No Christmas story is
complete with out…
A few cracks and a party.
Most likely
ending in Heim/Loki but this is basically nothing but a really long
pointless one shot I wanted to put up for the holiday.
Yes I have
an obsession with snow. I've never experienced it, and so I love
it. Aren't I special everybody ya! –clap clap-
Anyway, read
and enjoy.
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Emerald eyes opened up
slowly, unnaturally early, that morning.
The boy rubbed the
traces of sleep from his face and let a yawn escape his lips as he
dragged his feet out from onto the covers. He hissed at the unusual
cold and quickly slipped his feet into his slippers yanking his
blanket up and over his shoulders.
Why was it so cold? He
thought. And then he saw it. He looked out the window and couldn't
restrain the smile at how pretty it was.
Snow…
But then he
grimaced and jumped back into bed.
Water…Cold water… all over
the place….
A fire god's worst fear…
Loki tried to
sleep for another hour but soon was forced to admit defeat as his son
walked into the room to announce the change in weather and that
breakfast was ready.
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Loki bundled himself up
in blankets and coats and for once wore long pants. He had even used
E-chan as a scarf and was currently sitting at the table pulling on 3
sets of mittens.
He didn't understand! Yesterday had been
perfectly fine, ff not summer worthy, weather!
Damn winter!
Damn
it to its frozen wasteland!
By now the trickster god was sweating but he didn't care. No cold water like that would find its way behind his barrier.
The door bell rang signaling the arrival of guests which Loki was almost sure meant Mayura, but to his shock, Yamino brought Kotaru into the room.
"Tantei…
you know you're indoors right?" The blond started with a raised
brow.
Loki nodded.
"I came from a very warm place… sorry
if this alarms you." Well that wasn't exactly a lie. Millions of
years ago he had lived in Muspelheim, the realm of fire, and passed
that he couldn't remember.
"Oh… so you're not used to
the cold then? Oh well… It's still odd though don't you think…"
The heir muttered. Loki nodded in agreement.
"So why are you
here Ko-chan?"
Yamino ran off to go get the tea that he had
recently placed on the stove and Kotaru pulled up a seat.
"Daidouji
asked me to meet her here but apparently she's running a bit late.
She said something about decorating by the way so I suggest you not
let her in." Loki laughed and almost caused his chair to fall back
because of how huge he currently was. At that Kotaru twitched.
"Oh
come on it can't be that bad Tantei."
The detective in
question shook his little hat covered head.
"No chances." He
hissed. Yamino walked back inside and pored some tea for his
father.
"Would you like some too, Kotaru-sama?" the snake
asked. Kotaru shook his head no and Yamino shrugged.
"Suit
yourself then." He placed the tea pot on a plate and went off to
tend to the cookies he was making.
"But you know, this
place could use a little sprucing up. I mean, where is you're
'holiday spirit' detective?" Loki blinked.
"Holiday
spirit? What do I need that for?"
"Oh I see… It's
non-existent." Kotaru went on.
Loki sweat dropped.
"What
do you mean Ko?"
Kotaru stood up and started to pace.
"What's
tomorrow?"
Loki seemed confused but answered anyway.
"Monday…?"
"No, what day?" The young heir
persisted.
"the 24th…?"
"Of?"
"December?" Loki was starting to get annoyed. Where was this
going?
"And that's not ringing any bells?"
"No? Should
it?"
"What other world did you fall out of?"
"Asgard."
Kotaru blinked. "Huh?"
"I mean!!!" Loki sweat
dropped, laughed and pretended he hadn't said anything. Kotaru
decided to take the hint and continued with his questions.
"Okay.
Does the word Christmas mean anything to you?"
"Christmas?"
Kotaru hung his head and decided he'd let Mayura explain when
she got there.
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Roughly an hour later the peach
haired teen sprang through the front door with brightly colored bags
and two people behind her carrying boxes marked 'Decorations',
Said two people didn't look very happy but when ever Mayura
turned around to look at them they plastered great big smiles on
their faces.
Detective Niiyama however decided as soon as he
placed the boxes down he'd make a run for it.
