Elizabeth, or Liz, looked exactly like Aya except for Sirius's steel gray eyes, which created an unusual effect.
"She'll be teased when she gets older," Aya worried. She'd been the subject of some teasing herself, as her puberty had come rather late compared to the other girls her age, and she was still sensitive.
"I'll make sure she won't." Sirius reassured her.
The twins and little Liz took to each other immediately; each would cry when the other left, and they had such a fun time, laughing in that adorable way babies less than one and three-quarters do, and Liz first smiled around the twins.
The twins…there was something odd about the twins. Every once in a while their eyes would flare gold for Andrea, silver for Adrianna. Adrianna enjoyed baths a little too much…When I left her alone for a moment, with the water not too hot or cold, I would find her drawing the water up to her hand.
"Relax!" James' mum said in her crisp manner. "It's probably just a sign of early magic." Aya happened to be in the room, and Adrianna Senior (Adrianna was named after her grandmother) glanced significantly at Aya, who looked rather surprised.
"But, Mrs. Potter, I thought…"
"Shush! We can discuss it later, Miss…Black, I should call you now. We can discuss this later, Miss Black."
Andrea, meanwhile, was doing the same thing with dirt. Dirt sticks to your hands, but it doesn't come up in a stream like that. I knew there was something magical about my daughters.
What I didn't know, about my daughters, about my mother in law, about my best friend, would hurt our family almost beyond repair in the years to come.
When the Twins Were One Year and Ten Months (February 1980)
How do you explain pregnancy to girls who aren't even two? I was pregnant with a boy, due in July. We had decided to name him Harry James Potter.
"Mummy, you're bumpy." Adrianna announced.
I sighed. "Yes dear, I am. It's because I'm having a baby."
"What be baby, Mummy?"
"A baby is little, like Liz, but even littler. A… little bigger than Jane." Jane was a baby doll that Adrianna had started dragging around.
"Really, Mummy? Jane isn't 'live. Liz is 'live."
I sighed. "Like Liz, alive, but as small as Jane. Also, the baby is a boy."
"Why boy, Mummy? I want girl! Girl! GIRL!" the aggravating child screamed. "Change it to girl RIGHT NOW Mummy! NOW NOW NOW!"
James came in. "What's all the fuss?"
"Adrianna wants a little sister. Could you explain to her that you can't change a baby's gender?"
"How?"
"Don't ask me."
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