Sorry about the wait but I blame the exams. I'm glad I got this one out, I didn't want to leave yuo guys waiting for ages!
This chapter is basically just some cuteness with no drama.
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Chapter 10- Christmas, Rings and Dancing
"When will she be here?" James asked leaning his head back against the wall from where he was standing against it. Olivia rolled her eyes from where she laid her head on Sirius' stomach as he laid across his bed reading.
"James stop moaning. She'll be here soon." Olivia answered the question for the hundredth time and she felt Sirius move underneath her obviously laughing at how impatient James was.
James and Lily had been an item now for 3 weeks and were going strong. James much to the pushing of Olivia and Sirius had asked Lily to stay at his house for the Christmas Eve until they went back to school. At first James had been worried she would say no and that he was stupid for asking her something like that so early on in their relationship but much to his delight she had gladly accepted and said that he had saved her from spending Christmas with her sister and new whale of a husband.
Finally James came and laid on the bed with his friends resting his head on Olivia's stomach in the same position she was laying on Sirius.
"Jesus Christ James no wonder you're so full of yourself, your bloody head is so heavy!" Olivia exclaimed and James sat back up eyebrows raised and Sirius hid his face in the book he was reading but his shaking shoulders gave up the fact that he was laughing at his girlfriends insult.
"Olivianna Danielle Collins, how dare thee insult thy head of amazingeth umm... ness." Olivia in her completely un- lady like way snorted out loud and buried her face into the mattress.
"I can't believe that just came out of your mouth prongs." Sirius said laughing and putting his book down and stretching.
"Well switching to Shakespeare language helps me cope with the bullying comments that your mean girlfriend makes about this amazing thing that sits on my neck." James said standing up and folding his arms.
"Well Liv you were right, his head must have nearly crushed you with the weight." Sirius said looking down at a smirking Olivia, while James opened his mouth to protest.
"I'm always right." Olivia said beating James to what he was going to say.
"Right." James said and flicked his wand at two pillows on the bed which launched themselves at Olivia and Sirius who got hit in the stomach and then caught them before they could fly back to James.
Olivia looked down at the pillow and then back at James' shocked face Olivia smiled at the fact that James' spell was supposed to send the pillows back to him.
"Well. That one backfired." Olivia said smiling evilly at James and then turning to Sirius who nodded and both of them took off after James who ran out of the room.
When the door finally knocked Emma Potter took it upon herself to get the door assuming that the 3 battling 16 year olds had been too loud and busy to hear the knock in the first place. Emma rolled her eyes as she walked passed her living room and saw her two boys wrestling on one sofa while her beautiful girl stood on the other, one pillow in hand shouting smack talk over to the boys.
"Dear Merlin Lily you are brave." Emma said to herself knowing it would be her son's girlfriend at the door.
Lily smiled as she opened the door and then the smile fell slightly into an I-don't-even-want-to-know smirk when she heard the shouting and faint sounds of things hitting a body.
"Hello Lily. I'm going to ask you now are you sure about this, please enter at your own peril." Emma teased and Lily smiled but informed Mrs. Potter that she knew how to make James, Olivia and Sirius behave.
"Can I please borrow your brain?" Emma asked which drew another laugh from Lily.
Suddenly James ran passed Emma and swooped Lily up into his arms to kiss her.
"Well hello to you too handsome." Lily said straightening his hair that had become even messier in the pillow fight.
"I'm so glad you're here, I'm out numbered and I'm being bullied." James pouted and Lily smiled patting his head to humour him.
"Well I guess since I'm a prefect I should go sort them out for you." Lily said and took her suitcase and smiled when James took it from her as though it was only a bag of air. Wow he's strong. Lily's subconscious admired.
"Right where are these monstrous bullies then?" Lily asked still playing along. James grabbed her hand and linked their fingers together and lead her to the living room.
"Right the-... You have got to be kidding me!" James exclaimed spreading his arms and gestured towards Sirius and Olivia. Sirius was sat on the sofa while Olive sat straddling his lap and the two seemed to be locked at each part of their body. They broke apart, when James re-entered, breathing heavy.
