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Eighteen: Christmas Day
Dumbledore stood in his office, in the center of the floor, all the furniture pushed to the walls. It was the middle of the night, the day officially being December 25th. A circle had been drawn in the center, with a square surrounding it. The purple journal was open in his left hand and his wand was pointing to the top of the square where the circle and square connected."Linia de linie," he whispered his wand moving back and forth four times, aiming where it connected. A stream of yellow light shot out from his wand to connect with the circle and square. The power coloured the drawn line on the top of the square and around just slightly on the circle.
Albus looked to the book and turned right with exactly three steps. "Sfarsitul sa puna capat," he muttered his wand moving in a circular motion over the next connecting lines. This time a green light shot out of his wand and connected with the circle and square, lighting up the same amount as the yellow light and connecting the two together.
Albus turned to the book again and turned right again with two steps this time. "Mare a scazut," he mumbled his wand moving up and down over the connection between the circle and the square. An orange light shot out of his wand this time, connecting with the overlapping lines. The power connected to the green and covered the same amount as the other two.
Albus turned back again to the book before turning right once more with exactly four steps this time. "Aici ca sa nu," he said his wand moving in an oval shape over the lines connecting the square and the circle. A brown light shot out of his wand drawing over the lines and completing the color circle.
Albus took a deep breath, turned his blue eyes to the book one last time before separating his legs so his right foot touched the edge of the brown lines and his left touched the edge of the green. "Puterea de a MI, vesnica," he stated in a clear voice with his wand moving in a figure eight movement above his head.
His voice echoed around the room and through the castle. Nobody woke but power thrummed through the walls and down towards the earth as well as up towards the sky. The four colors spread throughout the castle and the surrounding area, heading in four different directions. Green went North, brown south, yellow west and orange east. They all stopped at the wards, none of the magic seeping passed them and away from there.
The square began to glow a faint purple with the circle glowing just a shade lighter. Dumbledore stood in the center, his wand pointed at the ceiling and his eyes closed. Nothing moved no sound was made; no breeze blew through the trees. Everything was still; peaceful. The purple magic slowly started to rise, up over the headmaster, stopping just as it came to reach his head.
A burst of the magic surged through the office, shattering a few objects lying about the room. Dumbledore took no notice as he waited for the ritual to end.
Slowly, excruciatingly painfully slowly, the magic began to draw back towards the circle. Dumbledore gained feeling back through his body as did Hogwarts. The stairs began to move in its agitation, trying to figure out the ritual Dumbledore just performed. Dumbledore, meanwhile, was grinning madly as he finally moved from his place within the circle.
"At last," he sighed before turning and retiring to his bedchamber.
James headed into the library where the Christmas tree was set up in the corner by the grand bay window. He was shocked to see Jared wasn't awake yet, but assumed he was still asleep. He sat down on the couch that had been turned to face the tree and ordered a cup of coffee from the elf that had popped in.
He studied the tree, his gaze wandering from the angel that sat at the top, her wings spread wide, to the garland wrapped around it in red and gold, to the ornaments from Lily and his parents and a few Jared had made when he was younger. His gaze froze at the bottom. No presents.
Yesterday, the bottom of the tree was filled with gifts of different sizes and shapes and colours. Now there were only three. Two were long and narrow decorated in purple with a gold bow while the last was a small cube dressed in blue and green.
James slowly stood, ignoring the elf that came back with his coffee and knelt in front of the tree. His hazel eyes were wide as he pulled the square present towards him. Slowly, oh so slowly, his shaking hands pulled the bow, the ribbon falling gracefully to the floor, before pulling the green wrapping paper off. It was a plain, brown box underneath the beautiful Christmas wrapping paper, and, once again with shaking hands, he pulled the folded box flaps apart before peering into the box. White tissue paper spilled over the top of the box, hiding whatever was placed at the bottom of the box with mounds of the white, crunchy material. The tissue paper was grabbed and thrown behind him. At the bottom of the box was another box; this one small and covered with black velvet.
"Master? Can Dissy be doing anything for you?"
"No Dissy, just leave the coffee," James muttered staring at the box as he pulled it from its spot and the bottom. He flipped it open and settled amongst the beautiful, expensive velvet was the Potter heir ring. James scowled, anger clouding his features. With a snap the ring box was closed. "That no good brat."
James tossed the velvet box back into the brown one before pulling one of the long presents towards him. He ripped the paper off this one, too angry to go slow. It was a gold box this time, painted gold, he could tell as the paint was slowly starting to chip away. He tore open the top, pulling it off and flinging it to the side. There nestled within white cotton was the necklace he had given to Jared when he was six; every Potter heir had been given it at the age of six.
