Perfect Christmas

A/N: This is a Christmas story I wrote for my dear friend Allthingsmagical, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and that Santa brings you everything you asked for ;) lol

Summary - With it being their first Christmas as a couple Merlin wants everything to be perfect, including snow, Arthur wants to help Merlin get everything perfect but even he can't conjure snow...ca n he?

Chapter Two

Merlin smiled as Arthur walked through the front door Tesco bags in hand.

"What did you buy?" Merlin asked getting up.

"Just some gifts for everyone and of course dinner." Arthur kissed Merlin's lips as he put the bags down.

"Oh Bath salts, Morgana will love them, she was telling me how much she would love to have a nice relaxing bath." Merlin informed him holding the gift box.

"What? Oh yes that was for Morgana, no one else." Arthur chuckled. "Shall I start dinner and we can put the tree up while it cooks." Arthur sighed and pulled out the ready cooked pork ribs and curly fries.

"I'll go and bring everything we'll need into the living room." Merlin kissed Arthur's cheek before running out of the room.

"Stupid Arthur, stupid stupid stupid." Arthur muttered to himself as he set the food on a tray and set the oven to the right gas mark. "Hey sweetheart, what do you think about a star wars wallet?" Arthur called out.

"Umm well for starter I don't like star wars and you would have to be a real geek to buy one. Hey you could always get one for Lance, I know he loves the films, there films right?" Merlin said coming back into the kitchen.

"Lance? Really? Hmm. Yes there films, very old films." Arthur answered.

"Come on then, I've got the tree up so all we need to do is add to it." Merlin smiled as Arthur placed the trays in the oven.

"I'm right behind you." Arthur smiled while muttering to himself.

"Wow Merlin you sure did buy a lot for one tree." Arthur said shocked.

"I know, but I just want this Christmas to be perfect." Merlin replied.

"You've said that already, twice I think. Merlin you do know that it'll be perfect without all this right?" Arthur said.

"Arthur this is our first Christmas together, one where we're having our families over and everything. It's not like last year or the year before that. This is marks the first year of our relationship of course it has to be perfect. Now I know whatever you get me will be as well." Merlin smiled at the end of his rant.

"Of course, I've got you the perfect gift; I've hidden it to the office so you can't peek." Arthur lied.

"Oh Arthur whatever it is I know I'm going to love it and you for it." Merlin smiled.

An hour later and 20 minutes before dinner the tree was done, Merlin thought it was perfect yet left room for improvement where Arthur thought the tree looked like Santa had threw up on it.

"Fancy watching Jim Carrey as the Grinch? It'll get us in the mood for Christmas." Merlin said after they had finished.

"Why can't we watch Die hard then?" Arthur questioned.

"Well it's not very Christmassy." Merlin replied.

"How? It's set during Christmas and they're great films." Arthur argued back.

"I know they are but we're watching the Grinch, it's far more Christmassy than some cop going around killing people." Merlin said placing the dvd in the player.

"You do know this film is for children right?" Arthur complained.

"Then your fit right in." Merlin snapped pressing play.

Arthur muttered to himself as the film started but soon he was too tired to really care what he was watching.

"So I was thinking we could get a chicken and a gammon for Christmas dinner along with potatoes and all the other stuff, oh we so have to make our own sweet and things." Merlin babbled on not really t alking to anyone.

"Why not turkey?" Arthur interrupted.

"It's far too big Arthur and no matter what I do, or my mother or your mother does it's going to be like eating paper. Now with Gammon we can added honey to it make it nice and yummy." Merlin informed him as he wrote things down in his pad.

"But we always have turkey at Christmas." Arthur replied.

"I know, and while I want this Christmas to be perfect I'm not going to eat some dried up piece of meat that not even gravy can make taste nice." Merlin answered looking up at the screen. "Aw he saved the little elf girl."

"Great, I'm going to go for a shower okay." Arthur kissed Merlin's head as he got up.

"Sure just leave me some hot water." Merlin called back.

"No turkey. My boyfriend is Christmas mad and I have yet to get the perfect gift." Arthur groaned as he stripped and got under the hot water.

A week had passed and Arthur was no closer to finding Merlin the perfect gift then he was at the start of the month. He even went to his sister for help but she just laughed at all his ideas and called him stupid before crying and saying she was sorry for being a cow. After that Arthur thought it was best to ask a fellow man for help. Though his friends were just as useless telling him he needed to find something that Merlin would love and go all girly over.

So a week before Christmas he sat with Merlin in his arms watching channel 5 in a room that mocked Arthur for not having anything to give the man he loved.

"I heard that in this one Rigsby and Van Pelt finally get married. I'm been rooting for those two." Merlin smiled.

"Yeah, that's good." Arthur replied not paying attention.

"Look at that place, I know it's a show and all but that wedding looks beautiful, shame about the dead guy and all." Merlin carried.

"It is nice." Arthur smiled.

"Hey that's Wyatt from Charmed." Merlin said pointing to the screen.

Arthur just chuckled, no matter how much Merlin wouldn't admit it he was so the girl in their relationship, Arthur can't remember the last time he watched something without Merlin interrupting or pointing something out.

"Why do I feel that Wyatt is the killer, oh it was so sad when Chris dies at the end of season 6" Merlin continued, at this point he was talking to himself more than Arthur.

"Oh the wedding is wonderful, I know it's too soon for us but do you think of us getting married?" Merlin asked turning to face Arthur.

"Well I did say one of the spare rooms could be for child, so of course I thought of it." Arthur smiled.

"Wow" Merlin smiled.

"Thought you would be a totally Bride zilla." Arthur laughed.

"I would not." Merlin pouted.

"You so would, but that's why I love you." Arthur leaned down and kissed Merlin softly on the lips before pulling back. "I just remembered I have to go to the office, I forget to bring home something." Arthur got up and moved over to grab his coat and keys.

"Arthur it's six in the evening, can't it wait?" Merlin asked turning to look at him.

"I wish but I don't want someone else to eat it." Arthur smiled.

"Ooo what is it?" Merlin wondered smiling.

"Chocolate tart. Your fav." Arthur replied kissing Merlin one last time before heading out the door.

Merlin smiled and watched Arthur leave. "That's not my favorite. Ooo maybe he's going to check on my present." Merlin smiled and turned back to watch 'The Mentalist'.

As the twenty fifth of December got closer Merlin had become a little obsessed with wanting the perfect Christmas and for it to be complete well Merlin needed snow. But even though it was cold enough to freeze your fingers off there was no sight of snow.

"If it doesn't snow then Christmas is ruined." Merlin sobbed.

"Hey it's not the end of the world man. So it won't snow, no big deal." Gwaine replied.

"No big deal. NO BIG DEAL? IT NEEDS TO BE PERFECT!" Merlin yelled through his tears.

"Gwaine mate, phone for you." Lancelot said handing Gwaine the phone. "Why don't you go in the over room."

"Sure man." Gwaine looked at Merlin before walking off.

"Hey pal. Why don't we try to find us some snow, if not then maybe we can just frost up the windows. Lancelot smiled.

"Thanks Lance." Merlin smiled.

"Dude no one was on the phone." Gwaine said coming into the room.

"They must have hanged up." Lancelot laughed.

A/N: Thank you for reading x

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