Author: Enonyymi and Punainenpuolukka.
Disclaimer: We do not own Tsubasa. All the characters mentioned within, are property of CLAMP.
On the third day, their house's heating system was finally turned on, so the children had no need to sleep in Kurogane and Fay's room anymore and neither did the couple need to sleep on the livingroom sofa. But, of course, heating the house cost a good deal of money and they had to get jobs to support the whole household.
Sakura was employed in a kindergarten, though it seems that Mokona, who was sitting on her shoulder at the time, had something to do with it. Syaoran managed to acquire a job at the same bookstore where, in his opinion, the 'awesome' archaeology book was. Fay got a job as the baker at the local bakery. And for Kurogane, he didn't get any job at first, because other people thought that he was simply too scary.
But thanks to Fay's social skills – which in this point meant flirting with the bakery's owner – Kurogane got a post as the bakery's janitor. Though, the ninja wasn't too pleased at his lover's behaviour.
Kurogane wasn't very pleased at his work either. Cleaning things was, in his opinion, sissy and he wouldn't like to spend his days next to those crappy, sweet things, which he hated so much but at least he could keep his eye on the mage.
The bakery's owner had also a little café right next to the bakery. Fay baked pastries, pies and other sweet and savoury things for the café to sell. Occasionally the blonde was also working in the café when he was not needed to bake anything.
There he came across with a local hot drink called glögg. It seemed that it was a rather popular drink during Christmas time and that it was based on red wine but it didn't have any alcohol in it. So, because they served this glögg in the café, Fay absolutely had to try it with his companions.
Fay bought one bottle of glögg and brought it with him to their house. In the evening he heated most of the contents of the bottle in a kettle and poured the hot, red liquid into five little mugs. Then he placed the mugs on a tray and carried it from the kitchen to the living room where the others were.
The children and Mokona took their mugs happily but the ninja just glared at the mug that the mage was trying to offer him and obviously wished that the mug would just disappear if he'd stare at it for as long as it would it take. After a little while, Fay managed to persuade Kurogane into taking the mug.
Then they sipped from their mugs. The glögg tasted sweet and it smelled like cinnamon and Christmas.
Kurogane drank the whole drink with one gulp: he didn't want to spend any more time thinking about it. He put his mug on the table and watched what the others did.
Fay turned his nose up on the glögg's taste. He wanted it to be sweeter, so he added a teaspoon of sugar to it. Now it was more to his taste.
Sakura looked slightly surprised by the taste and hotness. She blew into the mug to make the drink cool down. Then she sipped again from her mug and smiled, it wasn't as hot as it had been anymore. Or actually it was, but she thought it wasn't.
Syaoran didn't show any signs of not liking the drink but when he thought that nobody was looking, he snuck silently into the kitchen to add some water in his mug. And as quietly as he had gone to the kitchen, he came back like he had never been absent in the first place. Kurogane saw this and was slightly proud that his 'son' had learned some of his ninja skills.
Then there was someone, who actually liked the drink: Mokona.
Just like Syaoran, the white manju snuck into the kitchen after finishing it's drink. The white thing was looking desperately for the bottle where the original drink was. When Mokona found it, it drank the rest of the contents and to everyone's surprise: the usually white manju turned bright red, exactly like the colour of the glögg.
The rest of the evening wasn't so peaceful as they had expected; the whole gang except Mokona, had to deal with a red, overly excited manju, who acted like the biggest drunkard on the block even though the glögg was supposed to be alcohol-free.
Though that didn't last for long, due to Kurogane's well-known temper.
A/N: Thanks for reading the third chapter of the Tsubasa Advent Calendar! The theme for today was, obviously, 'Glögg'!
Enonyymi: Yumm, glögg... It's good... Oh, I hope you liked this chapter also! It was written by Punainenpuolukka!
Punainenpuolukka: Some of you might not know what this glögg is. It seems that glögg is very similar to mulled wine and glühwein. But the actual word 'glögg' is Swedish.
Enonyymi: Yeah, and here in Finland, it has been a traditional Christmas-drink for a long time.
Punainenpuolukka: People usually drink it with almond crisps...
Enonyymi: ... and raisins! Should we tell them the ingredients?
Punainenpuolukka: If you want to. I, on the other hand, don't know them.
Enonyymi: Okay! Umm, the main ingredients are grape-, apple- and blackcurrant juice and some really nice spices; ginger, cinnamon, clove, cardamum and sour orange.
Punainenpuolukka: Sounds pretty good.
Enonyymi: It is! But, yet again, please review! Lots of thanks to the people, who have already commented!
Punainenpuolukka: Thanks for reading this chapter and don't forget to read the next one!