Snow was skittered upon the Seine's frozen surface and the Effiel tower was like a tall pyramid of snow. All folks who were smart, got inside unless they had an errand to run or something. The small white flakes drifted down from the heavens as if they were falling stars. Carols could be heard in the distance and streets were all aglow with holiday cheer.

Dimitri, sat in his favorite armchair with his legs crossed reading the saturday post. Since it was only a day before christmas, he had not a care in the world except for; his newspaper. Ever since being able to afford it along with many other delightful "normal" things that everyday folks had, it was his daily routine.

"What in the name of all things holy did you do to the tree?!"

His peace was disrupted by his wife of almost a year. Slowly but surely he placed his paper down to the side seeing her lovely blue eyes glairing at him. He had to fight off laughter, she looked so serious.

"Uh oh, you look mad." He replied in a mocking tone.

"I asked you to decorate this tree, not just hang everything on maybe four branches." She stated pointing at all the clusters of blue, silver, and gold hanging on their tree.

"Yeah, and I did that-"

"You call this decorating Mr. smart guy?"

He glanced back and forth between here and the tree. "Yeah, I guess they could have been a little more spread out huh?" He kept acting very coy.

The red head slapped her own hand to her forehead. "Dimitri, a christmas tree is like a work of art. You don't just.." Then her voice halted as her blue orbs gazed upon a single ornament that stole all of her attention.

He had the urge to wave his hand in front of her face as she had just gone somewhat comatose. It wasn't untill he looked down at his feet then he saw it. Carefully he bent down and grasped the small decoration in his palm. Studying it carefully he suddenly recognized it.

"That, thats my family's special ornament.." She trailed. "I didn't even know it still existed." Quick as a flash of lighting the former duchess stole it from his hands. Running her finger tips over the hues of blue, the silvery swirls, and the small gold stars. Suddenly she could remember putting it upon the tree with her father holding her up. She shook her head trying to shake the memory and feeling that came with it.

Dimitri could tell by the look her eyes held that she was remembering something. Oh she could remember bits a pieces about her life, for the most part she just bugged him to tell her past stories of she and her sisters. He didn't mind to, since after all it would make her smile to hear of that one summer, or grand party. He swiped the ornament back from her grasp and gently placed it amongst the top branches, away from harm.

"I'll redecorate the "right" way and you-"

She halted him. "No, I want to help. I haven't had Christmas in ten years and it would be a delight to help you out, besides I've allready finished with the christmas cookies."

"I'll make sure the hospital is on standby."

That earned him a soft punch in the arm as they began to redecorate their tree; together.

WALL-E and EVE are the best other romantic couple and inspired me to do this chapture.. OMFG I looove that movie. lol. I thought, ya know since she was royal they must have had some special thing for their tree, but I didn't want to do the tree topper, an ornament was waaay easier to do. So R and R.. please?