A/N: Ho, ho, ho, my fellow readers! It is I, Santa Claus and I am here to- *record skips* Got'cha! I'm not Santa Claus, it's me, Orangebird124! Lol! Anyway, I'm here to give you all a Christmas present. If you guessed the tenth chapter for the "Sadness and Anger Fluffs", then you are correct! This one is going to be a TearBrick Christmas one-shot and I believe that you're all gonna love this because it took me nearly two weeks to plan this. Two weeks! With the year coming to an end, we're gonna try to end this off with a bang! Let's start the next chapter right now!
Disclaimer: I, once again don't own "Inside Out" and the characters. Disney and Pixar own it.
Chapter 10
The Perfect Christmas Gift
It was Christmas Eve in San Francisco and Riley's first Christmas this year. Her grandparents were coming over to visit her and she invited Jordan too. While waiting for the guests to arrive, Riley was helping her parents decorate around the house, including the tree.
Inside Headquarters, the Emotions were doing the exact same thing as well. Joy was humming to some Christmas songs while decorating their own Christmas tree, Fear was in the kitchen and he was cooking spaghetti and meatballs, Anger was wrapping up some presents and Sadness was in Disgust's bedroom and she was watching Disgust pick out some dresses to wear for tonight.
"Okay, Sadness, I want your honest opinion here. Which dress do you think would make me look prettier?" said Disgust, as she took out a red, sparkly dress and a purple dress. "The purple one on the left or the red one on the right?"
"Um, they both look pretty, but it's very hard to pick one." answered Sadness solemnly.
To be truthful, Sadness sometimes had a hard time choosing the right outfit because she wasn't really big on fashion and she wasn't so sure if she made the perfect choice or not. What if one of the dresses got a stain while eating their Christmas dinner? Then Disgust would never speak to her again for a week or even a month.
Finally, the blue Emotion answered, "If I were you, Disgust, I'd say the red dress on the right."
"Really? Well, thanks for your opinion." Disgust said satisfied.
"You're welcome, I guess." Sadness replied.
She jumped off Disgust's bed and left her bedroom as she closed the door. The teardrop walked back down to the main room and saw that Joy was still decorating the Christmas tree. She sighed and slowly approached over to her. Just as Sadness was about to take the ornament out from the box, Joy noticed the look on her face.
"Hey, Sadness, what's the matter?" asked Joy with concern. "It's Christmas Eve."
"I know, Joy, but I feel like that something isn't right." sighed Sadness sadly, as she placed the ornament on the branch.
"Don't you worry, Sadness. We got everything under control." Joy said optimistically. "Our grandparents and Jordan are coming over soon, Santa knows where we are and he'll leave us presents under the tree, we'll get to open our gifts…"
But Sadness quickly cut her off and continued, "Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I am happy that it's Christmas Eve and I like getting presents from you guys, but I haven't gotten anything for Anger and I don't know what to get for him."
"Oh, you want to get something for Anger? Now I get it." the star announced, finally realizing. "In fact, I know what you should get for him."
She started to whisper very quietly into Sadness' ear as she listened to Joy very carefully.
"You're right, Joy. That's what I should get for Anger." Sadness said, as she weakly smiled a little. "Thanks for helping me."
"Anytime for a friend." replied Joy happily. "I'll give you some money so you can purchase that gift."
Joy went into one of the drawers and took out a wallet with some money inside and then gave it to the teardrop.
"Thanks, Joy. Well, I'll be off now, I guess." she said, as she started walking towards the recall tube.
"Oh, and be back for our Christmas dinner, Sadness!" called Joy.
"I will!" the blue Emotion called back.
The tube dropped over Sadness and sent her to the Mind World. Anger had just finished wrapping the presents and he took a good look at them. There were four presents sitting on the floor perfectly, all except one.
"I didn't get a present for Sadness?" he said quietly, before he shouted angrily, "Rats!"
Suddenly, Fear came running through the door and he rushed over to the brick.
"What's wrong, Anger?" asked Fear nervously.
"That's none of your business, beanpole!" snapped Anger angrily. "Now get back to work before I throw you in the boiling pot!"
Fear screamed and quickly ran back to the kitchen. Anger walked over to Joy, who was still decorating the tree and cleared his throat, getting her attention.
"Oh, hey, Anger." the star greeted politely, but cheerfully. "Do you need anything?"
"Joy, I've got a problem." said Anger seriously. "I have no idea what I should get Sadness for Christmas. I got nothing. Nothing!"
"Don't worry, I can fix that." Joy said, before she started whispering very quietly into the brick's ear.
