12 Drabbles of Christmas (Ensemble) PG-13
Title: 12 Drabbles of Christmas
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The 12 Pains of Christmas through the eyes of some favorite Neptune residents.
Spoilers: Minor 1x10 and 1x22 if you squint
Characters/Pairings: Ensemble: Veronica/Lamb, Mac/Dick, Logan/Madison, Wallace/OC, Weevil/Carmen, Parker, Keith, Cliff/OC, Sacks
Word Count: 1233
Disclaimer: Veronica Mars is not owned by me, but by Rob Thomas. I’m simply borrowing these characters for non-profit entertainment.
A/N: Inspired by “The 12 Pains of Christmas.” Bob Rivers, I bow to your genius.
~~
1.) Veronica:
A worthy opponent, clearly. Veronica had known going into this it wouldn’t be easy. She knew she would have to fight, that the struggle could be long. But she could endure.
Six feet tall and seemingly twice her weight. Still, she could do this.
And she would win because she was Veronica Mars. And because she was petite, blonde and perhaps there was one other bit of incentive the local folks at the tree farm would have of helping her. A happy sheriff’s wife meant for an uninvestigated tree farm.
Finding the perfect Christmas tree was definitely the biggest pain at Christmastime.
***
2.) Lamb:
Lamb knew he would never know how Veronica did it. How she managed to turn what should have been his “simple Christmas task” into the one that would cause him to blow more than one fuse in their home.
Stringing lights on a tree and around their two-story house wasn’t meant to be this difficult. Of course her friends could hire people to decorate their houses. Them? No. Of course not. That would make sense!
However, when all was said and done and their home and tree were downright glittering, Don sat down with a beer and thanked the gods of extension cords and flashlights.
**
3.) Dick and Mac:
Eggnog. Mac knew she should’ve known better than to bring any home. Her husband had a way of “improving” it come Christmas. He wouldn’t willingly drink it any other way than if the nog outweighed the egg.
That was what she had to thank for this sunny December afternoon. Dick was wearing his sunglasses inside and walking mostly hunched over. That meant one thing.
“Hi, Honey!” she called out despite being only five feet from him. “Enjoying your day?!”
“Don’t shout,” he nearly begged.
“That’s what you get for being hungover when we have friends coming over tonight,” she grinned sardonically.
**
4.) Parker:
E-mail address books were supposed to save time when you wanted to send out, say, mass Christmas party invites.
Of course when ‘select all’ went in alphabetical order and only allowed fifty at a time, they managed to cost time by forcing you to painstakingly make sure you didn’t accidentally invite the uncle your father can’t stand, or the ex-boyfriend your computer refuses to delete the e-mail address of (everyone’s a critic when you’re a newlywed!) or the boss who hasn’t celebrated Christmas since his ex-wife served him with divorce papers one Christmas Eve.
That was Parker’s pain tonight.
**
5.) Madison and Logan:
Madison Sinclair-Echolls… Say what you will about the girl, but she knows what she likes.
Come Christmas, that’s to have the most extravagant of everything on the 09’er block. And if anyone knows it, it’s her husband when the bills come.
Five months of them to be exact.
Of course Logan knew what denying her meant. He also knew what he got when he paid to let her have her reindeer games and give her every sugarplum dream that came into that pretty head of hers.
For that he paid every exuberant party and gift bill with a smile.
**
6.) Wallace:
It wasn’t like it was news, Wallace loved his wife. Like most other husbands, Christmas came with him proving just how much. Not with his bank account like Logan or new exercises in patience like Lamb, but by going with his wife to visit her family.
Facing his in-laws wasn’t so much the pain of Christmas. Just one member of her family. To be fair, it was the same one Michelle detested herself but for reasons non could understand her mother loved the man.
Wallace claimed the food made it worth it. Truthfully it was Michelle and their son that did.
**
7.) Logan:
The sights, the smells, the never ending press coverage. Logan couldn’t believe he was back at The Salvation Army, back on soup kitchen duty. At least this time it wasn’t because he was having to do damage control.
No bum fights, no suspicion of murder, just him mostly willingly giving back to the community.
Admittedly it was a great way to get out of the house for a while. Not that he didn’t love his beautiful and charming wife. He just didn’t need to hear Madison screaming at “the help” like a harpy the way his mother did those years ago.
**
8.) Weevil and Carmen:
Weevil had become what most everyone had hoped for him. Maybe he wasn’t an 09’er by any means but he and Carmen had become involved with a few local charities to help give the kids in his old neighborhood better than what he, his family and his friends had been given growing up.
