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A New Adventure - Pt. 15

Merry Christmas cowpokes! (for those of you who celebrate it.) For the first time, someone sent in a request for a scenario in this piece. I’m happy to say it fit in perfectly for this. Their request was: some cookie making with playful fighting that ends with both covered in sugar, dough, and of course frosting! With a sweet kiss ;)

Anyways, hope y’all enjoy it. And yes, if you’re wondering, I am open to ideas for future scenarios.

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An Eve to Remember

Christmas is rapidly approaching

You’re getting nervous about it, even though you’re prepared for the most part

You’ve bought a couple of gifts for Arthur, nothing too big or expensive. Not because you don’t have the money, but you have a feeling he wouldn’t really appreciate it. Arthur is not a material man

You’re pretty sure Arthur has gotten a couple of things for you as well. Mostly because you taught him how to do some online shopping some time ago and you’ve seen the empty shipping boxes in your recycling bin

Once in a store, Arthur saw stockings. You didn’t have any of course, having not celebrated Christmas in a long time. He insisted that you should both get some as he wanted to celebrate it properly.

You’ve both got stockings as well as things to fill them with.

For Arthur, you’ve gotten him some of his favorite candies that he’s explored so far (he really likes chocolate covered almonds).

But he’s also a pretty big fan of jerky.

All your presents for him are wrapped and under the tree. There’s a few under there for you.

For the first time since your father died, you’re feeling excited for the day. Not as much as when you were a kid of course, but there’s still some anticipation there.

You can tell Arthur is excited too. He tries to hide it, but it’s obvious.

The two of you are still having lots of sex.

He’s the best partner you’ve ever had in the bedroom. Sure, he doesn’t know a lot of the modern day tricks or toys, but he’s a fast learner.

The best part about him is he never leaves you half baked during a session. He always makes sure you get your satisfaction.

Your relationship with him has grown stronger the more you’ve made love. Arthur seems to be more crazy about you as well.

It’s a few days before Christmas and you’ve just come home from work. Arthur greets you with a kiss as he’s more prone to doing.

As you take off your shoes, Arthur asks if you know how to make cookies.

“Depends. What kind?” you ask.

Arthur is a bit surprised to find out there’s multiple kinds of cookies. He shrugs his shoulders. “Just the ones with that frosting.”

He admits he saw a photo on your computer of some sugar cookies and he wanted to try them.

Of course, you can’t resist his eagerness. So after dinner, you pull up a fairly simple recipe. Luckily you have all the ingredients at hand.

Arthur does his best to help you, but he’s still pretty new to baking. Sometimes he can be a bit more of a nuisance than a help, but you don’t mind. You know he doesn’t do it on purpose.

When the first batch of cookies go in the oven and you begin preparing the frosting, Arthur dips his finger in it to taste it.

“Hey! No tasting before it’s done!” you playfully scold.

Arthur winks at you and moves to dip his finger back in. You slap his hand.

Things quickly escalate and you’re both flicking flour and sugar at one another. Normally you’d never let your kitchen get this dirty, but you’re having too much fun to really care.

Arthur’s much better at smacking you with the powders than you are. Probably thanks to his good aim.

The oven timer dings, signalling that the first batch of cookies are done. Shit, you never got around to cutting out your second batch because you were fighting with Arthur.

He pulls them out, appreciatively sniffing as the smell hits him in the face.

“Mm, shame we gotta wait.”

“Come on, big guy. Let’s finish this frosting so we can eat them sooner.”

When he puts the cookies down, he comes over to you.

“You got some sugar on your cheek,” he says. Instead of brushing it away with his hand, he bends down and kisses your cheek.

He’s got you trapped between him and the counter, which you don’t mind.

His lips move from your cheek to your lips. With his hands on your hips, you drape your arms across his firm shoulders. You rub the scruff of his chin and he sighs.

Already it’s easy to see where things will lead. You almost want to grab the frosting and use it on your bodies, but you end up not.

When you’re both done in the bedroom, Arthur comes out with you to help clean up the kitchen.

The cookies turn out pretty good.

Christmas Eve comes. You have to work, but you’ll be done by mid afternoon. Luckily you’re also working from home, so it’ll make your evening a little easier.

Despite how boring it will be for him, Arthur insists on staying with you while you work. He just wants to keep you company.

Over the last couple of weeks, you’ve been introducing Arthur to some simpler video games you’ve been able to get for free on your console (you have not introduced him to Red Dead yet and you probably won’t for a long time).

He’s pretty shabby at them, mostly because he still hasn’t quite figured out how to use the controller without looking at it.

He never plays without you being home, but seeing as you’re working, you encourage him to play in order to keep him busy.

He tries not to ask a lot of questions as to not interrupt your work, but he ends up asking frequently, which you don’t mind.

Finally your shift ends and you can quit for the rest of the holiday. Arthur’s ecstatic about it.

For dinner, you do what your family used to do, in that you make a cheese fondue, some marinated steak, french bread and some vegetables.

Arthur’s never had a cheese dip before, but he ends up rather liking it.

After dinner, the two of you end up opening your stocking gifts.

