and enjoying the growing heat. Sirius tilted his head back on the pillow, closed his eyes and just felt. Remus' caresses on his breasts sent little jolts straight down into his cock, which he had found amazing every time they had made love in the past few months. Remus kissed him again, letting his tongue penetrate past those lips he so loved and felt welcomed and greeted by Sirius' tongue. Remus slung his arms around his husband's neck and held on tightly while they kissed. Sirius' arms snaked around him as well and they rolled around on the bed. They returned to Remus pinning Sirius down on the mattress, but moving a bit away, so he could get to Sirius' opening, which he slowly prepared.
Once both of them had their male sexual orders returned to the original state Sirius and Remus had cast a contraceptive spell onto each other. According to Poppy Pomfrey this spell held until it would be removed with a specific counter spell. She assured them that it would not react to any casting of 'Finite Incantatem'. Nothing had happened so far and they were now quite relaxed.
Sirius' hands wandered down along Remus' body, caressed him and finally made a grab for the cock, which was heavy and hot, just waiting to breach that ring of muscles and give him these wonderful feelings again. Sirius loved to be fucked. He loved to be top as well, but feeling Remus inside of him made him really happy. He needed to be 'needed'. And Remus did need him right now, he could hardly wait to plunge in. Though he penetrated carefully until Sirius was warmed up and he would be gliding easily. Slowly Remus began to move, in and out, back in with long, slow strokes, then back out, inside again, breathing deeper and panting after a short while. Sirius pulled him in, moaned loudly and egged him on to go faster.
Remus stroked over Sirius' sweaty shoulder. He bent down to kiss him on the neck, soon leaving a love bite and then he moved up to the jaw and kissed all the way back to that wonderful sensual mouth he loved so much.
"Sirius... Sirius, love... Sirius..." he repeated over and over.
Sirius never got enough of hearing his husband call his name. Sometimes he also needed that, the assurance of his lover needing this, needing him. Sometimes he was still afraid that all would break to shards in front of him and he would be unable to do anything to prevent it from happening.
But not in this moment. Not now, when he felt that wonderful cock thrusting deep inside of him, hitting his prostate and causing him to yowl and scream Remus' name. Remus folded his hand around Sirius' cock and rubbed it hard. They came almost at the same time. First, Sirius let go with a growl and a scream, then Remus followed him over the edge and let go as well. He kept thrusting until the very last drop of semen had been embedded deep inside of his lover.
They flopped back down on the bed, next to each other. Sirius had only the strength left to wrap his arms around Remus and to pull him close, pressing a little kiss on Remus' mouth. Remus smiled at him and brushed the damp locks out of his face.
"I love you, Padfoot," he said simply.
"I love you, too, Moony," Sirius replied.
It had become their standard phrase after sex. Reminding each other that their sex really meant making love to them. Only then could they fall asleep and really sleep together. It was like a bedtime ritual for the children.
Because they had been in bed relatively early they were up quite early, too. Months of having to get up early because at least one of their babies called them for food had already conditioned them to become early risers. The good thing was that they had the cosy breakfast room for themselves. The sun streamed in and warmed them nicely. They had a great big breakfast in front of them. They talked about the next few days, what they had planned.
"I'll be going over the last few books about Dark Curses. There are about ten or twelve left that I haven't read yet. I actually wish I could get my hand on the library at Grimmauld Place, that would give us some real insight at Dark Curses and potions!" Sirius said.
"I'll be up at Hogwarts, too, for the most part. Then I have an order to ward about six more houses. According to Peter's intelligence Voldemort is beside himself because he can't get to these people. His own fault if he surrounds himself with mostly idiots. They may all be pure-blooded, but they're dumb nevertheless."
"Yes, it was quite entertaining hearing his tirades. It was ingenious of you to think of a recording spell! Now we get so much of what he talks about first hand. And he still hasn't found the 'leak'! That's the most precious bit."
"I would expect, that Lucius starts to wonder why he's got himself involved with this, if all he really gains is being punished with Cruciatus every other time he gets summoned," Remus grinned.
One by one the other friends arrived in the breakfast room. The sun had already gone over the house by the time the last ones arrived. They all said their goodbyes and Remus obliviated the proprietors of the inn, so they wouldn't remember the strange things that had been going on over the weekend.
Remus met Sirius at his parents' place where he was just picking up Vega for her afternoon meal. He followed suit with Polaris and both made themselves comfortable on the sofa in the living room to let their children suckle. At nine months they started to chew on bread rinds and were given some cooked and mashed vegetables as addition to their diet of milk. But for some reason neither Sirius nor Remus were ready to let go of the nursing just yet. It felt much too good for them still. No one tried to talk them out of it, so they just kept on as long as the children liked to take the milk.
Both babies were growing fast. They sat up and crawled a bit already and if one of their fathers helped them they pulled themselves up on their feet. While Sirius was reading he usually had them in a rather big playpen right next to his armchair. A house-elf was never far to entertain them when Sirius needed to concentrate on his texts.
Looking back over the year he had just passed, or most of it anyway, he thought that he couldn't believe how many books he had read. He presumed that not many people had gone through the Hogwarts library as systematically as he had. But he and Lily had worked out a few very good defences and had come up with some amazing spells, of which Remus had used a part for his wards.
Returning to Hogwarts after the babies were fed they could lay them into their cribs for another nap which would last until dinner time. With nothing else to do Remus pulled Sirius into their bed for some more love-making. He fucked Sirius again, and did it three times in a row. Sirius teased him:
"Feeling alpha today, are we?"
But he couldn't get enough of his wolf. As soon as Remus had shown him his tongue, Sirius asked, doggy eyes in place:
"Again?"
"You're wearing me out!" Remus complained, but complied, grinning.
