AN: This one won't make much sense (well, the first part probably will, but not the second) if you haven't read Every End is a Beginning. It is set the Christmas immediately after the end of that story.

MACGYVER'S RESIDENCE

LA

'Boze…what in the world is that?'

Riley raised a sceptical eyebrow and gestured to the thing on the kitchen counter (it looked a little bit like a Christmas cake, and there was something that looked like bread…and there was ice cream in it too…) that Bozer was carefully crafting. Her boyfriend simply straightened up and gestured grandly to the thing.

'This, Riley, is my Ultimate Christmas Dessert! Guaranteed flavour explosion!'

(The way he said it made it quite clear that its name was capitalized.)

Riley nodded, still a little sceptical.

(Bozer's cooking was excellent. He'd never made anything that she'd disliked. But still…it looked like the result of several Christmas desserts being put through some machine attached to both Mac and Bozer's brains…or something that Jack would assemble with glee from a buffet of Christmas desserts.)

'It looks like something that Jack would love.'

(It was well-known that Jack would happily eat very odd combinations of food – like hot sauce on Honey-Nut Cheerios or bacon and wild berries on waffles.)

Bozer looked a little affronted for a moment, before he simply reached out and started assembling the scraps in front of him, leftover from the assembly of his Ultimate Christmas Dessert, into a mini-version.

Then, with a flourish, he handed it to Riley with a spoon.

'We'll make a convert out of you yet, milady. Just you wait and see.' Bozer reached his arms out grandly, then wrapped one around her waist. 'When have my cooking skills ever let you down?' He gave a smirk. 'In fact, when have my cooking skills ever let anyone down?' Bozer paused. 'Well, aside from the molecular gastronomy phase, but…'

(He and Mac had made a pinkie-promise at the end of that phase to never tell the stories of it. Bozer – with Mac's permission – had eventually shared them with Riley and Jack, with Mac interjecting every now and then with a correction or a wry observation.)

Riley shook her head with a fond smile, leaning a little closer for a moment, then took a bite of the dessert.

As it hit her taste buds, her eyes widened.

A moment later, the most amazed look, a slightly dazed look, appeared on her face.

'Boze, this is…this is…this might be the most amazing thing I've ever eaten!'

She swallowed and kissed him soundly (leaving Bozer a little bit dazed, too), then dug into the rest of the serving he'd prepared for her.

Bozer decided then and there that he was definitely making this a new Christmas tradition for their family.

He also decided that he had to hide the actual Ultimate Christmas Dessert from Riley, lest she eat it all before everyone else got to try it.

Later that evening, as Mac took Bozer's Ultimate Christmas Dessert (it looked like a Christmas-cake-stollen-panettone-ice-cream hybrid) out of the freezer, he glanced over at his girlfriend, who was dishing up the chocolate gingerbread pie she'd made.

'Beth, do you have any idea how this is supposed to be served?'

She stared at it and him for a moment, before giving a wry little smile.

'Angus MacGyver, stumped? The end must be nigh!'

AN: Bozer's Ultimate Christmas Dessert may well be disgusting; I haven't even eaten all of the things in it, so…I do not take responsibility if your attempt to replicate it produces a foul-tasting concoction.

Tomorrow's ficlet: Christmas? Who cared?

Any guesses as to what tomorrow's ficlet's focus is? Or whom?