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Date: December Oh fine I lied it's still November (it's still almost winter) 2005
Characters: Zach Teller, Lance Alvers, Bertha, Kerrie Teller
Summary: Zach and Lance go to find some distraction from their childhood pain. The Odessa Mall beckons with its big shiny... ness. (Right after the Sandra and Lance big showdown meet). And then.. family issues

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[rockin_outloud]

Running a hand through his hair, Lance winced a bit as they walked through the glass doors, the sounds of Christmas music blaring in his ears, people everywhere he looked. Shiny store decorations and screaming toddlers.

The Odessa Mall. Joy of joys.

He sighed, glancing over at Zach. "I want a pretzel."

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Zach laughed shortly, leading Lance to the food with a strange mixture of his power and knowing the mall inside and out.

"I had completely forgot about Christmas," Zach said, wide-eyed, staring at a towering pine tree and thinking that he would have preferred not to remember.

[rockin_outloud]

Lance rolled his eyes, passing over a five and taking his cinnamon and sugar drenched pretzel greedily. "Christmas is better left forgotten if you ask me."

Which he didn't, Alvers.

He shrugged. "I mean, I guess if you're into the whole thing..."

He took a bit of his pretzel, more to shut himself up than anything else. Wait. He had a boyfriend. It was Christmas.

Did that mean he had to do the whole gift thing now?

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Zach blinked, still staring up the trunk of that fucking tree. He had carried far too many in his young life. But, wasn't this supposed to be about new beginnings? All of it. Just.. New York, moving in together, being together, reuniting with Claire, discovering his power; his sexuality...

Why couldn't Christmas be the same? They didn't have to get a stupid tree and buy stupid presents. They could start fresh; be just them.

"You know, you told me once you didn't do boyfriends, either." He grinned as a man stared at him oddly as he walked by.

Whatever, Odessa.

He snagged a section of Lance's pretzel, and made a face. Because after all was said and done? Beginnings and endings and whatevers aside?

He would always be devastatingly twelve.

[rockin_outloud]

Lance frowned at him.

"Honestly? Going to be starving in a ditch somewhere if you keep stealing my food. And coffee."

Walking away from the pretzel stand, he temporarily ignored the boyfriend comment, as Zach's logic had a way of getting him twisted up in it, and ultimately making him forget his rules. Of which there were plenty. So yeah, they would be bending on the relationship rule because, well, Zach was special. But holidays were a no go.

Take that, Teller logic.

"Yeah, well. Boyfriends are one thing. Holidays are an entirely different brand."