Previously

What do you want for Christmas, cub" Remus asked out of no where.

"I-I-I don't know" She stuttered, she had been caught unaware.

"There must be something you want?" Remus tried to push the matter, but all Tigerlily did was shake her head. "What about you, Harry?" Harry looked over at Remus as did Sirius, "I said what do you want for Christmas cub?"

"I don't know" Harry said in a state of shock, no one had ever asked him that before.

"Yeah Harry there must be something you want." Sirius was now pushing the matter as well. But Harry just shook his head.

"Neither of you know what you want for Christmas?" Remus was slightly shocked by that , shouldn't children be writing lists that are miles long and asking for every thing they see. Well these children are going to have the best Christmas they have ever had.

Harry had lied to his new guardians, there was one thing Harry wanted. The same thing he had always wanted: a mother. Although he used to imagine someone who looked like Tigerlily with someone who looked a bit like himself. But when you have no parent figure and no pictures children will imagine adults who look like them. Although now there IS a parent figure in young Harry's life. Although Harry now knew what his parents looked like, they weren't parent figures. He couldn't remember them and no amount of pictures were going to make parent figures to him.

Sirius Black was now his father figure, he wasn't going to tell the adults he wanted anything in case they said he was ungrateful, although he also knew that Sirius wasn't going to be able to find him a mother, so it would be his secret wish as it always had been. Tigerlily was never really bothered about having a mother. He now imagines a new person as his mother, thick black curly hair, with pale skin who is graceful and elegant and yet still fun. Basically a female version of Sirius.

Harry had very little time to think about that, that particular day, Sirius and Remus took them shopping. Sirius being Sirius had fallen in love with everything muggle, he had all the latest technology, although this being a wizarding house there was no electricity , so he made all of his gadgets run off magic. Of course he had gotten a car and was quite a 'boy racer'. Which was why on that day Remus was driving, although Remus loved Sirius dearly he didn't trust in a car especially when there were children in the car. So they had spent the morning getting the children clothes , although the children hadn't made it any easier, every time Remus or Sirius asked their opinions they hadn't said anything. So basically everything the children looked like they wanted Sirius had bought them. By the end there was a full trolley of clothes for each child as well as a few muggle t-shirts for Sirius. Sirius had even bought some new clothes for Remus, not that Remus knew about half the them. Remus had agreed to let Sirius buy him one shirt after Sirius didn't shut up for well over an hour, although Sirius had picked up loads for his beloved.

Then they went for lunch, the children had only eaten half of their meals , but it was getting better slowly,it took a whole 30 minutes to choose something. Then they had ice cream. Sirius then took them toy shopping, again the children didn't voice their opinions on anything, so basically anything they showed interest in, or looked at more than once he bought. Although on the way towards the checkouts, Remus noticed that most of the toys were boy toys. When he pointed this out to Sirius , Sirius admitted he couldn't watch them that intently, basically he had focused on Harry. The family headed around the shop again and got some more toys for Tigerlily. By the time they had finished shopping everyone was exhausted. They went home and sat down for another massive meal as a family.

Then everyone was told to try on all their new clothes, Remus was both touched and ready to kill Sirius when he found all his new outfits. Tigerlily loved all her new dresses when she was spinning around in them she felt like a princess. That night the children went straight to Remus and Sirius' room and they had another perfect night sleep. With no problems in the morning, not that the children would have been able to get out of the adults grip.

In the morning, 18th of December which means only 1 thing a week till Christmas. Although Remus and Sirius had got some things while shopping the other day , they still didn't know what to get the children. Remus woke up a bit earlier that usual and got out of bed carefully, so not to wake anyone else up. He headed to the kitchen and made breakfast. Last night while the children had fallen asleep, they had discussed the idea of getting a house elf to help out around the house so they could spend more time with the children, although it sounded like a good idea Remus had always been like Lily and was against house elves. He looked up from what he was doing and saw snow.

Sirius is going to have so much fun (I can tell).

Thank Merlin we took the children shopping yesterday. I better go and get some fires going, this isn't the warmest house at the best of times Remus thought

After a while he also went and found some of the warm clothes (coats, gloves, hats etc). He then went and plated the food up and put a warming charm on it to keep it warm. He then went on a hunt for some of the toys Sirius had here from his childhood. After half an hour he gave up and would look when Sirius was with him. He went back into the kitchen and noticed that the rest of the family still weren't up. He went up stairs to wake them up. He woke up Tigerlily and Harry easily and when they were all off the bed he conjured a bucket of water that fell on Sirius. Sirius woke up with a start and fell off the bed and was swearing like mad , but luckily Remus was prepared as always, placed a silencing spell around the room. The children were in hysterics and Remus didn't hold back a laugh. The Sirius got up and the children stopped laughing so suddenly it was actually creepy. The children and Remus were looking at Sirius and he was staring at them and then he burst out laughing.