"What's all that werewolf stamina good for if not to please my arse?" Sirius teased.
Remus crawled over Sirius, tickled his stomach and watched amusedly how Sirius jumped up and winced. Remus laughed, followed his husband and pressed him back down on the bed. He nipped and kissed the flesh just below the navel, which made Sirius squirm some more.
"Remus!" he screeched.
Remus hummed a bit while he went on teasing Sirius' flesh. Sirius' hands dug into Remus' hair, steering him even further down. Within minutes he was just a squirming, squealing mass of flesh in Remus' hand. Who enjoyed it greatly. He loved to dominate Sirius, who was like a lump of soft, warm wax in his hands.
"Stop it and fuck me already, love!" Sirius was able to say.
"Had enough, did you?" Remus asked.
"You know exactly, how much I can take! I'll never have enough of you, Moony," Sirius whined.
Remus looked at him, grinned and finally got ready to plunge inside of him again. Sirius responded with a low moan, that seemingly didn't stop until Remus was already very close to his orgasm, when it rose to a steady scream. That's how Remus loved Sirius most. Defenceless against all that pleasure that washed through his body. Not able to do anything else anymore but scream. Both of them reached their climax after a few minutes more of this and slumped down on the bed in a heap of sweaty limbs, unable to move for a while.
"Thank you, love! That was incredibly good," Sirius said after a while and lifted his arm to push a few strands of Remus' hair out of his face.
Through the one-way silencing charm Remus heard Polaris cry.
"Can you go and see what he needs? I'm out of it!" he whispered.
"Yes, love, I can - once we manage to get apart here..."
Sirius needed a moment to sort out which limbs belonged to his own body and sat up. He didn't bother with clothes, just got into his slippers and went over to look after the baby. Polaris was quite upset over something. He had woken up and daddy wasn't there as fast as he usually was, that scared him! Sirius gently turned him on the side and stroked soothingly over the back.
"Hey love! No reason to cry here, I'm right next door and so is papa! You okay again? There, there, everything's okay."
Polaris quieted down, but as soon as Sirius stood up and pulled his hand away, the baby was crying again. Sirius stayed next to him and waited patiently, gave him the pacifier and was rewarded for his patience as a few minutes later his little son was back to sleep.
"That's my sweet one," Sirius whispered and left the nursery.
When he returned to the bed he found Remus fast asleep. He smiled and climbed in next to his mate. He turned to Remus, pulled up the duvets and covered them both. A wink with his hand closed all the curtains. He slung his arms around the smaller man, pulled him close and whispered:
"Sleep well, my love! You don't even have an idea how much I love you!"
The next few months were spent between research at the Hogwarts library, missions for the Order and smaller skirmishes with Death Eaters. When Sirius and Remus were doing some shopping with Lily in Hogsmeade near the end of September they were accosted by a group of seventeen Death Eaters at once. It was the first time any of them met Sirius and Remus together. And they cried out their satisfaction of finally having stopped these two young men! Three of them immediately raised their wands to cast the deadly Avada Kedavra, but a high pitched female voice screamed at them:
"Stop! Stop! You can't kill them just yet! The Dark Lord wants them alive!"
The three Marauders immediately knew to whom that voice belonged. They exchanged a glance, took each other by the hand and formed a small back to back triangle to face their enemies. Then they cast Expelliarmus all at once. Eight of the Death Eaters, including Bellatrix were knocked against walls and unconscious. The remaining nine started throwing curses, but the three in the middle had set up shields quite solidly. One of them was constantly repeating the shield charm to maintain it, while the other two sent a couple of solid stunners and other curses back at their attackers. All the while they slowly turned around sideways to cover the area around. The whole 'battle' took fifteen minutes and left sixteen Death Eaters in the custody of the Ministry.
Someone had called the Aurors, who found not much to do left but bind the unconscious people and take them back to the Ministry holding cells. The Hogsmeade people were still standing around and all of them applauded the young people who had defended themselves so successfully.
Sirius bowed to them and grinned.
"Thank you very much! See, they can be sent packing! We're going to catch that snake yet, you'll see!" he said.
Then he looked around for Remus and Lily, found them unharmed and grinning as well. They grabbed each other by the hand and almost skipped on to Dervish & Banges, where they planned to look for some gadget or other.
"That was brilliant! We've got Bellatrix, too! He'll be beside himself! The best thing was that the one Death Eater got away. He will suffer for the news he brings!" Lily shouted, the glee rather untypical for her, but neither Remus nor Sirius complained.
"You're right! That's the icing on the cake..." Sirius confirmed and laughed.
But he didn't look too good. He was quite pale and looked sick. Remus noticed and asked:
"Did one of their curses hit you, Padfoot?"
"No. It's rather something else, Moony. I'm afraid that I might be pregnant again, love."
"What? But we've cast the spell..." Remus said.
"Yeah, we did and we did it on both of us even, just to make sure. But I'm feeling the same kind of nausea I felt when I was pregnant with Vega."
"Oh dear! That's soon, love."
"I know! I'm sorry, Remus," Sirius said.
"Nothing to be sorry about, Sirius. It takes two and we both relied on that spell to hold!"
"Which one did you use?" Lily asked.
"Non Gravitum," Remus replied.
"Has a failure rate of about three percent, I'm afraid. You should make the potion, it's much more reliable. Though not very pleasant to brew and even worse to drink. But once you've got it down it's dead sure!" Lily explained.
"Oh, that's great. Now you tell us," Sirius teased.
"Do you mind it much?" Remus asked.
"No, not that much, but it is a bit soon after Vega and Polaris, don't you think?"
"Yes, that is true. But I'm happy anyway. It's not like I mind changing nappies, there are spells not to have to smell that..." Remus said cheerfully.
