"Wake up, wake up, wake up!" Emily exclaimed, jumping on Sirius' bed. "It's Christmas!"

Abby leaped on to Remus's bed. "Come oonnnnnnnnn!" she said shaking him to get him to wake up "There are presents to be opened!"

"Up, up, up!" Emily said, shaking the still sleeping Sirius. "Come on!" She whined.

Abby had managed to get up and Abby turned to Emmy and Sirius "SIRIUS BLACK IF YOU DON"T GET UP IN FIVE SECONDS I'M DYING YOUR HAIR GREEN AND SILVER!!!!!"

"Why is it always the hair?" He grumbled, rolling out of bed and pulling Emily onto the floor with him.

"Lemme up!" She exclaimed, struggling as he pinned her down.

"Nope,"

"Pleaseeeeeeee?"

"Yeah" Abby said teasing Emmy "Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

"Shut up you," Emily said, looking at Abby. She held still and put on her best puppy dog face.

"NO! Not that face!" Sirius yelled.

"Please?" She asked once more.

"GAH!" He said. "I hate that face," He muttered as he let her go.

Abby ran over to the ginormous amount of presents she had gotten for everyone. She chucked one at Sirius's head "That's for you, loser" she said then proceeded to nicely hand out the rest of her presents.

Emily laughed, chucking one at Abby. "There you go Slightly," She said, before tossing everyone else their presents.

Abby received numerous things. A organizer from lily, Quiditch through the ages from James, from Sirius she got a signed photo of himself (which she threw away) and candy, from Emmy she got peter pan and captain hook plushies, she got money and candy from her relatives.

Emily laughed as she opened the same organizer from Lily, muttering to Abbs 'Maybe she thinks we're disorganized,' a music box from Remus, a miniature scale of the Hogwarts Quiditch field (with the Gryffindor team flying around) from James, a large stuffed Tigger and candy from Abby, which made her laugh, and some money and candy from her relatives as well.

The three boys walked up too each of their girlfriends and handed each of them a small present, they were each wrapped with Gryffindor colors.

Emily pulled Sirius down and sat on his lap, before opening the present. She gasped.

Abby and Remus sat down and Abby rested her head on his shoulder, Gently she tore off the wrapping paper and opened the little box "Its beautiful" she said in awe.

Lily opened James gift and gasped "Oh James!" she said giving him a kiss on the cheek.

Each girl had received a locket with a different jewel set on the top. For Lily, it was an emerald, Abby's was a Sapphire, and Emily's was a ruby. The three all stared in awe for a few moments.

Emily gently withdrew hers from the box, and Sirius helped her clasp it around her neck. She looked at it once it was on, and opened it. Inside was engraved- 'I love you'. "It's amazing," She whispered, ki

Abby and Lily smiled as their boyfriends clasped them around their neck.

"Anyone want breakfast?" Emily inquired, closing her locket and pressing it against her heart.

"I can't eat!" abby said "I'm too exited about tonight!"

Emily laughed, "True, want to go for a walk instead?"

"A walk would be nice"

"Yay!" Emily exclaimed, jumping up. "Let's go!"

"Race ya to the Quiditch field!" she said standing up and bolting down the stairs.

"No fair!" Emily exclaimed, hurrying out the door and sprinting after her.

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10 hours later the girls were in their dorm, getting ready for the ball.

"OW!" Emily exclaimed, letting out a string of cuss words as she burnt her finger attempting to curl Abby's hair.

Abby stood up "Never mind the curling" she said "I'll just put it up"

"You sure?" Emily asked, running her finger under cold water for a moment. "I can do it, I'm just having issues," She added laughing.

"I'm sure" she said and got out some hairspray and bobby pins.

Emily pulled the towel out of her own hair, and applied some products to keep her curls from frizz-ifying.

"Want my to put your hair up all cool-like?" abby asked after she had finished putting hers into pigtail buns.

"Mm. You're lucky I trust you," Emily said, grinning. "Sure."

Abby magic'd her hair straight then pulled it up high into a messy bun.

"Thankies!" Emily said, giving her friend a hug. "You're the bestest best buddy ever."

"Ready?" asked abby as she clasped her new locket around her neck.

"Yep," She replied, slipping on her heels and putting her necklace on carefully around her neck. "Come on!" She added, grabbing Abby's arm and dragging her out the door.

"Where are we meeting the guys?" abby asked as emmy dragged her out.

"Umm, in the entrance hall I believe," Emily replied.

"Okay" she said as they exited the potrait hole. Withing minutes the boys were in veiw, along with lily.

The boys were all in tuxedos and lily was in a gorgous emerald dress.

They had yet to notice the girl's arrival, and were all talking. Emily slipped behind Sirius and covered his eyes. "Guess who?" She inquired.

As he turned around and Remus caught sight of Abby, both of their jaws dropped.

Abby smiled and walked up to Remus "Hi"

Emily closed Sirius' ajar mouth with a smile and took his hand.

"Shall we go in?" James inquired.

Abby nodded and took remus's hand and let him lead her in.

"You look amazing," Remus whispered to Abby as they entered the Great Hall.

"You look Dashing" Abby replied

Remus smiled, "Would you care to dance?"

