Morning guys! Thought I'd upload this before I go to work. Hopefully there aren't any mistakes, I'm very ill right now :D hope you enjoy

Or Where Yuuri Needs A Break From All The Mariah Carey Victor Insists On Playing All The Time

Yuuri could have just about dealt with the decorations. That wasn't that much of a bind (even if he did keep finding glitter down the back of the sofa) and Victor hadn't dialled the Christmas cheer up too much. That was until the music started playing. One morning Yuuri was subjected to a serenade of Mariah Carey along with various carols in various different languages, his YouTube history is beginning to look like something Santa has vomited up.

It's somewhere during the third morning of the same Christmas songs (because there are only, like, four! he had protested) that something inside him finally snaps.

"I'm going for a walk," he states suddenly, closing the book he has been reading and getting to his feet.

Victor looks up from his phone. "Do you want some company?" he asks.

"No it's fine," Yuuri replies.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah," he says, "I just need a bit of fresh air."

"I can still come with you if you want," Victor offers.

"Are you going to be singing Christmas songs?" Yuuri asks.

"I promise nothing," Victor grins.

"It's the tenth of December for crying out loud, do I really have to be subjected to this for fifteen more days?"

"I never realised you were this much of a Grinch Yuuri," Victor teases going to lean against the door frame as he watches Yuuri tie his laces.

"We've been over this before," Yuuri says.

"I know and I still don't quite get it."

"You don't have to get it, you just have to accept it's a thing," Yuuri says.

"I can stop with the music when you're home, if you like?" Victor asks.

"That would be nice," Yuuri says sighing gratefully.

"Anything for you."

"Thanks."

"You still don't want company?" Victor asks pouting slightly.

"It's fine, you stay here, it's cold outside," Yuuri replies. "I can pick up some stuff we need from the store while I'm out."

"Okay, take a scarf though," Victor tells him. "It's cold out." Yuuri is about to protest when Victor grabs a scarf, drapes it around his neck and uses the leverage to pull him into a kiss that catches Yuuri completely off guard. He whimpers softly into Victor's mouth as Victor's lips take his breath away.

The kiss is hot and fiery and over before it's even really began and Yuuri's head is spinning as Victor pulls away. He looks up at Victor with hazy eyes as Victor runs his thumb over his bottom lip and he feels himself melting under his touch.

"Have a nice walk," Victor says, his voice a lot more sultry than it should be for such an innocent statement and Yuuri almost takes off the scarf and slams him into the opposite wall. Embarrassment kicks in right at the last second and he blushes before turning to leave.

"See you later," he says hurriedly before darting out of the door.

The cold air hits him like a kick to the face, but it feel strangely nice after Victor got him so hot under the collar. Thinking about Victor and getting hot under the collar is a bad idea at the moment so Yuuri pulls his phone out of his pocket and dials Minako's number.

"Yuuri," she says, sounding a little surprised, "you okay, what's up?"

"Are you busy?" he asks.

"I can be," she replies.

"Do you want to get some coffee?"

"Sure thing," she says. "Meet you at the Ice Castle in ten minutes?"

"Great, see you there."

Twenty-five minutes later Yuuri and Minako are sat at a table by the window in a small coffee shop, both with steaming mugs in front of them. It's nice, it hasn't been the two of them for a while and Yuuri realises that she's going to take the opportunity to grill him about his relationship with Victor.

"So how's life with the Russian Prince?" Minako asks smirking at him suggestively. I wasn't wrong...

"It's great," Yuuri replies taking a sip of his coffee.

"Great?" Minako asks, looking confused. "'Great' like ice skating is great or 'great' like we're halfway through having sex in every room of the house great?"

"Um..."

Minako narrows her eyes at him. "Have you two actually had sex yet?"

"Um..." Damn it she's perceptive... Yuuri suddenly becomes very interested in the design on the side of the mug but looks up when he hears a sharp intake of breath from Minako.

"You haven't!" she all but screeches.

"Say it louder why don't you?" Yuuri grumbles.

"I'm sorry I'm just surprised," Minako says.

"It's not like we haven't done... stuff..."

"Yuuri if you're old enough to be doing it you should be old enough to say it," she chides with a raised eyebrow.

Yuuri fixes her with an embarrassed glare and pushes his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "Fine! We have had other forms of sexual contact we just haven't had sex yet, you happy?"

"Very," Minako grins and Yuuri doesn't ask why she looks so happy. Don't open that door, what's on the other side will be terrifying.

"I know it's stupid but I just sort of want the first time to be perfect and every time we go to I just get a bit awkward and nervous," he says.

"Where does the Eros femme fatal go when you're not skating?" Minako asks, shaking her head.

"He's taking a break," Yuuri mutters and becomes intensely interested in his coffee mug again.

"So all that aside," Minako says, feeling a little guilty for embarrassing him so much, "how is living with Victor."

Yuuri sighs and rubs a hand over his face. "It was fine and then December the first hit."

"What happened on December the first?"

"Victor started his countdown to Christmas."

"What?"

"It was something I discovered when I came home on December the first and the living room looked like Liberace's bedroom."

"You know it really doesn't surprise me that he's really into Christmas," Minako says.

"No I wasn't either," Yuuri admits. "I just didn't realise it would be non stop Christmas music for the entire month."

"Wow..."

Yuuri rubs a hand over his face again. "I don't even know who Wham! are I just know that I hate them!"

"Hey, at least he kept it contained to December," Minako shrugs.

"Thank god for small mercies."

"I'm assuming you've told him how you feel about Christmas."

"Yeah."

"And?"

"He didn't really get it."

"Ah... sorry."

"It's fine," Yuuri shrugs. "I didn't really expect him to."

"It must be like being back in America again," Minako says.

"A little," Yuuri admits, "but he has said he'll tone it down and it didn't start before my birthday."

"By the way when's Victor's birthday?" Minako asks after taking a sip of her coffee.

"December twenty-fifth," Yuuri says with a wry smile.

"You're joking!"

"Oh the irony, right."

"So are you going to do anything for it?" she asks.

"That is the plan," Yuuri replies. "No idea what... I mean again I sort of want it to be perfect because it'll be the first birthday I've spent with him."

"What did he do for yours?" she asks.

"We went out for the day, then he took me to dinner and he took me dancing," Yuuri says, his face beginning to heat up.

"And you still haven't fucked him?" Minako asks incredulously.

"Alright I get it, I need to do better," Yuuri mumbles and looks away, thoroughly embarrassed by the whole situation.

"Hey you know what you should do," Minako says after a pause, "ask Yurio what Victor would like for his birthday."

"Please tell me you're kidding..."

"Why not? Give me one good reason."

"I can give you a list."

"You never know unless you try," Minako sings grinning at him.

"I can tell you now that I do know and it is not worth it."

"Like I say you never know unless you try," she teases.

"Yes because the human espresso is the best person to talk to about my relationship with Victor," Yuuri says rolling his eyes.

"I'm sure you can get his number from Yuuko," Minako cackles.

"I have his number, I'm not calling him!" Yuuri says hoping that that will put an end to the matter completely. That is not a route he is willing to go down, not even if he gets desperate.