Disclaimer: The rights of the Total Drama gang belong to Teletoon and those associated with the show. No profit is being made by the fanfiction, but please enjoy it and have a Merry Christmas!

AN: This fanfiction is a series of Christmas based oneshots revolving around a party at Lindsay's house to celebrate the season. Expect lots of romantic scenes to come and hopefully some Christmas nostalgia to come as well!

Pairings: Tyler x Lindsay, Geoff, x Bridgette, Gwen x Duncan, Leshawna x Harold plus 8 other surprises

Setting: In December after World Tour; all of the contestants have had time to return to their pre-World Tour states.

Dedication: This fanfiction is dedicated to my mother for her years of support and helping me develop my writing as well as making each Christmas a memorable experience! I hope you enjoy it.


One week before Christmas Eve

Tyler carrying the tenth heavy box of decorations down from the attic panted, "Okay Lindsay, where did you want the box of trimmings for the tree?"

Lindsay, who was busy arranging all her baking ingredients, missed the question entirely, leaving Tyler struggling to hold up the box. Lindsay obliviously walked past him fretting over the eggs, "Tyler, I need twelve eggs for these cookies, but I only have one dozen eggs. We have to go out and buy more now!"

Gasping for air, Tyler replied, "But, don't you have enough there if you have one dozen?"

Lindsay, with a confused expression, responded, "I know I'm not so good at math, but even I know that one isn't twelve Tyler. I've only got one carton of eggs, so I need eleven more to have all twelve eggs I need. It does seem like a lot of packaging for one little dozen eggs though."

Giving up on the box, Tyler let it drop to the ground. "Why don't you let me take a look at the carton Lindsay," he suggested as he walked over and took it from her. Shielding the carton from Lindsay's sight, he opened it up. Turning back to face her, he pointed at the eggs with a flourish and boasted, "Taa-Daa! See, I made some more eggs appear for you, so now we don't need to head out again."

With wide eyes, Lindsay ran over to the eggs and gazed at them in shock and gasped, "That is amazing! You're so talented Tyler!" Lindsay then threw her arms around Tyler, which when combined with Tyler's lack of dexterity resulted in a dozen smashed eggs on the floor. "That's okay," responded Lindsay glancing at the eggs, "You can just summon some more eggs!"

Tyler with a nervous chuckle responded, "Uh, maybe later. Anyways, where do you want this box of stuff for the tree?" as he walked back over to the box and prepared to carry it.

"Huh?" wondered Lindsay, "We don't need that quite yet; we still need the lights! Ooh, they're so sparkly, I can't wait to put them up! Would you be willing to take the box back up the three flights of stairs to the attic while I clean up the eggs?"

With a slight sigh, Tyler acquiesced and added, "Okay, as long as I can manage to get it up the steps again!"

"My hero!" cried Lindsay giving him another kiss. As Tyler walked away, Lindsay knelt down to clean the eggs. In the middle of gathering shell pieces, Lindsay said to herself, "Huh, I feel like there was some other job I had to get done today, but it couldn't have been that important if my brain isn't telling me about it. I mean it never lets me down!"

A thumping noise sounded from higher up on the stairs, and Lindsay ran to the hallway and watched in concern as the box slid down the steps, followed closely by Tyler bouncing down after it. "Are you okay?" gasped Lindsay as she ran over to Tyler in alarm. Tyler gave her a dazed thumbs up, comforting her slightly. Noticing the box, Lindsay excitedly opened it and began pulling out white lights to string around the towering 10 foot tree in the reading room. After removing the white lights, Lindsay found several strings of colored lights and begged Tyler to string them outside. Tyler complied and a few zaps later, came triumphantly back in after stringing them up around Lindsay's yard. He found Lindsay in front of the tree and walked in just as she plugged them into the outlet, excited to watch the tree light up. Unfortunately, the lights failed to come on, which led to the two of them spending hours testing each strand of lights for the problem one.

Confused, Lindsay wondered, "This is the last strand. Shouldn't we have found it by now?"

Tyler, growing very annoyed with the lights, scratched his head and said, "I don't know what to say Lindsay. We should have found the problem by now." However, noticing the light switch, he realized the problem was not with the lights but merely that the switch hadn't been flipped.

Finished, Tyler was ready to take a break for a while, but Lindsay begged, "Okay, so I think we're ready for the next box! Now we can decorate the tree as soon as you bring it down!"

Tyler, his jaw dropping and slightly frustrated that Lindsay hadn't thought to have him leave the box downstairs earlier trudged back up the stairs and grabbed the box. Struggling under the weight, Tyler triumphantly dropped it on the ground.

Lindsay opened the box but was dismayed to see a bunch of blue ribbons and ornaments. "Oh, maybe that's what you were forgetting earlier brain," she said to herself before requesting of Tyler, "Umm, Tyler, I actually meant to ask for the salmon tree trimmings. Would you be willing to take this back up and bring down the salmon ones?"

