Time skip because We're literally Dying From teh Cuteness Eating Our Brains, Christmas, because this totally won't be overly Cute Either...-
Tom leaped down the flight of stairs to the library, "Presents, presents, presents!" He jumped up and down excitedly pulling on his robe.
Lynn was already there, shaking one of the gifts. "Is it a puppy?" She peered at the thin rectangle box. "Puppy, puppy, Puppy!" She opened it. "Ah, oh... it's just a book."
"Lynn! That one's for Quirinius!" Rose took the box out of her hands. "Here, this one's for you, and no it is not a puppy. Sorry, Quirinius, I told her to wait...Oh, Tom, you're up."
"It's fine," Quirrell said placing his head on Lynn's lap, ear pressed up against her baby bump.
Lynn smiled, looking down at him. "You can't get enough of those baby kicks can you?" She looked over at Rose grabbing the wrapped up box and began tearing into it, careful not to hit Quirrell with the box or the wrapping paper.
"Does it bother you?" Quirrell asked peering up at her from where he laid.
"No, you're fine." Lynn smiled then looking over at Tom whom was still standing by the doorway. "Come join us, Tom!" She said smiling. "You can help Relly open his, I bet."
"Presents!" Tom rushed over, plopping down on the couch next to Rose, who was holding Volderrell. Tom held out his hands expectantly, Rose handed him Volderrell.
Here, Relly, Daddy-" Rose stopped by the look on Tom's face, she rolled her eyes, "-Father will help you open this one. Really, Tom you are so silly sometimes."
Lynn whom was having trouble getting the box open that Rose had passed her gasped excitedly as she opened the box. Quirrell moved his head up glancing at Lynn and then looked into the box. Lynn pulled out a hat that resembled an owl. If owls were crocheted bright yellow with black trim, with ear flaps that were braided in a mix of yellow and black near the bottom, and large eyes holding rings of black, yellow, and white. The older girl put it on her head grinning brightly. "I love it. Thank you Rose!" She looked in the box squealing excitedly as she pulled out fingerless gloves that had black in the top and bottom and yellow in the middle.
"You're welcome, now, Relly what did D-uh-Father get you?" Rose turned back to Volderrell, who was holding a big stuffed-animal snake, waving it around and laughing. "Uh, Tom?"
"What? It's perfect! See, he loves it." Tom pouted. "Where's my present?"
"Right here you big baby." She handed him a slim box, Tom handed the giggling baby to Rose, "Here, Relly this one's from Mummy." She helped the little boy open the box while Tom ripped into his and pulled out a set of dark emerald robes.
"Ooooooh, nice." Tom smiled sliding his robe off to try them on. "What'd you get R-...oh Rawling."
"Isn't he adorable?" Rose held Volderrell up, the baby was wearing a blue onsie with 'I'm Mummy's Little Love Bug!' scrawled across the front.
"My son..." Tom whispered, ashamed and slightly repulsed.
"I think he looks adorable in it," Lynn said with a smile as she bent down and pulled a large box, "For you, Volderrell." She said passing it over to Quirrell whom handed it over to Tom. She then leaned back over to where the stack of presents were pulling out two more, "Had that over to them, will you love." She said pressing two more packages over to Quirrell before leaning back and presenting Quirrell with a gift.
"And who's is this for?" Quirrell asked.
Lynn smiled, her hand across her belly and leaned on Quirrell. "And that is yours. Open that later though..." She laughed as Quirrell blushed, "no it isn't that sort of gift, love, " Lynn turned her attention to Rose, Tom, and Volderell. "I want to see them open theirs first."
"No problem!" Tom tore into his was a glowing transparent snake that hissed merrily as it uncoiled itself from the box and raised itself up looking at Tom with mild interest.
"It's a messenger something or other, you can have it relay messages to people, like many do with owls, just without all the mess of feeding it and whatnot." Lynn beamed.
"Oooh, I'll call her Nagini," Tom leaned forward and started to hiss to the snake.
"Very cute, now what's in mine I wonder?" Rose slipped the bow off her present and pulled off the paper. Inside was sword that looked to be made of ice.
"That can create portal's to move from one place to another just as floo powder does, just without all the mess of it. Works somewhat like my grey cube finder," Lynn said, "Though I suppose you can also use it like a normal sword... It burns if you get cut though."
