The morning cane to early for my liking, in the form of eight hyper adults, ripping me from my bed with a quick, "we're stealing raven for a bit. " thrown over their shoulders. Next thing I knew, I was peppers floor surrounded by, toriel, frisk, Nat, Sharon, undyne, alphys, Laura, Aliza, and pepper. "really, you guys couldn't wait till I woke up to skele nap me?"I snarkily asked as they put a cup of coffee in my hands.
"No we couldn't, we wanted to know what Reds surprise was, seeming as he kept it from all if us as well. "pepper asked as she plopped herself on the couch next to me, frisk and Aliza sitting on the other side of me.
"huff. OK you guys, red set up a romantic dinner for us. "I answered
"and?"toriel prodded with a twist if her laws in a go on motion.
"and he showed me the nursery that he was working on since he got his soul back. "I replied as everyone awed.
"oh, is that what he wanted Steve, to help him with?"Sharon asked
"I thought I recognized the artwork. "I replied as sharon, and nat gave me a confused look.
"when did you see Steve's art? he's always so secretive about it."nat asked as Sharon nodded in agreement.
"The Smithsonian, when Bucky and I got out of hydra, he wanted to look up who this Bucky guy was, so we went there and they had some of Steve'sq art form the war there. "I explained
"oh. So what did he want uncle Steve to do?"Aliza asked as she set the chess board for her and frisk to play.
"he wanted Steve to paint a symbol to represent everyone in the family. "I said as they all looked at me.
"can, can we see it?"alphys asked as the others had a us to look on their faces as well.
"sure. "I replied as we all got on the elevator and went to my floor.
We entered to see, Blue, paps, Black, crooks, and fell in the nursery, looking at the painting adorning the walls. "hey guys what brings you lot here?"I asked as me and the girls walked in.
"ᏔᎬ ᏔᎪNᎢᎬᎠ ᎢᎾ ᏚᎬᎬ ᏔᎻᎪᎢ ᎡᎬᎠ ᏔᎪᏚ ᏚᎾ ᏚᎬᏟᎬᎡᎢᏆᏙᎬ ᎪᏴᎾᏌᎢ FᎾᎡ ᎢᎻᎬ ᏞᎪᏚᎢ ᎷᎾNᎢᎻ, ᏴᎬᏟᎪᏌᏚᎬ FᎬᏞᏞ ᎪNᎠ ᎷᏌᎢᎢ2ᎡᎬFᏌᏚᎬᎠ ᎢᎾ ᎢᎬᏞᏞ ᎪNY ᎾF ᏌᏚ. "Black said his hands on his hips.
"YᎬᏚ ᏚᏆᏚᎢᎬᎡ, ᏔᎬ ᏔᎬᎡᎬ ᏙᎬᎡY ᏟᏌᎡᏆᎾᏌᏚ ᎪᏴᎾᏌᎢ ᏆᎢ. "paps said
"don't feel bad, the girls wanted to see it too. "I replied as they looked around the room. After a few minutes blue, paps, and crooks started to jump up and down in excitement.
"ᎡᎪᏙᎬN! ᎡᎪᏙᎬN! ᎡᎪᏙᎬN!"The three of them said while jumping.
"yes! Yes! Yes!"I replied in sarcastic joy.
"ᏔᎬ ᏓᏌᏚᎢ ᎻᎪᎠ ᎢᎻᎬ ᏴᎬᏚᎢ ᏆᎠᎬᎪ. "Blue stated ignoring my sarcasm.
"ᏔᎬ ᎠᎬᏟᏆᎠᎬᎠ ᎢᎻᎪᎢ ᏔᎬ ᏚᎻᎾᏌᏞᎠ ᎻᎪᏙᎬ ᎾNᎬ ᎾF ᎢᎻᎾᏚᎬ ᏢᎾᎢᏞᏌᏟK ᎢᎻᏆNᏩᏚ ᎢᎻᎪᎢ ᎻᏌᎷᎪNᏚ ᎻᎪᏙᎬ. " paps said picking up where blue left off.
"YᎬᏚ ᎪᏞᏞ ᎾF ᏌᏚ ᏔᏆᏞᏞ ᎷᎪKᎬ Ꭺ ᎠᏆᏚᎻ, Ꮖ ᎾF ᏟᎾᏌᎡᏚᎬ ᏔᏆᏞᏞ ᎷᎪKᎬ ᎷY ᏔᎾᎡᏞᎠ FᎪᎷᎾᏌᏚ ᏞᎾNᏩ ᏢᏆᏩ ᏚᎪNᎠᏔᏆᏟᎻᎬᏚ. "crooks said with pride in his voice.