"Not a bad idea, Joy. Besides, I can't leave the kid out." he said satisfied, liking that idea. "She deserves a sweet gift."
Joy nodded in agreement as she took some money out from one of the drawers and gave it to him.
"Now go out and buy that present for her!" she encouraged.
Anger gave himself a salute, rushed over to the recall tube and jumped in just as the tube sucked him in. When he finally arrived at the Mind World, he stood up and looked all around the islands.
"Now, what island did Joy say I should go to?" Anger asked to himself, trying to remember until he finally got it. "Aha! Fashion Island! Maybe I can get a new outfit for her since she wears those sweaters all the time."
The brick walked through Long Term Memory until he spotted Fashion Island up ahead. He was about to run when suddenly, he tripped to the ground. He pushed himself up and saw a faded memory orb from behind.
"Ugh, I am not gonna fall down like that again because that was really silly of me." grunted Anger in annoyance, before he kicked the orb away and yelled, "Stupid memory orb!"
The memory orb rolled down swiftly until it stopped at Forgetter Paula's feet. She picked it up and placed it back on the shelf and then saw Anger not too far up ahead.
"Hey! Merry Christmas!" Forgetter Paula called.
"Oh, Merry Christmas yourself!" shouted Anger in annoyance. "Ya gotta watch where you put those memory orbs or I could've broken my elbow! Sheesh!"
What's his problem? thought Forgetter Paula, as she watched Anger walk away before shrugging that off and going back to work.
Meanwhile, Sadness was walking through on the other side of Long Term Memory until she came to a stop and saw Hockey Island.
"Alright, so this is where Joy said I should buy Anger a gift." said Sadness to herself softly. "I know that he likes hockey, so maybe I can get him something valuable."
She entered Hockey Island and looked around until she spotted a gift shop. Sadness went inside and she saw everything that was related to hockey from shirts, magnets, pucks, helmets and hockey sticks.
"Whoa…" she whispered loudly.
"Excuse me, miss? Are you looking for a last minute Christmas gift?" a male voice asked.
The teardrop yelped a bit as she turned around and chuckled nervously, "Oh, um, yes."
The male mind worker looked at her and said with concern, "Are you okay? You look a little…"
"Oh, no, no, I'm fine." Sadness said, trying to snap out of it. "I just need to buy a gift for my friend, Anger. It's something special…"
"Special, you say?" the male mind worker said, winking at her. "Come with me."
The teardrop followed him over to the counter and he took a key out from his pocket. He unlocked a large door and took out a big case which was a little bit heavy and carefully placed it on top of the counter. Then, he opened the case which revealed to be a platinum hockey stick with a logo of the Foghorns on the blade.
"A hockey stick?" she murmured, looking at the hockey stick.
"Not just any hockey stick, this hockey stick is extremely special and super rare because you can have it personalized." the male mind worker explained. "However, this is only available for a limited time."
"A limited time? Gee, I wonder how long you've been selling it for?" stated Sadness. "Never mind, I'll take it."
"Alright, let's get started now, shall we?" he said, smiling.
At Fashion Island, Anger was taking a long time looking at all of the outfits.
"Okay, not too bright, not too colorful, but dark." Anger said to himself.
He seemed not to be having any luck as he groaned in frustration, "Where the heck is a dark colored outfit when you need one?!"
Suddenly, he felt someone tap him on his shoulder. The brick turned around and saw a female mind worker from behind.
"Excuse me, sir, can I help you with anything?" she asked politely.
"Oh, sorry about that." Anger quickly apologized. "Yes, I'm looking for a dark colored outfit and it's for my friend, Sadness."
"You're in luck. We have some outfits like that, so let me show you." the female mind worker said, smiling.
She took Anger over to an aisle which had some dark colored clothing's hanging on a rack. He looked through the outfits and he pulled out a midnight blue t-shirt.
"Hey, lady, can you get this t-shirt personalized?" the brick asked gruffly.
"Of course I can. Follow me." she responded.
Once again, Anger followed her over to the counter as he gave her the shirt. Anger liked celebrating Christmas, but he sometimes couldn't stand the Christmas music that was either playing in the background or if Joy was singing them out loud even at the wrong times. The female mind worker took out a book from the drawer which had different word sayings inside. He took a good look for a while and then, he finally found one.
"I wanna use that one for the shirt." Anger said, pointing at the word in the book.
"Okey dokey." she said, before changing the subject and asked dreamily, "Can I ask you something? Are you and Sadness in love?"
Those six words made the brick's head erupt and he barked, "What?! No, we're not! We're just friends! Not lovers, but friends! Do I have to spell it out or what?!"
