((It's fine, like I said there's no rush. Sorry if it sounded like I was complaining! I barely have a working net connection anyway, so will be slow too. The computer deities have cursed us. :\ This seems rather apt now!))
The only response Toki received was a grunt before Skwisgaar gave him his back and huddled deeper beneath the fur covers, intent on sleeping. It wasn't as though he'd had to stay up all night to put the finishing touches on the gaming room that had been being constructed over the last few days, in secret -- the house elves had handled it, creating the doorway very last, per their instructions. But even so, Skwisgaar felt it was way too early to be getting up, unless there was a damned good reason...
Oh. Right. That totally unmetal holiday that no good Nihilist should even think of celebrating was today. The same one that he'd decided to take part in anyway, figuring it'd make Toki happy. For all his wealth, Skwisgaar had never really been materialistic, didn't like collecting things that would invariably become clutter unless it was so expensive it made him horny, anyway. Despite this he was bound to appreciate any effort Toki might have made, as anything coming from him would hold sentimental value. And so, after a long moment, he rolled back over to face Toki and squinted drowsily at him. "Awakes now. Why's you ups so early?" he asked, noticing what Toki was holding but playing dumb anyway and reaching to feel if he was, in fact, up yet. "Thoughts you hads enough last night," he teased.
((I feel your connection problems, that's gotta be so miserable. =( The computer dieties are indeed unkind. And awwww, that picture's too cute. <3))
An especially big, goofy grin had etched itself on Toki's features as he nudged at Skwisgaar again. With one hand, he still clutched Skwisgaar's note against his chest. It did look as if the Swede wanted to sleep longer, but, Toki figured he was bound to forgive him for waking him up on a magical Christmas morning. Toki's fascination with Christmas was a childish one, untainted by actual materialism- it was all about fun. Presents were part of that fun, because you got to give them to people and make them happy, ideally. Toki failed to see why this wasn't metal- it was only one day a year and all. So although he did appreciate the video games as video games, it was more Skwisgaar's obvious effort and the strangely meaningful little note that had him grinning so happily, along with the prospect of giving Skwisgaar his gift.
"Is Christmas mornings, Skwisgaar!" Toki smiled down at Skwisgaar as he rolled over and squinted at him, jerking slightly at the unexpected touch, but not at all in a bad way. Skwisgaar was strangely sexy when he was sleepy, and Toki was starting to think that wake-up sex would be a good way to start off Christmas morning. But after presents, because these had to come first on Christmas, since that was just the way that Christmas worked. The Shoggies were still quiet in their drawers, and so it seemed possible that he and Skwisgaar might manage to steal a bit of time for themselves before they 'woke up'. Or whatever it was that Shoggies did, since it was questionable if they really slept.
"I gots to gives to you yours present, and mine's so cool." There was simply no better terminology for it than the Shoggies'. "Ands I like the notes too." Toki was practically glowing with delight, leaving no doubt that Skwisgaar's present had been a brilliant success. "I thinks the childrens are stills asleep in their drawers, so we might haves some private times before they wake up and it's presents time for Shoggies. And then times for candy and Ducks Hunt." Since obviously, he was going to eat candy and play video games all day, and perhaps he and Skwisgaar could try out the new furniture a few times, too.
The jerking movement didn't deter Skwisgaar, and he continued lazily fondling Toki with one hand, rubbing his eyes with the other as he struggled to wake up fully. "But mys present is rights here," he said, sitting up and spending a few moments stretching before leaning in to kiss Toki, morning breath and all. Wake-up sex certainly wouldn't be a bad idea. Then maybe a shower and more napping while the Shoggies and Toki enjoyed playing with their gifts, since it sounded like a nice way to spend Christmas day. Better than anything he could have hoped for.
Now that he was a bit more awake and aware of things he was noticing how happy Toki seemed, and was privately pleased that his gift could have such an impact -- particularly the specifically mentioned note, judging by the way Toki was holding it almost as though it were his deddy bear. It was strange, Skwisgaar reflected, just how much really had changed between them since coming back to Hogwarts. How much of a difference it could make, just showing Toki a little kindness and giving him the approval he sought. Even their now infrequent arguments had subtly changed over the last few months. Stranger still to think how maybe none of this would have happened if they hadn't reappeared at Hogwarts when they did; developing any kind of actual relationship with each other back in Mordhaus and while touring would have been difficult, where it wasn't as easy to escape their bandmates' scrutiny and interference.
