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Fire burnished golden ties	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female Views: 8773 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter franchise so I'm not making any money writing this. If I did, Ginny would have died instead of Fred.

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Title: Fire burnished golden ties
Summary: Dean and Pavarti finalise their marriage with the final rites of a Hindu marriage due to Pavarti's family being Hindu. Due to the closeness of Pavarti and Padma as well as their mutual pregnancies and the family's superstition against having twins married separately they are going share the house Dean inherited from his deceased wizard father Caradoc Dearborn.
A/N: Star-crossed Lovers or not series [Snake and Eagle, I did not sleep with that wizard! and Rise of the Cannonites compatible. I could have skipped this but I found Hindu marriage quite interesting and I had to write it. The title comes from the Hindu belief that married couples are tied together as partners by invisible golden ties.

The Return

September 1, 1996

Pavarti and Dean weren’t parents yet any more than Su and Padma were, so they chose to ride the train with Dana, Mark, Parina and Kaiten.

They arrived early about ten o’clock, their trunks were already delivered to Hogwarts with the exception of Dana and Mark who had yet to be Sorted.

They claimed the first compartment as a family…

Unlike her sister who was likely to finish their first term as NEWT students without becoming a mother, Pavarti was less ‘lucky’.

She was beyond ecstatic about being bonded to Dean but she was going to be a mother soon herself and have to balance school and wifely responsibilities.

Usually at her age, marriages were ‘arranged’ in the sense that suitable partners were brought to he attention and they would spend chaperoned time together. If the parents deemed them suited then they would be nudged into courtship. It wasn’t usual for female students to be engaged their final year of school but to be pregnant and married was. Usually, a spouse was expected to be in an apprenticeship or have completed one before they were deemed eligible. Depending on the familial expectations, it varied whether or not the wife would have life experience beyond education before they were marriage.

While they had perfectly acceptable weddings, being pregnant was embarrassing to their parents. A Pisacha wedding/relationship was essentially what they began with since she and her sister had been impregnated why asleep and vulnerable. Unlike British law, her children would have been still considered respectable.

Pavarti wouldn’t trade Dean or their daughter away for respectability. She had lost her heart to him even before learning he was heir to a lordship…

It was her duty and joy to take care of him; she’d gotten used to her duty at Deerfield and hoped that her classes wouldn’t interfere too badly on her ability to be a good helpmate.

Dean had complained when he woke up that morning to find her packing their trunks on her own.

She had gently reminded him that as his wife making sure that he was ready for Hogwarts was her duty and joy just as seeing to his needs at home.

He sheepishly thanked her.

Though they shared a bed, after her official wedding night and moving into Deerfield, Pavarti wouldn’t go all the way for fear of damaging her mucus plug. Dean had been so gentle, as if he’d spent as much time studying lovemaking as he had practicing his Hindi.

Dean might never share her faith but he was willing to allow her to practice it and raise her children in it. He was sweet, her artist…

Had they really only been living together just over a month?

Pavarti shyly leaned into Dean…
Padma too had an aura of contentment, while her sister had never been as outgoing as herself

It wasn’t until their compartment was opened roughly and Lavender shoved in.

“I need some space. Just hang out with your Pavarti. Hopefully, she shouldn’t be too busy for you.”

Lavender nodded, “Alright. Sorry to bother you with my hovering. I will be more careful.”

Her friend turned and tried to smile, her face flushed in embarrassment and shame even as her eyes seemed to struggle to hold back tears.

Pavarti pushed Parina onto the floor with her twin Kaiten to make room for her friend.

Lavender ended up falling asleep in her lap…

Lavender wasn’t the type to bother someone with her feelings and Pavarti didn’t wish to force her to talk.

It was so hard to pretend not to realise that Lavender was crying into her skirt.

Dean just held her while Lavender cried; he had never seen the usually carefree blonde cry.

Ron’s words had a cruel edge to them and he had been rough with Lavender.

The way she held her wrist wasn’t right…

He would look after her, if all else failed Lavender could stay with them right?

