Authors Note : I know in cannon that it's not Christmas time, but that's the beauty of FanFic :) . Set right about now, with more or less everything that is going on just a little Christmas fun for our three favourite ladies :)
Special shout out to loneJaguar and Hbomba for their original fic A Christmas Faeble, that first brought a little Christmas to the Fae world :)
Disclaimers: All original property is owned by Showcase, and we do not infer that any characters, creations or the concept of 'Lost Girl' are our property and the following fan fiction has been written purely for entertainment purposes only.
Characters Bo Lauren Kenzi
Time-Frame: Set after 4:06
Rating: T – fluffy fun for everyone
Summary: Christmas fun for our three favourite ladies :)
Deck The Halls.
The RainbowWriters
"Christmas..." Bo let a hard breath as she leaned back into the cushions of the couch and looked across at Kenzi with a soft but sad smile. "I remember when I was young it was such a busy time, but so much fun." She sighed as she pulled her legs up and tucked them up neatly to her body. "There was always the Santa Claus Hay ride and the Christmas Market, then the Carol service and all the parties." She reminisced.
"For a small place you sure knew how to party." Kenzi grinned sharing her best friend's smile.
"You know it." Bo laughed softly and then sighed again. "That all seems so long ago now, the Fae don't even celebrate Christmas, I mean what is that?" She looked at Kenzi shaking her head. "What's the problem with pretty trees, eating food till you feel sick and giving presents to the people you love and care about?" She asked of the young Russian. "I miss the trimmings and the tinsel, the bad songs and the sleigh rides." She put on a hard pout and rested her head on her knees.
"You know there isn't any rules that say we can't get our own tree and still celebrate." Kenzi offered with a shrug. "Well maybe the fire code considering the state of this place but when did we ever care about that?" She grinned more. "Come on, just imagine the fun of a tree strapped to the Beast?"
"If we cared about the Fire Code we wouldn't live here." Bo grinned at the dark haired young human and pushed up from her place. "You're right, we'll do Christmas anyway." She strode over and slapped Kenzi's thigh. "You get something warmer on and I'll find some bungee cords for the car." She walked off towards a large plastic tub that was stacked against the wall. "Do you even own warm clothes?" She checked turning back to Kenzi who hadn't actually moved.
"I'll have you know I have some very fashionable thermals with skulls on them." She stuck out her tongue at her best friend. "I'm also gonna start a list of what we need... I mean we're doing this the old fashioned cheap way right? Popcorn garland and shit? Or do I need to start making phone calls to see who in my circle is selling hot and cheap decorations?"
"No, we are totally doing this our way." Bo grinned as she took the lid off the tub and dumped out a tarp and then a small tool kit. "Paper chains, I can't remember the last time I made paper chains." She grinned even more.
"We do need lights though, adding open flame isn't optional in this place." Kenzi laughed as she raced up the stairs, her fingers flying over her phone as she started her list.
Bo watched her leave still smiling brightly before she focused on rummaging through the tub, happy when she discovered the elastic cords she had thought were in there, also scoring a pair of thick, well padded winter mittens from the very bottom of the tub, that though salt stained and lacking a little of their fur trim were more than serviceable.
Stowing her finds to the side Bo stuffed everything else back inside and pressed the lid back, sitting on it to click it closed as she dug in her pocket for her phone. She looked at the blank screen for a moment before turning it on. She had pulled it out of her pocket with one thought in mind, it had come to her without bidding and it was only as she was thinking about it that she was second guessing herself. With a quick breath the succubus decided to go with her initial drive and she just dialled the number she had been going too holding the phone lightly to her ear waiting for a response.
"Hello." Lauren's voice came on warm and genuinely seeming surprised, after all she'd recognized Bo's number immediately and if she was honest had been a little surprised that the brunette was calling, unless of course this turned out to be regarding something being wrong, the Doctor's mind reasoned with her heart.
"Hi, hope I'm not interrupting anything." Bo suddenly felt a little tentative, possibly because in someways since their reunion at the Dark Fae party she had been distant from the blonde, deliberately obviously, but also because it hurt to be near her and not 'be' with her. Lauren herself hadn't pushed anything either, though she had proved that she would be there for them as she always had been, helping whenever she had been asked and providing everything she could when needed. Bo had just been emotionally detached, she knew she had.
