Christmas eve.
Author note: Strange to write a story about Christmas in July..
It's a little weak. Sorry, just couldn't really getting into it.
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Singing on the streets, people with huge shopping bags, building decorated with lights, the laugher of children.
It was Christmas time and people were merrier than ever.
Diana had learned that Christmas stood for peace around the world and apparently the birth of Christ, the son of God and a human women.
"So Christ is Hercules?" Diana had asked, or was it Ares. Etta didn't explain that part, saying that people didn't believe in the Ancient Greek mythology anymore. Mankind had other fates now, like Christianity, Islam etc.
Odd. Was her being here not all the proof needed to know that Zeus was God of all?
Besides.. she had just defeated Ares, The God of War.
But Etta had told her that it was better that Diana didn't tell anybody about her special heritage.
It didn't really matters where mankind believed in. It was important that mankind also believed in peace and Christmas was all about peace.
"Come on Diana we have a ton of shopping to do and have Christmas dinner to prepare" Etta called.
Diana had stopped following Etta when they had passed a huge tree on the square.
It wasn't there before and he was giving light. It looked absolutely beautiful.
"If's magical" Diana gasped, while Etta took her arm.
"Yes it's very pretty" admitted Etta "Come on let's go" and she yanked at the arm of the much taller women. "We have a lot to do".
Diana gave in and continued following her friend.
"Oh yes.. of course shopping.."
Diana hadn't like her first shopping experience, when Steve and Etta took her wardrobe shopping and she still didn't like it.
But she had to admit; London was magical at Christmas time.
Everywhere Diana looked something was happening.
The baker with his marked stall, selling special kind of treats. It smelled delicious.
People singing Christmas songs, people decorating their shops with lights, just like the three.
Diana smiled. It was perfect.
Etta went on tirelessly for hours. Why did people need so much stuff?
When they where finally home, Etta had told Diana about how to prepare Christmas dinner.
Diana could cook of course, but at Themayscia it was a little different then here in the human world. But Etta was a great teacher.
Soon enough the men stomped into the house with a tree, a smaller version than the one standing on the square.
"Tree decoration time" Charlie smiled and burst into Christmas carols.
It was a perfect day with her loved ones, mankind was capable of doing so much good.
"Look it snows!" Charlie almost yelled, Diana looked outside, it was indeed snowing, but the snow was thicker than back in Veld.
They walked outside; the streets were covered in a thick white layer.
Diana touched the substance, cold and soft, melting into her hand.
She smiled, the last en first time she had experienced snow was with Steve, sometimes it felt like yesterday when she last saw him, other times a lifetime.
Diana looked around; the streets of London were undergoing a true transformation. It didn't even look the same city anymore. Everything transformed into a winter wonder world.
Diana closed her eyes as the snow cooled her face, her ears filled with laughter of her friends.
For a moment she was back in Veld, on that magical evening.
Blue eyes gaze into the brown.
His arms wrapped around her.
Suddenly she was hit by something cold.
She quickly watched where it came from and saw her friends laughing.
"What was that?" she asked.
"It's called a snowball fight," Sameer explained, hitting her again with a ball made of snow.
A smirk formed on Diana's face "Snowball fight you say? Big mistake"
Least to say, Diana became somewhat competitive.
Light was flickering the else dark room, what gave it a somewhat spooky look.
Medical equipment everywhere and two people around a table, the smaller person looking trough a microscope, while the taller one standing next to it.
"What do you think doctor" said the taller person. "Isn't it marvelous? A new blood group, stronger and more resilient than the others"
"From who is it?" asked the smaller person without looking up at the microscope.
"A young woman in London, I got this sample when she came to the doctor, the doctor through that she was pregnant, so I needed to run some tests."
"Is she?" she smaller person asked.
"I believe so" the other said "But you know how difficult it is to tell in an early stage, but it doesn't explain the abnormalities in her blood work"
"Interesting" the smaller person said and looked up from the telescope.
"A German chemist had told me about people with extraordinary abilities, I though that she had shell shock after the war. But maybe these special humans exist after all."
"Yes maybe" the other said while nodding "But it is just some blood, I don't know if this woman has special powers".
"So where does this blood come from?" the smaller person asked. "I need to run some tests"