Alcyone had laughed at Ella's excitable antics the night before, as she was always very excited before christmas. She remembered when she was younger that they had not celebrated christmas, not even understood what it was until she and Caelum moved into Jaycie's home with her. Then, they had a christmas feast accompanied with presents and much joy, to which Caelum and herself had been confused. At Hogwarts, there had been christmas dinners but they'd never known what they were, or what christmas was. Now, Alcyone wanted Ella to have a completely different experienced and ensured that her beautiful daughter would always have christmas' filled with love and joy. Once Ella had gone to bed - albeit rather willingly as she didn't want to miss out on Santa Claus coming to visit - Alcyone moved back down the staircase and positioned the final present under the tree. With the stocking field, the milk half-drunk and the cookies nibbled at by herself, her and Jasper also went to bed.

Alcyone dreamt peacefully of other chrismases, and she knew that this one would be no different in the fact that she would be awoken by Ella at around 6am, due to the young girl jumping on her bed or something along those lines. Alcyone curled up next to Jasper and wrapped her arms around him as she drifted into sleep that would be disturbed most likely in the early hours of the morning.

Capella was too excited to speak at times on the eve of Christmas. Her excitement made the air around her buzz, as if it was alive with electricity. At times whilst they were watching the television, she'd burst into peals of laughter and be clutching at her sides in agony for hours afterwards - having laughed far too much. It was simply too exciting for the young girl who adored christmas more than any other time of the year. There was something in her mothers eyes at this time, pure radiant joy whenever she looked at Ella and she looked at peace with herself. Capella liked this, as her mother had often looked troubled over the years and christmas was an exception. She hoped it would stay that way.

Capella laid in bed for nearly a whole hour before her excited mind had managed to calm down enough to allow her to slip into the land of dreams. She slept peacefully until around 6am, when she was awoken by thoughts of christmas. Her eyes moved to the clock on the wall and she pushed the hangings away from her bed to see the time. 6:21am was a rather early time, and the sky was still quite dark but with the first rays of the sun peeking over the horizon. Impatiently, Capella laid in her bed until 6:42am when she could no longer contain herself and she slipped out of her bed into the stiff, cold morning air. She grabbed her fluffy purple dressing gown and put her bunny slippers on her feet before plodding along to her parents bedroom. She kicked off her shoes, climbed up onto their bed and began to bounce. "Its Christmas, get up!" She cried, her eyes wide with excitement and a huge smile on her face.

Jasper had just finished some last minute Christmas wrapping and crawled into bed beside his lovely wife who he loved with his whole life. He smiled a little as she wrapped her arms around him he hoped that the presents that he chose for her and their little girl would be appreciated and loved.

He drifted off around 5:30am for he could not stop thinking how lucky that he and Alycone had met even though their child was not born after wedlock only to be woken up a hour later by a very excited daughter.

"Hey is it that time already Capella dear?" He asked as he pulled her into a hug kissing her head slightly. He then looked over at Alycone. "I guess the peace and quite is over darling I believe out daughter wants her presents." He chuckled slightly at his daughter.

Alcyone had just fallen into a horrible, frightening dream filled with past terrors when - much to her relief - she was awoken by a little girl bouncing on her bed. She opened her eyes and yawned tiredly, stretching her arms out and then wrapping them around Jaz again. She then retracted her arms and sat up with him, yawning again. She looked at her adorable little daughter whom she loved with her whole heart and smiled.

"Morning to you too, Ella," she greeted her daughter, reaching over to ruffle her hair. "I believe so too," Alcyone grinned and pecked Jaz on the cheek. She climbed out of bed and grabbed her dressing gown, wrapping it around herself tightly.