AN: This is set the Christmas right after Every End is a Beginning, but no knowledge of it is required for this last ficlet.
MACGYVER'S RESIDENCE
LA
Mac, his stomach full of delicious food, including Bozer's incredible pastrami (which had not caught fire…this time), grinned as he looked around the deck, at his friends, his family, all talking and laughing and getting into the Christmas spirit; drinking egg nog, pulling crackers, even singing carols.
He reached out and grabbed a cracker from the stack (unfortunately, not modified – everyone else had been very insistent about that – he got that nobody wanted the deck to get badly singed again, he didn't want it singed either, he'd had to replace six planks after 2015's Christmas, but he'd adjusted the formula…), and held the other end out to Jack with a little smirk and a raised brow.
Jack pointed a finger gun at him and grinned right back, then shifted his egg nog (not spiked this time) to his other hand, grabbed the other end and pulled.
The cracker went off with a bang, and Jack and Mac grabbed the contents, Mac shoving the silly paper crown on his partner's head, as Jack read out the predictably-awful joke and actually chortled.
Mac rolled his eyes and shook his head, reaching out to put an arm around Jack's shoulders, a gesture that the older man returned.
The two of them looked out at the rest of their family, both with very similar smiles on their faces.
Christmas is a time for family.
A time for your loved ones.
Time to spend with them, eat great food, enjoy great drinks, to laugh, to talk and sing, even if you're tone deaf. Time to make merry.
But it's that first bit that's most important.
The most important thing about Christmas isn't eating turkey or ham or goose or even pastrami, or drinking egg nog that may or may not be spiked, or getting caught under the mistletoe with that special someone.
No, the most important bit is spending it with the people you love.
And that's exactly what I'm doing.
Mac's smile widened a little more.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
AN: Well, Mac already said it for me, but Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate! And a very happy Hanukkah or Kwanzaa to those who celebrate those holidays, and happy winter (or summer, if you're a Southern Hemisphere inhabitant like me) break to everyone else!