A/N: So this was going to be an advent story with all 24 being posted in the run up to Christmas but I missed the first so this will just be Christmas themed!

Enjoy!

Advent

"Hey E!" Mal's voice echoed through the house and Mal soon heard Evie calling back to her from the sitting room.

"Morning Mal!" The voice from the other side of the door chirruped.

"E! I've got to tell you about the most amazing…thing…hmmm." Mal fell silent at the sight of her bestie surrounded by boxes. "So you already know about advent calendars then?" She guessed haphazardly at the range of products scattered around the room.

"Yes! Doug got me a beauty one and aren't they amazing!" She squeaked. "I'm only allowed to open one door a day which I thought was incredibly mean so I went out to buy more so I can open more doors each day!" Evie said, excitement shining from her eyes.

"Did you get a chocolate one?" Mal raised a brow and Evie's face fell slightly.

"They do chocolate advent calendars?" She frowned down at her mass of purchases, knowing she did not have a chocolate one in the bundle.

"Yup, wanna go and get one, or two, or three?"

"Maybe four, I should buy one for Doug." Evie sighed, extracting herself from the pile of stuff she had already opened for the first of December.

When the pair came back, Mal moved aside one make-up advent calendar to sit herself down while Evie excitedly chattered through her new goodies.

"I got foundation from these three, I got a body scrub from the green one, there was a small eyeshadow out of … oh I think it was the pink one you're sat next to. I got this adorable Christmas tree that I had to build out of the bricks that came behind the door." Evie grinned as she held up the tree and placed it carefully back down on the table. "Oh I got some tea bags in this one." Evie held up the box as Mal smiled wryly at her best friend. Evie's life motto was definitely go big or go home. Doug would undoubtedly despair at his dearly beloved when he walked in. "Oh and I got this gorgeous smelling candle, catch!" Evie lobbed a red object at Mal who barely caught it before it thwacked her in the head.

"E… you have so much. What are you going to do with it all?" Mal took a deep inhale of a candle that proclaimed to be called Christmas Cookie. Smelt nothing like her cookies.

"I'm going to use it?" Evie said as if it explained everything.

"Not even you can use three foundations in one hit, and you're only on day one!"

"Don't be such a scrooge." Evie said primly as she started to stack up her calendars and put her goodies in a basket.

"Such a what?" Mal frowned.

"A Scrooge. It's something Doug called me when I refused to get into the Christmas spirit."

"Riiight…. And what is Doug going to say to this?" Mal asked at the fifteen stacked calendars and Evie shrugged.

"He can't call me a Scrooge again." She grinned. "In answer to your first question. There are items that I won't use that I can always pay forward. I might even send them back to mom on the Isle, you know how crazy she was about makeup."

"I know where you get it from." Mal said drily, neatly ducking the pillow Evie launched at her.

"Honey I'm Hi-Hoooome." A voice called from the hall and Mal sat back against her chair to watch the mini domestic unfurl. "Evie, what have you bought?" Doug appeared in the doorway and looked at his guilty girlfriend's face, giving a quick wave to Mal who waved back.

"I bought… a chocolate advent calendar for you and a beauty one!" She grinned innocently and Doug leant around her to see the rest of the calendars.

"Did you also buy three hundred for yourself?"

"Not that many!"

"No but close."

"You told me I wasn't getting into the Christmas spirit!" She pouted and Doug laughed.

"Touché, no way where did the little Christmas tree come from?!" Doug gaped, dumping his bag and cradling the Lego tree.

"From one of the calendars." Evie shrugged.

"That one's mine as well." He dibsed, much to Evie's outrage.

"I like that one!"

"We can share it. I'll do the even numbered days, you can do the odd." Doug rifled through the calendars until he found the right one.

"Says who?" Evie grumbled.

"Says me, otherwise you're a big old grinch." He pecked her on the nose and it was at this point, Mal decided to make her escape.