Repose

Okay. So. This is my favorite holiday there is and giving is one of my favorite things in the whole world. Plus I've always wanted to be Santa...and now I get to be.

So. Lay it on me. I don't even care if you think you should be on the naughty list. Tell me something you want.

[The gift is unassuming in a cardboard box. A wide, blue candle. Around the candle is a piece of twine with a note attached. The note reads: Candle burns for 24 hours. Light only when you're ready to know the truth for a day. The candle itself smells of herbs and mint.]

[Santa has no idea if it happens, but still makes the wish for Ronan's ex to return to Repose and more specifically, to Ronan. Santa hopes it works out.]

[As per her request, the day after Christmas is unseasonably warm. Mid-morning, slate gray rain clouds appear on the horizon, but it isn't until afternoon that they open up into a pleasantly warm, almost spring rain.]

[There's nothing to really signal the wish being made. Hell, Santa can't even tell if David can break holy wards now, but they tried. What they can do is deliver a small Christmas card, embossed in red and green, and bearing only a scripted: Done in the center.

Merry Christmas, David.]

[Santa may have taken it upon himself to sort out Leander's gift, just a little bit. Santa thinks a bag of heroin might be frowned upon by his elves. A small box, simply wrapped, arrives for him. Inside is a key and a note.

This was what I had under my tree for you. I want you to have somewhere safe to go. There are conditions, but we'll talk about them soon. For a better 2019 for both of us. x ]

[Very specifically what was asked for: “a pocket of salt water at the bottom of the lake,” and “Cold, heavy, empty.” It is a 10 by 10 foot cube. Unfortunately, as ‘empty’ was stipulated and Santa’s a petty bastard, it stays empty. Always. It cannot be entered. The typical human trying to swim into it would just go around, forgetting their intent to go exactly there. Anyone else would be able to gaze inside the practical equivalent of a gelatinous cube.]

[At the stroke of midnight because Santa has a flair for the dramatic. It looks like an interior designer with a clear brief took over. In the living room is a seriously expensive sound-system. There's even finger-bowls on the center table. Santa leaves a blank card on the kitchen counter just because. Merry Christmas, Ren.

[The husky puppy has a collar around his neck that has a tag simply engraved with an infinity symbol. If examined by a vet, the dog is extremely healthy. If examined in a further twenty years, the dog will once again be, exceedingly healthy. It's not a wolf, but it's as close as Santa could get. There's no note.]

[On the kitchen counter, when Janus awakes on Christmas Eve is a box, plain red cardboard tied with an extravagant, green silk ribbon. Inside are a handful of small vials each with a label that reads 'choice'. There is one vial that has a tag that reads 'cheer'. The note typewritten on the back of a card reads: If drunk, 'choice' will give the drinker the opportunity to remove all lingering negative effects of Halloween. If they drink two, it is as if Halloween never took place for him or her. Cheer I've thrown in for you. Have a night where all is calm, all is bright and you have caught the Christmas spirit. Santa.. ]

As requested, Misha receives an envelope - gold outside with a thick cream paper inside. The writing is also done in gold, a shimmery ink with flecks of the actual metal.

His mother's name is listed first, the one she went by on earth as well as the one she was gifted with upon her creation.

His father's name is listed second:
Lucifer Morningstar

There is nothing else included in the envelope.

Mid-evening on Christmas Eve, a flash of light travels through town. For most, it's a single bright wave that fades quickly into the darkness, leaving only the full moon and the bright stars behind.

For those who are particularly sensitive? The light comes with a set of feelings - shock, anger, pain. Betrayal.

For the few that know Lucifer, it will be easy to tell that it's him. And that there's a scream beneath the emotions.