Crestfallen, Tyler hauled the box back up the steps and combed the attic for a box with pink decorations. Finally finding one he struggled back down the steps with it and presented it to Lindsay. "Here… It…. Is…" he gasped out as he sat down to catch his breath.

"Tyler, these are coral colored decorations," Lindsay gasped in horror. "I'm sorry to send you back up, but I just know this room won't look quite right if it's not just the right shade of pink!"

"If you say so Linds," Tyler complied as he took the box back up the steps and brought down one of the only two pink boxes he found in the attic along with some ribbon from the other box, just in case. "Is this one right?" asked Tyler as he opened the box for Lindsay.

"That's peach Tyler, but I guess it's pretty close. Still, I'm sure salmon is the perfect color here," insisted Lindsay as she resealed the box.

"Okay, well this is the only other pink I found up there," explained Tyler as he showed Lindsay the ribbon he had removed from the other box.

With a shocked gasp Lindsay quipped, "That's even less close! Magenta is nothing like salmon. I would think you'd know that by now!"

Tyler, suppressing his anger, said through gritted teeth, "Well, exactly what color is salmon then?"

"Umm, let my find a good example while you take that back upstairs," suggested Lindsay as she walked out to the garage to get an example of salmon for Tyler while Tyler dragged the box back up the steps with the last of his strength. Fatigued, Tyler staggered over to the garage where he noticed Lindsay tugging down a large box from a shelf. Triumphantly, she pulled out a roll of salmon ribbon. "See Tyler! This is the color you were looking for. Wait, this is the box we need too! Oh, duh, I put the salmon colored in the garage so it could return to the sea if it wanted. I forget sometimes."

Tyler, with a flabbergasted expression, merely wordlessly hauled the box into the reading room so Lindsay could decorate the tree. "I'm going to go pick up more eggs," he offered, eager to escape before Lindsay could ask him to bring anymore boxes down.

Lindsay merely nodded her head, too distracted by determining the perfect layout of ornaments and ribbon on the tree to notice him leaving. When she finally finished, she asked, "Well Tyler, what do you think of the tree?" When she didn't receive a response, she began looking around and questioned in confusion, "Tyler? Hey, where'd you go?"

As she walked back into the kitchen, she noticed her address book sitting on the counter and closed it and put it away. The slamming of her front door alerted her to Tyler's return as Lindsay excitedly scampered over to him and wondered, "Where were you?"

"Getting eggs," Tyler explained as he showed her the bag. "It's freezing out there, so it's too bad it's not snowing. At least when it's snowing, there's some reward to enduring the cold."

"I know! I really wanted a White Christmas for my party. Maybe Santa will bring me one!" wished Lindsay as she adjusted the ribbon on the tree.

Tyler was about to laugh until he realized Lindsay was serious, "Yeah, maybe he will. Listen, Lindsay, it's getting late, so I should be headed home; I'll be back in a few days to help with last minute preparations okay?"

"Awww," moaned Lindsay, "I don't want to see you go, but okay. Have a safe trip home!" The two exchanged a long kiss and goodbye before Tyler finally left and headed home.


Three days before the party

"Perfect! I think the house is all clean now," remarked Lindsay as she inspected the last room. "Good work Tyler! I couldn't have done it without you."

"Don't mention it Linds," responded Tyler with mock-humility. "So, have you heard back from anyone about whether or not they're coming?"

"No," pouted Lindsay as she sat down.

"You know, I don't think I received my invitation officially yet," teased Tyler even though he knew that he and Lindsay had agreed not to bother sending him one.

"Well that's weird; maybe they got blown away or something," pondered Lindsay, forgetting about their earlier arrangements before she suddenly jumped to her feet, "Brain! Why didn't you think of that sooner? I figured out what I forgot to do; send the invitations!"

"What? We better hurry since the mail pickup is in twenty minutes Lindsay," shouted Tyler full of concern. The two scrambled to write all the Total Drama cast members' invitations and just slipped them into the mailbox as the mailman came, saving time by writing a joint invitation to Katie and Sadie.

"That was way too close!" remarked Tyler as the two walked back into the house.

"I know, but it's done now, and I think all we need to really do now is wait," agreed Lindsay. "So, I suppose that gives us a little time to make out." Tyler was quite happy to comply.


Hours before the party

Lindsay and Tyler, running through Lindsay's house to make sure all the decorations were in place, converged on the room with the tree, presents, and fireplace. Towering above the room was the tree that Lindsay had painstakingly wrapped in salmon pink ribbons after stringing white lights around it. Although the two of them had nearly tipped the tree over, mostly thanks to Tyler, they had also placed a large golden star at the tip of the tree in their last minute decorating.

With a sigh of relief, Tyler flopped down on the sofa in front of the fire and said, "Well, I think that does it Linds. The house looks great!"

