A/N: A little bit of an odd one for the (late) second Christmas fic. It's set much later when they would be all be older, probably with kids of their own. It's a little bit on it's own and may be woolly - I'll probably re-read it and fix it a little but for now...

Christmas Lights...Enjoy!

Evie's love of Christmas was notorious.

A chance to be as loudly festive as possible, Evie was there to spread cheer and fortune wherever she chose and many places she didn't.

It had started with her first Christmas in Auradon, but that was quite some time ago, and now there was grey streaked in her blue hair and a few more wrinkles than her mother would ever care to see. But Evie was still the same, still as strong, courageous and generous as she had been during her first Auradon Winter.

It's why her house was still covered in lights and decorations, her yard scattered with old and new decorations, and every eave was festooned in fairy lights that twinkled and shone. From her house on the hill, everybody in the valley below would look up on the 1st of December to see if Mrs Evie had put up her lights. She never disappointed.

Her house would light up the whole of Auradon and the King and Queen of Corona would swear that they could see Evie's Hearts Atop the Hill from their palace.

The bit that everyone loved about Evie's lights, is that she wasn't doing it for own joy (okay she was but there was another cause behind it), if you came to see the Illuminations, you would donate money to the charity of the year. The money raised boosted charities unbelievably; mostly because Celia was usually hustling for the first two weeks of December, and she had even stopped taking a cut now.

The 30th November saw Evie and Doug rolling out the miles of Christmas lights they had accumulated. Carlos and Jane were helping out this year, and they were fixing the plastic snowman in the yard out front while Jay had scaled one of many ladders to help decorate the highest points of the house. The conservatory had bright stars shining in each of the windows, and another star that twinkled atop its roof. Celia and Dizzy were fixing the donation boxes along the fences, while Audrey pushed pins into the signs that would decree this year's charity.

"The Hook & Line charity this year?" She called across the lawn.

"Aye, Uma and Harry said the tough start to the winter had messed up quite a few fishermen's boats so they've got extra families down at the harbour coming over daily." Doug shouted back and Audrey let out a sigh.

The winters were getting harsher and with every passing year the needy seemed to struggle more and more. Audrey had long turned over two of her castles to the needy, as had many of the other royals but Auradon was still struggling. Trying not to worry, Audrey finished the last of her signs and helped pass other strings of lights up to Jay.

It took them four hours, thankfully with younger hands to help them when their older ones got cold, but finally it was getting dark and crowds had gathered for the switch on. In honour of their charity being this year's recipient, Uma and Chad would be pressing the button, but for now they were milling amongst people, hot cups of coffee, cocoa of mulled wine in their hands, stamping their feet against the cold and watching their breath form clouds.

"Do you remember." Evie had snagged a quiet moment with Doug as they held back and looked at the groups of people around their lawn. "Do you remember the first year you let me do the Christmas tree?" She hummed with a fond smile.

"Like I could ever forget, you blew the electrics three times with how badly you overloaded the sockets." Doug said drily slipping his fingers around her arm and squeezing gently.

"Yeah well you fixed it." She leant towards him for a quick kiss.

"What's new there?" He joked lightly, earning him a smack on the arm but another kiss. "Come on, we best get up to the front it's almost seven."

The pair threaded their way back through the crowds, smiling and laughing with people, pulling funny faces at the kids milling around them and occasionally keeping an eye on Celia, Dizzy and the Smee Twins as they moved amongst the crowds collecting donations.

Mrs Evie sure knew how to throw a party, and Mrs Evie sure knew how to throw a Christmas party at that!