Lily laughed.
"You'll have to show me these, because I want a baby real soon!" she said.
"You'll profit from our growing maternity experience, young lady!" Sirius promised, still pale.
They were able to execute their shopping before Sirius really got sick. They were already past the gates when Sirius finally couldn't hold it. He vanished behind a few bushes and emptied his stomach in a most unpleasant way. When he came back, Remus conjured up a glass of fresh water and Sirius used it to rinse his mouth.
"Eww... Thanks, love..."
"You're most welcome!"
"Think I need Poppy's test?" Sirius asked.
Remus passed him a piece of chocolate and said:
"Yes, I most certainly think you do, just to make sure..."
Upon which they took their purchases to their rooms and went over to the hospital wing. They found Poppy tending to a fourth year Ravenclaw who had been hit with a curse from a Slytherin.
"This looks really nasty, Elizabeth. Do you know who it was?"
"I know I should know his name, but I don't. All I know is that he looked like that man over there!" she said and pointed to Sirius.
"In this case it can only have been my darling little brother. Looks like his handwriting in any case. I apologise for him, young lady! He's supposed to be a noble Black, but he behaves like a bloody peasant!" Sirius replied and conjured a bouquet of flowers for the young girl.
She smiled through her tears and managed to thank him.
"You're most welcome! I'm really sorry for the git. If he were only a prat I wouldn't half mind, but he's fast on the way to join Voldemort, so you should watch out for him. Practice some nasty hexes, too! And remember to never ever confuse me with him, I'd be most hurt! I washed my hands off that family!" Sirius said theatrically, but Lily and Remus knew exactly that he was dead serious with most of what he had just said.
"Is he serious?" Elizabeth asked Poppy.
Poppy looked at Sirius for a moment and then replied:
"Well, I'm quite sure he is. He is Sirius Black, by the way and the person he would not like to be confused with is Regulus Black, his younger brother."
"Oh. Well, thank you, I'll mind your words, Mr. Black."
While Poppy helped Elizabeth into the bed, she looked back at the three young people and asked:
"And what do you want here, dears?"
Sirius pointed at his stomach. Poppy cottoned on immediately and looked at them:
"But you were under the spell!"
"First thing that came to MY mind," Sirius said laconically.
"And are you sure? It's not like you have any missing menstruations or something to tell you..."
"No, I don't, but I have a pretty good other indicator. It's called morning sickness," said Sirius.
Poppy laughed. "Well, come over to my office with the sample and we'll find out..."
"Be right back!"
Sirius vanished to the toilet and brought the little tube back to Poppy who added it to the test. A few minutes later the colour gave the pregnancy away. Poppy nodded and checked Sirius up, then she declared:
"Everything's fine, Sirius, you'll give birth in May, beginning of the month I'd say."
"Oh well... we'll keep the baby stuff close at hand then," Sirius sighed.
"It's alright, love, I'm happy about it," Remus told him.
Sirius looked at Remus and smiled. He pulled him into a hug, kissed him and said:
"You always know how to cheer me up, love! Thanks! I'm okay, just don't look forward to that ugly morning sickness again."
"Do I understand that?" Remus asked, sympathy blinking in his eyes.
Lily looked quite content and said:
"Good! I'm getting another godchild! And I hope I'll be able to give one to you soon!"
"That would be great, Lily, I do think we need to gift Hogwarts with a new generation of Marauders very soon! Can't wait for Peter and Sabina get down to it, too!" Sirius said, his most mischievous glint in his eyes.
"Merlin help us! I never thought of that. Vega and Polaris are two Marauders concentrated! I'm afraid they must be worse than anything!" said Poppy and was truly shocked.
Sirius, Remus and even Lily laughed. They knew that the Marauders, and especially Remus, had a very special place in the heart of the matron. Even now she still fawned over Remus after his transformations.
Of course they had to set up heavy protection for Peter and Sabina's wedding, too. Sabina's parents offered their home, a stately country house with a wonderful ballroom for the celebration. There were two house-elves who cooked for them and Sabina's and Peter's families had organised and prepared for the party. There were a few more guests as both their immediate families were considerably larger than James' or Lily's. But since the wedding took place indoors only it was the house and the immediate surrounding that needed to be warded and Remus had it done in three days.
The party didn't remain wholly undisturbed though and the Order had to be called in to get rid of a larger group of Death Eaters who tried to breach the wards. They had not expected so many defensive forces to show up and after a short battle, the Death Eaters started to disapparate.
James, Lily, Sirius and Remus had helped from behind the wards. When they returned back into the house they looked quite content with their day's work. The wards had held up beautifully, but Remus quickly went over them just to make sure.
"Voldie must be quite annoyed with you by now, love!" Sirius said with a smirk.
"Yes, he meets those wards of yours more and more often and they don't know how to breach them! It's almost endearing to see them trying," James confirmed, thumping Remus on the shoulders.
"Thanks for the compliments, guys. I do think these wards are really quite a good piece of magic. I'm happy that people appreciate them. And even happier that they are safe behind them."
"You deserve all the commendations you get, sweetie. You're doing a thumpin' good job with them," Sirius said.
He looked at Remus with admiration. Remus threw him the same kind of glances back. The party returned to their dancing and for a night they forgot about the war.
Peter and Sabina looked thoroughly happy. They were both working at Diagon Alley now, Sabina at her family's apothecary, where she went through all the jobs to learn the trade from scratch. They were all happy, because Remus and Sirius had brought their little ones, who were now asleep in a bed two floors up, magically protected from falling out of it. And of course the room had been magically sealed against intruders who weren't supposed to go into the room.
