"Please wake up! Gracie! Wake up!" Nat whispered, shaking me roughly. I sat up, not meeting her eyes. I'm still hurt, I know I can't stay mad forever, but still. I guess it's a good thing she woke me up. I was having a really bad nightmare, I suppose it has something to do with the tournament and me being scared. "Gracie I'm so sorry. I was jealous and I didn't mean any of that! It's not your fault! I saw how scared you were and it made me even more jealous because your such a sweet person and your so brave! Most people wouldn't admit to being scared. But you did! Please forgive me Gracie!" She cried, wiping at her eyes. I pulled her into a hug. "Don't worry Gracie. We'll get through this! Together! I'm going to help you every step of the way!"

"Thanks Natty! We aren't supposed to know what the first task is so I don't know how to train!" I sighed, running a hand through my hair. She bit her lip, nodding.

"Did you tell Uncle Sirius and Aunt Maxie?" She asked, smiling a lit bit. I grimaced, remembering the exchange. I nodded. "That bad?"

"They were just really worried. Mum cried and I thought she was going to hurt the twins! Dad looked like he wanted to cry!" I looked down at my hand for a minute. Then did a double take. "Oh my Merlin!" I gasped, reaching for my wand. "Lumos!"

"Hey!" Ginny bolted up, I'd accidentally shined the light in her face. She woke up Mione, but I ignored them. I gasped, putting my hand up to the light. Nat fell off the bed because it scared her so much. Ginny and Mione came running, obviously curious. Both backed away when they saw my hand. I shouldn't have punched that blood wall! "What happened?"

"When I went in that room I got upset because I didn't want to be there and I punched a wall!" I shrugged, eyeing my hand. It was huge from the swelling, it was a dark purplish black color, and you could see it throbbing.

"How hard did you hit the damn thing?" Nat yelled, eyeing it apprehensively.

"Natalyn!" Mione snapped. Natty rolled her eyes as did Ginny and I.

"Uhm, harder than I hit Malfoy and Goyle combined!" I whispered, flipping it over to look at it in amazement. Ginny giggled a bit. "What?"

"Did you grunt? Like you do when you throw the quaffle really hard?" She giggled, Nat turned to me with a smirk. I blushed, giving them both their answer. Both girls started laughing hysterically.

"This is no time to be laughing!" Mione scolded, smiling a little bit. Glad their having fun.

"This hurts like a son of gun!"

"Obviously. Hang on, lets go down to the common room and we'll see what we can do in better lighting!" Nat said, pulling me up by my arm. She wrapped and arm around my waist, helping me cradle my hand in the other. Mione went and grabbed a few healing books from we trunk while Ginny followed us down stairs.

"Check and see if it's broken!" Ginny whispered, taking a seat on the couch beside the fire. I rolled my eyes before I answered.

"Ginny I think we all kn-OUCH!" I screamed, jerking my hand away from Nat. She and Ginny burst into a fit of giggles as I inspected my hand. "You prat!" I hissed, "that would hurt whether it was broken or not!"

"I know!"

"Gracie?" Harry came rushing downstairs, his glasses lop sided, his hair a mess, as usual, and his clothes turned sideways. His face was bright though, definitely concerned. "What happened?"

Nat grabbed my wrist, holding up my hand. His eyes widened immensely. Hehe. He looks like an owl. Hoo, hoo! Hehe. Okay. I'm tired. "How hard did you bloody well hit that damn wall?" He cursed, walking down the steps to get a closer look. "Fleur and I checked when you did it as it looked absolutely fine!"

"Harry! Don't talk like that!" Mione hissed, coming down the steps with a medical book, page opened. "Come here Gracie!" She took out her wand, laying it on my hand. "Episkey!" It didn't work.

"Mione, that's a spell for minor injuries!" I rolled my eyes, sighing. "I'll see Madam Pomfrey in the morning." I shrugged, flopping onto the couch beside Ginny. Harry came over, sat beside me and wrapped his arm around my shoulders. All of us slipping back to sleep.

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I slept horribly for three weeks. Not talking to Ron. Going from class to class, my face buried in books. Training, studying, doing homework. I look like a zombie. Multiple people have made comments about it, especially the Slytherins, but I don't care. I'm not risking anything. Harry stays with me at all times, we're never apart more than five minutes at a time. We've taken to camping out on the couch in the common room.

"I've got to go. Hagrid asked me to meet him!" Harry sighed, shutting his book and standing up to stretch. We'd been reading, trying to forget what happened with Ron. The stupid git tried to use Mione as a messenger owl. Harry did for a few minutes, but I started screaming at Ron when Hermione started looking like she was going to cry. He didn't answer, just walked away. Since Harry and I have checked out all the books we're allowed, Nat and Ginny have checked out as many as they could, giving them to us.

