Scarves, icicles, and hot chocolate
Author: Inquisitive (Ink)
Rating: Pg
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em.
A/N[1]: Fluffyness abound! These will all be one shots held together by the common theme of what would happen on a snow day. Modern day fic.
Snowman
"Come on Skitts!" Snitch pleaded as he raced around his room, frantically trying to locate his sock.
"Snitch, it's like thirteen degrees out there." Skittery reasoned, pulling the sock out from under Snitch's Math book and handing it to him.
"Skittery, it's a snow day! Therefore, by law, we have to go out and play in the snow!" Snitch insisted pulling on his sock, followed by his boots.
"No, a snow day means we can stay inside and be warm all day, and do nothing instead of going outside and freezing our asses off!" Skittery exclaimed.
"Please Skittery?" Snitch begged. Skittery made the fatal mistake of turning around and looking at Snitch. How anyone could say no to Snitch's puppy dog eyes was beyond him.
"All right." Skittery said. "But when we come in, we're watching X2 again."
"Okay." Snitch agreed readily, despite the fact that he and Skittery had already seen 'X-Men United' eight times.
Skittery put on his coat, while Snitch searched for his gloves, he had a habit of losing things in odd places. Finally finding them under the couch cushion, he tugged them on and thew open the door, bounding outside into the snow.
Skittery found this highly amusing, and laughing, he raced out the door after his boyfriend, being sure to shut the front door tight behind him so that they would not have to hear another lecture about the 'price of heat these days' from Snitch's mother.
As he caught sight of Snitch, it was hard to miss him in his florescent orange coat, he raised an eyebrow. Snitch was lying on his back in the snow covering his front yard, waving his arms and legs up and down.
"If you are trying to get as cold as possible as quickly as possible, it's going to work." Skittery joked, descending the stairs and offering Snitch a hand up. After Snitch had flipped him an inappropriate gesture, Skittery bent down to inspect the snow angel. As soon as Snitch turned his back, Skittery couldn't help making a few "improvements".
Snitch slowly looked from the snow angel which now possessed horns and a forked tail, to Skittery, who was standing looking at him with a perfectly strait face, and his hands shoved into his pockets.
"Don't even try to tell me you didn't do that." Snitch said, smacking his shoulder with one glove clad hand.
"I would never corrupt such a work of art." Skittery said with absolute sincerity.
"Then I assume you have an explanation?" Snitch asked.
"Of course." Skittery said. "I didn't corrupt it, I made it much better." He managed to gasp out between laughter as he ran away from Snitch.
"Ah Ha!" Snitch pounced on Skittery's back, sending the taller boy crashing face first into the snowbank.
"Snitch, it's a damned good thing I love you, or I might have to kill you." Skittery said spitting out snow.
"Hey, I know what we can do!" Snitch exclaimed from his crouching position on Skittery's back. "Lets build a snowman!"
"Snitch, aren't we a little old to be buildin' snowmen?" Skittery asked getting up, and toppling Snitch off in the process.
"Your never too old to make a snowman." Snitch said seriously.
"Come on Snitch. It's freezing out here. Can't we go in and watch the movie now?" Skittery pleaded in a last ditch effort to get out of playing in the snow for another hour.
"Skitts, we've only been out here for twenty minutes!" Snitch protested as he started the first snowball.
Half an hour later, both boys were pushing the snowball around the yard. It was up to Snitch's chest, and growing. Finally, Snitch came to a stop in the middle of the yard.
"Let's hurry up and finish this thing Snitch, I'm exhausted. That thing weighed a ton! Skittery said as he leaned up against the first completed part of the snowman.
"Well we can't stop now! We need nine more of these!" Snitch said as he started the next part of the snowman.
Skittery just stayed where he was for a moment, before Snitch's words hit him.
"NINE MORE!?!" He yelled.
"Sure." Snitch grinned. "This is just one of his toes!"
Skittery just gaped at him for a moment, before coming up with the only threat he could think of under the current circumstances.
"Snitch, if I am forced to make this snowman any larger than absolutely necessary, I will make you watch X2 every single day for the next three months."
Now it was Snitch's turn to stare.
"But I can already quote the whole movie!" He whined.
"Snitch, this snowman is already going to be huge!" Skittery reasoned.
"You're no fun." Snitch pouted.
They quickly assembled the rest of the snowman. The end result was three snowballs, pilled on top of one another measuring roughly seven feet tall.
"It needs a face." Skittery said.
"Get a carrot." Snitch said as Skittery walked toward his kitchen, knowing all to well that carrots were the last things on Skittery's list of snowman accessories. He always claimed that it had been overdone.
So, when Skittery came back out with and orange, two radishes, two bananas, and a chop stick, Snitch was anything but surprised.
"I don't even want to know what you've got planned for all of that." Snitch said as he went off to find a couple of sticks for the arms.
"That's your problem Snitch, you have no artistic vision!" Skittery called after him, "And get an extra stick!"
When Snitch got back, he burst out laughing. Skittery grabbed the sticks out of his arms and arranged them on the snowman. The radishes were serving as eyes, the orange was a mouth held on by the chop stick, and the bananas were sticking out of the snowman's head, looking suspiciously like horns. Skittery stuck the last stick into the back of the snowman as a tail, and then took a step back.
"I think that this is our best snowman ever!" Skittery remarked.
"My mom's gonna freak." Snitch said bluntly.
"Why?" Skittery asked, already knowing the answer.
"Because we have the evil demon snowman from Hell sitting in our front yard." Snitch replied.
Both boys began laughing hysterically as they regarded their 'work of art'.
"Snitch?" Skittery asked as soon as they had calmed down enough to talk again.
"Yeah Skitts?" Snitch asked, still giggling.
"I'm freezing, can we go in now?" He asked hopefully.
"Yeah, I'm cold too." Snitch said.
"Race ya there!" Skittery said, taking off.
"That's not fair!" Snitch called, as he ran to catch up.
Running through the snow proved to be harder than it looked, and both boys reached the door at the same time, flushed and out of breath. They both bent over with their hands on their knees, trying to catch their breath. For a few moments, the rest of the world seemed to freeze around them, the only sound was that of their harsh breathing.
Skittery starred at Snitch for a moment, his cheeks were red with the cold, and his lips were chapped. Snitch glanced up, and Skittery gently cupped his face in his hand, and drew them together, kissing him lightly and sweetly.
Snitch smiled brightly.
"We should spend every snow day together." He said.
"Next time lets skip the going outside and freezing our asses off part." Skittery said, following Snitch into the house.
"We can't." Snitch stated simply. "We have to play in the snow on a snow day, it's a law."
A/N[2]: I don't own X2 either. Okay, the pairings for this story are going to be (hopefully), Specs/Dutchy, Mush/Blink, Race/Spot, Jack/Dave, Pie Eater/Snoody. Probably in that order. If anyone wants to see any other pairings just tell me, and I'll give it my best shot. Please review! The more reviews I get, the more likely I am to update quickly. Thanks for reading!
~Ink