AN: I am so sorry! I have just been really busy! But it's here! I will try and have New Year's up before the 31st! I will try and pound it out tomorrow! Anyways, here's Christmas!
It was Christmas. But that's just another day if you're a doctor…especially if you work for a narcissistic asshole that takes a ridiculous case last minute. It had been a long day. Remy had been on the toughest case of her life for the past two weeks. She hadn't hardly slept in at least for days….at least that's how long she had been at the hospital…well…that's what she thought at least.
She looked at her watch as she leaned against the lobby desk. Allison had gone home long before her and Remy was far too tired to drive home. She called a cab because she was not going to not go home again…she needed to be in her bed with her Allison.
It was bad enough that she hadn't been able to do any of the stuff she and Allison had planned..now, for her three remaining days off—yeah, she hadn't been able to leave because the case wasn't solved until now—she was going to be at her 'in-laws', if you will, for two of them and only home, home for one of them.
She finally saw the cab outside. She pulled the bill and the back of her winter hat down and sighed as she walked to her yellow chariot. She got inside their apartment and locked the door.
She dropped her coat and bag and..well everything, including her clothes as she was walking back to their room. She quietly got into their PJ drawer and put on some flannel pants and a wife beater. She went into their closet and grabbed a sweatshirt for in the morning…which would come all too soon and finally—FINALLY!—she got to be in her own bed.
"Baby…" Allison had been awake. She spoke in a soft, soothing tone, "Are you just now getting in?"
Remy had taken it upon herself to dive under the covers and settle between the blonde's legs; she wrapped her arms around Allison's middle and rested her head on her chest. She nodded, answering Allison's question.
"Jesus…is the patient okay?" She asked…she knew that it had been the same case for about three weeks now.
"Yeah." She sighed tiredly, and yawned through her next statement, "We finally figured it out. It was…" Remy was gone.
Allison sighed, "Merry Christmas Sweets. I love you." She said as she stroked Remy's hair. She fell asleep quite quickly as well…she hadn't gotten as much sleep with Remy not in their bed, but her sleep deprivation was not near as bad as her lover's.
They woke up the next morning. Allison woke her up. She kissed down Remy's neck to her shoulder blade. At first the brunette tried to dive in deeper, but eventually, Allison got the best of her and she turned around.
Remy opened her eyes and looked at the blonde. Allison grinned, "Morning Beautiful." Allison said as she took a seat on the mattress.
"Morning, Miss Lady…" She said it like Trusty, the old blue hound on Lady and the Tramp.
Allison smiled and leaned into her, pressing their foreheads against each other.
Remy pursed her lips, getting a kiss from the blonde. She wrapped her arms around her and sat up, "I'm sorry I couldn't be here yesterday." She said quietly.
"It's fine, Sweetie. You had to do your job…and you have an important one…I mean. It's not like you ditched me to go strip in front of people you don't know…you had to save a life." She said understandingly.
"Why do you always use stripping as your comparison for our jobs?" the brunette asked.
"Wh…well, because…I guess in my mind, if you weren't a doctor then your next best job should be stripper." She said with a grin.
Remy was grinning along with her, "What? Baby!" She tickled the blonde for a second, "Why would I be a stripper?"
"I don't know…" She looked up in thought, "You look awfully good when you take your clothes off.."
Remy pushed her so that she was on top of Allison and their heads were at the foot of the bed, "I'll show you awfully good." Remy groped at the blonde's shirt.
"No! Baby!" Allison squirmed…like a lot more than when she wants this kind of thing to continue, "We don't have time!" She wiggled from the brunette's hold.
Remy sighed and looked at the clock then at her lover, "You're absolutely right." She said in a very….Mugatu like fashion…pun intended.
"Come on…I have something for you before we leave for my parents..." Allison said. She held out her hand.
Remy took it and yanked her into her hold, "Before we do that I just need to…" She spoke as she brought Allison in for a mind-numbing kiss. "I love you." She said quietly.
"I love you." Allison whispered out…none of her brain cells were working.
"Merry Christmas." Remy smirked as she spoke.
"Merry Christmas." Allison repeated once more in a breathy tone.
Remy hugged her tight and bit her ear and neck, "I promise that I will be here for every other Christmas." She said.
"Sweetie…" Allison finally started functioning again.
"No, I will….I mean…we don't have as many Christmases as we would like, so…I will be here for every other one." She said.
Allison just hugged her back. They stayed there a moment or two before Remy spoke again.
"Now…you said I had a present? I want to open it…I love presents."
Allison smirked, "I know baby…I didn't get you any toys this time though…" She looked worried.
Remy laughed at Allison's face, "I don't care…" She said as she followed the blonde to the living room.
Their living room looked like Christmas exploded. There were nutcrackers on their mantle, and stockings with their names hanging on the bar that divides the living room from the kitchen. The tree looked like it came from the twinkle factory with all the tinsel and lights and shiny ornaments.
Allison walked over to the tree and gave reached up for a branch. She took a ring box that she had hidden amongst the décor and turned to Remy, "I hope you like it…"
Remy cocked her head and smirked, "Are you proposing?" She asked with a smirk..she knew it was her job, but she wanted to give her lover a hard time.
"NO!" Allison hit Remy's arm, then hugged her, "That's you're job." She quietly and looked up at her, "You know that, right?"
Remy cackled again, "Yes Baby, I do." She rubbed her nose with her knuckle, acting casual, "If and when I ask, you're gonna say yes, right?" She looked at her.
Allison cocked her head, "Yes of course." She bit her lip.