That box was tossed aside as well, the necklace flipping out of it as James pulled the last 'present' towards him. Ripping this one open as well, it was another long box painted in the chipping gold. The lid was torn off as well and there was the necklace James had given Jared when he received his Hogwarts letter.
"God dammit!" James yelled, tossing this one away as well. He was breathing heavily and the elves quivered from where they were within the manor, never hearing their master that mad before. "I will get you, you little brat."
At Slytherin Castle, about the same time James had destroyed the three presents, the others were just waking and making their way to the library. The tree was decorated with blues, greens, silvers, golds, and reds. At the tip sat a beautiful gold star, sparkling in the morning light.
Sirius, Lucius and Kaelyn were the first awake; Kaelyn needed to feed after all. Kaelyn was squealing and giggling when her gaze landed on the beautiful tree and mounds of presents. Sirius sat down in front of the fire, using Lucius' legs as a back rest when his husband sat down, and spreading his legs in a v so Kaelyn could play with her panther in the middle.
Kyrene and Remus were next, Remus yawning while Kyrene swung their conjoined hands back and forth between them. She had a bright smile lighting her face while her other hand rested lightly on the side of her stomach. She was four months now and showing more than Lucius did when he was pregnant; she thinks she'll be having twins.
Lily came next with Ginny and Hermione just behind her, dressed in their cozy, fluffy pajamas. Harry, Draco and Jared were after them about five minutes later. The younger generation sat on the floor in front of the tree with Sirius while the older ones and Kyrene sat on the couches that were turned to face the glorious tree.
"Breakfast Masters and Mistresses?" A house elf asked as she popped in.
"Now or after?" Lily asked looking at the Hogwarts students.
"Now," Kyrene said, smiling brightly. "I'll have three flapjacks with butter, syrup, honey, cinnamon and strawberries."
Lily smiled over at her, "Anybody else want something now?"
"I'll have two flapjacks too." Harry said. "Just with syrup and butter please."
"Same," the other students answered.
"Alright, might as well eat now," Remus said and nodded to the elf.
"Daisy bes getting it for yous now." Daisy popped out, returning a couple minutes later with cups of coffee and tea for everyone. Ten minutes later she returned again with the breakfast and conjured a table to set everything on.
"Yes," Kyrene mumbled as she stood and walked over to the table, sitting in front of her ordered breakfast. Remus chuckled and stood up, following his girlfriend.
It was nine thirty three on Christmas night, the stars twinkling up in the midnight blue sky with the half moon shining down over the earth. Kyrene and Remus were sitting out on their deck which had a permanent warming charm on it. Kyrene was munching on some pickles with whip cream; she wanted something sweet and salty and crunchy.
Remus' right hand was buried in his pocket, fiddling with a purple velvet box that lay inside. He was biting his lip, worrying it between his teeth as he stared out over the beautiful grounds of Slytherin Castle.
"Remus? Is everything alright?"
Remus could hear the grin in her voice and he had a pretty good idea that she had seen what he wanted to ask. "You saw it, didn't you?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about," she said the grin still in her voice as she brought another cream covered pickle to her lips.
Remus sighed, rolled his eyes before standing from the chair and moving over to Kyrene. He turned her chair from the table, ignoring her squeak before getting down on one knee.
Kyrene smiled brightly at him, clasping his left hand between her two hands.
"You do know," he muttered.
"This is as far as I saw 'til. I do not know what you want to say."
Remus took a deep breath. "I love you. I know it took me a while to accept you and us and my wolf, but you stuck by me. I didn't believe you would, I thought you would leave. You have no idea how happy it makes me that you've stayed. I want to make you mine; officially," he whispered, bringing out his right hand.
Kyrene smiled brightly, a small gasp coming from her lips at the purple box. She could feel tears coming to her eyes and she choked out a laugh.
Remus looked up and smiled at her. "Kyrene, I love you. Will you do me the honour of marrying me?" The box flipped open to reveal a white gold ring with a single amethyst in the middle, nestled amongst the velvet.
Kyrene was nodding; she couldn't get words out as every sound came out as a choked sob. She was trying to say yes. Remus understood and, smiling, slid the ring onto her left ring finger. Kyrene squealed and pulled on Remus' hands to get him to stand up before she stood up too. She flung her arms around his neck, burying her face in his chest.
Remus smiled and dropped his head to hers, placing a small kiss to the top of her head.
I own none of the translations as seen below. I just thought that'd be a good place to end it :D. Hope you liked it!
"Linia de linie" means "line to line" in Romanian. "Sfarsitul sa puna capat" means "end to end" in Romanian. "Mare a scazut" means "high to low" in Romanian. "aici ca sa nu" means "here to there" in Romanian. "Puterea de a MI, vesnica" means "power to me, everlasting" in Romanian. All of this is from http(colon)//www(dot)worldlingo(dot)com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator(dot)html