Under the Mistletoe

By: RoxyRoo

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Summary: You never know just who is behind that white beard or in that red suit... Christmas fluff.

AN: Thank you for all the reviews :)

Part Five- Let it Snow

Ten year old TJ sighed loudly.

"What's the matter sweetie?" Rory called out.

"There's no snow," TJ pouted. "We've never had a Christmas with no snow."

Rory walked up beside him, putting a hand on his shoulder where he was starring out the window at the green grass. "Give it time, it's only Christmas Eve."

"How about we get the tree decorated?" Tristan hollered as he came in the house carrying the boxes of decorations from storage. "Ellie!"

Thirteen year old Ellie came out carrying a book, barely looking up.

Tristan rolled his eyes, looking over at Rory. "She's your child."

"And he's yours," Rory smirked, as her head motioned to TJ, whose lip was sticking out farther. He was already becoming quite the ladies man at the young age of ten. Rory feared the teenage years, as he already seemed identical to his father Tristan in more ways than one.

"That's my boy," Tristan said grinning widely.

Rory rolled her eyes, as she took the top box from Tristan, setting it on the floor.

"Come on TJ, come and help us," Tristan said, as he started pulling decorations out of the box. Elllie had already put her book down, and had started decorating Tristan with the garland.

"I think it's more fun to decorate dad as the Christmas tree," Ellie giggled.

"Is that so?" Tristan growled as he lunged at her. He grabbed her, tickling her sides.

"Stop!" Ellie giggled as she gasped for breathe. "This is not how you're suppose to treat me on my birthday!"

Rory just laughed, as she started hanging the lights with TJ's help.

The phone suddenly rang. Tristan relinquished his hold on Ellie to answer it.

"Hello?"

"Is Ellie there?" a young boy's voice asked.

"Who wants to know?" Tristan growled.

Rory looked over, wondering what was wrong.

"Um, Jason Langley... sir," the boy added as an after thought.

Tristan narrowed his eyes, but handed the phone to the young girl.

"Hello?" Ellie asked. "Oh hey Jason!" she said excitedly, leaving the room, however her parents could still hear her giggling.

"Don't forget we're having FAMILY time right now!" Tristan growled, wanting her to hurry up.

"A boy?" Rory asked, a small smirk playing on her lips.

"She's too young for that kind of thing," Tristan grumbled.

Rory's smile became wider. "She's thirteen. How old were you when you started dating?"

Tristan paused before answering. "Nine, but that's different, it's different for boys."

"Oh really?" Rory asked, a hand on her hip.

"I thought I told her that she's not dating until she's thirty..."

Rory shook her head. "If only that could work. She's growing up so fast, isn't she?"

"Can't we just keep her five years old forever?" Tristan whined. "It was so much easier then when I was the only man in her life!"

Rory laughed, shaking her head, as TJ followed her around the tree with the lights.

Ellie soon came back into the room, her face beaming, with a hint of a blush on her cheeks.

"So?" Tristan growled. "Who is he?"

Ellie rolled her eyes at her dad. "He's just a boy from school. He just wanted to wish me a happy Birthday." Her cheeks then grew redder. "He also invited me to Kathy Santo's New Year's Eve party, can I please go?"

"No!" Tristan snapped. "You're too young for dates."

Ellie looked ready to cry, her lip slowly coming out in the pout that she knew would get her anything she wanted out of her dad. She was his little angel, she knew that she could get anything she wanted out of him. She had him wrapped around her little finger since the day she was born.

Tristan turned around, so he would not have to see it. He knew he would cave if he took one look at his daughter.

"Mom!" Ellie cried out as her dad continued to ignore her.

"Tristan," Rory warned as her and TJ finished putting the lights on, and started on the garland.

Tristan turned to glare at Rory before making the mistake of looking at Ellie.

Tristan sighed, running a hand through is hair that was just starting to gray slowly. "He has to come in and have a talk with your mother and myself first."

Ellie looked from her father to her mother, before back to her father. "No threats, no mentioning of guns..."

"I'll make sure he behaves," Rory cut her off with a smile. "Now come and help us decorate.

Ellie happily made her way over to join them. Once again she got her way.

In no time the tree was decorated.

"It still doesn't feel like Christmas," TJ pouted.

"You still have a day," Tristan said, as Ellie left the room.

She suddenly scream. "Come here! Quick!"

The family rushed to join her at the large window, to find the once green grass covered with the white snow, and more coming down heavily.

"SNOW!" TJ squealed happily, as he rushed to put his Winter coat on before rushing outside to play in it. The rest of his family was not far behind.

"AGH!" Ellie squealed as she was hit in the face with the wet snow. TJ laughed, making mocking faces, before he took off with Ellie right on his heals.

Rory started rolling up a big snow ball. "Let's make a snow family."

The rest of the family soon joined in, each working on their own, trying to make it look as much like themselves as they could. Rory's and Tristan's stood together, with their stick hands joined together. Ellie gave her's a book of snow, while TJ made headphones for his out of the snow, and made a snow i-pod sticking out of it's side, as if it was in a pocket.

The laughing family made their way into the house, as it grew dark outside.

"Tristan, why don't you make a fire," Rory suggested, while heading to the kitchen. "I'll make some hot cocoa."

When Rory returned to the family's living room, she had a tray of four mugs filled with hot cocoa, along with a bowl full of marshmallows to add to it, or to roast in the fire. She also had a pot fill with popcorn to pop over the fire.

The family spent the rest of the evening by the fire together, while Tristan read Christmas stories for them.

"Well kids, if you expect Santa to come, you better get off to bed," Tristan said, late that night.

"Dad," TJ whined. "I'm ten, I know the truth."

"What truth?" Tristan asked confused.

Rory smirked. "TJ sweetie, your dad never quite had the talk with his parents about Santa Claus, now why don't you run to bed and I'll tell him."

"Tell me what?"

Ellie rolled her eyes. She was use to her parents' way of getting rid of them on Christmas Eve, as it was their night. "Come on TJ, let's go to bed and let mom and dad get it on-"

"Lorelai Noelle!" Rory scolded as her face turned red.

Ellie smirked before heading upstairs with her brother right behind her.

"Let's get it on," Tristan sang off key once the kids were out of ear shot.

Rory playfully smacked his shoulder. With the kids gone, they curled up closer to the fire, together.

"Ready for your present?" Tristan asked.

Rory grinned widely. "When am I not ready for a present?"

"Well, you almost didn't get this one this year," Tristan trailed off, as he handed her the small box.

Rory opened it up, and started laughing. "A snowflake? What would have happened if it did not snow this year?"

"Then this would have been the first year you would not have gotten a charm," Tristan teased.

Rory laughed, as she curled more so into Tristan.

"So our baby has her first date," Tristan said with a hint of sadness in his voice.

Rory smiled. "You do know, this could be good, right?"

Tristan's head whirled around, his eyes narrowing. "How?"

"Well," Rory said slyly. "I could send TJ over to mom's for the night, and you and I could have the house to ourselves on our anniversary. No kids."

"I like the way you think, Mrs. Dugrey," Tristan said as he gave her a kiss.

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AN: Hope you guys liked it :). Make sure to review to let me know what you think! For what the fight was about in the last chapter... It wasn't mentioned what it was about, as I didn't want to use extra energy to think up a fight, lol. Yeah, I was being lazy. If I stay on track for getting this written, next one should be up sometime Friday, then the final chapter will probably be up Christmas night. I probably won't be working on ONM until after Christmas, sorry to all the fans of it, I'm just wanting to get this story finished before Christmas is over. Now go and review, it'll make me work faster!