"And you'd know this how?" Quirrell asked looking over at Lynn who held up a bandaged finger saying nonchalantly. "Cut myself when wrapping."
Volderrell thumped his little hands on his present.
"Okay, Relly, okay. Let's see what Aunty Lynn got you!" Rose helped him tear off the paper.
"A box, how appropriate." Tom chuckled, leaning back with Nagini coiled around his forearm.
"Huh? Just the box? But there should be a training broomstick inside." Lynn said leaning forward confused. "Unless it flew off..."
"Lynn, it's in here. Tom was being an ass." Rose held up the broom. Volderrell gnawed on the broom handle, "Okay, I think we'll put that away for awhile."
Lynn glaring at Tom for a second before looking over at Rose, "I thought as much I figured that I'd get it to him now thinking before I lost all good gift ideas."
"Thank you, that's very thoughtful of you." Rose smiled, putting Volderrell on the ground where he started to play with the toy snake that Tom got him. Tom sat back and hissed quietly to his snake.
"Open yours now," Lynn said looking over at Quirrell excitedly.
Quirrell smiled. "Oh, alright" he said pulling back the wrapping paper. He pulled out a book written with the similar symbols as the door.
"I had overheard you wondering about the door's symbols not being in a language you knew. So I asked 'Leo to put it down in a book for you. Along with a bunch of other languages that people speak. Do you like it?"
"Very thoughtful," Quirrell said noticing two other was a Jane Austin novel and one untitled book that was bright pink. He pulled it out looking confused. "What's this one?"
"That's for us in alone times..." she said with a grin, watching his face match the color of the book's bindings.
"Y-you d-don't say." He said still blushing. Tom had to bite down on his fist to stop from laughing.
"And the other is a romance novel I knew you didn't have. Merry Christmas, Quirrell." Lynn said smiling.
"Merry Christmas, Lynn." Quirrell replied noticing there were still more wrapped gifts. "Rose there is a gift for you, Tom, and Volderrell, and another by it for Lynn..."
"More presents!" Lynn asked excitedly.
"OOooooh! I get to open it!" Tom dashed forward, only to be clotheslined (much to Volderrell's amusement) by Rose.
"I think I'll open it, considering you didn't get anyone a present." Rose said standiing up to get the present.
"Yeah, meany, even the Seven went out and got stuff for us," Lynn said pointing to the several different sized packages in the corner.
"Well, excuse me for not having a job..." Tom sat up and massaged his jaw, "Volderrell, do not laugh at Father's pain."
Lynn shrugged. "If that's your excuse... Rose can you hand me my present?" She reached for the packages.
"Hm, here's one for you, Lynn." Rose passed her a small present over to Lynn.
Lynn ripped it open and opened it gasping. Her eyes were wide as she looked over at Quirrell. "Is this what I think it is?" she asked him as he looked over to look.
He smiled nodding.
"What?" Tom rose up on his knees to try and see.
"A ring!" Lynn said slipping it on her finger and showing off the silver coated ring with a diamond. Lynn almost seemed to be glowing with excitement.
Quirrell chuckled and looked quite pleased with himself as she jumped around excitedly on the couch. "And there's a note with a question on it. So Lynn tell me, what's your answer."
"It's a yes!" Lynn said flinging herself into him and he hugged her still smiling.
"Oh boy! Another wedding...Hm, I sense we'll be needing some writing utensils." Tom smiled and shook his head.
"Yay!" Rose clapped her hands and darted over to hug them.
Lynn hugged her back excitedly. And Quirrell hugged Rose as soon as Lynn let go. He then looked over at Lynn, "I've been planning this for a while now, just wanted to do something special. I'm glad you like it." He said with a lop-sided grin.
"I love it, thank you Quirrell." Lynn said.
"Sooo, anymore presents?" Tom looked over at the tree.
"Just the ones from the seven." Lynn said, nodding over to the corner. "They got one for each of us, if I remember them telling me correctly."
Tom backed uneasily away, "Uh, I not so sure abou-"
"Tom, if you don't like the present, you can always return it." Rose gave him a warning look as she put Volderrell on the couch, "If it makes you feel better, I'll open your gift from the seven and you can open the gift from Quirinius."
