A/N nothing you recognize is mine

Presents

Sirius, James, Remus, Ted, and Andy all sat on the couches around the fire-pit. Sirius was in the middle with Andromeda and Ted to his left, and James and Remus to his right. He felt sort of watched and Sirius wasn't sure if he like it or not. He remembered a time around Christmas when all the adults would watch the children open their gifts. Maybe he did like it.

The presents sat on the table in front of him. He counted eight presents in all. The one from Regulus that Remus took was there as well.

"So, what should I open first?" Sirius asked, not sure how to proceed. Andy chuckled.

"Just pick one, Siri. There's no one here to tell you not to." Andromeda told him. Sirius stared at the table, eyes dancing from present to present. He looked at the one he knew was from Regulus and picked t up.

He carefully started unwrapping the package- knowing not to do anything ungraceful- until James abruptly took it from his hands, ripped off the wrapping paper and handed the box back to Sirius. Remus shook his head and muttered something along the lines of, 'impatient dickhead.'

Sirius opened the lid of the box and promptly fell over laughing. James and Remus looked at Sirius with concern while Andromeda looked in the box. She laughed and held up a pair of Gryffindor patterned boxers. The rest of the group started laughing as well.

When Sirius finally recovered, he looked in the box again and found a matching pair of socks.

"Wow, matching socks. Now I have true house spirit. Where did he even find these anyway?" Sirius asked. James looked down at his lap.

"The Underwear Emporium," James muttered only loud enough for the rest of them to hear him. Sirius and Remus stared at him.

"Why do you know that, James?" Remus interrogated. James stared even more intently at his hands. He sighed

"Because my Mum bought me a pair with snitches," James admitted. The room was then filled with hysterical laughter. "Shut up," James whined as he threw a pillow at Sirius.

"Oh, are we gonna do that again?" Sirius countered.

"Please no," Remus begged. Andy sighed.

"No, Sirius. You have other presents to open." She prompted.

Suddenly, Sirius could not help but feel excited. He ripped open the next present with much more gusto. Although he frowned when he saw it was a book. He scowled, even more, when he saw that is was James who had given it to him.

"Charms and Hexes for Children with Malicious Intent." Sirius read, a grin slyly appearing on his face." Oh, what we can do with this!" he exclaimed. Now he understood why James gave him a book.

James smiled, "I knew you would like it. Now hurry up! I need to know what they got you." He pushed.

Sirius ended up opening his present from Ted, next. His brow furrowed in confusion with what he saw.

"What's a 'Talkie Walkie'?" Sirius asked as he looked at the three small devices. He picked one up by the antenna and looked at it as if it was about to explode.

Ted chuckled, "'Walkie Talkie' they're like instant communication. Even if one of you is in detention and the other in the common room." Remus picked one up with his eyes wide open in wonder.

"Oh! I've heard about these! But, they won't work here. Too much magical interference." Remus concluded, sounding disappointed.

"Not if you know the tight charms." He corrected. Ted picked up one of the walkie talkies and walked outside the room. As the doors shut they heard "Hello, Captain? Can you hear me? Over and out." Come from the other two walkies.

Remus immediately picked another up. "Roger that. Over and out." He announced. Ted came striding back in moments later.

"See? Told you." He said. Sirius snatched the talkie out of Ted's hands and James picked up the last from the table.

"Woah" the two pureblood boys chorused.

Andromeda smiled. She was glad her cousin was happy. Being away from that wretched house was doing great things for him. Sirius now reminded he of the free willed toddler he once was.

In the end, Sirius got 1 pound of chocolate from Remus, 2 pounds of random candy, a magically re-filling water-gun, a container of wooden block puzzles, and a package of Zonkos products as well.

In hindsight, Andromeda probably wouldn't have gotten Sirius something from Zonkos.