A/N: I really just want soft, cozy stories of these two, and since there's not enough of them in the world, I'll have to write my own!

I know Christmas isn't until next month, but I'm putting up my decorations this weekend so I can get a jump start on taking the photo for my Christmas Card for this year. And the boyfriend isn't stopping me, sooooooooooooo :)

Plus we delightfully have snow on the ground already, and while I'm loving it now, I know I'll dread it later (as in March and April when it still hasn't melted), so I'm enjoying all the feelings and inspirations it's giving me.

Summary: Relaxing on the couch, drinking hot cocoa, matching sweaters and xmas cookies. "These are so good...and if you tell North I said that, I'll never forgive you"

Words: 700

Prompts: None

"A Christmas Night In"

The fire burned cheerily in the fireplace, filling the room with warmth that seemed to curl into every possible nook and cranny. A slight draft made its way through the room every now and then, however with the couch parked as close to the fireplace as it was, the inhabitants of the room didn't notice a thing.

Well, maybe Tooth snuggled a little bit closer to Pitch as he stretched out along the entire length of the couch, but really, who was paying attention? The two Guardians, content to be in each other's arms, just let the heat seep into them. No words were needed, just the other's presence was enough to calm them from the day's rigors.

That day had been particularly dreadful for the two of them. For tooth, a new candy had come out called Jawbreakers that kids were told they had to lick or suck on in order to ge the maximum enjoyment out of it. However, thirty seven kids had chosen to instead bite into these hard candies and at least twenty of them had cracked a tooth. Thankfully they were all baby teeth, but Tooth had to do extra preparations for cracked or broken baby teeth. They were more fragile, and needed special care before being put into a tooth box.

Pitch, on the other hand, had been doing his duty to protect the children of the world from the scarier monsters out there. He ended up helping release an entire warehouse of kidnapped children, trapping the traffickers inside their minds and letting the Fearlings loose to ensure these monsters would never touch another child again. With the first escaped child, the police were called over and the rest were quickly gathered up and taken somewhere safe. Emotionally, it had been harrowing, what little that was left of his heart going out to these kids who's innocence had been forcibly stripped from them in more ways than one.

Before leaving, he ended up marking each one of them to let Sanderson know to give them particularly sweet dreams in the months to come.

But now the two were together again at last, deriving comfort from the other, having set aside this night as a work-free, stress-free time together.

Tooth lazily reached out an arm to grab a cookie off of the plate that North had sent over the other day, for the famous Yearly Yeti Cookie Plate Exchange. Tooth had elected to send around a cookie plate of sugar free sweets and dark chocolates, and in return, gotten plates from North, Bunny, Sandy, Jack, and Katherine. To say her Mini-Selves were enjoying all of the sweets was an understatement.

Her hand only met air, and then an empty cookie plate. Raising herself up to take a look, Tooth noticed that the cookie plate was empty. She shot an annoyed look at her boyfriend, Pitch, laid out underneath her. He raised a brow at her.

"Did you have to eat the last one? she asked him. Pitch snorted in amusement.

"You were the one who ate the last three cookies," he pointed out, settling back into the couch, enjoying the heat of the fireplace as it washed over them. The shadows he had working today were in charge of keeping the fire lit and roaring. The shadows themselves took it as a personal challenge, especially with all of the long shadows the fireplace cast.

"You ate the first three," Tooth pointed out, poking his chest a few times with her finger before laying back down on him. He chuckled for a moment.

"Phil's cookies are very good…and if you tell North I said that, I'll never forgive you," Pitch said. Tooth nodded sleepily against his chest.

"Mmkay," she replied before burying her face in his chest.

They spent the rest of the day like that, just lazily enjoying each other's company, and when Tooth had to leave at the end of the night, their goodbye kiss lasted a little too long, their hands lingering a little longer. And the next morning saw the empty cookie plate returned to the Kitchens of the North Pole, to ready it for the Great Cookie exchange for next year.