FoxFairy: I'm really sorry I haven't updated this in a while. I've been working on my other fanfic and I finished The Deathly Hallows and I was sad. Who wasn't? One of the best series in the world is over. I really hope she writes more.

Snape: I'm sure you do.

FF: Don't worry Sev. I'll still bug you!

Snape: (groan)

FF: Anyway, this chapter is very angsty and somewhat happy. Humor/Angst. That's just wrong. XD Well, more like: Humor, Angst, Tragedy, Romance.

Snape: Romance? With who?

FF: You'll just have to find out! Oh, this chapter contains shonen-ai (boy-love) please don't complain if you don't like it alright?

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It was Christmas Eve and Emily was very excited. She kept jumping around the house talking about how she was good all year.

"I'm going to sleep early tonight too!" Emily smiled as she put a present underneath the tree.

"When?" Harry asked.

"Six thirty!" Emily smiled.

"You're going to bed in an hour?" Snape asked her. Emily was silent then shook her head 'no'.

"Not that early. Maybe later." Emily said sitting down on the floor to take her shoes off.

"No Emily, keep your shoes on. We're going to go outside later on tonight." Snape said as she put her shoe back on.

"Why?" Harry asked him.

"Snow ball fight." Snape said bluntly leaving the room. Harry looked back at Emily. The Snape family had a lot of traditions for Christmas. Like the game of tag that's been going on since before Snape's older Brother Luke was born.

Stephen walked into the living room with a trash bag.

"What's in there Uncle Stephen?" Emily asked looking at the trash bag.

"Nothing. Where are Uncle Luke and your Daddy?" Stephen asked.

"Daddy went into the kitchen and Uncle Luke is in the backyard with Spain." Emily said. Stephen left the room.

"What do you think was in the trash bag?" Emily asked Harry. He shrugged.

"I don't know…Hey want to go see what your brother is doing?" Harry asked. Emily nodded her head and grabbed her coat. Harry grabbed his. He really wanted to see Brad.

Brad was sitting by the lake behind the house. He looked like he was in deep thought.

"Hi Brad!" Harry called. Brad turned around and smirked at him. Harry felt his heart skip a beat. Why was he feeling like this?

"You excited for tonight?" Brad asked. Emily nodded her head and smiled.

"I've been good!" She said.

"I know." Brad looked at Harry. "Have you been good Mr. Potter?" Harry nodded his head furiously and he thought he was blushing. Brad stood up and brushed some snow off of him.

"I'm going to make some hot chocolate. Do you guys want any?" Brad asked. They both nodded their heads and Brad went back into the house.

"Harry! Wanna play a game?" Emily asked.

"Sure, what do you want to play?" Harry asked back.

"Hide and go seek!" Emily smiled.

"Alright. Do you want to hide or count first?" Harry asked.

"I want to hide! But, we need more people. Hide and Go seek isn't fun with just two people." Emily said.

"Alright." Harry said.

"I'm going to go get Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Ryan. I'm sure they will want to play." Emily ran inside. Harry looked at the river. It looked beautiful with the snow and gray trees everywhere.

Emily came back with Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Ryan. Everyone had their hands behind their backs.

"Ready to play?" Harry asked them. They just smirked at him. Harry got nervous.

"What do you guys have behind their back?" Harry asked nervously. Then, not to Harry's surprise, the five of them began to hit him with snowballs. Harry ran to the front to make snow balls of his own but, Stephen, Judy, Luke, and Snape hit him with snowballs too! He finally got a snow ball made and threw it at random. He wasn't aiming at anyone. He just wanted to throw one. He hit Stephen and the snowball fight continued. Brad came in about half way and around seven o clock, everyone was tired and done. Everyone sat in the snow and laughed about it. Even Snape! This didn't surprise Harry at all. Ever since they got there Snape seemed like a much happier person. Maybe it was because he was with people he loved.

Around nine o clock Emily fell asleep on the couch while everyone else was talking.

"I'm going to put her to bed." Snape whispered picking Emily up.

"She is going to be so happy tomorrow morning." Judy smiled. Harry saw that Laura and Hannah were in the room too. He didn't see them much while he was here. He didn't see much of Eileen either. About an hour later everyone began to wind down and eventually fall asleep.