Sirius had told them all about his new pregnancy. He sighed a bit when he told them, but more because it was such a short time after his first pregnancy. One of the guys of course joked about his boobs remaining firmly in place for a while longer. Remus rolled his eyes. His were still around as well, because they still nursed the children for breakfast and before going to sleep. It was still the easiest way to get them to sleep at night. That way they could usually pluck their sleeping babies off their breasts and lay them down in their cribs. After that they usually didn't hear a sound from them until the early morning. They planned to hold up until both children were a year old.
"We hope they lose interest in being nursed before that or shortly after. But by the end of the year we'll have them off our breast. Then my body gets time to prepare for the new baby," Sirius explained.
"Sounds so strange to hear you talking about that," one of Peter's brothers said.
"Well, I can't hide it, now can I? So I rather explain. Carrying and giving birth to Vega and then nursing her, and sometimes Polaris, has changed me a lot, I reckon. But they make me so happy! I never thought I'd ever have a child, let alone two or more and of course I would have said that anyone's crazy who would have dared telling me I'd have a child before I was twenty. And look where I am now? I'll be twenty in a week and I'm pregnant with my second child..."
"James, Peter, you'll have your work cut out if you want to catch up with those two!"
"Damn, I wouldn't even try! They're two of them who can breed at the same time! Fully functioning hermaphrodites as they have become!" James exclaimed.
"But you have to do a bit of work, James, we want some Marauders to be sent back to Hogwarts soon! Dear Minerva won't know what hit her when our offspring is thrown in her arms!" Sirius said with a grin.
"Sure... we do hope to have a baby soon," James promised and looked over at his wife.
"Yep! We're not going to wait, I'm off the potion. Stopped taking it just before we got married! We plan to clutter this world with little Potters!" Lily added.
That made everyone laugh and Hope cried: "Well, you and Sabina will have to make up for Dari and I, since we won't have any children."
"That makes you the ideal babysitters!" Remus declared.
"And godmothers!" Sirius said.
The party broke up late at night and since Remus and Sirius had their children with them, they were invited to sleep in one of the guestrooms. In the morning they had to get up fairly early, because of their little ones. They didn't linger, bid their goodbyes to Sabina's parents and returned to Hogwarts.
Author: Mariann
Rating: R
Pairing: Sirius/Remus
Category: Between Fluff, Fun and Fighting
Summary: Sirius and Remus grow up, find love, start a family and fight the Dark Lord
Disclaimer: Belongs to JKR - no money's made from my poor attempts at writing
A/N: AU - The Willow Incident does not happen in this story. Peter is loyal and a spy for Dumbledore. Remus and Sirius are destined to fight Voldemort - will they succeed? A fair amount of children are born in this story - to spite the Death Eaters of course!
10. Weddings
James and Lily got married on the second Saturday in August. They had chosen the date to be as far away from the full moon as they could find for Remus to really feel well on the date. Sirius was the best man, a duty he fulfilled with great enthusiasm. That's what he called it, Remus rather tended to call it exaggerated exuberance. But Sirius had fun planning a few funny schemes and he was exhilarated that the wedding was going to be a wizarding wedding.
Security had to be tight. The young people around James Potter had all become a very dangerous sign for all Death Eaters as they were able to thwart many of the Death Eater's schemes in their earliest stages. In the past four months Remus had done a lot of travelling to apply his new knowledge about very specialised and personalised wards onto endangered people's houses. He had warded off Andromeda and Ted Tonks' house as well as the houses of some very prominent wizards. So far none of his wards had been breached. Dumbledore was quite pleased seeing his special pupil make some name and a bit of money for himself. Remus was happy to be able to earn some money of his own and help protect people. It had given his self-confidence an enormous boost.
Sirius had been a bit more domestic watching the children for the most part, though both men continued to nurse their children. While he had always been the one who couldn't sit still he was now the one who didn't really mind being glued to the library and the home with the children.
But of course he brought the old Padfoot back out for James and Lily's wedding! To be able to celebrate with no fear Remus had warded off a country inn somewhere in Essex and all the guests were brought in by Portkey. They didn't know where the Portkey took them, only Remus and Sirius knew. They personally made all the Portkeys which were the name tags for all the guests, preset on two o'clock, Saturday, seventh of August and took them to all the guests. The number of guests had to be limited to forty, so there were only the closest relatives and friends. James had his parents, Lily had her parents. Her sister had declined an invitation as soon as Lily said the wedding would be magical. Dumbledore officiated, Sirius was best man and Dari was maid of honour, together with their partners that made for the first eleven participants. Then there were Peter and Sabina, Professor McGonagall, all the members of the last Gryffindor Quidditch team apart from those who were there anyway and the closest colleagues from work.
Because they had to fear attacks it was a small wedding party, but the intimacy of it made for a very fun party. All the people who wanted to could stay overnight, the nicest rooms had been reserved for the newlyweds. The Potters and the Evanses had paid a fairly high price to rent the whole inn for the weekend, so that the problems would be controllable. And through that they were able to enjoy a wonderful afternoon and evening. James and Lily radiated and looked very happy. Remus and Sirius enjoyed their time, even though Sirius had a few things to look after. They had left Vega and Polaris back at the Lupins, who were happy to look after them.
After the official part and Dumbledore bonding James and Lily there was a bit of socialising before the big dinner was served at five thirty in the afternoon. For two hours they enjoyed the excellent food. Sirius had organised a few little games to entertain them all during the meal and to get some good laughs. Peter and Sabina had prepared a little show in which they played a few scenes about marriage clichés. Everyone enjoyed that a great deal, as it was extremely funny. But Dari got the biggest laugh - she went behind the scenes and came back wearing the most awful robes with lots of little things attached. Her hat put old Mrs Longbottom's to shame! She came back in, Sirius got the room's attention and then she started bawling in front of James. Everyone screamed of laughter when she acted out his old lover, chucked out for his new bride and gave him back all their 'souvenirs' which she plucked from her robes. They ranged from an old pair of boxers over the squashed tube of toothpaste to the last remaining condom and she had fabricated a little story to each of the items.
