It wasn't until about 5am when they woke up. Draco was first. He slowly slitted his eyes open and frowned when he realized he had fallen asleep. He looked to the side, and relaxed when he saw she was still there in his arms. He leaned over and kissed Sarah's forehead softly and she stirred and woke up.

"Hey," she muttered. "You crashed too?"

"Yeah," he said softly. "But look, Santa left me an angel."

"You're terrible at flirting, you know that?"

"I've never had to do it before," he repented. She smiled and kissed his cheek. Suddenly they jumped when they heard a door open.

"That's Snape's door," whispered Draco. "Quick, get back in your wheel chair!" Sarah quickly and quietly tiptoed to her wheel chair, stubbed her toe on one of the wheels and fell into the chair biting her lip and screaming obscenities in her head. Snape walked into the living room in his billowing black robes and spotted, Sarah.

"I didn't hear you two get up," he said softly.

"We, tried to be quiet," said Sarah softly. "I've got something to show you."

"What?" he asked. She looked at Draco unsure, but he nodded and she smiled. She placed her hands on the arms rests of her chair and slowly pushed herself up to her feet. She stood still for a while and Snape stared wide-eyed. Slowly, she took one step after another until she was in front of him.

"Merry Christmas, dad." He smiled and hugged her tightly as she laughed and hugged him back.

"The doctors said you would never walk again," he gasped. "How....?"

"It just.... happened. My legs were hurting again, except for real this time, and it just happened."

"Sarah," he said as he hugged her again. "This is the best present you could give me." She stole a glance at Draco who was smiling. She smiled and closed her eyes. This was going to be a good Christmas.

After a minute they went to the tree to open presents. Much to Sarah's surprise, a lot of people in the school had given her stuff.

"This one's from..... Parvati," said Draco as he handed her a box. She placed it in her lap and opened it. It was two boxes of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor beans.

"Be careful with those," said Snape.

"I know," said Sarah. "I've had a few bad ones before."

"And this..." said Draco as he handed it to her. "...is from me." She opened it and pulled out a gold necklace with a silver pendant in the shape of a serpent with emeralds for eyes. The serpent was slithered around a ruby. "It works for both Gryffindor and Slytherin," he said with a smile.

"It's pretty," she whispered. "Here, help me." She handed it to him and pulled her hair out of the way as he clipped it on.

"Your hair is getting long," said Snape cooly.

"It's like a forest back here," teased Draco as he moved a few locks out of the way.

"Hey, at least I don't use about five gallons of hair gel in my hair," she responded.

"Don't need to. It's greasy enough back here." She laughed and shook her head.

"Got that from dad," she teased.

"Alright, enough flirting," said Snape with a smirk.

The rest of the day was spent opening presents, and Sarah went over to see Harry and Ron and show them she could walk.

"Bloody hell!" cried Ron. "When did this happen?"

"A few days ago," she said softly. "It was sorta cheap, but dad liked it."

"Well," said Harry. "It's good to see you on your feet."

"Thanks," she said with a smile. "I can't believe I have to go tomorrow!"

"That sucks. I really wish you could stay longer."

"Same here," said Ron. "They don't make your Christmas break long enough."

"Actually it is longer but I wanted to spend some time with mom too."

"Miss her?" asked Harry.

"A lot. She hasn't heard from Bud though so that's good, but I haven't really heard from her either... Not in a while."

"Maybe Bud's gone for good." She shook her head.

"No, he's still out there."

"Scary," said Ron.

"So, what about you and Malfoy?" asked Harry. "What happened there?"

"I think we're officialy a couple," she said softly.

"Did you kiss him?" asked Ron with a slight look of being grossed out.

"He kissed me," she giggled. Ron cringed and Harry shrugged.

"Well, that's actually pretty good... for Malfoy," he muttered.

The ground was completely frosted over and the lake was sheer ice. Sarah wrapped her coat tighter around her and walked around, watching the falling snow. She took another step when she felt something round and hard hit her right between her shoulder blades. She turned and saw Snape standing there with a devilish smile on his face. Sarah took off running as fast as she could and tackled him in the snow. He managed to get on top of her and pushed another snowball in her face. She sat up, laughing and wiping the powder off and sat there with him for a while.

"It's great to see you running again," he said after a while.

"Yeah," she said with a smile. He looked at her and started laughing.

"What? What's so funny?"

"Your make up," he said after a while. She gasped and felt around her eyes. "You look like the undead," he teased. She licked her thumbs and wiped it off.

"Better?" she asked.

"Yeah," he said softly. They were silent again for a while when Sarah got a look on her face. She reached behind her and grabbed a handful of snow and faced Snape again.

"Hey dad," she said in a sweet voice.

"What?" he asked. She tossed the snowball in his face and then took off running before he could react.