Xmas Day
We had finished ripping open our presents. Kat was coloring in her cookie and happily munching on her coloring book, Bounce was bouncing on her trampoline, Richard was happily filling his new chiller (it had wheels) with beer, Jubilee was doing a fashion parade, Tristan was reading his guide to dating, Bobby was playing his triangle, Mel and Kurt were speaking quietly in a corner while demonstrating their various gifts and I was preparing the turkey. This year it was going to be a entirely Retribution X Christmas, we would see various members of the X men and give them their gifts but other than that we would have our dinner in our wing and they would have theirs in the main building. Safe in this knowledge, we were having Christmas dinner with a twist this year, but more about that later.
We heard a tap at the door and Hank, Remy and Wolverine entered bearing gifts, with Hank it was always intellectual books that only me and Richard ever read, Remy's presents were invariably bottles of Tequila and Wolverine never brought gifts he wasn't really a fan of Xmas, he only enjoyed the Turkey dinner, no doubt he came here to get away from Scott and Jean.
I bustled about the kitchen wishing that someone would come and give me a hand (preferably not Kat or Bobby).
I stood by the sink peeling the potato's when I felt someone's presence in the room, I heard a heavy stride across the room and felt someone plant a kiss on me cheek. I didn't look up.
"You and your bloody mistletoe" I said eyebrow raised
"You know you love it!"
"You're so damn cocky" I said with a grin
"I know and that's just one of the main reasons why you find me so attractive"
I snorted as Tristan took the knife off of me and began to peel the potatoes "Your hands are too small to be doing this, I'm surprised there's any potato left after you've finished hacking at it!"
"Well if people helped me like we all helped you last year when it was your turn then dinner would be ready in half the time it's taking me!"
"True, but you did frighten everyone off with the way you were wielding that knife like it was a bloody sword and waving it around as you talked." He smiled "I know what we need" He moved over to one of the cupboards as I prodded the Turkey. "ALCOHOL!" He held a bottle of Barcardi triumphantly.
Mmm…this was going to be fun, and would make dinner time a lot easier.
Later….
I sat on the sofa aware that I should be feeling like an idiot but due to the fact that no one other than my team mates would see me and the undeniable knowledge that I was far from sober, made the situation seem incredibly funny. Kat glided (ok stumbled but it is the season of good will and all) down the stairs, I grinned in approvement at her choice in out fit. She was dressed as a Swede, yes a Swede! No not Swede as in someone from Sweden but as in the vegetable Swede. I myself was dressed as Rudolf complete with twig antlers, red clown nose (that made me speak funny), spiky collar (don't ask) and brown furry ("atchoo"….it made me sneeze) clothes. Kat joined me on the sofa as she played with her scuba diving Barbie; unfortunately Scuba Barbie was now suffering horrendously singed hair (to the point of being bald) and a weird skin condition (ok she'd melted).
Ok so it's a short chapter, but I thought that I would put the break in between chapters in now or it would be one humungous chapter!
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