They had just dried off their tears when the dessert was being served. Dari went back to get out of the dreadful clothes. When she sat down again Lily grabbed and embraced her.
"That was brilliant, Dari! No one could have acted that out as well as you did! Thanks so much for embarrassing James to the bone!"
James actually still looked rather red. Dari sat next to him and gave him a little shove. He grinned a bit sheepishly and said:
"You know, some of that might actually hit a bit close to home. I had two or three girlfriends while I was actually in love with Lily and I'm sure that's about how I treated them..."
"Forget it, James. You're together now and that's all that counts."
After dinner the dance started and everyone got up to the floor to enjoy some music and a lot of dancing. Sirius could finally relax, because now his duties were more or less over and he could just enjoy himself with Remus. They were both staying over at the inn as well and were looking forward for a night of undisturbed rest.
"...and hopefully some good sex, love! We're not getting any as often as I'd like..." Sirius whispered into his husband's ear.
"I'm longing for you, Padfoot! Don't know when it's been that we had a whole night free. But it doesn't look that bad, I mean, Polaris is already sleeping through very nicely. Vega is fighting with her teeth, so that makes her a bit crankier, I can understand that..."
Sirius smiled. So much of their lives now turned around their children and every conversation started somewhere else still landed with the little ones at some point.
"Do you feel robbed of something, because we've had them so early?" he asked.
"Well, yes, a bit if I'm completely honest. We could go out more and enjoy ourselves, but I'd do it with a very bad feeling. So I do feel a bit cheated out of that young adult time, but we have them, so it's just that. I love them so much and I feel their trust and love, so that's more than a reward for the things we do for them... besides having experienced that was amazing."
"I agree with you. They're also going to be great fun and I can only say, woe to Minerva McGonagall when these two come to Hogwarts as students!"
"Obviously they're going to be brought up to become the most insufferable pranksters," Remus said.
"That's fate, Moony! How can they NOT be with two fathers like us?" Sirius was offended.
Remus just laughed. He pulled Sirius into a kiss that lasted so long, that Sirius wanted to get out of the room, into theirs and into the bed.
"Can't, love - you're the best man..." Remus reminded him.
Some time after midnight the party started to wind down and some of the guests, especially the older ones, left the inn to apparate home. While there had been anti-apparition wards set up to apparate in, they could all leave without any problems. Mr. and Mrs Evans had received a two way Portkey, so they could just use their name tags to get back home. Remus activated the Portkey for them.
The younger generation of course held out until way after two in the morning. Sirius and Remus asked to leave a lot before that and were granted the wish, because they would have to go back and pick their children up again. So the two men bid goodbye to all who were there and went up to the room they had chosen. It was small, but still big enough to hold a double bed, a dresser and two armchairs next to a fireplace. They went straight to bed. They were so hot for each other, they could hardly wait until they had torn their robes off. But somehow they managed and then they fell into the bed naked and greedy to have some good sex.
Their still somewhat untypical male bodies made for some funny love-making. Both of them enjoyed it immensely to suck on each others' breasts, as these nipples were much more sensitive than what they had been used to before. They had quite well formed breasts, Sirius' were a bit more prominent than Remus'.
Remus cupped them with his hand as he moved on top of Sirius, rubbing their erections together and enjoying the growing heat. Sirius tilted his head back on the pillow, closed his eyes and just felt. Remus' caresses on his breasts sent little jolts straight down into his cock, which he had found amazing every time they had made love in the past few months. Remus kissed him again, letting his tongue penetrate past those lips he so loved and felt welcomed and greeted by Sirius' tongue. Remus slung his arms around his husband's neck and held on tightly while they kissed. Sirius' arms snaked around him as well and they rolled around on the bed. They returned to Remus pinning Sirius down on the mattress, but moving a bit away, so he could get to Sirius' opening, which he slowly prepared.
Once both of them had their male sexual orders returned to the original state Sirius and Remus had cast a contraceptive spell onto each other. According to Poppy Pomfrey this spell held until it would be removed with a specific counter spell. She assured them that it would not react to any casting of 'Finite Incantatem'. Nothing had happened so far and they were now quite relaxed.
Sirius' hands wandered down along Remus' body, caressed him and finally made a grab for the cock, which was heavy and hot, just waiting to breach that ring of muscles and give him these wonderful feelings again. Sirius loved to be fucked. He loved to be top as well, but feeling Remus inside of him made him really happy. He needed to be 'needed'. And Remus did need him right now, he could hardly wait to plunge in. Though he penetrated carefully until Sirius was warmed up and he would be gliding easily. Slowly Remus began to move, in and out, back in with long, slow strokes, then back out, inside again, breathing deeper and panting after a short while. Sirius pulled him in, moaned loudly and egged him on to go faster.
Remus stroked over Sirius' sweaty shoulder. He bent down to kiss him on the neck, soon leaving a love bite and then he moved up to the jaw and kissed all the way back to that wonderful sensual mouth he loved so much.
"Sirius... Sirius, love... Sirius..." he repeated over and over.
Sirius never got enough of hearing his husband call his name. Sometimes he also needed that, the assurance of his lover needing this, needing him. Sometimes he was still afraid that all would break to shards in front of him and he would be unable to do anything to prevent it from happening.