"No, I was just doing a little reading." Lauren closed the ancient leather journal she had in front of her, the sound not obvious on Bo's end. "Is there something wrong?" Her voice held a hint of worry, after all usually when Bo called because of a disaster of one sort or another, her hello rambled into full details of what that crisis was. The hesitation in the Succubus' voice was therefore a little confusing.
"No." Bo clarified quickly. "I... that is Kenzi and I we're..." She stopped, why was she messing this up so badly suddenly. "Would you like to help pick a Christmas tree with Kenzi and I?" She changed her approach, "And then possibly join us in the daunting but ultimately fun task of decorating it with paper chains, popcorn garland and paper snowflakes?"
"That sounds..." Lauren looked around her new condominium realizing in the chaos of moving, she'd barely noticed that it was the holidays and there wasn't one decoration to be seen in her place. "Darling Bo." Her voice literally showed how much she suddenly was moved by the offer and the very idea. "Honestly, I'd love too, where are you going to get the tree, I could meet you there."
"Er... I have no idea." Bo realized suddenly. "There has to be tree farms around here right? I guess I can google."
"Well that depends on whether you want to cut down your own or you just want to pick out a real one pre-cut." Lauren began to formulate a plan. "I know there is one lot here in the city where the profits go to the Sick Kids." She remembered driving by the lot now a few days ago with its large banner sign proclaiming just that. "They had a lot of trees."
"That sounds perfect, do you remember the address?" Bo perked up a little from her momentary sulk at the idea that she wasn't at all prepared for this adventure. She pushed up off the tub and walked into the kitchen, holding the phone to her ear a big smile on her face.
"Corner of Dundas and Howell." Lauren filled in the location easily from memory. "We'll meet there in a half hour or do you need longer?"
"No half and hour is great." Bo agreed to the details easily. "We'll see you there." She ended the conversation, grinning brightly as she shut off the phone and slipped it back into her pocket, just as Kenzi came jogging down the last few steps in her new 'out doors-y' outfit.
"You look suspiciously happy, what did I miss?" The young woman eyed her best friend with a quirked eyebrow as she moved to pull her jacket down from a hook near the door.
"I just hired another little elf for our Christmas adventure." Bo grinned even more as she too got a jacket and pulled it on.
"Bo, you know what the Acting Ash said..." Kenzi looked at her best friend with a soft frown. "No unauthorized fraternizing with Dyson until the Una Mens leave town again."
"Perhaps I should have said Elfette?" Bo looked over her shoulder towards Kenzi with a beaming smile.
"Did you finally call the Doc?" Kenzi quirked an eyebrow as she pulled on her bright red knitted cap and started to stroll to the door. "It's a Christmas Miracle."
"Get out!" Bo pushed her in the back lightly, laughing softly as she switched off the light and closed the door.
-x-
Bo found the lot that Lauren had mentioned with relative ease thanks to the number of large signs strapped to any number of lamp posts and signposts along the highway as they drove closer, and the first thing that impressed the Succubus was how big the area was and how busy. The car park she pulled The Beast into had at least thirty other cars in it if not more which considering the randomness of the time and day was impressive.
Still smiling like a teenager Bo hopped out of the car, pulling on the thick mitts she had found in the box, stuffing the ties into her jacket pocket, she looked around for the blonde.
From near the entrance Lauren gave a soft wave, having been unable to miss the arrival of the yellow Camaro. She was dressed in a warm three quarter length dark navy pea-coat, blue jeans and boots, but the most impressive thing was that perched on top of her head instead of a warm toque of some sort was a red Santa hat complete with white fur trim and white pompom at the top.
"Down girl!" Kenzi waved back when she noticed Bo was initially just standing there, nudging her best friend with her elbow to get her to re-focus.
Still blatantly staring Bo raised her hand and waved her feet pushing her forward towards the blonde on automatic.
"So festive." She managed to think of something to say when she reached the spot just in front of the blonde, wanting to just cross the imaginary personal barrier around her, sweep her up in her arms and kiss her. Instead she planted her feet somewhat firmly and smiled what she hoped was warmly in greeting and generally gestured towards the hat on her head.
