A/N: This story is set in the same time as the pervious chapter. It's Christmas Day for our favorite family. Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!
Christmas Eve
"Okay ladies." Sonny says walking into the family room to find Lisa cuddling with Mac and watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. "One present tonight."
Lisa looks at him a little confused. "We already did her count down present?"
Sonny places the three boxes on the coffee table and sits on the sofa next to Davis. "I know. This, uh, this is somethin for all three of us."
Lisa smiles. "What are you up to?"
"That my love, you'll just have to wait until tomorrow to find out." Sonny says grabbing the top box. "Mac do ya want to open another present?"
"Present." Mac attempts to repeat as she reaches for the box in Sonny's hands.
Mac rips the wrapping paper off the box and Lisa opens the box for her. "What did you get Mackenzie?" Lisa reaches into the box and pulls out a red, green and white plaid pajama onesie. "Sonny, did you get us matching Christmas Pajamas?"
"Maybe." Sonny grins as he hands her a box.
Mackenzie grabs for it to rip the paper off, once she does Lisa opens the box and finds a set of pajamas matching Mac's onesie. "You did get us matching pajamas." Lisa looks up at him. "Who are you and what have you done with Sonny Quinn?"
Sonny chuckles. "Look, I know. I just, I don't know. Uh, I thought since Clay was gonna be here we could actually have some nice pictures of us. Kinda have this been our official, um, here we are world. Since we were uh, still in hidin last Christmas."
"Sonny... That's so sweet. So, you're saying I should actually look presentable in the morning?"
"First off babe, ya always look presentable. But, uh yes."
"Why do I feel like you have something big planned." Lisa says eyeing him.
"Geezz Davis, can't I just do nice stuff for y'all?"
Lisa smiles. "Of course, you can do nice stuff for us Sonny."
The next morning sonny woke up early and showered and got dressed before he began setting up the surprise for Lisa. When he was done, he made his way back upstairs to wake Lisa up. "Merry Christmas baby." He whispers as he sits on the edge of the bed and runs his fingers through her hair.
Lisa rolls from her stomach to her side to face Sonny. "Merry Christmas to you too. I guess I need to get up, don't I."
Sonny leans down and kisses her. "That would be a good idea."
"Fine." Lisa groans. She sits up and wraps her arms around his neck. "What are you up to?"
"I, um, uh." Sonny stammers. "Why do I gotta be up to somethin?"
"I just have a feeling." Lisa says before giving him a quick kiss and scooting past him to get out of bed.
Sonny was in the kitchen making coffee and a Cinnamon Roll Casserole when he heard the front door being unlocked. A moment later Clay appeared. "Merry Christmas Man. Figured I shouldn't ring the doorbell."
"Probably a good plan." Sonny says putting the lid on the crockpot.
Clay takes in the surrounds. "Dude, when you told me you were proposing to Davis this morning, I didn't expect all of this."
Sonny takes a sip of his coffee. "Yeah." He shrugs. "I wanted to make it special. She has been wantin to get married since I got back from Jbad that last time."
"No courthouse?" Clay asks with a raised eyebrow.
Sonny shakes his head no. "Nah, just cause we went a little out of order don't mean we can't do it all."
"Who would have thought." Clay chuckles. He really was proud of Sonny. Who would have thought Clay would be the single one and Sonny would be the one proposing to the mother of his child? Clay thinks.
"Don't think I won't beat your ass there Claymation."
Meanwhile, upstairs Lisa had finished getting ready and had made her way to Mac's room to find her attempting to climb out of her crib. "Merry Christmas Mackenzie. I see you are trying to make another jail break."
"Mommy." Mackenzie says excitedly as Lisa reaches for her.
After Lisa has her changed and her hair tamed, she picks her up and heads for the stairs. "Are you ready to see what Santa brought you?"
"Santa! Santa!" Mac yells.
As Lisa is descending the stairs, she notices a pallet leaning against the wall that reads It Has Always Been You. "Sonny?" She calls. As she steps off the stairs and turns towards the family room, she sees rose pedals sprinkled on the floor.
"In the family room babe." He calls out.
'Holy crap.' Was all Davis could think in the moment. Lisa makes her way to the family room to find Sonny standing between pictures of them in the shape of a Christmas tree, all connected my lights and paper tea candle bags sitting in front of the fireplace that spelled out MARRY ME? "Sonny, what is all of this?"
"Lisa." Sonny says as the takes her left hand in his. "I love ya. I have always loved ya, even before I knew what life had in store for us. I still remember that first day I met ya and ya refused to give me more socks, told me I shouldn't use them for other things. I remember the first time ya opened up to me about your life prior to the Navy and I remember thinkin ya were the strongest person I had ever met. I remember when I first realized I loved ya and how scared that made me. I remember the love in your eyes the first time I told ya I loved ya. I remember the day we found out we were gonna be parents. I remember the day she was born, all 2.8lbs of her. I remember the fear and uncertainty that came with havin a 32weeker, but most of all I remember how we leaned on each other like we never had before. Davis, I say all of this to say, I want a million more I remembers with ya. Lisa Daivs will ya marry me?"
