Happy Birthday Kas!

Just a cute fluff piece. Along with Sam and Tucker trying to kill each other.

A Pair of Skates

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"You have a freaking ice core," Sam shook her head in disbelief, "How are you this terrible at ice skating?" In front of her Danny was collapsed on the iced over lake after falling, again. For the sixth time. At his friend's question Danny only groaned loudly, looking as if he was in pain as Andrew smoothly skated over to help him back onto his feet. "Even Tucker is better than you!"

"Better? I'm perfect," Tucker grinned, smoothy gliding past them before digging his toe pick in and executing a flawless triple lutz. The others all stared as he landed and continued skating as if he had just done something no more challenging than rewiring a PDA. "Thank you mother for ten years of ice lessons!"

"That's just sad, Danny," Sam sighed, shaking her head. "You're clumsier than Tucker. That's- You've reached desperate lows." Seeing her friend's hurt look she shrugged, "Hey, I tell it like it is. Can't fault me for- GODDAMMIT TUCKER THROW ONE MORE SNOWBALL AT ME AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS!"

When another snowball did indeed hit her square in the face Danny watched as she screamed and tackled Tucker into one of the banks of snow, Tucker screaming and trying to escape to little avail.

"Will they be okay?" Andrew asked, Danny only waving the question off as he tried to move without falling again.

"They'll be fine, they have thick padding this year." Skating past his two friends, who had resorted to biting and clawing at overstuffed jackets, he almost fell again before Andrew caught him. "This really is embarrassing. I'm an ice ghost who can't ice skate."

"Aren't stereotypes generally frowned upon," Andrew mused, holding Danny's hands in his and slowly skating back, pulling Danny along with him. Since they were a ghost and half-ghost respectively they were more sparsely dressed than the two humans. "You don't have to be perfect at everything, you know."

"Leave it to you to see down to my deepest fears just from taking me ice skating," Danny grumbled, slowly starting to enjoy himself as Andrew gave him a light kiss to the forehead. "You're cheating somehow. I'm not sure how, but you are."

"I'm your mate and boyfriend, I'm supposed to know these things about you." Danny only smiled, laughing when Andrew pulled him into a twirl before they slowly went back to circling the lake, or at least, the half that hadn't been turned into a fighting ring.

"Mm, hard to believe a year ago we were at each other's throats," Danny snickered, Andrew rolling his eyes. When he thought about it it was rather incredible that they had come so far. From enemies to friends to lovers to so much more. If he was inclined to believe in fairy tails he would have thought his life had become one, or at least his afterlife. "I'm still amused that you told Vidya to get rid of any orange colors in the library."

"Orange clashes with everything," Andrew defended himself, Danny only chuckling. "It does!" Seeing a pair of humans roll past them in a heated fight, screaming insults at each other in different languages, Danny and Andrew shared a look. It only too a few seconds before they were both breaking down into laughter, clinging to each other in the hopes of not falling over. "So, finally admit that ice skating isn't all bad?"

"As long as I get to see a death match between a goth and a geek then how could it be," Danny snickered, yelping as the two rolled past again and knocked both him and Andrew to the ground. Andrew ended up on his back with a groan, Danny on top of him with a surprised yelp. The two shared another look, breaking down into even more laughter.

Sam and Tucker didn't notice. They were too busy trying to pull each other's hair out.

Those two show no mercy.