The Quartet and The Marauders: The new time line.

The Quartet And The Marauder's: The New Time Line
Chapter Four: Revolting Cravings And Swollen Feet.


Ron had owled and asked his parents about the male pregnancy streak that had of recent been a predicament for him and the twins, as they were both pregnant again with triplets each and were due at the end of June after graduation.

Molly wrote back and explained there was male pregnancy on her side and on Arthur’s side of the family as well. Harry later found out that Lucius had been the results of a male pregnancy.

Things over the next two month were filled with hilarity, whining and cursing, and with a side order of swollen feet and morning sickness, and weird arsed cravings.

Harry was finally in his ninth month of pregnancy, and had cravings for bacon sandwiches with cheese and tomato sauce on them, or anything thing Indian, Chinese or Italian.

He was constantly exhausted, every emotional and rotten tempered. His back and ankles kept him awake at night because they were so sore and swollen or the quads would sit on his bladder making him go to the toilet constantly. And the gas and indigestion had Remus cursing him until he was blue in the face.

Ron was eight months pregnant and very unhappy indeed. He and Harry had to be tutored in their rooms, as they could hardly walk and were in constant need of the toilet, Harry especially. Ron was in constant need of any form of eggs covered in chocolate that had even Harry balking.

He loved to cover what ever took his fancy in chocolate, such as chips, crisps, bacon and sausage. The chocolate on eggs gave Ron the worst gas and indigestion imaginable, especially on fried eggs. It got to the point where Hermione and Ginny would just sit at the table and look at Ron in revulsion until he had finished eating.

Remus and Sirius were just a day over five months pregnant and had only just stopped with the morning sickness at the beginning of the month. Both had swollen feet and were bears in class, not even the Slytherin's would dare wound up the DADA and Care of magical creatures professors while they were like they currently were.

And everyone knew it would get worse as there was still three months to go, geez they were only half way into their fifth month of pregnancy and were clearly showing. The students had gotten used to watching their professors bolting out of the room to go and pee, as each set of twins were murder on Remus and Sirius's bladders.

Remus had cravings for spaghetti bolognaise with mayonnaise on top that Severus claimed was bloody revolting. He also likes chips cheese and salad cream, or chips cheese and gravy. Sirius was addicted to any kind of noodles with coleslaw and fried or scrambled eggs.

Harry went into labour a nine am May 31st 1998. He had just been getting dressed for the day, when he felt a sharp twinge in his stomach. He continued to slowly dress thinking it was just one or all of the quads kicking.

He soon changed his mind a few moments later when another sharper stab of pain shot through his stomach and his back this time. He was just about to go and get help when he felt his trousers suddenly become soaking wet, his waters had broken.

Harry knowing Remus was only next door talking to Sirius screamed "REMUS HELP!" A few moments later Remus, followed by Ron and Sirius came waddling through the door to the adjoining nursery, that had been magically placed between both sets of rooms for when the new arrivals came.

It wasn't just his husband’s panicked scream of help that alerted Remus that something was not right. Sure it played apart in getting Remus into the room quicker, but he could sense his husbands discomfort through the bond they shared, the wolf could also sense it as well.

Thankfully it was a Saturday and there were no classes. Remus had helped Harry up to the hospital wing, while Ron and Sirius had gone and got James and Lily and the others.

After nine hours of labour Harry's contractions were less then two minutes apart, every two minutes Harry would let out blood curdling screams that had everyone outside wincing in sympathy.

Poppy soon had Harry pushing. After ten minutes of pushing Harry and the others heard the first of the hiccupping cries they would gradually hear over the next hour.

The first to be born was a boy, with Remus's golden brown hair and Harry's green eyes. He looked like Harry only with Remus mouth and nose. Remus cut the cord with a wave his hand, freeing his son from his husband. Poppy had then passed the little boy to Lily who was beaming at the sight of her tiny grandson as she took him to be cleaned up.

Harry continued to pant scream curse and push for another fifteen minutes until the second of four babies was born, she had Harry's jet black hair and Remus hazel amber tinted eyes, she looked like her brother. Remus once again cut the cord with a wave of his hand. Poppy passed the little girl to Hermione who was staring at the little girl in awe as she took her to be cleaned up like her brother.

Twenty minutes later after more pushing and screaming, plus encouragement from both Remus and Poppy, Harry gave birth to the third quad. It was another boy. He had Harry's black hair and green eyes, and looked like his older twin brother and sister. Remus repeated the hand movement and cut the third cord. This time Poppy passed the little boy to Ginny, who couldn't believe how gorgeous the new born was.