Lindsay, busy adjusting a stocking's angle above the fireplace, responded, "Uh huh, just about done now!" She walked over to Tyler and began checking things off on her fingers. "Let's see, I wrapped the presents and baked some cookies, you helped put all the lights outside, and then we decorated the whole house, and I even remembered to invite all the guests, well eventually! They should be here any minute now for my Christmas Eve party! And thanks for all the help Tyler." Lindsay sat down on his lap in front of the fire and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"No problem Lindsay," gushed Tyler, "It was no problem for a tough guy like me, even when I was electrocuted by the lights outside replacing that one bulb that made all the others go out."

"That was so bad," agreed Lindsay nodding vigorously as she remembered the disaster.

"I never would have thought that I could manage to get my boots as part of the circuit somehow. I mean, the lace shouldn't have even fit in where the bulb should have been, plus they're rubber. Isn't that supposed to be an insulator?"

"Still, I love winter and Christmas," continued Tyler after seeing Lindsay's blank face in response before he glanced out the window at the lightly falling snow. "Snow just seems to make everything better."

"I know, right? Santa gave me my wish when the snow started falling yesterday!" agreed Lindsay, "After all the deadness of winter, the snow kind of covers it all up in pretty, white, fluffy blanket!"

"That's deep babe," responded Tyler as he gave Lindsay another kiss. "You know, between the fire, snow, and you, I think I'd have something to watch all night, even if no one shows up."

Lindsay made a contented smile and replied, "Awww, I feel the same way! But still, I think it'd be nice if people did come to see everything we did. I mean there's like so much other stuff we could have done out in the snow if we had known no one was coming."

"Huh?" Tyler remarked quizzically, "I think everyone's still coming; it was just a hypothetical situation."

"What do dashes have to do with this anyways? I'm so confused," mumbled Lindsay as she scratched her head.

"Don't worry about it," reassured Tyler as his eyes once again alighted on the snow. "It wasn't anything important. Still, I love all the wicked sports and activities you can do when the temperature goes down! Skiing, hockey, snowboarding, and broomball! Man the list just keeps going on too!"

Lindsay, gazing back up at Tyler concurred and added, "Plus, you can go ice skating too! I love doing that on a lake rather than just at a rink! The only downside is wearing the really puffy jackets, but they do enable me to expand my wardrobe."

"No way babe! You still make those jackets look great," prompted Tyler as Lindsay lay down on his chest.

"That is so nice of you to say," exclaimed Lindsay as she nestled in closer to Tyler.

Tyler, his eyes torn alternately between Lindsay and the fire added, "Of course, staying inside on a cold winter day has its perks too!"

A sudden thump from the outside drew their attention over to the window. Standing up, Lindsay began peering out her window as Tyler followed and looked over her shoulder. "Maybe Santa's here!" cried Lindsay excitedly, straining her eyes for the slightest sight of a red suit or reindeer.

"Uh, Lindsay, isn't it…ummm… a little early for him to be here?" prompted Tyler as he tried to change the subject without shattering Lindsay's dreams.

"Well, maybe," concurred Lindsay only to trail off abruptly and begin excitedly shouting after noticing some red in the window, "No! It is him! He's right behind me in all his red clothing!" Turning around, Lindsay found herself facing Tyler again, having merely seen the reflection of his tracksuit in the window. She continued wandering around the room trying to find Santa to no avail.

Tyler, whipping his head behind him as well, responded in confusion, "I don't see anyone Lindsay."

"He must have turned invisible since he was here so early and didn't want me to meet him until later. Maybe he's coming back with the rest of the guests!" exclaimed Lindsay as she clapped her hands excitedly.

"Maybe babe, but I wouldn't count on it." Unsure of what type of advice to give, Tyler hesitated before adding, "He probably won't want to be seen again tonight, you know, cause he has to be fair to everyone and all." Tyler then sat back down on the couch to gaze at the fire again, congratulating himself at assuaging Lindsay's worries.

"Awww," Lindsay sighed as she sat back down on his lap. "Oh well, I bet he'll love the homemade cookies I left for him."

"Maybe he came early to get them but then we startled him," prompted Tyler. "Or maybe it was just a reminder that we'll need to put out the fire later so he can come back."

"Oh my gosh! You're so smart Tyler! That must be it, but I think for now I want to let it keep burning. It feels so nice just relaxing here curled up with you."

"Definitely Linds," concurred Tyler contentedly as Lindsay drifted off to sleep. Soon after, from the heat of the fire, Tyler began to relax until he too drifted off to sleep.

A few minutes later, the two abruptly woke up when the doorbell rang, disappointing Tyler that they were jarred from their sleep.

Leaping excitedly to her feet, Lindsay shouted, "The guests are here! I can't wait for everyone to see all the decorating we did!"

Drawing Lindsay into a tight hug, and then giving her a kiss on the lips, Tyler whispered, "I'm sure it will be great! And I've got all the Christmas present I need right here."


Up next: A couple watches a classic television special.

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