Into the Lions' den

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Minerva pushed and nothing happened. Panting hard, she tried to relax her muscles and encourage her last kitten to enter the world.
“Poppy, what’s wrong?” Albus asked panickingly.
“Nothing. The baby just needs to want to be born. Maybe if you encouraging him,.”
“Come on, Son, Papa wants to meet you.” Albus cooed.
“Little brother, I’ll give you Wheezes.” Harry tried to bribe his little brother. Minerva rolled her eyes at the bribe.
“Please, baby boy.” Aurora, Apollo and Poppy tried.
“Oh, of Merlin’s sakes! “ Minerva moaned. “Stubborn McGonagall genes. Look, McGonagall daughter number three, your lease’s up. Get out, get out, get out!”
With that remark, labor progressed quickly. Everyone stared at Minerva, who shrugged. “She was offended to be called a boy.”
Poppy manveruned the shoulders out and the rest of the body soon follow. “Twelve oh three.” Minerva made a face.
“Hello kitten. We’ve waited for you.” Albus touched his daughter. “ she has your nose.”
“Thank Merlin!” Minerva laughed.
“Papa, let me check her out. Here’s kitten number four.” Apollo switched babies with his father. “Hello, kitten. How are you? Oh what a big yawn. You know what I think you and your sister might be identical. Yes, I do. “ Apollo waved his wand and his suspicions were confirmed. “Oh, you are going to be a handful.”
Harry was amazed at the overwhelming protective and loving feelings he had towards his sisters. ”Do they have names?”
Albus and Minerva looked at each other.
“Well, I think Sirius is out.” Minerva said thoughtfully.
“Definitely” Harry laughed.
“Mina, name them for the sisters. I still like Athena. Athena and Aphrodite.”
Minerva nodded. “Perfect. Oh, wait. We still need a Scottish name. I was so sure it was a boy.”
“I’ll bring a book tomorrow. Rest for now.” Albus smiled mischievously. “Mina, I just realize two things.”

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Minerva was distracted. “What?” She cooed at the baby in her arm. “Are you Athena or Aphrodite?”
“We have redhead identical twins.”
“Yes?”
“ Remember the other redhead identical twins we know?”
“hmmm…Fred and George, Fabian and Gideon, and of course you and Abe. Oh….”Minerva closed her eyes. Redheaded twins seems to enjoy making trouble.
“Well, maybe your genes will even things out. But then again you did killed a professor…”
Minerva glared at her husband. “Perhaps this set will redeem us.”
“Perhaps.” Albus agreed.
Poppy smiled. “The kittens need to be clean up. Minerva do you want a shower?”
Minerva shook her head. “Just a nap.”
“Congrats, mom.”
“Thanks.” Minerva was eagerly looked forward to seeing her daughters.
Albus helped his wife into a clean nightgown. They shared a short loving kiss. “When does Theoriski wants to the other procedure?”
“Two weeks.” Minerva felt relieved not to have to go through pregnancy again.
“Ok. Thank you. I love you so much.”

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“I love you, too.” Minerva closed her eyes and dreamed of the future.

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The door to the Great Hall swept open and a soaked Severus Snape stormed. Throwing a rubber duck at the hawk eyed woman, he said, “Your son made it rain inside, flooding the bathroom and then refused to put on pajamas.”
Laughing, Xiomara replied “ He wants to be like you, dear. His father doesn’t wear pajamas and as to the rain, you were so proud of his first sign of magic.”
The Hogwarts stifled snickers. Albus Salazar Snape combined all of Severus and Xiomara’s unfavorable traits and was generally an unholy terror. While the girls turned out to be vampiric hawks( among other combinations of their parents) , Salazar was simply sneaky. The fact Severus and Xiomara weren’t planning on having more kids but Salazar had other plans.
There was no chance he wouldn’t get into Slytherin. Of course Poppy, Pommie, and Minerva thought the first Slytherin thing he would do is invade and corrupt another house.
Albus sighed. Why couldn’t his namesake be well behaved? “I believe we need to start the sorting.”
Minerva led the first years in.
“Abericome, Abigail.”
“Hufflepuff!”
“Bryant, Polly”
“Ravenclaw.!”
The list went on and on until she got to the first familiar name.
“McDore, Aphrodite.”
A tall redhead walked to the stood and Minerva seemed to be nervous.
Well, a daughter of a goddess. Your name means love, so what is your love?
Knowledge, thought the girl.
Knowledge, it is!
“Ravenclaw!”
Minerva nodded, secretly disappointed. But the sight of Poppy beaming cheered her up some. At least it wasn’t Slytherin.
“McDore, Athena.”
An identical girl walked to the stood. The girl’s eyes seemed to scream mischief.
Ah, you are mirror image of your mother. I know exactly what to do with you!
“Gryffindor!”
Minerva allowed herself a small grin. She automatically read the list until she got to the ‘S’s.
“Snape, Minerva”
You work hard to prove you aren’t your parents. I think the only way to do that is to put you in a different house.
“Hufflepuff!”
The room was silence until almost stimualously Severus and
Pomona started to clap. They had suspect this outcome and agreed to be happy.
“Snape, Sophia”
Ah, a true Slytherin through and through. Sneaky and snarky you are perfect!
“Slytherin!”
During dinner if any student care to eavesdrop on the teachers’ table they would heard the following:
“Perhaps they will follow in our footsteps.”
“Oh, like my namesake would be in Slytherin, Mara.”
“Aphrodite did follow Poppy’s.” Pommie pointed out.
“Let it go, Mara.”
“ you still have Sal.”
They finished the whispered conservation just in time to hear the last line of the Welcoming speech.
“….I’m sure the next couple of years will be interesting.”
Four women grinned at each other. They will be indeed.

[mcgonagallrocks]

One in each house that is so cool. I was suprised that both of Min's didn't end up in Gryffindor but still. That was so sweet.

“….I’m sure the next couple of years will be interesting.”
Four women grinned at each other. They will be indeed.

That was perfect

**Endora

[Tabby67]

YAY!!! *grinses* Lovely chappy(s?) Well done! Seperate years....*still giggling* Great job! Update soon! Or don't cause I just realized that was the end.....*cries*

~Branda

[Trulyamused]

Very cool. Nice wrap up.


Truly

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There's a Apollo fic in the 'somewhat' caterogy.

[KSpirit]

This fic took me a loonnggg time to read- and I was SO annoyed I had to break it up and couldn't read the whole thing at once. But at least all the parts were here, and I wasn't waiting for updates!

Good job, it definitely kept me guessing!

[idealrain]

The next story in Lions' Den universe will be start/post soon. If you like the couples of Apollo and Bill or Poppy and Pommie there are stories in the somewhat related catergory. Thank you for all the support!

[Mandy McGonagall-Dumbledore]

Great story!!