Since Nathan now approved of them being together, and with even Ofdensen apparently willing to protect them from an ugly media backlash, Skwisgaar wasn't too worried about what would happen whenever they returned home. They could probably just continue living together.
Skwisgaar's eyes flickered to the Shoggies' still silent dresser and back to Toki, and he was thinking along the same lines: Presents could come first, then they would. Worked for him. "So yous got me something whats ain't a Christmas blowjob?" he asked with a small smile. "Shoulds I gets dressed first?" Toki had done a good job of keeping his gift a secret, as he had no idea what it was.
Toki almost-purred as he pressed against Skwisgaar's hand in response, watching Skwisgaar wake up. His remark about his present being 'rights here' only made Toki smile all the more widely. He kissed Skwisgaar happily, telling him, "It's in the closets, buts you can haves that one too. After the closets one." Thus far, it was definitely shaping up to be the best Christmas ever.
Toki's eyes flickered between Skwisgaar and the new room a few times, as despite his desire for Christmas morning sex, he was almost as excited about trying out his new games. Of all the things that Skwisgaar could have done to encourage a bit more sobriety from Toki, this was actually one of the better ones- he was likely to be too distracted to drink, at least as often. "Christmas blowjobs ares after presents," Toki insisted, since it was important. "And we don't needs to get dressed." He didn't much feel like putting his clothes on at the moment, and was a bit disappointed that the idea of a naked Christmas wasn't a good one, what with the 'children'. He kissed Skwisgaar again before getting up to extract his gift from the closet, where he'd hidden it under some of his clothes.
This took a little doing as some of the clothes had gotten tangled around various protruding bits of the pipe-cleaner model of Smaug that Toki had assembled for him, which was unusually large for a pipe-cleaner model. He had to have used quite a few packages of pipecleaners, definitely hundreds of red ones. He dislodged a sock from around part of its wing, and brought it over to the bed. The model was posed with its wings dramatically spread, with construction paper webbing hot-glued to the pipe-cleaner wing joints, and carried atop its back pipecleaner models of both Skwisgaar and Toki, wielding pipe-cleaner battle-axes. He'd added a light sprinkling of red glitter to Smaug at the end- unfortunately, some of that was likely to end up on the fur bedcovers, since Toki set it down by Skwisgaar with a huge smile. "It's a pipecleaners Smaug," Toki explained, not that it really needed the explanation. Toki had taken advantage of opportunities when Skwisgaar was elsewhere or sleeping to work on his gift, so his narcoleptic tendencies had actually proven rather helpful, and he'd excused the mess under guise of his other Christmas crafts.
"You's saying mys present ams comings out of de closet," Skwisgaar said with a playful smirk. "Abouts time you did, I's guess. And Christmas blowjobs ares a present, even if yous would have dones it anyway," he countered, reaching to hold Toki's hips as they kissed. He debated simply pushing him down and pinning him to the bed and molesting him for a while, but Toki had already slipped away to get his other present before he could decide. Ah well. Maybe in a few minutes. It was shaping up to be the most enjoyable and memorable Christmas for him as well, though it admittedly wouldn't be hard to beat his Christmas experiences as a child, and then he hadn't ever really properly celebrated it as an adult before. There hadn't been a reason to. And now... There were several reasons, and most of them were right there in the room with him. Too bad they hadn't been able to bring Fatty to Hogwarts too.
Skwisgaar couldn't help laughing when Toki finally freed the present from the closet and brought it over -- but for once his laughter was utterly lacking derision, and sounded rather more surprised and delighted, not unlike how he'd react to being presented with his own real live pet dragon. The petty part of him was definitely pleased to note his crafted gift was obviously much larger and more intricate than any of the other gifts he'd noticed Toki working on. He lifted the pipecleaner model and curiously looked it over, smiling when he noticed how Toki had taken a little artistic license and placed them both on Smaug's back, rather than in his hands. "I saws you had lots of de red fuzzy things, but thoughts yous were just makings lots of murdered snowsmen and whatsever," he said. "Dis ams way better. Don'ts thinks anybody ever gives to me anything likes it before." By which he basically meant a thoughtful and very personalised gift. "Thank yous, Toki."
