A Blacklist Thanksgiving

This takes place while Red and Lizzie are on the run. Naturally Dembe is there as well. Since Red has many connections a traditional turkey dinner is not an issue for him! This has a T rating and is naturally lightly Lizzington. This is meant to be a one shot. I may write more one shots in an attempt to get over this dogon writers block that will not let go of me! Please be kind in your reviews as I do not use Beta readers. Thanks and happy holidays!

Disclaimer: I do not own Blacklist nor it's characters. I just enjoy having fun with them once in a while. I do not make any money off of my writing.

Red and Lizzie had been on the run for a while now. He finally decided to settle for a few days at the house of a friend of a friend who owed him a favor. He figured he was at least going to give his Lizzie a proper Thanksgiving. The dinner had been scheduled to arrive on Thursday morning and there was plenty of time to enjoy the day.

Lizzie was enjoying a quiet tour of the house after a long hot bath. It was nice to not be running for now. It was also wonderful to be sleeping in the same bed for a few days. As usual it seemed that Red had everything they would need for clothing and personal items for their stay. If all went well they would be here at least until Sunday.

As always the house was pure luxury. There were several bedrooms on the 2nd floor each with their own bathroom. She had picked the master bedroom. They were somewhere in an out of the way location in rural Maine. Each room of the house was wonderfully equipped and tastefully decorated.

On the first floor there was a grand Living-room, a formal dining-room, a breakfast room, a library, a few offices, and a small private movie theater. In the basement level there was a pool area and an exercise area. There was also a game-room with billiards, card table, several other games, and a fully equipped bar.

The first afternoon was spent with Red in the library immersed in a mystery book. Lizzie went for a nice long swim. Dembe was making his 'special' ice cream. After dinner they had decided to play a game of billiards. Lizzie pulled off several feminine tricks and naturally won the game. Then they all went into the theater and watched, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail, laughing their buts off at the ridiculous slapstick comedy.

After the movie they had all grabbed some snacks, and headed to the game-room. With drinks in hand a game of poker broke out. Lizzie turned it into a game of strip poker, which upped the odds a slight bit, as no one wanted to loose.

A few rounds in and things were going Red's way. He was 100% clothed still. Lizzie and Dembe, however, hadn't been as lucky and were each missing their socks and sweaters. Winner of the game would pick whatever they wanted for the prize. As none intended on loosing the game quickly heated up. A few rounds later saw Red without his jacket, fedora, and shoes.

By the end of round 6 the game saw Dembe in just his pants as the cards were just not being nice to him at all. Red was now missing all but his pants, his shirt, and anything underneath. Lizzie had gotten extremely lucky and was still only missing her sweater and socks. They were all having a lot of laughs picking on Dembe's bad luck, and swearing up and down that Lizzie was somehow cheating. The game and drinks continued on.

3 rounds later they had all lost more clothing. Red was shirtless, Dembe was in his undershirt and boxers, Lizzie was missing her belt and turtleneck shirt. This brought even more giggles. It seemed this was not Dembe's night for cards. The jokes were pretty high. Lizzie and Red both thought by now Dembe was loosing intentionally. He neither confirmed or denied the idea. He just wanted to get out of the game and get some sleep.

The following 3 rounds went like this: Dembe lost all but his boxers. He was knocked out of the game. Lizzie had only her pants, undershirt, and underwear remaining. Red had about the same amount of clothing still on. Another round of drinks, though both had slowed down on them in determination of keeping what clothing remained.

Another 3 rounds in had Red and Lizzie at a draw in one hand so neither lost clothing, then Lizzie's luck improved and the following 2 saw Red in only his boxers. Now Dembe was picking on Red. It seemed that the concierge of crime was going to loose his clothing in a poker game to a female.

It took another 2 rounds for the victor of the game to be smirking wildly figuring out what she wanted the guys to do. Upon loosing, Red smirked as he was now naked. Trying to one up on Lizzie he had to make another wise comment. "Had I known all it would take is a game of poker for you to get me naked, we'd have played a long time ago." This made Lizzie turn scarlet. Neither of them had admitted their growing feelings to themselves, even though it was obvious to Dembe and those around them.

Lizzie chose for Dembe to have to streak through the house as his punishment for loosing, which the man did without a problem. Then for Red's punishment, and indeed it was. Blushing an even deeper red, Lizzie stated she wanted a kiss. A real one. This for once silenced Red as he thought for a moment on weather or not he would take the dare. Naturally he did and it was one hell of a kiss.

The final request floored the man. She wanted him to sleep in her bed. Only sleep. He knew then he'd be doing anything but sleeping that night.

They all went off to get ready for bed, Dembe laughing the whole time. And thus their first night of the holiday ended with Red and Lizzie in one bed. Lizzie eventually sound asleep and Red anything but. Dembe fell asleep in his own room wondering if the two would finally admit their feelings to one another.