But not in this moment. Not now, when he felt that wonderful cock thrusting deep inside of him, hitting his prostate and causing him to yowl and scream Remus' name. Remus folded his hand around Sirius' cock and rubbed it hard. They came almost at the same time. First, Sirius let go with a growl and a scream, then Remus followed him over the edge and let go as well. He kept thrusting until the very last drop of semen had been embedded deep inside of his lover.
They flopped back down on the bed, next to each other. Sirius had only the strength left to wrap his arms around Remus and to pull him close, pressing a little kiss on Remus' mouth. Remus smiled at him and brushed the damp locks out of his face.
"I love you, Padfoot," he said simply.
"I love you, too, Moony," Sirius replied.
It had become their standard phrase after sex. Reminding each other that their sex really meant making love to them. Only then could they fall asleep and really sleep together. It was like a bedtime ritual for the children.
Because they had been in bed relatively early they were up quite early, too. Months of having to get up early because at least one of their babies called them for food had already conditioned them to become early risers. The good thing was that they had the cosy breakfast room for themselves. The sun streamed in and warmed them nicely. They had a great big breakfast in front of them. They talked about the next few days, what they had planned.
"I'll be going over the last few books about Dark Curses. There are about ten or twelve left that I haven't read yet. I actually wish I could get my hand on the library at Grimmauld Place, that would give us some real insight at Dark Curses and potions!" Sirius said.
"I'll be up at Hogwarts, too, for the most part. Then I have an order to ward about six more houses. According to Peter's intelligence Voldemort is beside himself because he can't get to these people. His own fault if he surrounds himself with mostly idiots. They may all be pure-blooded, but they're dumb nevertheless."
"Yes, it was quite entertaining hearing his tirades. It was ingenious of you to think of a recording spell! Now we get so much of what he talks about first hand. And he still hasn't found the 'leak'! That's the most precious bit."
"I would expect, that Lucius starts to wonder why he's got himself involved with this, if all he really gains is being punished with Cruciatus every other time he gets summoned," Remus grinned.
One by one the other friends arrived in the breakfast room. The sun had already gone over the house by the time the last ones arrived. They all said their goodbyes and Remus obliviated the proprietors of the inn, so they wouldn't remember the strange things that had been going on over the weekend.
Remus met Sirius at his parents' place where he was just picking up Vega for her afternoon meal. He followed suit with Polaris and both made themselves comfortable on the sofa in the living room to let their children suckle. At nine months they started to chew on bread rinds and were given some cooked and mashed vegetables as addition to their diet of milk. But for some reason neither Sirius nor Remus were ready to let go of the nursing just yet. It felt much too good for them still. No one tried to talk them out of it, so they just kept on as long as the children liked to take the milk.
Both babies were growing fast. They sat up and crawled a bit already and if one of their fathers helped them they pulled themselves up on their feet. While Sirius was reading he usually had them in a rather big playpen right next to his armchair. A house-elf was never far to entertain them when Sirius needed to concentrate on his texts.
Looking back over the year he had just passed, or most of it anyway, he thought that he couldn't believe how many books he had read. He presumed that not many people had gone through the Hogwarts library as systematically as he had. But he and Lily had worked out a few very good defences and had come up with some amazing spells, of which Remus had used a part for his wards.
Returning to Hogwarts after the babies were fed they could lay them into their cribs for another nap which would last until dinner time. With nothing else to do Remus pulled Sirius into their bed for some more love-making. He fucked Sirius again, and did it three times in a row. Sirius teased him:
"Feeling alpha today, are we?"
But he couldn't get enough of his wolf. As soon as Remus had shown him his tongue, Sirius asked, doggy eyes in place:
"Again?"
"You're wearing me out!" Remus complained, but complied, grinning.
"What's all that werewolf stamina good for if not to please my arse?" Sirius teased.
Remus crawled over Sirius, tickled his stomach and watched amusedly how Sirius jumped up and winced. Remus laughed, followed his husband and pressed him back down on the bed. He nipped and kissed the flesh just below the navel, which made Sirius squirm some more.
"Remus!" he screeched.
Remus hummed a bit while he went on teasing Sirius' flesh. Sirius' hands dug into Remus' hair, steering him even further down. Within minutes he was just a squirming, squealing mass of flesh in Remus' hand. Who enjoyed it greatly. He loved to dominate Sirius, who was like a lump of soft, warm wax in his hands.
"Stop it and fuck me already, love!" Sirius was able to say.
"Had enough, did you?" Remus asked.
"You know exactly, how much I can take! I'll never have enough of you, Moony," Sirius whined.
Remus looked at him, grinned and finally got ready to plunge inside of him again. Sirius responded with a low moan, that seemingly didn't stop until Remus was already very close to his orgasm, when it rose to a steady scream. That's how Remus loved Sirius most. Defenceless against all that pleasure that washed through his body. Not able to do anything else anymore but scream. Both of them reached their climax after a few minutes more of this and slumped down on the bed in a heap of sweaty limbs, unable to move for a while.
"Thank you, love! That was incredibly good," Sirius said after a while and lifted his arm to push a few strands of Remus' hair out of his face.
Through the one-way silencing charm Remus heard Polaris cry.
"Can you go and see what he needs? I'm out of it!" he whispered.
"Yes, love, I can - once we manage to get apart here..."
Sirius needed a moment to sort out which limbs belonged to his own body and sat up. He didn't bother with clothes, just got into his slippers and went over to look after the baby. Polaris was quite upset over something. He had woken up and daddy wasn't there as fast as he usually was, that scared him! Sirius gently turned him on the side and stroked soothingly over the back.
"Hey love! No reason to cry here, I'm right next door and so is papa! You okay again? There, there, everything's okay."
Polaris quieted down, but as soon as Sirius stood up and pulled his hand away, the baby was crying again. Sirius stayed next to him and waited patiently, gave him the pacifier and was rewarded for his patience as a few minutes later his little son was back to sleep.