They were giving them real Christmases and it was enough to melt even the hardest of hearts.
Of course when someone proved their stupidity by pulling a Grinch move and attempted to steal from one of Weevil’s charities, they learned just how hard some old habits can be to break.
**
9.) Keith:
It was a redzone, Keith knew it. Times like this he missed being the sheriff; the ability to not have to worry about getting ticketed or towed. Still, he had a grandson to shop for and the lot was packed.
Five minutes, he ordered himself.
However in those five minutes a Balboa police cruiser rolled through.
Lamb almost laughed. He knew he wouldn’t hear the end of it if he ticketed him, but he was still the sheriff.
“Great,” Keith muttered when he saw the yellow slip of paper.
Relief replaced his anger when he saw Merry Christmas, Keith in Lamb’s handwriting.
**
10.) Mac:
Despite the advancements in technology over the last few decades since Mac and her friends had been children some things never changed.
“Batteries not included” was something she was convinced would still be heard even years after batteries became obsolete to instill fear in the hearts of parents.
You didn’t have to be a parent to despise it, especially not come Christmas. However she was so it only made it that much worse.
**
11.) Cliff:
Cliff could have been watching the game with Keith. Instead was on his new girlfriend’s sofa watching the same old stale TV specials that they showed every year.
Though to be fair he’d had twenty years to tire of them before she was even born. All he needed now was the red sports car and earring and his midlife crisis would be complete.
He was a cliché and he knew it. She was his secretary for crying out loud!
But damn if she didn’t make a great cup of coffee. And okay, maybe her tearing up at Frosty was endearing.
**
12.) Sacks:
Christmas carols. Typically they didn’t grate so badly on the nerves. This year, they were becoming a whole knew pain for Deputy Sacks.
Changing a CD or radio station was easy. Tuning out the carolers who were singing up and down the streets of Neptune was almost impossible.
No one was complaining (likely as it was hardly in the spirit of the holiday to do so), so they couldn’t arrest them. Earplugs were out for obvious reasons. He couldn’t escape them - no matter how hard he tried.
The Twelve Days of Christmas couldn’t come and go soon enough for the mustached deputy.
The End
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The 12 Pains of Christmas through the eyes of some favorite Neptune residents.
Spoilers: Minor 1x10 and 1x22 if you squint
Characters/Pairings: Ensemble: Veronica/Lamb, Mac/Dick, Logan/Madison, Wallace/OC, Weevil/Carmen, Parker, Keith, Cliff/OC, Sacks
Word Count: 1233
Disclaimer: Veronica Mars is not owned by me, but by Rob Thomas. I’m simply borrowing these characters for non-profit entertainment.
A/N: Inspired by “The 12 Pains of Christmas.” Bob Rivers, I bow to your genius.
~~
1.) Veronica:
A worthy opponent, clearly. Veronica had known going into this it wouldn’t be easy. She knew she would have to fight, that the struggle could be long. But she could endure.
Six feet tall and seemingly twice her weight. Still, she could do this.
And she would win because she was Veronica Mars. And because she was petite, blonde and perhaps there was one other bit of incentive the local folks at the tree farm would have of helping her. A happy sheriff’s wife meant for an uninvestigated tree farm.
Finding the perfect Christmas tree was definitely the biggest pain at Christmastime.
***
2.) Lamb:
Lamb knew he would never know how Veronica did it. How she managed to turn what should have been his “simple Christmas task” into the one that would cause him to blow more than one fuse in their home.
Stringing lights on a tree and around their two-story house wasn’t meant to be this difficult. Of course her friends could hire people to decorate their houses. Them? No. Of course not. That would make sense!
However, when all was said and done and their home and tree were downright glittering, Don sat down with a beer and thanked the gods of extension cords and flashlights.
**
3.) Dick and Mac:
Eggnog. Mac knew she should’ve known better than to bring any home. Her husband had a way of “improving” it come Christmas. He wouldn’t willingly drink it any other way than if the nog outweighed the egg.
That was what she had to thank for this sunny December afternoon. Dick was wearing his sunglasses inside and walking mostly hunched over. That meant one thing.
“Hi, Honey!” she called out despite being only five feet from him. “Enjoying your day?!”
“Don’t shout,” he nearly begged.
“That’s what you get for being hungover when we have friends coming over tonight,” she grinned sardonically.
