five wintry BSC drabbles:

[wisdomeagle]

New Tradition
[Stacey/Janine. G. Tradition (hold your breath and count to three). For thelastgoodname]

My parents were having their traditional winter fight ("Thanksgiving with me, Christmas with you, New Year's with me --"

"Stacey will want to be in the city for New Year's!")

when I announced, "Forget it."

My mother cupped her hand over the phone, hissing, "What?"

"I'm going to Northampton."

"What's in Northampton?"

"Janine."

"Claudia's sister?"

"My girlfriend."

"Stacey..." said my mother in her we have discussed this and it is only a phase voice.

I closed my eyes. Six weeks. Six weeks 'til Christmas, when Janine and I would sit on her couch and drink eggnog and forget about family.


Refreshment Committee
[Claudia/Dawn. PG. Merry-making (a delectable holiday treat). For queenzulu]

I suggested yummy, festive Brussels Sprout Squash Casserole and Claudia stuck her finger down her throat. Then she suggested sweet potatoes drowning in syrup and contaminated with marshmallows, and I tried not to gag. Then I suggested we have a glass of wine, and Claudia agreed, and then I mentioned this soy dip that I like and Claudia suggested we have more wine, which we did, and by this point, to tell the truth, we were both a little tipsy, and Claudia was practically glowing in the light of the Schafer-Spier Christmas tree, so I kissed her. She tasted sweet.


Sugar
[Jessi/Mal. PG. Nutcracker Suite (and so are you). For sangerin]

I couldn't help it: I snickered. My lovely wife was making Christmas cookies, something she does very well (I was eating samples from the first batch while drawing miniature manger scenes on our Christmas cards) and listening to Leonard Bernstein conducting The Nutcracker Suite. Jessi was not quite dancing, but she wanted to. She kept time with one foot while the other crept up her leg, and was measuring sugar with one hand while Sugar Plum Fairying with the other. I stopped drawing to watch the spectacle, and sure enough, the sugar spilt. "Drat!"

"I love you, sweetie."

"Be quiet."


Frenzy
[Mary Anne/Dawn. G. fanfiction exchange fest gift-giving (it's not a secret anymore). For alixtii]

"Oh no!" I said, palm to forehead. I had four days to write a story about Final Fantasy IV, which I'd watched the Pike triplets play two years ago. Gift-giving delirium had destroyed my common sense.

"What's wrong?"

I looked up from my blank text document and gave my stepsister a rueful smile. "I have to, um, prepare a Christmas present for someone. Have you ever played Final Fantasy?"

Dawn gave me an odd look.

"Or do you know anything about pirates? Or Camelot?"

"Three of my favorite things," Dawn said. "In fact..."

"You requested them for Yuletide?"

"Um. Maybe?"


Machismo
[Jessi/Mallory. PG. Snowman (it's a symbol not a substitute). For chesire23]


"The triplets are mocking us," Mal complained.

"That's because they have no holiday spirit."

"I have no feeling in my butt, Jessi. My buttocks are frozen together."

"Give me five minutes. Please. You can just watch, but I," I curtsied and added a little flourish, "am going to finish what we started and build the biggest snowman of the winter."

"He's huge already, Jessi. I am convinced, I am persuaded. You have the most snowman mojo."

"So you'll be my girl? Even if my snowman has no nose?"

"Can we go inside now and drink cocoa?"

"We can."

"Then yes."

Comments

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

These are wonderful and make my dark day so much brighter.

Also, Frenzy is the Best. Thing. Ever.

[wisdomeagle]

♥

I'm glad.

Some days are just right for cotton candy.

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

I really like mine, but Frenzy is awesome.

[wisdomeagle]

Thank you!

[chickwith-stick.livejournal.com]

Oh, so cute! Especially the Jessi/Mal. *hearts*

[chickwith-stick.livejournal.com]

Aww! These were all adorable. I especially loved the Jessi/Mal. *hearts*

[wisdomeagle]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed. Jessi/Mal are OTP love. :)

[tornyourdress.livejournal.com]

So. Very. Awesome. *squeals*

[wisdomeagle]

Thanks! :)

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Hee! Love.

[wisdomeagle]

Likewise. Yours was an awesome prompt. And almost morphed into full-length fic.

[cheshire23.livejournal.com]

These are all shiny, but the one I'd love to see morph is the first one. I never thought of Stacey/Janine before, but that was adorable!

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Considering the importance of writing fic for Yuletide rather than just write fic about Yuletide, I'm glad for your sake that it didn't.

Even as I mourn for everyone else's sake.

[zulu]

Yay, drabbles! These are awesome.

[wisdomeagle]

Thank you!

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I last read BSC about twenty years ago (can that be right? - surely not - must check publication dates) and yet I really enjoyed these. And found that I remembered all the characters. So majorly well done.

[wisdomeagle]

:) Awesome. I'm glad you liked them.

The earliest books were certainly around twenty years ago -- they're I believe just a wee bit older than I am.

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm thirty-four, I think I read them with my younger sister when I was between 14 and 16 (she would be between 11 and 14) so, yeah, 18 to 20 years ago.

*hobbles away in an elderly and extremely decrepit manner*

[piperrhiannon.livejournal.com]

Awww. Cuteness. And I am loving the meta :)

hi

[(Anonymous)]

it was good i think stacey and claudia would make a better couple though

[cosmicwaffles.livejournal.com]

My favorite is Frenzy. :D

[dariclone.livejournal.com]

The Stacey/Janinew was my absolute favourite. Also loved Jessi's "So You'll be my girl" in Machismo. Awesome!