Luke followed Reid into the hotel suite. Reid was carrying all their bags and sat them down at the floor at the end of the bed before he turned around to look at his boyfriend. Luke was watching him and smiling.

"What?" Reid asked, pulling the blond closer, hooking his thumbs into Luke's belt loops.

"This is the first Christmas I have been away from my family."

"Is that a bad thing?"

"Well no, but I never thought I would spend a Christmas away from them." Luke replied, wrapping his arms around Reid's neck, "But I also know that it's a good thing since Noah was returning this year and would have been at the farm."

Reid nodded, "Best Christmas present ever, suggesting we go away for Christmas."

"I thought food was the best Christmas present?" Luke laughed

"It was until you told me that Noah was going to be at the farm this year, the first year I would have spend the whole holiday at the farm with you and your family and you suggested we go away, just the two of us."

Luke kissed him before pulling away, "I'm just glad when I said you could pick the place you picked Hawaii. I was sure you were going to say Dallas or something." he laughed

"I was thinking Dallas since I haven't been back since our first kiss."

"What made you change your mind?"

"Katie. She talked me out of it and suggested somewhere really nice and warm. Hawaii came up and I liked the idea of being at the beach with you."

"Really now." Luke kissed him again, "We're going to have to spend a lot of time at the beach then."

Reid nodded, leaning in and kissing him once more before pulling away fully to start unpacking.

"Oh," Luke started to help, "Speaking of Katie, you remembered to drop off her's and Jacob's gifts before we left, right?"

"Yes, dear." Reid mocked, "I told her, they could not open them until Christmas and they would have to wait until we returned after New Years to call and thank us."

"Good." Luke nodded, taking his anti-rejection meds from his suitcase and taking them into the bathroom with his toothbrush, toothpaste and razor.

They walked hand in hand down the beach. Neither of them wearing their shoes or socks, which they had left up in their room. They were only wearing swimming trunks. Luke rested his head on Reid's shoulder as they walked through the warm sand. The sun was starting to set and there were only a few others out on the beach, but they didn't notice anyone. To them, they were alone.

They had spent the rest of the day unpacking and then looking up different places around their hotel, which was already located on the beach, that they could venture through. They had decided together that they would go Whale watching, hiking and even horseback riding. Three things they knew they could do. Luke had suggested they take surfing lessons but Reid had shot that idea down since they were only going to be there for two weeks and never see a beach for a while, again.

"We have three days before Christmas, three days to do whatever before we lock ourselves away in our hotel room for two days."

Reid nodded, "Right. So what are we going to do tomorrow then?"

"I was thinking we just explore Maui."

"Good idea." Reid looked at his watch, "We should head back and get ready for dinner."

While figuring out what they were going to do in Hawaii, they had come across a Tiki Bar and Grill, which they were going to go to dinner at. Luke nodded against Reid's shoulder and they turned around, heading back to the hotel to get ready.

"Merry Christmas, Dr. Oliver." Luke snuggled closer to his boyfriend on the balcony.

"Merry Christmas, Mr. Snyder." Reid replied, wrapping his arms around the younger man a little tighter.

It had just passed midnight on Christmas Eve. They had been locked away in their hotel room all day and night, which they were going to be repeating Christmas day as well. Reid was laying on his back in one of the lounge chairs on their balcony and Luke was laying on top of him. All they were wearing were robes, which they had open so they were laying skin to skin.

"What time are you going to call the farm to wish everyone a merry Christmas?" Reid asked, kissing Luke's forehead.

"Well, they'll be up by six for breakfast so I'll probably wait until around eight or nine. Just remind me to call them, no matter what."

"So what, if we're in bed around that time we're just going to stop so you can call and say merry Christmas to your family?"

Luke laughed, "Well no, but remind me to call them before noon as least."

Reid nodded, "Will do, Mr. Snyder."

"Reid, you were suppose to remind me!" Luke looked at the clock. It was a little after one.

"Remind you, what?" Reid was munching on a sandwich that he had built out of other things from the room service menu that he had ordered.

"To call me family, you idiot." Luke fished through his jeans on the floor for his phone.

"Oh right, that." Reid shrugged, taking another bite of his sandwich.

Luke dialed the farm's land line and after a minute, someone answered.

"Hey, Natalie." Luke was smiling now, "Is everyone still there?"

He turned his phone to speaker and sat it down on the bed in front of him.

"Yeah, we're all still here, sort of."

"What do you mean, sort of?"

"Dad and Mom had another fight and Mom left a few minutes ago."

Luke looked up at Reid and glared. Reid just looked at him and shrugged again.

"I told you Reid, I had to call before noon."

"Hi, Reid!" Natalie yelled

"Hey, Nattie." Reid said through a mouthful.

Luke snorted, his smile returning, "Nat, who all is in the kitchen with you?"

"Dad, grandma Emma, Grandmother, Ethan, Parker, Sage, uncle Jack and aunt Meg."

"Where are everyone else?"

"Around. I think Faith is in the barn with that boy she brought home with her."

Luke's eyes widened, "Faith brought a boy home for Christmas with her?"

"Yup, Ethan called him Harry Potter, but I think his name is Chad."

"I thought Faith was with that cousin of yours?" Reid mumbled

"Who, Parker?" Reid nodded, "They were for a while but then thought against it. You know, being raised as cousins and all."

The rest of the conversation went on for a good two hours. Everyone wanted a chance to talk with Luke when they found out he was on the phone. It was already getting late in Illinois, so everyone was starting to leave. Luke then decided to hang up.

"Well, that was fun." Reid pushed Luke onto his back and straddled him.

"Your comments made it entertaining." Luke laughed as Reid started kissing down his chest.

"Hiking, not a good idea anymore." Reid collapsed onto the bed.

They had just taken a three hour hike around Maui and did a little shopping. They were both tired but Reid had been complaining a little about the walking after about the first half hour. Luke just kept dragging him along with him wherever he went.

Luke laughed as he sat down on the bed and straddled Reid's back. He started running his hands up and down Reid's back, applying pressure here and there. Moans were escaping Reid's mouth, but were being muffled by the pillow his face was pressed into.

"That was the best Christmas ever." Luke snuggled with Reid on the jet, on their way back to Oakdale.

They had spent New Years on the beach and the next three days after that they explored more of Maui and did a little more shopping. Luke had decided to get a second Christmas present for each of his hundreds of family members. They were finally going home and neither of them wanted to move so they cuddled up together on the jet.

"We could always go away every Christmas." Reid suggested

"Why don't we wait until around Christmas to decide that." Luke laughed, "I would still like to spend some Christmases with my family, and so should you."

"Half your family still don't like me."

"My siblings do, well at least Natalie and Ethan."

"Your parents, not so much."

"Emma and Lucinda love you."

"I'm pretty sure Jack is just waiting for me to do something so he can arrest me."

"You became closer with Carly when you had to deliver Gabby last year."

"Okay, I get your point."

Luke soon fell asleep, tucked into Reid's side on the jet.