**
4.) Parker:
E-mail address books were supposed to save time when you wanted to send out, say, mass Christmas party invites.
Of course when ‘select all’ went in alphabetical order and only allowed fifty at a time, they managed to cost time by forcing you to painstakingly make sure you didn’t accidentally invite the uncle your father can’t stand, or the ex-boyfriend your computer refuses to delete the e-mail address of (everyone’s a critic when you’re a newlywed!) or the boss who hasn’t celebrated Christmas since his ex-wife served him with divorce papers one Christmas Eve.
That was Parker’s pain tonight.
**
5.) Madison and Logan:
Madison Sinclair-Echolls… Say what you will about the girl, but she knows what she likes.
Come Christmas, that’s to have the most extravagant of everything on the 09’er block. And if anyone knows it, it’s her husband when the bills come.
Five months of them to be exact.
Of course Logan knew what denying her meant. He also knew what he got when he paid to let her have her reindeer games and give her every sugarplum dream that came into that pretty head of hers.
For that he paid every exuberant party and gift bill with a smile.
**
6.) Wallace:
It wasn’t like it was news, Wallace loved his wife. Like most other husbands, Christmas came with him proving just how much. Not with his bank account like Logan or new exercises in patience like Lamb, but by going with his wife to visit her family.
Facing his in-laws wasn’t so much the pain of Christmas. Just one member of her family. To be fair, it was the same one Michelle detested herself but for reasons non could understand her mother loved the man.
Wallace claimed the food made it worth it. Truthfully it was Michelle and their son that did.
**
7.) Logan:
The sights, the smells, the never ending press coverage. Logan couldn’t believe he was back at The Salvation Army, back on soup kitchen duty. At least this time it wasn’t because he was having to do damage control.
No bum fights, no suspicion of murder, just him mostly willingly giving back to the community.
Admittedly it was a great way to get out of the house for a while. Not that he didn’t love his beautiful and charming wife. He just didn’t need to hear Madison screaming at “the help” like a harpy the way his mother did those years ago.
**
8.) Weevil and Carmen:
Weevil had become what most everyone had hoped for him. Maybe he wasn’t an 09’er by any means but he and Carmen had become involved with a few local charities to help give the kids in his old neighborhood better than what he, his family and his friends had been given growing up.
They were giving them real Christmases and it was enough to melt even the hardest of hearts.
Of course when someone proved their stupidity by pulling a Grinch move and attempted to steal from one of Weevil’s charities, they learned just how hard some old habits can be to break.
**
9.) Keith:
It was a redzone, Keith knew it. Times like this he missed being the sheriff; the ability to not have to worry about getting ticketed or towed. Still, he had a grandson to shop for and the lot was packed.
Five minutes, he ordered himself.
However in those five minutes a Balboa police cruiser rolled through.
Lamb almost laughed. He knew he wouldn’t hear the end of it if he ticketed him, but he was still the sheriff.
“Great,” Keith muttered when he saw the yellow slip of paper.
Relief replaced his anger when he saw Merry Christmas, Keith in Lamb’s handwriting.
**
10.) Mac:
Despite the advancements in technology over the last few decades since Mac and her friends had been children some things never changed.
“Batteries not included” was something she was convinced would still be heard even years after batteries became obsolete to instill fear in the hearts of parents.
You didn’t have to be a parent to despise it, especially not come Christmas. However she was so it only made it that much worse.
**
11.) Cliff:
Cliff could have been watching the game with Keith. Instead was on his new girlfriend’s sofa watching the same old stale TV specials that they showed every year.
Though to be fair he’d had twenty years to tire of them before she was even born. All he needed now was the red sports car and earring and his midlife crisis would be complete.
He was a cliché and he knew it. She was his secretary for crying out loud!
But damn if she didn’t make a great cup of coffee. And okay, maybe her tearing up at Frosty was endearing.
**
12.) Sacks:
Christmas carols. Typically they didn’t grate so badly on the nerves. This year, they were becoming a whole knew pain for Deputy Sacks.
Changing a CD or radio station was easy. Tuning out the carolers who were singing up and down the streets of Neptune was almost impossible.
No one was complaining (likely as it was hardly in the spirit of the holiday to do so), so they couldn’t arrest them. Earplugs were out for obvious reasons. He couldn’t escape them - no matter how hard he tried.
The Twelve Days of Christmas couldn’t come and go soon enough for the mustached deputy.
The End