"Bloody hell Watson can't you keep your hand to yourself for five minutes?" Lily asked hands on her hips.
"Well Sherlock my friend," Olivia began and climbed off of Sirius lap "No. And besides he started it, I myself was a victim and had to go with it." Olivia said shaking her head.
"Well I do believe that you were a willing victim Collins." Sirius said from where he had just gotten up from the sofa.
"Hmmm...You make a fair point Black" Olivia pondered on Sirius' words and shrugged "Okay, he's too good to not touch, kiss or do anything else with, if you know what I mean." Olivia raised her eyebrows and laughed at Lily's blushing face.
"Olivia!" Lily gasped out in a breathy laugh. When she managed to get back to her normal colour she turned to James "I thought you said they were being monstrous bullies?" this time Lily raised her eyebrows.
"They were, I was completely outnumbered." James said holding his ground and glaring when Sirius and Olivia and even Lily laughed at him.
"Prongs mate... don't dish out what you can't take back." Sirius said smiling at the fact that it was indeed James that had metaphorically thrown the first punch by levitating the pillows.
James was about to say something back but Olivia walked over to Lily and wrapped her in a hug and they both excitedly began talking about spending the next two weeks together.
"Come on Sherlock let's go get you unpacked and get into our jammies and you guys can start making the fire like manly men." Olivia said and basically dragged Lily (and the suitcase) up the stairs.
Olivia and Lily walked into Olivia's bedroom which is where they would be sharing until Lily went home in January.
Lily took out her wand and sent all her clothes except her pyjamas into various draws and closets.
"So Lils how's it going with James?" Olivia asked pulling off her shirt to get changed. She knew that Lily and James had been contacting each other through constant letters.
"It's great. I mean I never thought in my entire life that I would be dating James Potter and even if it did cross my mind I never thought it would turn out like this." Lily said pulling off her own shirt and replacing it with her pyjama top and then put James quidditch jumper on over the top, which he had given her just before they broke up for the holidays.
"Ahh my little Lily is in love!" Olivia exclaimed and Lily looked at her in shock.
"Love?" Lily managed to stutter out.
"Oh come on Lils I can see the way you look at him and it's how I look at Sirius." Olivia noted and beamed at her.
"Olivia I-"Lily stopped and stood unsure of what to say. "I'm falling for him." Lily finally managed to get out.
Olivia squealed at grabbed Lily in a fierce hug.
"Lils don't fight it, you said it yourself you're falling for him. Don't postpone the inevitable." Olivia said and released her.
"When did you become the voice of reason?" Lily joked and pulled on her long pyjama bottoms.
Olivia thought for a moment, "About 5 minutes ago." Olivia said and copied Lily's action pulling on her on thick legging pyjama bottoms.
"You done?" Lily asked as she walked over to the door.
"Yeah I'm good." Olivia replied and followed her down the stairs, smiling over her friend being in love.
As midnight began to near the four young teenagers slowly began to drift into separate conversations.
Sirius sat next to Olivia holding a marshmallow on a stick over the fire while they continued to talk about anything that came up. That was what Sirius loved most about their relationship was that even though they were a couple and in love they would still always be best friends, just like Sirius had promised Olivia when they had gotten their Hogwarts letter.
"You do realise you're totally killing that marshmallow right now." Olivia said lifting her head off of Sirius shoulder. Sirius looked at her weirdly,
"What?" Sirius asked amused and Olivia pointed at the marshmallow in the fire as it began to droop.
"That marshmallow right there probably has a whole family in this packet screaming at you for killing their dad or husband and they're absolutely terrified that they're next in your brutal murdering streak." Olivia finished and Sirius burst out laughing. This kind of stuff was usual for Olivia to say she was a very random girl.
"I do believe you have been eating said marshmallows." Sirius pointed out and Olivia looked at him and sighed.
"Yes... but I let them die with dignity." Olivia said and Sirius looked at her strangely.
"How?" Olivia sighed again and grabbed his hand taking the 'dead' marshmallow from the fire and put it, still on the stick, in the big bowl of melted chocolate.
"There... he dies with honour and dignity." Olivia said and made a cross over her body before lifting the stick and eating the marshmallow.
