UchiSays: Yay! This story is now complete! I really enjoyed writing this and I look forward to working with this pairing more in the future. I want to thank all my readers/reviewers/favoriters/etc for sticking with me on this long bumpy road that was my first BZHP fic. Your reviews truly were my driving force for this fic. I hope you all stick around and read my future stories as well. It has truly been an expierence writing this story and everytime I read one of your reviews it all felt worthwhile. Thank You all.

~Itami

PS. Look for my first BZDM story in the near future, it will be a three chapter fic entitled "Where Fault Lies". Also look for "To Be Loved" in the near future as well. Until next time, I bid thee ado.

Easier to Run
If I could change, I would
Take back the pain, I would
Retrace ever wrong move that I made, I would
If I could... stand up and take the blame, I would
I would all my shame to the grave
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"Toni, Carmen, Corvus!" Harry called over his shoulder as ran warm water into a small tub. "You all had better be ready in twenty minutes!"

"Yes, Daddy!" Three different voices called from three different spots in the house. Harry heard a familiar wailing cry rising over the voices of the three children; he'd been waiting for that cry. Turning off the water, he headed towards the nursery where his infant daughter had just woken from her nap.

Jayme Melissa Zabini cut off her cries only a few seconds after they started, she'd never been much of a fussy baby to begin with. The most she had ever cried was when they had taken her to get her ears pierced when she was six weeks olds. Now at four months she only ever cried when she first wakes up, when she's hungry, or when she wanted attention. And even then she only cried for a few seconds before she would stop. Harry hardly knew what to do with such a quiet baby as her; Corvus had been colicky and had cried constantly in his early months of life. Compared to her brother, Jayme was a little angel.

Harry entered the nursery and scooped his baby from her crib. "Did daddy's baby have a good nap?" He crooned at her. Grayish brown eyes blinked a Harry as Jayme yawned and waved one of her little fist. "Let's go get you a bottle," Harry said with a chuckle. Cradling his daughter in the crook of his arm, Harry headed down to the kitchen where he sat the babe in her pumpkin seat (that's a car seat in case you don't know) and went about making her bottle.

He half filled a bottle with Nursery brand purified water, mixed in two and a half scoops of powdered baby formula, mixed in a bit of rice cereal, screwed on the bottle nipple, snapped the lid into place, turned the bottle upside down, and shook it. Once satisfied with the mixture, Harry popped the lid off the bottle, made sure the nipple was still on tight and scooped Jayme from her buggy seat (another name for car seat).

"Fifteen minutes!" Harry yelled up the stairs to the other three kids. Three different versions of 'ok' was heard as Jayme latched onto the bottle nipple and suckled it. Jayme only ever drank three quarters of her bottle, but she drank it fast and tended to swallow a lot of air in the process. She finished what she would drink of the bottle in about three minutes and hiccupped while Harry moved around gathering her burp rag and pulling out a chair to sit in. Jayme refused to be burped over your shoulder like a normal baby, instead Harry had to lay the burp rag over his knee, sit Jayme so that she was straddling one of his legs, bounce his leg, and rub her back, talking to her the whole time. She let out a couple of small burps, before finally a big one came out accompanied with about half the meal she had just drank.

"Ten minutes!" Harry called to the three upstairs, drawing his wand and banishing the burp rag to the wash. He pulled one of Jayme's pacifiers from his pocket and sucked on it for a second, before slipping it into the baby's mouth and carrying her back upstairs to the nursery. Jayme sucked contently on her pacifier as Harry laid her down on the changing table and stripped off her pajamas and the white onesie she wore underneath it. These too were banished to the wash.

Jayme raised her legs on her own when Harry unfastened her diaper and grabbed some baby wipes. He made quick work of cleaning her up and banished the dirty nappy and wipes to the trash, before picking the baby up and carrying her to the small tub he'd filled with warm water earlier. Harry gently lowered his daughter into the water, keeping a hand behind back to support her the whole time.

"Your Papa is home," Harry yelled to the three other children, just at the Floo chimed announcing the arrival of one Blaise Zabini.

"Papa!" Carmen yelled as she rushed down the stairs to greet Blaise in the parlor. Blaise gave Carmen an enthusiastic greeting, and from the sound of her giggling Harry could assume, picked her up and carried her back up the stairs.

"Hi Papa," the two young boys in the house called out in greeting from their rooms.

"Hi boys," Blaise greeted. "You ready yet?"

"We still have three minutes," Corvus declared.

"Actually, Carmen and Toni have two minutes and you only have one, Tiger," Harry corrected, completing Jayme's bath and getting her out of the tub.

"Hi Harry," Blaise smiled as he entered the bedroom where Harry had just taken their baby.

Harry smiled back and handed Jayme over to Blaise as the black man leaned in for a kiss. "Dress her while I help the kids."