And finally after a final fifteen minutes, where Harry was exhausted to the point where he'd had enough and just wanted to drop down dead. He gave birth to the final and youngest of the quads. She had Remus golden brown hair and his golden hazel amber tinted eyes, and looked identical to her older brothers and sister. Remus cut the final and last cord.

Poppy passed the youngest quad to Bellatrix, making her remember what it was like to hold both Michael and Eliza when each of them had been born. She took the little girl to get cleaned up and to join her other three twins. Harry then gave one final push dislodging the placenta and after birth, ending his labour.

Harry had gone into labour at nine am that morning; it was now six pm at night. After ten hours of labour Harry had never been so exhausted and drained in his entire life as he was at the moment. After Poppy and Lily had cleaned Harry and placed him in clean pyjamas and changed the bed sheets and blankets, Ginny went out side and told everyone they could come in.

When they entered it was to see an exhausted but happy Harry and Remus. Harry was holding his oldest son and youngest daughter, while Remus had their oldest daughter and youngest son.

Ron smirked and said to Harry "Bloody sheer agony isn't mate?" Harry laughed weakly "Oh god, I thought I was going to be split in two. I wanted to seriously die, I'd had enough by the sixth hour, and the contractions weren't even twenty minutes apart by then.”

Harry weakly shook his head and insisted vehemently “I'm never and I mean never ever doing this again, I can't believe you did this the first time around. And now you’re going in for round two in another two weeks. Your stark raving mad, you must be insane I'm never repeating this even if you paid me a million galleons"

Ron let out a bark of laughter, the others chuckled at the conviction in Harry's voice; he clearly wasn't shitting around with any of them he bloody well meant it.

Harry turned to his husband and snickered “Well, Remy four months to go and I will thankfully be in your position watching all the agony and gore, instead of being on the receiving end of it."

Remus glared at his husband. Since he'd just sat through ten hours of listening to his husband screaming and cursing him, well it more then left Remus terrified of giving birth on September fourth, along with Sirius.

Ron asked "You do realise that Harry and Remus's quads, along with mine and Sirius twins sons I'm due in thirteen days, they will be sorted here at Hogwarts in one of the houses, on September first 2009. But the two sets of twins Sirius and Remus are having, they won't get their chance until 2010. They will have missed the required dead line by only four days, other wise they would have been able to be sorted in 2009 with the others?"

James asked "So what are you two going to name them?" Harry and Remus shared a grin before Harry answered "Well, I decided and Remus agreed if the first born was a boy we were going to call him Kayden Jerome Potter-Lupin So our first son is called Kayden Jerome Potter- Lupin."

Remus added "And our first born daughter is going to be called Trinity Ella Potter-Lupin." Harry continued "Our second son is going be called Orion Xavier Potter-Lupin.” Remus added “And our youngest daughter is going to be called Gabriella Thea Potter-Lupin."

Bellatrix commented "Trinity. I like it, it's a very pretty name, and it fits the second eldest of the quads brilliantly." Sirius grinned as he looked at the little baby boy in question "Orion Xavier. It's a rather appropriate name for the second male of the Potter-Lupin quartet" Sirius added.

Lily grinned and asked "Isn't Jerome you middle name Remus?" Remus nodded and replied "Yes it is. Harry insisted that one of our sons were named after me, as he is named after his father and his father is named after his father and so on. And Jerome is as you all know is my fathers first name."

It was June the seventh, and one week to go until Ron gave birth. Over the last week or so Ron had become disbelievingly addicted to fried or boiled eggs with chocolate sauce. The more he ate and the more often he ate, the worse his gas and indigestion became, especially the smell of the gas.

It was two thirty in the morning and both men could not sleep. They were terribly uncomfortable, and restless. Sirius was less then seven days away from officially being six months pregnant as was Remus. He was grumpier and emotionally sensitive then ever.

Sirius was lightly dozing when he was snapped back to reality by a loud cracking nose and the most God awful smell imaginable. Sirius grumbled and balked "Oh for fuck sake, please have mercy. I'm in the same situation for crying out loud, and even I do not make that fucking God awful and revolting rank Ron."

Ron let out a choked laugh when he farted loudly again and just as nasty smelling. That did it, for a man who was only week off officially being six months pregnant with twins, didn't half move fast out of that bed.

Sirius, who looked like he was going to keel over any second, looked worse then he did back when he first had morning sickness. Picking up a pillow and a spare blanket off the end of the bed, he then headed to the nursery, when he opened the adjoining door from his and Ron's rooms to the nursery leading finally to Harry and Remus's rooms.

He noticed both Harry and Remus were a wake and were sitting in a rocking chair each, and each had two babies each carefully placed on their laps on one of those baby mats used for feeding more then one baby at a time. They were both gently rocking back and forth in the chairs as they fed the babies, as it was their two thirty feeding time.

