All I want for Christmas...

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Who: Jolee and Nick
Where: Their apartment in Whitetail Grove
When: Christmas Day (day following this postJolee was still tired from the work they'd done on Christmas eve, but at least some nasty lawyers were getting a little Christmas present now. Plus it did Nick a world of good to be working again - he enjoyed making explosives to a degree that

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"No, I want to kiss that other guy that I like," Jolee said, somewhat embarrassed that he'd laughed at her. Her face was a deep red.

"Of course I want to kiss you. I mean, if you don't want to and all I understand but it is Christmas..."

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"I'm just... I... let me get this straight." he turned toward her to meet her gaze head-on, wanting to make sure they were communicating properly. "We come to Sunnydale, Southern California -- the motherfucking Holy Land of bleach blonds and surfer tans and way too many muscles --we live right down the hall from Sir Peroxide McCheekbones of Black Leather -- and you want to kiss me."

He shook his head. "I mean, maybe if we were still in Cleveland, I could understand, but..."

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Jolee looked into his eyes. "He's a very nice neighbor, sure - but he's not my type."

She took his hand with her non-burnt one. "I like you Nick, no matter where we are. I've liked you for a long time now, it's just real hard sometimes to tell whether you like me at all. And I know we didn't start out under the best of circumstances and all but... being with you is the only thing that means anything, you know? In all this mess... it's what keeps me grounded. It's what makes it all worth while."

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"I do like you, Madson," he murmured, looking down. "You're a good friend. S'more'n I ever expected. Thought, you know, you'd be some arrogant obnoxious government dickhead, just another jailer. But you're not. Like I said... you're my friend. I don't have many friends."

He sighed and combed his fingers through his hair. And God help him, she was a very pretty woman. Who was half his age, he reminded himself. Young enough to be his daughter. He grimaced. "I'm just not sure about this."

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"Well... we could just try it out. Just one kiss, under the mistletoe - this way if you're like 'ew, no, yuckie' then we just chalk it up to Christmas spirit and everything goes on the way it has been..."

Jolee nudged his shoulder with hers. "But then if you do think 'wow, yay! let's get with more of the kissy' then we know we've got something special and it might make us both a whole lot happier."

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Nick managed a soft laugh. "Well, I can't really argue with that..." Even if it boggled his mind that Jolee would be interested in him, she was still a grown woman (even if she had only been an official grown-up for a few years). It wasn't his place to dictate who she could want to kiss...

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Jolee stood up and headed out into the hall, looking over her shoulder to make sure Nick was coming with her and wasn't just going to slam the door shut and hide or anything.

When she saw that he was following, she traipsed down to the end of the hall, and stood under the mistletoe she'd strategically positioned in the archway.

She shifted from foot to foot and waited for him to join her, too nervous to say anything.

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Nick took a deep breath, and let it out. "FI'd known you were planning on this, I woulda brushed my teeth," he muttered, joking in an attempt to hide his nervousness. He stepped toward the young woman, till they were standing eye to eye.

"Last chance to change your mind," he warned her, "no going back after this..."

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"I'm not changing my mind," Jolee said, despite her nervousness. She liked that her and Nick were both short, so they could see eye-to-eye.

She put her arms around him, closed her eyes, puckered her lips and leaned in, hoping he'd do the rest.

She hadn't had a wide variety of kissing experience.

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Nick shivered slightly as Jolee put her arms around him, and tried not to think about how long it'd been since he kissed someone. He leaned in slowly and pressed his lips to Jolee's, keeping it light, gentle, almost chaste.

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Jolee leaned in to the kiss, her lips parting in a gentle sigh of contentment at being as close to him as she'd wanted to be for what seemed like so very long.

"Oh Nick," she murmured softly, her knees feeling weak. "Please..."

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Nick gulped, his own heartbeat increasing. Shit, someone so cute and innocent-looking shouldn't be allowed to make noises like that.

"Uhm. That... that what you wanted?" he asked softly, still standing very close to her, close enough that he could smell the warm, clean scent of her body.

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Jolee opened her eyes, and brushed a finger gently across the lips that had just kissed hers.

"Well..." she said, a bit heady from the rush of emotions. "I don't know... have you made your decision? Maybe we should, y'know... do it again. Just to be sure."

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Nick laughed faintly. "Ah... guess that depends on if we want cold turkey for dinner..."

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Jolee blushed. "Oh goodness... I completely forgot about that."

She nearly bolted off to the kitchen to salvage dinner. "Oh, heck with it- that's why God invented the microwave anyhow," she said, changing her mind about the food and pulling Nick closer to her to take the lead this time.

She kissed with more enthusiasm than skill, but her feelings were clear.

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Nick was going to make a quip about how h at least rated better on Jolee's list than cold turkey, but he suddenly found himself too busy kissing her to say anything. He leaned back against the doorframe and wrapped his arms around her, closing his eyes and making a contented sound.