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North Pole Headquarters: Ladies Restroom, 12:00 P.M
Carlos and Sabrina
Sabrina paced back and forth in the restroom, she was nervously biting one of her fingernails and every so often she would glance at her watch before looking over at the sink. Resting on the marble white top was a little washcloth and on top of that was a small, long, white device. Taking a shaky breath, Sabrina continued with her pacing. 'Only a couple more minutes.' She thought.
The gift sorter had missed her last monthly five day 'gift' and she had been having a case of morning sickness that had started earlier that week. She had a good suspicion on what was the cause of her symptoms, but she wanted to be sure first.
A small beep from her watch caught her attention and she looked down to turn off her timer. Taking a deep sigh, she slowly approached the counter and picked up the home pregnancy test and started down at the results.
Two pink lines. Positive.
Sabrina couldn't believe it…she was pregnant! The she elf's heart beat with excitement at her discovery and she placed her hand over her belly. Then a thought came to her; while she was overjoyed at the thought of becoming a mother, how would Carlos feel about becoming a dad since there was no doubt that he was the father. 'He's the only one I've ever slept with so of course he's the father.' Sabrina thought with a chuckle and an eye roll.
Making a double check on the test, Sabrina smiled and left the restroom. Propped up against the wall next to the door was Carlos who had been waiting for Sabrina patiently, his arms were crossed and one knee was bent so that his foot was flat against the wall, keeping him balanced. He turned his head and smiled when he saw Sabrina leave the ladies room.
"There you are- whoa, what's that?" He asked before leaning back when Sabrina practically shoved the pregnancy test in his face.
"It's a pregnancy test silly!" She giggled.
"Pregnancy test?" Carlos questioned with a raised brow. "Whose is that?" he added.
Sabrina smirked, "I don't know, I found it on the counter and thought I'd check it out." She then laughed at Carlos' shocked expression, "I'm kidding, I would never do that. Anyway, to answer your question, it's mine. I had been feeling a bit off lately and I decided to test a theory which turned out positive." She wiggled the white stick a little. Carlos furrowed his brow in thought,
"So you've been feeling sick, had a 'theory' as you called it, and decided to take a pregnancy test which turned out positive so that means-" He trailed off and looked at his girlfriend as realization started to cross his face. Sabrina nodded with a big grin, "I'm pregnant. We're going to be parents!"
Carlos was in shock, "I'm going to be a dad?" He whispered while Sabrina nodded once more. When his question had been confirmed, the male field elf gave a loud laugh before pulling the sorting elf into a hug. "Sabrina that's great!" He exclaimed and pressed his lips to hers in a loving kiss. Finally he let her go and knelt down to press his face gently to her belly, a huge smile was plastered on his face.
"What would you want? A boy or a girl?" Sabrina asked while running a hand over the future father's head.
Carlos' response came out muffled by Sabrina's belly, but his response was still clear. "I don't really care what we get as long as it comes out healthy and it looks like its mother." The blond female smiled, "I was actually hoping it would look like its daddy."
"Maybe it'll look like both of us." Carlos stated with a shrug as Sabrina nodded in agreement.
After a few moments of hugging, Sabrina tapped her boyfriend's shoulder, "Give me a second love, I've got to throw this test away. The results are starting to fade." Carlos reluctantly let her go and watched as she quickly opened the restroom door and carefully tossed it into the nearby trashcan. She then turned back to Carlos and resumed her hugging.
"When should we tell the others?" She questioned as they began to stroll down the hall with their arms wrapped around each other. Carlos smiled, "I guess we can tell them next time we all get together." His brows furrowed in thought once more as he looked down at Sabrina, "Hey, now that you're pregnant, you're gonna have to ease off the training for a while, especially once you get closer to your due date…whenever that is." He said seriously.
Sabrina licked her lips and nodded, "I know but luckily as a gift sorter, my only real training is practicing on the sorter controls. I rarely have to do any physical training."
"Yeah well…I know I'm new to this parent stuff, but I don't think it's healthy for you to be under too much stress while you're expecting. Just promise you'll be careful." Carlos pleaded as he stepped in front of Sabrina and took her hands in his. The she elf carefully took one of her hands from his and gently placed it on his cheek. "Don't worry, I'll be fine. I promise to be careful." With that, she placed a quick peck on his nose and the two continued down the hall.
A chuckle from Carlos cause Sabrina to look up at him, "What?"
"You know a lot of people are going to frown upon us since were not married." Carlos stated in a matter-of-fact way. Sabrina shrugged, "Let them think whatever they want but just because we're not married yet doesn't make us bad parents." She replied and sighed. She was about to continue walking when Carlos grabbed her hand and pulled her in the opposite direction.
