Author's Note: The bad news? I'm home sick with a cold. The good news? My professor is also sick, so I'm not missing school, plus, you fans get something a few hours earlier than originally intended for release, thanks to being stuck on the futon with a stuffy nose. Didn't wanna go back to bed without forgetting to post the first chapter of this, as promised that I'd release the start of this story on December 1, and, well, since the day is here, let's get started with what might possibly be the only Christmas story to hit Rugrats Fan Fiction this year sadly.
Zack and Kimi's Christmas Collage
Summary: Drabbles of the first 25 Christmases that Zack and Kimi spent together. Inspired by a similar story that was released last Christmas by somebody named RosieCheeks101, where she looked at Christmases that Chuckie and Angelica spent together, between the end of Rugrats and 25 years later.
Disclaimer: I do not own the original Rugrats characters, they're the property of their original creaters. I own Zack and his aunty Celeste, along with any OC's you don't recognize, while Peter is owned by TCKing12, and Rosie is owned by Nairobi-harper. Any other characters that get introduced in future chapters, I'll give credit for in the author's notes at the start or end of the chapter.
Chapter 1, The Mitheltoe
Kimi was sitting on her training potty in the bathroom at Peter's castle. She was so determined to get this potty training thing down before Christmas, as she was two-years-old, and didn't wish to be in diapers forever. While ordinarily, it would be a crime to not give a kid their privacy, Zack was standing in the bathroom, keeping Kimi entertained, by doing a little dance, as she watched his every move. Finally, Zack did a back flip on the floor, which caused Kimi to laugh. In turn, her laughter caused her to have to go to the bathroom really bad, and because she was sitting on the potty, she went where she was suppose to go. Pleased by her accomplishment, after she was finished, she jumped up from the potty with a smile on her face, running over to Zack, where she toppled on to the floor on top of him, and gave him a big hug.
"Thanks Zack, you're the bestest." Said Kimi.
Zack blushed and smiled.
"Awe, it's no problem. And just think, I gotted you potty trained, and I myself, am still in diapies." Said Zack, as he returned the hug.
It was true, Zack was only fourteen-months-old, and a good several months away from being potty trained, even though he longed to be more like the bulk of his friends, all of which, were either potty trained, or coming close to being done so in the near future.
After Kimi washed her hands, they headed back out to the living room where the party was happening.
"I have something I wanna show you." Said Kimi, as she sat Zack down on the floor off to the side, unknown to either one of the toddlers, they were sitting beneath some mitheltoe.
"Uh, ok, I'll wait right here." Said Zack, as Kimi ran off and got what she wanted to show him.
A few minutes later, she returned carrying a zylophone, the same one she had received as a present at Christmas Land the previous year.
"This is my soprano glockenspiel. I gotted it lastest Christmas." Said Kimi, as she sat on the floor across from Zack and started hitting the keys with the mallet.
"Actually Kimi, it's called a xylophone, but keep going, you're doing great!" Said Zack, as Kimi looked up at him, blushing and smiling.
She played Jingle Bells for him on her xylophone. When it was finished, Zack applauded.
"Bravo! Bravo!" Said Zack, as he stood up, giving Kimi a standing ovation.
Kimi just stood there, smiling, unable to take her eyes off of the blond.
"So, you gotted that lastest year?" Zack asked.
"Yep, at Christmas Land." Kimi replied.
"Wow! There's a place called Christmas land? Tell me more!" Zack pleaded.
"Well, Angelica toldid Tommy that if Dil didn't get a good present his firstest Christmas, he'd never celebrate Christmas ever again. So we went through Christmas Land to look for Santa's workshop where we ran into a mousy king, and a little ballerina girl, and helped a baby in the middle of a cold petting zoo get warm with our clothes. Then Angelica showed up, and gave me my soprano glockenspiel, uh, I mean, xylophone." Explained Kimi, as she sat down, and played another tune for Zack.
This time, she played Deck the Halls, while Zack couldn't help but think to himself.
"If I had been with the gang lastest year at Christmas, I would have sent Angelica in the direction of Mount Crumpnick, in hopes she'd get a taste of her own medicine from the Grinch." Zack thought to himself, as he listened intently to Kimi's xylophone playing.
Then, he caught Dil playing out of the corner of his eye. The one-year-old baby was perfectly content, with three-year-old Chuckie at his side, as they built a tower of blocks together. Then, he turned his attention back to Kimi.
"You know what Kimi?" Zack asked.
"No, what?" Kimi asked.
"I'm pretty sure Angelica was making that stuff up. I mean, even if you guys had the worstest time of your lives at Christmas Land, Dil would still get another Christmas, and, thanks to a set of blocks and your big brother, he's having a pretty good second Christmas." Said Zack.
Kimi smiled and nodded in agreement, as she started playing another song on her xylophone for Zack. This time, she started to play The Twelve Days of Christmas, but was barely up to Five Gold Rings, when Angelica rudely interrupted the performance.
"And just what are you babies doing?" Angelica asked.
Zack looked up, annoyed, as he stared into the face of the four-year-old blond.
"Uh, Kimi was playing some nice music for me." Zack replied.
He'd just assume ignore the blond, but since it was Christmas Eve, he didn't think that would be very nice.
