Friday 3 December

Merry Christmas Cosplayer364!

This short but sweet little drabble is from the Circus Freak universe...

So that means that the pairing is Slade/Robin/Red X and that Robin is a cat-boy (neko; cat ears and tail + some cat-like characteristics.)

Oh, and thank you all so much for the revs! I'm SO sorry that I don't have time to answer many of them, but they make me smile, laugh and shake my head. Some of you are quite pervy. You know who you are. Love you!

Angelic Lust

A mighty crash sounded through the lair, making Red X jump and Slade… well, not jump, since he wouldn't do such a thing, but rather raise his head in a jerky motion.

"Not again?" the mercenary growled, and stalked through the compound with the thief hot on his heels, until they reached a room Robin had christened the 'living room'. The room had earned the title mostly because it held an old, moldy sofa no one had had the energy to throw away. Otherwise it was normally pretty empty, but recently something had been added to it. That something was now lying across more than half the room, and had a wildly flailing cat-boy under it; a Christmas tree.

"Never learn, Robin, do you?" the man muttered and lifted the tree with one hand; just enough so Robin could crawl out.

"The angel is a decoration, kitten, not a toy!" Red X waved his finger at the dark-haired teen, whose pointed ears were laying flat against his head while his tail was thrashing behind him.

"It has feathers!" Robin wailed. "You know I love feathers!"

"Still, this is the tenth time you have knocked the tree down, trying to climb it." Slade said tiredly. It had been funny the first time, and maybe the second, but now the man wondered if cats should be leashed.

"Yeah, and the one time it kept standing, you were too afraid to come down." Red chipped in.

"Stupid… so damn pretty… smells good…" Robin muttered. He had turned his back on his mates and started to creep towards the top of the tree, which Slade had put down after the heroic rescue.

"Don't even think about it!" the thief yelled and tackled Robin, sending them both deep into the prickly branches.

"Mmmfffm!" Robin growled.

"Spit it out! Now! Let go!" Red growled back.

Slade stood watching his two younger lovers, the dark-haired one with his mouth full of feathers, and sighed. Some days he just wanted to turn himself in and confess to anything he could think of, to get some peace and quiet.

Red eventually rescued the angel, which looked somewhat worse for wear, and held Robin while the man got the tree standing again. The teen had by then calmed down, and now he managed to look a bit ashamed of himself.

"It was you who insisted on Christmas-decorations, Robin." Slade said, coming to stand in front of the teen, looking very stern. "And this early too. You are lucky you live with criminals, because this is almost a crime."

"… sorry…." Robin mumbled and butted his head against the man's chest.

"If you can't handle it, we'll throw it all away." The man threatened.

"No! No, please! It's so pretty!" Robin said, looking up with huge eyes. "I'll be good!"

Slade looked around. His dark lair didn't look very 'pretty', it mostly glittered and shone. Slade hoped that no other villains would ever find this out, because he would never be able to live it down. He had allowed it, though, for Robin's sake. It was his first Christmas away from the Titans, and he needed some distractions. Maybe just not this kind.

"Slade, maybe we should… you know…. The present?" Red X suggested.

"What present?" Robin perked up.

"I don't know. It would be rewarding bad behavior." the man said, watching as Robin's ears fell again.

"On the other hand, it might give us fewer heart attacks…" Red argued. "Come on! It's only like… twenty-two days left to Christmas…" he continued, not looking like he really believed that last argument himself.

"Alright then." the man gave in. After looking through the pile of presents which had already started collecting on the floor, he found the one Red had meant and gave it to Robin. The teen tore into it, claws and all, and gasped as the box opened.

"My… my own?"

"Yes, I kinda thought you would like the angel, so I got two." The thief grinned, getting a big hug from the other teen, who was clutching the angel hard. Slade got hug number two.

"Maybe this will stop you from climbing the tree?" Slade chuckled.

"Yes Sir!" Robin grinned and then started rubbing his cheek against the man's arm. "Hey, are you two… busy?" he purred.

Of course they weren't. Not that busy.

Red hadn't really come back from the afterglow when there was another crash. Again they found the cat-boy half crushed by the tree, now clutching both angels.

"Mine got lonely…" Robin claimed, blinking up at them.

"I think Robin deserves another present." Slade sighed. "How about the bondage-gear?"

The End

A/N: the prompt word for this was "Christmas tree", and the story was based upon my own cats and their strange obsession with various things… ;) Oh, and don't despair, smex WILL appear! Tomorrow, in fact... ;)