"Well you can't come Christmas tree shopping without a little Holiday Spirit." Lauren's smile turned into a soft smirk as she put her hand into the deep pockets of her dark coat and pulled out two more hats, holding one out to Bo, blinking soft brown eyes at her until the Succubus pulled off one mitten, reached out and took it.
Slipping the Santa hat onto her head Bo tossed the slightly drooping white pom-pom over her shoulder and flicked her mane of brown curls to follow it and then did a little twirl, finishing it with a small neat curtsey as Lauren looked on, giving her a nod of approval.
Kenzi shook her head with an eye roll as she just stood slightly off to the side, still waiting to actually be handed her hat, which was still balled up in the blonde's grip. With a quick glance in her direction Lauren smiled almost apologetically and handed her the festive garb, seeming just as happy when Kenzi too donned it immediately.
"So any idea what size or kind you have in mind?" Lauren began to step back towards the inside of the tree lot that was literally brimming with trees and people. It was carefully divided into tree types and the sizes of each were lined up for inspection by each finicky buyer.
"Big." Kenzi said stretching out her arms tall and wide as she began wandering off towards the Blue Spruce section.
"I think pines are nice." Bo gave a shrug. "What do you like?" She asked of the blonde, glancing at her before turning her attention to the row upon row of trees.
"The Blue Spruces are nice, but I've always been partial to Frazier furs, they have such a nice smell." Lauren stayed in step with Bo, looking from side to side at the different varieties. "It really depends if you want big needles or small ones." She offered the starting point.
"Smell is good, I like to smell things, I mean I like things that smell good, I mean..." Bo blushed as she horrible caught herself in a bad spiral of double-entendre.
"I think smell is one of the big reasons for getting a real tree." Lauren smiled at her as the Succubus continued to try and backpedal. "Until you called I'd almost forgotten to clue into the fact its almost Christmas." She admitted softly.
"Well you've been busy." Bo gave a loose shrug. "Finding your feet, new place, new..." She stopped as she was about to say 'boss' but realized that that wasn't the most sensitive of things to come out with. "Everything." She amended it to. "This is the first time since being Fae that I've really thought about celebrating it, with the same kind of passion that I used to." Bo admitted moving closer to a tree that caught her eye. She reached out and lifted a branch closer and leaned in to sniff it. "Mmmm smells good." She grinned at Lauren.
"You don't pick it by smell!" Kenzi suddenly popped up from somewhere behind Bo. "Lift it up straight so we can see if it has bald spots."
"Judging by your boyfriend I thought you liked bald spots." Bo teased as she pulled the tree away from the others it was leaning against and shimmied it sideways, giving it a little shake before standing it up as straight as she could manage, soon discovering that it was well over 7ft tall.
"His hair is short, he is not bald." Kenzi shot her the Russian stink eye for a moment. "Twirl it please." She urged Bo as she stood back with Lauren to look at it, putting her fingers up like a photographer would as if the tree was posing for a picture.
Bo man handled the tree in a vague twirl and then held it still again.
"No, don't like it." Kenzi announced, just as it seemed Lauren was about to give her consent to it. "It's bottom heavy." She announced and moved away leaving the blonde just blinking at Bo and the tree.
"Bottom heavy?" Bo asked of the blonde who just quirked her eyebrow and gave an uneven look of confusion.
"Let me help you with that." She said moving to help Bo manoeuvre the large tree back into line with the others.
"Umm..." Kenzi kept walking down the line from them and then suddenly pointed. "This one, twirl test this one." She pointed to an even bigger tree.
Bo glanced at Lauren with a smile and together they came over to tree two, the Succubus diving straight in to separate it from its surroundings and giving it a shake she twirled it round and set it down level.
Lauren arched her eyebrow as the tree Kenzi had chosen towered above the Succubus and looked as if it would be more at home in the Light Fae compound or some other grand Hall rather than the Club house.
"Damn, he's top heavy." Kenzi waved her hand dismissing the tree and again started down the aisle. Even taking the time to categorize the trees other people were holding up to do the same assessment of.