It took Lisa's brain a few seconds to analyze what was happening in front of her, Sonny was proposing. She feels a stray tear roll down her cheek and she nods yes. "Yes Sonny. Of course, yes." She smiles as Sonny opens the ring box, that is decorated like a little Christmas present, to find a beautiful oval shaped diamond set on a gold band. "Oh Sonny it's beautiful." Lisa comments as he slides the ring onto her left ring finger. After Sonny finishes placing the ring on her finger, she wraps her left arm around his neck. "I love you too. Thank you for all of this. It's so beautiful and thoughtful."
Sonny wraps his arms around Lisa and Mackenzie and kisses Lisa. "Thank ya for sayin yes."
"Like I would have said no." Lisa giggles. They were engaged. She knew deep down that they would be together forever, but it was so nice to be able to put some kind of physical stamp on it.
"Ya like the ring?" Sonny asks as he takes Mackenzie from her.
Lisa looks down at her left hand and smiles. "Yes, very, very much. Almost as much as the guy who gave it to me."
"Congrats you two." Clay says from the other side of the family room where he had been standing and taking pictures of the proposal.
"Thank you." Lisa says with a warm smile.
Mackenzie decided the spotlight had been off her long enough. "Presents."
Everyone chuckles. Lisa tickles Mac's side. "Thank you for patiently waiting to see what Santa brought you."
"Santa brought." Mackenzie mumbles as she tries to get Sonny to put her down.
Sonny sits on the floor in front of the tree and sits Mac on his lap. "Do you want to open the first present Mac?"
"Yes Daddy." Mackenzie says reaching for the present Sonny and picked up.
Lisa had her back turned to the rest of the room looking at all of the pictures when she felt movement beside her. "You know he was actually nervous while he was planning this." Clay informs her.
She tilts her head up and looks at Clay. "Really? It's not like there was any danger of me saying no."
"Not that I have ever popped the question before, but it must be nerve racking, even if you know she's going to say yes. He wanted to make sure you felt special."
Lisa smiles. "He always makes me feels special, but yes this is incredible. I mean some of these pictures are from the first year of us knowing each other, I can't believe he found them."
"Mommy, Mommy." Lisa feels Mackenzie wrap around her leg.
"Yes Sweatheart?" Lisa asks.
"Open present." Mac demands.
"Someone's got her Mom bossy streak." Clay chuckles.
"I resent that." Lisa laughs and looks to Sonny for clarification.
"I told her she couldn't open another present until Mommy and Uncle Clay opened one. So naturally she had to come get y'all."
Clay bends down and picks Mac up. "Well then Miss Mackenzie I guess we should open some presents, then shouldn't we?" A huge smile spreads across Mackenzie's face as Clay picks her up.
Lisa sits down next to Sonny and he hands her a box. She opens it and finds the pair of earrings she had been think about buying. "Sonny, how? I never told you I wanted these."
Sonny leans down and kisses her cheek. "Ya forget I'm trained to see things."
"Thank you. They are beautiful." Lisa says fighting back tears. She wasn't a crier, but this morning had been crazy emotional. All she could think was how did she get so lucky?
"Daddy open." Mac calls from Clay's lap.
"Okay Kenzie." Sonny turns to Lisa. "Anyone ya want me to open?"
"Seeing as I just got the very nice earrings I wanted, I would say the big one with your name one it." Lisa smiles.
"You got it." Sonny says as he reaches for the box. "That's heavier than I thought it would be." He rips the wrapping paper off and reads the box. "No way Daivs. Ya got me a record player?"
"I did. Thought you could put your record collection to good use. Plus, I thought it would be a nice addition to the game room." Lisa says.
"I ain't played those records in years." Sonny says
Lisa smiles. "I know. Do you like it?"
"Hell yes babe. This is really cool." Sonny smiles. "Thank ya." Sonny looks up from Lisa to Clay. "Goldilocks." He says while extending a package to him.
"Aww you shouldn't have." Clay chuckles as he opens the gift to find an engraved pocketknife.
"In honor of the promotion." Sonny says.
"Thank you guys. This super cool." Clay says with a smile.
Sonny looks down at Lisa and sees her looking at the ring. He kisses her temple. "Ya happy?"
"I never thought a ring on my finger would mean so much to me, but I can't stop smiling. Thank you for planning all of this. That picture tree is awesome. I don't even remember taking some of those." Lisa says leaning her head on his shoulder.
"Good. I love ya and I wanted it to be special." Sonny says holding her against him. Mac waddles over to Sonny and Davis and sits in Lisa lap. He couldn't describe how happy he was in this moment.
