Kate Gregson (
vanillajello) wrote2012-06-03 08:05 pm
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Overland Park, KS, Christmas Day 2011, Sunday FT
It was Christmas Day, fucking finally. It even felt like it: there had been some pretty impressive snowfall earlier in the week, so it was a seriously white Christmas, and Kate had really done her best to get the house looking Christmassy (and less creepily than when Grandma Sandy had been around some months before). The living room looked postcard perfect, with the tree in the corner and other decorations all around.
There'd been some Skypeing with Boston, earlier, and even the parentals had been pretty impressed with how things looked, when Kate had insisted on carrying her laptop around for a webcam tour. They were alone again now, though. Moosh was in the kitchen, putting finishing touches on what he had deemed gift-giving snacks, while Kate, in her adorable/ridiculous bear dress, was sitting cross-legged on the living room floor, a camera in her hands. Because a lot of these things just called for being immortalized as pixels.
She looked pretty happy. And sort of bouncy, even though she was sitting down.
"Sorry if I'm all hyper or whatever. I kinda always eat too much sugar over the holidays."
[ooc: NFB. For thems that are here!]
There'd been some Skypeing with Boston, earlier, and even the parentals had been pretty impressed with how things looked, when Kate had insisted on carrying her laptop around for a webcam tour. They were alone again now, though. Moosh was in the kitchen, putting finishing touches on what he had deemed gift-giving snacks, while Kate, in her adorable/ridiculous bear dress, was sitting cross-legged on the living room floor, a camera in her hands. Because a lot of these things just called for being immortalized as pixels.
She looked pretty happy. And sort of bouncy, even though she was sitting down.
"Sorry if I'm all hyper or whatever. I kinda always eat too much sugar over the holidays."
[ooc: NFB. For thems that are here!]
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Oh, probably because she really was the type to think that was a good idea.
"'Sides, I don't know if we even have any honey. I think moosh might've used it all in his fancy cooking."
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Give, not get, notice. She was maturing!
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Though that was probably what she got for befriending odd orphans and people who ran away from home as kids.
"I doubt there are gonna be carols unless someone seriously spikes the eggnog. As for an order, yeah, kinda. But mostly I just want us all to be settled down for gift-giving."
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They had ghost stories on Halloween, didn't they? Come on.
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"Just a minute," came her brother's voice.
"So, no Christmas stories," she decided. "Also, anyone wandering off will get tackled. There's no one here I wouldn't dare do that to."
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And he smiled lovingly right back at Kate. "You could make tackling a new tradition, Kate."
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"Wow, that sounds very much in keeping with Christmas spirit, Katie-Kate," Marshall deadpanned, coming in with a snack tray in his hands. "Very peaceful and merry."
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Well, no one outside of Kate (that he knew about, of course, and he wanted to be safe around her brother) really knew about his family so he had to go with a lie here.
"...didn't have enough money to celebrate."
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"I don't think a chariot would move much in the snow, anyway," Marshall remarked, setting the tray on the coffee table. All the snacks looked pretty fancy, but there were some gingerbread men on there, too. Plus everything was guaranteed to be tasty. "Gift-giving snacks are served. Happy now, Kate?"
"Ecstatic, little brother." And totally reaching for a few things to eat.
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He was teasing, Kate, really!
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He shrugged. "It's just practice."
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