"And I'm spreading a little Christmas cheer." Said Kimi.
"Well, you two are forgetting one thing." Said Angelica.
"What Angelica?" Kimi asked.
"Don't you two know what you're sitting under neath?" Angelica asked, pointing to the hanging mitheltoe that was above them.
Kimi looked in the direction where Angelica was pointing.
"That's just green stuff that Peter hung to decorate his castle for Christmas Angelica." Said Kimi.
"Yeah, it's green stuff for decoration." Added Zack, agreeing with his friend.
"You two are hopeless. That stuff is mitheltoe, and you know what that means." Said Angelica.
"That's not a toe Angelica, that's just green decorations." Said Kimi.
"Of course it's mitheltoe." Said Angelica.
"It doesn't look like a toe to me. And where's the foot?" Kimi asked.
"Wrong kind of toe Kimi, and anyway, what do you mean Angelica? Another one of your lies to get us thinking dumb stuff again?" Zack asked.
"Of course not. Why would I lie to you?" Angelica asked.
Zack rolled his eyes, and he and Kimi exchanged glances before turning their attention back to Angelica.
"What?" Zack and Kimi asked in unison.
"It means you've gotta kiss." Angelica replied.
"Huh?" Kimi asked, a look of confusion crossing her face.
"Don't you babies know anything? When a boy and a girl are under neath the mitheltoe, you're spose to kiss! And if you do, you'll spend every single Christmas together forever. If you don't, you'll be sad and miserable forever. So you'd better kiss or else." Said Angelica.
"I don't believe you Angelica." Said Zack.
Kimi just smiled at Zack, eager to give it a try.
"Come on Zachary, let's give it a try." Said Kimi eagerly.
"You really believe her?" Zack asked, rolling his eyes.
"Of course! Now come on Zachary!" Said Kimi encouragingly, as the two toddlers were about to lean in and kiss one another, when Harold, who was at the party, bumped into Angelica.
"I love it when Kimi calls me Zachary." Zack thought to himself at that moment.
The blond turned around to find her clumsy red headed chubby friend behind her.
"So, guess you'll be kissing me under the mitheltoe when they're done, huh Angelica?" Harold asked.
"Not a chance." Snapped Angelica, as she knocked into Harold, who tripped over his untied shoelaces and fell into a refreshment table, sending its contents to the floor.
The loud crash startled the other adults in the room, as they went over to see what was happening, while Harold crawled on the floor, picking up spilled cheese sticks, eating like a dog. Noticing everyone's backs were turned, Zack turned his attention back to Kimi.
"Quick, let's do this while nobody's looking." Whispered Zack into Kimi's ear.
The two-year-old Japanese girl reached in, and gave Zack a slobbery kiss on the cheek. As she stood back, she blushed and smiled. Ordinarily, Zack would have found the slobber on his cheek disgusting, but rather, he just started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Kimi asked.
"We are." Said Zack, as he laughed, the drool dripping off his cheek on to his shirt.
Unknown to either one of them right then, Tommy, who was passing by, carrying the camera he had gotten the previous Christmas, was stopped by Angelica, who snatched the camera out of his hand when he wasn't looking, saw Zack and Kimi kissing under the mitheltoe, and snapped a picture. Peter oversaw this, and took the camera from Angelica, where he handed it back to Tommy, who tried to take a picture, but the camera was out of film. So he handed it to Peter, who took it to a secret dark room on another floor, and developed the film. After he got two copies of the picture, he quietly snuck back downstairs to the party, where he snuck the pictures into the stockings labeled for Kimi and Zack.
"Just spreading a little Christmas cheer." Peter thought to himself, as he stuck the pictures into the stockings, and gave Tommy back his camera, where the two-year-old went and got a picture of Harold crawling around on the floor with a chee stick sticking out of his mouth.
Once the mess was cleaned up and the two-year-old purple haired popperachi ran out of film for a second time that night, everybody sat down and Peter handed out the stockings to each kid, where they opened up their presents. Zack and Kimi pulled out the first thing in their stockings, surprised at what they saw. A mystery picture taken just minutes ago, of the two of them kissing under the mitheltoe.
They stared at a while at their pictures, then at one another, and then, back at the pictures again.
"Don't know how this picture gotted taken, but I'll remember this magical Christmas forever. It's not every baby who gets kissed under the mitheltoe at fourteen-months-old. Merry Christmas Kimi." Zack thought to himself, as he stared at his copy of the picture and smiled.
"This was the bestest Christmas ever! Even betterer than my firstest Christmas outside of Paris at Christmas Land, my second Christmas was even betterer, thanks to the one, the only, Zachary! I'll member this magical Christmas forever!" Kimi thought to herself, as she too, smiled, and stared at her copy of the picture.
And this, ends chapter 1.
Author's Note: So there you have it. The first Christmas that Zack and Kimi spent together. Likewise, you'll see twenty-four more Christmas focused around this couple, and I'll post one chapter a day in this story, until Christmas day of course, though the final two chapters of this story may appear on Christmas Eve, since I'm not usually around on Christmas day itself, to post to Fan Fiction. Hope you enjoyed it, and, more, will be coming soon! And if I feel better later on today, maybe I'll post another unexpected surprise, time will tell.