"You did not just eat my marshmallow." Sirius said slowly and Olivia giggled.
"Maybe." Sirius shook his head and turned to face her properly.
"Why would you do that to me? The love of your life, the perfect boyfriend. Why?" Sirius feigned the emotion and Olivia laughed.
"You don't need the extra calories." Olivia said and ate another marshmallow and Sirius stopped his fake whining.
"What do you mean?" Sirius asked edging closer to his girlfriend who smirked at him.
"You're fat." Olivia said teasingly and Sirius mouth dropped open.
"Love you love you!" Olivia called out quickly and squealed when Sirius reached to grab her. Both of them began to run around and ran up the stairs when Olivia bolted for her bedroom.
"That has got to be the weirdest conversation I have ever heard in my entire life!" Lily said when the two were out of sight and all that could be heard was banging upstairs and Olivia squealing while Sirius laughed.
"Oh no really you should see them at our meetings, that's when the real crazy shit comes out, that was just beginners level."
"But she was talking about a freaking Marshmallow dying to keep Sirius distracted so she could steal it." Lily asked confused.
"Hey it's Christmas Eve, everybody's gone a bit mad I'd say. Especially those two, I guess this is the first year they'll be together and in a way their first Christmas at all considering they're not at their homes this year." James explained moving Lily's hair to tuck it behind her ear.
"Oh god I forgot about that. This really is like their first real christmas." Lily said her hand going to her mouth.
"Yeah and we're going to make it the best ever Lils. We're together, they're together and we're all best friends." James said the last part with his lips directly over hers so they brushed when he spoke.
"James I-" Lily didn't know how to finished her sentence but looked up when she heard a small whooshing sound and above both of their heads now hung a sparkling branch of mistletoe. Lily flicked her head over to the door way and saw a glimpse of Olivia and Sirius running back up the stairs.
Lily turned her attention back to James who was still looking up at the mistletoe and then diverted his attention to her.
James leant in and stopped just short of Lily's lips. The only sound in the room was their anticipating breaths.
"I love you." James finally whispered breaking the silence and Lily moved her eyes to meet his gaze.
As James looked into her eyes he couldn't see shock from the words he had just said but it was as though she accepted them.
"I love you too James." Lily replied and James didn't waste any time but instead moved in to kiss her with so much passion that is took her breath away. Before she knew it Lily was laying underneath James on the sofa still kissing him with everything she had.
Finally James let her breath but had decided that oxygen for him was not a necessity and continued to kiss down her jaw to her neck and on her shoulders which were revealed when he pulled her pyjama shirt down slightly.
Lily moaned quietly and twisted her hands in James' hair then moved them to his shoulders and his chest. She moved her hands down to the hem of his t-shirt and slid her hands underneath so she could make skin on skin contact with him. James groaned this time when he felt her hand on his abdominal muscles.
James pulled himself back and then looked down breathlessly at his flushed girlfriend who was also trying to control her breathing.
"James I really do mean what I said I love you. Only a few hours ago I said to Olivia I was falling for you, but I realised that I wasn't falling I had already fallen and I had fallen straight into your arms. "Lily reassured James.
James smiled down at her and gave her a small peck before pulling her up to sit in his lap while he stroked her hair.
"Lily you don't need to explain it I knew when you told me, the look in your eyes said enough." James said to her and then kissed her forehead.
They sat together until the fire had burned out and they decided to head up to bed.
James dropped Lily outside of Olivia's door and pushed her against the wall, his hands wither side of her, trapping her in and leant down to capture her lips.
They broke apart and looked into each other's eyes smiling.
"Good night Lily." James whispered.
"Good night James." Lily whispered back and James began to walk backwards down the hall when he reached the corner he called back to her.
"I love you." Lily's heart swooned and she blew him a kiss.
"I love you to James." Lily said and watched him disappear from view. Lily sighed and smiled to herself before walking in to Olivia's room.
The first thing lily saw when she entered the room and shut the door was that Olivia was in bed but still awake. She was holding a mirror in front of her and laughing. At first Lily wondered if the girl had gone completely crazy and was laughing at herself but then she heard Sirius voice say that James had just walked in.
