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D-December
Snow was something Chrno was used to, but this December had the worst blizzards that he had ever seen. The forest where he would usually stay was covered in snow and if that wasn't bad enough, freezing rain had started to fall. Joshua and Rosette, however, were inside of their Orphanage with the rest of the children, drinking hot chocolate.
"I wonder how Chrno is," Rosette asked as she looked out of her window. "It's freezing out there…"
"Chrno," Joshua whispered as he too looked out the window.
Rosette stood. "I'm going to check up on him."
"What!?" Joshua jumped. "You can't go! You'll freeze to death!"
Rosette grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around her shoulders. "I'll take this…its more then what Chrno has."
"But Rosette!"
Before Joshua would stop Rosette, she ran out of the Orphanage with her blanket and coco in hand. Joshua ran over to the window Rosette had been looking out of, and saw her running through the snow.
Please come back okay. Joshua thought. I wish I could…go with you…Rosette.
Rosette ran as fast as she could through the snow. Her body shivered against the cold substance, but she ignored it. She had to get to Chrno. She would not allow another person to be buried underneath the snow just as her Mother and Father had been or so she thought.
All of her thoughts left her when she spotted Chrno lying face down in the snow. Rosette's eyes widened and she ran over to the small demon.
"Chrno!" she screamed. "Chrno!!"
She wrapped her arms her around Chrno along with her blanket. Chrno groaned out in pain from the chill but managed to open his eyes enough to see Rosette.
"Rosette?" he whispered.
"Chrno!" she said. "Come on, I'll take you back to the Orphanage!"
"No," he whispered. "I can't go back there…I'm a—"
She shook her head. "You're coming with me!" she ordered.
Rosette, despite her size, helped Chrno out of the snow and started to carry him back to the Seventh Bell Orphanage. The small arm around his neck was so warm but it was not a warmth he had been asking for, it was a new kind of warmth. A warmth that filled every inch of his being and sent shivers down his spine that woke every cold inch of his body. This was the warmth he had been looking for.
"We're almost there," Rosette said.
Chrno closed his eyes for a moment, but when he opened them he found himself in a toasty bed with Rosette sleeping beside him. He blinked a few times, brought the blanket up to his chin and rolled over to face Rosette.
"Thank you," he whispered. "You've made my December…warm."
Chrno moved the blanket towards Rosette in a way that would cover the both of them, and smiled. This, even though it was so simple, was the warmest Chrno had ever been while snow fell. A warm Heaven.
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