43 Unicorn Street; Saturday Morning [12/02].

[sword_chocobro]

Yesterday, Gladio had found himself an unexpected (and entirely voluntary!) outcast from his own apartment, and after failing to find refuge over at the Perk, he knew he would definitely find it over at Nell's. He'd even managed to get a good deal of that reading in, too.

And now that it was the next morning, there was breakfast to be had. Nell was back to being at the crux of it, with Gladio there to help, but mostly, he would be in charge of the oatmeal.

All the while, singing a little under his breath:

"When you said yesterday that it's nearly Christmas
What did I want and I thought just love me, love me, love me
That's what I want for Christmas..."

Which was funny, because Gladio didn't even really KNOW a lot of Christmas songs, nor was he entirely aware that he had been kind of singing one.

[[ for the oh-so-delicately modded Queen of Breakfast, of course! ]]

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell was putting the last touches on some cinnamon rolls and getting ready to put out the bacon and eggs. It had been a lovely year to have Gladio just come over last night and read with her by the fire. Which might have been why she was quietly singing, "We're snuggled up together like yet birds of a feather would be."

And while Christmas was certainly a thing where been grew up, secular Christmas songs weren't something she knew a lot a about.

[sword_chocobro]

Gladio picked up on Nell's singing far more than he had his own, glancing over with a faint grin on his face and an intrigued lift of his eyebrow. He was going to make some comment, maybe, about that snuggling or those birds and feathers (hardly one to pass up an opportunity to bring up his tattoo, really!), but what came out was another little sing-song rumble of the next line.

"Let’s take that road before us
And sing a chorus or two..."

Which, in context, was actually kind of funny, even if it was a little confusing of where that might have even come from.

[mylandmyrules]

Nell turned to him curiously to ask what he meant, but instead sang, "It's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you?"


[Ahhh! Autocorrect turned sleigh ride into sith runner.]

[sword_chocobro]

And maybe it was just that juxtaposition of the confusion he was feeling, too, and the confused look on Nell's face, and the words dancing in melody out of her mouth, but Gladio had to laugh.

And he was about to ask if maybe this singing thinv was apparently the December Thing du jour, but all that came put was a crooning little, "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..."


[[ which....does sound like it could be a TYPE of sleigh, maybe? Lol ]]

[mylandmyrules]

Nell laughed. "Later on we'll conspire as we dream by the fire...". She had a nice little contralto voice as she sang.

She brought the eggs and bacon over to the table and returned for the cinnamon rolls, setting them out, then taking a seat to sip on her coffee and shake her head at the latest Fandom oddity.

[sword_chocobro]

"To face unafraid," Gladio continued with the next lines with all the confidence and swagger as if he'd actually known this song, grinning as he followed suit with the oatmeal, "the plans that we've made..."

He leaned in for a quick kiss before taking his own seat at the table and finishing with an nicely baritone, "Walking in a winter wonderland..."

He laughed, reaching for his own coffee and echoing Nell's shake of her head.

"Hey," he said, then snorted with the pleased surprise of actually saying it, not singing it, and it having been what he wanted to say, at that, "speaking of 'plans that we've made,' I still owe you birthday ones, don't I?"

[mylandmyrules]

"Oh!" she said, a little surprised about the question and a little about the not singing part. "Presents, what a beautiful sight, don't mean a thing if you're not holding me tight."

She smiled at him. "I think we missed out when we were little. But as long as we're together I'm happy. Can we still go somewhere?"

[sword_chocobro]

"You're all that I need," sang Gladio, apparently unable to help picking up the rest of the lines of the song that Nell had gone into this time, but it was hard not to just grin at it, when at least it felt pretty accurate and fitting, "underneath the tree...

"And," he quickly added, before other lyrics or another song could sneak in there before he had a chance to answer her question in a more direct way, "you're all I'll need on this trip, that I hope we can still take, if you're interested, because it would be a shame to miss out on it just because the island had bad timing in turning us into kids."

[mylandmyrules]

"Told you before," she managed before some song might catch her again. "I'll go anywhere with you, Tall Man. If you want to arrange a birthday trip for me, I'm in. I'll face unafraid, the plans that you've made, walking in a winter wonderland.."

Apparently they allowed a little leeway here and there.

[sword_chocobro]

Gladio had to chuckle, shaking his head a little bit, because this whole random bits of singing made it difficult to hold an actual conversation, but it was also strangely difficult to be too annoyed with it. Maybe it was just too absurd. Maybe it was just kind of cute hearing Nell sing. A little of column A, and a little of column B, but, either way, apparently, he was going to be responding in kind:

"In the meadow, we can build a snowman
We'll pretend that he is Parson Brown
He'll say, are you married?
We'll say, no man
But you can do the job when you're in town.

"Well," he amended, clearing his throat of his singing voice as he made a few amendment to this apparently very presumptuous song, "maybe the snowman part, but the place I had in mind is more in the mountain than in a meadow. And I sure don't know any Parson Brown, but we'll have to let him know we're not quite there yet."

[mylandmyrules]

Had her heart caught when he sang that part? A part of it leapt in happiness, while another, like his, said 'no,not yet, too early' but for the first time there was a part that said 'maybe someday', which was something she'd never thought she'd ever ever even consider for a second. It was a little beautiful and a little scary.

She smiled at him. "A mountain sounds lovely. I know wherever you plan will be perfect. Because we'll be there together. What do I care how much it may storm? I've got my love to keep me warm ."

[sword_chocobro]

"Off with my overcoat," Gladio sang back, naturally, and even though he didn't really know hardly any of these songs, it was a little difficult to avoid appreciating that this one, in particular, seemed to fit him enough that he was grin over at Nell with a wink as he reached for some bacon, "off with my glove, I need no overcoat, I'm burning with love!."

Just what he needed. A new excuse for why he shouldn't be bothering with wearing shirts at all!

But this was making having a conversation a little tricky, so he figured he may as well just go with it until this singing thing ran its course, and then they could talk potential trip details.

[mylandmyrules]

Nell laughed at that. "And off with your shirt?" she said, just as if she could read the narrative or something and was delighted by it.

"Under the mistletoe, watching the fire glow, and telling me, 'I love you' - just being in your arms, takes me back to that little farm where every wish comes true," she sang. He didn't need to run anything past her. She knew she'd love whatever he planned.