There was no one he'd ever wanted to wake up on Christmas morning with before, but as he blinked his eyes open and saw Dagny curled up under the covers, her back to him, Thad was overcome with a sense of utter peace. Was this what finding one's true love felt like? Calm and peaceful? He'd always heard stories of butterflies and explosive emotions, but even from the start, even while he'd felt flutters, it hadn't been full of turbulent emotions with her.

Thad cuddled up behind her, wrapping an arm around her middle and pressing his lips to her neck to gently wake her up. After they'd made love and then got their coffee, he sat with her on the couch. He summoned the little box from under the tree, wrapped in shiny, light blue paper with a glittery silver ribbon, dropping his wand on his lap and catching the gift with his now free hand, not having wanted to remove his arm from around her shoulders. There were more gifts under the tree, though those would be brought up to the main house later when he joined the family there.

"Merry Christmas," he told her as he passed the gift over, pressing his lips to her hair a moment later. It might be cliche, to buy one's girlfriend jewelry for their first Christmas together, but it was still from the heart. When he'd looked, he'd had some sort of teardrop diamond pendant in mind, but then he'd found the necklace, and it had felt so much more Dagny to him.