Sirius carefully lowered himself into the third of the four black cherry wood rocking chairs placed in the room. He winced as he put the pillow behind his aching back and draped the blanket over his large rounded stomach and over his legs. He then started to rock back and forth.

Remus said "Oh we're sorry Sirius if you were woken by the children wanting their two thirty feeding." Sirius waved them off with his left hand and told them. "No Moony its ok they didn't wake me, I would have preferred it if they actually had to tell you the truth."

Harry asked affectionately "Well if the greedy little screaming quartet didn't wake you up then what did?" Sirius scowled and replied "Put those little ones in my lap and I'll finish feeding them while you go in there, you'll more then get your answer."

Harry nodded and levitated the bottles over to his godfather, then carefully stood with Kayden and Trinity in his arms, then levitated the mat onto his godfathers lap before gently putting his son and daughter back onto the mat in Sirius's lap.

He then made his way towards the door leading into the other rooms. They heard Ron say to Harry "Hey Harry" before Harry made a startled gagging noise and promptly left the room and quickly closed the door behind him and looked at Sirius and grimaced at the knowing smirk on his godfathers face.

They all froze when they heard a startled yelp of pain from the other room. Harry quickly went back through the door he had been leaning up against. When he re-entered the room Ron was leaning forward panting and breathing in and out heavily.

He had a look of terror on his face and whimpered "Oh shit Harry what if something’s wrong? I'm not due for another week." Harry sighed and replied "I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, it happens. Sometimes a witch or on our case a wizard can go into labour a week or a few days earlier then expected. You are only a week early, if you been over a month then yes I think you might have had something to worry about then."

Harry quickly called through to his husband and godfather. "Remy, Siri take the quads up to my mother and father, Harry and Amelia are already there. Then meet us at the hospital wing. Ron's gone into labour, he's a week early I need to get him to Madam Pomfrey."

He smiled encouragingly to his godfather and explained what he told Ron to Sirius, who nodded but still looked worried for his husband.

Twenty minutes later Harry left the inside of the hospital wing and patted his godfather on the back, before joining his husband outside.

Remus asked "Flames can we go up to the kitchens? I'm sure the house elves will be able to get me a plate of chips cheese and gravy." Harry chuckled and affectionately ruffled his husband’s hair and told him "Ok Moony just let me tell Sirius and Ron where we're going and that we'll be back soon."

Seven hours and four plates later of chips cheese and gravy, Remus was finally sated, but Ron on the other hand was ready to throw in the towel and announce ‘Fuck it I've had it’

Ron's contractions were less then two minutes apart, signalling that the end of his labour was not too far away. Poppy told Ron to push down and breathe in then out deeply.

Fifteen minutes of doing this and lots of encouragement from a ill looking Sirius, who knew in less then four months it would be he who was lying on the bed with his legs spread and screaming blue bloody murder.

Ron finally gave birth to their first son of twin’s; he had Ron's nose mouth and eyes, but Sirius black hair and features. Sirius took his wand and cut the cord.

Poppy passed the little boy to Molly Weasley who had flooed from the burrow an hour after Ron had gone into labour. Molly beamed down at the wailing baby boy in her arms. She took him to one side and cleaned all the blood and after birth off him.

Ron continued to pant push and scream for another fifteen minutes before he nearly cried in relieve when he heard the hiccupping wailing of his second son. He had Sirius's black hair and features, with Ron's light blue eyes, nose and mouth.

Sirius cut the cord with a wave of his wand freeing his screaming son. Poppy then passed him to Fleur who cooed at the wailing baby.

Ron gave one last push and dislodged the placenta and after birth. He fell back into the pillows and breathed heavily with exhaustion. Sirius kissed the top of his husbands head and wiped away the sweat from his forehead and face with a damp cloth.

While Sirius was helping his husband bathe, Molly changed the bed with clean sheet, pillow cases and blankets. Poppy checked the twins to see if they were in good health, with them being slightly early. Thankfully both twins were very healthy.

Five minutes later Molly helped her son back into the bed and smoothed the blankets around him. Sirius then sat on the side of the bed. Then Fleur came out and passed a little baby each to the exhausted fathers.

Molly had gone to inform or floo the others that it was over and she had two healthy grandsons. While Ron and Sirius held their sons and made the final decision as what the twins were going to be named.

Harry and Remus walked in and found both men on the bed holding a small buddle each. Ron decided and told Sirius while Harry and Remus listened. "I've decided I want to name the eldest twin, Stuart Christian Black."

Ron asked "So what did you want to call our other son?" Sirius replied "I like the name Kai Remus Black." Ron grinned and nodded "I like it." Harry and Remus nodded their approval when the others turned to them.