"Breakfast is on the table, once you've finished I want you to get in some warm clothes and if you want you can go and play in the snow." Remus was surprised just a little how parental he sounded. Sirius eyes lit up at the word snow. Remus noticed it had the opposite effect on the children. So he bent down to their height "Bad experience with snow?" He asked. Both children nodded silently "Want to talk about it?" Both children shook their heads.

"We're not taking no for an answer" Sirius announced in mock of a parental voice. The children looked at each other and sighed. "Shall we talk about it at breakfast" Sirius took the blank faces as a yes and the family headed down to breakfast.

After the children had finished eating the adults got the answer they needed to hear "Once we were told to clear the snow from the drive way" Harry began "Then they locked us out all night and it was really cold." Both adults were ready to kill and as soon as they had a baby sitter they trusted they were going to make the Dursleys pay, although they trust Severus they wanted him with them as he can be very scary when he wants to be.

"Well, that's not ever going to happen here, you can go out side and come in when ever you want, and if you don't want to go out you don't have to." Remus told them trying to be chipper.

"Will you come out side?" Tigerlily asked Remus full of hope, Remus nodded and Tigerlily gave a little squeal and jumped and hugged Remus. This surprised the 3 males.

After breakfast the small family went and got into some warm clothes and Sirius went and found some childhood toys. Once Remus was happy that they were wrapped up enough they headed outside. There were snowballs flying everywhere as well as laughing that could be heard for miles especially in one cell in Azkaban. The family continued to play for the whole day, they went in for lunch and then carried on playing, snowball fights building snowmen and making snow angels. Sirius turned into Padfoot and they all continued to play late into the afternoon, they were all made to go in when it started to get dark.

Most days passed in a similar fashion Remus and Sirius learning more about the children everyday. That night it was Christmas eve and the children were in their own rooms, asleep. It was midnight and Remus and Sirius were checking (yet again ) that this Christmas was going to be perfect. The children had decorated the Christmas tree, and Remus and Sirius had helped them. There were presents everywhere, the children were going to love it. The children had gone to bed without any problems now the problem was getting Sirius to bed.

The next morning the adults expected the children to come running into their room in the early hours of morning, when they didn't Sirius and Remus thought that maybe the children had already gone to see what they had got, but the charms around the living room hadn't gone off. Maybe they were still asleep. The pair went to check, Sirius hadn't slept all night and hadn't let Remus get any sleep either. Sirius can be such a big kid.

They went and found both children in Harry's room curled up together, Moony and Padfoot smiled in the door way, they then noticed Harry face twitch. So Sirius being Sirius went and creeped up on them and woke them up.

The children seemed reluctant to open their eyes, when Sirius mentioned it was Christmas, he hoped it would get them out of bed a bit faster as he was so happy. But it seemed to have the opposite effect. Sirius and Remus decided that they would change that.

"Come on, there are loads of presents " Harry looked over at his sister.

"Come on Sirius, we both know they need to have breakfast first" Remus held out his hand, and like every morning Tigerlily ran over to Remus and he put her on his shoulders. Sirius always looked envious because Harry never did anything like that with him. He pushed that thought aside, as he did every morning. They headed down to breakfast, it was quieter than usual besides Sirius constant chatter.

Then they went into the living room and both children looked devastated, which confused Remus, but Sirius didn't say a thing, he didn't seem to notice. Remus got passed a package, he read the name and passed it to the children, as it was for both of them. Remus encouraged them , although he soon realised the children had never had a present , well at least not one they could remember.

Although the children had seen enough of Dudley opening presents to know what to do. This had happened before there was a present with their names on, then they were punished when they went to open it for not knowing their place. Then later they were given the present again, and didn't touch it then they were punished for being ungrateful. After some encouragement from Remus they opened the present to find a photo album of their parents and when they were babies.

After looking at each picture and hearing the story behind each one they found out they had a huge pile of presents each. After a while they had opened all the presents and were playing with their toys. Sirius had gotten Remus a book called 'How to deal with your monthly problem'. Although Remus thinks he loves Sirius most of the time there are times like this where he isn't so sure why they are together but he is so glad they are.

Just before they were going to eat Christmas lunch there was a very loud pop and in front of the Christmas tree was non other than Bellatrix LeStrange.

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