Just a note of caution, minor birth scene after first line break, no not the one below this message. Just thought you should know. It isn't nothing major just minor details that shouldn't affect every day life.

Chapter 9

It was Valentine's day, and Lady Elizabeth had just left the manor a few minutes before a 5 in the evening. Lorabelle had taken up residence in the Phantomhive manor near her brother to help with the delivery if she could, and though the three demons had been against it, Alois was spending the night with Ciel.

"So what do you think we should do?" Alois asked Ciel as they sat across from each other, finishing another game of chess.

"I suppose we could play with Pluto?" Ciel looked to his guardians to see if that would be a problem.

Harry was laying on the sofa while Sebastian was standing right behind him. He gave a violent flinch and flew into a sitting position and unconsciously pressed a hand against his stomach.

"Something wrong?" Alois ask, noticing the violent movement.

"I'm fine," Harry hissed, and he clenched his eyes in pain.

"You don't smell fine," Sebastian said as he rubbed his mate's shoulders from over the couch.

Harry shrugged him off as he staggered out of the room.

"What's wrong with him?" Alois asked the two remaining occupants of the room.

"I'm sure his stomach is just cramping," Ciel said off-handedly.

Harry leaned against the tub as he pressed a hand against his swollen stomach. He closed his eyes as another wave of pain washed over him, and he immediately let out a grunt. "Lora-Lorabelle," he gasped.

"What is it now? I was just getting ready to take a bubble bath," Lorabelle whined as she materialized in the shadows. "Harry!" she immediately flew to his side and looked him over. "Are you alright? What happened?" she asked him quickly.

"I just sat down after I used the toilet, but I am in quite a bit of pain," he said, panting for breath.

"Alright, grab a hold of my arm, and I'll transport us to your and Sebastian's room, okay?" she asked him.

Harry nodded weakly as he gripped his sister's arm tightly.

Lorabelle grunted at it and dissolved into the shadows before materializing in the shadows in the bedroom that Harry and Sebastian shared. "Come on, you need to walk," Lorabelle told him as she helped him up and over to the bed where he collapsed. She helped him into a night gown and watched him carefully before checking the dilation. "Did your water break?" she asked.

"Water? What water?" Harry asked, suddenly panicking.

Lorabelle rolled her eyes. "Sorry, but when a woman's water breaks, it means she going into labor. I'm not sure what it all consists of, but there should be a lot of something," she told him.

Harry groaned. "I think it might have broke when I was on the toilet then," he said before letting out a small cry as another wave of pain washed over him, more powerful than the last one.

"Well, crap then, I need to let your mate and cub know, but then we also have that psycho brat here. Luckily the little lord told all the other servants to take a vacation for a few weeks," Lorabelle muttered. "Alright, Tobias!" she yelled.

Tobias quickly materialized. "Yes Madame?" he inquired.

"Help my brother into a sitting position while I go wash my hands and arms and put on a change of clothes. Have one of the others tell Sebastian and Ciel that Harry is in labor, but they are to both wait outside. I can't have them flipping out," Lorabelle then looked at her brother as she held up her finger, signaling for Tobias to wait a moment. "Can we tell Alois?"

"I don't care as long as he doesn't say anything to other humans," Harry groaned as he rested a hand on his stomach.

Lorabelle looked back at her Rider and nodded, signaling that it was okay to let the psycho kid know about this before she disappeared.

Tobias called Amos and Adam to go to Sebastian and Ciel to let them know that Harry was in labor. Once he had done that, he turned his attention to Harry and helped into a sitting position while propping him with all the pillows he could track. He had Harry spread his legs and bend his knees. "You alright?" he asked the Elt demon.

"I think so, but so much pain," Harry groaned.

Alois jumped when he saw two men that looked like the one named Tobias except their hair was styled differently appeared before him, Ciel and Sebastian.

"More Riders?" Ciel inquired with a snort. "How much protection does your mistress think we need?"

The two riders looked at one another.

"Harry…" one started and then looked at Alois. "He said it was okay to tell blondie there about, you know as long as he doesn't tell another human or demon, and then we can give you the rest of the news," he said.

"Huh?" Alois looked between the four men.

Ciel let out a sigh, not really wanting to give away the big secret, but it was ultimately Harry's decision, which his mate had no control over unless it was life threatening to Harry. "I'm sure you've noticed that Harry hasn't been feeling all that well for a while now," he started.

"Well, yeah, but you told me he was just ill or something," Alois said, tilting his head.

