Sun rose over the Potter household, bright and early, for once, the teenage boys awoke.

"Severus!" James trilled in Severus' ear "PRESENTS!"

As Severus came to, James rolled out of bed onto the floor, before getting up and pulling on some suitable clothing.

"C'mon, c'mon," James sang, as Severus climbed out of bed and put on some clothes. "Yay let's go!" James grabbed Severus' hand and pulled him out of the room, above the doorway there was some mistletoe, which Severus took as an opportunity to kiss James, again.

The boys came into the living room, where Eileen, Mr and Mrs Potter were waiting.

James went over to the tree and retrieved everyone's presents. "For ma, for pa, from me and Severus, for you Eileen, from us, one for me from Eileen, thank you, and one from ma and pa, thanks, one for Eileen from ma and pa, and vice versa," everyone sat down with their presents. Severus frowned.

"I'm only kidding here are yours , one from my ma, from my pa and one from Eileen. Oh would you look at that? 5 from me, wow, someone IS generous." James said, laughing.

"Oh wow!" said Severus, "thank you!" and so everyone each opened their gifts until it was only the boys who had yet to open each other's.

"Sev, open the big ones first." James instructed. Severus opened the biggest, which was a solid gold cauldron, with his name engraved in the side.

"OH WOW!" Severus squealed, giving James a massive hug, "Thank you so much!" James grinned at him.

"You've got a few to go through so we'll save thank yous until the end." James said, winking at Severus, who grinned at him.

James opened Severus' present to him, it was a leather bracelet, engraved with their names and the date they had first kissed, it was beautiful in every way and James loved it instantly

The second present for Severus was a guitar, Severus's guitar, he had played guitar before James had "accidently" broke it in third year, James had fixed it and restored the gloss to the woods and replaced the strings and tuned it.

The third present was dress robes, glossy darkest black dress robes with pure silver fastenings, tailored to Severus' size.

The fourth present was a set of old potions journals, which James had seen Severus looking at a few weeks ago in Florish and Blotts

The fifth was a small box inside a small bag; Severus opened the bad and took out the box, which James took from him, "Close your eyes," whispered James. Severus closed his eyes for a moment "Open."

Severus opened his eyes to see a thin band of silver, a small ring, in the box, and James on one knee.

"Severus, will you marry me?" James asked, smiling at Severus gently.

"Yes," Severus said "Yes I will." With that, James slipped the ring onto Severus' ring finger and kissed him, and everything was perfect.

Severus and James looked over to their parents, who had known about this all along, and to their surprise saw Mr Potter crying, with Eileen and Mrs Potter hugging.

"I'm so proud boys, I'm so proud." Mr Potter said, clearly choked, and the boys went over to hug him, a few hours later they ate together as a family.

Severus and James went for a walk in the garden, and ended up lying in the grass again, looking at the stars.

"It's beautiful here." Severus said, after a while.

"Only with you." James replied quietly, before falling asleep curled into Severus' side.