And the final one :D

O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging
Not only green when summer's here,
But also when 'tis cold and drear.
O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging!

Zhalia slowly started to wake up in Dante's room. It was nice warm and soft in the bed and she opened her eyes.

"Dante?" she asked quietly and looked around.

Dante's place beside her was empty and instead of him, she was hugging his P.J.s. She smiled to herself and let it go. She stretched herself as much as she liked and then got up.

After walking to the bathroom and taking a shower, she dressed up and went to the living room.

Her attention was caught by a huge pine tree in the corner of the room. It smelled strong, but still really nice.

"Good morning" she heard Dante's voice from behind her back.

"Morning" she said without turning to him, still staring at the big tree.

Dante stood behind her, wrapped his arms around her waist and placed his lips behind her ear.

"You like our Christmas tree?" he muttered at her skin. "Our Christmas tree?" she wondered and looked at him finally.

"Yes, our. We will decorate it this evening. You know, today is Christmas Eve" he answered with a smile.

Zhalia glanced at the calendar which was on the wall beside the door. It was on the 24th December.

"Time flies by really quickly" she smiled at Dante.

"Yes it does" he smiled back.

"Good morning sleeping beauty" Amy walked in as well.

"Morning little vampire" Zhalia smirked at her.

Amy rolled her eyes a bit but smiled.

"Are you done with your Christmas shopping already?" she asked and jumped in one place.

Zhalia made a face and bit her lower lip.

"I completely forgot about it!" she said and shook her head.

"Well then, it's time to do the final shopping" Amy cheered.

"You too?" Zhalia asked surprised.

As the last day of school finished, Amy was walking around some little shops and shopping centers.

"Yeah, I always leave things like shopping for the last day" Amy shrugged casually.

"In that case, let's have breakfast and let's go shopping" Dante offered them.

The girls nodded and went with him to the kitchen

After a quick breakfast, Amy and Zhalia run upstairs and changed into warmer clothes.

Dante meanwhile turned a bit higher the heating, knowing the girls will be cold when they come home.

He took on a tick black coat and a dark blue scarf and waited for the girls.

They soon came down completely dressed up into the warm winter coats.

Zhalia was wearing a dark blue coat and nothing more, while Amy had her brown coat, black cap and a red scarf.

"We're ready" Zhalia said and stopped beside Dante.

"Won't you be cold, baby?" he asked when he saw her only in the coat.

"No…" she answered, though she lied because she knew she will be cold.

Dante shook his head, went to his room and soon came back with a dark blue cap in his hands. He put it on Zhalia's head and kissed her forehead.

"This is better, but something is still missing"

He took off his scarf and wrapped it around her neck.

"Here, now it's perfect" he said with a satisfied smile and placed a light kiss on her lips. Zhalia giggled and returned the kiss.

"Won't you be cold like this?" she worried.

"No. I'll be warm because your love will be warming me" Dante winked at her.

He took her by the hand and the team went outside. Dante locked the door behind them and they went to shopping.

Soon they were walking by little stores with gifts, ornaments, clothes, shoes, TVs, and such stuff.

The girls would stop from time to time to see something in the window and Dante would patiently wait for them.

After some time Amy and Zhalia made an agreement.

"I must shop something for Dante" Zhalia whispered into Amy's ear.

"Yeah, I know. And I'm sure he wants to buy something for you" Amy whispered back.

"What are you two whispering about?" Dante asked with a suspicious smile.

"Nothing" Amy and Zhalia answered at once. They looked at each other and laughed.

"Alright girls, I'll leave you two alone now. Have to do some shopping myself. Call me when you're done, deal?" Dante asked, looking at his watch from time to time.

"Sure. We'll call you darling" Zhalia answered with a nod. With a kiss they parted and everyone went their own way.

"Alright, so what could I buy a guy who has everything?" Zhalia asked Amy with a worried glance.

"We'll find something nice" Amy assured her with a wink. Zhalia led Amy to a near shop where they were selling scarves.

"Hey, that's a good idea! You took his scarf, now buy him one instead" Amy giggled.

Zhalia thought about what she just said and nodded. She knew Amy likes scarves and she wanted to buy her a scarf, but now Amy gave her another idea.

"I'll need your help to find one he will like" she said a bit worried.

"Girl, even if you buy him the ugliest scarf of them all he will love it! And you know why? Because he's madly in love with you!" Amy explained and giggled.

"You really think so?" Zhalia asked, a bit afraid Amy will answer negatively.

"I know. When you're not around he talks about you, when you're on a mission he walks up and down the house worrying about you and when we're talking about you his eyes are full of love and shining. So trust me, he loves you a lot" the younger girl explained looking at a man scarf.

