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Christmas tiiiime

Who: Bioshock ~~Family~~ House! (and friends)
What: ITS CHRISTMAS! And they're going to be civil to each other dagnabbit
When: Christmas?
Where: The Bioshocker House!
Summary: Everyone is happy! Food! Presents! Puppies? Proposals! WAIT WAHT?!
Rating: P for words starting with P.

Tree? Check. It's pathetic and almost half the pine-needles are missing from getting dragged into the house.

Ornaments? Check.

Christmas dinner? Well...there's food, at least! Robert and Booker might have raided the supermarket for all the microwaveable and appropriate foods to have for Christmas. There's microwaved chicken, microwaved mashed potatoes, microwaved green beans that are really soggy and smell funny, microwaved rolls, and microwaved ham. Because there should be variety, damnit. There's also a pie sitting in the microwave, waiting. And vanilla ice cream.

Booker wouldn't call it a feast or anything but it's not like there's absolutely nothing to be seen.

They haven't gone all out or anything for the first Christmas they're spending together, nobody here really has the Christmas spirit to do it. Either the Luteces don't remember how to do Christmas or they just don't care - the latter is more likely and Booker hasn't done Christmas in decades so it feels off to even find a tree. Booker doesn't know if Elizabeth ever got to celebrate the holiday in her tower but as far as he's concerned this should be good enough.

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"Alright, alright--" Elizabeth looked over the three and contemplated as Gai set the glasses down. Which one first? Which order to go in?

"Okay, this one first!" she said, handing him a thick, square, and largish package. "Just handle it carefully..." Because it was a stack of vinyl records, mostly produced in Columbia, that she'd had in her tower. She'd picked out the ones she thought Gai might like. This was the innocuous gift--the one she'd had on hand just in case there was some kind of public gift-opening movement.

Gai's eyebrows went up as he accepted the package carefully, turning it around in his hands a few times to study it before setting it in his lap to open. As far as he knew, it could be anything-- she hadn't said anything to drop any hints about what she was getting him for Christmas, and he hadn't given her any suggestions, either. The way he opened the package itself was careful, methodical, not wanting to damage its contents at all.

When he got enough of the paper off to realize what it was, he broke into a wide smile. He knew what records were, even though they were from far before his time, and the fact that Elizabeth had remembered his music-writing touched him deeply.

"They're perfect. Thank you, Elizabeth," he said, leaning over to kiss her again.

"Wait, wait--!" She laughed and accepted the kiss. "I'm still looking for a phonograph for you, but once I find one in the item shop I'll bring it over. But you can always listen to them on mine until one shows up.

"And that's not the end, so don't kiss me yet!" Elizabeth grinned and dropped a smaller, more cube-shaped box in Gai's lap. This one definitely couldn't be opened in the presence of any of her household...

"If I didn't know better, I'd say you picked records on purpose so that I'd have to come over here to listen to them," he teased, headbutting her lightly when he finally broke the kiss.

But then there was another smaller box in his lap, and this one weighed a lot less. Curiously, he pulled off the paper to open it and...

... oh. Well. Merry Christmas to him indeed.

"No, nooo, what do you take me for, Gai?" Elizabeth headbutted him back, giggling because-- "Well... maybe it was the reason I wasn't too upset about not being able to find a record player. But that's it!"

She kept grinning away as Gai opened the box, biting her lip to keep from laughing as he stares at the lacy brassiere. "I got a couple more, too. But they're... functional." White and solid, mostly. "You kept threatening to take me, so I just took the liberty for your sake. They do hurt my back a little, but this one has a little hinge in front..."

His grin grew a little more devious as he looked up at her from the box. "You mean you've been practicing wearing these and didn't tell me? And here I could've cornered you somewhere out of the way and not had to deal with that corset..."

He was mostly teasing, but the fact remained that it WAS a rather exciting thought. Very exciting, and one he'd have to make a reality at some point. "And it's even easy-access. You really do think of everything."

"Only a couple days, and just around the house, Mister." Elizabeth smirked and shouldered Gai a little. "I was curious after I found one in my laundry basket. It was even my size, strangely enough."

She blushed rather profusely at the comment about the front closure, though she was very pleased Gai noticed. "It does look very nice, coming off. I will say that." She'd tried it a few times, just to get the hang of it in case Gai looked horrified by the mechanism when it was presented to him.

"I take no responsibility for that," he shot back, though the veracity of that particular statement was questionable. "Call it a lucky accident or the Malnosso having a little fun."

At her comment about how it looked coming off, however, he couldn't resist the urge to pick it up and try unhooking it for himself, just to test it out. With one hand. That was likely how he'd be doing it when they put it to actual use, after all.

Elizabeth blinked as she watched Gai undo the clasp with one hand and had to shift slightly and bite her lip to keep her thoughts under control. Maybe there was a benefit to modern underwear where Gai was concerned.

"Um... right. Sounds like the Malnosso, doesn't it?

"Wait, one more! And as fun as that one is, this one is more important."

Elizabeth set a long box down on Gai's leg, this one with great reverence. It was slightly heavy, because it contained a cast iron key.

The weight of the box surprises Gai for a moment, as he hadn't been expecting it to be quite that heavy. For a moment, the shape combined with the weight of it makes him think that perhaps she did get him a gun after all... but no, he couldn't see her ever willingly choosing something like that as a gift for him, not after he'd confided in her about his past.

