Emilie was awoken by the excitement just outside her door. She was sure she could hear Ron shouting for everyone to come downstairs. She closed her eyes and prayed for five more minutes, after all she didn't even know what time it was. Someone's hand crept around her waist and pulled her close to their body. It startled her at first before she was engulfed by Fred's cologne and the tickles she got as his sweater pressed against her neck.
"No line in today Em, it's Christmas!" He whispered excitedly into her ear, sending chills down her spine. She giggled and turned to face him, his hair was all shapes as it stuck out in all directions. She didn't even want to think of what her's looked like.
"Merry Christmas spoilsport." She said grinning as he gave her a gentle kiss before getting up. "Nice morning breath too, oh and you drool in your sleep did you know that?" She teased, pointing at the damp patch on his pillow.
"Your morning breath is worse than mine." He commented, pinning her down to the bed and kissing her as she squirmed away. They both burst into laughter as it was strange how comfortable they were with each other.
"Alright alright. If we don't come down, your mother will come up. Let's go" Emilie surrendered, rolling away from him and standing up. She groaned at the sight of her bed head and grabbed her wand to at least attempt to tame it before giving up and braiding it. The couple lifted their presents for everyone from their hiding places and headed downstairs.
The living room was really a sight, wrapping paper all over the floor. Harry decided to make it snow over Teddy's head wherever he trotted off to, there were cups of coffee and tea placed on the coffee table, stacked books (much to Hermione's displeasure) and Ron was wolfing a slice of toast into his mouth as the couple appeared at the end of the stairs.
"There you are." He muffled, before Hermione elbowed him and he set the toast back onto his plate. The room erupted into "Merry Christmas" as Fred shoved a pile of wrapping paper off one of the comfy chairs and allowed Emilie to sit on the arm and rest her legs over his.
"This one likes her sleep." He pointed towards her and rolled his eyes before getting a soft smack on the arm from his girlfriend.
"Okay we have presents for everyone" Emilie began handing out her presents to everyone. Ron was impressed at the keeper gloves he got, George put his hand on his heart and cried 'how did you know' in a girly tone before giving Emilie a hug and a whisper of thanks. Arthur was extremely happy with his gift as Emilie had bought him a set of rainbow rubber ducks, a portable radio and muggle books. Molly got a new handbag, her favourite sweets and her own sweater with an "M" on it thanks to Emilie learning how to knit over the summer with her. Harry swore to Emilie if she got him anything, she wouldn't get her gift.
"I asked Aunt Emma to help me out with this one, I have my own and decided every Potter should have their own." Harry said with a smile handing Emilie quite a large package, the size of one of Hermione's favourite books.
Tearing off the paper, it revealed a cream book with a moving photo of them all over the summer out in the garden sitting around a small bonfire. At the bottom, her full name was drawn out in navy blue calligraphy. Emilie could feel the tears welling up in her eyes as she opened the book. The first few pages were of her mother and her father in their school years and when they were in the Order of the Phoenix. Turning the pages shown Emilie's life as she grew up, some muggle photos and the other moving; then there were photos of her and the girls, her and Fred. Harry had left at least 100 blank pages with his scribbles at the bottom of one. "To be continued."
"Harry…I'll be working for years to make this gift up to you. It's amazing, thank you!" She exclaimed, rushing to hug him. It was then she noticed he had grown slightly, now he was a few inches taller than her.
"Best get to it then, Potter." He winked at her, taking his seat again next to Ginny and Arthur.
Christmas day had flown in, the family were all full and watching Teddy play on his new toy broomstick Harry had got him. He was dressed in a miniature version of what Remus was wearing, that was one of Tonk's gifts along with many other things. What stood out to Emilie was that in addition to Teddy's little plush wolf, was now a plush black dog and a plush stag; all lined up along the bottom of the sofa.
"Guys, can I speak to you all upstairs? Who has the biggest room?" Emilie whispered to her friends.
"I do, since me, you and Mione had to share over the summer." Ginny piped up, looking very worried and confused.
"I swear to god Fred If you've knocked her up, I'll kill you myself." Hermione whispered to Fred, who was now beetroot in the face and was shaking his head so much Emilie thought he would get whiplash.
They all followed her up to Ginny's room and all sat down, everyone looking confused as Harry leaned against the wall and nodded at Emilie to start.
"So I found out who my father is…"Emilie started, a sigh of relief came from both Fred and Hermione as the colour fled back into his cheeks.
"I was waiting until Christmas was over to tell you all so I guess now is a good time." She started, "My mum told me that she fell in love with my dad at school. But their relationship was a secret, that's why no-one really knew about him. They were meant to tell everyone about me and their relationship on my dad's birthday. I was around one the same age as Harry. Problem is…my dad was arrested for murder and my uncle and aunt killed." She said softly, waiting for the reactions of everyone.
"You're Sirius Black's daughter?!" Was a popular one.
"Doesn't that make us related?!" Came from a very worried Fred.
"Blimey Emilie that's awesome." Ron exclaimed.
"Okay okay calm down. Fred practically every pureblood family is related somehow, through marriage so I really couldn't care if you are my fifth cousin thrice removed on my dad's side." Emilie said sarcastically, Harry muffled a laugh.
"I guess all the puzzle pieces fit now. I know my family tree and my memories have been back for a while, given I still have some flashbacks of new ones but they'll stop eventually." She shrugged as she sat on the bed next to Fred and squeezed his hand.
The room was silent for a moment before George came up with the idea of a game of wizard's chess with someone. Everyone slowly made their way out of the room and went off to do their own thing. Emma had been downstairs explaining the entire thing to the adults, Remus of course had some knowledge ever since the first day when he saw Emilie.
The rest of Christmas break flew in, most of the time Emilie spent at the shop helping out with the busy orders for going back to school and designing the new product containers. She felt like she was at her happiest, her relationship was perfect everything was in perfect balance.
"I'm going to miss you Em. I'll write to you everyday and see you as much as I can" Fred promised as the Hogwarts express whistled behind them. The girls were saying goodbye to their partners, Molly and Arthur had to go into Diagon Alley so they had said their goodbyes that morning at breakfast.
"I know, I'll miss you too. Don't get up to too much mischief while I'm away, anyway I'll be staying at Hogsmeade at Easter. I love you." Emilie replied, holding onto his face as they kissed, it reminded Emilie like one of those scenes in a romance movie. She gave him one final hug before following Hermione and Ginny onto the train and into a compartment. They all sighed as the train chugged out of the station and out of London.
"Hey it won't be that long anyway. The first Hogsmeade weekend is in two weeks. It's not like they'll die without us." Hermione stated, breaking the silence between the girls.
"With Harry, you never know." Ginny chuckled, opening her bag pack to look at her Quidditch notes he had helped her with over Christmas.
"What could go wrong then yeah?" Emilie yawned, fixing her bag onto the window so she could curl up for a nap.
"Always sleeping this one." Ginny pointed at Emilie.
"You sound like your brother." Emilie stuck her tongue out and drifted off to sleep to be awoken later by Luna who was asking her had she seen the Daily Prophet recently.
Groggily she sat up and adjusted her eyes to the front page of the newspaper.
DRACO MALOFY DIVORCE. MALFOY HEIR IN RUINS?
Didn't even know he was married in the first place. Emilie thought
Kind of a filler chapter, kind of a plot chapter. You choose which one suits you.
I'm off on study leave now which means more chapters. But I really need feedback just to make sure I'm doing okay. Sorry if the characters are a bit OOC but its fanfiction. I try my hardest so hey that counts. Leave a review and hope you enjoyed this Christmas chapter in April/May