"They don't need help," Blaise said with a pout.

"Daddy, have you seen my-"

"Look in Toni's room," Harry called before Corvus could finish his question.

"Daddy, I can't find my purple-"

"It's in the wash. Get the pink one from your closet," he told Carmen.

Blaise sighed and carried the naked Jayme over to the bed to dress her in the clothes Harry had gotten out for her earlier.

"Hey! Give that back! Daddy! Carmen stole my-"

"Carmen, give Toni back his Flopsie!" Harry ordered.

"How do you mother from the other room?" Blaise asked incredulously.

"Easily. Corvus! Your father is here." As if summoned by Harry's call, the chime in the parlor rang again, signifying the arrival by Floo.

"Harry, Corvus, Blaise?" Draco's voice called up to them.

"Father!" Corvus ran down the stairs to greet his father while Blaise stared at Harry in awe.

"How do you do that?"

Harry grinned and patted Blaise on the cheek. "My dear, Blaise, you learn a trick or two being a stay at home parent. Antonio Zabini! If you put that in your sister's bag you won't get snacks for a week." Harry could practically hear Toni pouting from the other room. Blaise didn't know what to say. Harry chuckled and placed a quick kiss on his husband's cheek.

"Dean and Shaym are here," Harry called as he swept out the room and down the stairs. The Floo chimed again just as Harry said it. Three voices called out greetings to the new arrivals. "Hey Dray," Harry smiled at Draco, before drawing his wand and summoning three little duffel bags to him. "Hey Dean, hey Shaym." Harry greeted as the two joined him and Draco in the living room. He waved his wand and summoned forgotten items to him which he added to the three bags while removing items that shouldn't be in them.

"Hey, Harry." the three guest intoned together.

Harry headed to the kitchen and started grabbing things from the cabinets and refrigerator. "Kids, come pick your snacks!" he called up the stairs. Three sets of running footsteps came down at the call- Corvus had gone back up before Harry had come down.

Carmella, Antonio, and Corvus each rushed into the kitchen and grabbed one of the items Harry had set on the counter. "Thanks Dad," they chorused.

Harry smiled at the three children before calling up the stairs to his husband. "Blaise, Seamus would like to see his god-daughter sometime soon. So if you could finish dressing her within the next century that would be nice."

"Ah, hush you. I'm coming!" Blaise called back.

"Carmen tie your shoes. Toni empty your pockets. Corvus go wash your hands." Each child did as they were ordered, Toni a bit reluctantly since he'd stuffed his pockets with things from the twin's joke shop which he as planning to using on his sister.

Blaise finally came downstairs carrying a fully clothed Jayme, who was immediately taken from him by Seamus. Harry sighed and summoned the baby's pacifier from upstairs where Blaise had left it.

"Am I the only who thinks it's almost scary watching Harry parent?" Draco asked.

"No!" Blaise, Seamus, and Dean said at once.

Harry rolled his eyes and turned to the children. "You three ready?" He asked, passing each of them their respective duffel bag as he ushered them towards the parlor. "Be on your best behavior. Have fun. Don't drive your fathers crazy. And Corvus, no being mean to Terry. Where my hugs and kisses." Corvus, Carmen, and Toni all hugged and kissed Harry in turn, before giving Blaise the same treatment. With a few more words of parting, the three seven year olds all left with their other fathers for the week and Harry took Jayme upstairs and put her in the crib- she had fallen back asleep already.

"So how was work?" Harry asked Blaise as he joined him on their bedroom.

"It was work. How was your day?"

"It was a day? Anything good happen?"

"Yeah, I came home to four beautiful children and the most gorgeous husband in the world."

"Hufflepuff," Harry teased.

"I think I know how to make your day better," Blaise grinned and leaned in for a kiss. The kiss quickly turned heated with Blaise pinning Harry to the bed and stripping off his clothes.

Harry groaned and pushed Blaise away. "Your daughter wants you," Harry said just as Jayme let out a cry. Blaise groaned, before rolling out of the bed and going to get his daughter.

Five Years Later...

Harry stood on Platform 9 ¾ next to his husband Blaise Zabini, holding his daughter Jayme's hand while Blaise held their son Carlton. Next to them Draco Malfoy and his husband Terry Boot Malfoy stood with their son Cepheus and their daughter Lyra. On the other side of Blaise, Seamus and his husband Dean stood with their daughter Rira. All of them smiled and waved as the train pulled from the station. On the train Corvus, Antonio, and Carmella smiled and waved back at their fathers and siblings as they journeyed off their first year at Hogwarts.

It's Easier to Run
(If I could change, I would,
take back the pain, I would
retrace every wrong move that I made)
It's Easier to go
(If I could change, I would,
take back the pain, I would
retrace every wrong move that I made, I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would)
I would take all my shame to the grave