"In a way he was, but he isn't like most male demons. Harry can get pregnant because of what he is," Sebastian finished for Ciel.

"You are joking right?" Alois looked between demon and cub.

"I'm afraid not," Ciel said. "He's been using a spell called Glamour to hide it from prying eyes unless he is alone with me, Sebastian, Undertaker, Lorabelle or any of her Riders since we all know that he can get pregnant, and now you know," he stated simply.

"How long does the pregnancy last then?" was Alois' next question.

"7 months, and he was due this month," Sebastian said as he looked pointedly between the two boys.

"That's right, but I don't understand what is wrong with Alois staying the night here," Ciel told Sebastian sharply.

"He may go into labor any minute," Sebastian told Ciel pointedly.

"Erm, sorry to break up the family spat, but Harry is in labor. He's in your bedroom if either one of you care, but Lorabelle wants us to ask you to wait outside since your mood will effectively rub off on him," the other one said before both disappeared.

Sebastian stared at where the two men were at. "Did he say what I think he just said?"

"If you mean the fact that your mate is currently in labor, yes?" Alois said though the last part came out as question since he was still in shock.

"Shit," Ciel growled before the three of them ran back into the manor.

They ran down the stairs to the servant quarters and found three chairs waiting outside of the room where he was in.

Sebastian was less than thrilled as he felt the sudden urge to check on his mate, but he knew Lorabelle well enough now to follow her orders. Plus he didn't want Harry to become upset since he was or Ciel was.

Ciel took the chair next to Sebastian's and the door while Alois sat across from Sebastian in his chair.

They waited for about 5 hours, unmoving before they heard Harry screaming breaking the silence, causing them all to jump several feet into the air.

Ciel looked at his butler and knew that he was deeply upset and worried about his mate as it seemed that it had finally started. He knew that Sebastian had probably heard his mate whimpering better than he had with his demon hearing since he was sitting next to the door.

They waited for the screaming and the heavy sobs to finally stop, and Sebastian looked like he was about ready to throw Lorabelle's orders out the window and go in there. It was an hour and a half later before Harry finally fell into an unnerving silence.

The door opened and all three of them were on their feet though Ciel and Alois both staggered since they weren't immune to limbs falling asleep.

Lorabelle slipped out in a white apron with blood all down the front, and her she was now wearing a white dress and rubbing her hands on a towel though there was also blood on the side of her dress as if she had been originally wiping her arms on that. "You didn't have to wait out here the whole time," she chastised them softly.

"Can we come in?" Sebastian asked, suddenly nervous.

"Yes, but for goodness sakes, keep your voices down," Lorabelle hissed softly as she let them in to the room.

Ciel looked at Harry who was leaning against the headboard, being held up by two of Lorabelle's Riders, and it appeared that he was crying into the shoulder of one while whimpering. He then watched as Lorabelle cleaned up the blood and straighten her brother's knees back out.

"How are you feeling?" Sebastian asked quietly as he moved to stand beside the bed.

Harry looked up at him with tear-stained cheeks and then held out his left hand, which was shaking quite badly.

Sebastian took it the moment the Rider on Harry's left got up and sat beside his mate and pulled him from the other Rider, which freed him to get up. He noted that his mate was shaking quite badly.

"Come on, you need to lie down and get some rest. You've have an exhausting evening," Lorabelle said as she tried to get her brother to move to no avail.

Harry shook his head and leaned against his mate, and he closed his eyes.

Alois watched as the Riders seem to form a strange barrier. "Where is the child?" he finally asked.

Lorabelle lifted her head to study him. "It is best to let them rest along with Harry," she told them gently, looking at the barrier that her Riders had formed.

"Is the child alright?" Ciel then asked, nervous for the well-being of his 'sibling'. I seriously need to stop thinking that they are my figurative family because they are family now, he scolded himself.

Lorabelle nodded, and she finally managed to get her brother to lie down and sleep some. "Why don't we all have some nice hot tea and biscuits? Then we can come back up and see Harry. He should be somewhat alert by then," she suggested.

Sebastian reluctantly agreed, knowing that his mate would want to be up when they met their child. If it had just been him and Ciel, then they might have been able to see the child while he rested, but with Alois, he would be very protective and might reject the child if he sensed Alois' scent on it without him knowing… or he might try to kill Alois for touching his newborn child.

They went down and left the Riders guarding the child, and they all sat around a table in the drawing room while Sebastian went to fetch some tea.