"Ꮖ ᎾF ᏟᎾᏌᎡᏚᎬ ᏔᏆᏞᏞ ᎷᎪKᎬ ᎷY ᏞᎪᏚᎪᏩNᎪ. "fell said
"Ꮖ ᏔᏆᏞᏞ ᎷᎪKᎬ ᎷY ᎠᏌᎷᏢᏞᏆNᏩᏚ. "Black stated his chest puffed out
"Ꮖ'ᏞᏞ ᎷᎪKᎬ ᎷY ᎢᎪᏟᎾᏚ. "Blue chirped his eyes in the shapes of stars
"ᎪNᎠ Ꮖ ᎢᎻᎬ ᏩᎡᎬᎪᎢ ᏢᎪᏢYᎡᏌᏚ ᏚᎻᎪᏞᏞ ᎷᎪKᎬ ᎷY FᎡᏆᎬNᎠᏚᎻᏆᏢ ᏚᏢᎪᏩᎻᎬᎢᎢᏆ. "paps said his hands on his hips, his scarf blowing in the non existent wind, as I looked at the girls faces.
"I'll make some potato salad. "Laura said
"I can make my butterscotch cinnamon pie. "toriel added as frisk jumped in excitement.
"I'll make my aunt Peggy's, 8 bean salad. "Sharon said
"alphys and I will make some miso soup. "undyne said
"I'll make some borscht. "nat said her Russian accent coming through.
"I can make my family's ambrosia salad. "pepper said as everyone turned to me, expectant looks on there faces.
"oh, no not gonna happen. "I replied crossing my arms over my chest.
"please?"Aliza asked
"no. "I replied
"ᏢᏞᎬᎪᏚᎬ ᏚᏆᏚᎢᎬᎡ ?"both paps and crooks asked.
"nope. "I replied ignoring their puppy eyes.
"ᏢᏞᎬᎪᏚᎬ ᎡᎪᏙᎬN ?"Blue and black asked as the others gave me their best puppy eyes.
"nope, no, not gonna happen. "I replied digging my heels in.
It was the two souls I was carrying pulsing almost as if they were asking me as well.
"OK, OK I'll make my baklava, under one condition. "I said finally giving in.
"ᏔᎻᎪᎢ ᎬᏙᎬᎡ YᎾᏌᎡ ᏟᎾNᎠᏆᎢᏆᎾN ᏆᏚ ᏚᏆᏚᎢᎬᎡ, ᏔᎬ ᏚᎻᎪᏞᏞ ᎠᎾ ᏆᎢ. "paps said as nat, Sharon, Laura, and pepper knew I could be vindictive with my conditions.
"OK then, I'll make my baklava as long as you five younger brothers get the judges to make a dish as well. "I replied as knowing look came over Sharon's, Nat's, Laura's, and peppers faces.
"why do I have a feeling you just made a bet. "Sharon asked
"I wouldn't call it a bet per say, more like a friendly competition, if they can get the judges in he kitchen cooking, I'll make my baklava for the potluck. "I answered
"ᎻᎾᏔ ᏞᎾNᏩ ᎠᎾ ᏔᎬ ᎻᎪᏙᎬ?"Black asked
"let's see, its 10 am now, and the potluck will be near dinner, so about six at night, so I'll give you two hours to complete your task, sound fair?"I stated as the five skeletons nodded in agreement, before I teleported to the kitchen a shit eating grin on my face.
That was the look that Sam, Steve, and Bucky walked into the kitchen to see, just as Sam was about to ask me what I was so happy about, sans shuffled in while rubbing one of his eyes. I brought my coffee cup to my lips to hide the ever growing smirk I was wearing.
"mornin. "sans mumbled as he grabbed himself a cup of coffee.
"morning. "The three men said as I gave a two finger salute from my coffee cup, before sans left the kitchen to head to the lab.
"OK, why the hell do you look like the cat that got the canary?"Sam asked, a few minutes after sans left.
"I have no idea what your talking about Sammy. "I replied, a glint of mischief in my eyes, as I walked over to the kitchen table to sit down.
"Sam it ain't worth it, as long as your not involved she won't, tell you what she has planned. "Bucky explained, placing a hand in his shoulder.
"how do you know that?"Steve asked
"remember when we were in Bucharest? Well raven would work as a bartender for the bar that was under our apartment. Well one night these three guys were giving her a hard time, about her covering her head and hands. Well I found out and I was going to teach them a lesson, she told me not to and that she would handle it, I asked what she planned to do. "Bucky started to explain
"and let me guess she wouldn't tell you right?"Sam asked
"yep, needless to say, that those three guys that gave her a hard time ended up in the nut house, screaming about, how the Grimm reaper was a woman and was after them, and she still gets the biggest shit eating grin when she thinks about it. "Bucky finished as the three of them left both the kitchen and me to my own devices.
