Authors Note: So... who feels like Christmas in March? These are all old oneshots from the "25 Days of Fic" prompt that I did on tumblr. I skip around on the time line, and there's one that's an AU, but I'll copy and paste the prompt and summary from tumblr so that everyone knows what's going on! This one is self-beta'd, so if there are any issues, don't look at anyone but me!

Prompt: Mistletoe

Summary: Set after Silent Christmas, Mai and John are looking through the box of ornaments Mai brought to the office, when they find one last thing… (non-shippy)

Mai smiled happily as she finished putting up the Christmas decorations, along with the other members of SPR, save for Lin and Naru (of course). At least Naru let them have the Christmas party, Mai thought he might, but she never knew for sure… Naru was Naru, after all. It was pretty late, well into early morning, and so far most of their Christmas party had been decorating the tree, but now they were really just sitting around and talking. Naru and Lin weren't really in on it, but they were still there, and they had their office doors open, so it almost counted.

They were about to call it a night, though. Monk and Ayako were wide awake, of course, but Masako was looking a little tired, John looked like he was about to fall asleep on Ayako (he kept leaning toward her slightly, and then sitting straight up and apologizing) and even Mai wasn't able to hold back a yawn or two, but she was determined to stay awake, and kept rummaging through the box of decorations she'd brought, sifting through the now empty boxes to see if there was anything she forgot. She knew Naru would most likely make her take it down within a day or two, so she was determined that nothing would be left out!

John got up to come help her, after Mai watched him start to drift off yet again, kneeling down on the floor with her, next to the box.

"I'm making sure I didn't forget anything," Mai said as he sifted through the boxes.

"I thought so," he smiled, a tired smile, but a smile as always.

They listened to the other's talk as they checked the empty ornament boxes. Yes, all of these were Mai's, but she hadn't actually bought them herself, they'd been her mother's, and she'd figured that the other's might like them, so she'd brought her tree (an old artificial tree, real ones had made her mom sneeze so much that they couldn't have them, and now that it was just Mai, there wasn't much point in getting a real one just for herself) and the ornaments up to the office.

For the most part, the boxes were empty, but John did find one… a little, broken, rocking horse. He hung it up on the tree with a sheepish smile.

"My mother always got frustrated with me, because I kept hanging up broken ornaments. I hope it's okay."

Mai laughed, "of course, it's fine!"

They didn't think they'd find anything else, when they reached the bottom of the box:

"What is…" a confused look crossed John's face as he pulled out the last thing, before dropping it immediately before Monk or Ayako could see. Mai didn't blame him… they'd never hear the end of it if either one of the older SPR members saw them with a sprig of mistletoe.

"I completely forgot that was in the box!"

"Ah, it's fine… but I don't think we should hang it up here."

"Yeah, Naru would kill me."

"I don't feel like going to jail for murder, so that's unlikely." And Mai had, once again, chosen the worst time to say something, as Naru had just stepped out of his office, right next to the two of them.

"Even if I hang up this?" Mai held the mistletoe up.

Monk and Ayako, who had just looked over, laughed, while Masako look like she might actually smack Mai.

"For that? I might," Naru sighed, and walked back into his office.