All told, Toki had probably spent more time on the Smaug model than Skwisgaar had on the gaming room, as that had only involved a little research and then buying everything he could find, then wrangling Jasper (and later his robot pal, Victor) and the house elves into helping get around Hogwarts' anti-technology field and set up the room. But he probably wouldn't ever tell Toki that, of course. Better for him to think Skwisgaar had set it all up on his own.
"I do has ones other things for you..." He carefully set his mini-Smaug aside before pulling Toki closer and settling back against the pillows, his arms wrapped around Toki. "I guess wes can both agrees de foods libraries here was yours idea," he said with a small, amused smile. It was a symbolic gesture, really: he was trying his best not to hold a grudge anymore over the hurtful things they'd said to each other in the past. He'd already proved Toki wrong about being incapable of having a "special relationship", anyway, and Toki himself was proof of that, fittingly enough.
((Ready to FTB whenever you are. I think also this thread is at a good FTB point, but I may still respond later to give it their usual cutesy thread ending. Because I am a sap. :P))
"There's all day fors the Christmas blowjobs, buts only a few minutes of wakings up on Christmas morning," Toki explained with grave importance. He was all about the Christmas blowjobs, but, if they did that first, their moments of waking up on Christmas morning would have been gone. Toki hoped that when the Shoggies woke up they'd have just as awesome a morning as he was already having, and smiled expectantly at Skwisgaar's reaction to his gift.
Toki was relieved when Skwisgaar's laughter was clearly of an approving sort, rather than mocking his handmade gift. He showed Skwisgaar how the pipecleaners were bendy, and so the pipecleaner Smaug was posable to a certain degree, as were the Skwisgaar and Toki figures on his back. Toki had presumed that artistic license there would be fine, as, riding on a dragon's back would seem a bit more comfortable than being carried around in clawed dragon hands. "No, nots murdered snowsmen! But that's a good ideas for next year!" He smiled hugely when Skwisgaar told him it was way better, and thanked him for it. "I'm so glad you likes it, Skwisgaar!" He kissed him happily, telling him, "See, presents didn'ts take that long, nows we can have the Christmas blowjobs time."
He sank into Skwisgaar's embrace and nuzzled softly at his neck. His concession of the food libraries was an unexpected addition, but, it was meaningful to Toki. "You's means that Skwisgaar? I think I just saids they should be here, but thats you told me what food libraries were- so maybe, they can be ours food libraries, togethers." Toki equated coming up with the food libraries to some sort of possession of them as well, and not just the idea. So, he thought sharing them would be the most apt and enjoyable thing to do with them. "Things are betters when they're with yous, likes food libraries, and Christmases, and everythings else," Toki insisted, seeking Skwisgaar's lips for another kiss as he slipped a hand between his legs, ready to get on with their other holiday morning plans before the Shoggies emerged.
((Yeah, it seems like both threads are at good FTB points, but cutesy Skwis and Toki thread endings never hurt, hehe. XD))
The only response Toki received was a grunt before Skwisgaar gave him his back and huddled deeper beneath the fur covers, intent on sleeping. It wasn't as though he'd had to stay up all night to put the finishing touches on the gaming room that had been being constructed over the last few days, in secret -- the house elves had handled it, creating the doorway very last, per their instructions. But even so, Skwisgaar felt it was way too early to be getting up, unless there was a damned good reason...
Oh. Right. That totally unmetal holiday that no good Nihilist should even think of celebrating was today. The same one that he'd decided to take part in anyway, figuring it'd make Toki happy. For all his wealth, Skwisgaar had never really been materialistic, didn't like collecting things that would invariably become clutter unless it was so expensive it made him horny, anyway. Despite this he was bound to appreciate any effort Toki might have made, as anything coming from him would hold sentimental value. And so, after a long moment, he rolled back over to face Toki and squinted drowsily at him. "Awakes now. Why's you ups so early?" he asked, noticing what Toki was holding but playing dumb anyway and reaching to feel if he was, in fact, up yet. "Thoughts you hads enough last night," he teased.
