Chapter 22: Christmas at the Lamya's

Disclaimer: I do not own anything that seems familiar to you. I do not own the lyrics either. They are by Simple Plan. I do not own National Treasure either (Some quotes are mentioned)

"Hello Ms. Lamya." Mary said when they all arrived at Rose's house. "Nice to meet you, I like your house. Nice decorations. Rose hates them though." Mary added. Rose shot glares at Mary and Ms. Lamya gave Rose a 'We'll talk later' look. After being introduced to everyone Ms. Lamya she left the room. Rose pulled her wand slowly out of her jacket to send a curse at her mother but Ron lowered her wand.

"You guys can put your trunks in the living room. I'll get my brother to carry them up later." Rose said.

"Your brother?" Harry raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, DANIEL," Rose yelled. A boy with light brown, short hair and being about 4'8" tall walked down the stairs.

"You know I hate that name!" He yelled back at her. Rose rolled her eyes. "What do you want? I was playing on my game boy."

"Can you bring these trunks up to the guest bedrooms? Thanks." Rose said while Daniel growled.

"Introduction Madame Rose." Mary said acting formal.

Rose laughed and introduced everyone to her brother. After she was finished introducing she saw her brother struggling to carry a particularly heavy trunk.

"Herm, What do you keep in there?" Ron asked.

"Books." Hermione answered.

"Danny just leave that one for last." Rose said and started walking up the stairs her friends followed her. Ron followed close behind Rose. Rose stopped in one doorway,

"This is my room." She said. Then looked at Mary oddly. "Why are you giggling?"

"Look up Ronald and Rose." She said then she paused, "Sounded cooler in my head." They looked up. Mistletoe was dangling a just over their heads. Rose and Ron blushed and then kissed following the rules of mistletoe.

"Was it just me or was that kiss a bit longer then it should have been?" Mary asked when Rose and Ron broke apart. Mary giggled. "Can I plan your wedding?"
Rose whispered something to Ron, Ron nodded and pulled Harry and Mary under the mistletoe.

Mary and Harry kissed also, for about as long as Rose and Ron.

"And you said they kissed for a long time," Hermione said. Harry and Mary blushed.

"Why don't you show us the rest of the house?" Mary changed the subject. 'Exactly what I need is for me to fall in love with Harry. That'd make the front page news, 'Vampire loves boy-who-lived.' Mary thought. Rose showed them the rest of the house. Rose only had two guest bedrooms so Hermione and Mary got one room, Ron and Harry the other. (There were four beds.)

Danny had brought up all the trunks and the five helped him bring up Hermione's.

"I hate it being so cold outside." Mary said randomly. The five were in Rose's living room helping decorate the tree.

"Why?" Harry asked, her other friends looked ready to ask the same thing.

"You can't sleep under the stars." Mary said.

"Rose, you have weird friends." Danny said. He was on the couch playing his game boy again.

"I know." Rose replied. Hermione took a pillow from the couch and hit Rose. Mary, Harry, and Ron followed. "Ah! I surrender!" Rose yelled from under the pillows. Rose ran away from her friends and the horrid pillows. Mary and Harry followed her and got caught under another piece of mistletoe.

"Your mom just loves mistletoe doesn't she?" Harry asked and kissed Mary.

'Damn you Rose. I'll get you back for this.' Mary thought as she kissed Harry back.

"You two look so cute together." The voice made Harry and Mary break apart. It was Ms. Lamya. She had brought some Christmas lights and was streaming them around the tree. Mary blushed. Harry smiled.

"Ewe," Danny said and left the room.

"We need to find you someone." Mary said randomly as she put another ordainment up on the tree.

"What do you mean?" Hermione asked not liking where her friend was going.

"You know, we need to find you a boyfriend." Mary answered.

"Err," Hermione blushed.

"What?" Ron asked.

"Well you guys know Terry Boot? He's a Ravenclaw in our year." Hermione said. "Well we've been going out since after the first Quidditch game." Hermione blushed.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Rose asked. Hermione shrugged. There was a silence.

Mary exhaled slowly, "silence…" She muttered under her breath.

"What is up with you and silence?" Ron asked.

"I HATE silence," Mary answered, "Ever wonder why I am a loud person, most of the time." Harry smiled as if he were trying not to laugh. Mary hit him upside the head. "Hey I just realized something." Mary said to herself.

"What might that be?" Hermione asked.

"The sky is blue." Mary answered her friends looked at her strange. "I'm kidding, this is a muggle neighborhood. My walkman should work!" Mary exclaimed and went up to the guest bedroom she was sleeping in. A few seconds later she came down with her walkman in hand. "Ok, now I can help you guys with whatever decorations you need to still put up."

"I think that is it." Ms. Lamya said. "You five did a great job with the tree. There are some fresh cookies in the kitchen. You can help yourselves." She smiled and walked through a door on the other side of the room. Rose told them that it led to the office/computer. Ron who was completely new to a muggle house asked what it was causing Rose to bring her friends up to her room to show Ron what a computer is.

