Snatcher's Library - Christmas Edition
Disclaimer: I'm not JK Rowling and I don't own her characters. However the OCs are mine.
A/N: special thanks to Anna Fay who gave me the inspiration needed to start this collection.
Prompt 1 - advent
Christmas was Scabior's favorite holiday. He liked the tasty treats his wife made during the holidays, he liked drinking eggnog and getting presents. He also liked the advent calendar Draconius bought him every December. He liked it so much that it was difficult to keep him from peeking at the pictures and eating all the chocolates.
The calendar hung on the wall beside the hall closet. Scabior learned that if he opened the closet door, it would hide him from view while he ate all the chocolate. All he had to do was pretend to look for something in the closet, when in reality he was stuffing his face with sweets.
When his four year old daughter found out what he was doing, she too wanted some chocolate.
"I'll only give you some if you promise not to tell mummy wha we're doing," said Scabior.
Melody grinned. "Okay, daddy. I promise not to tell."
"Tha's a good girl." Scabior smiled as he picked up his little girl. "Now, which one of these windows do you want to take a peek in first?"
The little girl looked at the windows on the calendar, then pointed to number seventeen. Her father carefully adjusted his hold on her, holding her steady as he used his free hand to open the window for her.
Melody snatched the piece of chocolate out of the window and stuffed it in her mouth. She bit down on the piece of candy and the delicious taste of cherry juice filled her mouth.
"Is it good?" Scabior asked.
"Mm-hmm." Melody nodded.
Scabior pointed at the picture in the window. "Look, sweet'eart. Penguins. An there's three of them. A mummy, a daddy, an a baby, just like our family."
Melody looked in awe at the moving picture on the calendar. It showed a family of penguins, dressed in warm scarves and fuzzy hats and mittens, ice skating on a frozen pond. Snow was falling all around them, and there was a snowman standing off in the corner near the pond.
"It's pretty," Melody cooed around a mouthful of chocolate.
Scabior grinned. "You think so, ay? Alright. Let's try another one. 'Ow about number nine? Does tha sound like a good one?"
Melody nodded, and Scabior opened the window. He ate the piece of chocolate behind the window, this one containing a tasty filling of peppermint cream. And beneath the candy was a picture of a unicorn frolicking in the snow.
The unicorn had a colorful wreath around its neck, with bells on its ankles and a bright red ribbon tied around its horn. And as the unicorn merrily pranced and kicked up its heels, the sound of tiny, tingling bells could be heard throughout the hallway.
"Scabior? What are you doing in there?"
The Snatcher turned around and peeked out from behind the closet door. He didn't see his wife, but he heard her footsteps coming down the stairs. So he quickly closed the windows on the calendar, shut the closet door, and carried his daughter down the hall and into the kitchen.
They'd managed to avoid getting caught that time. And it wouldn't be long until Scabior and Melody went back to get some more chocolate.