Chapter 4

Disclaimer: I still unfortunately do not own Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, except on iTunes.

Will opens the door to the house after a hard day at work. He shrugs his jacket off at the coat rack before kicking off his tennis shoes near the door. Next, Knave goes and sits down on the couch before turning on the TV. "The Santa Clause" starring Tim Allen is on ABC, so Will contently watches the holiday movie while Anastasia makes dinner. The smell of soup is enough to draw Will out of the living room and into the kitchen. He comes up behind Anastasia and wraps his arms around her waist while placing his head on her shoulder.

"I'm home, and dinner smells delicious, Ana," Will grins before kissing her lips.

Anastasia returns the kiss before asking her husband a question.

"How was work?" she asks while turning her attention back to the soup that is cooking on the stove.

"It was long and hard," Will remarks, going to sit at the dining room table in the process.

"Did you have a lot of people come in to buy furniture?" Anastasia questions while begin to pour the soup into two bowls.

"Yeah. August and I were so busy trying to get everyone satisfied, not to mention there were a lot of kids eager to see Santa," he responds.

Ever since he re-entered Storybrooke, Will has remained a Merry Man, but got a job working for August and Marco at their furniture store. Will has even learned how to craft a few things of his own, including baby cribs and dining room tables. Now, as for the Santa matter, each year Leroy would dress up as Santa for the children of the small town. A different business would have a "Santa meet-and-greet", as the adults called it, for the children. This year, the business happened to be where Will works, much to his displeasure. The children always are loud, making the adults unable to hear someone even two feet in front of them. However, Will always loves to rekindle belief in Santa among the children, in fact he reminds them to put out cookies and milk for Santa on Christmas Eve. It gives him joy to see the excited looks on the kids' faces, and remembers that when he was younger he loved to believe in the stories he grew up with.

Anastasia looks at Will in confusion when he mentions the name Santa.

"Will, who's Santa?" the White Queen asks her husband in an excited tone.

The former Knave of Hearts lets out a small chuckle before beginning to tell Ana the legend of Santa Claus.

"He's basically the spirit of the Christmas season for children, Ana. Every night on Christmas Eve he brings all of the good children toys or presents and gives the bad children coal. Each kid generally leaves out cookies and milk for the guy, I guess just as a type of courtesy. Some kids even stay up all night to try and see him," Will explains to her, stopping every now and then to see if Anastasia understands his story.

"Can we leave some cookies and milk out for Santa, Will?" Anastasia excitedly asks, not caring that the tradition seems to be mainly for children.

"We can if you want to, luv. Christmas Eve's two days from now, so that will give me time to go get some from the store," Will answers before grabbing his bowl of soup off of the counter and going to eat on the couch where he can continue watching "The Santa Clause" on TV.

Anastasia comes and sits down beside him before starting to eat her soup as well. The two of them eat in silence, watching the movie, before Will breaks the peaceful silence.

"I got you the best Christmas present in the world, Ana," he tells her with a smirk.

He loves to compete with people over the craziest things, gifts included.

"I doubt it can hold a candle to the gift I have for you, darling," Anastasia says with her own smirk.

Will sits his bowl of soup on the coffee table before starting to tickle Anastasia, knowing that tickling is one of her weaknesses. She gasps and starts to laugh, beginning to lose her breath as Will continues tickling her side and she continues to laugh.

"Will, stop," Ana barely gets out, her cheeks starting to get red from the lack of oxygen.

"I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. Did you ask me to stop?" he smiles as he continues to make her laugh.

When she doesn't answer, Will stops tickling her and instead leans down and kisses her lips as a sort of an apology. She returns the kiss, running her fingers through his Navy-style haircut in the process. They pull apart a little while later when they need to breathe. Will decides to drop the conversation of whose gift is better, for now, in order to allow Anastasia to enjoy the Christmas movie.

"I don't think you understand how special my gift is, Ana," Will brings up as they settle down in the bed for the night.

"And you don't understand that my gift is ten times as special as yours is, darling," Anastasia returns before turning off the lamp on her nightstand.

"There's only one way to settle this, then. We'll have a contest," he tells her while wrapping his arms around her.

"A contest?" she questions with a half-smile.

"That's exactly what we'll do. Whoever gives the other the best present gets breakfast in bed for a whole month," Will challenges.

"I'm going to win. You know that, right?" Ana says with a yawn.

"We'll see on Christmas, luv. Until then, just keep telling yourself that," Will teases her.

This remark earns him a playful slap on the chest from Anastasia who smiles at the challenge. Christmas Day is going to be interesting, that's for sure.

Author's Note: Guest, this chapter was written for you. Thank you for all of the support I am getting from you guys, you all are amazing! Please leave a review with what you thought, as they are always appreciated. There are only two more chapters remaining, and then I will begin a full length story about Will and Anastasia's life after the events of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. Again, I want to thank each and every one of you who read and review this story, you guys are amazing. Until the next update, my lovely readers!

P.S., if anyone wants to guess what Will got Anastasia for Christmas or vice versa, I would love to see your ideas in the comments. If you want to guess who's going to win their challenge that can also go in your review. I am the only one who knows how the story will resolve, for now. *Smiles* Can't wait to see what you come up with! :)