I nodded my head, setting my book down. "Will you be alright?" He asked, looking a bit worried. He pulled the cloak out of his bag, hesitating to put it on.

"I'll be fine Harry. I'm fourteen, I think I can sit in a common room alone," I laughed, rolling my eyes a bit. He nodded, kissed my head, then disappeared. The portrait hole swung open, then closed. "Goodbye Harry!"

I miss him already.....

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"Gracie wake up! Wake up!" Harry yelled frantically, shaking me. I sat up. "It's dragons! The first task is dragons!" He panted, throwing his bag down. I looked around the common room, making sure no one was around.

"Expecto Patronum!" My patronus came out, twirling around. "I have a message!" She pranced towards me, her ears alert and ready. "To Sirius and Maxie Black. Fireplace in the Gryffindor common room! Please hurry!" She pranced off out the window. Back in second year, when I stayed with Dad to renew the house, we messed around a bit. I did all my homework and lessons they did, but we also worked on older magic, the talking patronus being one.

"Gracie?" Maxie whispered, appearing in the fire. I ran over, dropping to my knees.

"What's going on?" Dad asked, his head appearing beside hers.

"Dragons. That's the first task!" My voice was monotone, no emotion what so ever. Mum gasped, her eyes widening.

"How do you know?"

"Hagrid." Harry spoke up. "He asked me to meet him tonight. There's five, one for each champion. Sirius, what do we do?" Harry asked, looking determined. "We've been studying and training like mad!"

"There's only one way to get rid of a drago-"

"Sirius!" Maxie whisper yelled. We all turned to look at her. "They're coming!" She gasped, her head disappeared. Dad's eyes widened, along with Harry's.

"Move Dad! I'm coming through! Get her upstairs!" I said, standing up. "Accio floo powder!" I waved my wand, seeing it come flying.

"Has it been nine months?" Harry asked, shock written on his face. I nodded.

"She got pregnant in December, when Dad proposed. December to September!" I shrugged, watching him count them on his fingers.

"Blimey!" He exclaimed, hopping up. "Can I come?" I smiled at him.

"Of course!" He stepped into the fire beside me. "Grimmauld Place!" We stepped out, I left Harry in the living room, running up the stairs. I rushed into their room, closing the door behind me. "Dad, out!" I commanded. He nodded quickly.

"Do you know what you are doing?" Maxie panted, I guess that's another contraction. I nodded my head, thank you Molly.

"Mrs. Weasley was a popular call for child birthing, an I had the pleasure of accompanying her!" I chirped, walking into the bathroom. I grabbed several towels, placing them correctly around her. Okay, think Gracie. It's been awhile, concentrate. Okay, lets see. "This is going to be awkward but, yeah!" I lifted we dressing gown, oh yeah. That's ten centimeters. "Have you been having contractions all night?" She nodded quickly. "Mum! Why didn't you tell anyone?"

"I didn't realize that's what they were! I've never been pregnant! I thought maybe they were just some cramps or something!" She said, breaking into a scream. Contraction. I took two fingers, using a relaxing point on her side to take away some of the pain. "How'd you do that?" She asked, looking at me incredulously. I shrugged.

"Read that one in a book!" I winked, helping her get situated. "Okay. This isn't going to be fun Mum. And you're having two, so it's worse. But you'll be fine, I promise." She nodded quickly, placing her hands on her stomach. "It's time, so, I want you to start pushing. On the count of three, deep breath, and push."

"What about that focus thingy they always talk about?"

"Imagine us, a big family. The twins first birthday, we'll have a big party. They'll run around, giggling and playing with each other. You and I will be bringing in the cake while Dad chases the kids around. Harry and Ron will be talking quidditch. Mione, Ginny, and Nat will be gossiping somewhere. We could give them an early party, in the summer, so we can all be there!" I watched an easy smile spread over her face. And I came up with that on the spot!

"One. Two. Three!" She groaned, the smile disappearing, she gave me a big push. "Good! Come on! Another!" Thirty minutes later, "It's a boy!" He wailed in my arms. He's so tiny!

"Can I hold him?" I cut the umbilical cord while she spoke.

"Let me get him cleaned up first!" She nodded, laying her head back, probably resting. I cleaned him up, clearing the blood and all that good stuff, I used that blue thingy that does something to their nose. I was never sure was that's for, but eh. I know how to use it! I wrapped him snugly in a blanket, the blue one of course, and carried him over to Maxie.

"He's beautiful!" She whispered, smiling down at my little brother. My little brother! Eep! No sooner than she finished we sentence, another contraction hit. I whisked him away, putting him in the bassinet they had in the room.