"I'm guessing this could take awhile." Lauren gave a soft laugh as she helped Bo settle the monster tree back against the fence.
"I noticed they had a little place that did hot drinks if you want something to keep the chill off while Kenzi interviews every tree they have." Bo grinned.
"Sounds perfect, do you think its possible they have hot apple cider?" Lauren mused as Bo looked to find Kenzi to tell her the plan only to find the younger woman was already lost among the trees. "It's one of those things I always associate with Christmas."
"I would guess so." Bo nodded, "You stick to the Tree Whisperer and I'll surprise us with warm sweet treats." She took a couple of steps backwards and then stopped. "And Lauren..." She added. "Thank you, for coming, for saying yes." She add with a smile as she pulled off the mittens to reach into her pants pocket for some cash.
"Thank you for asking me to share this part of your Christmas." Lauren's smile was warm and genuine as she watched Bo's backwards steps. "I'll..." She motioned to where Kenzi's voice could be heard calling them over, though the brunette couldn't be seen.
Bo nodded and still smiling hurried off to the small kiosk.
-x-
It almost took the Succubus longer to find her friends in the tree lot than it had taken her to wait in line and get served. Thankfully the cups that the drinks had come in were well insulated against the cold to insure the beverages were just as warm when she eventually found them as they had been when she had bought them.
Eventually Bo found Kenzi and Lauren near the back fence of the lot, the two women had four trees lined up next to one another, the younger human was walking in front of them, obviously talking animatedly about the pro's and con's about each of the trees that they had pulled aside. The blonde doing little more it seemed than trying to keep up with the stream of banter coming from the raven haired beauty.
"I bring gifts." Bo interrupted softly, lifting the tray she carried a little higher. "Candy Cane hot Chocolate for you." She said wiggling out a large brown cup and passing it to Kenzi. "With extra whip." She grinned as Kenzi wrapped both hands around it immediately. "And for you, Hot Apple Cider." She carefully eased a white 'Christmas' themed cup from the tray and passed it to Lauren.
"Thank you." Lauren's grin was almost childlike, as the amount of nostalgic happiness she immediately felt. "We are officially down to four candidates." She stood back for Bo to see. "And we have decided you get final pick."
"Me?" Bo took the last drink from the tray and then hurried over to the large drum being used as a garbage can, dropping the tray in it before hurrying back. "Okay well tell me about them." She said focusing on the four trees in front of her.
"Okay." Kenzi jumped forward, handing her hot chocolate off to Lauren. "First we have Basil. Basil is a seven foot Norway Spruce." She stood by the side of the first tree. "He likes to stand tall, has hardly any bald spots, but the Doc thinks he leans."
"He does lean, a little." Lauren defended her point. "It's not like a lean is a problem, I'm just saying it's there."
Kenzi made a dramatic huff and then moved right to the other end of the four.
"This is Suzette." Kenzi pointed out the tree at the far end. "She is a Frazier Fur. She's short."
"She's not short, she's over six feet, she's just the smallest." Lauren shook her head and rolled her eyes.
"She is very perfect shape wise though." Kenzi did make the concession before she moved to the one next to her, pulling it forward slightly. "This is Doug, he's a Scotch Pine, we picked him because, well you like pine apparently and he's a pine and isn't all lumpy and crazy looking."
"He's a very nice tree." Lauren countered Kenzi's uncomplimentary introduction with a soft smile.
"And this is Bruce, Bruce the Spruce, Bruce the Blue Spruce. He's big and strong and kinda handsome."
"Are you having Bruce withdrawals?" Bo eyed her best friend with a smirk.
"No, it just suited him." Kenzi pouted as she pulled the large Blue Spruce away from the fence to show it off more.
"Clearly Bruce is her favourite." Bo stepped closer to Lauren. "Which one do you find the best?"
"I can hear you you know?" Kenzi put her hand on her him. "And hello isn't it obvious who got the Doc's vote? Suzette? Who calls a Christmas tree Suzette?"
"Frazier Fur." Lauren smiled again admitting her weakness for the species. "Though Doug has a rugged charm all of his own." She chuckled with another classic eye roll.
