As I forgot to explain in the first chapter, this is kind of a mix of things. It's what I learn and get told every year at Christmas about things like lighting a tree, it's a story about Starfire discovering a new holiday, it's all about how family doesn't have to be blood related and it's one more thing that will be explained later.

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Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans... or Wal-Mart... or a Christmas Tree for that matter... or anything with a copywright.

December 17

The next morning Ty came out of her room with a new resolution. She was going to have Christmas whether the Titans joined her or not. She took Starfire out with her to get a Christmas tree.

"Tell me friend Thyme, is this Christmas why everyone in the city places dead plants in their house and lights on their roofs, and they give each other boxes drowning in colored paper?"

"Yeah, pretty much." She walked past Starfire in the tree lot and up to a Frasier fir. "How much is this one?"

"Fifty normally; but you look like I could nock it down to forty." The salesman stood the tree up so she could look at it.

"We'll take it. Can you wrap it and cut it for me?"

When they got back to the tower she set it up and watered it. Then she went back out to find ornaments and lights. Cyborg went with her. He didn't want the others to know, but he had always been disappointed in their Christmas. He liked all the traditions.

"Couldn't you have just grown a Christmas tree outside and then cut it and brought it in?"

She wandered the isles in Wal-Mart and threw a few boxes of ornaments in the cart. "I'm bad with Christmas trees. I always end up covering them in snow, or there are a million pinecones, or several squirrels or some combination of the above."

"Tough break. Still, it's cool that you can even try." He picked a string of white lights off the shelf and moved on. She grabbed his arm and stopped him, throwing two more strings in the cart.

"You can never light a tree with one strand." She threw in some more ornaments. "It always takes at least two."

"Good to know." They kept walking and they found lots of cutesy ornaments and several boxes of traditional ones. They had stacks of bows and yards of garland. She had found a string of lights shaped like jungle animals that she thought Beast Boy would appreciate.

After buying and bagging they headed back to the tower. The T-Car was loaded with decorations and it was all they could do to get it home without losing them out the back end.

They got home in one piece and Ty immediately started decorating. Starfire hovered around her curiously and asked so many questions.

"Why do you hang toys from the tree?" "What is the purpose of the little lights?" "What do you plan on restraining with the decorative rope?"

By this last question she was of course speaking of the ribbons. "I'm going to hang them around the house. They are for decoration." Ty pulled a star shaped tree topper out of the bag of ornaments. "I can't reach the top, can you help?" Starfire just stood completely stupefied. She obviously had never seen a tree topper before.

The star was instantly enveloped in black energy and lifted to the top of the tree. Ty turned to see Raven behind her with her hands towards them. "Thought I'd help." She said and shrugged her shoulders; then returned to her books and ignoring them.