A/N: Thanks so much for the great reviews, I appreciated each and every single one! ^-^

My plan was to finish this chapter long before Christmas or the News Years were over... but due to a cold and a case of Writer's Block it was held off... :/ so I'm sorry for such a LONG wait, and I hope you will enjoy this last chapter still. :)

Oh, by the way I haven't gave up on writing Missing You it's just I've been so focused on this story as well as what I was gonna do for Settling Down that my ideas for the next chapter of Missing You have disappeared.(Don't you just love that? XD) I'll work on the next chapter sometime this month, so bare with me, please.

Reviews:

DanceDream:

^-^ I agree! I just want to grab him and just squeeze him to death!

lol Oh yes, I agree with that too. I see a couple here and there but not as much as I wish there could be. (I'm hoping to change that! ^-^)

Really? ^^ I was worried that I made his vocabulary too strong for his age. lol But, I guess I did okay.

:( I'm sorry to hear that. *hugs* I'll be sure to keep you and your family in my prayers!

Thanks again. :)

*Sonic belongs to SEGA!~

*Jules, Bernie, Sir Charles and other related characters belongs to Archie~

*Kyra and Maya belong to Allesia

Chapter 2: Christmas Day

"C'mon!" Four-year-old Sonic pleads for his parents to awaken from their slumber and come downstairs where the presents are. He jumps on his dad's stomach making him wake up with a grunt of surprise.

"Son...go back to bed." His father tells him in a sleepy tone.

"But it's Christmas, daddy!" His son points out to his worn out father.

What has happened to the night? It feels like just an hour ago we went to bed. Jules wonders to himself as he struggles to keep his eyes open due to his eager four year old son. Jules yawned loudly after Sonic got off of him. While his son watched him, he turned to the alarm clock next to the bed on the nightstand. It read: 5:02 am. He sighed, "Son, don't you think it's a bit...early?"

Sonic tilted his head a little in puzzlement due to the young hedgehog not knowing much about time; all he knew was that it was a new day and it was Christmas Day! "But daddy!" He whined again.

Jules placed a hand on his forehead and closed his tired eyes, then sighed again. "Just wait a little longer, OK?" At this, his son frowned in disappointment, shortly after Jules opened his eyes he caught his strong disappointment. "The presents won't go anywhere, ya' know." He chuckled lightly.

Sonic sit down on the edge of the bed with his back facing his father, he crossed his tiny arms over his chest. "I wanna open them...now." He whimpered softly; hoping his father would cave in on his constant pleading.

But sadly, all his father's response was a grunt and turning on his right side now facing his wife beside of him, slowly his father closed his eyes. "Be patient, son, you'll get to open them shortly." He said before he yawned again.

Once the room grew silent again, young Sonic knew now that he wasn't getting anywhere. He jumped off the bed and landed perfectly on the floor. He glanced back at his sleeping parents, wondering why they like to sleep for so long! Sleeping wasn't fun at all! And it's Christmas Day, there's certainly no time to sleep, when you're so excited, right? He frowned and left his parents bedroom. Once he reached the hallway he realized something, his aunt and uncle in the room next door to his parents; surely they'll get up! He laughed with joy at realizing this and ran down the hall to their own room.

He opened the door silently and found them still deep in slumber. He ran happily to their bed and climbed up the very high mattress and stepped to his uncle's side of the bed. "Unc! Wake up!" He called, aching for them to get up and come downstairs. His uncle groaned in his sleep and slowly begin to stir underneath the thick blankets.

"Wha...?" Chuck's eyes blinked open. Once his vision cleared from being closed for so long in darkness and now being brought into the dim light, he saw his nephew beside of him with his eyes blazing with excitement. "Sonic?" He said with a yawn.

His nephew smiled brightly. "It's Christmas, uncle! It's time to get up!" He begin to tug on his arm again.

His uncle smiled lightly. "Is it now?"

"Uh-huh!"