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An especially big, goofy grin had etched itself on Toki's features as he nudged at Skwisgaar again. With one hand, he still clutched Skwisgaar's note against his chest. It did look as if the Swede wanted to sleep longer, but, Toki figured he was bound to forgive him for waking him up on a magical Christmas morning. Toki's fascination with Christmas was a childish one, untainted by actual materialism- it was all about fun. Presents were part of that fun, because you got to give them to people and make them happy, ideally. Toki failed to see why this wasn't metal- it was only one day a year and all. So although he did appreciate the video games as video games, it was more Skwisgaar's obvious effort and the strangely meaningful little note that had him grinning so happily, along with the prospect of giving Skwisgaar his gift.
"Is Christmas mornings, Skwisgaar!" Toki smiled down at Skwisgaar as he rolled over and squinted at him, jerking slightly at the unexpected touch, but not at all in a bad way. Skwisgaar was strangely sexy when he was sleepy, and Toki was starting to think that wake-up sex would be a good way to start off Christmas morning. But after presents, because these had to come first on Christmas, since that was just the way that Christmas worked. The Shoggies were still quiet in their drawers, and so it seemed possible that he and Skwisgaar might manage to steal a bit of time for themselves before they 'woke up'. Or whatever it was that Shoggies did, since it was questionable if they really slept.
"I gots to gives to you yours present, and mine's so cool." There was simply no better terminology for it than the Shoggies'. "Ands I like the notes too." Toki was practically glowing with delight, leaving no doubt that Skwisgaar's present had been a brilliant success. "I thinks the childrens are stills asleep in their drawers, so we might haves some private times before they wake up and it's presents time for Shoggies. And then times for candy and Ducks Hunt." Since obviously, he was going to eat candy and play video games all day, and perhaps he and Skwisgaar could try out the new furniture a few times, too.
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Now that he was a bit more awake and aware of things he was noticing how happy Toki seemed, and was privately pleased that his gift could have such an impact -- particularly the specifically mentioned note, judging by the way Toki was holding it almost as though it were his deddy bear. It was strange, Skwisgaar reflected, just how much really had changed between them since coming back to Hogwarts. How much of a difference it could make, just showing Toki a little kindness and giving him the approval he sought. Even their now infrequent arguments had subtly changed over the last few months. Stranger still to think how maybe none of this would have happened if they hadn't reappeared at Hogwarts when they did; developing any kind of actual relationship with each other back in Mordhaus and while touring would have been difficult, where it wasn't as easy to escape their bandmates' scrutiny and interference.
Since Nathan now approved of them being together, and with even Ofdensen apparently willing to protect them from an ugly media backlash, Skwisgaar wasn't too worried about what would happen whenever they returned home. They could probably just continue living together.
Skwisgaar's eyes flickered to the Shoggies' still silent dresser and back to Toki, and he was thinking along the same lines: Presents could come first, then they would. Worked for him. "So yous got me something whats ain't a Christmas blowjob?" he asked with a small smile. "Shoulds I gets dressed first?" Toki had done a good job of keeping his gift a secret, as he had no idea what it was.
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Toki's eyes flickered between Skwisgaar and the new room a few times, as despite his desire for Christmas morning sex, he was almost as excited about trying out his new games. Of all the things that Skwisgaar could have done to encourage a bit more sobriety from Toki, this was actually one of the better ones- he was likely to be too distracted to drink, at least as often. "Christmas blowjobs ares after presents," Toki insisted, since it was important. "And we don't needs to get dressed." He didn't much feel like putting his clothes on at the moment, and was a bit disappointed that the idea of a naked Christmas wasn't a good one, what with the 'children'. He kissed Skwisgaar again before getting up to extract his gift from the closet, where he'd hidden it under some of his clothes.
