Redemption II

Chapter 94

oO 10 Years Later Oo

"Do you think Mum will be mad?"

"Probably."

"What do you think Dad will say?"

"I have no idea."

"Do you think we should do it anyway?"

"Better to beg for forgiveness than ask permission," Amura smirked softly as she made her way up the entrance steps, her long curly black hair bouncing in the sunlight. She'd grown tall in the passing years, nearly the same height as her mother and only a few centimeters shorter than her brother. Her skin was just a pale as her father's but her eyes had taken on the color of her mother's. More like her father in temperament, she still carried her mother's heart for bringing kindness into the world around her.

"Why is it, whenever I listen to you, we always get in trouble." Firas sighed softly adjusting the small wiggling bundle held in his arms. His hair was more a muted brown with a light curl at the end. He'd grown it long like his father's but had chosen to keep the top half pulled back out of his face. His angled features and sharp cheeks gave him a rather handsome look and his mother's soft nose balanced out the sharpness of his deep brown eyes. More withdrawn than his sister, he was much more cautious and overly observant but exceptionally brilliant like his mother. He was generally more outspoken about his gathered knowledge to all those who would listen but when it came to his sister he found himself more often than not just going on with whatever her ideas were even if they made very little sense to him.

The both of them had received their birth given gifts upon their first birthday and had been officially placed into the family registry that year with their subsequent magical abilities listed therein. Amura had been gifted with the seers' sight, something Hermione had been both equally delighted and dreadfully worried about before Galia and she had found a suppression amulet within the castle that Amura would be able to wear until she could gain control of her gift.

Likewise, Firas had not been left out of receiving an extra magical gift and had also received an amulet to curb his natural abilities. Being a natural legilimens at even age one rivaled that of his father's. It wasn't until Hermione had noticed that he hadn't started to babble did she start to wonder if he might have been communicating his needs in another manner. So subtle was his gift that she hadn't realized that her 'instincts' on what he needed were, in fact, him communicating to her exactly what he wanted.

It had only been through Severus that the boy had even learned to speak at all. It had been a trying period in their relationship but it had made Severus more confident in his ability to become the father he had never had and Hermione had never been more proud of him. Though neither twin had many memories of their lives before four years old, their parents combined strengths and almost impassible wall of parenting, had created a rather creative if strict environment for growing up in.

Their playground had become the enormous library on most days. Each child having countless adventures inside the many books therein. To Hermione's great surprise, Severus had taken over the role as a teacher once more to help their children learn the basic skills, and even some not so basic skills, that they would need to join the wizarding world in the future. He, alongside Galia, had balanced out their education in ways Hermione could never have even imagined. Though she had at times thought about quitting her job at the ministry to stay home with the children she had decided that turning part of the castle into a small magical primary school had been much more satisfying.