"That's my sweet one," Sirius whispered and left the nursery.
When he returned to the bed he found Remus fast asleep. He smiled and climbed in next to his mate. He turned to Remus, pulled up the duvets and covered them both. A wink with his hand closed all the curtains. He slung his arms around the smaller man, pulled him close and whispered:
"Sleep well, my love! You don't even have an idea how much I love you!"
The next few months were spent between research at the Hogwarts library, missions for the Order and smaller skirmishes with Death Eaters. When Sirius and Remus were doing some shopping with Lily in Hogsmeade near the end of September they were accosted by a group of seventeen Death Eaters at once. It was the first time any of them met Sirius and Remus together. And they cried out their satisfaction of finally having stopped these two young men! Three of them immediately raised their wands to cast the deadly Avada Kedavra, but a high pitched female voice screamed at them:
"Stop! Stop! You can't kill them just yet! The Dark Lord wants them alive!"
The three Marauders immediately knew to whom that voice belonged. They exchanged a glance, took each other by the hand and formed a small back to back triangle to face their enemies. Then they cast Expelliarmus all at once. Eight of the Death Eaters, including Bellatrix were knocked against walls and unconscious. The remaining nine started throwing curses, but the three in the middle had set up shields quite solidly. One of them was constantly repeating the shield charm to maintain it, while the other two sent a couple of solid stunners and other curses back at their attackers. All the while they slowly turned around sideways to cover the area around. The whole 'battle' took fifteen minutes and left sixteen Death Eaters in the custody of the Ministry.
Someone had called the Aurors, who found not much to do left but bind the unconscious people and take them back to the Ministry holding cells. The Hogsmeade people were still standing around and all of them applauded the young people who had defended themselves so successfully.
Sirius bowed to them and grinned.
"Thank you very much! See, they can be sent packing! We're going to catch that snake yet, you'll see!" he said.
Then he looked around for Remus and Lily, found them unharmed and grinning as well. They grabbed each other by the hand and almost skipped on to Dervish & Banges, where they planned to look for some gadget or other.
"That was brilliant! We've got Bellatrix, too! He'll be beside himself! The best thing was that the one Death Eater got away. He will suffer for the news he brings!" Lily shouted, the glee rather untypical for her, but neither Remus nor Sirius complained.
"You're right! That's the icing on the cake..." Sirius confirmed and laughed.
But he didn't look too good. He was quite pale and looked sick. Remus noticed and asked:
"Did one of their curses hit you, Padfoot?"
"No. It's rather something else, Moony. I'm afraid that I might be pregnant again, love."
"What? But we've cast the spell..." Remus said.
"Yeah, we did and we did it on both of us even, just to make sure. But I'm feeling the same kind of nausea I felt when I was pregnant with Vega."
"Oh dear! That's soon, love."
"I know! I'm sorry, Remus," Sirius said.
"Nothing to be sorry about, Sirius. It takes two and we both relied on that spell to hold!"
"Which one did you use?" Lily asked.
"Non Gravitum," Remus replied.
"Has a failure rate of about three percent, I'm afraid. You should make the potion, it's much more reliable. Though not very pleasant to brew and even worse to drink. But once you've got it down it's dead sure!" Lily explained.
"Oh, that's great. Now you tell us," Sirius teased.
"Do you mind it much?" Remus asked.
"No, not that much, but it is a bit soon after Vega and Polaris, don't you think?"
"Yes, that is true. But I'm happy anyway. It's not like I mind changing nappies, there are spells not to have to smell that..." Remus said cheerfully.
Lily laughed.
"You'll have to show me these, because I want a baby real soon!" she said.
"You'll profit from our growing maternity experience, young lady!" Sirius promised, still pale.
They were able to execute their shopping before Sirius really got sick. They were already past the gates when Sirius finally couldn't hold it. He vanished behind a few bushes and emptied his stomach in a most unpleasant way. When he came back, Remus conjured up a glass of fresh water and Sirius used it to rinse his mouth.
"Eww... Thanks, love..."
"You're most welcome!"
"Think I need Poppy's test?" Sirius asked.
Remus passed him a piece of chocolate and said:
"Yes, I most certainly think you do, just to make sure..."
Upon which they took their purchases to their rooms and went over to the hospital wing. They found Poppy tending to a fourth year Ravenclaw who had been hit with a curse from a Slytherin.
"This looks really nasty, Elizabeth. Do you know who it was?"
"I know I should know his name, but I don't. All I know is that he looked like that man over there!" she said and pointed to Sirius.
"In this case it can only have been my darling little brother. Looks like his handwriting in any case. I apologise for him, young lady! He's supposed to be a noble Black, but he behaves like a bloody peasant!" Sirius replied and conjured a bouquet of flowers for the young girl.
She smiled through her tears and managed to thank him.
"You're most welcome! I'm really sorry for the git. If he were only a prat I wouldn't half mind, but he's fast on the way to join Voldemort, so you should watch out for him. Practice some nasty hexes, too! And remember to never ever confuse me with him, I'd be most hurt! I washed my hands off that family!" Sirius said theatrically, but Lily and Remus knew exactly that he was dead serious with most of what he had just said.
"Is he serious?" Elizabeth asked Poppy.
Poppy looked at Sirius for a moment and then replied:
"Well, I'm quite sure he is. He is Sirius Black, by the way and the person he would not like to be confused with is Regulus Black, his younger brother."
"Oh. Well, thank you, I'll mind your words, Mr. Black."
While Poppy helped Elizabeth into the bed, she looked back at the three young people and asked:
"And what do you want here, dears?"
