Karkat awoke to an empty bed and an even emptier bedroom. Dave was nowhere in sight. Karkat called out in the hopes that the blonde was around and just hidden behind one of the many stacks of book or dvds that littered their bedroom. No response was received though. Karkat forced himself out of bed, this was unlike Dave. They usually stayed in bed together all morning, or at least waited until both were awake to leave the room. Maybe he was in his old room? Karkat stalked over to the adjacent dwelling, hoping to find Dave smiling and merely engrossed in a music or costume project; nothing. Karkat was worried now, where was he? Returning to the previous room Karkat looked around for a clue as to the whereabouts of his matesprit. A quick scan of his surroundings revealed a neatly folded article of clothing on the desk and a notecard on top of it. Karkat picked up and read the paper:

Hey Kitkat,

SUPER important human holiday today, Rose and I are setting up. Put on the sweater and follow the map.

Love,

Dave

Karkat unfurled the red raiment to find that it was a sweater that read "Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal". The troll had no idea what it meant, but put it on anyway. He felt a little insecure wearing his blood color, the only other time he had done so was in front of Dave; in fact it had been Dave's clothing….Karkat blushed deeply at the memory. No, there must be a reason for Dave choosing this and the others of his species had made it very clear that his blood color didn't matter. He took a deep breath, picked up the map that had been underneath the sweater and made his way to the marked destination.

The map led Karkat to an unused common room in the deep recesses of the meteor. When he arrived he found Dave, Rose and the Mayor. Dave and Rose were hanging lights, there was a large tree off to the side of the room floridly decorated and embellishments all over. Both siblings were wearing sweaters of their own; all though the appeared to match. Dave wore one that stated "Dear Santa, it was my sister's fault." While Rose's said "Dear Santa, it was my brother's fault." Neither had noticed Karkat yet and were smiling and chatting as they hung the illuminating decorations. "Wow, I never thought I'd celebrate Christmas in this way; with aliens on a meteor hurtling towards god knows what." Dave had never been this glib or cheerful outside of their room before, at least, not to Karkat's knowledge. It made the troll smile, but also feel a small pang of jealousy. He liked being the one to make Dave smile.

"I know, I'm so excited, I have my mom's eggnog!" Rose was uncharacteristically bubbly as well. This must be something to do with the holiday? The two turned away from the lights that now hung from the ceiling and saw Karkat. A wide grin broke across Dave's face.

"Hey Karkat, I see you found the sweater I left, good. Merry Christmas!"

"Christmas?"

"Ah, yeah, I keep forgetting trolls don't have Christmas. Once the others show up, we'll explain it to you all." Truth was Bro wasn't a big Christmas person, Dave had never even had a tree before; the holiday for him usually meant that for once Bro took care of dinner and they didn't strife that day. He was excited to truly celebrate with his friends.

Rose cut in "Speaking of which, since we're done setting up I'm going to go find Kanaya; she should've been here by now."

Dave nodded and watched her leave. Karkat approached his matesprit, "So, what's this all ab-"
The troll was cut off by soft lips pressed against his own. The pleasant feeling was soon retracted as Dave pulled away.

"I forgot how good you look in red." Karkat was blushing a shade almost as deep as his sweater. Dave smiled, "Oops, forgot." Dave pulled out a green plant from his pocket, holding it above their heads. "Human tradition, kiss under the mistletoe." And the boy leaned in once more. This time Karkat was ready, cupping Dave's face with his hands as they kissed sweetly. Smiling because their cheerfulness and merriment was too much to contain and keep to themselves. Karkat still didn't know anything about Christmas, but if this was a tradition it certainly couldn't be a bad holiday. They pulled apart as they heard footsteps and voices coming closer. The Mayor still working on festive Can Town in the corner. Dave stashed the plant in his pocket and moved to greet the new comers.

Vriska and Terezi appeared in the doorway. Terezi wearing an overly and obnoxiously decorated Christmas themed sweater and Vriska wearing her regular t-shirt holding, what one could surmise, was her Christmas sweater.

"WH47'S 411 TH1S FOR?"

"Christmas, it's a human holiday, I take it you didn't like your sweater Vriska?"
"It's dorky, although now that I see the decor8ions I'm guessing that's a requirement?"
"Yeah, it's a tradition called ugly Christmas sweaters."

"That's a stupid tradition."
Dave just shrugged. "Rose and I'll explain everything once she's back with Kanaya."

"What's that?" Vriska pointed to a large rectangular structure against a far wall of the room, covered in bright decorative paper. Dave suppressed a smile.

"A surprise."

Rose and Kanaya arrived and the two humans went on explaining everything that the holiday entailed. Terezi and Vriska seemed a little bored; but Karkat and Kanaya were intrigued. Most likely because they wanted to no more about their matesprits. "Since there isn't really a way to buy gifts for everyone and anything we want can be alchemized easily, Rose and I focused more on the togetherness aspect of the holiday." The siblings pointed everyone towards a table in the back of the room with a cloth over it. The others followed and the blondes removed the cloth to reveal a smorgasbord of food. Everything from ham, roast beef, and turkey, to mash potatoes, and rolls, to pie and cake, lined the ridiculously long table. The humans passed plates to everyone and Rose helped the Mayor get what he wanted. The trolls were in awe; they didn't have big celebrations like this; so seeing this much food in one place at one time was incredible. Everyone filled their plates; stopping only to ask questions about certain dishes. What was eggnog? Why was there so much food? The humans did their best to answer all.

They all then returned to the couch where the two unveiled another surprise. The large rectangular present was unwrapped to show an impressively large TV and a selection of holiday themed movies. The day was spent with all the teens in the company of one another; watching and criticizing the movies they viewed. The trolls with how ridiculous some of the events got and the humans over their mutual dislike for Home Alone.

After several hours everyone parted; sleepy eyes and full bellies called for naps all around. When Karkat and Dave got back to their room however, Dave had something different in mind. He removed his Christmas sweater to replace it with one of Karkat's. The troll couldn't help, but flush at the sight. Dave then walked toward him, holding the mistletoe above his head. "Merry Christmas Kitkat."

Karkat kissed Dave with an ardent enthusiasm, separating only long enough to speak three words "Merry Christmas, Davey."

Notes: Do Christmas sweaters count as a clothing style? Meh, anyway hoped you guys enjoyed it!
Edit: Oops, forgot to credit ikimaru for the sweaters.
Here: post/105738609445/theres-no-escape-from-christmas-sweaters
And Here: post/70636569994/did-somebody-say-ugly-christmas-sweaters-8

HyruleHearts123: I completely agree! This fandom is incredible, I've never seen so many creative people in one fandom before. Also, thank you! I'm glad you are enjoying it!

Linda065cliva: You're welcome ^-^. Seriously though THANK YOU for reviewing, I love reading them.

Also, that's a really good idea for the Doing something ridiculous prompt; I wasn't sure what I would do for that, but that works. It will probably still be a shor chapter though.

Ah, I see. Yeah, that makes sense, there are jerks in every fandom. Thankfully, I've yet to encounter haters; doesn't mean I won't in the future. That said, this fandom ranks up there with the bronies on acceptance level overall to me. It seems to be pretty inclusive. Most fandoms are, but I came across some that were really rude to newbies and outsiders. Primarily, the superhero fandoms and Steampunk fandom. So, even though I'm sure there are haters around, they don't seem to completely permeate the community; and for that I'm thankful. ^-^