Discovered in the Holly and the Ivy: Day 36, 5th January - Part I: Together at Christmas - Prosfic!

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Some people have already seen this one (but on paper *g*). I know it's nearly all over, but we're nipping back to Christmas...

Together at Christmas
by Slantedlight

Christmas on duty. Again. Doyle watched silently as yet another Brussel sprout rebounded from the wall and into his abandoned cup of tea.

“I could have been away with Lorna all weekend, if bloody Michaels hadn’t got married this year,” Murphy was saying, looking around the table. A dozen eyes looked back at him, with varying degrees of interest. “It’s discrimination, that’s what it is.”

Bodie took another swig of whatever it was in his mug - neat rum if his breath was anything to go by when he turned Doyle’s way - and looked sceptical. “Discrimination? Against us?”

“Too right it is - single blokes need love too, you know! And Christmases off.”

“And women,” Susan cut in, fishing another sprout from the bowl on the table, and starting to line it up. “Or at least we need Christmas parties and champagne under the mistletoe. And better canapes.”

( And women! )

Discovered in the Holly and the Ivy: Day 36, 5th January. Part II: A Little Snow in London - Prosfic

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Okay, we're back to Christmas for the second time today, with another wee bit of fluff... I did think about putting these into a corner to wait for next Christmas, but that's a whole year away and you never know what might happen, so... back to Christmas. *g*

And a huge thank you to betas jessebee and heliophile_oxon, who both helped to make this an actual story! Anything odd that remains is all due to my fiddling!

I'm hoping for three posts today, but there must be Job 1 work between now and that other post, so we'll have to see how we go...


( A Little Snow in London )