Chapter twenty – I have beter news
It was now a month until the twins were due, Voldermort it seemed has gone into hiding, too weak to wage war at the present time. Dumbledore was still alive but going more loopy by the day and the few men and women that had survived the attack were all doing fine, Sirius included.
Harry was now muttering under his breath about how unfair it was that the only place he was allowed to be other than his bed was in the toilet. Severus took Bonnie, now ten months old into the potions lab with him so Harry wouldn't become stressed out while caring for her.
Remus was taking care of all the defence classes and Sirius, well he was equally as irritating as Severus, he was constantly keeping him company during the day claiming that he had nothing else better to do than care for his god son.
Harry who's stomach had grown to abnormal proportion could barely move anyway but hated the fact that he could not longer do anything on his own. Also the constant kicks of the two babies was near driving him insane. He had also got the weirdest cravings, he would suddenly want a chocolate pop tart and maple syrup covered in marshmallows and jelly tots and on one occasion he had force Severus to go and get him a piece of carrot cake covered in butter scotch and custard, sprinkled with…wait for it…toffee popcorn.
Severus was finding this all highly amusing and writing it all down as it happened, he was also constantly quizzing Harry about all the things he had missed during his first pregnancy. What Harry was slightly more worried about was the fact that Bonnie had been by far, more magical than the twins, who had shown no signs of being magical in the slightest.
"Sirius." Harry called. "Don't make me get up now." At once Sirius was in the room grinning at his godson.
"What can I do for you Har?" He asked enthusiastically still grinning from ear to ear.
"Listen very closely, I want you to get me something particular to eat."
"Ok, what shall it be?"
"Jam doughnut covered in honey with iced gems and dolly mixtures sprinkled all over it." He said as his stomach growled hungrily.
"Harry are you sure, I mean, that just sounds horrid."
Harry shrugged. "Don't ask me, ask the twins."
Sirius sighed and went off to get Harry's order, Harry meanwhile took full advantage of having empty rooms and got out of bed heading for the living room for a change of scenery. The bedroom had been getting rather boring for a while now. By the time he reached the sofa he was exhausted but didn't regret his decision to move, he had needed to stretch his legs a bit.
He rubbed his huge belly, Poppy had informed them that with the size of the twins she would be surprised if they hadn't broken a wizarding world record, Severus and Harry had decided against finding out the sex until the twins were born, to add to the surprise. Harry was still in the dark about the property that Severus was having prepared for them, it was going to be a surprise present when the new babies were born.
Harry had most likely picked the worst time to go walk about around the rooms as Severus was on a break and had just entered, a little shocked at seeing his lover out of bed. "What do you think you are doing?" He said sternly but kindly at the same time.
"I'm sorry Sev but I got so bored, next time I think you should carry the baby." Harry said huffily, his arms crossed over his chest as his husband helped him off the sofa and back into the bedroom.
"Where is that mutt of a godfather, he was suppose to be keeping an eye on you."
"I sent him to get me something to eat."
"Another 'exotic' dish?"
"I don't know about exotic but Siri didn't like the sound of it. How is life outside this room anyway?"
"Everything is going as normal, Minerva has Bonnie, she was as ever delighted to have her."
"Why don't you have her?"
"Because I was having my sixth years brew a potion that has some of the most poisonous ingredients Hogwarts supplies and I didn't think you would be too pleased if she got hold of anything."
"Good point, I still would have liked to see her though, I don't see enough of her now a days."
"You shall see her tonight my darling." Harry's stomach gave another loud rumble of protest. "Where is Black already?"
"Oh I'm sure he's coming…oh."
"What is it?"
"Oh it's nothing; the babies are just kicking is all." Harry took his partners hand and placed it on his stomach so Severus could feel as well.
"Oh wow, every time I feel it I still can't believe it, any time now we could have three children instead of just one it's so…wow!"
"Yeah, but I wish they would hurry up and be born already, it's actually quite painful sometimes carrying all of this around."
"Well perhaps if you stayed put like I wanted you to…"
"Yeah, yeah, I know, I shall stay in bed for the rest of the day, what's next, every time I need to do to the toilet are you going to transfigure the bed into a loo?"
"You know I never thought of that, but it's actually not a bad idea and then you don't have to walk about at all."
"Sev, if I don't get out of this room at least once a day your very pregnant husband is going to do insane with boredom."
"I'm very sorry but it is for your own good." At that moment Sirius came through the door with what looked like…well we won't go there…"I had better get back to the lab, I asked Minerva to drop Bonnie off here after her last class which is an hour before mine, Black make sure you're here."
Sirius nodded in reply handing Harry his plate of…sugary goodness, as he kissed his husband on the cheek and watched him leave before he tucked into his meal.
It was later that evening when Bonnie was in bed and Harry and Sev were reading in bed together that Snape decided to tell Harry about the house.
"Harry, I have a surprise for you, you know a while ago we were discussing having a house to raise the children in rather than doing it here at Hogwarts."
"Yes, we decided that we would after Voldermort was taken care of."
"Well, I have found us the perfect place, it needed a bit of work but it's all done now, when the twins are born I want to take you to see it."
Harry was silent for a moment, unable to show his excitement as a stab of pain hit him causing his hands to clutch at his stomach, he felt a gush of water around his legs. Having experienced this once before he knew exactly what was happening.
"That's really great Sev but I have better news…the babies are coming."
I do realise I'm skipping a lot but there wasn't much I could put in to fill the gap between then and now so I'm sorry it had to be done. Hope you liked the chapter, I certainly enjoyed writing this one although I did it at 12.46 in the morning because I couldn't sleep. Please review. xxx