Harry Potter & the Power of the Eclipse

"Like this is speech." Like this is written words. Like this is thoughts. Like this is telepathic. Like this is different language.

Chapter 15

Ginny awoke the next morning feeling exhilarated. She looked out the window for a while trying to remember where she was.

"Don't tell me you forgot already." She jumped and turned to see Shadow standing with his back to her. She mentally slapped herself for being so dumb as to forget being in Shadow's home. "If you want breakfast I suggest you get up and get dress." He said before heading towards the kitchen.

A few minutes later she walked into the room and found him standing at the stove making home style pancakes like it was nothing. The sent of butter and syrup along with milk and pancake batter made the room smell welcoming.

"I didn't know you could cook."

"Well how else am I to eat? I don't like fast food or TV dinners so I cook my own food."

"Oh."

With in minutes there was a stack in front of her at the table with butter and syrup on it.

"Did you know pancakes are my favorite food?" Ginny asked.

"I think you might have said it once or twice." She smiled at him and started eating.

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The days passed and the two of them talked, watched movies, went to town, walked through the forest, played what Shadow called video games, and anything else that they could come up with.

And finally Christmas came.

Ginny woke up early and walked into the kitchen to get a drink of milk. To her surprise Shadow was already up and making pancakes again.

"Do you ever sleep?" She asked.

"No I sit in bed and shoot myself with holy bullets and drown myself in holy water." He said with a laugh.

"Let me guess, you also drive steaks into your chest and crucify yourself too." She like how he could joke like this.

"Only on the full moon and when I am dancing a ballet with a troll and a banshee." He said with an even bigger laugh.

She just had to laugh at this. After a few minutes they stopped and Shadow pulled out a present.

"Merry Christmas." He handed it to her.

She opened the box and found a gold choker. In front there were two rubies on either side of a diamond and a charm shaped like a nine tailed fox. The fox itself was made of a red gold metal and it had amethysts for eyes. It was all well detailed, even though the charm was only an inch in size. She noticed the choker itself had a design of foxes running. From the rubies the pattern went seven tails, three tails, one tail, with nine tails at the mid point, before it started the pattern again. The clasp was shaped like a fox curled up with its tail around it.

She looked back at Shadow. She was speechless.

"Well?"

She leaped on him, giving him a hard hug. When she pulled back she blushed and mumbled a thank you.

"No problem. The rest of them are in the living room." She looked at him a little confused. He explained. "The presents from your friends and family. What did you think I would make you wait till we got back to let you get them? But for now we should eat."

"Well I figured that would be easier. But I am hungry." They sat down at the table and ate, listening to music that Shadow had playing. When they finished they went into the living room and Shadow handed her a pile of presents.

She got a book from Hermione, the usual Weasley gifts, a flower from Neville, a book on werewolves from Tonks, chocolate from Remus, pranks from the twins, a letter from Ron(Mrs. Weasley made him), an issue of witch weekly from Luna, and a robot dog that ran off magic from Shadow. With the presents from her parents there was a letter asking her why she didn't tell them sooner. But aside from that she liked all her presents, the dog from Shadow earned him another hug, as he seemed to know about her like for animals, and this way she wouldn't have to feed it.

The rest of the day they played in the snow out side and then came inside to watch movies. By night fall Ginny felt like the most content girl on earth. And with that thought in mind she drifted to sleep.

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Declaimer: Don't own HP.

A/N: I know it's shorter than my normal chaps but I don't do well at the whole Christmas break thing. One I myself do very little, two its to cold to do things like swim or things that would add to the things to do during the day, and three I just don't really want to go into detail on their whole break so I skipped the first week or so. Also, I have been working on several different stories, as to keep myself from god moding Harry/Shadow. But I was wondering if I should start posting those stories as well. I also don't know how long it will take me to get the next chapter up, as I am a little dry right now and need to find inlets for ideas for this story. I hope I do not disappoint anyone. R&R please.