The people have spoken and I have delivered... Here is "The birth of the Twins"...
“Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Potter. You have two healthy twins.”
Twins.
Draceana and Harry looked down at two healthy children. Their children. They’d been looking forward to this day for months, and now, in the maternity ward of the Hospital of Wizardry and Witchcraft, the day had finally arrived.
Draceana smiled, remembering the sheer panic on Harry’s face when she had gone into labor. She swore his eyes were bigger than the moon. But for Draceana, this was something even more special than her undying love for her husband.
No, this meant so much more to her than Harry could ever understand.
All her life, she had taken and destroyed with no regard for who got hurt. Harry may have changed her behavior, but he could not change the past. But now, for the first time ever, she had made something of her own. And she had given her Harry a son and a daughter.
Harry slowly caressed the children’s faces, taking in every single tiny detail.
“This one has your eyes, honey,” Harry said as he ran his hand around the boy’s face, stopping as he reached the top of his head. “And it appears he’s going to have my hair.”
“And this one has your eyes,” Draceana said as she slowly brushed her finger across her daughter’s face, admiring the beautiful emerald orbs that she had so fallen in love with. “And it looks like this one’s going to be long and blonde,” she said, looking up at her husband with a grin.
Harry gave his wife a flat expression as he looked into those pretense-silver eyes that now rested on his son’s face. He held that gaze for a moment before breaking into a fit of laughter.
“I guess neither of us won the bet, huh, Draceana?” he said between laughs.
Draceana clicked her tongue before also breaking into laughter.
“I guess not, sweetheart. Who would have guessed we’d have twins? And that they’d split our looks straight down the middle to boot. Damn, I was really looking forward to you acting like Dobby for a day.”
“And I was looking forward to you drinking a Polyjuice Potion, transforming into me, and trying to teach one of my classes for a day. I still think the other teachers wouldn’t see through it.”
“Oh, Harry, McGonagall would have seen through me in a heartbeat. She’s known us for too long not to catch us in the act.”
“Exactly!” Harry protested. “She has known us longer than most, and you don’t think she would find it amusing? “She’d probably come up to you at one point and go Harry then stood straighter and started mimicking the headmistress’s voice and mannerism.
“She’d probably come up to you at one point and go, ‘Now, Mrs. Potter, I hope you understand that Hogwarts is a prestigious magical institution, and we expect better of the staff here and not to indulge in such tomfoolery. Now, I assume that Mr. Potter is somewhere around here, no doubt hidden in that cloak he’s so fond of, and I expect him to be teaching his class again tomorrow. Please do let him know that. Now, if you will excuse me.’ Then she would probably turn around and say, ‘Oh, and Draceana, you do make a fine Harry, and it’s good to see you again. I am happy you found someone who truly loves you.’ Then she’d walk away, and I’d get an earful the next time I see her.”
Draceana was now laughing uncontrollably, and she had to quickly put their children in a holder on the bed for fear of accidentally dropping them.
“Yes!” she managed to squeeze out between fits of laughter. “Yes, she would really act like that, wouldn’t she? Bless that woman for managing to put up with us. Between you and me, we’ve probably shortened her life by years trying to deal with us.”
Harry looked at his laughing wife. They’d been through so much; she had gone through so much, but all of that was in the past now. And now, sitting in that hospital bed, surrounded by their twins and laughing uncontrollably, she was the most beautiful woman in the world.
And she was his.
Just as he was hers.
“You know, Pottah,” Draceana suddenly said, seemingly calmed down for now and having become quite smug, “it is said that labor is one of the most painful things a woman can experience, second only to being savagely cut open. So, I guess this is twice now you have caused me great pain. If I didn’t know better, I’d think you hated me.”
Harry sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. “You’re never going to let me live that down, are you, Draceana? I did tell you I didn’t know what the spell did. And YOU were about to cast an Unforgivable spell on me, in case you forgot, ‘Pottah.’”
And for the next few minutes, they continued to throw jabs at each other, neither wanting to lose any ground, but neither truly wanting to hurt the other. To an outside viewer, it would seem as if they were fighting. But anyone who was close to the Potters would tell you that this was simply their way of relieving stress and one of the ways they showed their love for each other.
After a while, they calmed down and began admiring their newborns again. Each of them was holding one of their children in their arms, smiling at the little lives they had created. Silver eyes and Green eyes. Brown hair and Golden hair. Gold and silver, Green and brown. Funny, how colors that used to clash at Hogwarts would mix is such a beautiful way.
“So,” Harry said, looking at his wife, “which one of us are they going to take after more?”
“Want to make a bet on it?” Draceana replied.
“Sure, sure. But first, we should probably give them names.”