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Chapter Three

A Christmas Revolution

'Potter Castle' was full of laughter and chatter. Lily stood on the second floor balcony in her floor length ball gown, that was the same color as her cat like emerald green eyes. Her flaming read heair was up in an elegant bun with two stains framing her angle like face. Around her neck she wore the crystal heart necklace Harry had given her on her seventeenth birthday. She stood on the balcony over looking everyone who was invited to the 'Royal Family Christmas Ball' that took place two days before Christmas Eve, every year. Ginny had once again out done herself with the decor. Lily smiled at the thought. She watched her parents and some other guest dance on the Ballroom dance floor. The rest of the guest where standing around talking to each other. Everything, it seemed, was perfect. As she thought this she felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her waste. Her smile grew even bigger, as she turned around and face the person behind her. "Hey beautiful!" Max said kissing her on the lips softly.

"Hey yourself. Why may I ask, are you late?" Lily asked, looking him in the eye.

"I ahve some family business to take care of. It took longer than I thought it would." He answered, pulling her closer, but when he did Lily didn't catch the evil glint in his brownish-gray eyes.

"Well now that you're here, you can come dance with me." Lily said, pulling away and leading him down to the dance floor. Neither of them noticed as an Auror stepped out of the shadows of the second floor. 'Ron was right. he needs to go.' thought the Auror as he watched them enter the Ball room below.

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Alex sat at a table in the corner of the Ball room that had a very good, clear view of the guest dancing on the dance floor. He was watching them dance, well he was watching Lily more that anyone else. He was so busy watching her, he didn't notive his father sit down next to him. "You know if you keep watching her, she's going to notice." Remus said, notcing Alex jump a little and look at him.

"Who's going to notice?" Alex asked, taking a drink of his Butterbeer, and acting like he was innocent of watching Lily.

"Lily, who else?" Remus asked watching his eldest son.

"I'm not just watching Lily. . . .I'm watching everyone." Alex replied ling through his teeth.

"Could have fooled me." Remus said. "If you where watching everyone, then why haven't your eye's moved from Lily for the last, oh say fifteen minutes?" Remus asked as he took a look at his watch then look back at Alex. He could see that Alex was trying to not watch Lily dance in her new emerald green strapless dress. Then added "Why Don't you just tell her already?"

"I can't." Alex replied.

"Why not? Being a Werewolf never stopped me from telling your mother how I felt." Remus said, remembering how he and Tonks had confessed their love for each other.

"That's different dad. Mom wasn't going out with your biggest enemy." Alex said.

"Alex it doesn't matter. I can tell you right now that given the choice between you and Max, Lily would choose you. ONly thing she needs to know are your feelings on the subject and she'd choose." Remus said.

"And Max would give her and myself the death glair or worse. No thanks dad." Alex said

"If Max had a problem with Lily's choose, then he would not only be facing Lily, but the rest of this family. Of course we all know how Lily gets when she's angry." Remus answered, "Alex, if you don't tell her your true feelings soon. Your going to lose her forever." and with that said Remus stood up and left his son there to think of his words. Alex sat there lost in thought, lost in the truth of his father's words. 'What harm would it do?' he asked himself, as he watched Lily dance with Harry. He took the last sip of his Butterbeer, sighed, stood up and walked out the door to the farden to get what he hoped would be fresh air. As he walked out of the Ball room, he didn't even notice that the song that had been playing was now finished.

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Lily saw Alex walk out into the gardens, before that she had seen him talking with Remus. He looked kind of out of the Christmas spirit. "Thank you daddy. But I think I need to go check on Alex." She said to her father, who also saw Alex and Remus talking, then Alex leaving the Ball room.

"Your welcome. Lily. I'll go find out from Remus what's wrong." Harry said, then watched her walk out of the Ball room and into the gardens as well. He then made his way over to where Remus stood talking with Tonks and Ginny. "So what happened with Alex?" Harry asked, kissing Ginny on the cheek.

"He's afraid to tell Lily how he feels about her, and watching her dance with Max was killing him inside, because of it." Remus answered.

"Oh is that all? Well if you wnat to know. Lily just followed him out into the gardens." Harry said.

"Isn't it freezing out there?" Tonks asked.

"There's a Warming charm on the whole garden for anyone that wants some fresh air." Ginny answered with a smile.