"Mmm okay, let me see." Bo began pacing back and forth between the four candidates, pretending to closely inspect their needles and even lean down to check the width of their base trunk before she finally stood up. "Since I'm the one who has to carry this tree, I pick Suzette." She grinned at Kenzi knowing the younger woman was going to cry foul just on principle.
"She was my favourite all along." Kenzi strutted over to Lauren and plucked her hot chocolate out of the doctor's hands. "Did I or did I not say she had perfect shape." The young woman pointed out to the blonde who was barely keeping it together and not laughing. "Chop chop tree carrier, we need a tree stand and some tree preserver, they have some at the check out kiosk." She began to lead the way.
"I don't know if you're interested but there's a second little place not far from here, they're selling trees too, but they also have some old fashioned and hand made decorations, flower arrangements, that kind of thing, in a little portable they have set up. If you're in the Christmas mood." Lauren moved closer to Bo as the Succubus donned her mitts again, resting her drink on a fence post.
"Sounds like our second stop, we also need to make a trip to Canadian Tire to get some lights." Bo moved to hoist the tree up onto her shoulder, smiling softly when Lauren thoughtfully picked up her drink to carry it for her. "Oh and the liquor store, apparently there is an aged old Egg Nog recipe in Kenzi's family she wants to make for us."
"I don't know whether to be excited or terrified." Lauren grinned as she walked beside the Succubus, taking small sips of the warm cider.
-x-
Lauren was the first to park her car in the lot of their next stop, she walked up to the Camaro as Bo parked it and waited until Bo and Kenzi spilled out of it, the pair of them still wearing their Christmas hats, still clutching their warm drinks.
"Can you even see out of your windshield?" Lauren asked with a gentle frown as she looked at The Beast.
"Just enough." Bo had to laugh as she had been complaining to Kenzi about the same thing on the short drive.
"I've seen her drive when there was two inches of ice still on it, a few needles to look through aren't a big deal." Kenzi scoffed and headed off towards the small stalls of Christmas decorations.
"If you like we can put the tree on my car." Lauren glanced over her shoulder at the silver sedan that was parked behind them. "I'd probably feel happier."
"If it'll make you worry less." Bo nodded her agreement as she moved without thinking and looped her arm into Lauren's in order to lead her over to the stalls as well. "Umm..." She tried to not show how unsure of the move she was, especially how unsure she was about Lauren's reaction as she continued. "What kind of decorations are your favourite?"
"I don't really know." Lauren shook her head and tucked her hair behind her ear, adjusting her hat with her free hand but not disturbing the arm that Bo lightly held. "I usually like to theme my trees." She admitted. "Either with a colour or two, or you know an idea, like..." She paused and then pointed out a small hedgehog made from a fir cone. "Nature." She summed up.
"He's cute, we need to get him." Bo reached out and rubbed his painted on nose. "I think Nature theme goes with our homemade traditional thing doesn't it?"
"Not to mention the club houses penchant for the occasional visitor of the uninvited wild life kind." Lauren smirked as she eased the little hedgehog off the festive branch display holder it was hanging on.
"Bo! Bo look at this." Kenzi suddenly came scampering across from the area she was crouched, holding in her hands a reindeer that was made from logs and sticks, the small nub of wood used as its nose painted a bright red colour and the nails used to mark out its eyes capped with black round beads.
"He's perfect!" Bo nodded her agreement. "We were just discussing a theme and decided we're doing homemade and nature. So he fits perfectly, maybe we can even use him as a tree topper?" She looked to Lauren.
"With a little creative working maybe." Lauren nodded laughing softly as Kenzi thrust the not so small wooden animal into her arms, making it necessary for her to reclaim her arm from Bo.
"Must look at more pretty things." Kenzi bid them both before running off again.
"So what caused all this?" Lauren asked glancing at Bo before she concentrated on a small display of decoupage decorations.
"I was just remembering home and how Christmas used to be." The Succubus admitted. "And I realized that I wanted that feeling again and there was no reason I couldn't have it." She smiled as looked at a large displace of Christmas cushions. "This is my home now and it might not be perfect, but it's mine." She took a small breath as she pulled one out from near the back which sported a very round Christmas owl on the centre of it, wearing a red and white stripey scarf that was designed to only fasten loosely to the cushion and fly mostly free. "Owl?" She held it against her chest looking at Lauren.
