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James gazed out of the window watching as the snowy fields passed by in a blur. He was on his way home. Back to Potter Mannor for the Christmas Holidays. James had never actually been a big fan of Christmas and this year he was dreading it more than usual.

At the end of summmer, James had a massive argument with his dad and they hadn't spoken since. James was fully prepared for the entire holidays to be filled with awkward silences and further arguments while his mother, Andromeda and Teddy tried to get them to sort it out. Well, maybe Teddy wouldn't. Teddy had been one of the only people that James had told what the argument was about (the other was his girlfriend Alexis Skye) and hadn't seemed to be too impressed by the reasoning (on either side) for the argument.

"Jay...you okay?"

James looked up at was met by the beautiful eyes of Alexis Skye. He simply nodded and looked around the compartment. Opposite sat Teddy and Vic who were both looking at him with concern. Dominique, Louis and Freddie were all sat nearer the door playing a game of exloding snap.

"It's okay if you're not you know?" Teddy said to his God-brother softly.

James shrugged, "I just...I've never really argued with Dad before...and...and the first time we do we don't speak for four months..."

Teddy rolled his eyes, "Well that's because you're both stubborn...everything will be fine Jay..."

Victorie nodded agreement and Alexis rested her head on his shoulder. James and Alexis had been together for just over a year and both were pretty content with taking it slow. James already knew that he was completely utterly and madly in love Alexis. He also knew that Alexis would most likely run for the hills if he told her that just yet.

"I'm gonna miss you, you know?" Alexis whispered softly so that only James could hear.

"I'm gonna miss you too...so much..."

"Teddy's right though...everything will be fine between you and your dad...I just know it..."

"But what if it isn't Lex? I don't want us to end up with one of those awful father-son hate relationships!"

Alexis rolled her eyes, "Okay...now you're being a tad dramatic...trust me...everything will be fine...you're blowing this totally out of proportion..."

Victorie glanced up, "I agree with Lex if it matters..."

James rolled his eyes. He loved them all, really he did, but his family needed to learn when not to listen in to others conversations. Alexis just laughed.

"You'll be fine...Stop panicking..."

As it turned out Teddy, Victorie and Alexis had been right. James had blown the argument out of proportion and it had only lasted so long because both of them were stubborn.

James sat watching his siblings, the now four year old Albus and little one year old Lily play on the floor, while his father attempted to hang one of the Christmas garlands over the fireplace.

"Why don't you just use magic?"

"If you use magic to do everything then you will get complacent that you have magic..."

James rolled his eyes, "Dad...you know that Mum and Andromeda are going to come home and fix it all with magic anyway...so you might as well just save them the bother..."

"No they..." Harry broke off as Teddy entered the room sitting down on the sofa next to James.

Teddy appeared to have gone all out for Christmas this year, his final Christmas living at the Manor. He had made the announcement during the first meal back that he and some friends were renting an apartment in London near to the Ministry. It had also become apparent that Teddy had been accepted on the Auror's training course.

And just like that, the missing pieces to James' argument with Harry fell into place.

The argument wasn't about James not having a clue what he wanted to do with his life. Well, it was a little bit. It was really about that Harry hadn't known what Teddy's plans were and he didn't want to miss out on that with James.

Lily began to gargle as Ginny and Andromeda entered the room. Ginny bent down to pick up her daughter while Albus hugged tightly onto her legs.

Andromeda stood taking in Harry's attempt at hanging the Christmas decorations, "Oh Harry..."

Then they group watched as Andromeda gave a quick swish of her wand and the Christmas decorations all righted themselves.

Snickering, James stuck his tongue out at his dad, "Told you..."

"Told you..." A little voice repeated and they all looked down to see that Albus was sticking his tongue out at Harry.

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