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All I want for Christmas (Chapter 9)

Lily walked out of her en suite bathroom wearing a towel, singing absentmindedly as she did so.

"…all I want for Christmas is you."

"Really?" James gave Lily a cheeky grin – he'd been standing in the doorway of her bedroom the whole time.

Lily jumped out of her skin and clutched at the towel that was wrapped around her. "JAMES! How long have you been standing there?"

James continued to grin. "A while."

Lily frowned at his grinning. "It's not funny."

James tried to hide his grin, but there was still a mischievous glint to his eyes. "No, I completely agree Lily. We need to go to Hogsmeade."

"Don't you grin at me like that, you cheeky git. Obviously I need to get dressed before we go to Hogsmeade." She waited for him to turn and leave before she realised. "Hang on a minute – how are we going to get to Hogsmeade?"

James' grin extended, giving him a maniac look. "I have my ways." He tried to sound mysterious – Lily looked at him as though he were a freak.

"Right," she said slowly, humouring the mad man. "And why are we going to Hogsmeade?"

"To drink and be merry!"

"I am not dragging you back here James, you better not drink too much."

"You think so little of me Lily dearest."

Lily pushed him out of her doorway and closed the door.

Lily came downstairs a few minutes later to find James waiting for her on the sofa, he was still grinning rather insanely.

"James, I'm only going to go to Hogsmeade with you if you promise not to grin like that."

James tried to adjust his face into a more normal looking smile.

"That better?"

"Much."

James grabbed Lily's hand and led her to a mirror on the Fourth floor. He tapped a certain part of the mirror frame and said "Opennius." The mirror swung open and they walked through, making sure to close the mirror behind themselves.

Lily grinned insanely and James failed to notice that she was taking the piss out of him. "How did you find out about that?"

"I am James Potter, knower of all importantly useless facts." He draped his arm around Lily's shoulder. "Need to know any useless facts?"

Lily giggled. "Yeah. What do you want for Christmas?"

James looked offended. "That's not a useless fact! – But seen as you've already told me what you want –"

"I did?" Lily was confused.

"Yeah, me. I would like you in return, it's only fair."

Lily laughed and punched James' chest lightly.

James pretended to be hurt. "Or you could sing a duet with me. I need someone as good as me, you see, and you're about my standard."

Lily blushed and snorted. "Like you can sing."

"Yep."

"Go on then."

"Okay." James cleared his throat and sang a verse of a traditional carol from the wizarding world that Lily had heard some carol singers singing outside the Three Broomsticks a few years ago.

Lily had to take it back. "Okay, so you can sing. Really well actually."

"Why thank you."

They reached the end of the passage and climbed up through a trapdoor to end up at the back of The Three Broomsticks. James climbed at first and held out a hand to help Lily out.

"Here we are."

They walked round to the front and entered to pub, grinning as they saw Ari and Sirius in one corner. They ordered their drinks (James wanted to pay for it all, but Lily insisted on paying her share) and found a small table that wasn't too near to anyone they knew.

"So," Lily pondered. "Is this a date?"

James grinned insanely again. "If you want it to be."

Lily whacked his shoulder lightly. "I do want it to be, so yes it is a date."

James looked serious for a moment. "Do you actually fancy me then?"

Lily turned a dark shade of scarlet before answering. "Yes."

James nodded. "Good, I was beginning to wonder whether you'd ever like me."

"It was crying into your chest that did it for me really."

"Really?"

"Yeah, it made me realise how good your body was." Lily looked at the effect this statement had on James. His eyes were open about as wide as they would go, and she wondered whether he actually believed her. "I'm joking. I like who you are – I like your personality."

James' face lit up. "I've always been a great person."

"Can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

Lily took a deep breath. "Will you –"

Lily tried to ignore the fact that James was staring at her intently awaiting her question.

"Would you like to be my boyfriend?"

James felt the joy spread through him, and Lily felt the butterflies doing overtime in her stomach as she waited for James' answer.

"I can't believe you just asked me that Lily." James tried to keep his voice serious.

Lily's anxious face fell slightly. "Sorry?"