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Lily found Alex sitting on a stone bench by the water fountain in the middle of the garden. He had his head in his hands, messing up his neat sandy-brown hair. "May I join you?" She asked, walking closer to him. He looked up at her and nodded his head while he moved over to make room for her to sit. She watched him for a bit then asked, "Care to share what's bothering you?"

"Not really." Alex answered not looking at her.

"Why not?" Lily asked a little taken aback.

"It's complicated and I wouldn't know where to start.' He asnwered looking up at the water fountain in front of them.

"Alex, you can tell me anything." She said, reaching out to take one of his hands, when he stood up and walked a little bit away from her.

"Not this I can't." He said. Lily was now very confused. This was not the Alex she knew and loved. She saw him take a deep breath before he turned and faced her. "Lily, have you ever been in love with a person that you knew you couldn't tell?"

Lily looked at him and thought of her answer. She was in love, she was in love with him, yet she denied it to herself. Alex had been one of her best friends for seventeen years. "I can't say that I have." Oh how she wanted to tell him she knew what he felt but she couln't make herself say the words.

"Then you can't help me." Alex said, turnign away again to watch the fountain.

"Alex, I can try and help. Tell me who your in love with and I can try and get her to see how great you truely are." Lily said. Alexk picked up the sadness in her voice. He turned back around to answer her, when he saw Max walk around the corner of the path.

"Oh there you are Lily." Max said. "Your motherwanted to talk to you."

"Oh alright." Lily said then she turned back to Alex. "We'll talk more later, right?"

"Yeah, go talk to your mom." Alex said with a forced smile. After Lily left, his face turned to dislike as he faced Max. "If you ever hurt her Malfoy, your dead."

"Who said I'd hurt her?" Max asked. Alex saw the glint in his eyes.

"I'm just saying that if you ever do. I'm the one you'd be facing." Alex said, then followed the path Lily took back to the Castle. Max followed him.

"Your just jealous cause you can't have her." he said as they got closer to the Castle. Alex stopped. "That's right. I've already havd had her in my bed. And Merlin was she excellent." At that Alex turned around and punched Max in the face, and he did it hard.

"DON'T YOU EVER TALK ABOUT LILY LIKE THAT!" he screamed, as they fought. Before Alex could punch Max again he was pulled off of him by Harry and Remus. While Charlie and Ron held Max back.

"Let me at him!" Max yelled, struggling to break free of Cahrlie and Ron.

"Stop this at once. Your both grown men here." Arthur said. "Now what started this?" They all knew what their fight was about, but not what got Alex so angry to actually hit Max. Neither Max or Alex would answer Arthur. So he turned to Alex. "Alex?"

Alex was still being held back by his father and Godfather. "It doesn't matter." He said, shoving Harry and Rems off of him. Before he turned to leave he faced Max. "Be warned Malfoy. The next time we're alone, you'd better wish you'd never touched Lily." Then he walked off. The other's that where left looked at Max.

"Well then. I guess I'll just take my leave as well." he said, with a visible guilp as he saw the looks Lily's male relatives where giving him.

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After hearing about te fight between Alex and Max, Lily spent the better part of two day's trying to get everything out of her older brothers, older mald cousins, Uncles, Grandfather, and father. All of which told her that Alex said it didn't matter. "Why are the men of this family so Bloody difficult?" She asked as she sat in the living room of 'Potter Castle' with her Aunts, female cousins, younger sisters, grandmother, and her mother. She hadn't seen Alex or Max for the past two day's. Max had sent a note telling her he had some family business to take care of. And Alex, well she wasn't sure where he was. So here she sat with the rest of the females of her big family, like they did every Christmas Eve.

"Lily their men their all difficult." Ginny said flipping the page of the magazine she was reading.

"Enough talk about the men. Let's talk about something thatmatters for a change." Kate said from the floor by the fireplace, where she, Ginger, and Crystal where playing Exploding Snap.

"You just play your game and let the rest of us talk about what we want katherine." Ginny said putting the magazine down and facing Lily.

"Dad did tell you what happened, didn't he?" Lily asked. Ginny locked eyes with Tonks, Luna, and the rest of the older women in the room. As usual all their husbands had told them what was going on. Especially between Alex, Lily, and Max.

"Yes he did tell me what happened and a little bit more." Ginny answered with a guilty look.

