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Tweak says, "Oh noes!"

Klaus Hargreeves (quietthedead) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-12-14 11:30:00

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klaus hargreeves (netflix), william weasley

WHO: Klaus and Bill
WHAT: Just two dudes going into space
WHERE: Space Mall
WHEN: Today

Klaus had gotten a lot of different ideas to look out for since he'd put out the call for that sort of thing, and he had his own list that he was keeping an eye out for. It had been a long time since they'd had a family Christmas, and sure this Christmas wasn't really the whole family Christmas, but Ben was there and Diego too - and there was Bill and some of the others from town that he liked. So he could call it a family Christmas if he wanted.

And then he'd heard the doors were going to something like a mall and what better place to get all of his holiday items at once. Maybe he shouldn't have grabbed Bill for the trip, you know since he was hoping maybe to find something for him, but Klaus never had been one to stand on tradition for those sorts of things. So Bill was coming along.

"Would you look at that," He said a bit wonderingly, his arm hooked through Bill's as they stepped through the door together and into what was unmistakably a mall but not like any mall he'd ever been to. It was far more colorful for starters, and there were aliens just wandering around like there was nothing at all strange about that, and strange writing above a lot of the shops in languages he couldn't even begin to try and pretend to read. And well - yeah this was definitely the place for what he had in mind.

"Fancy a little bit of exploring?" He grinned at Bill, eager to see what they might find together in this place.

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hexes_n_hearts
2019-12-15 01:15 am UTC (link)

Bill was pretty easy and that was relatively well known around town. If Klaus wanted company than there was very little chance Bill was going to go turning him down. Especially since he did have a nasty habit of getting himself into trouble and Bill liked to keep an eye on him and a hand on his arse if he could get away with it.

It wasn't like anything he was used to, nothing like Diagon Alley or London or anything close to what had been back at home. It was another world and Bill let out a low whistle as he looked around. Above them it seemed like the universe swirled, endless and beautiful and Bill walked along with his head back for a few moments, just trying to take it all in.

"I'm game," he agreed. Bill moved his arm from linked through Klause's to around his shoulders as they walked, not drawing any attention at all from the other beings who seemed to be going about their own business.

"So who's on your Nice List?" Bill asked him with a smile.

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quietthedead
2019-12-15 04:58 pm UTC (link)

Now this was the kind of setting Klaus could stand to see a little more often when he went through the doors, something totally new and at the same time completely useful as well. A place meant for shopping, full of unique and interesting items that he'd never find in the sort of same boring cities he saw so often when he went through the doors. So this place, full of strange and different creatures, and stars above? Well who was Klaus to turn down a chance at something like this?

Fitting himself against Bill's side quite happily, Klaus just grinned, "Well Benjamin, obviously." Because if there had ever been someone destined to be on the nice list at all times, it was Ben. "Diego is probably on the Okay List," He decided, because that was also the truth, "I think you might have worked your way up on to the Nice List this year." This was a new thing for him, having people he wanted to share Christmas with at all, let alone someone like Bill.

He and Ben had spent many Christmases together of course, because they'd been stuck with one another, but celebrating Christmas hadn't really been a thing for them then, well unless Klaus decided he wanted to throw on a Santa hat while he was shooting up. But really that was often too much work for too little pay out, no one ever found it as funny as he'd wanted them to. But there wasn't going to be any of that this year, he wasn't entirely convinced he'd kicked the habit entirely, even as coins continued to show up marking his progress, but it was the longest he'd lasted since he started decades ago now.

"So what does our William Weasley want for Christmas this year?" He asked.

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hexes_n_hearts
2019-12-16 11:38 am UTC (link)

"Obviously," Bill agreed with a huff. He needed to get something for the boys, not that he had to but because he very much wanted to. There was lots he could buy them but he'd decided maybe brewing some potions might be more personal and more useful. He'd also been working on writing a little book of spell work for Klaus who was still learning. Sometimes the best gifts were the ones you made yourself.

"I like to think I'm on a list all of my own, love," he said as he leaned their heads together for a moment as they walked. He placed a kiss behind Klaus' ear, soft and lingering because who could resist.

Christmas at home was always an event. A Weasley Christmas was not to be missed, him mum went all out and made sure they all had presents, even when there was no gold in the account. "It'll be my first Christmas without a sweater from my mum," he said and he was surprised the thought made him a little melancholy.

"So a jumper I guess, to help me feel at home."

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quietthedead
2019-12-17 04:50 am UTC (link)

It would be an interesting thing to actually be able to give Ben something this year, after so many years of simply dragging Ben around with him wherever he went and occasionally allowing him to direct him toward something that might have piqued his brother's interest, Klaus could actually give Ben something from his own hands and know that he'd enjoy it. So he wanted it to be something great, though what exactly fit into that category was something he was still trying to figure out. As for Diego - well maybe a knife? that seemed right. Either that or a pair of mittens.

And Bill, well - "Oh you've always been on a list all your own," He agreed with a grin, tipping his head in Bill's direction just a touch, preening under the easy affection. It was such a nice thing he had with Bill, it didn't feel demanding or even desperate. They simply fit together, and understood one another easily too, it was a different kind of connection than he'd ever had with anyone before and he was kind of mad about Bill for it. Not that he'd ever said as much.

But Bill was something special and he wanted that same kind of moment with him as he imagined for Ben.

Things sobered a little when Bill told him it would be his first Christmas without a sweater from his mom, and that might not be something he could exactly replicate but he could definitely get him a sweater. "You must have had quite the collection of sweaters back home." He said with a soft huff and a grin, after all Bill wasn't a child, and if this was his first year without one? Well Klaus might not be good with math but even he knew that was a pretty impressive number.

Maybe it was a little silly of them talking about home and things like that in a place like this, but where better really?

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hexes_n_hearts
2019-12-28 09:26 am UTC (link)

He'd liked Klaus from the start, the easy chemistry that they had between them. But they'd bonded as well, he'd seen real fear there in Las Vegas and they'd come through that together. There were parts of himself that he'd let Klaus get at, mentioning his family in a way he usually wouldn't. They'd got to know each other and luckily what he'd got to know Bill had liked.

Bill laughed thinking about the sweaters with a fond smile. "She'd reuse it, the wool," he explained. "We'd grow out of 'em about as quick as she could knit them and she'd unwind them and start again." Because Molly Weasley was practical when it came down to it.

Here he was just about as far from The Burrow as you could get and while he usually kept it from his mind, along with his dead brother and a world being ravaged by war, the season tended to have thoughts surfacing you'd perhaps rather wouldn't.

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quietthedead
2019-12-29 05:48 am UTC (link)

"You're crushing my mental image here," Klaus pouted when Bill told him the truth of the matter, because he'd been picturing a whole line up of sweaters from tiny to more adult man sized, "And let me tell you the mental image was adorable." He liked these parts of Bill, because same as Klaus Bill was fairly free with himself and who he chose to spend his time with, but there were some things that they shared just between the two of them, things they didn't share with some of the others that might have managed to carve out just a bit of their time.

But he supposed Bill's reality made more sense, especially with a growing family like that. Even if the truth of it wasn't quite as adorable, it was still a nice thought, to get a handmade sweater every year like that. It was certainly not the kind of home life Klaus was used to.

"So a sweater for Christmas," Klaus nodded, that much he could handle, "I don't suppose you've got anything else on your list this year?" He wondered with a grin on his face and a waggle of his eyebrows.

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