"A must." Lauren reached out to arrange his scarf a little. "How about the matching raccoon?" She pointed to another small animal cushion with a similar scarf.
"How did I miss him?" Bo reached out and grabbed the matching one and held them out side by side with a smile a mile wide.
"The pair will look perfect on the couch." Lauren smiled at both the cushions and Bo holding them with such a look of glee on her face. "I bet Kenzi has too much nog and falls asleep hugging one."
"I bet it's the raccoon." Bo hugged the masked bandit to her body briefly then looked around for her best friend, locating her quickly.
"So is there anything else you need, do you have corn to pop for your garlands, or paper for the chains?" Lauren asked logically as she picked up another couple of super cute animal decorations made out of fir cones and twigs.
"On the pick up list." Bo admitted. "All of this really was decided a few minutes before I called you." She walked along with the two pillows and pointed to a six pack collection of stars made of twigs. "You're on the ground floor of the operation."
"Do you want me to make gingerbread ornaments to hang on the tree?" Lauren asked with a soft smile at Bo as she picked up the requested items.
"You make gingerbread too?" Bo's eyes went wide as she licked her lips unconsciously at the very idea. "Yes, resounding yes. You don't happen to make fudge do you?" The sudden thought struck her.
"We can make fudge trees for the tree if you like." Lauren replied with a nod.
"I was thinking fudge squares for in my stomach." The Succubus gave a hearty laugh. "For once it's me talking about my stomach and not Kenzi."
"Do you even know what a fudge tree is?" Lauren laughed and shook her head.
"Not a clue, but like Candy Canes I assumed they can't be eaten until after Christmas." Bo made the admission. "Candy canes, I have to remember to ask Kenzi if they are on the list."
"Not at all." Lauren shook her head. "They are just squares of fudge piled up in a sort of pyramid with a ribbon around them to tie them to the tree. You can help yourself to them any time." Lauren smiled. "There's a stall over there selling Candy canes." She added pointing over her shoulder towards the exit.
"Everything is working out perfectly then." Bo smiled and headed that way with Lauren beside her.
-x-
"I told you Doc, my Nog is going to take less than fifteen minutes to make then the kitchen is all yours for the baking." Kenzi moved towards the clubhouse's kitchen area with both her arms laden with grocery bags. "I would not stand in the way of baking... like ever! Only delay it ever so slightly for liquor." She grinned as she watched Bo struggle her way in with the tree, having to lean against the wall for a second and then make the final push towards the spot they'd already decided it was going to occupy in the living room.
"Take your time Kenzi, if you don't want gingerbread or fudge, or sugar cookies it's fine." Lauren teased as she moved to scoot around Bo and the tree to put the tree stand down in place.
"Don't delay my fudge or this Succubus gets cranky." Bo had to try three times before she could get the pre drilled hole down on the spike in the stand. "Is it straight?" She stood back to ask Lauren before she went about undoing the twine wrap that had been put on it at the tree lot.
"Now there's a leading question." Kenzi giggled from the kitchen as she spread out her ingredients.
"Bo she's perfect." Lauren said as the Succubus used her dagger to cut off the last bit of string from near the bottom and gave the whole thing a bit of a shake to help the branches settle.
Bo grinned to herself as she slipped her dagger away and then extricated herself from under the tree, slipping back to stand up and admire the nearly seven foot tall fir tree. Kenzi had been right, she was almost the perfect 'Christmas tree' shape, proportioned exactly to her height.
"Okay." Bo pulled off her jacket and moved to hang it up, pulling off her boot when she was by the door. "We need a plan." She put her hands on her hips as she looked between Lauren and Kenzi, the young Russian was already elbows deep in liquor and measuring cups.
"Well she needs watering." Lauren pointed to the tree as she undid her own coat and pulled off her boots. "And we need to start popping corn." She pointed out with a nod.
"Bo has to do the lights! Daddies always do lights." She teased more as she continued measuring various liquids.
"Why am I the Daddy?" Bo laughed as she unzipped her other boot.
"Easy, who here has the biggest balls?" Kenzi grinned from over her large punch bowl.