"Tell me then. I need to know what happened between my best friend and boyfriend!" Lily said, looking at her mother for answers.

'Don't you mean to put Max first dear?" Molly asked, Lliy turned to look at her grandmother with a confused look. "Well you put Alex before Max."

"So?" Lily asked, not understanding what her grandmother was saying.

"Molly's right. You put your best friend before your boyfriend." Alicia said.

"It doesn't mean anything." Lily answered.

"Oh yes it does. It shows whih you care about most." Hermione said.

"But I care about both of them!" Lily said.

"In the same way?" Fleur asked.

"What do you mean 'The sam way'?" Lily asked her french Aunt, still really confused about what they all where asking of her.

"Do you care about Alex and Max in the same way?" Ginny asked, getting Lily to look at her. Lily was still really confused of what was happening. Ginny saw that clearly in her cat like eyes. "Let me put it this way. We all know you care for Alex and Max, right.?"

"Yes." Lily answered

"Now do you see Max and yourself in a way that's more than being girlfriend/boyfriend?" Ginny asked watching Lily's eyes as they changed from confusion to understanding.

Then Lily looked down at her hands and answered her mother. "I don't know." She answered truthfully. It was true that she dind't know if she loved Max as she did Alex.

"Okay, do you see Alex and yourself in a relationship that's more than best friends?" Ginny asked, now every female in the room froze as they waited for Lily's answer. They had all seen the looks she and Alex gave each other. Lily looked at her mother. She so wanted to say 'Yes, with all of my heart!', but waht would they say if she did? what happened if something went on between her and Ale. 'Lily just answer with your heart. Let it guide you. Dont hid from it!' those where words her father once said to her. He said those words on her seventeenth birthday when he gave her, her crystal heart necklace that she never took off. She reached up to fiddle with it and closed her eyes thinking of that day so many months ago,

Flashback

"When your true love tells you he loves you and you tell him the same, and you seal that bond with a kiss only then will your souls become one." Harry said.

"But how do I find my ture love dad? It's not like he's here or anything." Lily asked.

"You'll know. It's the way he will smile when you walk into that same room. It's the way you fit perfectly into his arms. The way he can comfort you with no problem, how easily he is to talk to. All these things are important Lily. The key thing is observation. Observe your surroundings Lily. Take in everything you see and how it feels. If it feels like it belongs in your life then it does." Harry answered "Once you find him and mated your souls, your necklace will glow the deepest color of red and you'll be forever one."

End of Flashback

Lily re-opened her eyes and looked at her mother. Love flowed in her eyes. "I've got to go." she said standing up and walking out of the living room, before she made it to the door she turned to Tonks. "Aunt Tonks, where can I find Alex?"

"Last I knew he was up in the Library, Lily." Tonks asnwered her with a smile.

"Thank you." Lily said and then left. They all watched her leave the nthey turned to Ginny, who wore a very big smile on her lips.

"What just happened there?" Angelina asked Ginny first.

"She just realized she's in love with Alex and not Max." Ginny answered.

"How?" Hermione asked, taking Lily's seat on the couch next to Ginny.

"Well you know that crystal heart necklace around her neck?" Ginny asked the room and saw them all nod their heads in answer. "Well Harry gave that to her on her seventeenth birthday saying that when she finds her true love and they tell each other how they feel and seal it with a kiss, the rystal heart will glow the deepest color of red. And their souls will be joined as one."

"How would she know who her true love is?" Rebecca asked.

"How'd you know Charlie was for you? OR Bill, Fred, George, Percy, Ron, Remus, Neville, dad? Or Harry for myself?" Ginny asked. "When I'm with Harry it feels right. I fit perfectly in his arms. He's easy for me to talk to about a problem. Everytime I walk into the same room as him, his smile changes at the sight of me. Lily just realized who her true love is by that. Who do you all know comes to see she's alright after something in the paper first? Who does she go to most often when she has a problem? Who's smile chages when she walks into the same room as him? And who loves her more than anything esle in the world?" Ginny asked all her nieces, sister-in-laws, friends, mother, and daughters. They all looked at each other as they all realized who Ginny was talking about.

"Alex." they all said in a jusked whisper.

"That's why she put him before Max with out realizing it." Tonks said after awhile.

"Yes and we just helped her realize it." Ginny said with a satisfied smile on her face.

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