"Don't walk into the room at the same time as me." Rose commanded. Ron smiled and went in after her but then pulled her back to the doorway. "RONALD WEASLEY!" Rose shrieked.

"Follow the rules of mistletoe." Ron whispered.

"You guys are going to make me puke." Mary muttered and pretended to puke.

Rose kissed Ron shorter then last time and then ran onto her bed. She reached onto her bookcase near her bed and pulled out a black rectangle that had a bit of depth to it. She placed it on a big book ("That way I don't burn the bed" Rose explained.) She opened the rectangle and pressed a button.

"This is a laptop." Rose explained to Ron. "It's a muggle device used for…" Rose stopped. "What is a laptop used for?"

"Goofing off, chatting with friends, listening to music, writing, etc. etc. It makes muggle's lives a bit easier." Mary answered.

"Ok then what she said. It is smaller then a computer which is what my mother has. This is portable and in my opinion much better." The laptop made a noise then said, "Welcome back Rose." Mary laughed at the look on Ron's face.

"It's programmed to say that Ron." Mary laughed.

"You really should take muggle studies Ron." Hermione said. Rose clicked on a little envelope on her screen. Mary was sitting on Rose's bed now humming to the song. Rose reached over and turned the volume to its highest really fast.

"AH ROSE!" Mary threw her headphones off as if they were a poisonous spider. She rubbed her ears. Rose pressed stop and put the CD into her computer and played it using windows media player.

'Do ever feel like breaking down? Do you ever feel out of place?
Like somehow you just don't belong
and no one understands you
Do you ever wanna runaway?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so loud
that no one hears you screaming'

Mary started singing along.

'No you don't know what it's like
When nothing feels all right
You don't know what it's like
To be like me'

Soon after Rose picked up what the chorus was and started singing that.
'To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
With no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life'


"Do you like dogs?" Rose asked as the next song started. Harry, Hermione, Mary, and Ron shrugged. Rose whistled and they heard footsteps. Up the stairs came an old looking golden retriever and a very hyper black mutt. "Meet Jasmine and Jack." Rose introduced.

"You have a good voice Rose." Ron said.

"Thanks." Rose blushed.

"Way better then mine." Mary commented.

"Yours is good too." Harry told Mary.

"Hey, it's snowing!" Hermione exclaimed trying to change the subject. The five friends rushed to get their snow clothes on and ran outside. In no time there was snow flying all over the place.

Mary ran and slipped on some ice while trying to hit Hermione. "Ow!" She exclaimed. Her friends dropped the snowballs they had made and ran towards Mary.

"You okay?" Harry asked, helping her up.

"Yeah, I think so." Mary said and winced then in one quick movement brought her left hand (which had been behind her back) up and hit Harry with a snowball which had been lying on her palm.

"Oh you're going to pay." Harry muttered and took off his glasses to wipe the snow off of them. Mary started running but in no time Harry had caught up and hit her with a snowball.

"Oh Potter!" Mary exclaimed and picked up some snow and made a snowball. She threw it at Harry but Harry rolled out of the way and it hit Hermione instead.

"MARY!" Hermione yelled. It went on like this until they were called in to get ready for dinner. After dinner Hermione had to go home because her parents were here. Her parents wanted her home for Christmas day. Her friends gave her their gifts for her and helped bring her trunk down.

After Hermione was gone everyone went up to the guest bedroom that Mary was sleeping in because there was a TV with a DVD player in it. The TV was on the wall across from the two beds so Rose and Ron sat on one bed Mary and Harry on the other.

After much arguing over the choice of movie (Mary wanting to watch something Disney) they chose National Treasure. Before Rose put the movie in Rose and Mary explained some stuff about the United States of America.

The whole room burst out laughing after this part in the movie,

"I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm tired, this car smells weird."

"Sounds like something you'd say Mary." Harry commented.

"Oh shut it or else." Mary said and looked back at the TV screen.

"Or else what?" Harry teased in a whisper.

"Or else I'll have to do this," Mary whispered and kissed Harry.

Ron rolled his eyes. "Let's show them how it's done." Ron muttered and Rose blushed as Ron kissed her.

'Is she pregnant?' 'I look pregnant?' The movie said but no one was watching it anymore.

Midnight came as the last scene rolled by.

"Happy Christmas." Ron whispered to Rose.

"Happy Christmas," She answered back. Mary had fallen asleep on Harry's shoulder. Harry set Mary head back on the pillow and Ron, Rose, and Harry left the room after turning the movie off.

"PRESENTS!" Daniel yelled early in the morning waking up the other five people sleeping in the house.

"We know Danny now let us sleep!" Rose yelled out of her room at him. Mary groaned as she got up and pulled a potion bottle and started drinking the nasty stuff. She really hated it but she knew she would not have any friends if she turned into a blood sucking monster on Christmas day. There was a knock on the guest bedroom door. Mary hid the now empty potion bottle and opened the door.