"Yeah Lils is here now." Olivia replied and looked over at her "Hey Lily-kins you okay?" Olivia asked noticing her smile.
"I'm so much better then okay." Lily beamed.
"Well that sounds like something only girls should be present for." Olivia said and turned back to the mirror. "Sorry baby I have to go I have some deets to catch up on." Olivia said making Lily blush.
"Yeah James has the biggest grin on his face so I'm gonna sleep before he goes all girl on me." Lily heard Sirius voice come out and Olivia rolled her eyes.
"Oh boys and their feelings." Olivia sighed.
"By boys I'm assuming you mean men?" Sirius asked in a pouting voice.
"Oh of course my manly man, that is exactly what I meant. Now go to sleep or Santa won't come." Olivia teased and blew him a kiss.
"I love you baby." Sirius replied and Lily felt a tingle over her body as she remembered James saying them to her only minutes ago.
Speaking of said boy, James' voice suddenly came through the mirror.
"Is Lily there?" Lily climbed up on the bed next to Olivia and looked into the mirror where James had squeezed in next to Sirius so they could share the mirror.
"Here." Lily said smiling and James laughed.
"I love you." James said and Lily laughed her heart swelling she didn't think that there would be a time that James would say it and her heart didn't melt.
"I love you too James." And Olivia looked at Lily shocked and dropped the mirror so all the boys could here was the squeals and laughs and Olivia telling Lily something along the lines of I told you so.
"Umm Liv, Lily?" Sirius' voice came through the mirror and both the girls picked it up grinning.
"Oh screw sleeping it's totally christmas." Olivia said as she threw back the covers and got out of bed and got one of her Bon Jovi records and began to bounce around to Livin' on a Prayer.
Sirius smiled through the mirror knowing that Olivia was so excited because it would be her first Christmas away from her family and it seemed like she was going to make the most of it.
Lily propped the mirror up on the pillows so the boys could see them still and then Lily went to join Olivia. Both of them linked hands and began to spin around until they were dizzy enough to actually begin to stumbling around the room. Lily almost hyperventilated from laughing when Olivia actually tripped over and fell on her ass.
They finally calmed down and sat back on the bed and said goodnights and I love yous to their boyfriends and drifted off to sleep.
Sirius woke up bleary eyes when something... make that someone jumped onto him. That someone happened to be Olivia. A very hyper Olivia.
"Sirius? Are you awake?" Olivia whispered to him and ran her hands over his cheeks and through his hair.
"Liv you just dive bombed me I'm definitely awake." Sirius teased and Olivia beamed.
"Good cos it's Christmas!" Olivia exclaimed and Sirius laughed and grabbed her waist, rolling her over and pinning her body underneath his own.
"Merry Christmas Livvy." Sirius whispered against her neck which was followed by a kiss.
"Hmmm... Merry Christmas Sirius." Olivia moaned breathlessly.
"Again why must I wake up to see this?" James complained and then beamed as he saw Lily walk into the room also grimacing at the kissing couple.
"You didn't want to jump on me then baby?" James asked smugly to Lily who walked over to his bed.
"How bout a slap instead?" Lily asked smiling.
"Nah, I'd prefer the jump." James winked cheekily and Lily slapped his arm before kissing him lightly on the lips.
"Merry Christmas James." Lily said and squealed when James copied Sirius and pulled Lily down on the bed.
"Merry Christmas Lil's." James replied and kissed her.
"Now who's the inappropriate couple?" Sirius asked from where he and Olivia now lay on their sides facing each other. James and Lily rolled their eyes and spoke at the same time.
"You two!" Olivia and Sirius looked at them for a moment and then shrugged knowing they were right and went back to talking and kissing.
"James, Lily, Sirius and Olivia presents are downstairs." Emma shouted up the stairs.
Like little kids they all jumped up trying to be the first downstairs.
They ran into the living room with smiles covering their faces and said Merry Christmas to Emma and Richard.
"Right the presents are sorted into piles so find yours and dig in." Emma instructed and sat on the sofa next to her husband who put his arm around her. To the two of them it felt like Christmas when James was a young boy but instead of one child they now had four and loved each of them.