"Mmkay, good." Remy ripped open the ring box wrapping and looked at the lid, "Zales?" She looked at the blonde. "Because of that one commercial? The one with the clothes and the box and the not quite getting to bedroom?" She asked.
"Yes…I wanted to put that look on your face…that one that makes you recall all your ridiculous commentary, Miss, 'Looks like every kiss doesn't begin with Kay and he so did not go to Jared'…and when looking on the websites, I liked what I saw more than others.."
Remy grinned and leaned into the blonde for a kiss; she flipped the lid. She looked at the ring in awe, "Wow!" It was a tri-color ring…it had white gold, yellow gold and rose gold and it had diamonds running along a crisscross pattern.
"You like it?" She asked.
"Fo sho!" She said excitedly as she took it out and threw the box on the floor then put it on. "Thank you!" She dove in and scooped Allison up and kissed her.
Allison was happy that Remy liked it…picking out jewelry for her was…really, really hard. Like…a lot harder that buying jewelry should be. "I got that one because it was more you than any other one..and I figured since it doesn't protrude…like an engagement ring that you could wear it with gloves.."
"Ah! You are ever the thinker…" She kissed her cheek again and pulled from her, walking over to the tree, "Now…we think alike because I hid mine in the tree too. And…I want to apologize before hand for my present protruding like an engagement ring.." She said as she pulled her ring present from the tree, "But that's because it is an engagement ring…" She said.
Allison stopped everything..she stopped breathing and was frozen.
"Babe?" Remy asked as she walked back over to her.
"Huh?" Allison looked at her as Remy pulled away from kissing her cheek again.
"You okay?"
Without really waiting for Remy to stop talking, she began, "Did you just say that this is an engagement ring?" She asked.
Remy grinned, "Yeah.." She gave the wrapped present to Allison and waited for her to open it. She nudged the blonde, so that she would actually begin to move, "Open it..please."
Allison finally came fully to and ripped the wrapping off. She opened the box and found this gorgeous pear shaped diamond ring. It had little diamonds lining the entire loop of the ring. Her jaw dropped and she started shaking.
Remy took it from her and got on both knees. She wrapped her arms around Allison's middle, and kissed her stomach, "Marry me?" She asked and nipped at Allison's peaking midriff. "Please?"
"Of course!" She tackled Remy to the ground.
After some morning sex and a couple showers later, the two women were on their way to see Allison's family. Remy fell asleep on the plane almost instantly…she was still rather tired…she also fell asleep in the car.
Allison pulled up and got everything out of the car. Her parents came out and greeted her, and her dad took their bags before she decided that Remy needed to wake up. She walked around to the passenger door and looked at her mother, "She didn't get home until like one last night…they've had a really, really hard case that took them too long to solve…" She said. "She hadn't been home before that for like four or five days."
"Oh! Now…just get her up and tell her to sleep in your room." Elizabeth said.
"Yeah..she won't, but I will." Allison grinned, "She's gonna say, 'You woke me up just to tell me to go to sleep?'"
"Oh..yeah.." Elizabeth looked at her daughter, "That sounds like her."
Allison nodded as she opened the door, "Sweetie.." Allison woke her for the third time that day.
"Miss Lady." Remy said again like the blue hound, Trusty.
"Come on. We're here. You wanna go sleep in my room?" She asked.
"And miss the family time? No! Besides..why would I get woken up just to go back to sleep?" She asked.
"I don't know, Sweets.." Come on. She stood up fully and gave her mother an 'I told you so' look.
Remy got out of the car and shook and stretched and popped in places that hadn't been popped since like June…it felt glorious. She looked over, "Elizabeth! Hi!" She ran around the car and hugged the older version of her girlfriend.
"Hey girly!" She hugged her back.
They walked inside and thus the Christmas time began.
The rest of the family was already there. They had been waiting on them.
"Hi, sorry we're late." The girls said.
They got settled and then it was time for Christmas lunch. That was an adventure. It took about .25 seconds of everyone sitting down before Elizabeth spoke.
"So when is the big day, girls?" She looked at her eldest daughter and her girlfriend.
Allison cocked her head, "What?" She asked confused.
Elizabeth raised her brows and gave a knowing look, "Now, now…you don't honestly think that I don't know an engagement ring when I see one, do you? Besides…Remy called us a few weeks ago..she wanted to ask our permission." Elizabeth looked cocky and arrogant as well as all-knowing…just as she should look at this moment.
Allison looked down at her hand and back up to her mother. Remy bit her lip and stretched back then ran her hand over the blonde's back as she leaned back in her chair. "I..we…she…uhmm…" Allison tried.
"We don't know." Remy provided, "I asked her this morning…" She grinned at Allison's stunned reaction.
"You asked their permission?" She had a couple small happy tears in her eyes…the awkward, surprise and happiness kind of took over..
Remy smiled that charming smile at her lover, "Of course."
Allison leaned into Remy and kissed her quick.
"Now…Janae. Don't get jealous! They're the two that are supposed to kiss." Brody said across the table.
"Fuck you!" Janae stood up and punched her husband as hard as she could before sitting back down, "Pardon my French…and I'm not jealous."
"That was not French." KK said.
This caused everyone to laugh. The rest of the day was opening presents and having family time. Remy fell asleep around 8:30 and Allison woke her up and told her to go upstairs..that she would be up there soon. They slept in the next morning then spent more time with her parents…the rest of the kids and in-laws went home.
Their flight time came all too early and soon they were on their way back home. After getting home, they pretty much stayed in a cuddled ball of covers and stocking candy on the couch the rest of their small break. All in all…they were pretty damn good days after Christmas.