The next morning Harry woke up and yawned. It was seven o clock in the morning and he thought he would start to wake up. He heard someone walking around in the hallway. He put his glasses on and went to see who it was.

Not to Harry's surprise again, it was Emily. She kept walking up and down the hallway and looking down the steps.

"Happy Christmas." Harry smiled as he walked toward her. Emily stood up and hugged Harry.

"Happy Christmas Harry." She smiled.

"What are you doing?" Harry asked.

"I want to go downstairs but I'm scared to go down by myself. When Brad and I were little he use to come downstairs with me but, since he's older now he gets up with everyone else." Emily got a little angry look on her face.

"I'll go downstairs with you. We can eat breakfast." Harry said. Emily took his hand and they quietly walked downstairs.

Harry led Emily to the kitchen for breakfast.

"What do you want to eat Emily?" Harry asked.

"I want cereal." Emily said grabbing for a box of Frosted Flakes. (A/N: Frosted Flakes, are more than good, They're grrreat! XD) Harry had some too. After they finished they washed their dishes and put them back. They sat in the kitchen for about a half and hour before more people came downstairs. It was Ron and Brad.

"Happy Christmas." Ron waved.

"Happy Christmas." Harry smiled. Brad sat down next to Harry and smiled.

"Sleep well?" He asked. Harry nodded. He felt his heart beat faster again. There was something about Brad that made Harry feel oddly happy.

"Can we open presents yet?" Emily asked.

"No Emily. We have to wait for everyone to wake up." Brad said.

"Hermione and Ginny are awake. I heard them talking as we walked downstairs." Ron said sitting next to Emily. They heard someone else walk downstairs. Stephen, Luke and Snape came into the kitchen.

"Happy Christmas to all!" Luke smiled. Snape sat on the other side of Emily and rubbed his eye. He looked tired.

"Happy Christmas Professor…" Harry said. Snape just nodded and kept held his head up with his hand.

"Daddy's sleepy." Emily smiled patting Snape's head.

"Sev was never a morning person." Luke smiled patting Snape on the back. Snape groaned and waved Luke away. Stephen sat down cups of coffee on the table and everyone took one. Emily was about to grab one but Snape stopped her.

"You're too young for coffee." He said tiredly. Emily sat there and watched everyone else drink coffee.

"Don't worry Emily. I made you some hot chocolate." Stephen said handing her a light blue mug with a star on it.

"Thank you." Emily smiled. Judy and Helena came downstairs next. Followed by Hermione and Ginny, then Ryan, Eileen, Laura and Hannah.

Once everyone was awake they went into the living room and opened their presents. Harry was happy with what he got. Candy, clothes and a journal.

Around noon everyone was dressed and awake. Harry walked outside too look at the house again. He saw Stephen, Luke and Snape sitting on the roof looking at their neighbor's house.

"Hey Potter!" Luke yelled. "Wanna come up here?"

"Um…Okay Mr. Snape!" Harry called back up.

"Don't call me Mr. Snape! You can call me Luke!" Luke yelled down.

"Bring Brad, Ryan, and Ron up too!" Stephen yelled.

"Okay!" Harry went inside to get them.

The five boys went up to the roof and Luke called them over.

"We want to show you something." He said. The five of them walked over to the three brothers and looked in the same direction as them.

"Oh cool." Ryan said. About five houses away you could see a wall of falling snow.

"That's pretty awesome." Brad said sitting next to his dad. Everyone sat down and watched it snow. After a while Brad reached into his sweatshirt pocket. Harry didn't know what it was Brad had in his pocket but Snape didn't like it.

"You better not take it out." Snape said.

"I don't have any!" Brad said taking his hand out of his pocket.

"You told me that last week but you had them." Snape said. Brad groaned, put his hand in his pocket again, took out a pack of cigarettes and handed it to Snape. Snape took the pack of cigarettes and his wand, and made the cigarettes disappear.

"I didn't know you smoked Brad." Harry said.

"I did." Brad said looking at his dad. He began to cough. Snape looked at him.

"That had nothing to do with the cigarettes." Brad said. Luke and Stephen laughed. Snape turned to Harry, Ron and Ryan.

"Do any of you smoke?" He asked. Harry and Ron shook their head 'no'. Ryan just looked around.

