Random Xmas Fun
Apple Pie #3. Tradition with Hot Fudge, Chopped Nuts, and a Wafer Cookie
Story : knights & necromancers
Rating : PG
Timeframe : N/A - unexplained Xmas AU
Word Count : 401
Random cheap silliness to combat my writer's block. I think I might be back now. Note - the picture is the punchline, read the story first.
“What’s gotten into you?” said Reida to a red fur hat wearing Lyssa intent on filling the table with packages.
“Little Christmas spirit,” said Lyssa, unrolling a sheet of red and green striped foil from around a cardboard tube. “Something wrong with that?”
Reida drummed her fingers on the table, watching as tape, scissors, and a plate of cookies joined the wrap.
“Let’s see,” she said, ticking items off on her fingers, “a holiday where people stick glass balls on a plastic tree, sing songs about flying deer, and tell their kids a fat old man is going to come down the chimney and give them toys… Yes, that sounds perfectly sane.”
“Alright, alright.” Lyssa rolled her eyes as she shuffled through her stack of unwrapped gifts. “So some of it - most of it - is corny. But let’s not forget eggnog.”
“Trust you to put alcohol in milk. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything more desperate.”
“And cookies. Rune hasn’t left the kitchen all day. I think he’s made a dozen different kinds by now.” Reida followed her hand as it reached for the plate and she had to admit the pile of chocolate laden and sugar crusted morsels was more than a little tempting. Lyssa plucked a dark, doughy ball from the mix and offered it up. “Have you tried these? Rum balls. I mean, there’s rum in the cookies. Does it get any better than that?”
“Forget what I said a moment ago,” said Reida, not that that stopped her from taking it.
“And then there’s presents!”
Reida eyed the clutter waiting to be wrapped and settled on a slinky bit of red silk and lace that might have passed for an undergarment. “And just who is that one for?”
Lyssa followed her gaze to the nightie and turned back with a smug grin. “Me,” she said. “It’s from Santa.”
Reida snorted at that. Lyssa sighed. “What about mistletoe? You can’t tell me you don’t like mistletoe.”
“What’s mistletoe?”
“Only the best part of Christmas.” She was digging through her wrapping supplies now, tape and ribbon flying.
“You hang it in a doorway and whenever two people find themselves both under it, they have to kiss.”
“Really?” Reida wrinkled her nose at the dainty sprig of green Lyssa produced.
“Really.”
Reida plucked the leaves from Lyssa’s hand with a grin. “Maybe Christmas has a bright side after all.”
It seems to be a new holiday ritual, Kairn getting tied up
Story : knights & necromancers
Rating : PG
Timeframe : N/A - unexplained Xmas AU
Word Count : 401
Random cheap silliness to combat my writer's block. I think I might be back now. Note - the picture is the punchline, read the story first.
“What’s gotten into you?” said Reida to a red fur hat wearing Lyssa intent on filling the table with packages.
“Little Christmas spirit,” said Lyssa, unrolling a sheet of red and green striped foil from around a cardboard tube. “Something wrong with that?”
Reida drummed her fingers on the table, watching as tape, scissors, and a plate of cookies joined the wrap.
“Let’s see,” she said, ticking items off on her fingers, “a holiday where people stick glass balls on a plastic tree, sing songs about flying deer, and tell their kids a fat old man is going to come down the chimney and give them toys… Yes, that sounds perfectly sane.”
“Alright, alright.” Lyssa rolled her eyes as she shuffled through her stack of unwrapped gifts. “So some of it - most of it - is corny. But let’s not forget eggnog.”
“Trust you to put alcohol in milk. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything more desperate.”
“And cookies. Rune hasn’t left the kitchen all day. I think he’s made a dozen different kinds by now.” Reida followed her hand as it reached for the plate and she had to admit the pile of chocolate laden and sugar crusted morsels was more than a little tempting. Lyssa plucked a dark, doughy ball from the mix and offered it up. “Have you tried these? Rum balls. I mean, there’s rum in the cookies. Does it get any better than that?”
“Forget what I said a moment ago,” said Reida, not that that stopped her from taking it.
“And then there’s presents!”
Reida eyed the clutter waiting to be wrapped and settled on a slinky bit of red silk and lace that might have passed for an undergarment. “And just who is that one for?”
Lyssa followed her gaze to the nightie and turned back with a smug grin. “Me,” she said. “It’s from Santa.”
Reida snorted at that. Lyssa sighed. “What about mistletoe? You can’t tell me you don’t like mistletoe.”
“What’s mistletoe?”
“Only the best part of Christmas.” She was digging through her wrapping supplies now, tape and ribbon flying.
“You hang it in a doorway and whenever two people find themselves both under it, they have to kiss.”
“Really?” Reida wrinkled her nose at the dainty sprig of green Lyssa produced.
“Really.”
Reida plucked the leaves from Lyssa’s hand with a grin. “Maybe Christmas has a bright side after all.”
It seems to be a new holiday ritual, Kairn getting tied up