A/N For some reason, I always update this in time for the holidays. Whatever, it makes it more enjoyable. Anyways, last chapter was more Falling Skies-centric, so this chapter will be more about the Flight 29 Down crew.

Lex strung the palm leaves around the gigantic coconut tree, Lourdes holding the rest of it below. "Melissa, are you sure this is going to work?" Lourdes called up.

"Yeah," Lex yelled back, trying not to look down. "I swear I've done this a million times." He was halfway to the top.

"Be careful!"

"I will." Lex gulped and hurriedly started climbing up. "I think this is good." He said after a minute. He let go of the palm tree as Lourdes caught him barely an inch to the ground.

"Why a palm tree?" Lourdes grumbled, pushing Lex onto his feet.

"Taylor." Lex winced, rubbing his back.

"Hey guys!" Taylor chirped as she walked into the camp.

Daley looked up at her, irritated. "Did you break anything?" She asked suspiciously.

"Nope." Taylor said. "I'm talking about Christmas."

"What about Christmas?" Jackson questioned, squatting near the fire with Melissa. He was helping her weave something.

"Well…It's about time for Christmas isn't it?" Taylor said all innocently.

"No." Daley said flatly.

"Come on." Taylor whined.

"Daley's right." Ian said. "What do we even have to decorate?"

"I think it could be fun." Melissa piped up. Everyone looked at her. "What? It sounds kind of like Chilloween. Besides, we didn't celebrate Thanksgiving either."

"We each made a feast." Eric reminded her.

"That doesn't count." Taylor waved her hand. They'd only seen her this excited about Chilloween. "I think we should do it, because if we don't…it's like not having summer vacation."

"News flash, Taylor. We didn't." Nathan said, cleaning the food.

"Fine, it's like not breathing." Taylor shot back.

"Technically speaking, we only started celebrating Christmas 2000 years ago." Lex said. "Before that there was a pagan holiday in Rome. Saturnalia, I think. Besides, Jesus Christ was born in the spring, not winter."

"Whatever." Taylor said, irritated. "We should still celebrate it. I mean, a world without Christmas? That's horrible."

"The Ancient Egyptians weren't horrible. Neither are Jewish people. Or people of any other religion." Lex defended.

"They don't celebrate Christmas?" Eric asked. Lex shook his head.

"We're getting off point here." Taylor reminded them. "I think we should decorate the camp. And I'm going to do it whether you're going to help me or not."

Everyone looked at each other. "Fine." They all chorused.

"Great!" Taylor smiled, clapping her hands.

"So she seriously forced you into accepting Christmas?" Lourdes asked.

"Not accepting it. Celebrating it." Lex corrected.

"So what did you do?"

"We gave each other presents." Lex shrugged. "Taylor kept getting Melissa and Jackson under the mistletoe." Lex smirked. "That was kind of funny. They kept standing around awkwardly. By the end, they got used to it, though."

Lourdes raised her eyebrows. "You had mistletoe here?"

"It was actually a palm leaf. And then she forced Nathan to decorate a palm tree." Lex laughed. "Nathan was up there, and he kept saying he was going down, but Taylor wouldn't let him. She made him climb all the way to the top, and then Nathan fell. Luckily, he fell in a pile of palm leaves, so he was okay. He could barely walk for a week though."

"What about presents?"

"We all made stuff for each other. Daley and Nathan worked together to give everyone a surprise feast. We'd all kinda forgotten about the food. Melissa recited a poem. Jackson gave all the guys spears and gave the girls medicine."

Lourdes laughed. "He gave them medicine?"

"He gave Ian medicine too. Jackson wasn't the greatest at giving presents. Taylor and I made everyone stuffed animals, or the closest we could get to stuffed. And then Ian, Jory, Eric, Abby created and acted out a play for us, about the island. It was satire, and it was pretty good."

"I heard Daley and Nathan kissed." Lourdes said.

"Yeah. Nathan went down on one knee in front of her and declared his undying love for her. He then attempted to sing some song, I don't remember which, we were all laughing too hard. And then he got up and kissed her, and after they broke apart, she said yes."

"What about Jackson and Melissa?"

"Jackson came up to her and kissed her, then asked her to be his girl. She said yes. She'd been waiting for that for forever. Then Ian asked Jory out. After that, Eric and Abby got stuck under the mistletoe, and well…it was totally awkward. But they've had a crush on each other ever since then."

Lourdes laughed. "It must have been one romantic Christmas."

"It was." Lex said, smiling. He groaned when they came into camp. "Taylor's putting up the mistletoe." He said, watching as Taylor put up the dreaded leaf.

"Where's Hal?" Lourdes said, running off to look for him.