Bo silently looked at Lauren, who looked back with her eyebrows arched high in silent reply
"I'm going to stay out of that one." Lauren said diplomatically as she perched on the edge of the couch, pulling out a large pack of shiny craft paper from one of the bags. "I guess I could start cutting." She held up the pack to see if there came any agreement.
"I'll take over cutting when you're up for baking." Kenzi continued to grin at Bo knowing she'd gotten a good one over on her. "And I'll throw some popcorn in the Micro so that it'll be cooled down to start stringing it."
"Wait." Lauren said suddenly holding her hand up a gesture that made Bo and Kenzi stop and look at her immediately. "Music, you have Christmas music right?" The blonde asked knowing they hadn't picked any up on any of their stops. "We can't do all this in silence." She pointed out repositioning her hat with deliberate purpose.
"Don't you worry, DJ Kenzi has you covered." The brunette took out her phone and moved over plugging it into the speaker doc they had on a side table. With a few finger strokes Jingle Bells started playing. "I downloaded 101 Christmas Classics from the torrents for us."
-x-
It was over an hour later and the entire club house smelled of gingerbread and pop corn, and unusual but in no way unpleasant combination. Bo sat crossed legged on the floor looping strips of shiny coloured paper into one another and sealing them shut with a simple strip of tape. Kenzi was sat taking up the whole couch with a bowl of popcorn in her lap and an impossibly long string of it threaded sitting on the cushion next to her.
Lauren was in the kitchen, a tray of perfectly browned gingerbread people sat cooling on a rack on the work top, each with a neat hole ready for a ribbon near the top of their heads, next to that was a second tray, this held gingerbread Christmas trees, also a perfect even shade of brown, with their neat little hole ready for hanging. Then there were two trays of pale sugar cookies, shaped as baubles and snowmen.
The blonde herself was at the stove tending to a saucepan, with tins of condensed milk open on the side next to her along with collections of other ingredients.
Bo finished securing the loop of red she was making before she shifted the enormous paper chain she had created off her lap and pushed up to her feet, turning round to look at the tree which was glittering with the three hundred white lights that Kenzi had insisted they but for it.
"Okay I'm calling this long enough." She announced.
"Um, when did it get that long?" Kenzi's eyes followed down the long steam of it that passed through Bo's arms to the pools of it still at her feet. "I'm not anywhere near that long." She pouted.
"It's a little harder to skewer popcorn than it is to make a paper loop." Bo laughed softly and began to placed the long paper chain on the tree, starting at the top where she had managed to balance their wooden Rudolph.
"Especially after drinking a few cups of your nog, how much alcohol is in here?" Lauren asked as she continued to stir the contents of her saucepan but also took another sip from her glass with the other hand.
"Enough to put the merry in Christmas." Kenzi replied with a grin at the blonde. "That's what my grandmother always used to say." She drained her own glass and looked at Bo. "Hey don't cheat, wrap it all the way around the tree." she made a little circular motion with her hand. "I'm watching you." She made a little motion between her eyes and the Succubus.
Lauren chuckled and shook her head as she focused on the fudge she was making.
Bo laughed and more carefully wound the long chain she had created around the tree, happy to find that she had actually done a decent job of creating a length that covered a fair amount of green branches with bright shiny coloured loops.
"You want to ice the gingerbread?" Lauren glanced over quickly not wanting to take her eyes off what she was doing.
"Definitely!" Bo jumped on the offer as she finished with the last loop of her chain. "And I'll fill up your nog, popcorn wrangler." She picked up Kenzi's cup as she moved by where the brunette was still working on her 'masterpiece' as she called it.
Officially they had cheated really as far as icing went and picked up tubes of ready icing from the grocery store. Lauren had already opened the boxes and taken the tubes out and put them all neatly by the cooling racks, she had also bought small silver balls as added decorations for eyes or just pretty trim. They too were with the icing tubes all ready for whoever was doing the decorating. As were a roll of green ribbon and a roll of red.
"Everything you need is right there." Lauren gave Bo a quick smile as the Succubus returned after dashing back to hand Kenzi her refill.
"I apologize in advance if they all look more like monsters then gingerbread men." Bo offered trying to decide on what colour of icing to start with.