"Have a good night's sleep?" Harry asked. Mary smiled and laughed a bit before nodding.

"You?" She asked as she walked back to her trunk and picked out her clothes for the day.

"Okay," Harry shrugged. Across the hall Ron wasn't having as good a conversation with Rose.

"Go away Ron," Rose muttered hiding her head with her pillow.

"Come on Rose get up its Christmas." Ron said cheerfully.

"GO AWAY!" Rose yelled and then there was a growling sound as if Rose had transformed into a wolf or dog.

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"Oh no," Mary muttered and she walked across the hall. Where there was a wolf where Rose should be. "Ron," Mary shook her head. "You can't wake Rose up in the morning. Do you not know why I only wake Hermione up early?"

Rose transformed back into her human form and buried herself under the blankets. "I don't care if it's the bloody Fourth of July, I WANT TO SLEEP!"

"Uh… Rose, England remember? No Forth of July." Mary informed. Rose growled as Mary, Harry, and Ron left the room.

"Ron, never try to wake her up early in the morning. She tends to get really mad and mean." Mary said.

"I'll keep that in mind." Ron answered looking a bit frightened but then he seemed like he was going to burst out laughing at the same time.

About an hour later Rose came down in Elmo pajamas and snuck up behind Ron and gave him a hug and kiss.

"Sorry," She yawned and sat down on the couch.

"Can we open presents now?" The impatient ten year old asked.

"Yes you may Danny." Ms. Lamya answered.

Danny opened his gifts first as all the older people in the room were willing to let Danny have fun. It was Christmas after all. After Danny finished ripping the paper off ever single gift labeled to him he happily left. Ms. Lamya went to make breakfast decided to leave Ron, Rose, Mary, and Harry alone.

Before they opened their gifts Mary stopped them.

"Have you guys ever seen that little kid show Blues Clues?" Mary asked. In reply Rose groaned. Ron and Harry shook their heads. "It's a little kid cartoon about this blue dog and her owner. The dogs name is Blue and they go on hunts for clues. It's sort of a mystery type thing. Anyway since it is for little kids they have songs. One of them is for when there is a birthday and someone is opening gifts. It goes something like this." Mary took a deep breath to start singing but Rose covered Mary's mouth with her hand. Mary was about to bite Rose's hand away but then remembered what biting someone would lead to. "Ok I won't sing it." Mary pouted.

Ron, Rose, Harry, and Mary all got a Weasley sweater and some fudge from Mrs. Weasley. Rose had gotten Mary a Honeydukes sweets basket. Mary had gotten Rose an Elmo plush. It was in a box so sarcastically Rose said,

"Oh a box thank you so much Mary."

"Isn't it the best gift you ever got?" Mary replied with just as much sarcasm. Ron handed Rose a small box that looked like a jewelry box. Rose unwrapped it and opened the box.

"Oh my God Ron!" She hugged Ron. "But how'd you," She began to ask.

"Fred and George, who knew their shop, would be such a success?" He laughed. He then put the silver necklace with an emerald cats eye in the middle on her neck.

"Ron," Harry started. "You just had to make my gift unoriginal didn't you?" He joked. Harry handed Mary her gift. It was a silver necklace almost identical to Rose's but instead of the emerald cats eye there was a crescent moon and a star. Instead of a small chain there were letters. On the right of the moon the words spelled out 'Mary' and on the left of the star the letters spelled 'Black.'

"Harry," Mary said and kissed him. "Thanks I love it." She hugged him. "You now make my gift seem so lame." She said. They kept unwrapping gifts and thanking each other. They all had a very good Christmas.

Ok, don't sue me for this chapter. LOOK its LONG! I warned you ahead of time about the pairings. If you dislike it please do not review telling me it could never happen. It's my fan fiction. Anything can happen and this is written for fun anyway. Well anyway hope you like it. THIS WAS SIX PAGES ON WORD! Damn how did I write that much. I was having a lot of trouble with the Christmas gifts. I was also having trouble adding a bit of humor to this chapter. The next chapter is a 'Mary chapter' as my friend calls it. It will also be more serious then humorous that is why I tried to add lots of Humor to this chapter.

Anyway I have to now thank all those reviewers:

Rose: Thanks for reviewing again.

Misao: Oops my bad. I thought it was Virginia. Oh well. Too late to change it now. I'll remember that for future chapters though. No I do not know what "castrate" means. But do I want to? I will update on "Who am I?" soon. I have a bit of a block for that. But good news. I have the next 2 chapters already written I just need to revise and edit. And err… I DON'T HAVE ANY SCHOOL UNTIL WEDNESDAY! laughs at everyone who has school

StonySilence: WHOOT NEW REVIEWER! Do all of you guys just form this little, "Spaz out and scare the author completely" group?

Kocran: ANOTHER NEW READER and I am on a roll! Anyway, Yes 18 was kind of (well very, completely) random. You may find some other chapters like that. I tend to post completely random stuff when I don't know what else to write.