Chapter 11
James was blissfully relaxing under the covers on the bed, with a an equally blissful Sirius laying next to him, as James peeked at his husband he slowly lifted a hand and begun stroking Sirius' cheek, Sirius feeling James' fingers turned toward him 'you okay Prongs?' James just nodded 'never better' Sirius smiled rolled on to his side and kissed James directly on the mouth before getting up and getting dressed 'where're you going Padfoot?' Sirius smiled roguishly down at James 'as much fun as it would be to spend the rest of the day in bed, we do have a son whose waiting for us' James just nodded and also got dressed, while his husband finished getting dressed Sirius made his way down to the kitchen, where he saw that dinner was almost ready 'Master Siri!' and two small house elves ran in to Sirius' legs 'Twinkie, Trooper' Sirius bent down and allowed the two Potter house elves to inspect him before Twinkie was tutting at him 'master Siri to skinny, master Siri will eat' Sirius smiled at the concerned house elf 'I look forward to dinner, now can one of you tell me where Harry is?' Trooper nodded 'young master Harry is in the family room, looking through some photo albums' Sirius saluted 'thanks Trooper, call when dinner is ready' both house elves nodded and went back towards the busy bustle of the kitchen, while Sirius made his way towards the family room, as he peeked in, Harry was indeed relaxing on the sofa looking through the photo album, which Sirius recognised as the one from their school days, Sirius cleared his throat as he made his way towards his son, Harry looked up and grinned at his dad 'I can't believe some of the photos in here dad' and he turned the album around to show a picture of the Marauders all dressed in the female uniform of Hogwarts, James and Sirius grinning widely with their arms wrapped around each other's shoulder, Remus next to Sirius looking very disgruntled and the rat who looked very embarrassed, Sirius straightened his imaginary tie 'yes, well that's when we learned to never make a bet against your godmother, Lily could be very mean when she wanted to' Harry burst out laughing before turning, the next page was of James and Sirius with James' parents, Harry looked at the picture of his grandparents and concluded that the male side of the Potter line really had bad luck with hair, then looked at his dad 'what were they like, my grandparents?' Sirius sat down next to his son and wrapped an arm around him 'Charlus and Dorea were the best parents anyone could ever ask for, when I met your father he was happy, full of energy and confidence, whenever he was leaving for school or arriving home, they were always there and with a hug ready for him, when James introduced me, they didn't look at me in suspicion or fear but a kind smile, they always welcomed me into their home and when I ran away from the house in the summer holidays, they said that I had to live with them no other choice' Sirius looked at his son and nudged him to look at the other photo, Harry did to see it was one of his dad and grandmother cooking in the kitchen 'it was your grandmother that healed me whenever I turned up, they were always gentle with me and no matter how many times I told them I was alright they never let me be alone' Harry stroked the picture of his grandparents 'I think they favoured your dad more than their own son' both Harry and Sirius looked up at James entering the room, Sirius just grinned 'well of course they did, I am absolutely charming' James smiled and sat on the other side of Harry, and turned the page for Harry to see a baby him being held by his grandparents 'for the short time they knew you, they loved you more than anything' Harry looked at his father 'what happened to them?' James looked at Sirius 'are you okay for me to tell this story?' Sirius nodded and held Harry a bit tighter.
Harry stared at the picture of his grandparents with tears in his eyes, after hearing that they died trying to protect him from Death Eaters along with his dad, Harry held his dad's hand tighter 'it wasn't anyone's fault' Sirius nodded and pressed a kiss to Harry head before Twinkie popped in 'dinner is ready' James nodded 'thanks Twinkie, we'll be right there' as the house elf popped away, James stood up and held his hands out for his husband and son 'come on you two, food awaits' and dragged them in to the dining room to eat their dinner.
Apart from the emotional start to his holiday Harry had never enjoyed the Christmas holidays until now, everyday Harry and his parents did something new everyday, from playing Quidditch, to Wizard's chess, to decorating the tree and hanging decorations all over the manor, Harry had never had so much fun but his parents also made sure he did all his homework and was in bed by 10:30pm latest 11;30pm, and now with it being Christmas Eve, Harry was decorating Christmas cookies and gingerbread houses with his parents, but it seemed his parents forgot the task at hand as they had been aiming the ingredients at each other more than the cookies 'dad, father I think Twinkie will ban you from the kitchen if you continue throwing food at each other' Sirius who was about to pour more icing over his husband's head looked to Twinkie who was glaring at him, so sheepishly he put the icing down but not before James whispered in his ear 'Siri keep some icing for later, I have an idea for an early Christmas present for the both of us' Sirius grinned and waved the icing somewhere for later and the two resumed finishing their cookies, Harry shook his head grinning and finished his gingerbread house, before looking at the time and seeing it was almost 11:00 decided to head to bed excited for Christmas Day to begin 'night dad, night father' James and Sirius looked to their son and smiled 'night Harry, see you in the morning' Harry grinned and raced out the kitchen, he stopped to peek in the family room which was all ready for tomorrow with presents under the tree, and then raced up the stairs to his room for bed. Meanwhile James and Sirius finished the the cookies and started to help the elves tidy the kitchen, ready for the busy day ahead, once done they made their way to their room, once they were in with the door shut, Sirius crowded James against the wall next to the closed door and summoned the bowl of icing from 'didn't you say we had an early Christmas present Mr. Potter-Black?' James grinned wickedly 'why yes I did Mr. Potter-Black' then took the bowl of icing from his husband and started backing him towards the bed, let's just say both James and Sirius enjoyed their Christmas present into the early hours of the morning.