This took a little doing as some of the clothes had gotten tangled around various protruding bits of the pipe-cleaner model of Smaug that Toki had assembled for him, which was unusually large for a pipe-cleaner model. He had to have used quite a few packages of pipecleaners, definitely hundreds of red ones. He dislodged a sock from around part of its wing, and brought it over to the bed. The model was posed with its wings dramatically spread, with construction paper webbing hot-glued to the pipe-cleaner wing joints, and carried atop its back pipecleaner models of both Skwisgaar and Toki, wielding pipe-cleaner battle-axes. He'd added a light sprinkling of red glitter to Smaug at the end- unfortunately, some of that was likely to end up on the fur bedcovers, since Toki set it down by Skwisgaar with a huge smile. "It's a pipecleaners Smaug," Toki explained, not that it really needed the explanation. Toki had taken advantage of opportunities when Skwisgaar was elsewhere or sleeping to work on his gift, so his narcoleptic tendencies had actually proven rather helpful, and he'd excused the mess under guise of his other Christmas crafts.
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Skwisgaar couldn't help laughing when Toki finally freed the present from the closet and brought it over -- but for once his laughter was utterly lacking derision, and sounded rather more surprised and delighted, not unlike how he'd react to being presented with his own real live pet dragon. The petty part of him was definitely pleased to note his crafted gift was obviously much larger and more intricate than any of the other gifts he'd noticed Toki working on. He lifted the pipecleaner model and curiously looked it over, smiling when he noticed how Toki had taken a little artistic license and placed them both on Smaug's back, rather than in his hands. "I saws you had lots of de red fuzzy things, but thoughts yous were just makings lots of murdered snowsmen and whatsever," he said. "Dis ams way better. Don'ts thinks anybody ever gives to me anything likes it before." By which he basically meant a thoughtful and very personalised gift. "Thank yous, Toki."
All told, Toki had probably spent more time on the Smaug model than Skwisgaar had on the gaming room, as that had only involved a little research and then buying everything he could find, then wrangling Jasper (and later his robot pal, Victor) and the house elves into helping get around Hogwarts' anti-technology field and set up the room. But he probably wouldn't ever tell Toki that, of course. Better for him to think Skwisgaar had set it all up on his own.
"I do has ones other things for you..." He carefully set his mini-Smaug aside before pulling Toki closer and settling back against the pillows, his arms wrapped around Toki. "I guess wes can both agrees de foods libraries here was yours idea," he said with a small, amused smile. It was a symbolic gesture, really: he was trying his best not to hold a grudge anymore over the hurtful things they'd said to each other in the past. He'd already proved Toki wrong about being incapable of having a "special relationship", anyway, and Toki himself was proof of that, fittingly enough.
((Ready to FTB whenever you are. I think also this thread is at a good FTB point, but I may still respond later to give it their usual cutesy thread ending. Because I am a sap. :P))
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Toki was relieved when Skwisgaar's laughter was clearly of an approving sort, rather than mocking his handmade gift. He showed Skwisgaar how the pipecleaners were bendy, and so the pipecleaner Smaug was posable to a certain degree, as were the Skwisgaar and Toki figures on his back. Toki had presumed that artistic license there would be fine, as, riding on a dragon's back would seem a bit more comfortable than being carried around in clawed dragon hands. "No, nots murdered snowsmen! But that's a good ideas for next year!" He smiled hugely when Skwisgaar told him it was way better, and thanked him for it. "I'm so glad you likes it, Skwisgaar!" He kissed him happily, telling him, "See, presents didn'ts take that long, nows we can have the Christmas blowjobs time."
He sank into Skwisgaar's embrace and nuzzled softly at his neck. His concession of the food libraries was an unexpected addition, but, it was meaningful to Toki. "You's means that Skwisgaar? I think I just saids they should be here, but thats you told me what food libraries were- so maybe, they can be ours food libraries, togethers." Toki equated coming up with the food libraries to some sort of possession of them as well, and not just the idea. So, he thought sharing them would be the most apt and enjoyable thing to do with them. "Things are betters when they're with yous, likes food libraries, and Christmases, and everythings else," Toki insisted, seeking Skwisgaar's lips for another kiss as he slipped a hand between his legs, ready to get on with their other holiday morning plans before the Shoggies emerged.
((Yeah, it seems like both threads are at good FTB points, but cutesy Skwis and Toki thread endings never hurt, hehe. XD))
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