Loki watched as
the elderly man was then yelled at and virtually kicked out the door
as Kotaru inched over to Narugami to ask how it went.
"Mayura
can get a bit… demanding when she's shopping… Next time, you
go. I'll sit and wait with Loki eating nice glasses-made food. How
does that sound?"
Kotaru laughed and pat the part-timer on the
back.
"Fat chance…"
After Mayura's shocking
display of contempt she spun around and quickly embraced the child
detective.
"Loki! You're job is invitations." She smiled
and pat him on the head, with out waiting for a response she pointed
at Kotaru and told him to start emptying the boxes and picking out
all the spots where he and Narugami would put them up.
"Invitations? Mayura…what's all of this about?"
"Kotaru do you have any taste at all?! That can't go there!"
The teenager ignored him and whacked Kotaru on the head a reef.
"Mayura!" Loki shouted, annoyed.
"Oh loki, what is it?"
"What on earth are you doing?"
"Decorating for the big
Christmas party remember?" Mayura blinked tilting her head to the
side.
"What Christmas party?"
"The Christmas party I
told you about three weeks ago?!"
Loki blinked.
"Did you
use that word when you asked me…?" He wondered aloud. It was so
cold since they had opened the door… and he was getting so tired…
He was so very confused now.
"Word…? What
word…?" Mayura blinked and leaned over him. He was such an odd
little boy. Really, and who ever knew of a 10 year old with such a
horrible memory? She felt so bad for him. Maybe he just wasn't
feeling well being away from his family for the holidays.
"That
'C' word…Chris-mess?"
-Thunk-
Mayura's head crashed
into a wall and Narugami and Kotaru decided to take that moment to
walk into the kitchen to see how Yamino was doing with those cookies.
After several hours spent explaining to the child detective
Mayura was getting fed up.
"Jesus? Who's that?! I've never
heard of him. And how come he gets a holiday!" Loki pouted.
Mayura then went about acting severely depressed for the rest of
the hour before Yamino announced he was done perfecting his Christmas
cookie display and she launched back into action demanding someone
else explain the joys of this holiday to the little
god.
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The next day, ignoring Loki's protest of
'celebrating a god he'd never even heard of' Mayura went on
with getting ready for the party that was going to be held that night
and made sure everyone was getting there alright.
No one else
asked why the trickster was wearing so much clothing. But some people
chose to take advantage.
Like our favorite little one eyed
avenger.
Who liked making snowballs…
…And had managed to
get close enough shove a nice mess of snow down Loki's shirt when
the two of them had been sent to pick up Reiya.
Now due to Loki's
excess cloths it took him an extremely long time to get all of the
water out.
After that he shoved Heimdall into a nice big pile of
the evil white ice and continued to fidget under his now wet layers
of clothing.
"I despise you…"
"Hey that's my line."
Heimdall shook his head from the snow but didn't get up.
Personally he didn't really mind the cold, in fact he loved it.
Just because Loki hated it.
"Why was I sent with you
anyway. Mayura can be so unreasonable."
"Let's see… I
wanted to get away from Freyr… and you wanted to get away
from…everyone." Heimdall smiled; an odd sight that the trickster
tried his best to ignore.
It wasn't fair that the one time
Heimdall was so happy he was so miserable.
Could he never be
friends with the watchman?
A kick to the butt shoved him face
first into the snow and he got his answer.
Never. --
He
shook his head thoroughly and, ignoring the fact he was stooping down
to his fellow child's level he picked up a patch of snow and formed
it into a slightly messy snowball.
Heimdall blinked, sweat
dropped, and dove behind that pile he had earlier been shoved into.
"Take that Heimdall!" Loki shouted and he through the
snowball with just a tad more force then was needed.
It bore a
hole through Heimdall's barrier and hit him square on the nose.
The watchman took on an amused expression and patched up the hole.
Loki blinked. "Heim? Come on… we got to pick up Reiya remember?" The fire god took a few steps forward and was just about to peer over Heimdall's little ice dome with he got hit in a face with a snowball as big as his head.
"I see…" Loki
back tracked wiping the snow out of his face.
"Of course you
know…" He ducked behind another mound of snow.
