"Chances that we'll have a quiet holiday?" Ricardo asks with a soft laugh as he gets up to answer the door. AJ and Sara are waiting for him and the baby makes a soft, babbling noise when she sees him, Alicia immediately scooping the little girl up and allowing Ricardo to guide AJ into the guest room.

AJ nods thankfully and drops onto the bed, stretching out langidly. "You don't know how tiresome it is to have a baby on a flight until you're doing it alone," she tells him with a sigh.

He pats her arm as he heads out of the door. "Just rest, Alicia and I'll take good care of Sara Louisa."

"Thank you," she calls after him and he walks into the living room, pausing long enough to watch Alicia tickling Sara with something green.

"When did you get mistletoe?" he asks with a soft laugh, laying down next to the baby and making faces at her as she rolls towards him.

Alicia hums. "I figured Mike and AJ would appreciate it." She makes kissy faces at the baby before handing the mistletoe off to Ricardo and lifting the little girl up, adjusting her clothes and kissing her forehead. "She's so cute."

Ricardo nods, patting Sara's back gently. "She definitely is." He stares at Alicia gently soothing the baby's clothes, and for a wild moment, imagines her with her own child- maybe their child... dark hair, dark eyes, light brown complexion... beautiful and calm, giggling as Alicia dances them around, talking sweetly to them. "Do you ever... think about having your own?" he asks thoughtlessly, immediately choking on thin air as soon as he realizes what he's said.

"Yeah," she says, not seemingly bothered by the question. "Sometimes." She smiles at him, a kind of pain deep in her eyes. "I just really... need to get myself together before I even come close to that, though."

He nods. "I definitely understand that. I'm nowhere near ready for something like that either." He kisses Sara's pudgey fist and wrinkles his nose at her when she grabs at him, laughing. "I still think about it sometimes though. I love my niece and nephew and... like to think I might be good at being a parent someday."

Her hand is gentle, cool against his cheek as she smiles at him. "I have no doubt that you would be. Will be. When the time's right." She hands the baby over to him and watches as he rocks her back and forth gently.

The next few days pass in a blur of laughter, talking, long walks around the beach, and so much food that none of them can move too easily after each meal. Mike gives Ricardo a knee brace that's supposed to stabilize and be discreet under wrestling gear, AJ gives Alicia a copy of her book, and AJ chuckles when Alicia gives Sara her first funko- of her mother from when she was still in the WWE. "Thank you, I love it," she says, hugging Alicia. "Sara will too when she's old enough to realize what this is."

"So, Alicia and I went together in a gift for the both of you," Ricardo says after a moment, handing them an envelop. "We explored a bit around your house and found a few things that we thought you might enjoy."

AJ fans through the slips of papers, eyes widening. "Aquarium, bowling, mini golf, museums... wow, I didn't know we lived near all of these things."

"Exactly! So now you have free passes to anything you want to do, and we talked with John and Taya, their part of the gift is to babysit whenever you want to try one of these things," Alicia says gleefully.

"Thank you," AJ says, hugging them both tightly. "So much. That's great."

"And... one last thing," Alicia says cheerfully, dropping the mistletoe in Mike's hand.

He laughs. Stares at AJ gently before putting the plant over her and leaning in, kissing her deeply.

Alicia and Ricardo's eyes lock and they smile at each other, wishing that they could be as comfortable with each other.