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Chapter 7: Babies and Epilogue

A/N: Here is the long awaited birth of the children, yes I said children. The poll was pretty tight with how many they would have, and I decided to do something that hasn't been done to death. They are going to be having triplets, identical in all ways, but you will have to wait til later in the chapter to find out what they are. I don't think you will be disappointed, for those of you that wanted twins, it was really close, and the thing that brought it over to triplets was that everyone does twins. Please read and review and thank you for coming along with this Honks fic. –Donald

They had been back to the school and in classes for a couple of months now, and were getting ready for the upcoming event of the birth of Tonks baby. It was coming to the end of May when Tonks was getting a little bit worried about the constant pain she was beginning to have. She went in to see Madame Pomfrey about it one day, and was told that she was experiencing pre-birth labor pains, and it could be any day that she has her children. When Tonks looked at her with wide eyes, the nurse explained to her that she was indeed carrying three children, and that her and Harry were going to be the parents of triplets.

Tonks was in a bit of shock when she entered her and Harry's quarters later that evening. She found harry sitting in the living room doing some last bit of homework and studying with Ron and Hermione for their upcoming end of year tests. Harry looked up at her entrance and immediately had a worried look on his face. "Is everything ok Tonks, you look worried?" Harry got up and helped her to a chair and got some tea for her as he sat down near her holding her hand.

Ron and Hermione were also looking a bit worried about what was going on, and waited to see what their friend had to say.

"Harry I have some big news for you, a couple of things actually. Would you like the good news or the not so good news first?" She looked at her husband with a bit of worry in her eyes as if to say that it was going to be all right, just a bit of a shock.

Harry looked at her with a bit of worry and said. "Give me the not so good news first love, then we can have the good news to bring up the mood some." He gave her a lopsided grin and awaited the news while holding onto her hand.

"Well Harry the not so good news is that Madame Pomfrey has told me that I have gone into early labor and can deliver any day now. Not to worry about it being almost a month early, it seems that with multiple births that it is common. That's the good news Harry, we're having triplets, can you believe it, triplets Harry." Tonks was beaming at that thought, and hoped that Harry was just as excited about the news as she was.

Harry hugged her close and said. "That's great about the triplets love, and as for any day now, we are ready after all. The nursery is all set up all I need to do is to expand it a little bit, and get a couple more cribs and all, but it won't be any problem. " He held her close and rubbed her protruding belly lovingly. "Ok you three, you're the only ones that we're waiting for now. Whenever your ready, we're ready for you to come. Can you at least either do it within the next week, or wait til Daddy's end of year test are over?" He said this half jokingly, but the others in the room knew that it was going to be a hard time for Harry with his tests and worrying about his wife.

As if in contemplation of this question, Tonks felt a huge pain go through her body, and felt a whole lot of wetness come from her body. "Harry I think it's time, they have taken and listened to you, and are ready to come now. We need to get to the Hospital Wing now please." She looked like she was in immense pain and Harry hurried to her side to help her up.

"Hermione, can you please run to the HW and let Madame Pomfrey know that we're on our way, while Ron helps me with getting her there please." Harry was really nervous, and was thankful that Hermione wasn't going to be any trouble, and just nodded and went on her way. "Ok Ron, let's do this the easy way. You get on one side of her and I will get on the other, we will carry her basket style with an arm under her legs locked together, and a arm around her back hooked together. That should be the fastest and easiest way to get her there without using magic. I don't want to try anything that might harm her or the babies, so no magic." Ron quickly understood what he was saying, and they each got into position, and lifted Tonks on three, and carried her all the way to the HW as fast as they could. On their way they ran across Ginny and asked her to get the headmaster, Professor McGonagall and Snape and meet us in the HW, telling them that it's time for the babies to come. "Oh and also get Brandon to come along, he will want to be there. Yes you can come along Ginny." Harry smiled at her as he and Ron were running along the corridors.

When they got to the Hospital Wing they found Madame Pomfrey waiting for them, and laid Tonks on a bed. All but Harry were told to wait outside in the waiting area until they were told about what happened. The delivery took 12 hours and both parents were extremely exhausted by the time it was all over. About 4 hours into the labor, they were forced to put up a silencing spell on the room so that they wouldn't be heard from the outside.

The next day after the 12 hours of labor, Harry came out of the birthing room with a big smile. He saw all his friends, plus members of the Order of the Phoenix, Tonks parents, The Weasley's, some of her AUROR friends waiting to hear the news. When Harry was seen, there was a hushed silence as he walked in and sat down. "Welcome everyone, I have a couple of announcements to make. As of about10 minutes ago three beautiful witches were born into this world. There names are, Lily Anne Potter, Merideth Andromeda Potter, and Angel Molly Potter. They were born around 10 minutes apart after almost 12 hours of labor. Both mother and daughters are doing well, they are identical and even tho we don't know it yet, we think that one of them might be a metamorph like her mother, probably all three will." He smiled proudly at the gathered group and was given congratulations from everyone.

They spent the next couple of days in the Hospital Wing, and Harry was excused from classes for the time except when the tests were administered. He was happy and carefree, and the triplets were great babies, and didn't cry very much. The rest of the school years classes in DADA were taught by Albus and the school was let known about the birth of the Potter Triplets and everyone was congratulating them about them.

The summer was spent getting used to the change that their life had with the babies, and having the time of their lives. Harry found out that he was named Head Boy to Hermione's Head Girl duties. He was also asked if he wanted the Quidditch captaincy, but he decided that he couldn't handle it and everything else, so he asked Professor McGonagall to offer it to Ron, which he took readily.

Finise

A/N: Ok that is the end of this story. The sequel will be about Harry's seventh year, and like I said it will be a Charmed/Harry Potter crossover. Thank you for following this story, and I hope you like the sequel which will be called. Promises Kept.