#Winter Wonderland – No, the other kind of Wonderland. What surreal rabbit hole do your characters fall down today – 400 words | Rating: K | Genre: Humour
"What the-?"
"This is so cool," Deeks enthused, looking all around them.
"This is weird," Kensi contradicted, her glances a lot more suspicious.
"I'm with Kens on this one," said Callen, keeping his gun raised.
Callen and Sam had been tracking a suspect but he had given them the slip so they had been directed to go help Kensi and Deeks look over his apartment. He rented a basement apartment on the outskirts of town. No other tenants in the building except on the top floor who had no idea who he was never mind what he did.
And apparently, he did a lot. His whole place was decorated from top to bottom with Christmas decorations. Multiple, fully decorated trees, garlands strung everywhere, lights trailing down the walls and even an inflatable Santa and his reindeer.
"This place is like Santa's grotto," Sam announced, a note of awe in his voice.
"Is this fake snow?" Kensi asked, crouching down on the floor to see.
"Doesn't look at it," Deeks said critically, he thought himself a connoisseur of the stuff. "It doesn't come in sheets like this."
"That's what it is," Kensi pronounced, straightening up and bringing some with her.
"Seriously? Fake snow?" Deeks asked disbelievingly. "It can't do that."
"No," Kensi gave Deeks the side-eye. "It's a sheet of stretched cotton wool."
"Oh, well, that's more logical."
Callen and Sam snickered behind them.
"This place has more candy canes than Beale," Deeks commented loudly, inspecting one of them on a tree branch to blatantly change the subject.
"An impressive feat," Sam replied, lifting various snowmen ornaments for any hint of their guy or what he was doing.
"Why would you even do this?" his partner asked.
"Some people actually have Christmas spirit, G."
"I have Christmas Spirit!
"Putting the cards up someone else has given you does not mean you have Christmas spirit."
"He's not exactly a Grinch," Kensi pointed out.
"Like this," Deeks shouted cheerfully from the back.
The three agents exchanged suspicious looks. That didn't sound like a good thing. Deeks reappeared with a cardboard cut-out of the Grinch.
"There's loads of Christmas movie characters back there, even an ironically small one of the Elf."
"Aidan and Kamran would love this," Sam said, smiling whimsically.
"Probably more so without the egocentric maniac we're trying to get," Callen said, smirking.
Sam tried to smother him with the fake snow.