Chapter Eighteen: Christmas Eve Escapades

Sasha's POV

After Scott and Charlie left for their midnight ride, Bernard and I sat in his office tying up any loose ends.

"So, what now?" I asked him curiously. I had never really been around the head elves before my time in the human world, so all of this was pretty new to me as to the amount of things they did. It wasn't too surprising that Bernard was a workaholic, he had to be with the amount to things he had to do.

"Nothing that can't wait until tomorrow." He responded, "I have Judy keeping an eye on Santa and she'll notify me if there's an emergency." Before I could ask what he was up to for the rest of the night, he continued, "I was thinking maybe we could go get dinner and maybe you could enlighten me on what Star Wars is."

I smiled, taking his hand, "Star Wars is a film series. I'm sure there's a way for us to watch the movies if you're interested."

"That wouldn't be too hard, there should be a copy of each down in the gift department."

"Is that new?"

He nodded, "Yeah, in the past century we've tried to branch out a bit. It started with records and record players and slowly moved to TVs, CDs, and VHS. We try to keep a log of them so we can give the kids exactly what they want when they ask for those types of things. Since they're films, we actually may have a copy of them in the library. If not, we might have copies of the films in the movie theater."

My jaw dropped, "There's a movie theater? Since when?"

"A few decades, the scouts bring back films every now and again, the better Santas have in the past too." He answered, "Why? You want to go?"

I smirked, "Let's see, you and me in a dark movie theater, possibly just the two of us given what day is, yes please. Although, if we did that, I don't know how much we'd be seeing of the movie." That thought led to another, "Unless you were interested in picking up dinner from the kitchens and going back to your place."

"What would we being doing at my place?" He asked intrigued.

"We could start with this." I kissed him softly, then pulled away, "So, where would you like to go?"

"Let's go pick up dinner, so we don't have to bother with it later." He replied, "We can always save it for when we're hungry."

"You're not hungry?"

"Not for food." He answered, his eyes boring into mine.

"Neither am I." I agreed, kissing him again.

He pulled away after a few moments, "Let's go pick up dinner, so we don't have to about it later." I nodded in agreement before we headed down to the kitchen.

After picking up containers of food from the kitchen staff, we headed to Bernard's house. Each anointed head elf, along with the other department heads, were provided their own homes outside of the main building and the elf housing buildings. The Head Elf estate was the biggest of all of the homes other than the Claus estate, which happened to be half of the main building of the workshop. Once we got inside, we quickly put away the food.

He turned to face me, placing his hands on my hips, "So, where did we leave off?"

"Right about here." I snaked my arms around his neck, pulling him into another kiss.

Allie's POV

After heading to my room, I set the doll on the nightstand next to the bed and pulled the bottle back out. After a quick examination of the bottle, I could tell it was a potion of some sort. Knowing Scott hadn't started his training in magic yet, I came to the conclusion it must have been made by Sasha while she was spending her time in the cabin. Whatever this did, she made it specifically for me as my Christmas present. It must do something of importance to given the label and she took the time to study and practice magic to make it.

Taking the cap off the bottle, I murmured to myself, "Let's see what you do." I drank the bottle and then changed into pajamas and went to bed. Anything that needed my attention could be done in the morning, it's not like I had much to do here.

Sasha's POV

As we moved to change positions, a buzzing noise was heard. I looked to the nightstand next to the bed, it was coming from his pager which was vibrating against the wood.

"Bernard, you might want to get that." I suggested halfheartedly.

"Later." He responded as he started to kiss down my neck, "If it were really that important, they'd call. They're probably just giving me an update on package delivery." He added between kisses. Within seconds his phone rang, he groaned, "Shit." He pulled away from me and got off of the bed to answer the phone, "This better not be a package update." He told whomever was on the phone. After a couple of moments, he said, "I'll be there as soon as I can." He hung up and started to get dressed, "They lost contact with Santa, I'm going down to see what I can do to help."

"I'll go with you." I responded, starting to get dressed as well.

It ended up being that E.L.F.S. had to be deployed to get Scott out of jail, he was arrested for kidnapping Charlie. Bernard ended up going down there once Scott was back at Neil and Laura's house. Both of them were able to prove Scott was Santa and get his visitation rights back. Once he was able to help get everything settled and Scott back on his way, Bernard was back in his office.

"Let's go home." He said softly, taking my hand in his.

"Home?"

"It can be yours too if you want it to be." He responded hopefully.

I nodded, "I would."