"Gingerpeople, I want gingerpeople! We're not sexist here." Kenzi piped in taking a big sip of her fifth glass of the potent mixture. "We're not any 'ist' here."
"You can always start with the trees or the baubles." Lauren pointed out with a widening smile. "Get your creative groove on."
"Yeah your right, no face pressure on those." Bo picked up the green icing to begin outlining the edges of the trees one by one.
-x-
"I..." Kenzi stood beside the tree and held her nearly empty eight glass of Egg Nog aloft. "That Suzette is the most beautiful Christmas tree that has ever existed!" She raised her glass higher and urged Bo and Lauren who were sitting on the couch to take a sip to her toast. "She is so perfect that if she were a chick, I'd be all over her!" She giggled to herself.
"Kenzi, I love you but the amount of cheer you have inside you is a little over the limit." Bo gave a soft laugh at the brunette's inebriated theatrics. She had already given them a brief version of A Christmas Carol with the gingerbread people staring in it as she put them on the tree, tiny Tim not making past the retelling, becoming the first of the Christmas gingerbread to be eaten.
Lauren leaned back and shifted the raccoon cushion she was leaning on around so that she held it to her stomach with one hand, the other holding her half filled nog glass.
"I'll have you know that I..." Kenzi stopped. "Have briefly forgotten what it was that I was going to say." A slightly perplexed frown dancing on her brow. "But..." She pointed at the Succubus. "I know it was good."
"You just finished an awesome Christmas toast and had announced you were going to bed before you can't make it up the stairs on your own." Bo filled in with her with a soft smile at her best friend. "And because we can't go shopping for presents tomorrow like we planned if you're hung over till 3pm."
"Yes." Kenzi clicked her fingers together and pointed at Bo, missing her nose as she attempted to dab the end of it. "That's exactly right my succulicious friend. I am indeed going to bed." She stumbled slightly as she made her way over to the couch leaning down she hugged Lauren and kissed her cheek. "You are awesome, you bake and you bought Santa hats and you came back." She held tightly for a long moment.
"Good night Kenzi." Lauren said softly as she hugged her back helping her straighten up afterwards.
"And you..." Kenzi staggered to Bo and placed a wet kiss on her cheek holding her head. "I love you." She repeated the soppy kiss. "A good night to all, and to all a goodnight." She stumbled to the stairs waving drunkenly as she climbed the first couple. "Oh and..." She stopped and turned. "I hear nothing, no-thing when I'm this drink." Kenzi slurred her words, giving them a big grin. "No sir ree, not even like a bomb..." She stumbled up a couple more steps. "Or a jet plane, landing, right here." She slapped the step she rested on, turning to look at them. "You getting the picture?"
"Good night Kenzi!" Bo called back to her and gave a soft sigh shaking her head. "I apologize for that." She added softly looking at Lauren sideways, suddenly very aware of their close proximity to each other on the small sofa. "The only thing she is right about is that you're not going home, you've had far too much to drive. You can have my bed, I'll sleep down here."
"Cabs Bo, this little invention where we pay someone to drive us home when we are inebriated, we come back later and get our cars." Lauren smirked.
"There are those smelly things." Bo smiled back at her gently. "But you're not going yet are you? We could watch the tree for awhile."
"What if I said I didn't want to watch the tree." Lauren shifted slightly her hand taking the cushion from off her stomach and dropping off the side of the couch in a simple move as she pushed herself forward onto her knee, her hand moving to cup Bo's cheek, tipping the succubus' head up a little as she pressed her lips hard against Bo's.
"That's an even better idea." Bo whispered the words when they're lips parted for a moment, she pulled Lauren further on top of her and pressed their lips together again. "Merry Christmas." She whispered during another parting, mesmerized by the reflections of the tree lights in Lauren's brown eyes.
"It's not Christmas yet Bo." Lauren shook her head a smile gracing her lips as she leaned her body harder against the other woman's pressing her down so that she over powered the succubus to the point that they were both semi reclined in the tree light.
"It is for me." Bo's voice was breathless as her hand came up to slide into blonde hair and pull Lauren in for another tender kiss.
Fin ?