"Okay. Ready for your baby girl?" She nodded, her smile growing. This one took longer. She was stubborn, must run in the family. My little sister is absolutely gorgeous! Big blue eyes, but all babies are born with blue eyes, so they'll probably change color. Thick, dark hair. She was beautiful! I followed the same process, handing her to Maxie. I watched from the corner as she held both twins in her arms, not saying a word. When I looked at the clock, it read two a.m. on the dot.

Maxie started to fall asleep, so I took the twins in my arms, sitting in the rocking chair that had been placed in the corner as well. I sang softly to them, cooing at them. "Your a natural!" Dad's voice made me jump. "We were outside the whole time! We watched the whole thing!" He gestured to Harry behind him. I smiled, but couldn't wave. I didn't respond other than that, turning back to my little brother and my baby sister.

"I love you. I love you both so much." I whispered, a tear slipping down my cheek. "I'm going to win. I promise, I won't get hurt. I'm going to win for you two!" I whispered, bringing them closer to me.

"She was amazing, wasn't she?" Mum whispered. I looked up, all of them watching me. I just smiled. "The focus point, that was brilliant!" She laughed.

"Can I hold one of them?" Dad asked, his eyes trained on his son. I smiled and stood up, passing the little girl to Mum and the boy to Dad. "Maxie?"

"Hm?" Neither looked up when they spoke. They just stared, watching the two babies sleep. Harry crossed the room, wrapping an arm around my waist.

"What do you say we let her pick the first names? After all, she helped deliver them, and she was so brilliant in doing so!" Dad finally looked up, giving me a proud smile.

"You don-" I started.

"I think it's a brilliant idea! Gracie? I know you had some picked out! What are they?" She beamed, looking down at her little girl. I bit my lip, looking at Harry.

"Lilly and James!" I whispered, dropping my gaze. Harry tilted my chin up, placing a soft kiss on my lips.

"They're perfect!" Mum beamed. "Lilly Grace Black!" She smiled, looking up at me. I smiled back, completely happy.

"And James Nathaniel Black!" Dad smiled. "After both Potter men and my niece, who isn't going to to be happy she missed this!" He chuckled, running a hand through his hair. I smiled, looking back at the clock. Almost three!

"Harry? We need to go!" His eyes darted to the clock, and back to the babies.

"Can I hold him?" He gestured to James. Dad handed him over, and I helped Harry with situating him, making sure he had James head up. I sat back, watching as he rocked James gently. Mum handed me Lilly, smiling a bit. She mumbled something to Dad as Harry and I sat down on the edge of the bed, cooing at the children.

There was a series of clicks. Dad took multiple pictures of Harry, the twins and I. I put the camera on auto flash, taking pictures of all of us as a family. Then I took some of Dad with each kid, then Mum with each kid, then both of them and both kids. They were so cute. Harry kept picking James up, and he absolutely adored Lilly!

"Why don't you hold her?" I giggled, forgetting about the time.

"I don't want to break her. She looks so tiny and breakable!" He groaned, looking at her longingly.

"Here, hold your arms out!" I picked her up gently, watching her eyes flutter open. She gave me a small baby smile. "Hi! Hi there!" I cooed, gently rubbing noses with her. She made a gurgling sound, which I suppose is baby laughter. I placed her in the cradle Harry made with his arm, then went to pick up James. "See? Your fine!"

"Your going to make a great dad someday!" Dad placed a hand on Harry's shoulder, looking at his baby girl. Harry grinned, looking quite pleased. "You'll both me brilliant parents!" He whispered, glancing over at Maxie, who was now sleeping. "It's four o'clock though. I suppose you have to go back?" We nodded glumly. James had fallen asleep while I rocked him back and forth. I placed him gently in his baby bed.

"Here!" I took Lilly from Harry, she was still awake though. "Dad, rock her bassinet back and forth gently for a few minutes with the lights off. She'll be right out." He nodded, smiling at me more than her. I put her down and started to walk away. She started wailing loudly. "Ooh!" I ran back to her, scooping her into my arms. "Shhh it's okay. What's wrong sissy?" She stopped crying, her eyelids dropping. I walked over, sat in the rocking chair and rocked slowly and gently. I sang a lullaby and she was out like a light.

"Well, I guess my jobs done!" I sighed, placing her in the bed. "I'll be back tomorrow night!" Dad nodded, walking me out.

"Thanks sweetheart. I couldn't have done it with out you!"

"No problem Daddy! Anything to help you and Mum!" Harry and I stepped into the fire place. He waved, smiling sadly. "Gryffindor common room!"

We landed neatly on the rug, everything was the same as when we left, books scattered round and all. I collapsed onto the couch, exhausted. "Tired?" Harry chuckled, laying beside me. I nodded, curling into his arms, the same way I do every night. Sleep took over, and for once, I didn't have a nightmare.

I know I said it'd be a few days but I hate not updating!!! Here you go!