It was just 2 hours after they were born that Kendra and Romulus woke bellowing, wanting to be fed. Godric didn't have to worry about waking the mother; she was up so fast she almost hit her head on his nose. Gently taking Kendra into her arms, Hermione settled into her rocking chair and opened the special flaps in her dress, thankful that her daughter latched on quickly.
Meanwhile Romulus was unhappy that his big sister was fed first, but those cries were calmed slightly when Godric took the black haired newborn into his arms and began singing to him. Hermione watched as she nursed her daughter, mesmerised by the deep tenor that rang through the room. It relaxed her, she had been a little tense before, but the singing was just so soothing that she was now rocking back and forward, her eyes firmly planted on Godric as he sang and moved around the room.
When his song stopped, the vampire turned and smiled at Hermione, "A song I learnt from a nice Jewish woman who had sung it to her newborn son. It calmed him no matter what the torments going on in the world were."
"Mary? You really met her, that's amazing," the witch sighed in gratefulness when Kendra unlatched, finished feeding, "Would you mind burping her while I feed Romulus?"
With expert precision, the adults swapped babies, Hermione also changing breasts, while Godric gently tapped Kendra on the back to get her to give up any air bubbles in her stomach, "I was walking through Jerusalem when I heard talk about the Saviour being born in Bethlehem, so I went down to see for myself. Joseph and Mary, they doted on their child, and loved him very dearly."
Kendra gave up her few air bubbles, and the witch looked on as Godric tenderly placed her into the bassinette, "There are parallels in their tale and ours you know. While Harry had known I was pregnant, he was on the other side when I found out; another man has watched over me while I've been pregnant; and now, I hope, that same man will be a father to the twins."
"There are those parallels," Godric said softly, moving closer to the witch, "But I'm not so sure Joseph was an over 2000 year old vampire."
"Potato, pot-ah-to in my books," Hermione commented quickly.
"Really? Well, I must accept, but only if the mother will go on a date with me"
The pair were almost nose to nose, their eyes shining brilliantly as they looked at the other, "I don't think that will be too big of an inconvenience, I happen to know she would love to go on a date with you."
Because Romulus was still feeding the kiss was as light as the previous one had been but just as loving. As Godric was moving back he heard a car speeding towards the house and sighed, "Your friends have arrived."
"We will have many times together Godric, and remember, you were here for one of the most important moments," the brunette placing a caring hand on his cheek, "Can you go greet them, and bring them all up here. They will no doubt want to meet the twins."
"As long as you're up to it," seeing the nod, the vampire raced down to the front door, opening it just as the Cherry Apple red Porsche convertible came to a stop.
Through the dust and darkness, Godric could see Pam and Jason in the front seats, while in the rear 2 sat a blonde girl and a redhead man. As he stepped out onto the porch the blonde vampire spotted him, "Godric, we picked them up."
"I can see that," walking towards the two humans, he stuck out his hand, "A pleasure to meet you both, I'm Godric."
"Great to meet you too, I'm George and this is Luna," George Weasley shook the vampire's hand pleasantly, "Where's Mione at?"
"She's upstairs resting, you're too late to make fun of her size, which is probably a good thing," Godric explained with a laugh, "As long as you're all quiet, we can go see her now, she should be finished feeding Romulus."
Jason groaned and kicked the dirt, "I missed it, fuck."
"Everyone else did too so don't be too depressed about it"
Godric led them all up the stairs, explaining that Luna and George would be sleeping in 2 of the upstairs rooms. Knocking on the door to give the witch fair warning should she want to cover up, the vampire then entered and stood behind Hermione, who was still on the rocking chair, "He's almost finished."
"I'll take care of him while you get reacquainted," Godric offered, gently kissing her head before taking the fully fed baby in his arms to burp.
After fixing up her dress, Hermione moved quickly over to embrace her dear friends, "George, Luna, I have missed you both so much."
"We've missed you too, London was far too boring without you there," Luna admitted as she held the older witch, "Thank you for asking Kingsley if I could do my NEWTs early."
"No problem," Hermione then reached up and tenderly brushed the long red hair of George's away to see the missing ear, "Good to see that it's finally healed up properly."
Knowing she had only recently given birth, the mischief maker was very careful when he lift her up into a hug, "All thanks to you my little sister. Now how come I only just learnt you were having twins? I could have been working on them while they were still in-utero, creating another generation of trouble makers."
"Hence the reason I never told you Mr George Fabian Weasley, I want at least one day without you corrupting them," with a laugh, Hermione then went serious, "How have you been? The family?"
"I've been better; starting to feel slightly human again but there's still a huge portion of my soul missing. The Firewhiskey helped until Luna cursed the bloody hell out of me for it. As for the family, Katie's pregnant, 2 months, and she and Ron couldn't be happier. Fleur's the same but she's about 5 months along, a girl. Ginny's going well at Hogwarts even though she has no one really to talk to, wants to leave but Mum won't let her. We've given Nev our apartment, somewhere for him and Gin to live after she escapes the school. Let's see, umm, Charlie's found himself a partner, a very nice fellow Dragon Handler, an Egyptian wizard called Amun. Mum was overjoyed at hearing she had two faggots in the family," George was cut off then by both witches beating him over the head.
"Do. Not. Use. That. Word!"
"Sorry, but I like Amun, he's good to Charlie. Percy is working under Kings, trying to right the wrongs he did while away from the family. He and Lavender Brown have been spending many nights working together, he actually got her out of her shell again and no one's been able to put her back. And Dad has confided us older 4 that he will be divorcing Mum as soon as Ginny is out of Hogwarts, he hates that Mum's driven away his family with her ways. I had a fucking awful hangover the morning after he told us, we'd all gone out drinking and I wound up naked as the day I was born stuck to the roof of the apartment, had to get Luna to get me down, I couldn't locate my wand."
The blonde witch shook her head, "You were up there because I stuck you there after you tried to leave without clothes on, and I didn't have a Sobering Potion on me."
Even Godric was laughing at the redhead, Jason was damn near on the floor, "You Brits are fucking hilarious."
"Come on, let's go downstairs, no point in disturbing them now that they are asleep," Hermione hastily placed monitoring charms over both bassinettes, linking them to her and Godric so that they would know if one woke up.
"So this is a nice place you've got here Mione," Luna observed, "Who lives here with you?"
"Remus and Tara, they're out enjoying the full moon with Isabel and Sam; Isabel lives here in the basement rooms with Godric; and Teddy is down with my Gran at the moment. They are the only permanent ones but I've also got Jason, Pam, Sookie, Bill, Lafayette and Eric who all come around often enough to be considered more than visitors. I'm starting to think I'll need another level added to have enough rooms for everyone."
"You can put me down for a room, my crappy place barely has enough room for me to walk," Jason spouted out from his place on the floor between Pam's knees.
The witch threw her head back exasperatedly, "I was joking."
Everyone laughed the night away from then, Hermione explaining who everyone she had named was, and what they were, to the newcomers. Every couple hours she would head upstairs with Godric to handle the twins, but would soon return. When the moon was going down, the quartet who had been enjoying the full moon returned, signalling it time for the vampires to go downstairs, Pam rooming with Isabel for the day.