It would be cute to find his girl on the bed in the nursery with Lavender some morning…

They would have an innocence together despite being married…

Right now, Lavender could use a return to innocence…

A nod with Padma and they chose to exit the train floo to Hogwarts instead of taking the train after all…

Parina and Kaiten would look after Dana and Mark…

XooooooX

Dean was surprised to find Ron struggling with a house elf when he left the apartment he shared with Pavarti.

Pavarti and Lavender were talking babies, until she saw Ron.

Lavender smiled, “You came to get me?”

“Don’t flatter yourself, this wasn’t my idea.” Ron grumbled.

Lavender stayed close to her husband.

Pavarti hurried to keep us.

They met Luna, Neville, Seamus and Colin at Gryffindor but when Lavender tried to gently nudge Ron to sit with them, her selfish bonded storm away from her to sit with Ginny.

Dean tried not to worry too much, Pavarti had Lavender who hardly spoke the entire meal and Colin was silent barely moving to feed himself while Seamus ate almost robotically.

It hurt to see his best friend so worried and distracted, trying to bottle feed Colm and eat at the same time.

What was he going to do?

Even Mal, Colin’s adopted sister looked far more worried when Ron or Ginny.

Dennis seemed worried himself…

It was nice to have more teachers so the professors didn’t seem so worn out and having special tutors for the OWL and NEWT proper students made sense since there were fewer of them.

Dean was pleased when Dana was sorted, both his sister and her best friend Mark ended up in Ravenclaw and were expressly welcomed by Luna who was very different since bonding to Neville.

Lavender was silent when they headed up to their neighbouring apartments.

Pavarti walked her friend into the apartment, promising Dean she’d be back soon.

Dean squeezed her hand, “Take your time.”

He would wait, Lavender was wilting and he hoped his bonded could fix that…

XooooooX

Pavarti winced as she headed deeper into the apartment she shared with Dean. Pain was radiating from her back forward, making her suspicious of her labour beginning. Pavarti merely dressed for bed and tried to get some rest…

She would hate to make Dean miss class on her account…

He was eternally punctual it seemed…

She was glad Dean didn’t complain about her looking after Lavender…

He was so sweet and had the bed turned down as well as a maternity nightgown waiting for her.

Pavati was determined to wait until her body was ready…

XooooooX

A New Beginning

September 2, 1996

Pavarti had been timing her contractions for hours while managing to let Dean sleep…

It was half past-six when she felt they were close enough to bother anyone…

Healer Andromeda had told her what to expect when her body decided it was close to delivery.

Her body had shown many signs, Parisa had dropped making it easier to breathe and she was looser down there.

She lost her plug yesterday not that she bothered anyone with it.

Shyly she woke Dean and asked him to send an elf for Andromeda, she didn’t mention labour exactly but he got excited anyway.

It didn’t take long for Andromeda and her assistant to arrive; she had her apprentice with her. Likely leaving her medi-witch in charge of the infirmary because she trusted her…

By this time, her contractions were five minutes apart and she wanted her sister.

Padma must have known because she was kneeling beside her and holding her hand.

There was something special about being twins and Pavarti was said that Parisa wouldn’t have that…

It was still some time before she would hold Parisa in her arms…

XooooooX

Pavarti didn’t hate the pain, she welcomed it…

There was no one to blame…

When Parisa was placed in her arms by Padma, Pavarti felt a new and strong love fill her heart.

Different from her love for Dean, her twin, her siblings, parents or Lavender…

All of her dreams before paled, she was a mother…

Lavender was ushered in by Seamus who had his son with him…

The two nervous best friends were soon exclaiming how beautiful her daughter was.

Pavarti held her tongue; they weren’t Hindi and didn’t understand bad luck.

“What is on her face? Is that lipstick?” Lavender frowned.

“A silly Hindu blessing…” Padma blurted out as if defuse the tension…

Pavarti knew it wasn’t silly at all but rather a type of protection, sometimes Britain felt so alien but it was her home now.

As she as she was, Padma had saved her from hurting Lavender…

Her poor friend would never knowingly hurt anyone, if she asked Dean would surely agree to let both of her favourite girls be godmother to Parisa…

Yes…

Maybe that was the right choice…

What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?
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