"This means
war!"
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Several hours later a tiny heiress found
herself restless enough that she decided she wouldn't wait for her
escorts like Minu and Mayura had requested.
Starting down the
sidewalk she sighed and held onto the gift she had bought for Loki.
The night before, after Loki was told of all the special
festivities taking place the following evening he had gone Christmas
shopping and she came along, anything to spend time with him.
The
night went by wonderfully, well at least she thought so.
In fact,
the only set back was when they went looking for gifts for Heimdall.
She, even though he scared her, always thought of him as a friend
and almost had to beg Loki to help her.
But then… noting how
much thought he put into his 'helping her' she got a little
jealous and then blacked out for the rest of the night.
All she
knew was that she had a bird plush doll for him and her other self
was all pout-y.
A few minutes went by and she wrapped her red
checkerboard scarf tighter around her neck as the wind picked up.
And then she saw something that annoyed her inner self to no end.
Loki and Heimdall just laying in the snow staring up at the sky
and apparently having a conversation.
"So here they are… this is what they've been doing all day… instead of coming to see me… Oh… She wants to come out now… she wants to come out and beat their little heads in… no… that's not a good thing… no, no, no… Na-uh…No good…Nope…Oh this isn't fair… those two don't have to deal with split personalities… they suck. Loki sucks… Heimdall sucks… Loki. Loki. Loki I hate you…. " Reiya squeaked, and hyperventilated, and shook her head, and fell over, and buried her head in the snow, and screamed.
After screaming
into the snow about Loki and Heimdall's secret gay love affair for
roughly twenty minutes she popped back up and approached the boys.
"Good afternoon, Loki." She smiled.
Loki in turn
glanced at her skeptically. Heimdall voiced the question though.
"Why is you face blue?"
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Once at the
party Reiya dove for the fireplace and was forced to sit there for
the rest of the hour by Mayura who thought she was sick. In fact,
Mayura almost sent her home.
At that point a blond goddess
appeared and tried to strangle her for even THINKING about leaving
Loki along with Heimdall.
Ever. Mayura of course thought
Freya was just being sweet and a bit odd.
Kotaru sat on the stair
banister with a book while Narugami helped Yamino set up the kitchen.
Although, his helping involved eating everything before it got to the
table.
Freyr arrived several minutes later with the Norn in toe and Fenrir followed Narugami around hoping for food.
All
three Norn had disappeared halfway through the gathering, thoroughly
stressing out the 10 year old who was pulling out his hair and was
surprisingly wearing less clothing.
Apparently all that time
spent in the snow with Heimdall had made him a little more accustomed
to the cold.
But that wasn't the point. The point was that the
Norn were wandering around his house doing Odin knows what!
Loki
slammed his head onto the table he was sitting at and glanced around
the room.
He could see Yamino whack Narugami on the head with a
frying pan; Fenrir wagged his tail from a stool. Kotaru was having
his book torn away from him by Mayura, Reiya was being pestered by
Freyr, and Heimdall was getting a drink.
Yup…no Norn…fuck…
A moment later a glass was placed in front of the trickster
and he glanced up to see a smiling watchman.
Really, why was he
in such a good mood today anyway?
Heimdall was always happy
when something went wrong with Loki's perfect little life. His good
mood had nothing to do with the midnight phone call he got from Freya
complaining about a certain shopping trip.
Nor for the earlier
fact that involved shoving snow down Loki's cloths because he had
caught him off guard with the topic of "What if I were to forgive
you" And he had blushed.
Nope.
That had nothing to do with
the smile on his face at all!
Loki took the drink anyway and
shrugged.
"You wouldn't happen to know where the Norn
are…would you?"
Heimdall shook his head.
"Haven't a
clue."
Loki sighed and stood up. "Alright then… time to go
hunting…" He started for the stairs that had recently been
abandoned by Kotaru, who was now following Mayura complaining that
she had lost his page, when he stopped and turned to face Heimdall.
"Want to help?"
"Me? Help? You? Hah. Don't make me
laugh Loki." Heimdall scoffed and Loki rolled his eyes, regretting
the question.