"Look, this one is cute" she showed it to Zhalia.

"Really a cute one. But what do you think about this one?" Zhalia asked and showed her another scarf.

It was a black scarf, a really soft and warm one.

"I think it's perfect" Amy answered and nodded. Zhalia nodded as well and went on with Amy to search a bit more to see if they will find a better one.

After a longer seeking, she decided that this one is really perfect, and so she bought it for Dante.

Now they went to a book shop a bit farther from where they were. They hung around for some time when Zhalia found the books Amy was looking for before. Amy didn't notice them now, so she decided to buy them as a gift.

"I'll be back in a moment" she said and left Amy alone at some sci-fi books.

Zhalia took the books, the Percy Jackson & the Olympians collection, and went to buy them. She came back to Amy with the bag in which were the books, but her friend couldn't see what is in there.

"What is in there?" Amy asked with curiosity and tried to peek inside.

"No peeking! You'll have to wait" Zhalia shook her head with a smile.

"You evil little thing" Amy answered with a smile, but she knew Zhalia won't let her see what is in the bag.

"Hey, I need to pick up the things for you and Dante but I'm not sure if you wanna come with me" she said and made an apologizing face.

"Sure I do!" Zhalia said with enthusiasm. Amy only shrugged and they walked out.

Soon they were passing by a flower shop and Amy run inside.

She came out with a plastic bag and when Zhalia looked inside it, she couldn't see anything because it was wrapped into some paper.

"No peeking" Amy winked at her. They went on laughing.

They were passing a sexy shop when Amy suddenly stopped and grinned at Zhalia.

"What?" Zhalia asked with a scared little look.

It was never good when Amy grinned, especially not while they were standing in front of this kind of shop.

"Nothing… Just need to pick up something" Amy answered and hurried inside.

Zhalia only stared after her, not sure if she should go inside as well or not. Before she could have decided, Amy was already outside and grinning.

"What did you bought?" she asked looking at the little box wrapped up.

"Something nice" Amy winked at her. Zhalia shrugged and went on walking with Amy.

They went on walking around stores, while Dante was buying something for Zhalia.

He already bought a nice scarf for Amy, and now he was looking for something for Zhalia.

As he was walking by a shop with clothes, he saw a beautiful black dress.

It was made from satin, with straps, with a light décolletage, little shiny zircons under the décolletage and black lace at the bottom. It was perfectly standing on the doll and Dante imagined it on Zhalia. It would look perfectly on her.

"The question is: which is her size?" he wondered. He took out his phone and wrote a quick message to Amy.

Amy and Zhalia were in a shoe shop when Amy got a message.

"Who is it from?" Zhalia looked up from the shoe she was trying on, black stilettos with zircons on its straps and with black ties at the ankle.

"Don't know. Let me see" Amy answered and took out her phone.

She looked at Dante's message saying: 'Find out which dress size does Zhalia wear. Thanks'

Amy smiled at this and looked at Zhalia.

"So?" the older one asked, still trying to figure out to buy the shoes or not.

She liked them very much, but she didn't have a fitting dress. Actually, she didn't have a dress at all.

"Nothing special, just a friend…" Amy shrugged casually.

"You should surely buy these! They look gorgeously on you!" she added and looked at the stilettos.

"Thanks. The thing is that I don't have a fitting dress" Zhalia admitted.

"Hm, I'll buy you one for your birthday" Amy answered with a big smile.

"That's far from now…" Zhalia answered with a sigh. Amy only rolled her eyes.

"You could wear these on the Foundation Christmas party! And I'll give you one of my dresses, it's not a problem" she said convincing her.

"What is your size?" she added, finding an opportunity to answer on Dante's question.

"Um, dress size S" Zhalia answered quickly.

"Great! The same size as mine" Amy answered and quickly typed down the short answer to Dante.

"Alright, I'm buying them" Zhalia answered and took the stilettos off.

In the same moment Dante got back the answer: 'Size S'

"Thanks Amy" he said loud and went into the shop.

Xxx

"Let me see!" Zhalia said and tried to take away the box from Dante.

"No, not yet" he smiled and moved the box a bit away from her.

"You're a little mean thing" she complained but smiled.

She tried to take the box from him a few more times just for fun, but Dante was always quicker.

They were walking hand in hand, while Amy was jumping all around them with joy.

Finally they came home, into the warm house. They took off their coats and went into the living room.

"It's so nice and warm in here" Zhalia said with a smile.

Dante laughed a bit because he knew she was always cold, so with time he learnt to turn the heat a bit higher.

"What time is it?" Amy asked and yawned.

