"Daddy, I finished my letter to Santa." Jasmine said as she ran up to him, paper in hand.
"Okay then, I'll take it to the post office tomorrow so we can mail it to him." Oliver said and Jasmine nodded as she handed him the letter.
"Now, why don't you go make sure that you're room is clean. After all, it isn't too soon for Santa to move you to the naughty list." Oliver said and that was all Jasmine needed to hear to get her running.
"So, you got her list?" Laurel asked and Oliver nodded as he looked at the list.
"Fortunately, I've figured out to read far more difficult languages then a five year old's handwriting. I'll head to the toy store tomorrow to get what I can from the list." Oliver said.
"What about this one?" Laurel asked as she and Oliver looked at the last item on the list.
"Not sure if she's ready for a pet yet." Oliver said and Laurel sighed.
"It could be a good way to teach her responsibility." Laurel said.
"We'll talk about it after the wedding." Oliver and Laurel nodded, since she knew how much Jasmine wanted a puppy.
"Did you get it?" Laurel asked as Oliver entered the loft, arms filled with bags from christmas present shopping.
"I was the first person in line at the toy store and I still had to fight off a few other dads to get it." Oliver confirmed as he held out an action figure that was for Jasmine and Laurel smiled.
"Great, I cannot wait for Christmas. After all, this is the first one we get to spend as a family." Laurel said and he smiled.
"Does my dad still hold his annual Christmas party?" Oliver asked.
"He didn't the first you were gone, but then I convinced him that you'd want them to celebrate the holidays, even without you. You'd want them to keep living their lives." Laurel said.
"You're right, especially since we have a little girl who shouldn't be deprived of Santa and Christmas, just because her father's gone." Oliver said.
"I completely agree. And speaking of that little girl, you need to hide those presents before Jasmine sees them and I hope you're better at it than I am. She always finds them." Laurel said with a smile.
"I'm on it." Oliver said as he went to go find a place to hide the presents.
"So, we're really moving in here?" Sara asked as she and Tommy brought the last of the boxes into the mansion, since as his only heir, Malcolm had left Tommy everything.
"My dad may have been an ass, but he did want me to have this place when I started a family of my own and honestly, he wasn't wrong. Besides, we always planned on getting a house after we got married, now we don't have to worry about house hunting." Tommy said.
"Just making sure this place doesn't bring back any memories of your father?" Sara said.
"I'm sure it will, but there also memories of my mother here to. And my dad wasn't always a monster. Before my mom died, he was a good man, an honest husband and a great father. That is sort of man I want to be not." Tommy said and Sara placed her hand on her husband's face.
"And you are Tommy. I never would have fallen in love with you or married you if I didn't see that man in you." Sara said.
"But what if something happens to you and I become like my dad?" Tommy asked.
"Nothing is going to happen to me. I promise you. And even if god forbid something were to happen to me, I know that you wouldn't become like your dad, because you are 10 times the man he was. Plus, you have Oliver, Laurel, Thea, Robert, Moira and Jasmine to keep you from going down that path. And promise me that if that does happen, you'll let them help you and you won't push them away." Sara said.
"I promise." Tommy said as they kissed.
"Okay, enough weary, dreary. Why don't we see if I can take your mind off of those thoughts." Sara said with a smile.
"How?" Tommy asked.
"I've got some ideas." Sara said with a grin as she grabbed his hand and pulled him upstairs.
Thea was currently helping her mother decorate the mansion for the holidays when her father entered.
"Dad, you're home early." Thea said happily.
"Yes, that's one of the perks of being the boss is that I can leave early occasionally and considering that this is the first Christmas we're going to be a whole family again, since Oliver's back, I thought this qualified." Robert said and Moira grinned.
"Yes, I bet he's excited to celebrate with his daughter and fiance this year." Moira said.
"I just hope that they found a sitter for Jasmine, since she's not old enough to attend yet." Thea said.
"They're bringing her, she's just going to be kept upstairs with Raisa and any other children who are brought here." Robert said.