"But-! I will come with. It will be fun to watch
you squirm when you realize you aren't going to find them."
"Of
course…"
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They had covered every
none-festive hall of the house. The Norn had not returned to the
party and they were absolutely no where to be found.
By this
point Loki was annoyed, tired, and confused, again.
And it didn't
help that every time he turned around Heimdall was grinning at him.
No good little… pfft. Why did he bother getting that little
creep a gift?
He had gone shopping with Reiya and got
everyone presents.
Yamino was getting a free subscription to
'world's home improvement.'
Fenrir was getting a nice box of
picked onions, his favorites,
Mayura was getting an old Indian
artifact he had found at the weirdest store he had ever seen in his
life. He was actually dragged in there by Reiya who claimed she had
seen a sepia colored unicorn float passed the window.
Reiya,
though Loki had to ditch her for an hour to find this and thought
that the cause did not justify the means, was a certain scarf he
couldn't keep hidden from her well enough.
Freyr he refused to
buy anything for because Freyr still refused to speak to him
civilly.
Verdandi was getting a new set of test tubes, Urd was
getting a nicely decorated glass case for her crystal ball and Skuld
was getting shoes.
Narugami was getting a gift card to a steak
house and Kotaru was getting a book, Wordsworth, Hel's idea.
Hel
herself had asked for clothing via mirror message.
All of
these had been rather simple. And he really didn't want to get
Heimdall anything, but when Reiya asked, and he found himself going
on and on and on about what he'd like and what he wouldn't he
found himself unable to keep from buying it…
It was a pendant
with a red gem in the center that had wings on either side. The
necklace itself had patterns that were fashioned in a style similar
to Heimdall's choice in apparel. So it matched, and if Heimdall
didn't decide he utterly loathed Loki again, he could wear it when
ever.
He chose this because the red reminded him of his eyes, the
patterns were similar to the patterns on Heimdall's old horn, and
the wings obviously because of the watchmans obsession with birds.
He sighed when he reached his room again. The third time now
that he'd walked down that hall.
Heimdall just smiled.
Said
watchman had gone Christmas shopping himself.
He got enrolled his
brother into a 'fruit of the month club' and got Freyr a coupon
that read 'I, Heimdall, will willingly go grocery shopping with you
anytime for the next month."
Reiya, although he was forced to
wonder why he bothered, he got a little cat doll that reminded him of
the cat's that Freya used to own that would launch themselves at
Freyr's cape. Oh ya… that was why.
The norn he didn't care
about, nor did he really know the human's or Loki's sons.
He
did however hunt down a poem collection book for Hel which he
intended to send with what ever present Loki got her.
Loki
however he had found a broach in the shape of a crescent moon with
wings. The moon had a pendulum shaped emerald hanging from the
bottom.
Heimdall knew Loki probably wouldn't wear it… Loki
was stupid and wouldn't know a romantic gesture if it jumped on him
with a rose in its mouth.
Of course, that wasn't what
Heimdall was going for! Nooooo!!! He just wanted to give his newly
re-acquainted friend a nice thoughtful gift. That was all…
He
didn't secretly hope Loki would take his thoughtfulness as
something beside a token of friendship…
Nope, not even on his
mind.
After giving up on the search they walked back
downstairs and sat at the table by the window.
It was snowing
again.
Loki hissed at first but then remembered how much fun he
had had during the snowball fight with Heimdall.
In the end they
had called it a truce and plopped down to debate about who would
have one like they were really kids.
How he had managed
to have that much fun with the boy that despised him he didn't
know.
But the fact that he did… and the fact Heimdall was still
unnaturally smiling, like he wasn't always trying to kill him, made
him happy.
The watchman really sucked like that, just plainly
because Loki couldn't really analyze anything about him. Be it his
actions or the tricksters own feelings for him.
Heimdall
ignored the fact Reiya was up and glaring at him to stare at the
snow.
Nice soft white snow that he had laid on with Loki.
…Friend having a nice competitive discussion.
…Just
friends.
…yup.
A little while before midnight Loki
looked around the room again.
Mayura had a bookmark taped to her
head and Kotaru was sitting on the floor with his book.