The female mind worker could not help but snicker a bit until Anger slammed his fist down on the counter and boomed, "STOP LAUGHING AND PERSONALIZE THAT SHIRT! I DON'T HAVE ALL DAY!"
She shivered a little and immediately got to work on that shirt carefully, but as fast as she could go.
Back at Hockey Island, the male mind worker had just finished wrapping up the hockey stick and Sadness gave him the money to pay for it. She got some change back and placed it in her wallet.
"Have a good Christmas." the male mind worker said politely.
"Uh, thanks. You too, I guess…" answered Sadness quietly.
The blue Emotion slowly walked out of the gift shop carrying Anger's present and started to walk back to Headquarters. On the way, Sadness saw all of the Christmas decorations and she saw and heard a lot of mind workers singing Christmas songs and caroling everywhere. Sadness didn't even realize that Anger was walking on the other side of Long Term Memory and just as they turned around at the next corner, bam! They both dropped their gifts to the ground.
"Oh my gosh, Anger! I'm so sorry!" Sadness cried, as she apologized quickly. "I didn't mean to bump into you like that! Please forgive me, it's only Christmas!"
She shielded her face as she thought Anger was going to yell at her and not accept her apology at first since he usually didn't like it whenever someone bumped into him on purpose or accident. The blue Emotion felt someone grab her hands and slowly pulled them away from her face. It was Anger.
"It's not your fault, kid." he said calmly, but gruffly. "I just didn't see you there."
"Oh, I didn't see you there either." replied Sadness with relief, as she saw the gift Anger was carrying on the ground. "Hey, you just dropped that gift."
Sadness was about to pick it up when the brick quickly stopped her and exclaimed, "Sadness, don't open that! It's for Joy!"
"I wasn't going to open that, I was just gonna return it to you." the teardrop explained calmly, as she picked up the present she was holding. "Look, I have this present for Joy too."
Suddenly, the teardrop remembered what Joy said about returning to Headquarters for the Christmas dinner. Before Anger could say anything, she quickly grabbed him by his arm and they started to run.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey!" the brick exclaimed. "What are you doing, Sadness?!"
"We gotta get back to Headquarters now!" yelled Sadness in a rushing voice.
As the two Emotions ran with their presents in their hands, they spotted a recall tube and jumped in at the same time. They finally got back to Headquarters just as they saw Fear carrying a pot of spaghetti into the main room. They quickly placed the presents down under the Christmas tree and ran straight to the table where Joy, Disgust and Fear were.
"You guys made it just in time!" announced Joy gleefully. "We're about to start our Christmas dinner!"
"Oh, goody, because I'm starving!" Anger said, grinning, as he jumped into his seat.
The raw nerve served them two spoonfuls of spaghetti with two meatballs each and they both started eating just as Riley started eating her Christmas dinner too. They were both very happy with their meal, the presents that Riley got from her grandparents and Jordan and they were able to watch some Christmas specials. Well, all accept one certain Emotion.
That night, after Jordan and Riley's grandparents went home; Riley placed the cookies and milk with the letter for Santa on the table and went to bed. Sadness nervously paced back and forth, thinking about that present she bought for Anger. Suddenly, the lights in Headquarters flickered on. She stopped pacing and saw Joy walking down the stairs with another concerned look on her face.
"Sadness, why aren't you in bed?" Joy asked with concern, as she approached over to the teardrop.
"Joy, I'm nervous. What if Anger hates the hockey stick I bought for him?" she said nervously, as her body started to shake a little. "I spent all my money on that gift."
Joy bent down and wrapped Sadness in a warm embrace as she replied optimistically, "I'm sure that he will love that gift you bought for him. Don't think that he's not gonna like it."
Sadness couldn't help but hug her back. She loved it when someone gave her a hug because it always made her feel better whenever she was sad or scared. A minute later, Sadness stopped the hug and looked up at the star.
"Listen to me, when Anger opens up that present tomorrow morning, he will be so happy and that will mean a lot to him." the star told Sadness.
"Do you think so?" the blue Emotion asked solemnly.
Joy smiled as she nodded and answered, "Of course. Now come on, we gotta get to bed. Don't want a cranky Emotion on Christmas Day!"
The teardrop smiled weakly and went upstairs to bed with Joy. The next day, it was Christmas which was the most wonderful time of the year. Riley rushed downstairs with her parents following behind to see what Santa had left for her. She was greeted to a surprise by a bunch of presents underneath the Christmas tree and in her stocking.
"Whoa, presents!" exclaimed Riley in amazement. "Thanks, Santa!"
Joy happily watched Riley open up her presents and the other Emotions came downstairs to see what the excitement was about. Suddenly, they remembered.