James continued. "Because I've been waiting for you to say that you'd like to be my girlfriend for a long time."

He watched as a multitude of emotions went through Lily's face before she smiled happily at him and leant across the table. James felt a tingle go down his body as Lily's lips met his and they shared their first kiss.

Lily awoke the next day and couldn't resist the urge to wake James up. She knocked on his bedroom door just in case before entering his room after receiving no reply to her knock.

She smiled at the peacefully sleeping James.

"James?"

James showed no sign of having heard her, so she ruffled his hair.

"JAMES!"

James attempted to drag one eye open and failed miserably.

"James, it's Christmas day! Don't be so lazy!"

James tried to drag his eyes open again. One of them opened slightly, like the slit of a post box.

"Come on. Get up!" Lily dragged at James' covers, but he held onto them tightly and let his eye close again.

Lily bent down next to James' bed and whispered his name in his ear. He wrenched one eye open again and felt as though he was going to die from the sheer effort of it.

"Please get up James."

James' eyelid swaggered under the effort of keeping it open and closed again.

Lily sighed, held her wand over James' head and muttered a spell. James spluttered as a small waterfall fell onto him and shot upright, finally feeling awake.

"Lily! That was completely unnecessary, I wasn't even asleep!"

Lily grunted disbelievingly. "Yeah right. Whatever you say James. Hurry up and get dressed, I'll wait for you in the common room."

Lily and James walked into the Gryffindor common room about half an hour later and found Sirius and Ari waiting for them.

James stared at Sirius as though he were an illusion and turned to Ari and said,

"How did you wake him up!" at the same time as Sirius asked Lily the same question.

Lily stared at the Sirius and James in disbelief. "It's Christmas Day! Since when does anyone not get up early on Christmas Day?"

Sirius grinned cheekily at her. "Christmas Day you say? I've never heard of that – I always thought it was Christmas afternoon. Didn't you James?"

"Yup."

Ari slapped Sirius upside the head with her hand and turned to her pile of presents. The others followed suit.

James picked up a small present, which had a hastily written tag on it.

Dear James,

Merry Christmas! 'May all your days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmases be white!'

Love from Lily.

P.S Please don't kill me! (It's your fault – you said you wanted it!)

James opened the small parcel to find a small white box. He rested it in the palm of his hand and stared at it wonderingly for a few minutes before it exploded, covering him in a pile of pure white snow.

Lily laughed as he wiped the snow off of his glasses and turned to glare at her. Unluckily for her, she was standing slightly too close to him. He reached out his arms and pulled her into a snowy hug. They shared a snowy kiss. Lily pulled the instructions out of her back pocket and handed them to James. Apparently pressing the tiny, almost unnoticeable button on the bottom of the box activated a pile of snow to fall just behind the box. The snow was self-clearing and disappeared after about half an hour.

Lily found a small box from James and read the tag before opening it.

Dear Lily,

Happy Christmas! I'm hope you like this – I'm sure it matches your eyes!

All my love,

James X

P.S Nothing could ever be as beautiful as your eyes though!

Lily curiously opened the box to find a silver heart necklace embedded with real emeralds.

"James – you shouldn't have. It's too much."

James shook his head and took the necklace from the box. He stood behind her and gently slid the necklace around her neck and did up the clasp.

He turned Lily round and she stared into his eyes. "You know what else you get?"

"No."

"Me."

"You?"

"Yes. I love you."

"I love you too, James."

Lily stretched slightly and reached up to kiss James.

They pulled apart a few seconds later laughing at a shocked Sirius, who had picked up one of James' presents and now stood in a pile of snow.


A/N: That was quite a long chapter! Aren't they sweet? Talking about sweet, my new cousin was born on Monday, and he is the sweetest baby I have ever seen! Yeah, I've been a bit busy with History coursework (finally finished!) as well. Just to say: YAY! I finally finished my table! I spent so long on it, but it's really good!

Okay, so it wasn't really an unforgettable Christmas present because I changed the chapter. Well, maybe, I mean he's not really going to forget her telling him that she loves him!

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