After I had finished my cup of coffee, I teleported to my room, and grabbed my knitting, before teleporting back to the kitchen, so I could sit back and watch the show. Once I was seated with another cup of coffee next to me, I pulled out the Royal Blue sweater I started when I was in horrortale. I was just getting ready to add the skein of deep red for the first stripe, when I saw mutt and stretch run by the kitchen, blue an slack following hot on their trail shortly after. A chuckle escaping my throat, as I started the first row of red, while humming the opening notes of making christmas from nightmare before christmas. The souls pulsed asking me to sing for them as I knitted.
"da da da, da da da
This time
Da da da, this time
Making Christmas
Making Christmas (ooh)
Making Christmas, making Christmas
Is so fine.
It's ours this time
And won't the children be surprised. "I started to sing as mutt ran by the kitchen again, this time black was hanging from his back like a monkey.
"it's ours this time
Making Christmas
Making Christmas
Making Christmas
Time to give hem something fun
To talk about for years to come
Let's have a cheer from everyone
(it's time to party)
Making Christmas
Making Christmas
Snakes and mice get wrapped up so nice
With spider legs and pretty bows
It's ours this time. "I continued as I felt sans teleporting around trying to avoid from what I could hear, paps and crooks, a chuckle escaping me as I heard crooks yell, "NᎾᏔ ᏚᎪNᏚ ᏚᎢᎾᏢ ᎢᎻᏆᏚ FᎾᎾᏞᏆᏚᎻNᎬᏚᏚ. "
"all together, that and this
With all our tricks
We're making Christmas time
Here comes Jack. "The line synced perfectly with red, sans, stretch, and mutt being cornered in the hall way leading to the kitchen by the younger brothers.
"I don't believe what's happing to me
My hopes, my dreams, my fantasies
Ah, ha ha ha. "I laughed as the younger brothers dog piled onto the four older ones, sans head popping out between paps shoulders and blacks pelvis, facing me as I kept singing my eyes meeting his.
"went they be impressed
I am a genius?"I watched as the look of realization came over sans face as my shit eating grin grew even more, giving me away.
"see how I transform this old rat
Into a most delightful hat
Hmm, compliments from me to you,
On this your most intriguing hat
Consider though this substitute
A bat in place of this old rat.
Huh! No, no, no, now that's all wrong
This thing will never make a present
It's been dead for much to long
Try something fresher
Something pleasant
Try again, don't give up. "I said as the younger brothers got to their feet, along with the older ones who had the same look of resignation on their faces, as the slunked to the kitchen, while I placed my knitting on the table. Still singing as I followed the judges into the kitchen.
"all together that and this
With all our tricks
We're making Christmas time.
cause when the full moon
Starts to climb
We'll all sing out
Hee hee hee,
It's Christmas time. "I finished a girlish giggle leaving me as I walked over to the freezer to get some of the dough for the baklava out to thaw as I made the filling.
"you're behind this! You set us up!"sans accused pointing to me as I turned placing my ingredients on the counter.
"and where's your proof?"I asked as I place the frozen dough in a bowl of cold water.
"The shit eating grin you wearing when we got cornered. "he shot back as the others started to agree with him.
"riiiggghhhhtttt. I was just supposed to keep a straight face, as the four of you got dog piled by your younger brother?"I skeptically asked as sans mouth kept opening and closing while the others mutters about it having to be funny from an outside perspective.
The five of us were finishing up our dishes by mid afternoon, sans had made a quiche, red grilled corn, while stretch made ceviche de pulpo, and mutt made a ole fashioned creole crawfish boil. Frisk and Aliza had walked in just as we put the finishing touches on the dishes. "paps, crooks, Blue and Black"Aliza started to say as frisk continued signing
(wanted us to show where we will be having the pot luck. ) as we followed them out to the side of the compound where we had a picnic spot for avenger get to get hers and such. We placed our dishes on one of the four picnic tables that were lined end to end, before joining the others. I sat next to Bucky and toriel who were watching, Steve and Sam play horseshoes against red and Stark, toriel was leaning against Bucky's chest with his arm around her.
"hey little bones. "Bucky said in greeting
"hello raven. "toriel added
Hey you two, so?how have things been?"I asked realizing that this was the longest I've gone with out talking to Bucky since we got out of Hydra.
"thing have been going wonderful, James has asked me and frisk to move in with him. "toriel replied a soft smile on her face.
"that great, I'm so happy for the three of you. "I said a smile of pride on my face, for how far Bucky has come.
Frisk ran up to Bucky and toriel, when I noticed that Stark left the game. (daddy, will you help uncle Red please?)frisk asked causing the three of us to pause at what she called Bucky, who broke out into a huge grin.