Lily had opened all her presents and sighed with happiness this year had to be her best christmas ever, even though her parents weren't here she was glad that she was with her friends.
James suddenly pulled Lily into his lap and put a medium sized gift into her lap. Lily smiled over her shoulder at him and he kissed her cheek remaining silent while she read the card that was attached.
Lily,
Just a little something I know that's close to your heart.
I love you,
James x
Lily smiled and began to open her present. Her mouth dropped open just as the last piece of paper fell away revealing a first addition version of The Wind In The Willows. Lily squealed turning in James' arms to kiss him.
"James thank you so much, how on earth did you get this?" Lily asked gobsmacked.
"When it comes to you Lils I'll do anything. However when it came to this well I know people." James winked and Lily kissed him all over again.
Olivia and Sirius sat on the other side of the Christmas tree. Sirius sat with his back against the wall and had his knees parted and bent while Olivia sat in between them with her back against his chest.
"Okay now my present." Sirius said and reached over to grab a small box and handed it to Olivia at the same time kissing the back of her head.
Olivia opened the wrapping paper and removed the card that simply read 'I love you' When the wrapping paper was removed it left a small velvet black box and Olivia's heart skipped a beat.
She opened up the hinges and gasped at the sight inside. There lay a beautiful ring, it was silver based and held a medium sized sapphire stone in the middle and two small diamonds on the side.
"Sirius I-"Olivia could barely speak "This is way too expensive." She got out. She knew how much it was because it was the same ring she had been admiring in the shop when they had gone on their christmas visit to Hogsmede.
"Liv I don't care about the money you know I have plenty of it. I brought this as kind of a reassurance to myself as well I guess." Sirius said.
"What do you mean?" Olivia asked confused.
"It's a promise ring." Sirius explained and Olivia's eyes widened even more.
"I want you to promise that you won't leave me and that one day we'll get married and have kids and live in a perfect house." Sirius carried on and Olivia could see they hope in his eyes.
Without being able to form words Olivia grabbed the back of his head and pulled him down for a long kiss.
"I promise." She whispered as they broke apart. Sirius grinned and grabbed her hand and took the ring out of the box. He slipped the ring on her right ring finger and kissed it. Sealing their promise.
After all the presents had been given out everyone went upstairs to get dressed.
The girls were busy talking to each other about the gifts they had received from everybody and especially from their boyfriends.
They walked down stairs holding hands like best friends did. Lily was wearing a simple strapless, green, knee length dress with black heels and Olivia was wearing a white floral strappy dress and her low top white converse.
They walked into the kitchen together where already the smell of the Christmas dinner made their mouths water.
James and Sirius sat on the counter stools drinking a bottle of muggle beer. Both were wearing jeans and a shirt, James' was dark green and Sirius' was grey.
They both smiled as the girls entered and of course gave them a quick once over really appreciating the sight.
Olivia went up to Sirius and climbed up the stool to sit on his lap while Lily just went over to stand next to James who wrapped an arm around her waist.
"Oh girls you look beautiful." Emma admired from where she was rustling around the kitchen to prepare the dinner.
"Thank you." They both replied at the same time and then complimented Emma and of course their boys.
"Well don't you look very sexy today?" Olivia admired brushing Sirius' hair away from his eyes.
"I could say the same about you." Sirius said and kissed her ignoring the groans of everyone in the room.
They all sat down eating the wonderful dinner and just talked casually like a normal family.
Richard talked about the Auror office which interested Sirius, James and Olivia who wall wanted to become aurors.
Emma spoke about St. Mungo's and Lily listened excitedly at the fact that when she went to the healer school it may be Emma herself who was teaching her.
James spoke about Quidditch along with Sirius and Olivia just spoke crazy crap that ended up with everyone wiping away tears of happiness.
Each couple pulled a cracker and fought over the magical toy that came out which showed that at heart they really were all children.
They brought out dessert which was a homemade chocolate fudge cake which made everyone who was full up from dinner suddenly have an empty stomach and room for more.
The games came out next.
