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[a1enzo]

Enzo is sitting on a sofa by the fire this evening, wearing a somewhat incongruous woolly hat. It's not like he needs it in his natural form, but it's kind of comfy, and it actually keeps some of the fire's heat away from his brain.

There are a few wrapped boxes at his feet. Christmas may technically be over, but some people were busy at home (as they should be) on the holiday itself. He'll leave their gifts with Bar if he needs to, but it's always more fun to present in person.

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[ami_imperfect]

"Hey, are you trying to infringe on my style?" asks a cheerful voice.

Dani walks over, a wrapped box tucked under one arm. Instead of her usual blue hoodie, or the black and white one, she's wearing a red hoodie with white trim on the wrist cuffs. Her regular cap has been swapped out for a green one with a jingle bell attached to the top.

[a1enzo]

"Guppy gave it to me! I couldn't turn down a gift, could I?"

He stands to give her a hug, then flicks the bell on her cap. "So how was it?"

[ami_imperfect]

Hug accepted and reciprocated!

"It was nice," she answers. "Even Danny was more into the spirit this year - I heard that normally he's more like Scrooge. And Mom and Dad didn't argue as much, at least that's according to Jazz."

[a1enzo]

"What do they argue about?"

[ami_imperfect]

"Whether or not Santa Claus is real."

[a1enzo]

Enzo blinks. Well, Santa's like a kind of god, isn't he? Probably he's real in some worlds and not others.

"Isn't he just for kids anyway?"

[ami_imperfect]

Dani merely shrugs; she would never admit it, but part of her believes (or at least wishes) that Santa exists.

"Yeah. But still, he's part of Christmas."

[a1enzo]

"Yeah, I guess so."

He's not sure what else to say about that, so instead he asks, "How's Jazz doing?"

[ami_imperfect]

"Good. She's enjoying school and doing pretty well there," she answers. "She misses everyone like crazy, though."

[a1enzo]

Enzo nods. He felt the same way when he started at the Academy, before he found his Door.

"Tell her hi for me, okay?"

[ami_imperfect]

"Will do."

Faced with another lull in the conversation, Dani holds out the wrapped package to her boyfriend. "Here. This is for you. Merry Christmas."

[a1enzo]

"Thanks!" He takes the package, but puts it down temporarily to give her three of those by his feet. "Yours is kind of multi-part."

Parcels thus exchanged, he tears into his.

[ami_imperfect]

Dani grins and picks up the first of the three packages, and starts tearing into it.

When Enzo gets his open he should find a couple collected volumes of The Man-Bat, and lying on top of those is a copy of the new Man-Bat movie that had come out last year.

[heyfootballhead.livejournal.com]

Hey, look, over there! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's--

--a football head holding a mysterious package behind his back!

"Hey, Enzo, how's it going?"

[a1enzo]

"Hey, Arnold." Enzo twists his head to look at him, and lifts a hand to wave, but doesn't otherwise move from his position, sprawled across the couch with a blissed-out expression. "It's going great. How 'bout you?"

[heyfootballhead.livejournal.com]

"About the same. Your great looks better than my great, though!"

Arnold approaches, being sure to keep the whatever-it-is behind his back out of sight.

[a1enzo]

"I just had girlfriend time."

Wheeeee.

[heyfootballhead.livejournal.com]

Arnold makes a playful face at him. "You get way too happy about that, dude."

[a1enzo]

"Nah. Just happy enough," Enzo counters. "Anyway, I don't get to see her as much as I used to. It's... special time."

[heyfootballhead.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Arnold says, amused. "I guess you're so happy you don't need any more presents, huh?"

[a1enzo]

"Hey, now, I didn't say that," protests Enzo, propping himself up.

[heyfootballhead.livejournal.com]

"You sure? 'Cause I was getting a vibe."

[a1enzo]

"You need your sensors checked. Anyway, if I don't get one, you don't," he adds, nodding to the package sitting next to the sofa.

[heyfootballhead.livejournal.com]

"Well, I suppose if you insist..." Arnold drags out, then slyly produces the package.

It's a box, wrapped in festive paper, and inside are two classic (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1184) books (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/120), paperback style.

[a1enzo]

Shred...

"Huh. Ooh, pirates!" The other cover just shows some old-fashioned-looking dude; hard to draw any conclusions from that.