The adult hedgehog sit up in the bed then glanced at the alarm clock next to the bed. Once he saw the time, for a moment he wondered why his nephew woke him up instead of his parents. He looked back at his nephew then felt his wife beside of him stir. "Well," he paused to yawn again and pull off the blankets. "What are we waiting for, sonny?" His nephew's eyes brightened up once again, he jumped off the high bed and stood by the door. Chuck glanced back at his wife, Kyra. "Ya' comin' dear?" He asked her softly.

Kyra looked up at him with tired eyes and a tired smile. "In a few minutes." She said with a yawn.

"Uncle!"

Both adults snickered at their nephew's impatience. "Well, I'll see you in a few then." Chuck placed a kiss on his wife's forehead then got up from the bed.

"Okay hon."

"Boy! Slow down!" The adult hedgehog called firmly to his nephew who's eagerly running down the steps that leads to where the gifts that Santa brought.

Sonic glanced up at his uncle, stopping. "Okay." He said softly and climbed slower than before down the flight of stairs.

Once they reached the bottom of the stairs, Sonic ran to the huge Christmas tree with piles and piles of presents underneath. He grabbed one that had a note attached to the present with his name on it, he sit down on the floor in front of the tree, his went to rip open his present but his uncle stopped him. "Wait a minute, sonny." The older one said softly with a chuckle. "Wait till' the others get down here, OK?"

Sonic frowned and sit the present back down with near the others. His uncle got down to his level and wrapped a arm around him. "How about me and you go out and play and the snow a little bit, while the others sleep?" He said with a wink.

"Yea!" Sonic was blinded by opening the presents that were for him, he forgot about the winter land that waited for him outdoors! So, he got up to his feet.

Chuck got up on his feet as well. "Let's find you something warm, first, sonny."

"Okay."

"Haha! I got you, unc!" Sonic said in triumph upon hitting his uncle with a snowball.

His uncle chuckled. "You sure did." He begin patting his own snow forming a ball in his palms. "And...I'm gonna get you back!" He said with a laugh and threw the snowball toward his young nephew.

"I'm too fast for it!" His nephew pointed out dodging the snowball easily with his gift of speed.

"Oh, that's right." Chuck smiled.

Sonic grinned and started to make another snowball to fire at his uncle again, but while he was busy gathering the snow into form a snowball hit him right on his head. Taken by surprise, Sonic jumps and falls on his rear in the cold snow, his eyes wide.

The older hedgehog laughed at the younger one's shock then he walked over to his nephew and helped him back up on his feet. "You okay, sonny boy?"He said now worried that he may have threw it too hard for the youngster.

Sonic giggled and dusted the snow off of him. "Yea. I'm okay, unc!" Chuck smiled with relief.

An hour passed by quickly and during that time, the two built a snowman together. Chuck was finishing up on the final touch ups on the snowman, while his nephew who was beginning to grow a little cold by the looks of it, for his nose and cheeks were now starting to turn a pinkish red color. Once his uncle finished up he looked at his nephew and saw this. "I believe it's time we go back inside, don't you think?" He said with a warm smile.

Sonic blinked up at him. "Why?" He didn't want to leave, despite his body becoming cold from the bitter winter air and wet snow.

"Your folks will have my head if you catch somethin' !" His uncle pointed out while dusting off the snow that's collecting on his warm gloves.

"Why would I catch something, unc?"

Before his uncle answers, he is picked up by his uncle with firm but still gentle hands. "You've been out here for too long, that's way." Sonic wraps his little arms around his uncle's neck and let's him carry him back to the house. "'Sides, they may be up by now, sonny." His uncle said with a wink once he reached the door.

Sonic rubbed his eyes. "Really?"

"Maybe." His uncle smiled and opened the door to the small but cozy home, immediately as soon as he opened the door he could smell the scent of firewood burning in the fireplace and feel the warmth as well coming from the blazing flames. He carefully set his nephew down on his feet and shut the door, leaving the bitter cold behind. His sister-in-law's head popped out of the kitchen.

