Navidad Comfort
Summary: Just because it was Navidad, didn't mean that the loss of family was still fresh in their minds. An Elena/Mateo fanfic.
"Feliz Navidad Mateo! I'm so glad you could make it!"
Elena's smile grew wide as her royal wizard and best friend Mateo arrived with his mother that Navidad morning.
It was no surprise that he had celebrated Navidad the traditional, old fashioned way with candles, food and of course singing to the light of the moon. Elena knew that most people his and her age would be in the new.
However since Princess Sofia of Enchancia had rescued her from four decades of imprisonment, Elena was at least thankful that the old had stayed with the new in someway.
"Feliz Navidad to you as well Elena!" Mateo grinned, blushing slightly. "You look beautiful."
"This?" Elena asked, taking down her Navidad gift from Sofia. "Sofia send me this. It's no big deal!"
Mateo stared at the piece of jewelry for a moment, smiling softly at the creation that Sofia had presented. "She's got your likeness pretty well."
"Yeah," Elena sighed softly, putting a hand through her hair. "Me and Isa.. It's our first Navidad without our parents."
"And it's hard isn't it?"
"How did you know?"
Mateo smiled softly, wrapping an arm around her.
"Six months and eight years ago today my father was taken by the guards of the wicked sorceress. Being eight, and not fully understanding what happened, made me begin magic," Mateo explained with a sigh. "I don't know what Shuriki did but she probably did to him what she did to your parents."
Elena blinked softly, feeling sympathy towards her friend and royal wizard. She had no idea he had suffered loss until that moment.
"Your father was a wizard?" Elena asked with a bit of surprise.
"Well he practiced secretly," Mateo admitted with small blush.
"Thanks Mateo. I just couldn't remember it with everything that's happened since being freed from the amulet."
"Actually just a few months."
"A awful few months," Elena croaked, holding back tears. "I can't rule without my parents. What if I mess up? What if we're in danger again? What if-"
"Enough with that," Mateo hushed, pulling her a bit close to him. "It's Navidad. Besides did you forget what we're standing under?"
"What is that Mateo if I may ask?" Elena teased, getting into the wizard's mind.
Mateo surveyed her expression of fooling him, having him not help but smile.
Elena was toying with him, giving Mateo a smirk.
"You know what makes a couple kiss?" Mateo guessed, seeing her smirk.
"Now this is a Navidad present," Elena smiled, seeing him dumbfounded. "Though I thank you for comforting me."