Let's start the season right! With Trauma Center fanfic! And Fluff! Who can resist fluff any time of the year?

Naomi POV

It was winter. It was winter and Naomi was still working, instead of spending Christmas Eve at home with Alyssa. Well technically Alyssa was with her, but it wasn't the same. The events of last summer had begun to fade already in just a few short months. Last summer she wouldn't have thought that she'd be alive right now, and she wouldn't have thought that she would have a daughter-or any family for that matter-to spend Christmas with. All of Alyssa's bandages had been removed by now; the only reminder was her short singed hair that would need time to grow out again. That and Little Guy panicked whenever she had coughed or sneezed during flu season, worrier. She could handle herself. A cold wind blew causing her to shiver.

"Alyssa, don't run off, you could slip on the ice." She called. Little Guy, who had decided to tag along, for who knows what reason, smiled. He spent a lot of time with Naomi lately; yes they worked together, but… There was a difference between favors a coworker would do and some of the one's he had done in the past few months. Like drive Alyssa to school, or help with putting up various decorations during Halloween and Christmas…teach her to cook. That was embarrassing, she laughed a little at the memory. Then she thought of something, but Alyssa beat her to it.

"Mr. Little Guy? Where are you going for Christmas?" He and Naomi glanced at each other; she knew more about him, then maybe anyone. She knew he faked his way into the FBI, she knew he worked for Delphi, she knew he liked her. That was it, even though he didn't seem like it most of the time he was mysterious. No family, no friends outside of work that she knew of, she didn't even know where his apartment was. She was interested too.

"Oh, uhh…I'm just going to stay in town, it's too close to Christmas to travel especially with this weather." He commented, there did seem to be a storm coming, they picked up the pace. They were almost to the hospital, Naomi had to drop off some charts and then she and Alyssa would go have Christmas Eve, she thought about inviting Little Guy…but once again Alyssa seemed to beat her to it.

"Naomi! Can Mr. Little Guy spend Christmas with us? Can he? Pleasseee?"

"If he doesn't have any other plans." She laughed. Little Guy blushed a little, he always did whenever she laughed, or looked at him, or was in the same room as him…

Alyssa POV

They reached the hospital at last. Alyssa stamped her snow covered boots scattering snow everywhere across the polished floor. Alyssa trotted after Naomi as she went to drop off the files. She caught sight of Joshua, a boy she knew from her school. She stopped and scooted around the corner, glancing at Naomi, she wasn't that far away. She was wondering what Joshua was doing at the hospital. He was sitting outside a room, Alyssa heard raised voices muffled by the door.

"Hey!" She said loudly causing Joshua to jump a little "What'cha doing here?" She asked.

"Mom…and Dad are auguring about where I get to spend Christmas." He sounded miserable. "I hate it when they argue." He sighed.

"Well I don't know my real mom and dad*," Alyssa said trying to help. She had been at an orphanage for most of her life and occasionally went to foster homes; Naomi was her favorite parent yet, and she was glad Naomi had adopted her. The voices in the other room had fallen silent. Alyssa and Joshua turned and stared.

"Oh, who is this, Joshua?" A middle aged woman asked.

"Alyssa, from school." He answered.

"Hello, Alyssa." She smiled sweetly then turned back to Joshua. "Okay, Joshua we need to go home now, okay?"

"Kay, mom." He and the woman left. .Alyssa looked around, suddenly realizing that Naomi had left the area. Crap! What am I going to do? I'll be in trouble for wandering off! She ran down a hall she thought Naomi had gone into, then turned into another hall before realizing that she was hopelessly lost.

Little Guy POV

Little Guy looked around the lobby and sighed. Where were Naomi and Alyssa? The storm outside had really begun to pick up, and he noticed a lot of the staff had left to go home. There couldn't be that many more people left in the hospital save for a few doctors and patients who had to stay. He was tempted by the thought to go find Naomi and Alyssa, but decided against it. A nurse stopped before walking out noticing him.

"Do, you need something?" She asked.

"No, I'm just waiting for someone."

"Okay. Merry Christmas!" She said cheerfully and walked out.

"You too." Little Guy said. He sighed and went back to pacing. Where are they?

Naomi POV

"Thanks for bringing these on such short notice." Gabriel Cunningham said.

"No problem." Naomi shrugged.

"Hmm…Oh, Merry Christmas by the way, Naomi." He said without looking up.

"Sure" She turned around. "Have you seen Alyssa anywhere?" Now he did look up at her.

"I think she might have been talking to Joshua, but he and Lisa left about five minutes ago." He frowned.

"Great." She sighed. "Help me look for her."

"Fine." He grunted. "I've got nothing better to do." She cast him a glare and strutted out the door. "Don't be like that, she's just a kid how far could she have gone?" He sighed, Naomi said nothing.

Maria POV

Maria cursed under her breath, Christmas Eve and she was still stuck in this dump working. Couldn't people just stay health for the holidays? Would it kill them not to hurt themselves or get sick for a few days? She sighed. It wasn't like she had anything planned for Christmas, but some time off would be nice, that's all. She sighed setting down a box of who- knows-what. Syringes? Paper work? Christmas decorations? The hospital was almost silent, it was kind of eerie. Normally the place was full of activity, nurses, surgeons, doctors, patients… Because of this she noticed the sound of quick, light footsteps coming down the hall. She looked up, and saw a little girl. She had short brown hair that stuck out slightly under her hat pulled tightly over her ears. She wasn't a patient obviously. Then it clicked.

"Alyssa? What are you doing here? Is Naomi around?" Maria asked wiping her hands on her jeans.

"I think so…" She said looking around nervously.

"Come on, let's find her." Alyssa hesitated. "You're not in trouble or anything, come on." Alyssa nodded and Maria led her back to near the entrance. There was the blond man, she sometimes saw hanging around Naomi pacing.

"Hey, I know you." She said. He jumped and looked up. "You came to the Halloween party…" She stopped deciding not to bring that up. "Look, do you know where Naomi is? This kid got lost." She said gesturing to Alyssa.

"Everyone!" Came Chief's voice over the loudspeaker. "If you have not left already, please come to the main conference room."

"You think Naomi will be there?" Maria asked. She got two blank stares. "Come on." She sighed and lead the blond man and Alyssa to the room.

Naomi POV

"What was that about?" She asked Gabe.

"Who knows?" He turned and started walking toward the room. She sighed and decided to come too.

When they entered it was chaos. There was an FBI agent she recognized, and a surgeon with red eyes who was dressed in a prison uniform and had cuffs on. There was the endoscopic surgeon dressed in her usual kimono looking worried. Also there was the orthopedic surgeon, Naomi didn't quite remember his name.

"Hey, what do you mean we can't leave? I'm required to get him back to the prison!"

"Sorry, we can't do anything about that." Esha sighed, exasperated.

"The path of honor says-"

"Hey!" Maria said running in the room. "Did anyone lose a kid?" Alyssa came in after her.

"Naomi!" Alyssa ran to Naomi. Little Guy, walked in after Maria.

"Okay! Okay!" Esha said loudly. Everyone quieted after a moment. "It looks like we're stuck here for the moment, the storm has gotten really out of hand and all the roads are closed." Everyone groaned. "So it looks like we'll be stuck here for a while."

*If Alyssa's parents had died in that house fire, wouldn't she be sadder? It didn't seem to affect her emotionally at all. Plus she had NO relatives whatsoever!