Title: Blackmail Material
Author: Mickey Stone
Pairing/character: Reid/Caleb
Prompt: Nativity
Rating: FRT
Word Count: 535
Summary: Caleb finds something in the attic that brings back a few memories
Notes/Warnings: Christmas mini-fic written for Andrea.
The VHS tape was just over fifteen years old and Caleb had forgotten its very existence until then. It had been stashed away in a box in the attic; hidden for ten years or more in between his old baby books and coloured crayons. There wasn't a cover or sleeve or any sort of label to tell him what was on the tape, but somehow he just knew. Leaving the box on his bed, he walked out of his room and to the entertainment centre in the Rec room down the hall.
With a small smile he pushed the tape into the player and picked up the appropriate remote controls. He pushed play on the video remote and watched the TV as the screen changed, showing a small stage. The backdrop was a large sheet that had been painted to look like the inside of a barn and a few square bales of hay had been stacked around the edge of the stage. Two young kids were centre stage; a black-haired little boy and a blonde little girl, and in front of them was an old style rocking cradle which contained a plastic baby doll wrapped up in blankets.
Caleb's smile grew wider as four more children joined the boy and girl. The leader of the small group was a little blond haired boy dressed in a white sheet and carrying a long pole, on the end of which was a cardboard star coloured with yellow paint. The other three boys were dressed in robes and small crowns and Caleb had to chuckle as he recognised the four.
"As much as I hate to say it, you were a cute kid."
Caleb felt arms slide around his waist and a warm body press firmly behind him. A chin came to rest on his right shoulder and pale fingers linked together on his stomach but other than covering the hands with one of his own, he didn't move.
"Thanks, I think." He said in amusement, eyes now following the movements of the three crowned kids. His eyes flicked back to the blond haired child that was now standing behind the two main characters, holding the star above their heads and staring off into space.
"I was cuter, though."
Caleb snorted, "You weren't cute, Reid; you were pretty."
"Fuck you!" Reid said, the seemingly angry words holding no heat. "You saying I looked like a girl?"
"No, I'm just saying you were more of a pretty kid than a handsome one." He paused and grinned, "Yeah, I'm saying you looked like a girl."
Reid huffed in his ear, his breath ghosting over his neck and stirring more than just Caleb's hair. He swallowed thickly and turned his attention to the screen, watching the three familiar Wise Men give the baby Jesus their gifts. Pogue went first, then Tyler with the Frankincense and then little Aaron Abbot with the Myrrh.
"We are so keeping this as blackmail material." Reid said.
"Yeah? And who are you intending to blackmail?" Caleb asked, turning his head to the side slightly. He shivered at the lips that sucked at his neck.
"Why you, little Joseph." He answered. Caleb just smiled.
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