AN: I know that I shouldn't be starting another story, but I've had a few chapters finished on my computer for a while. Instead of doing a sequel to American Honey, I have chosen to do a series of one shots surrounding the Scorpio family. Ideas are welcome.
American Snapshot 1- Thanksgiving
Summary: It's Jason and Emily's first Thanksgiving with the Scorpio clan and learn some
interesting family traditions.
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"It's a shame that your mother couldn't come." Mac commented as he settled into the recliner and flicked the TV on.
"She decided to stay in Greece; she is still a little upset about us leaving her in New York last year." Alexis answered as she started to place food on the counter that divided the living room from the kitchen.
"You don't sound too upset about that." Mac observed as he eased back in his chair.
"Mac, I just found out that my insides are dried up. So that fact is taking all my time at the moment." Alexis glared at her husband.
"I'm just glad that you're not having another baby, the six that we have already are enough to kill us and soon we are having a grandchild to have the honor of giving us gray hair."
"It's not the same."
"I got you Princess to replace the baby issue." Mac nodded to the Yorkie that rested on the other side of the couch.
"Do you think that maybe you could support me?" Alexis frowned as she placed her hands on her hips.
"I did support you on a lot of your crazy endeavors. I supported you when you put slip covers on the couch to keep them clean. Then you decided that wouldn't work and that we should just stand." Mac rolled his eyes.
"Well if you and the children would take your shoes off instead of putting them on the couch." Alexis sighed.
"I now am starting to understand where our children get their crazy from." Mac muttered to himself as Alexis walked back into the kitchen.
"Dad you know that you need to lay low and ride out the crazy train." Molly remarked as she looked up from her book.
"It's crazy happy fun time." Kristina laughed.
"I have had to suffer through five women and PMS for the last thirty years and now I get to go through this." Mac grumbled.
"Can we please change the subject?"
"Yes, let's talk about why Ethan is spending Thanksgiving with us?" Mac smiled as he turned to look at Kristina.
"Well our family is just so lovable and everyone wants to spend all their time with us."
"I think it would be nice for the men that have leeched on to my daughters to go spend some time with their own family. " Mac voiced his opinion, "I am sure that their families are missing them. They do have families right?"
"You want them to go to their families and leave Maxie, Robin and Sam here." Molly clarified.
"That is exactly what I want." Mac agreed.
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"Are you two going to go to the mall after dinner?" Emily asked as she looked from Maxie to Johnny. Emily and Nikolas had flown in the night before for Thanksgiving and it was the first time back in Willows Creek since they moved to Wisconsin.
"I skip Black Friday because my hatred of mankind outweighs my love for stuff." Maxie answered as she began to peal the carrots. Johnny was drinking his beer as he leaned against the counter next to his blonde girlfriend.
"I am not allowed to anymore, you scare some nerds one time and they never let you live it down." Johnny answered at the same time.
"You dressed as a bear and then ran up and down the sidewalk of Best Buy tearing into people's tents." Mac frowned as he shut the fridge door with his hip, his hand full with four beer bottles.
"Then you arrested me and wouldn't give me a change of clothes."
"My daughter it the one who told me to make you suffer." Mac shrugged.
"You shouldn't interrupt my beauty sleep." Maxie shrugged as she went back to making the salad. It was the one item that Alexis had trusted her middle child with.
"Boys if you want to eat turkey this year, I think you should go enjoy the game. That way the girls wouldn't be distracted and can help me cook."
"That is supposed to encourage us, but it makes me nervous." Mac frowned as he walked into the living room.
"There is a reason that we eat takeout every night." Jason replied from the armchair where he a sat with Sam on his lap sideways. Sam took a beer from her father as he moved to sit on the L shaped couch, where Patrick and Robin were.
"We all know that Robin and Sam can cook." Patrick remarked as he handed Robin her seltzer,
"They just pretend to be horrible at it."
"Just like we know that you pretend to enjoy football to get out of helping." Robin countered.
"We don't speak about this." Mac got serious, "Alexis would have us all slaving away if she knew. You let the turkey catch on fire a few times and you will never be allowed in the kitchen again."
"I dropped my gum in the yams two years ago." Johnny admitted.
"I cut Patrick and he had to get stiches." Robin frowned.
"I am afraid of what you did." Jason whispered in Sam's ear as she laid her head on his shoulder.
"I used the good wine for cooking." Sam smiled as she looked up at Jason.
"Don't mess with Alexis and her wine." Mac declared as the front door swung open and Nikolas hurried into the room with Ethan carrying a handful of bags.
"I have everything to make my famous pie." Nikolas declared as he hurried into the kitchen.
"That is why you don't offer to help." Johnny warned as he watched Ethan slowly walk into the kitchen with a frown.
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"We're going to play a game of how drunk can I get at a family gathering without them knowing." Maxie smiled as she looked around the basement, where all her siblings and their significant others were gathered as they waited for the turkey to cook.
"If Mom wants to cook dinner and then make us eat it, I'm in." Sam agreed as she raised her glass.
"I really wish I could drink." Robin signed as she rubbed her growing belly, "The good news I get out of eating this dinner because the food could be a hazard to my baby."
"The rules are simple; the moment you get called out you can't have any more to drink." Maxie added, "Robin will be the judge."
Sam shared a glance with Maxie and Emily before she turned her attention towards Molly and Kristina. Just as Alexis called everyone to come up and eat. Ethan and Nikolas had set the dining room table and a smaller table in the corner, "Why is the kids table back?" Molly stopped in the hallway.
"We have new members of the family and not enough room at the table." Alexis answered.
"Emily, Sam and I will sit at the kids table." Maxie offered with a grin.
"Oh, I don't think so." Johnny called.
"I think it's a fantastic idea." Robin smiled, "It will give Dad a better chance to get to know the boys. He will be stuck with them at one table."
An hour into dinner and the competition was going a little too far. The boys had blocked the girls from getting to the kitchen where the wine and beer were. They had done this once they realized that the girls had banded together with Kristina and Molly trying to out the boys. Maxie even went as far as putting a bottle of wine in the plant near the kid's table.
"If history repeats itself I am going to get a dinosaur." Patrick declared as Johnny continued to pile mashed potatoes onto his plate.
"I have a question." Kristina explained, "If you were one a sinking ship and there was only one life jacket, who would you save?"
"And here we go." Maxie laughed as she slammed her hand on the table.
"I am not going to answer that question to save my life."
"I would give the lifejacket to the one floating in the water and not hog it as I cling to a door." Sam answered.
"He was being a gentleman." Nikolas spoke as he looked at his sister.
"Rose was being selfish, they could have taken turns."
"It was romantic."
"He died. They both could have fit on the door. Mythbusters proved that." Sam argued, "It would have been more romantic if he survived and didn't have to start a new life on her own."
"Titanic was a romantic movie."
"I am not saying that it wasn't. I like the movie; it's one of my favorites. I'm just saying that Rose was being selfish." Sam stood up.
"How dare you!" Nikolas yelled as he stood up and chucked a turkey leg at his sister.
"That is the reason I want to have plastic covers on the couch." Alexis announced as she looked to Mac as Sam through the leg back at Nik and it ended up hitting Johnny.
"It's always the Titanic argument." Molly explained to Emily and Jason, who were shocked as potatoes flew by their face and hit Maxie.
"Happy Thanksgiving." Robin smiled as she walked up to Patrick and dumped the yams on his head.