Hello! Back for a new year- and possibly the final year! When I started this it was my freshman year of college, I'm now in my Senior year. I've successfully done the 12 days of Christmas for two years and I'm going to try my hardest to keep up with this year as well. Last year was a bad year for motivation, it was a bad year in general, but I'm hoping to make it through this year since it might be my last, not as a fanfiction writer but as a college student doing crazy challenges and the like.
I'm very, very excited to tackle these stories and these fandoms. I hope you enjoy this year's contribution and that maybe you're motivated to go back and read the previous year's Christmas fics.
I had to continue my tradition of writing a Christmas fic for a musical I adore, and this year Legally Blonde spoke to me. I really love the original movie and the musical just takes it to new heights. If you ever want to read my other Musical Christmas fics I have two for Be More Chill (the second one is better) and one for Dear Evan Hansen.
Dec 14th- Black Panther
Dec 15th- Ducktales
Dec 16th- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Dec 17th- Gravity Falls
Dec 18th- Over The Garden Wall
Dec 19th- Legally Blonde Musical
Dec 20th- Kid Cosmic
Dec 21st- Falcon and The Winter Soldier
Dec 22nd- Big Hero 6
Dec 23rd- Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
Dec 24th- Percy Jackson
Dec 25th- Teen Titans
Elle wasn't in love with him. She wasn't! He was just her friend, really the first one she'd made since she'd gotten to Harvard with the exception of Paulette. Emmett Forrest was just one of those kinds of wonderful men you always dreamed about meeting and, uh, becoming friends with. He was lovely, he was perfect, it was platonic.
Besides, she didn't need anything more than a friend/tutor right now. They had work to do, she had classes to pass and an internship to earn. She didn't need Warner and she didn't need Emmett, over the course of this semester she had been falling in love with herself. Thanks to the work she had put in, that Emmett had helped her put in, she was finally starting to respect herself more than Warner ever had.
And it felt good, really good, to finally love yourself like that. To love yourself for more than just the looks you'd always been complimented on and the money you'd always had. Elle knew she was smart but Emmett had been the first person to see it too, the first person to really believe in her. She didn't want to lose a friend like that.
It was hard, however, to confine their relationship to a friendship when the holidays rolled around. When they were some of the only people left on campus it seemed to push them together even more. They holed up in the library with hot chocolate and the small gifts they'd gotten each other. Emmett had missed the mark a little with the two-in-one shampoo, but it was thoughtful in his own way and Elle loved that he was trying. In turn, she got him a fancy-looking tie that he could wear to work. He seemed to really appreciate her gift as well.
"You didn't have to get me anything, Elle."
"You didn't have to get me anything, Emmett," she echoed.
"Alright, that's fair. Got your beverage of choice?" She held up her reusable thermos and he nodded approvingly.
"Then let's begin!" It was a simple, cozy Christmas, full of flashcards, and cocoa, and newly formed inside jokes. And it was completely platonic. But Elle would be lying if she said she hadn't made a secret Christmas wish for something more. And Emmett would be lying if he said he hadn't made the same wish himself.