For the Oh Christmas Tree 25 drabble collection on NGF, yet I've managed to use them here, in MV, with permission from Listen & Visa.

For great Gatsby, who gave this idea last chapter..I'm not sure when B.C is set, so I just made this up...like all the others.


IV – 4th December
ShaneGloriana
mistletoe; sky; crimson; daft.


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Mistletoe hangs on the ceiling of the gym in which he chooses to train and his eyes catch it as he pauses pummelling a punchbag for a moment or two. He's here because he wants to be, not because he was commandeered, and this shall never be anything but the truth in his mind.

Normally, mistletoe would bring about those daft bouts of unconditional love for Claire, remind him why he loves her…but not this time. No, now it's like the switch for Claire has been turned off, the darkening of the sky at sunset, and he's strangely intrigued by Glory, the blonde vampire.

She's got the most beautiful, silk like hair that he has ever been able to imagine, an exact opposite to his own dark, scratchy mop, and it makes her heart-shaped face seem even more perfect, if that could be possible. He's forgotten she's a vampire, forgotten that she's everything he normally hates, because she's blessed with striking looks…so striking that he's forgotten about the existence of his girlfriend.

He doesn't even catch the glint of crimson in her eyes, a signal for her thirsting for his blood, as he moves towards her for the kiss he knows can be his due to the proximity of the mistletoe.

Their lips touch and the feeling of exhilaration that spreads through him causes the briefest second of doubt, that he ought to remember Claire…but then that's gone and he's entirely focused on Gloriana, imagining their future together.

Little does he know that he's so far under her spell that it's Christmas Day and he's forgotten to go home to his friends, to Claire, as he's so enthralled by her.

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