"who am I to deny call of help from a pretty dame. "he replied as toriel moved so he could get up. He grabbed frisks hand as she led him to the horseshoe pit.
"You know frisk hasn't even called asgore dad yet. "toriel said as we watched Bucky interact with frisk.
"something tells me, that she knows who she wants to be her father figure. "I replied as we lapsed into since watching Steve and Bucky get as competitive as the did back in the day.
A few hours later, found all of us around the tables eating dinner. I was sitting with red on my left and Aliza on my right, with nat sitting across from me. After a few bites I noticed that nat kept looking at my right hand as I was eating. When our eyes finally met I knew I was found out.
ᏢᏞᎬᎪsᎬ ᎠᎾᏁ'Ꮖ sᎪᎽ Ꭺ ᎳᎾᏒᎠ? My eyes pleaded
ᎯᏁᎴ ᏊᏂᎩ ᎦᏂᏫᏌlᎴᏁ'Ꮏ Ꮂ? Her eyes stated as they narrowed. To which I slanted my eyes to paps and mettatons direction then back to her showing my guilt at the fact that they haven't been able to even start planning their wedding. She rolled her eyes in response as I pleaded one more time for her not to say anything, to which she leaned back in her seat a smirk on her face, as she waited for the perfect opportunity.
After the dinner dished were finished, toriel and I started to serve the desert, as I was handing nat her plate, she made a show of looking at my right hand, "raven, why didn't you tell us Red proposed to you?"she asked causing the whole room to go quite as paps looked at my metallic left hand, and Bucky looked at my right confirming what nat said.
"Ꮖ ᎪᎷ ᎪFᎡᎪᏆᎠ YᎾᏌ ᎪᎡᎬ ᎷᏆᏚᎢᎪKᎬN ᎻᏌᎷᎪN NᎪᎢᎪᏚᎻᎪ, ᎡᎬᎠ ᎠᏆᎠ NᎾᎢ ᏢᎡᎾᏢᎾᏚᎬ ᎢᎾ ᎷY ᏚᏆᏚᎢᎬᎡ, FᎾᎡ ᎢᎻᎬᎡᎬ ᏆᏚ NᎾ ᎡᏆNᏩ ᎾN ᎻᎬᎡ FᏆNᏩᎬᎡ. "paps said as he canted his head to my left hand.
"not every country, places the engagement ring on the right hand. "she smoothly replied waiting for someone to take the bait, which Bucky happily took.
"did you know toriel, that in Russia they put he engagement ring on the right hand?"he asked as toriel shook her head no, while Bucky gave me a pointed look.
With a sigh of defeat, I raised my right hand showing the ring to everyone. All of a sudden I was surrounded by the others congratulating red and I. I noticed hat papyrus and mettatons stayed sitting, whispered back and forth, until paps eyes lit up.
I watched in trepidation as paps walked over to us, gaming everyone's attention as he gently placed his hand on my shoulder.
"Ꮖ ᎢᎻᎬ ᏩᎡᎬᎪᎢ ᏢᎪᏢYᎡᏌᏚ ᏔᎾᏌᏞᎠ FᏆᎡᏚᎢ ᏞᏆKᎬ ᎢᎾ ᏟᎾNᏩᎡᎪᎢᏌᏞᎪᎢᎬ ᎷY ᏚᏆᏚᎢᎬᎡ ᎪNᎠ ᎡᎬᎠ FᎾᎡ ᎢᎻᎬᏆᎡ ᏌᏢᏟᎾᎷᏆNᏩ ᏔᎬᎠᎠᏆNᏩ, ᎪNᎠ ᏚᎬᏟᎾNᎠᏞY Ꮖ ᎢᎻᎬ ᏩᎡᎬᎪᎢ ᏢᎪᏢYᎡᏌᏚ ᎪNᎠ ᎷY ᎬQᏌᎪᏞᏞY ᏩᎡᎬᎪᎢ ᏚᏆᏩNᏆFᏆᏟᎪNᎢ ᎾᎢᎻᎬᎡ ᎻᎪᎠ Ꭺ ᏩᎡᎬᎪᎢ ᏆᎠᎬᎪ, ᎢᎻᎪᎢ ᏔᎬ ᏚᎻᎾᏌᏞᎠ ᎻᎪᏙᎬ Ꭺ ᎠᎾᏌᏴᏞᎬ ᏔᎬᎠᎠᏆNᏩ. "he stated as my shoulders slumped in relief as I looked at metta who nodded in agreement. I then looked at red who gave me a smile of reassurance.
"You know what paps?"I asked
"ᏔᎻᎪᎢ ᏚᏆᏚᎢᎬᎡ?"he replied
"that, your and mettas idea is the greatest idea I ever heard."I stated as paps swept me up in his arms before swinging side to side in happiness.