"Carlos, where are we going? The lounge is in that direction!" The sorter complained while pointing in the other direction. Carlos shook his head, "I know but…I want to spend some time with you alone…in my room if you know what I mean." He sent her a sly look which she caught right away and smirked back.
"Oh Carlos, you naughty boy." She teased before the two of them laughed and strolled back to Carlos' room for a quick, private celebration.
North Pole Headquarters: Elf paramedic offices, 12:30 P.M
Andrew and Norah
It was a relatively slow day for the doctors, nurses and paramedics, almost too slow for Norah's liking. Despite it being a Saturday, some elves still had to work on the weekends; just because it was the weekend didn't mean elves stopped getting hurt during those days off. Luckily, Norah only had to work for about half an hour before the next medical personal took over her shift. 'I just wish that during my shift, id have a patient or two instead of sitting here in complete boredom reading the same medical book for the hundredth time!' Norah thought with a scowl.
She brushed her long brown bangs back to the side before turning the page in her book. A knock at the door caught her attention. She quickly opened the door and saw one of the other paramedics leaning against the frame, "You've got a patient waiting for you in room 205." He said before walking away.
Norah grabbed her clipboard and made her way to room 205. When she got there, she quietly knocked on the door and opened it slowly. "Alright what seems to be the problem…Andrew? What are you doing here?" To say that she was surprised to see her boyfriend there was an understatement. Andrew gave her a sheepish grin and held up his left hand.
The paramedic she elf gasped when she saw his injury. His wrist was swollen and slightly bruised and his pinky was sticking outwards in an odd angle. Looking at his face, Norah could see behind his smile that he was in a lot of pain.
"What happened?" She asked in concern as she reached out to gently hold his hand to inspect it. She pulled away when the male gave a small pained cry, "I'm sorry!" She apologized quickly.
Andrew shook his head, "It's alright. I was doing some extra training with one of the other Special Santa Unit elf's and it got a little out of hand and…well…"He held up his hand once more and winced as Norah carefully held it.
"Oh Andrew." She sighed and led him to the small x-ray machine. "Put your hand here so I can get a few pictures." She instructed. Andrew complied and within a moment, Norah had the pictures.
"Well your pinky's obviously dislocated so I'll have to push that back into place. As for your wrist, you have a level three sprain. I'll be able to patch you up but you're going to have to take it easy for the next couple of weeks." She stated while grabbing a splint for his finger and a bandage wrap for his wrist. After she gathered her materials, she timidly approached Andrew.
Norah hesitated for a second and gave a nervous sigh, "I'm gonna start with the pinky. I'm not going to lie so I'm telling you now, this will hurt a bit. But I want you to know that I would never want to hurt you like this."
Andrew shrugged, "Just do what you gotta do. I don't hold grudges easily." He said with a reassuring smile which Norah returned. "Alright, now just relax and it will hurt less." She instructed and Andrew did as he was told.
A loud crack was heard followed by a restrained yelp. Norah put the finger in the splint and then carefully wrapped her boyfriend's wrist. The whole process only took about five minutes. "There, all done!" Norah announced as Andrew carefully slid off the examination table that he had been sitting on.
The Special Santa Unit elf looked over his girlfriend's handy work and nodded, "Thanks Norah!"
"Now don't forget to be more careful." Norah reminded and gave him a kiss on the tip of his nose before she turned and started to clean up the room. Andrew watched as the paramedic returned the extra bandages to the cupboard. "So Norah…when are you getting off from your shift?" he asked innocently. Norah glanced at her watch,
"I'm actually off in about ten minutes. Do you have something planned for us?" She questioned with a smile.
Andrew smirked, "Yeah I thought you'd like to see a movie with me."
"Alright what kind of movie?" Norah asked, not that she really cared. She loved almost any kind of movie. The other elf's smirk grew, "Oh just one of those horror movies." He replied with a shrug.
"Oooh a scary movie? I suppose you'll want to hide your face in my shoulder?" She teased lightly, causing Andrew to chuckle, "Actually I was hoping that you would hide your face in my shoulder." He retorted, earning a giggle from Norah.
The she elf nodded, "Alright Mr. Brave-Romantic, I'll join you for the movie." With that they were about to leave when Andrew's HOHO beeped, signaling that he had a new text message. Quickly fishing out his phone from his pocket, Andrew looked at the screen and read the message. When he finished, he gave a small 'huh' sound and looked over at the female who was also looking at her phone. Apparently she also got the memo.
"I wonder what their 'big news' is." Norah wondered as they walked towards her office so she could punch out for the day.
"Who knows, but it must be big if they really want us all to be there at dinner." Andrew replied while setting up his alarm on his phone. If it was really big news then he didn't want to keep his friends waiting.