"Oh, okay." Tom pulled the box closer to him and opened it. Inside was a boucy seat, a two way baby monitor, and some other toys and baby things. There was also a wizard chess set. "Ooh, wizard chess! Come on, Quirrell let's try it out!"
"Thank you, Quirinius." Rose shook her head in amusement as Tom set up the board.
"Your welcome," Quirrell replied looking over at Tom and sat down next to him and the board.
Lynn smiled amused, as she looked over at Rose. "Let's open the rest of the presents up."
"Yeah, pass me the ones for Tom and Volderrell." Rose gazed at Volderrell, who was curled up on the couch, fast asleep.
Lynn smiled at Volderrell as she got up and slowly made her way over to where the boxes were. She grabbed two and handed them over to Rose.
"Which is which?" Rose glanced at them and then at Lynn.
"The smaller one is Tom's." Lynn said. "And the massive one is Relly's."
"Oh, funny, I figured that." Rose opened the smaller gift first. Inside was an invisablily cloak that attached to it read 'Stole this from HP. Merry Christmas, Tom.' "Wow, uh, Hey Tom, you might want to see this."
"Not now, dearest, I'm in the middle of being slaughtered." Tom groaned as his queen was hauled off the board by Quirrell's rook. Rose tossed the cloak and it landed on the coffee table, completely hiding the board game. "...holy shit..."
"Sure you want to return it," Lynn asked. "Cause I'll take it you don't."
"No! Mine!" Tom grabbed the cloak, missed, and tried to grab it again, once he had it, he draped it over himself so that he was just a floating head, "I'm gonna kick weiner dogs..." He chuckled evily.
"Oookay, now Relly's." Rose opened the larger box, "Aw isn't this cute?" She pulled out the large stuffed bear.
"It's adorable!" Lynn squealed. poking the heart and it began reciting the alphabet.
"Well, now isn't that practical?" Rose smiled. "Now what'd you and Quirinius get?"
Lynn turned over to the boxes picking up one and walking over to Quirrell and handing it to him, she went back picking up the last two. She handed one to Rose and then sat down to open her own.
"I got- a wedding dress?" Lynn said in shock, and then she laughed. "I should have figured as much. And there is some jewlery too... A necklace, matching earring, and a silver anklet and bracelet with hanging bells that jingle. Sweetness. What about you, Quirrell?"
"This weird thing," he said holding out a jar of fire that floated in the jar changing colors every few seconds."And a dream catcher..."
"Ooh, floaty fire!" Tom poked the jar. It only shifted from green to purple.
"What about you, Rose?" Lynn asked looking over at her friend.
"Hm," Rose opened her present. "Well, wasn't this thoughtful!" She pulled out a photo album with a portrait of her, Tom, and an older Volderrell on it.
"Wait a second," Tom stopped tapping the jar, "When was that photo taken?"
"In the future, most likely." Lynn said, nonchalantly, like it happened all the time, as she put on the jingly jewelry and held out the dress to look at it. "Don't worry about it too much, Tom."
"Hang on, am-am I...BALDING?" Tom grabbed for the album. And sure enough, the older Tom had a definite receding hairline. "NOOOOOOOOOO!"
Volderrell, woken up by his Father's scream against the inevitable, woke up and burst into tears.
"Stop that Tom! You gel your hair back anyway!" Rose snapped, picking up Volderrell.
"That isn't the point!" Tom pulled the Invisibility Cloak over his head and could be heard scampering to his pile of presents.
"Tom," Quirrell sighed, rolling his eyes. "It could be worse. You could be bald."
'But that receding hairline means the bald is only just making it's way to taking over my head! And I'm not going to be the guy making the desperate attempts to mask his hair loss! Damn you, Lucius and your full head of hair!" Tom's voice came from somewhere to the right.
"He'll be fine. Lynn would you thank the seven for us all? Though I think I'll be locking the Cloak away for a while." Rose smiled over Volderrell's thick black hair.
"I will," Lynn said leaning her back against the couch. "I think this is the best Christmas to date."
"I second that." Quirrell said moving himself next to Lynn.
"Tom! Stop grabbing my ass!" Rose turned around, "When I'm holding your son, that is."