Lex's Christmas Carol

Challenge by: Lian

Characters: Lex/Zoot, Mouse/Charlie, and Salene/Pride

Things to use: ghost of christmas past present and future, tiny tim, bob cratchit, mickey mouse donald duck and goofy. Reeses peanut butter cups ice cream, and born in the usa by bruce springsteen

Disclaimer: I don't own a thing

Rating: Up to PG 13 but doubtable

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(Season 4)

"'Twas the night before Christmas and all through not a creature was stirring not even a mouse," Salene began.

"Really then why is Mouse still up?" Charlie asked Salene pointing at his sister.

"Not Mouse but a mouse," Pride informed him.

"Oh," he said after a second.

Mouse just shrugged- she didn't get the point of this.

Salene and Pride exchanged a smile.

The two had taken upon themselves to tell the kids Christmas stories like they had been told before the Virus. After the trouble with Ram they had- the newly returned Amber felt that they should celebrate Christmas for the first time since the virus. They had now just finished 'Twas the night before Christmas- leaving one final story.

"A Christmas Carol?" Mouse asked oddly.

"Yes, it was my favourite story when I was little because of the cartoon movie version with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy," Salene said to her fondly.

"I loved it too. Our school did a play of it. I was the ghost of Christmas present," Pride said thinking of his own memories.

This caused Mouse's and Charlie's eyes to lit up as they exchanged looks.

"Salene… can you tell it like a play like if we were the cast or something?" Mouse asked her.

Salene looked at her and nodded for a second, "Okay sure. Hmm who would be a Scrooge…." Salene thought for a second as Lex came darting through the living room carrying in some packages as he tripped over another box as they came crashing to the floor.

"AHHH. THAT'S IT- I'M GOING TO KILL AMBER. IT WAS HER STUPID IDEA TO THIS TRIBE CHRISTMAS. NEVER AGAIN," Lex shouted as he stormed off.

Salene looked at them, "Okay so Lex will be Scrooge," she said with Pride nodding in mutual agreement.

"KC can be the nephew," Pride reasoned after a second.

"Good idea. The ghost of the Christmas past should be- Bray- you the present since you did that in school- and Zoot the future. I could see Zoot as a grim reaper of sorts. We could have Charlie as Tiny Tim, and Ryan as Bob- since it would be fitting," Salene added.

They finished making their cast list and the story began.

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"So Bray took Lex to a time where he was a little boy at a dance with a girl named Zandra…" Salene started.

"What were dancing to?" Mouse interjected suddenly.

"Er um- Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen," Pride said quickly.

Salene looked at him- Pride threw his hands up, "I'm an Eco not a storyteller".

"Obviously".

She continued to read until they were at the end.

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"And Lex finally demanded to find out who it was that wanted his head- and then the masked figured of Zoot took off his hood…"

"NO NO STOP STOP STOP IT'S TOO SCARY," Mouse cried out- the idea of Zoot running around showing people their deaths was too much for her to handle.

Salene stopped, "Okay, we'll just skip to the end- and it was all a dream- and Lex decided he had a heart after all- went to see Bob and his family with a gallon of reeses peanut butter ice cream, helped Tiny Charlie. Then, Charlie said god bless everyone- the end," Salene said with a smile as she shut the book.

Mouse and Charlie smiled, "That was a great story Salene," Mouse informed her with Charlie nodding.

"Yea, Salene, great," Pride added with amused tone as the watched Lex come back into the room.

"Stupid holiday cheer- I'll give her holiday cheer when I take my boot and-" Lex began

Salene looked at Pride, "And that is how you know it will be just a story because of the never ending Scrooge McDuck formely known as Lex".

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The end

Total words: 745 (text only)

AN: I confess I wrote this entire thing in 14 minutes flat, so sorry if it's rushed but I figured it would be a good idea.