You gave Arthur a new swiss knife which he ends up finding quite impressive.

He managed to get you a few small gifts that you never would have thought of. None of them are the typical necklaces or jewelry most guys get.

One of them is a rather unique tree decoration of your favorite animal. It’s your favorite gift by far.

After stockings, you decide to introduce Arthur to Mr. Bean. You only watch the Christmas episode for now, but you’ll introduce the other ones to him later.

At first, Arthur thinks it’s overly silly, but once you get to the scene with the nativity, he’s roaring with laughter (although he doesn’t fully understand some of the props like the dalek).

After that, Arthur’s sold on Mr. Bean, especially after you explain that he’s supposed to be stupid and odd.

His favorite scene ends up being the one where Bean gets his head stuck in the turkey, mostly because it reminds him of the year Pearson was stuffing a huge turkey Arthur had brought into camp and managed to somehow get it stuck around his arm.

When Mr. Bean is done, you don’t have any other Christmas movies to watch (except for the best one which you’ll watch tomorrow).

Instead you and Arthur decide to trade stories of some of your best Christmas memories.

You don’t have a whole lot as they make you sad, seeing as most of them revolve around your father.

Arthur has some good ones though. Especially involving Sean and Lenny.

He does tell one about John when he was a teenager that has you in stitches.

John had been trying to level up to Arthur’s hunting skill and so he’d tried to go and hunt an elk on his own. Of course, things had not gone well for him as the elk, being unafraid and just coming out of the rut season, had chased John.

He’d gotten stuck in a tree and been trapped there by the elk for hours until Arthur, sent out by Dutch, found him.

John had lied about getting trapped and said he was coming up with a strategy to jump onto the elk’s back and ride it like a bronco.

“Well then, show me your plan,” Arthur had said, leaning on the horn of his saddle.

John tried jumping off the tree and onto the still furious elk’s back, but fell out of the tree.

Arthur ended up having to shoot the elk so it didn’t gore John. He was unhurt, aside from a couple of scrapes and a bruised pride.

“John still insists to this day that he could have ridden that elk,” Arthur finishes with a chuckle. “He’s tried telling it from his perspective every year.”

He grows somber after this, clearly still stung by losing so much of his family. You can’t blame him. After all, he could go back, but it would mean his death. Plus the gang’s being torn apart by Dutch and Micah.

Of course, Arthur doesn’t know about Micah, seeing as the last time he was there he was only in the beginning of chapter 6 and just been diagnosed with TB. You don’t have the heart yet to tell him the end results of Dutch’s actions, driven by Micah.

When the two of you decide to turn in for the night, Arthur surprises you by telling you he doesn’t want to have sex. Instead he just wants to cuddle with you.

He turns out to be just as good at cuddling as he is at sex. He just holds your head to his chest, his thumb tracing along your shoulder and back.

You’re just starting to drift off when he kisses your head. “I love you, sweetheart,” he says quietly.

You smile into his chest, but you fall asleep before you manage to say anything to him.

In the morning, you wake up to Arthur spooning you.

Unlike last night, he pulls some moves that lets you know he wants to make love.

Seeing as it’s Christmas morning, you give in. Arthur really pulls out some of his best moves, making it the best session you’ve had so far. It’s so good you almost don’t want to get out of bed.

Too soon though, it’s Arthur who insists on getting out in order to unwrap presents.

Before unwrapping presents though, you decide to cook a big breakfast first.

When your father was still alive, he’d always cook a big breakfast, with all your favorite foods.

Arthur is ecstatic to do the same, saying he’d love nothing more than to give you something to add to those memories.

After stuffing yourself, you and Arthur head into the living room and open presents.

You got him a beautiful pair of white deer antlers you found in a funny little store a few weeks ago. You like this gift because the antlers were dropped and the animal is likely still alive.

Arthur hands you a rather heavy gift and when you open it, you gasp. It’s a block of wood that’s carved into a beautiful eagle. Then Arthur says something that brings tears to your eyes.

“You said your pa loved eagles. So I bought a wood carvin’ set on that Amazon sight and watched some of them Youtube videos.”

“You… you made this, Arthur?”

He blushes and looks down, but his smile says it all.

You wrap your arms around his neck and kiss him. “Arthur, I couldn’t ask for anything so incredible. Thank you.”

Arthur hugs you right back, but he squeezes so tight it’s almost like he doesn’t want to let you go.

After gifts, you tell Arthur to sit down and you turn on the best Christmas movie (in your opinion): Christmas Vacation.

Arthur’s laughing by just the cartoon in the beginning.

He absolutely loves Eddie, even though he’s a complete dumbass. He has to admire him for his drive to try and give his kids a good Christmas (even if he isn’t very good at it).

When the movie ends, Arthur says he really likes it and he can see why you save it for last.

As you smile at him, you suddenly recall what he’d said last night in bed.

“By the way, I love you too,” you say.

“Huh?” he says, but he’s blushing.

“You said you loved me last night. I just… wanted to tell you I feel the same.”

Arthur smiles. The kiss he gives you in return is one you will never forget.

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