"Merry Christmas, Team Happy!" Joy shouted cheerfully, but loudly.
"Merry Christmas, Joy!" the Emotions shouted in unison.
"Now let's start the day off with some gift exchanging!" the star said happily.
They rushed to get their presents, but Sadness was the first one to grab Anger's gift before the chaos started. Anger and Sadness sat on the couch with their presents on their lap and glanced at each other.
"Merry Christmas, Anger." said Sadness, as she gave him his gift. "I hope you like the gift I got for you."
"Thank you and I hope you like your gift that I got for you too." Anger said, as he gave her the gift.
At the same time, they ripped the wrapping paper off and they opened the boxes. The brick stared into his gift which revealed to be the personalized platinum hockey stick, but his name was on the shaft and on the blade had flames between the Foghorns logo. He gently took it out and looked at it as a smile started to appear on his face.
"Kid, you did this for me?" asked Anger, as his voice filled with happiness.
"Of course I did, Anger." replied Sadness. "I know that you like hockey, so I wanted to make you your own hockey stick."
Anger jumped off the couch and gave the hockey stick a try by swinging it around until he accidentally hit Fear in the face with it, but the brick didn't notice.
"Ow! Right in the face!" Fear groaned in pain, as he covered his skinny face.
Sadness reached into her gift and pulled out a midnight blue t-shirt. On the front, it said '# 1 Emotion'.
"No way…" she whispered, stunned.
The blue Emotion stared at it for a long time and then showed it to Joy, Disgust and Fear.
"Oh," Disgust said, as her eyes widened. "Oh my gosh."
Suddenly, Sadness' eyes started to water. It wasn't tears of sadness, it was tears of joy. She pulled Anger into a tight embrace just as she began to cry.
"Oh, Anger! This is the best Christmas gift I ever got!" sobbed Sadness happily. "Thank you so much!"
The brick smiled as he hugged her back and said gently, "It's okay, kiddo. Just let it all out."
"I promised myself I wasn't gonna cry…" Fear was on the verge of tears, before he blew his nose right into Disgust's scarf.
"Oh, come on, Fear!" hollered Disgust, as she pulled her scarf away from him. "I just got this scarf washed!"
"Sorry about that!" Fear apologized quickly.
The two Emotions stopped the hug and Anger gently wiped Sadness' tears away with his red, stubby thumbs. The teardrop giggled a bit and then she put the t-shirt on over her sweater. Joy looked over at the Christmas tree and noticed that there wasn't a star on top.
"Hey, Sadness, would you do the honor of putting the star on top?" asked Joy happily.
"You really mean it?" Sadness gasped happily.
Joy nodded and this got the teardrop running back to the Christmas tree. She looked high and low for the shiny, golden star until she found it in a small box. Sadness carefully took it out and tried to put it up, but even the elevation of her tiptoes offered no success.
"I got you, kiddo," a gruff voice said from behind. "Up we go!"
Sadness yelped a little as she felt someone dive down between her feet and picked her up by her ankles. She wobbled a bit, but luckily, she placed the star on top of the tree and the Emotions clapped and cheered for her. She looked down and saw Anger as he gave her a wink.
"You did good, kid." the brick announced proudly. "You did good."
He gently placed her down and looked up at the ceiling which had a mistletoe on top. This could only mean one thing. Anger pressed his lips against Sadness' lips and she immediately kissed him back passionately for as long as she could. Anger loosened his tie and wrapped it around her neck, being careful not to choke her. They wrapped each other in a warm hug and in less than a minute, they pulled away and looked directly into their eyes.
"Sadness, I gotta tell you something, this has been the best Christmas we ever had in our lives." said Anger happily, as he placed his tie back on.
"You said it, Anger. Merry Christmas." Sadness giggled in agreement.
"Merry Christmas to you too." Anger replied, as he gave her another small kiss on her lips.
They took each other's hands and they continued to open their presents with Joy, Disgust and Fear. Sadness and Anger were very, very happy that they got the perfect gift for each other. It was like a dream come true and they celebrated the special holiday for the rest of the day.
A/N: So, that's that! I hope you all enjoyed this little Christmas present from me since I wanted to write this one-shot on time for Christmas. Great googly moogly! I can't believe that this story is starting to become a success and look, I already got over fifty reviews which is all thanks to you guys! Please do review, follow and favorite this chapter and in that case, I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa and most of all, Happy New Year! The next one-shot will be written in the New Year and I'm gonna keep on bringing TearBrick into the community so whatever you do, don't go anywhere!
THANK YOU & Happy Holidays and I'll see you all in the New Year!