Christmas morning couldn't come early enough for Scarlett and by 8am she was bouncing off the wall with excitement but it was too bad that Damon and Stefan were still sleeping because Scarlett was bored. She had put the turkey in the oven, snuck a few presents that were wrapped last night under the tree and made a fresh batch of eggnog just to name a few things. So deciding to shake things up a little Scarlett poured a glass of eggnog and made her way upstairs to Damon's room. Creeping into the room Scarlett put the glass down on the bedside table before proceeding to jump on Damon's bed in an effort to wake him. "UNCLE DAMON! Wake up it's Christmas jackass!" Scarlett squealed.
"Go away…" Damon grumbled.
"Wakey wakey Uncle Damey!" Scarlett crooned in a rather happy manner as she continued jumping until she jumped on Damon's leg and fell onto the bed in a rather bouncy manner and it caused her to burst out laughing before getting back up and continuing what she was doing.
"Red are you drunk? This early in the morning? …Did you drink the rest of the egg nog?" Damon wearily questioned and Scarlett couldn't help but giddily nod as she continued to jump up and down on Damon's bed.
"But I'm not drunk, at least not yet. I've only had two glasses of the batch that I made this morning." Scarlett quipped in bemusement, jumping on Damon's bed was actually kind of fun as the bed was rather springy and it made Scarlett think about doing it some more until she decided to stop as she was starting to get vertigo from all the jumping. So she jumped once more before happily bouncing off the bed. "I brought you up some, it's on the table…"
"Good girl I'm impressed..." Damon murmured as he tiredly sat up and grabbed the glass and started drinking it.
"Now I'm going to wake up your brother so be downstairs in five minutes otherwise no more egg nog for you." Scarlett stated before waltzing out the room belting out Rudolph the red nose reindeer at the top of her lungs, continuing as she crossed the house to get to Stefan's room although she got the surprise when it turns out that Stefan was already awake and writing in his journal. "Merry Christmas Uncle Stefo."
"Merry Christmas to you too Scarlett." Stefan replied with a small chuckle.
"Come downstairs, come downstairs, come downstairs, come downstairs I want to open presents so come now! I'm being serious Uncle Stefan come downstairs otherwise, I won't be happy and I don't do not happy on Christmas!" Scarlett squeaked as she made her way over to Stefan and dragged him up off his bed and started shoving out the door before proceeding to jump on his back and make him give her a piggyback down the stairs to the living room.
When they got there Damon was already waiting and after a few weird and happy smiley interactions between Stefan and Damon, the three of them got down to business. For Christmas Scarlett got Damon a new leather jacket to replace the one that she ruined, a very expensive bottle of scotch and a Taylor Swift cd for laughs plus some of the Hawaiian coffee that he oddly liked. Then for Stefan, Scarlett got him some books and the dvd boxset of I love lucy which was like his favourite show ever.
"It's my turn." Stefan said as he handed over two present to Scarlett.
Taking the biggest one Scarlett unwrapped it to find that it was a camera but not just any camera it was rolleiflex and on the side there was a label that read G. Salvatore. And Scarlett felt a large lump in her throat that she found it hard to swallow. It was probably all the egg nog though. "Did this belong to my dad?"
"Yeah Gabriel loved taking pictures, you were probably too you to remember but your dad was always taking pictures of you growing up. I found the camera in the attic whilst I was putting some things in the attic and I thought you'd like it. Something about your dad that you didn't know about." Stefan explained. "And it's also connected to the second part of your present, I found some film in the camera and I went and got it developed…"
Opening the second present Scarlett opened a flat box to find inside a framed black and white photograph of her and her dad when she four. Scarlett was sitting in her dad's lap and the two of them were laughing as he read her a book. "Wow…"
"Zach took it, I assume. It's a really nice photo of you and your dad." Stefan noted.
"Yeah…"
"Enough of the sappy stuff, now it's my turn and Red you are really going to like this one." Damon interrupted shoving a several gifts into Scarlett's hand. "And before you ask there is nothing dead in here."
Weary and very slowly unwrapping the present Scarlett found there to be several items in there, the first was about ten different pairs of socks, odd just the way Scarlett liked them then the second was a bobble head of Vito Corleone from the godfather which was without a doubt Scarlett's favourite film since she was ten. There was also one of those ridiculously ugly Christmas sweaters which Scarlett loved because everyone hated them And lastly a rag doll that was supposed to be Red Riding Hood with her black hair and big blue eyes and it fully came with the red cape and detachable basket and this being Damon he had stuck a piece of paper in the basket saying I owe you one axe. "This is great all of there are…"
Being the polite girl that Scarlett usually wasn't she hugged her uncles and over that was she went about cooking them breakfast which wasn't overly fancy considering the dinner they were going to have later but still it rocked. Once that had all been done Scarlett had sent Damon to go to the 'second' living room to put Home Alone in the dvd player so they could all watch it as per Scarlett's holiday traditions and Damon actually went along, after he swiped a bottle of Red wine that he thought Scarlett didn't notice. Although she pretend to. But she let him be as Scarlett was putting the vegetables on the stove and in the over to cook whilst Stefan watched as Scarlett had made it clear that he was not to touch a thing if he wanted to live.
"Have you been drinking and cooking Christmas dinner at the same time?" Stefan asked Scarlett as she took a sip of her eggnog as she checked on the turkey not to mention her parsnips and placed the potatoes oven.
Scarlett looked at Stefan sheepishly as she swallowed about her fifth cup of eggnog so far. "Yeah, I thought everyone did that…"