Sirius pointed at his stomach. Poppy cottoned on immediately and looked at them:
"But you were under the spell!"
"First thing that came to MY mind," Sirius said laconically.
"And are you sure? It's not like you have any missing menstruations or something to tell you..."
"No, I don't, but I have a pretty good other indicator. It's called morning sickness," said Sirius.
Poppy laughed. "Well, come over to my office with the sample and we'll find out..."
"Be right back!"
Sirius vanished to the toilet and brought the little tube back to Poppy who added it to the test. A few minutes later the colour gave the pregnancy away. Poppy nodded and checked Sirius up, then she declared:
"Everything's fine, Sirius, you'll give birth in May, beginning of the month I'd say."
"Oh well... we'll keep the baby stuff close at hand then," Sirius sighed.
"It's alright, love, I'm happy about it," Remus told him.
Sirius looked at Remus and smiled. He pulled him into a hug, kissed him and said:
"You always know how to cheer me up, love! Thanks! I'm okay, just don't look forward to that ugly morning sickness again."
"Do I understand that?" Remus asked, sympathy blinking in his eyes.
Lily looked quite content and said:
"Good! I'm getting another godchild! And I hope I'll be able to give one to you soon!"
"That would be great, Lily, I do think we need to gift Hogwarts with a new generation of Marauders very soon! Can't wait for Peter and Sabina get down to it, too!" Sirius said, his most mischievous glint in his eyes.
"Merlin help us! I never thought of that. Vega and Polaris are two Marauders concentrated! I'm afraid they must be worse than anything!" said Poppy and was truly shocked.
Sirius, Remus and even Lily laughed. They knew that the Marauders, and especially Remus, had a very special place in the heart of the matron. Even now she still fawned over Remus after his transformations.
Of course they had to set up heavy protection for Peter and Sabina's wedding, too. Sabina's parents offered their home, a stately country house with a wonderful ballroom for the celebration. There were two house-elves who cooked for them and Sabina's and Peter's families had organised and prepared for the party. There were a few more guests as both their immediate families were considerably larger than James' or Lily's. But since the wedding took place indoors only it was the house and the immediate surrounding that needed to be warded and Remus had it done in three days.
The party didn't remain wholly undisturbed though and the Order had to be called in to get rid of a larger group of Death Eaters who tried to breach the wards. They had not expected so many defensive forces to show up and after a short battle, the Death Eaters started to disapparate.
James, Lily, Sirius and Remus had helped from behind the wards. When they returned back into the house they looked quite content with their day's work. The wards had held up beautifully, but Remus quickly went over them just to make sure.
"Voldie must be quite annoyed with you by now, love!" Sirius said with a smirk.
"Yes, he meets those wards of yours more and more often and they don't know how to breach them! It's almost endearing to see them trying," James confirmed, thumping Remus on the shoulders.
"Thanks for the compliments, guys. I do think these wards are really quite a good piece of magic. I'm happy that people appreciate them. And even happier that they are safe behind them."
"You deserve all the commendations you get, sweetie. You're doing a thumpin' good job with them," Sirius said.
He looked at Remus with admiration. Remus threw him the same kind of glances back. The party returned to their dancing and for a night they forgot about the war.
Peter and Sabina looked thoroughly happy. They were both working at Diagon Alley now, Sabina at her family's apothecary, where she went through all the jobs to learn the trade from scratch. They were all happy, because Remus and Sirius had brought their little ones, who were now asleep in a bed two floors up, magically protected from falling out of it. And of course the room had been magically sealed against intruders who weren't supposed to go into the room.
Sirius had told them all about his new pregnancy. He sighed a bit when he told them, but more because it was such a short time after his first pregnancy. One of the guys of course joked about his boobs remaining firmly in place for a while longer. Remus rolled his eyes. His were still around as well, because they still nursed the children for breakfast and before going to sleep. It was still the easiest way to get them to sleep at night. That way they could usually pluck their sleeping babies off their breasts and lay them down in their cribs. After that they usually didn't hear a sound from them until the early morning. They planned to hold up until both children were a year old.
"We hope they lose interest in being nursed before that or shortly after. But by the end of the year we'll have them off our breast. Then my body gets time to prepare for the new baby," Sirius explained.
"Sounds so strange to hear you talking about that," one of Peter's brothers said.
"Well, I can't hide it, now can I? So I rather explain. Carrying and giving birth to Vega and then nursing her, and sometimes Polaris, has changed me a lot, I reckon. But they make me so happy! I never thought I'd ever have a child, let alone two or more and of course I would have said that anyone's crazy who would have dared telling me I'd have a child before I was twenty. And look where I am now? I'll be twenty in a week and I'm pregnant with my second child..."
"James, Peter, you'll have your work cut out if you want to catch up with those two!"
"Damn, I wouldn't even try! They're two of them who can breed at the same time! Fully functioning hermaphrodites as they have become!" James exclaimed.
"But you have to do a bit of work, James, we want some Marauders to be sent back to Hogwarts soon! Dear Minerva won't know what hit her when our offspring is thrown in her arms!" Sirius said with a grin.
"Sure... we do hope to have a baby soon," James promised and looked over at his wife.
"Yep! We're not going to wait, I'm off the potion. Stopped taking it just before we got married! We plan to clutter this world with little Potters!" Lily added.
That made everyone laugh and Hope cried: "Well, you and Sabina will have to make up for Dari and I, since we won't have any children."
"That makes you the ideal babysitters!" Remus declared.
"And godmothers!" Sirius said.
The party broke up late at night and since Remus and Sirius had their children with them, they were invited to sleep in one of the guestrooms. In the morning they had to get up fairly early, because of their little ones. They didn't linger, bid their goodbyes to Sabina's parents and returned to Hogwarts.