Christmas Is All Around
A/N: This is a collective of twelve one-shots for the 12 Days of Christmas Flash Fiction Challenge over on the Live Journal community ghffchallenge (Flash fic for those of you who are unfamiliar with the term are pieces written within an hour ) The basis is that 12 prompts will be given based on different Christmas carols and that in the end the parts must intertwine...This is where I got a bit of inspiration from one of my favorite Holiday films 'Love Actually' in which thought the film there were 10 stories of Love and in the end they intertwined on Christmas Eve...this story is AU for the simple reason that Georgie is supposed to die before Christmas but NOT in this fic (cause unlike Guaza I'm no Grinch) I don't own GH(if I did Georgie would leave town with Dillon instead of get killed)...
PROMPT 1:
I'll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
and presents on the tree
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It was one week till Christmas yet Georgie Jones was having a hard time getting into the Holliday spirit. This was a season of Love and Joy and yet she felt miserable. Her mother Felicia called saying once again she wouldn't be home for the Holliday, her father figure Mac was wrapped up in a big case and was hardly home, Maxie and Robin had there relationship drama and Damian Spinelli barely enlarged her existence other then calling her his faithful friend. She thought she made progress with the young hacker during Thanksgiving; however he soon began dating Nurse Nadine Crowell, another blonde. Dillon Quartermaine was the only one who truly made the young brown eyed brunette feel happiness. Through good times and bad he was her best friend, he was her husband at one time though she should have known it wouldn't last, and they were too young at the time.
Georgie sat behind the counter at Kelly's working when she should have been out living. She kept eyeing the old phone booth in the corner. She wished Mike would just get rid of it. Everyone and there mother had Cell Phones nowadays and the boot gave her memories. That was where Dillon and her first kissed what seemed like forever ago.
The last time she saw her ex was just after Thanksgiving at his Cousin Emily's funeral. He wished there reunion was on a happier note but instead it ended with a hug and a promise that he'd try to write her more. He hadn't.
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Dillon Quartermaine had many regrets in his young life. As he stood outside of the familiar looking diner in the lightly falling snow he watched her. He royally screwed up with her. He thought when the whole Sage thing happened it would be the end of them but they persevered and were back together and stronger. Who would have thought that Lulu Spencer, his step sister of all people would be the final nail in the coffin? He should of stopped pining for the young blonde after she admitted to setting him up to sleep with her, after getting pregnant by faulty condom and getting an abortion, but something about her intrigued him and apparently it intrigued others as well.
When he left to go to California she was with Logan Hayes, son of Scott Baldwin, a glorified piece of Daddy Hate Bait. During his last visit he found out she was now with Mob Prince Johnny Zacchara. A part of him wondered if they were still together but a part of him, a bigger part wanted to go into the diner from the bitter cold and see his first love, his true love again.
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Georgie headed into the back which gave him a cue. He entered the diner blue lipped with snow in his spiky hair. He sat down at a table, his back to the counter waiting for her to wait on him. It was then Lulu entered a smile plastered on her face.
"Dillon," she said giving him a hug, "you're here."
"I'm here," Dillon said nodding.
She put her pale hand on his hair.
"You need a haircut," Lulu said.
"I like my hair," Dillon said pouting as Georgie came back from the kitchen and saw Lulu flirting. At first she thought it was some random and rolled her eyes.
'Is there something in the water that makes all the guys love Lulu,' Georgie thought as the guy turned and she recognized him.
She walked to the table and saw Dillon.
"Back for your precious 'Blonde One'," Georgie said in a pissed off tone making air quotes as she said Spinelli's nickname for Lulu.
"first of all Spinelli's the one who calls her Blonde One not me," Dillon said, "and second it's not what it looked like."
"Were not together Dillon," Georgie said, "who am I to say who you can date and who you can't."
Lulu rolled her eyes. This was one argument she didn't want to get involved with and headed upstairs to where Lucky was staying in his old room.
By then Georgie was back behind the counter wiping down the counter with a rag trying to pretend Dillon wasn't there which was hard to do when he walked over and glared at her.
"Georgie we need to talk," Dillon said.
She walked back out from behind the counter and was face to face with him.
"no we don't," Georgie said, "it's all been said before...you like Lulu I get it...we were young and stupid Dillon and as much as I like to romanticize life it's nothing like your movies and my books...there is no happily ever afters or one true loves."
"I beg to differ," Dillon said.
"You would," Georgie said remembering when the two of them began to date and Dillon told her "You know how every great movie has a great beginning? Well this today is ours" He was living in fantasy land back then and she was too. At nineteen she grew up but at twenty Dillon was still there, he wasn't just there he was the mayor of there.
Dillon didn't know what to say to this. He really hoped that this Christmas would lead into a new year with a new chance with his first love. They weren't paying attention to what was going on and after going back and fourth for a while they stood in front of that faithful phone booth.
"Don't look now Georgie," Dillon said, "but we are standing in the very spot where we first met."
Georgie looked and realized that not only where they stood was the spot of the first kiss but that mistletoe hung just above the booth.
"Looks like someone is sending us a message," Dillon said noticing the mistletoe now and smiling."
"If you think I'm going to kiss you Dillon," Georgie said, "you have another thing coming..."
Dillon nodded in understanding as Georgie was about to walk away. He remembered that their first kiss was all her. How she lied to Lucas and Maxie, telling them she had a boyfriend so that she could get invited to a party. She saw Dillon making a call and out of share desperation kissed him. Dillon was now the desperate one. Sure there have been other girls in his life but Georgie was the one who made it all worthwhile. He wanted to just see if the spark was still there, just one more time, one more kiss. So on impulse he put his hand on her shoulder and gently, not forcefully turned her around and pulled her into a kiss.
As Georgie's lips touched Dillon's she realized that this Christmas might just be something to celebrate after all.
"Well I'll be home for Christmas," Dillon said, "then after the first of the year I'm back to the West Coast."
Georgie still in a daze nodded and watched Dillon leave the diner and head out into the snow.
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A/N2: How do you like this so far?? As far as shippings go the ones I'd like to incorporate in here (if I can) will be GQ (of course) SCRUBS, 3M,SpinDine and MiLu, and possibly if there is time some SKate, CarJax and Liason..Also I may try to do Logan/Brook if the mood is right