Red stared out the entrance of their home, absolutely glaring at the layer of snow covering the ground and piled up over bushes and the like. It may as well have been an impenetrable wall, even if it was only a few inches. He let out an irritated growl before turning and slithering back into their warm home. He started circling the outer edges of their living room, long, thick, scarlet, scar covered tail waving erratically behind him. Lust paid him no mind as he sat at the dining room table playing a game of solitaire, his own tail coiled under him in a shimmering lavender knot, the tip languidly tapping the floor. Dance was lounging in the nest that served as their couch, his own blue tail coiled up loosely in a way that did nothing to hide the staccato thump of the tip as it tapped restlessly on the floor. Dance kept his eye lights trained on Red as he made his first circuit of the room.

Dance shifted, his tail never losing its rhythm while it coiled tighter. He rested his chin on his hands as he kept his eyes on Red, whose hands had started clenching and unclenching in time to Dance's tail. Lust hummed to himself as he carefully placed a card down. Dance shifted again, this time curling into a tight ball in the nest's center, his tail finally stilled only for him to start tapping out a quick beat with his hands against his tail. Red started grinding his teeth.

With a sigh Lust gathered up all the cards and carefully tucked them into their little cardboard container. Both Red and Dance stopped what they were doing to stare at Lust, watching intently as he slowly slithered over to Dance to join him in the nest. Dance immediately uncurled to wrap Lust up.

"mmm… you're so warm," Dance murmured as he curled around Lust.

Lust started stroking Dance's head. Once they were both comfortably coiled up in the nest together, Lust held out a hand to Red and made a 'come here' motion. Red rushed over, practically lunging for the nest. He briefly rested his face against the palm of Lust's hand, breathing out a contented little chur, then he was circling around the outer edge of the nest. Once Red was satisfied he had turned himself into a barrier between his pets and the rest of the world, he tightened his coils until he was wrapped comfortably around them. He pulled their bodies close, Sanswiching Lust between him and Dance, a comfortable tangle of clinging limbs and scaly tails.

Lust took a moment to just enjoy the attention, a hand on each of his datemates' heads to gently stroke the tension out of them. Dance was nuzzling into his clavicle while Red used his bulk to surround them both. "there, isn't this much better?" Lust asked softly.

"yeah," Danced admitted with a contented sigh. One of his hands slowly crept over to Red, where it crawled up his shirt to hook into the larger lamia's ribs possessively.

"much," Red agreed, holding them both in his large arms. One hand came up to cradle the back of Dance's skull. Lust let his own hand drift over Red's, admiring how much bigger it was than his own, then went back to gently stroking the crown of Dance's skull.

The serenity lasted all of half a minute. Red was the first to start fidgeting again, his hands restlessly wandering over both his pets, idly stroking here and there, hooking into ribs with his clever claws only to wander back off a few seconds later, plucking at clothes or scratching at joints. Dance was no better, he kept squirming as if trying to find a more comfortable position to lay in. His tail kept tensing and relaxing where it was coiled up with the other two. Lust did his best to project an aura of calm and relaxed and affection. The results were mixed at best, there was only so much you can do even with an empath for one datemate and a collar to act as one for the other.

"when will the snow end?" Dance finally whined, even if he tried to hide the whine with an irritated growl.

"another month, maybe two," Lust responded as he ran a hand over the recently abandoned back of Dance's skull. His other hand moved to Red's chin for a few skritches.

"fuck!" Red yelled in response, then hugged his two pets tighter (but still gently, oh so gently). "don' think i c'n last that long."

"i wish we could just migrate, like birds," Dance hugged.

Lust couldn't help the indulgent smile that spread across his face. "we'd sure be a sight, flapping our arms as we soared across the sky, trails trailing behind us like kites."

"don't be a jerk," Dance groused, but Lust could feel his repressed chuckles.

"it does sound nice," Red sighed. "just headin' somewhere that didn't fuckin' snow fer three months straight. safer 'n tryin' t' hibernate too."

"wouldn't mind a hot spring," Danced added almost absently as he snuggled deeper into Lust's hold.

"that would be nice," Lust agreed as he cooed at his datemates. His body suddenly went stiff, orbits wide and eyelights jittering as a wide grin spread across his face. The sudden change in mood had the other two alert and looking at him in worry. "we should do it! next year, when the weather starts to shift, let's take a vacation. a nice long one, somewhere warm where we aren't stuck inside with a bad case of cabin fever."

"how're we gonna afford that?" Red asked skeptically.

Dance laughed, "same way we can afford not being able to work three months out of the year."

"don't worry, sweetie," Lust reassured, "a little budgeting and some planning ahead and we'll be just fine. if we find an apartment and sign a three month lease it'll be cheaper than staying at a hotel for three months. even if a resort is pretty tempting."

"an' we c'n cook fer ourselves," Red added slowly, "which'll be cheaper 'n eatin' out all the time." He trailed off, clearly doing some mental math.

"i wouldn't mind doing some eating out too," Lust said as he ran a tongue over his teeth, arching his spine just so.

A soft blush dusted over Dance's cheek bones, Red laughed and pulled his pets into another hug. "sure, we'll eat out too." Red added in a wink, even if he also had a faint blush of his own.

Lust couldn't help the giddy excitement, next winter was going to be so amazing!

Bonus:
Red curled up, the heat from the sun beating down on him from above paired with the heat radiating up from the hot sand below him a two hit combo that almost had him down for the count. His eyes were reduced to mere slits as he watched his pets happily curling up together inside the loose circle his tail made, both covered in a layer of sand sticking to their still wet bones and scales. Lust had been right, this had been an absolutely brilliant idea and he hoped they could migrate every winter.

Red suppressed a shudder, Dance lifted his head to check on Red, who just waved him off. That didn't seem to be enough, an arm reached out of the pile his pets made to pull him into it. Soon enough a second one latched onto his collar and tugged insistently, and Red couldn't refuse them. Red snuggled into his pets, happily holding them both close even has his eyes never stopped scanning the rest of the beach.

"what's wrong, sweetie?"

"jus' thinkin' 'bout the future." And wasn't that something Red thought he'd never do, never have a reason to either.