After Norah punched out, the two elves walked to Andrews' room when he glanced at Norah, "Hey…you don't mind watching a Japanese horror film right?" He asked nervously. Norah rose a brow, "Is it in English or is it one of those Japanese movies with the English subtitles on the bottom that you have to read throughout the whole movie because the characters are actually speaking Japanese and you're so busy reading the subtitles that you miss out in half the movie?"
Andrew cleared his throat uneasily, "Uh…it's the second one, BUT it's really good and it's really scary, you'll like it I promise!" He assured and continued to lead Norah. The female elf shook her head and chuckled at her boyfriend.
North Pole Headquarters: Computer Lab, 12:45 P.M
Tardy and Deborah
The sound of many clicking keys filled the air in the computer lab as the various elves went on doing what they pleased. Many were either browsing the net or playing games or getting ahead in their work. Tardy and Deborah were part of the third group, the nerd group, as some people called them.
Deborah was going over some information from past missions that she had saved on a USB drive. Tardy was sitting at the computer next to hers and was doing some research on some fancy high tech gadgets form around the world.
Every so often he would glance at Deborah but then shoot his eyes back to his screen whenever she would turn to look at him. Deborah would just smile and then get back to work. Even though they were in fact together, for some reason, they would have moments where they would both be too shy to communicate well. As a result, they would commonly endure many awkward moments and they had to be nudged in the right direction by their friends.
Deborah figured that it was partially her fault that they were moving so slowly. She was knew that she was the one that wasn't ready to move past a simple kiss. Tardy was constantly trying to get past 'first base', as they say, yet she would always talk him out of it and they would just end up chatting. Tardy insisted that it didn't bother him, but she knew that deep down it did.
As it was, right now was a good example of their awkward silences.
"Deborah?"
Said she elf's ears twitched at the sound of her name and she looked over at herboyfriend. "Yes Tardy?" she replied with a smile and adjusted her glasses. The male shifted in his seat, "I'm sorry." He apologized softly while looking down at his keyboard. His pointy ears were drooped down with shame.
Deborah tilted her head and furrowed her brows, "Sorry for what?"
"For trying to move this relationship too fast." He replied as he looked her in the eye. Deborah blinked in surprise, "Tardy, you have nothing to be sorry about. I'm the one that's slowing us down. If anything, I'm the one that should be sorry and I am! You're trying so hard to take our relationship to the next level yet here I am blowing you off every chance I get. But please don't take it that I don't love you because I do love you it's just…well, I've never been in any romantic relationship before and I'm a bit scared about going past the first level." She explained. Her hand was smoothing down her really short black hair.
It was Tardy's turn to raise a brow, "Scared?"
Deborah nodded, "Yeah, it's silly I know but, I've heard so many stories from other elves or about human females who get caught up in a bad relationship and end up getting hurt by the men. I heard the women get hurt mentally, emotionally and even physically…I don't want that to happen to me!" She whimpered softly as she stared back at her screen.
Yes she had heard the stories of women, both human and elf, who rushed into a romance only to have find that not all love stories have a happy ending.
"I would never do anything to hurt you Deborah." Tardy stated softly as he looked his girlfriend over. The female mission control elf looked back over at Tardy and smiled, "I know you wouldn't, it's just…"
"You can't help being cautious." Tardy finished with a soft understanding smile. Deborah nodded, she was grateful to have an elf like Tardy and she was sure that eventually, she would be ready to move onto level two, then three and then the final stage and hopefully they would get a family out of it. 'I just wish that Bryony's fiancé was more like Tardy. Kevin really doesn't deserve her.' Deborah mused as she and Tardy went back to work.
It had only been a few moments before Tardy spoke up again, "So...did you get the text from Carlos or Sabrina?" He asked without taking his eyes off the screen. Deborah nodded, "Yeah, apparently they have something important they want to share with us." She replied. Tardy chuckled, "It must be pretty good for them to actually send us a text to remind us to get together tonight."
Deborah giggled, "Yeah, too bad we won't know till this evening." She agreed while logging off her computer and putting her USB away in her pocket. Tardy did the same and the two elves stood up to stretch.
"So what do you want to do know?" Deborah asked as she and Tardy left the computer lab and started to walk down the halls. Tardy shrugged, "I guess we can have a late lunch since we basically missed it." He suggested. Deborah smiled, "That sounds good to me and I am pretty hungry."
Tardy grinned and held out his arm for the other elf to grab, "Then let's get going." He stated and started to lead the female over to the cafeteria. As they walked, Deborah let out a content sigh and rested her head against the alarm/gadget specialist elf's shoulder. Neither of them were very popular amongst the other elves, but they both knew that they were lucky to have each other, no matter how fast or slow their relationship went.
North Pole Headquarters: Main Hangar, 1:00 P.M
William and Kathy
William pulled off his blue cap and wiped the small beads of sweat that had formed on his forehead with his arm. He then pulled his cap back on. Despite living in a fortress made of mostly ice, it was surprisingly easy to work up a sweat just by helping clean the S-1.
