25 days of Christmas: Our first Christmas
Today I found a really cute challenge for your OTP. It was a challenge with Christmas prompts and I decided to do it. This is the first. Tomorrow I'll post two fics because I am one day behind since I didn't post one yesterday.
Set in the future. I still did not decide if all 25 fics will have a continuity or if they will be separated. I am still waiting for suggestions.
Emma and Killian were on the sofa one night, watching "Love Actually" when Killian started to talk.
"Henry said that next week we should start watching the first movie of Home Alone."
"Did he say that?" Emma asked raising her head from his chest and looking at him.
"Mhm. He said we should start preparing for Christmas and Home Alone is the movie that will start everything."
"Well, he's right. We should do that. We should start watching it on 1st December." Emma agreed and then put her head back on his chest.
They stayed like that for another ten minutes until Killian pause the movie and started to talk again.
"Emma, what is 'Christmas'?" He asked in a curious voice.
"The Christmas doesn't exist in Enchanted Forest?" Even more curious than her.
"Not that I'm aware, no. Or maybe it is, but it doesn't have the name it has on this world?"
"Well, Christmas is a time of celebrating. You know how we celebrated Thanksgiving and Halloween? Something like that. A big dinner with your family, gifts for your loved ones, lazy days followed by lazy nights in bed, watching a movie in front of the fire." Emma ended playing with her fingers on his bare chest and looking at him with love in her eyes.
"It sounds beautiful." He said looking softly at her.
"It is. I think. I never celebrated the day. Not like this." She answered to him. Suddenly a saddens hit when she thought about the last 29 Christmas days she loved with her family.
"How did you? If not like this, then how did you celebrate it?"
"I had a small dinner, just for myself, followed by watching an action movie or a horror movie with a bottle of wine in my hand. No cute music or romantic movies. Sometimes I didn't even had a Christmas three. And no gifts. Definitely no gifts."
"What is a Christmas tree?"
"It's a three you put in your house and you decorate it with your family and on the Christmas day you put the gifts under the three."
"And you never had this?"
"No. I never spent enough time in a foster home so I can be with them for Christmas. Not even with Ingrid."
"When it's this day, Emma?" Killian asked her very serious.
"It's on 25th December. But all month it's dedicated to it because you have to go and buy the three, then decorate it. Then you have to buy the gifts and find places where you can hide them so the person who should received the gift, won't know what you bought for them. It's an entire process, but most of the time it brings happiness to people so you don't really process for fast time goes."
"We will celebrate it this year, Emma." Killian said determinate.
"Of course we will. Henry would make a scene if he won't have a gift under the three and a big dinner with everyone."
"No. I mean we will celebrate everything. Together. I want you to have everything you missed. I want you to have that big three and to decorate it together, I want to buy gifts for you and hide them were you can't find them, I want to make dinner for you. I want to have dinner with you and Henry and your parents and Regina and everyone who will be invited. And finally I want to stay in front of the fire to watch those most than necessary romantic movies, and then make love to you in our warm bed and hold you after that. So you know how happy you can be and how loved you are."
"Killian I love you so much." Emma said with tears in her eyes, putting a hand on his cheek.
"And I love you, my love. And I will be sure that I will show you just how much, for the rest of my life."