Still, the curiosity was evident on his face as he unwrapped it to find the key. Lifting it out, he turned it this way and that for a moment until the significance dawned on him: the bird matched the one on the choker she always wore, and she'd mentioned Booker being the "man with the key"...

When he looked up at her, it was with reverence in his expression. "Elizabeth..."

"It's... not a practical thing. But I found it in the item shop, so I kept it." She reaches over to twirl the key for him, just to see the optical illusion the different sides of the key created.

"It's the key Booker gave me, that let me out out of my tower." She curled her hands over Gai's shoulder and laid her head down. "You've shown me things I never imagined I would see outside of Columbia. I thought I would grow old here, alone, avoiding touch, mistrusting everyone. You taught me differently, you let me learn to love you.

"You've been another 'man with the key' to me. You've opened up another life to me, something richer and fuller." Elizabeth's voice wavered a little, and she passed it off with a laugh. "And now it's going to be our life, together. The fullest life I could have asked for."

"Practical or not, it's one of the best presents I've ever received, and I'll treasure it." The way he held it carefully, as if it were something made of glass, was proof of that much. "This is the key that let both of us out, not just you. If I hadn't met you..."

He trailed off, slipping his free arm around her to pull her closer against him. "If I hadn't met you, I would've lived my entire life here the same way I had back in my world-- fighting, because that was the only thing I knew how to do. You showed me that there's more to life than just that, and that I wasn't too damaged to be able to have it for myself."

It was something he'd never dreamed of, had never even imagined was possible. "You gave me a world too, Elizabeth. The best one I could ever have hoped for."

Elizabeth laughed again, thickly, on the verge of crying into Gai's shoulder. She reached for his hand, the one holding the key, and gripped it tightly.

"No, no you were never damaged, just like I was never damaged. We just needed a purpose, someone to walk and dance with, someone to be happy with." She couldn't keep it contained any longer. Elizabeth pressed her eye into Gai's shoulder and let out a little happy sob. "I couldn't say yes fast enough. I will wake up and say yes every single day, and we'll have the world together."

It was rare for Gai to be at a loss for words. He'd made a reputation based largely on his charisma and ability to rally people behind him with his words, yet in the face of such a heartfelt admission, he found he couldn't come up with any words that seemed suitable.

So there was only one thing to do: pull away just enough so that he could lean down and press his lips to hers, expressing through his actions what he couldn't say in words. There were no worries of her misunderstanding this, or of him somehow saying the wrong thing. No, there was no mistaking the emotion behind this kiss. He was going to make that much very clear.

Elizabeth had been thinking of doing the same thing the next chance she got. Gai had read her mind, though, just like he always did, and taken the initiative before she could. But she met him, hands on his jaw, mouth moving to nearly consume him.

"I don't care if everyone is still here--" she whispered between kisses. "--I'll be quiet, just take me to bed. I want to wake up next to you tomorrow."

It was a moment longer before Gai responded to that, occupied as he was with trying to kiss Elizabeth breathless. But she'd read his mind too, not that it was a difficult task given what they were currently doing.

"They can't exactly complain now that we're engaged," he murmured back. "Besides, we're allowed to celebrate that fact if we want. And I did make you a promise..."

"They can complain if we're too loud," Elizabeth giggled and ran her fingers over Gai's cheek, just adoring him for a moment. "I know I wouldn't want to hear Booker or Robert or Rosalind in the middle of sex. I'd have to claw my ears off."

That caused Gai to groan and bump his forehead against hers, just sort of shaking his head. "Those are mental images I never needed to have. I definitely didn't want to have them, either."

"What, you've never looked at Rosalind and thought, 'I wonder what's under that skirt and jacket'...?" Elizabeth grinned, knowing full well that she was being absolutely awful and instilling terrible mental images onto Gai. But, she did have a bit of a sadistic side to her when tormenting Gai was concerned.

"No. Never." Ugh no whyyyyy... he'd never thought of that before, but now he couldn't get the thought out of his head, much to his dismay. 'Awful' was the understatement of the year, in his opinion. "Now I think I'm going to need to see you naked to get that out of my mind."

"Never? Really..." Elizabeth pretended not to hear the comment about needing to see her naked, and put a finger to her chin in mock thought. "Ohhh, you must think more about what Robert looks like under his jacket and trousers. Now I get it."

~~She was awful, and Gai was going to take his ring back at this rate.~~

"Now you're just being cruel," Gai said with a laugh. There was one very simple and straightforward way to get her to stop giving him such horrible mental images, however, and it was one he didn't think she'd object to one bit.

He simply leaned in to kiss her again, stopping any further commentary she may have had with his own lips on hers.

She was being cruel, but he was only rewarding her bad behavior with kissing. Elizabeth let Gai kiss her for a few moments before pulling back and standing up. Gai's hand in hers, she indicated that he should stand up to, and follow her to her room.

Rewarding temporarily-- he had every intention of teasing her right back (possibly to the point of begging; he still found the very idea to be hot) once they were safely in her bedroom with the door locked. When she stood, so too did he, giving that hand a squeeze accompanied by a smile that was far too seductive to be read any other way than "We'll see who can tease whom more."

Elizabeth giggled softly at the smile, ever intrigued, ever easily seduced by Gai. Still, when she smiled back at him, it wasn't as a horny young woman stealing her boyfriend into her room for some daring fun. It was Elizabeth wanting to be as close as she could to Gai at the beginning of their commitment to each other.

"We'll still do the lights at your apartment tomorrow--I won't have to be quiet there."

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