First they played numerous games of twister and the finale came down to Olivia, Sirius and James. All three of them were tangled up Sirius was stretched out over the entire mat his arms lifting him off the floor so it looked like he was halfway through a push up, luckily he had very good upper body strength and could hold his body weight off the ground. James was in the same position but where Sirius was laying length way on the mat James was laying over him width way. Olivia, who luckily was very flexible and could play the game best to her advantage, was bent over James backward so her body made a bridge shape over the two boys.
Even though Lily was enjoying the view of her boyfriend stretched out on the mat and his biceps bulging from where they held his weight up she knew firsthand how competitive these three were and they would not give up. So with the nod of Emma's head Lily inched forward slightly and knocked James' arms out from underneath him.
Of course he being in the middle meant that when he fell he collapsed on Sirius who also fell and Olivia lost her balance and came down too.
"Lily!" They all shouted at once and Emma, Lily and Richard all fell about laughing at how determined each of them was to win.
For the rest of the night they sat around talking and then they put music on.
"You put the boom boom into my heart." The sound of wake me up before you go go came through the record player and Sirius grabbed Olivia while James took Lily in his arms and both couples began to dance and they were soon joined by Richard and Emma.
They all swayed to the music enjoying the feeling of being free and not having to worry about the war going on beyond the safe walls of the house.
Emma looked over and Sirius and Olivia and an idea came to her head. She let go of her husband and went over to the records and pulled out the Bon Jovi one and put it on.
"Oh Emma you are my hero!" Olivia shouted over to her and both she and Sirius danced together belting out the words of any song that came on.
The night finally came to an end at around one in the morning. Everyone said their goodnights and merry Christmas before making their way upstairs.
Sirius kissed Olivia outside her room and then pulled her back again when she walked into to doorway.
"Stay with me tonight. Please" Sirius asked Olivia and she nodded and followed him telling Lily as she passed them on the stairs.
"I don't want to know." James said shaking his head as they disappeared into Sirius room.
Lily laughed and then became serious and somewhat nervous.
"You know it's Christmas and nobody should be alone, especially after such a good day and well since Olivia isn't going to be here tonight maybe you should or I could..." Lily stuttered trying to form the words she wanted to say.
"Come and sleep in my room tonight Lils." James finished for her and Lily smiled at him and nodded.
They entered his room and Lily was surprised at how tidy it was. She did not put James Potter down as the type for a tidy room, hell she didn't even expect Olivia to.
Lily cautiously got into bed after she had got into her pyjamas in the bathroom. James slid in next to her feeling ecstatic that she was here with him.
He kissed the back of her neck and wrapped his arms around her waist from behind which pulled her body closer to his.
"Goodnight Lils, I love you." James breathed across the back of her neck.
"I love you to James, thank you for giving me the best Christmas ever." Lily spoke into the darkness.
"No thank you." Lily smiled and turned over to kiss him and then lay her head down on his chest, closing her eyes and drifting off to the soft strokes James was applying to her hair.
Olivia lay in Sirius' arms, her hand spread out over his bare chest while his hand rested on her hip under his t-shirt that she was wearing and his other arm lay under her head.
"That was the best christmas ever." Olivia whispered.
"They'll all be like this from now on Liv, we have a real family now." Sirius assured her and she smiled at the thought.
"Maybe one day we'll be lying like this and then our kids will be calling in saying they can't sleep because they're too excited and then we'll be like ditto." Olivia said and Sirius laughed and smiled at the thought. He loved it when Olivia spoke of them being together in the future.
"I won't be surprised if our kids are more mature than us." Sirius joked and Olivia turned in his arms and stroked his cheek.
"You are so perfect." Olivia whispered.
"I love you." Sirius breathed out and captured her lips with his own. They both groaned at the contact and Sirius rolled over on top of her still kissing. Olivia ran her hands over his well muscled back while his hands skimmed up and down her sides and in her hair.
He kissed her neck and shoulders as he pulled up the hem of his own shirt that she was wearing and threw it on the floor.
"Merry Christmas Sirius." Olivia breathed out.
"Merry Christmas Liv." Sirius whispered against her skin and then moved his head back up to kiss her lips again and gave into the love.