Narugami
was a bruise on his head but Yamino was currently handing him a
hammer shaped cookie. At that Narugami jumped up and tackled the
snake to the ground.
("If he turns my son gay that will be
seriously uncomfortable.")
Freyr was poking Reiya with a spoon
again asking her where his sister was while Reiya sat there smiling
softly with Fenrir on her lap ready to bite off her older brothers
hand.
And to Loki's shock, the norn were gathered around the
stairs playing with plants.
"Don't look now but the
elusive fates have returned and they look like they're plotting
something."
Heimdall laughed and Loki hung his head.
The clock struck twelve and the trickster and Heimdall were forced around the tree like everyone else while Mayura tossed the presents into the crowd.
All Narugami's gifts involved food, all of Yamino's gifts involved house keeping, and Fenrir got a variety of chew toys.
Mayura got several strange artifacts and Narugami even went
through the trouble of collecting newspaper articles surrounding odd
occurrences and making a collage for her.
Kotaru only got three
gifts, the book from Loki, a coat from Mayura, and a card that said
"I don't think you're a snob" from Narugami who regrettably
announced everyone but Mayura got something similar.
Freyr got a manga called 'D.N.Angel' from Mayura, and Freya, although not 'currently present' got him bunny ears. He laughed at that one. No one else got the joke. When he got Heimdall's gift the watchman dove behind the Christmas tree as the fertility god wept tears of joy and tried to hug him.
Freya got a duplicate of the Brising necklace from Freyr while Reiya got an actually tasteful purse from Mayura and a small (fake?) crystal ball from the Norn.
The Norn surprisingly enough only got gifts from Loki and Mayura who gave them all a trip to the hot springs, which, in reality, was for all of them.
Heimdall got a surprisingly ironic card from Freyr that said "I won't bother you for the next month." A card from Narugami that said: "You aren't an evil little midget." And a map from the Norn…A map for Loki's house. O.o
Loki was given a children's book from Mayura as a joke, another neck ribbon from Reiya, enchanted binoculars from Skuld, and a free runic reading from Urd redeemable whenever. Narugami got him a card that said: "You're stuck with me forever so you better get used to these cards." Kotaru got him a 'guide to a good life in the city' book, and Hel sent him a magic journal that when he wrote in it the words would be sent to a similar journal that she had so they could stay in contact with out all the trouble of mirror possessing. While his sons said that they're gift involved a show that couldn't be viewed in the presence of certain mortals, at that Loki said that they're hard work was gift enough and that he didn't want his house blowing up.
Mayura Freyr and Reiya went home
first. Mayura was told by her father that she couldn't stay any
longer then 2 and it had already hit 2:30. Reiya was falling asleep
and Freyr had left Gullinbrusti at home and decided he'd go back
and clean up what ever mess was made so Heimdall wouldn't kill him.
Narugami Yamino and Kotaru disappeared into the kitchen with
Fenrir while the Norn sat by the front window giggling among
themselves.
Loki and Heimdall then decided to sit on the stairs.
"So this was fun." Loki started.
"Speak for yourself.
I was chased by a fertility god. Do you have any idea how
horrifying that is?" Heimdall murmured.
He was slightly annoyed
by the fact he hadn't gotten anything from Loki after such a
promising conversation with Freya… He decided that because Loki
didn't suffer the embarrassment of giving him something thoughtful
he wouldn't. He would hate to be placed on the spot anyway.
Loki
laughed at him. "Neh… what's with that map the norn gave you
anyway?"
Heimdall unfolded it and shrugged.
"X marks the
spot. Let's go looking for it then shall we?" Loki nodded.
Although… The X was where his bedroom doorway was marked. It was
better to go to see what ever trap they'd set alone so as to not
get anyone else involved but if they had given it to Heimdall then
that meant it was set for him and Loki didn't like the idea of
Heimdall getting attacked alone, especially not when he'd behaved
so well.
While walking down the hall Heimdall started
fidgeting toward his pocket and Loki felt uneasy.
In his own
pocket he had the pendant he had gotten for Heimdall.
He had
chickened out at the last moment and kept it to himself.