"Um…N-No." Ryan said.

"Liar." Stephen smirked. Ryan sighed and took out a pack of cigarettes and handed them to Snape. Snape made them disappear too. Harry saw Brad biting his lip.

"Hey Brad, can I talk to you?" Harry asked. Brad nodded and they got off the roof together. Harry led Brad into his room and shut the door.

"What did you want to talk about?" Brad asked.

"It's…I wanted to talk about…" Harry didn't know how to phrase this.

"I really like you Brad." Harry said. Brad just looked at the door then back at Harry.

"I like you too." Brad said to him.

"No, I mean, I think that I really, really like you." Harry said. He felt his heart beat really fast. He was blushing too. Brad smirked and sat with Harry on his bed.

"You love me then?" Brad asked. Harry nodded his head.

"I-I'm sorry. I don't know what I feel. I thought I was straight but after I met you I just don't know!" Harry felt like he was going to cry. Brad comforted him by stroking his arm.

"Harry…" Brad said. Harry looked up at Brad and he kissed him. Harry felt his heart beat faster. After the kiss Brad just smirked. Harry noticed that he was blushing too.

"Want to be my boyfriend?" Brad asked. Harry nodded and hugged Brad.

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When they came back downstairs Harry saw Helena playing a card game with Emily. Hannah, Lauran, Eileen, Hermione, Ginny and Judy were watching.

"What are you playing?" Harry asked sitting on the couch with Brad.

"Spit. So far Helena is wining." Eileen said watching the game. Harry watched as Helena and Emily piled the cards on top of each other and hitting the table.

"Aunt Helena can we take a break. I can't feel my hand anymore." Emily said rubbing her hand.

"Okay." Helena folded her hands on her lap.

"Want me to take over for you?" Hannah asked.

"Sure." Emily and Hannah switched places and the game continued.

That night Helena and Snape were talking outside. Harry sat next to Brad on the couch looking into the fireplace and everyone else was playing wizards chess and card games. Brad looked at Emily then at Harry.

"Emily's very dressed up." He whispered to him. Harry looked to see Emily sitting on the couch with a red long sleeved shirt, long green skirt and wore a red ribbon in her hair.

"She's even wearing the necklace." Brad said.

"What necklace?" Harry asked.

"That gold locket. It was our mom's and she only wears it on very special occasions. We didn't even do that much today." Brad seemed like he was talking to himself. Snape came inside but Helena didn't follow him.

"Where's Aunt Helena?" Brad asked.

"She wanted to stay outside. I got too cold." Snape said as he went upstairs.

It was getting close to midnight and Helena still didn't come inside. Emily, Ginny and Hermione were asleep and Eileen was about to go to bed.

"Helena must be freezing by now. I'm going to go get her." Stephen said grabbing his coat. Harry leaned against Brad's shoulder and closed his eyes. He sat up when Stephen ran into the house yelling.

"Helena got attacked! I think it was by an animal! We need to get her to the Hospital now!" Stephen yelled.

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At the hospital no one was calm. Stephen and Snape couldn't sit still. Luke kept looking out the window and Judy kept getting food and drinks for everyone. Eileen kept talking to the nurse at the front desk. Emily kept stroking her hair and Brad's legs wouldn't stop bouncing up and down. Harry didn't see how badly Helena was hurt but the doctor said that it was probably a werewolf attack. Harry didn't even know it was a full moon tonight. Finally around one the doctor that was treating Helena came to them.

"Is she going to be alright?" Eileen asked. The doctor looked down.

"I'm sorry." The doctor said. Nothing needed to be said. Eileen began to cry. Stephen held her, Luke comforted Judy and Snape sat on one of the chair with his head in his hands, looking at the floor. Helena was dead.

Helena was buried in the same graveyard as her father. The funeral was very painful. Harry and his friends were invited. Harry kept a good grip on Brad's hand. During the funeral Harry saw Snape do something he thought he would never see him do, he saw him cry.

"It's my fault. I should have brought her inside when I came in…" Snape said.

"Don't blame yourself Sev." Stephen said firmly.

"After dad died I never wanted to go to another funeral ever." Snape said as his voice cracked. Stephen didn't say anything. He just hugged his little brother. Harry began to cry too.