'At least we're almost done.' William thought as he looked around and saw the other 3,000 elves that had volunteered to help wash the ship.
Nearby, he saw his girlfriend and love of his life, Kathy, fanning herself with her hand. William smirked before calling out,
"Uh, excuse me miss! No slacking off please!"
The female S-1 crew elf jumped and looked over to see who had called out. When she saw that it was one of helmsman, more specifically William, she smirked back at him and gave a mock salute, "Yes sir, no slacking off here sir!"
The two elves shared a laugh before getting back to scrubbing the huge red ship. They had been at it since six in the morning and they were probably going to take another hour or so to finish completely. Williams' tiny muscles were aching from all the scrubbing and he was pretty sure Kathy was just as tired as him.
Kathy was looking forward to finishing so that she could relax and perhaps take a small nap before enjoying the rest of her Saturday. 'The sooner we finish the better.' She thought as she cleaned faster and added, 'Next time I'll volunteer to help clean the inside.'
"Alright everyone, move back for the rinse!" The call came from one of the rise elves who were getting the large hoses ready. The elves moved back and watched as the water blasted out and rinsed away all of the soap, which rolled off into the drains at the bottom.
"At least all we have to do now is just dry it." William stated while handing Kathy a couple of drying rags. Kathy nodded, "It's a good thing we don't have to worry about waxing it till its closer to Christmas." She shuddered at the thought. The waxing process took an extra hour or two for the elves, but luckily the elves didn't have to worry about doing that till a couple of days before Christmas that way the ship looked nice and shiny on Christmas eve during the delivers. 'Not that anyone but us sees it.' Kathy mumbled in her mind.
As soon as the rinse elves finished removing all the soap, a large gust of air blew over the ship drying most of it but leaving the stubborn droplets behind. Once the fan was off, the rest of the cleaning crew walked back to the ship and started to wipe up the small drops of water with their cloths.
"So what are you going to do after we're done?" William asked Kathy when she moved into ear reach of him. The S-1 crew elf snickered while shaking her head, "I don't know about you, but I'm gonna take a nice nap. What about you?" She looked over at the helmsman who smiled at the thought of sleeping.
"I think I'll be taking a nap too cause sleeping sounds like a really good idea right now." He replied as he paused in his work and rotated one of his shoulders that had started to cramp up. 'I'm really going to be feeling this in the morning.' He whined as he went back to work.
Sure enough, it took the elves about an hour to fully dry the ship and officially say they were finished. With that, the elves tossed their cleaning rags into the large baskets where they were stored until the next use. They then all walked over to the many long tables that had been set up so the elves can place their phones and other unwater proof belongings.
The security elves that were there to make sure that no one's stuff went missing, moved out of the way as the elves filed passed them.
William made his way around everyone, "Alright Table: E, section 12…there it is!" he mumbled as he picked up his phone. It was a good thing that the tables were labeled with letters and numbers so it made it a whole lot easier to remember where one left their stuff.
"Hm, I got a message from Carlos." He read as the screen informed him that he had a text. He read over the short message and looked up when he heard Kathy approaching him, also looking at her phone. "I assume you got the message too?" He questioned.
Kathy nodded, "Yeah, but mine was from Sabrina. Apparently it's really good news and they really want us all to be there. I guess I should take my nap right now…and hopefully I don't over sleep."
William chuckled, "We're not meeting up till 6:00, and I highly doubt you'll over sleep."
"William," she started, "my naps are usually like three sometimes four hours long." She put a hand on her hip while William rubbed his head, "Oh! Well…I don't take very long naps, so if you want, I can wake you up when I do." He suggested.
Kathy shrugged, "Yeah that'll probably be the best plan cause if I set up my alarm, I'll probably just end up turning it off and then going back to bed." William nodded,
"Alright, so I guess we should get to sleep right now and then I'll wake you up in an hour or two." He said while Kathy nodded, "Sounds good to me. Now if you don't mind, I'd really like to take that nap now but I'll see you later." She stated while heading off to her room while William went to his.
As soon as Kathy's head hit the pillow, she fell fast asleep.
A/N: Hello everyone I'm back! Anywho, I'm really sorry for the long wait, I've been busy with other stuff so I never really had a chance to update my stories. But obviously I was able to find some extra time and made a nice long chapter for y'all:D
Unfortunately Peter and Bryony don't make an appearance as I wanted to focus on Bryony's friends and give them all a chapter of their own, but our two favorite elves will come out in the next chapter, I promise.
Anywho, I hope you guys (and gals) enjoyed this chapter. Now I'm off to work on and update some of my other fics and if I'm not too tired after that, I just might have the next chapter for this fic up by tonight. :D