But since
no one was around now… perhaps…
Why did he even care anyway!?
Heimdall was hardly a friend to him anyway!
He sighed as
his hand closed in around the chain.
"Heim-"
"Here."
Heimdall was holding his hand out to Loki's chest with his eyes
shut. In his palm was the broach he had bought.
Loki blushed
slightly and stayed silent.
"Well? If you don't want it I'll
return it." The watchman was about to pull his hand back when Loki
grabbed it and clipped it on.
"No… It's a gift. You can't
take it back." Loki pouted and tapped it once before staring down
at it.
It was now or never. He smiled shyly and reached into his
pocket again.
Heimdall was still standing there somewhat shocked
at Loki's reaction but took a step back when Loki pulled out what
he had gotten.
"I got you something too actually. I doubt
you'll like it though." Loki smiled with his eyes closed as he
let the pendant hang out of his hand.
He sat waiting for the
mocking laughed but instead he felt the chain slip out of his hand
and he heard Heimdall start walking again. He probably stuffed it
into his pocket to dispose of later, trying to keep the good mood.
"Thanks…"
Loki nodded.
"You too…"
The rest
of the trek to Loki's room went silently and then they got to the
doorway.
"Now what…?" Heimdall mumbled; cheeks still
slightly pink.
Loki shrugged.
"Well the X marks the
doorway. Not the room. Should we wait or something…?"
Heimdall
shrugged too. "I guess."
The two of them leaned against
either side of the doorframe and looked around.
Nothing to the
right… nothing to the left… no odd little runic symbols
below…
What were the sisters up to?
"Uh-oh." Heimdall
squeaked.
Loki looked at him and then followed his gaze up.
"What's that?"
Heimdall bit his lip and shook his head.
"It's a…uhm…Well… It's… mistletoe…"
Heimdall stressed the last word as if it were poison on his lips and
Loki choked.
He hadn't seen mistletoe before but Mayura spoke
about it…
"We don't have to. I mean… there is no
one around to say we were even in this predicament." Loki murmured.
Heimdall nodded.
"Ya… Well… accept the norn."
Loki
blinked. "Huh?"
"Well… What else do you see around that
could be our reason for being sent here? They did this on purpose."
At that point Loki remembered how he saw the three of them
playing with a certain plant on the stairs.
"Oh… well then…
uhm…"
"Well, no one but them would know… and…"
Heimdall's face couldn't get any redder if he tried.
Loki's
face was flushed red too.
He had just gotten around to thinking
of Heimdall as a friend and now he was being told to think of him as
more… which, come to think of it, wasn't really that hard, but he
didn't want to admit it.
Loki looked around and then noticed a
flash of red from Heimdall's end.
The pendant was already
hanging there and Loki new he had no intention of getting rid of it.
"It can't be that bad…can it?"
Heimdall's head shot
up and he stared at Loki incredulously.
"what…?"
"Really
fast? It will be like ripping off a band aid, and they can't get
mad."
Like ripping off a band aid… Heimdall wanted
to ram his head into a wall.
"Alright… I guess… on three…"
"One…" Loki blushed darker and leaned in.
"Two…"
The watchman shook his head slightly before doing the same.
"Three."
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"The snow was a nice touch Verdandi."
"Wasn't it just? What about Skulds creativity with the map?
The subliminal message in the walls, very nice."
" ya, ya,
'bring Loki with you' really original. I still hate you both. I
can't believe you made me give away my Loki just because of you're
stupid fetish." The blond hissed.
"Well Yamino and Narugami
were working things out on their own, what else could you have gotten
for us on this year anyway little sister?" Verdandi asked as they
walked out the front door.
"Love shounen-ai." Urd smiled and
shut the door behind them.
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Merry Christmas
everyone!!!
I'm a few hours late but w/e I don't care:D
I
actually wanted to make a fic where, after the whole –snow down
shirt thing- Loki got sick and Heimdall was punished with the task of
having to take care of him while everyone set up the party.
Perhaps
I'll just set that up in an 'aftermath' chapter or something…
Well anyway happy holidays everyone! I've got to get to sleep
now. Ja!