"It's 10 p.m." Dante answered after he shot a quick look at his watch.

"Already?" Amy complained and sighed. Both Dante and Zhalia nodded.

"Nite nite" Amy said and after hugging them both went to her room.

"What now?" Zhalia asked from Dante.

"Well, we'll decorate the tree and go to sleep. What do you say?" Dante offered and helped her up. She only nodded and went to the boxes.

Dante let some Christmas songs play quietly while they were browsing the decoration. They took everything out and Zhalia looked over it and then over the tree.

"And now?" she asked again.

"First come the candies" Dante explained and brought out candies in shiny golden and red wrappers with strings on the ends.

"And now put them all around and everywhere on the tree" he said and started to hang them on the branches.

Zhalia took some candies and started to do the same.

After some time they were done with that.

"It looks really nice even like this!" Zhalia cheered.

"Yes it does, but we still have decoration to put on as well" he answered and wanted to go away, but suddenly turned back.

"Do you want it to be all kind of colors or do you want some specific colors?" he asked and looked at the decoration.

There was mostly green, blue, golden, silver and red.

"You're asking me?" Zhalia asked in a surprised way.

"Sure. After all, this is our Christmas tree" he answered with a warm smile.

Her eyes shone with joy and she thought for a moment about Dante's idea.

"May it be red and golden?" she asked in a humble way.

"Sure sweetie" Dante answered and kissed her forehead.

Now they packed away the other stuff, leaving only the gold and red colored ornaments outside.

There were glass balls, birds, nuts, cones, icicles and garlands.

Zhalia was putting on the birds and icicles, while Dante was putting on the balls and cones.

Soon the ornaments were on the tree and it was all shiny and glittery.

"And now the garlands" Dante said and wrapped a golden one around Zhalia's waist, pulling her closer and closer to himself, until her hands were on his chest and his hands were on her hips.

They didn't say anything but just stared into each others eyes.

"We should put the garlands on the tree, not around me darling" Zhalia broke the silence and pressed a little sweet kiss on Dante's lips.

"Alright, but only because you say so" he answered and gave her back a kiss.

She took a red garland and walked around the tree, wrapping it on the branches. When she was done, she took the golden one and did the same.

"Now it's perfect" she said when she looked over the tree.

"No, not yet" Dante shook his head and took a big golden star into his hands.

He offered it to Zhalia, but she shook her head lightly. She gently pushed him closer to the tree and caught the other side of the star. Now he understood what she wants and he nodded.

They put the star on its place, together.

"Now it's perfect" Dante said with a smile and passionately kissed Zhalia.

Xxx

Zhalia woke up to a soft and warm feeling on her face. Someone was caressing her.

She slowly opened her eyes to see who is it and saw Dante smiling at her.

"Good morning my beauty" he said and kissed the tip of her nose.

She giggled lightly and smiled back at him.

"Good morning my prince" she said still smiling.

"Come down, there is a surprise for you under the tree" he said and slowly walked out of the bedroom.

Zhalia got out of the bed and walked after him into the living room. She stood in the door and looked at the tree.

It seemed like it was shining eve more now, especially with the wrapped boxes under it.

She looked out the window, only to see that the yard is completely white from the snow.

"Amy's wish is fulfilled, obviously" she smiled.

"Yeah, she's already outside playing in the snow" Dante answered with a smile.

"Have you seen what you got from Amy?" he asked in a naughty way.

"Not yet. You know what I got?" she asked excitedly.

"Yup. Here you go" he gave her a little box and then went back to the window, watching the snow still falling.

Zhalia opened the box and gasped with surprise. He looked at her and laughed lightly.

She picked up a pair of black, fuzzy looking handcuffs.

"What should I do with them?" she raised an eyebrow and put them back into the box and down on the couch next to her.

"She said I should show you these days" Dante smirked at her.

She blushed a deep red shade as she imagined him showing her how to use them.

He saw the blush and knew exactly what is she imagining.

Zhalia wanted to approach him, but he stopped her before she could make a move. He pointed to look up on the ceiling, and she did so.

Right above her was a big bouquet of mistletoe, decorated with a red ribbon.

"That's Amy's present to me" he explained and stood beside her under the mistletoe.

"And what is it good for?" Zhalia blinked at him.

"The tradition says I need to kiss you every time you stop under the mistletoe" he explained and leaned down to her.

"There will be a lot of stopping under it" she managed to say before Dante's lips captured hers.

They shared a long and enjoyable kiss. It was a kiss full of passion and love. As they gently broke it, they looked into each others eyes and said together:

"Merry Christmas!"

Hope you liked it :) Merry Christmas my dears ^^ :**