The unborn child formerly known as Draco Malfoy was bored, it was clear to him that he and Ron had gotten the short end of the rebirth stick since the two of them were still inside their new mothers. There as only so much a fetus could do. He wasn't sure how old he was, but he was sure he was close to being reborn. During his first life as a child his parents would make him play what they called the "Waiting game" it was just a way to make him sit still and be the prefect little heir he was expected to be. The womb around him was getting smaller around him by the day so he knew it was going to be soon. He had listened to his new parents and other people talk, learning what he could but he was honestly bored and wanted out soon.
It was the middle of the night when Gwendal was shaken awake by his husband, "Gwendal, wake up…please wake up."
"Hmm? What is it?"
"I think I had a contraction."
That woke Gwendal up and he scrambled out of bed to get Gisela only to find Gunter asleep again when he returned with her.
"I thought you were having contractions!" he snapped waking the lavender haired mother to be.
"It was a false contraction, come back to bed, please," Gunter said sleepily, snuggling his pillow.
Gisela sighed heading back to bed as her step father returned to his own.
"Sorry about waking you," Gunter mumbled getting cozy with his husband.
Gwendal just grunted pulling him close, the lavender haired man smiled, nodding off. It was later that day when he was trying to aid Wolfram in cooling Conrart off during a hot flash that it happened again, honestly it had been happening on and off throughout the day but this time it was worse. The lavender haired man groan holding his stomach, gripping the arm of the brunette's chair with his other hand. Both brothers looked at him worried.
"Gunter…have you been having pains on and off?" asked Wolfram, frowning when the other male nodded.
"I thought they were false contractions but…Gah! They're getting more frequent and worse!"
Wolfram cursed and started to run to find help as his brother kept Gunter calm. When the blonde returned he found Gunter in the chair breathing and Conrart holding his hand. Geslia wasted no time in having her adoptive father moved to a nearby room for the delivery, Wolfram running off to tell his other brother. After several hours of labor Draco Malfoy was reborn.
"She's beautiful," Gwendal told his husband.
"SHE?!" the newborn started to wiggle trying to feel between their legs.
"What's wrong honey?" asked Gunter as Yuri, Wolfram, Conrart and Yozak came in with Natsu.
"They said I'm a girl! What's going on!?" the child formerly name Draco cried looking at Natsu.
"I don't know, Hermione or I should say, Riza and I are the right genders. Apparently, I have a female cousin now," the green-eyed child replied before popping his thumb into his mouth.
"That's dirty," Wolfram chided pulling it out.
Yuri chuckled as his son just swapped thumbs on his mother, "Have you picked a name for her yet?"
"We were thinking Cecilia, partly to keep her grandmother placated and the rest because it's pretty," replied the new mother rocking his fussy baby.
"I don't want to be a bloody girl!" Draco or now Cecilia whined though the only person who could understand her was her older cousin.
It wasn't until a few days later that newborn was able to see herself in the mirror while being carried around by her new father. Her eyes were blue like his and that was it for the similarities between them, her eyes were big and expressive like her mother's and her skin was like his too. Her wisps of hair were blonde taking after her paternal grandmother. What made her pout was the bright pink blanket she was swaddled in, she maybe a girl now but that didn't mean she had to like it.
At the moment Gunter was making sure his daughter was ready to be presented to Lady Celi and the rest of the royal court.
"If you keep pouting like that you'll get wrinkles early like your father," he told her before the baby spat up on the pink blanket.
'Gross!' Cecilia thought as her mother took her out of the blanket and cleaned her face, 'But effective, now put me in something not overly girly!'
While Gunter looked for a new blanket the blonde baby latched onto a minty green one in the draw with the others.
"You like that one?" he asked smiling when she cooed at him.
As he swaddled his child he was starting to wonder if there was more to her than he or Gwendal knew. He shook the thought from his head as he walked out with her.
"Hi, Riza!" Natsu said waving to the young princess who was visiting with her mother as guests for the event as he was put into a play pen with her until the ceremony started, "Boy, are you in for a surprise."
"I know that Draco was reborn, if that's what you mean," replied Riza, holding a teddy bear her new father had brought from the other world for her as a gift, putting its ear in her mouth the way most babies would.
Natsu resisted the urge to smile as he and Riza were finally picked up by their respective mothers.
"Presenting Lady Cecilia von Kirst-Voltaire," Gwendal announced smiling as Gunter showed off their daughter.
"He's a girl now?" Riza said smothering a giggle.
Murata looked at his daughter, wondering what was so funny, he like Gunter had notice that there were times that she and Natsu acted odd, then again, they didn't interact with that many children. As the adults chatted Cecilia was put inside the play pen with the pair, seated in a car seat that Yuri gave them to help with the baby.
"Hi, Draco," said Riza waving to the other baby.
"Hermonie?" the newborn asked starting to fuss, "No fair! Why am I the only one the opposite gender?"
Natsu started jangling toy keys he got from his human grandmother over his baby cousin's head calming her, "For all we know Ron may be reborn as a girl too, I could be the only boy."
"Oh! Pretty colors-what the hell!?" Cecilia said confused at her own actions.
Riza giggled, "Like it or not we are babies and babies like bright colors."
Cecilia pouted until her father peeked in to the play pen.
"Are you two playing nice with my little girl?" he asked.
The reborn Slytherin blinked, not used to having such a concerned father, at least not in this way. Lucius had been concerned alright, about Draco being a proper Malfoy heir and didn't spend any real time with his son until the boy was nine years old. His mother had been a different story, she loved her baby boy with all her heart it was his father she couldn't stand having been engaged to him since they were children. In all honesty Draco/Cecilia was pretty sure that his/her pervious mother had just taken a potion to create the pregnancy rather then lay with his/her pervious father. When Lucius touched him back then it would only be for photos and the touch was always cold and distant. Gwendal's touch however was the opposite, his touch was loving and warm.
Gwendal gently tapped her nose, "Don't drive them too crazy."
On reflex she gabbed his finger and stuck it in her mouth making him chuckle.
"You want to walk around with me? Okay," he carefully unstrapped her and scooped her up, making sure his finger was never out of her grasp.
"Riza adores that toy bear you got her," Sara was telling Murata as the newest father walked past them, "Though it's weird…she used to be very fussy before we came here, sometimes crying for no reason but now she's all smiles."
Murata blinked, things were certainly starting to get more interesting.
TBC