"Are you alright?" Ciel asked his aunt the moment Sebastian returned with the tea and biscuits, which turned out to be scones.

"I'm fine, just tired. Spent six and half hours on my feet," Lorabelle said as stretched her legs out and then realized that she still had the blood on her dress. She glanced at it before snapping her fingers and the blood disappeared from her clothes. She then pulled the hair tie out to let her hair fall back into his natural form.

"How is Harry?" Sebastian finally asked her.

"Exhausted, he's strong and healthy enough to live through this ordeal since some women do die during childbirth," she said as she stretched out her legs and rolled her shoulders, which gave a satisfying pop.

"So why couldn't we see the child?" Alois asked her.

Lorabelle hid a smirk in her tea cup as she took a sip. She quickly remembered that she had to cast a silencing charm on the room to prevent what Harry said from being heard by Sebastian and possibly cueing him in. Oh how she loved to torture people. "Harry was simply too exhausted, plus he wanted to be up when you were seeing the child," Lorabelle said, deciding to play along with their assumptions.

They finished the tea pot and scones though Sebastian didn't join in as he was extremely worried about his mate and their child, so an hour had passed before they had finished it all. They waited till Sebastian joined them after taking care of the dishes and pot before heading back up stairs.

Lorabelle knocked softly before opening the door. "Harry, you awake," she called softly as she poked her head in.

"I'm up," came the grumbled reply.

Lorabelle walked him and smiled at her brother as he was now leaning against the headboard again, watching them, especially Alois, carefully. She sat on the bed and took a damp cloth and pressed it against his forehead.

He shuddered at the touch but leaned into it. "I'm still tired," he told her softly.

"I know, but you told me an hour so here we are," Lorabelle said, taking the cloth away and pressing a kiss to his forehead. She then got up and retrieved their firstborn, which was a son, before going back to the bed where Sebastian had sat next to his mate with Ciel in his lap and Alois hovering over them nervously. She passed the child to Harry whose hands were still shaking but not as badly as before.

Ciel stared at the baby's pale complexion, and he figured that it was boy considering that he was wrapped in a light blue blanket.

"He's adorable," Sebastian said softly as he looked at his mate, once he removed his gloves, showing the contract on his hand, before touching the child's smooth cheek.

"Lorabelle?" Harry looked tiredly at his sister.

"Were there any complications during the birth?" Sebastian asked him.

Harry smiled at him weakly. "No, I guess that means that she didn't tell you," he said, looking at his sister.

"What can I say? I like to toy with men," Lorabelle said with a tired laugh. "Come," she said as she turned around and went back behind her Riders.

Alois stayed where he was while the other two stopped in front of the Riders.

"You may join them as long as Sebastian, Lorabelle or myself is with you, and you may hold one as well though the same rule applies without worrying about me killing you since I wouldn't reject any child with your scent," Harry told him.

Alois nodded though slightly frightened before joining the demon and cub. The moment he joined them, the Riders parted to let them through.

Ciel stared in shock as did Alois, but Sebastian fainted promptly.

"Erm, Lorabelle, did my mate just faint?" Harry called from the bed.

"Yep," Lorabelle answered cheerfully.

"Perhaps you should have warned him," Harry said with a tired groan.

"Eh, maybe," Lorabelle said as she checked on the second born, which happened to be a girl.

"How is this possible?" Ciel said, finally finding his voice.

"Hm? Oh, well the most Harry can normally carry is six though it wouldn't surprise me if he could carry a couple more," Lorabelle said.

"Oh Merlin, I hope not. Six at one time is enough for me. Just my luck to have the normally maximum litter as my first. Somebody up there or down below hates me," Harry said flatly.

"Maybe," Lorabelle answered calmly as she looked over the babies. 4 girls and 2 boys total though one was currently sleeping in her brother's arms.

It was at least 10 minutes before Sebastian woke up, and he picked up one of the girls carefully while Lorabelle handed another girl to Alois, the other boy to Ciel, and she picked up a girl for herself and had Tobias pick up the last one before they headed back to the bed where Harry was lightly dozing.

"So what are you going to name them?" Alois asked as he looked down at the girl he was holding, always checking to make sure that Harry was okay with him holding her.

Harry looked at Sebastian curiously.

"You name them," Sebastian said while leaning forward and kissing Harry on the head.

Lorabelle quickly pulled a Sharpie! and several slips to put around one of the limbs of the children after she handed the child to Amos, who looked terrified of hurting her or provoking a demon's wrath.

