Remus' POV

Sirius had been with us for a few days now. It had been a brilliant few days, one of my best Christmas holidays. It had even snowed. The two of us had gone ice skating, snowman building and we had had snowball fights. I hadn't spoken to my parents much really, I tried to just enjoy my time with my mate. James however had not joined us in our fun. In fact he had hardly ever left his bedroom. I sighed thinking about it. Usually James and I had lots of fun near Christmas. I needed to snap him out of his hatred.

'Mum, Dad, we need something to get James and Sirius to be at least civil.' I said as I walked into the kitchen. Sirius was in the shower and I hadn't seen my brother. My mum smiled as I came in and dad nodded.

'You're right Rem, but how?' dad pondered.

'I have a plan.' I smirked.

General POV

The next day saw Remus and his parents leave the house before Sirius and James got up. Sirius was the first to rise. He padded downstairs after checking to see if Remus was in his room. When he found it empty he wandered to the kitchen. He was on eating his breakfast when James sleepily walked in rubbing his eyes. Once he caught sight of Sirius he glared stonily at him.

'Where are my parents?' James demanded. Sirius shrugged and James scoffed.

Once James got to the living room Sirius heard him shout,

'You have got to be kidding me.'

Sirius walked to see what all the fuss was about. There were a few boxes in the living room next to a large green Christmas tree. James threw a piece of paper at him. It read:

'Dear Siri and Jamie,

Mum, dad and I are sick of your arguing and spiting. So we've gone out. Your job is to work together and decorate our tree ready for Christmas. We expect you to do this with no magic and the house and yourselves to be in one piece when we return.

Lots of love,

Rem, mum and dad x'

Sirius chuckled and put the note down. He moved towards a box and started unloading the decorations. James looked at him incredulously.

'What in the name of Merlin are you doing?' James snarled.

'Getting started, I thought that was obvious.' Sirius replied raising his eyebrows.

James growled and stormed away, kicking the box as he went past. Sirius just chuckled.

It had been about 20 minutes or so. Sirius had finally got the hang of tinsel and was carefully winding it round the tree. Suddenly he felt someone helping to wrap it round. He looked round to see James grudgingly helping.

'I thought you weren't going to help.' Sirius asked, with no malice.

'Well, this is my favourite part of Christmas and besides, I'm not about to let you ruin our tree am I?'

Sirius laughed and James smiled at him slightly. In that moment, the hatred thawed.

The boys stood together and decorated the tree with the radio playing. After a short while James started to sing along to the Christmas songs, it was quiet at first but then as one he recognised came on he belted it out. Sirius laughed then joined in. The boys laughed together and sang along loudly as they continued their job.

Pretty soon they finished except for the angel on the top. Sirius picked it up and James rested his hand on his arm.

'Remus always does the angel Sirius.' Sirius nodded and smiled as he put the angel down.

They stood back and admired their work.

'It looks grand.' Sirius said.

James nodded, 'It does. Hey have you ever seen The Grinch?'

'What's that?' Sirius asked, confused. James looked scandalised.

'Only the best Christmas film ever. Come on, I'll show you.' James replied as he pulled Sirius towards the tv.

The boys spent the rest of the afternoon watching Christmas films. That's how Remus and their parents found them.