"Depends" she said placing a hand on his shoulder "Know how to waltz?" he smirked

He laughed, "I think we've had this conversation." He replied, stepping closer and placing his arm around her waist.

After a few dances abby dragged remus over to the food where emily and sirius were chilling.

"Abby!" Emily exclaimed, "Try the punch! It's oober yummy!"

"Nah" she said "Not really in the mood right now" she leaned closer to remus and rested a head on his shoulder.

"Let's let them have some alone time," Emily whispered to Sirius. "Want to go for a walk?"

"Sounds good," He replied, smiling.

Abby looked at Remus "I hear Dumbledoor set up this great gorgeous garden. Want to check it out?"

"I'd love to," He replied, grasping her hand once more and leading her outside.

Abby looked up at all the stars in the sky "Aren't they gorgeous?"

"They are," He replied, but wasn't staring at the sky. He had his eyes locked on Abby.

She smiled and slowly leaned forward, kissing him gently on the lips.

Remus was slightly taken aback, but glad all the same. He wasn't exactly sure how he would have gotten the nerve to do that.

She gave him a shy smile.

"I . . ." He said, blushing. "I love you, Abby."

"I love you too," she said softly wrapping her arms around him and giving him a more passionate kiss.

He pulled away reluctantly after a moment, "Wait," He said, looking down at the ground. "I need to tell you something."

"What is it?" she asked in a concerned tone.

"I . . .I just don't feel right not telling you. Please promise me something though. I know you won't judge me just because of this one thing, but please reassure me that you wont,"

She gave his hand a squeeze "I promise"

"I-I . . ."He stuttered, pausing to take a deep breath. "I'm a werewolf Abbs."

She stood their for a moment then she started to laugh and tackled him, giving him a huge kiss "Thats it?" she said.

"You don't care?" He inquired, quite surprised.

"No!" she said giving him another kiss.

Remus laughed and pulled her into a deep kiss. "You're not like everyone else Abbs. That's why I love you."

She smiled and gave him a huge bear hug "I love you too"

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Emily began laughing as snow began to fall outside. "God! That music is so loud I can hear it out here!"

Sirius laughed, "Have you had a good Christmas?" he asked her.

"It's been amazing," She replied with a small smile. "Much better than any at home would have been."

"You know what would make it better?" he asked.

"Mm?" She said, as she stopped trying to catch a snowflake on her tongue and looked at him. "What?"

"This" he said leaning in a giving her a passionate kiss.

Emily smiled as they finally broke apart. "You have no idea how long I've been wanting that," She whispered.

"I love you Emily" he said in a very serious (no pun intendend)tone.

"I love you too," She replied, "I have since I met you." She added, standing on tip-toe and kissing him.

The metamorphis stood in the shadows, disguised as a Gryffindor student. He had his eyes fixed on James, who was currently making out with lily. He would strike in the night, when nobody would expect it.

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G'night," Emily whispered, kissing Sirius lightly on the lips.

The Pirate Queen says:

"It was the best Christmas ever" Abby whispered to Remus.

"Love you" lily said to James.

With sighs of happiness the 3 boys headed back to their rooms.

"Wow," Sirius said, as they all collapsed on their beds after changing into pajamas.

"I told her" Remus said to the two guys.

"Did she take it okay?" James inquired.

"She tackled me to the ground and started to make out with me" he said with a slight blush.

"Remus!" Sirius exclaimed. "You dog!"

Remus glared at him and crawled under the covers "Night guys"

"Night," The two replied, shutting off the light and pulling the covers over their heads.

From the shadows, the metamorphis smiled, it was time

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Creakkkkkk.

Sirius opened his eyes, "What the-" He whispered.

Remus awoke at the sound too.

"WHAT THE?" James exclaimed. "GET AWAY YOU FREAK!"

"STUPEFY" shouted the metamorphis, his wand pointing at james.

"Hey! Get away from him!" Sirius exclaimed, jumping out of bed.

"Stupefy!" he said aiming for sirius this time.

"Get out!" Yelled Remus, pulling out his wand and sending a stunning spell at the man.

"Protego!" he said blocking it "Expelliarmus! Stupefy!"

"Protego!" Remus cried, "Petrificus totalus!"

"Protego!" he said, then grabbed the unconscious James pointing his wand at the boys neck. "Don't move" he hissed to Remus "Or your friend dies"

Remus had a strange look cross his face. He held still though. He couldn't lose James.

"Drop your wand"

Remus reluctantly did so.

"Accio Wand" he said and it flew over to him. "Stupefy" he said pointing at Remus.

Remus glared at the man as the spell hit him and he fell to the floor with a thump.

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"Abby, did you hear that?" Emily inquired, sitting up quickly.

"What?" Abby said half asleep.

"There was yelling, and a loud noise,"

"Can we check it out in the morning?" she asked hopefully.

"What if something's wrong?"

"Emmmmmmmmmmyyyyy" she whined.

"You can sleep, I'll go by myself," Emily said, slipping out of bed and quietly walking down the stairs, listening for any more noise, but it was silent. She decided to go see if the boys were asleep yet. She walked up the stairs and knocked lightly on their door. "Guys?" She inquired, pushing the door open. "Where are they. . .?"

The metamorphis and the boys were gone.