"Erm, Severus Remus for the one I'm holding," Harry said sheepishly while Lorabelle busted out laughing.

"What's so funny?" Sebastian asked.

"Oh I should have known you would have wanted to put that as a first name," Lorabelle said with a chuckle as she put the band around the infant's arm.

"Vincent James for the other one," Harry said calmly.

Ciel blinked at that. "You are naming one after my father?" Ciel asked sheepishly.

Harry nodded. "James was my father, Severus was my first Soulmate before he was killed by that damn snake bastard," Harry growled darkly. "And Remus was my godfather's lover, plus he was a werewolf," Harry added.

Alois chuckled softly.

Lorabelle added the tag to Vincent who decided to open his eyes, which were a soft almond as he looked up at her.

"Almond colored eyes?" Sebastian questioned.

"Genetics, our father had almond eyes, and it appears he has your smooth hair," Lorabelle said with a smile.

Harry then looked at the girl Sebastian was holding. "Rachel Lily," he said softly.

Again Ciel blinked.

Harry smiled at him. "Yes, I used your mother's name as well as mine and Lorabelle's," he said tenderly. He then looked to the one Alois was holding while Lorabelle put the tag on Rachel. "Skylar Alexis," he finally said after a few minutes.

"Yay, a completely random name," Lorabelle cheered as she put the band around Skylar's wrist.

Harry then looked to Sebastian, pleading with him with his eyes to name the last two.

"Alright," Sebastian said as he looked directly at Amos. "Imbri Dusk," he said and waited as Lorabelle wrote the name down and then attached it to Imbri's arm. He then looked at Tobias. "Eileen Nike," he said. He jerked when his mate sputtered in shock, and he then looked at Lorabelle who was laughing again.

"You just named your last daughter after Severus' mother," she said as she wrote the name down.

"I didn't know," Sebastian admitted.

"Of course you didn't, which makes it all the more hilarious," Lorabelle responded as she attached the name to Eileen.

They discussed what to do with the children, and Lorabelle said that she could magically expand the room where six of her Riders could stay and take care of the children and she also decided to put up a silencing charm to the ones that didn't know. She then had the children put back so that Harry could rest some more since it was late, and he was completely exhausted after giving birth to six children in a span of an hour and a half once Lorabelle finally told him that he was ready.

Lorabelle left with Ciel and Alois to make sure that they got there, and she got them ready for bed.

Sebastian settled down with Harry in his arms. "How are you feeling love?" he breathed into his ear.

"Tired but happy," Harry replied back softly. "Though I hope next time we don't have so many at one time," he finally said with a whimper as he shifted his legs.

"I know," Sebastian said as he nipped Harry's ear gently. "Was it extremely painful?"

"Yes and no," Harry answered as he groaned again.

"You are still covered in sweat," Sebastian said gently.

"I know, and I would really like a bath, but Lorabelle said I shouldn't walk until tomorrow in the evening," Harry replied.

Sebastian got up and then picked his mate up.

"Where are we going?" Harry asked him.

"To get you a bath. I won't have you sleeping with dried sweat on your body," Sebastian said as he carried him out and up the short flight of stairs and into a bathroom where he drew the water.

"Crap. I forgot to get you something for Valentine's day," Harry muttered.

"Hm?" Sebastian looked at his mate's sour expression. "But you already have," Sebastian said after he was holding Harry in his arms. "Four beautiful daughters and two beautiful sons," he said, kissing his mate's forehead.

"I wonder which one was constantly kicking me," Harry grumbled.

"I wouldn't be surprised if they all wanted your attention. Just what am I going to do when you spend more time with the children than with me," Sebastian teased before pressing his lips against Harry's.

Harry smiled before opening his mouth to let Sebastian in, and he melted into the kiss. The broke apart though they leaned their foreheads against each other's. "I love you Sebastian," he said softly.

"I love you too, Harry," Sebastian still wasn't used to all the lovey dovey aspects of love, but he was slowly getting used to it all and Harry's antics.

Heh. Yep, six children born on Valentine's day. We are just going to pretend that they do celebrate Valentine's day back in the 1800s as it works for me, and I'm not sure if they did or not. Reviews are really the bomb and are quite helpful. A very jealous Claude will be entering soon, gee, I wonder what Lorabelle and Harry will do if Ciel decides to take Sebastian shopping.

Anything else? I don't think so. Oh well questions always welcomed. Also pairings, what do you guys think Prince Soma/Ciel ...Alois/Ciel or what? Any others?