"Oh, your back. Did you two have fun?" Bernie asked with a smile. She looked down to see her son with rosy red cheeks and his black nose somewhat pinkish. She walked over to him and helped him with his wet coat. "Look at you!" She placed her palms gently on his cold and wet cheeks. "How long were you two out there?"

"'Bout an hour." Chuck answered, removing his coat as well.

Sonic didn't really care about getting warm right now, everyone was now up, it was time to open presents! "Mom? Can we open presents now?"

Bernie picks him up after removing his wet coat and damp sweater. "Hm? Oh. In a minute, sweetie. Let's get you warmed up before, what do you say to that?" Before Sonic could complain he was carried upstairs to find something warmer.

Once his mother put on a very warm sweater with sleeves too long for his little arms he lead her downstairs. When they arrived, Sonic's older cousin, Maya looked up. "Can we open them now?" Her achenes for opening her own gifts were strong as her own cousin's want as well.

"Please!" Sonic joined her, now standing next to her in front of the Christmas tree.

The adults all laughed softly at the two. Then with a smile they all said:"Rip them open, you two!"

And they did just that!

Wrapping paper from each package were flung to the side, causing a big mess left on the once clean floor. Once each children got to their prize they were very happy with the outcome result. Maya got several stuffed animals, dolls and outfits she just adored! Sonic on the other hand got cool-looking cars, some outfits(much to his dislike), toys, a building kit and other things a four-year-old would just adore.

Once they were finished, the adults had a turn and they each were happy with what they received this year. Sonic and Maya begin showing off their toys, while the adults tried on some outfits they got and the females tried their jewelry on and talked about which outfit would go perfect with it.

The gift-sharing came to stand-still, Bernie and Kyra left Chuck and Jules alone in the living room to watch their team play football. The aroma of ham and turkey filled the house, along with the sound of cheering coming from the male hedgehogs and the laughter of the two children playing together.

Another hour passed, then Bernie them to the kitchen to eat. And so, they all sit together at the kitchen table and enjoyed a wonderful Christmas meal together.

The dinner came to a end much quicker than the meal took to prepare, and once the males helped out the females with cleaning up the table they all went back to the living to relax.

"So, did you get everything you wanted from Santa, son?" Jules asked his son, who was sitting next to his cousin Maya at the end of the couch. Both children looked very worn out.

Sonic blinked sleepily at his dad. "Uh-huh." He said with a smile.

"I'm glad, son."

Another hour passes, and the football game comes to end, and to both Jules and Chuck's satisfaction, their team won!

"Man, that was great!" Jules exclaimed.

"I knew they could do it!" His brother exclaimed next.

Bernie laughs gently, looking at the end of the couch."Gentleman, shhh!" She points to the end of the couch when they look at her.

They follow her finger and see why she told them to be quiet. For at the end of the couch, both Sonic and Maya were fast asleep. Maya was still sitting upright on the couch, while her younger cousin Sonic had his head on her shoulder both fast asleep and worn out from the fun day they had...

ShadowTHFan: Finally I finished this! : D

I apologize to each of you who was looking forward to seeing more of this story sooner; it's just over the Holidays I was busy and I had a bad cold and when I finally got over that...I couldn't think of what else to write about! CURSE YOU WRITER'S BLOCK!

Well, I hope you all still enjoyed the second chapter of my Christmas story. And I hope you enjoyed it too Allesia! ^-^ I'm really sorry it took so long!

And...AWWWW I just adore the ending with Maya and Sonic there. TOO CUTE!

Man, writing this story makes me miss Christmas... it went by TOO fast! =( But, it was still a great Christmas (despite having a cold XD)

I guess that's all I have to say, just leave a review and tell me how I did! =) THANKS FOR READING!

REVIEW PLEASE!