Christmas vacation for the three teenagers was quiet. No one could come over until after Christmas, so they were alone most of it. If it wasn't for the house elves they probably wouldn't really be eating anything special on Christmas. The house elves seemed to know without any of the three teenagers telling them that they needed to have as normal a Christmas as possible. However that may happen.

When the doorbell rang the three teenagers who were all laying on a different piece of furniture, looked at each other.

"Lily's not supposed to get here until boxing day." Loralei told them.

"Same with Moony." Sirius added

"Maybe Peter changed his mind about not coming." James said uncertainly.

"Who's going to get it?" Sirius asked.

The two Potters looked at each other, then at him. Loralei had to sit up and turn around to do so.

"You're the one with magic, mate." James told him.

Sirius stretched, before standing up. "Fine, but I'm taking the girl with me."

"If someone didn't have clearance the alarms would have gone off when he was a hundred yards from the house." Loralei told them. "You should know this."

"That's good then." Sirius picked Loralei up bridal style. "Then I don't have to worry about you getting killed."

Loralei yelped when he picked her up. "Put me down, I can walk." She put her hands on his shoulders so she could catch herself if he dropped her.

"I like it more this way better." He told her, walking through the house to get to the front door.

She pursed her lips. "At least you didn't throw me over your shoulder."

"I'll do that next time." He promised.

"Will you at least put me down before you open the door?" She asked.

"Nope."

She rolled her eyes before bringing her right leg up-he was holding her left-and bringing it down, making him drop her legs, and she landed in almost a cat-like way on her feet.

"Thank you, love." She smiled, placing a kiss on his cheek before she kept walking towards the door.

"That hurt." He told her, rubbing his arm as he followed her to the door.

"Well, you forced me to." She shrugged, taking his wrist, and leaning down to kiss his forearm. "Better?"

"Oh yes! Your kisses are magic." He replied. "They will save the world from illness and injury."

"Oh, you know it." She replied as they got to the door. She turned the key in the heavy wood door, and opened it.

Before her stood a tall man with shaggy ginger hair, and brown eyes. She hadn't seen him since August.

"Hi," she said, her face going blank.

"I heard about your dad." Fabian said, his hands shoved into his pockets. "And your mum." He didn't see Sirius who was standing against the wall to the side. Sirius didn't know whether he should leave them alone, or make his presence known.

"Well it's been all over the Prophet for the last month or two." Loralei said quietly.

"I've been on a mission since September, I just got back." He told her. "I would've come to the funeral, but I didn't know."

"It's okay," she told him. "It was small anyway."

"I just wanted to see if you were okay." He told her.

"I saw it coming." Loralei told him.

"Literally?"

"For my mother, I knew my dad was going to go next. I don't care how they say he died. He died from a broken heart." She told him honestly, but kept her voice in a monotone.

"Can I do anything?" He asked.

She shook her head. "Do you want to come in? Why aren't you with your family? Isn't it Christmas?"

"I was on my way when I convinced myself to come see you." Fabian told her, stepping inside the threshold. "I can only stay a minute, Molly will kill me if I'm late."

Loralei smiled. "Yeah, she definitely would, I don't care that you're an auror, she could take you."

He smiled as he nodded, before seeing Sirius standing against the wall. "Black."

"Prewett," he nodded.

"Welcome to the island of misfit toys." Loralei told him. "Where the outcasts and the orphans reign."

"I see," he said.

"He's the only one of age in the house." Loralei rambled, scared of letting an awkward silence take control over the situation. "Remmy and Lily are coming over tomorrow afternoon."

"Isn't that like every year?" Fabian asked.

"Yeah, I think we're trying to convince ourselves we're going back into normality." Loralei told him.

"Good luck." Fabian told her.

"After this year, we better have some." Loralei replied. "So, how are you?"

"I'm all right. Sometimes I wonder why I became an auror, the hours are as bad as a healer." He told her, joking at the end. "It's nice to make a difference though."

Loralei smiled. "That's good to hear."

Fabian looked at the pocket watch he got for his seventeenth birthday, it was already pretty banged up. "I better get going. Happy Christmas, Lei."

"You too, Fab." She told him, opening the door again, so he could leave. After he took two steps he turned back around. "If you ever need anything, just send an owl my way, okay?"

Loralei nodded and smiled. "I will, thank you."

He returned her smile, and nodded. "See you around, Lei."

"Bye, Fab." Loralei closed the door.

Sirius looked at her blankly.

"What?" Loralei asked.

"Why'd he just drop in?"

"You heard what I did." Loralei told him.

"I don't like that he still comes around." Sirius told her.

"Why? He was just seeing if we were okay." Loralei told him.

"No, he was seeing if you were okay." Sirius corrected. "He didn't care if anyone else was."

"Can you really blame him after last summer?" Loralei replied, she said this as if it were obvious, not accusingly. "You guys did kind of treat him like shit."

"I don't like him coming over." Sirius told her.

"He's been a big thing in my life since I was fourteen, he knows me really well, and he just wanted to make sure I was okay. What's wrong with that?" Loralei asked.

"You slept with him last summer."

"History, baggage, I know you have it too." Loralei told him, almost smiling. "Now stop being jealous."

"You didn't tell him we were together again."

"Did it seem to fit in with the conversation?" Loralei asked. "It didn't to me." She walked up to him and kissed him lightly. "Come on, this isn't a big deal, I doubt we'll see him again."

He sighed. "You're right, I'm sorry."

"It's okay." Loralei told him. "Come on. It's Christmas, let's go back and hang out with James."

He nodded. "Okay."

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