clint barton sees better from a distance (tobeunmade) wrote in welcomethreads, @ 2013-12-07 03:56:00 |
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Clint had taken Phil's words to heart and had decided to bring in a tree and decorate it to surprise Phil. It didn't occur to him that it might be a little early to put up a tree, or to get a fake one. He'd never had a real Christmas tree and a tiny part of him that remembered growing up poor and alone, really wanted that. So the apartment smelled like pine and there was a tree in the corner that Katniss kept attacking. It was kind of adorable, the way she enjoyed chaos and destruction. Maybe he should have named her Tasha instead.
The tree itself was...well, it wasn't like any other tree, that was for sure. The lights were purple. Clint had found them on sale, and he liked purple. He didn't consider the fact that they were on sale because they were left over from Halloween, he just thought they looked cool. The garland, also purple, looked more like decorative barbed wire than anything, and a good deal of the ornaments were purple too, with the exception of some very specific ones. Around the tree, he'd attached fletchings from his arrows, along with some ornaments that looked like targets. In addition, he had found Avengers themed Christmas ornaments when he was shopping and couldn't resist. So little figures of Cap, Stark, Thor, Hulk, Tasha and himself were scattered around the tree. He had, in a moment of weakness, put a men in black ornament that was a close approximation of Phil, near his own little ornament on the tree. The topper...well...that was him being kind of a dick. He'd found a Nick Fury action figure and put it on top of the tree in place of a star or an angel, because stars were boring and he had never been religious enough to feel comfortable with an angel on his tree.
All in all, he thought the tree had character. He just hoped Phil liked it. Speaking of, he heard the door opening and jumped to his feet from where he'd been sitting on the couch as Phil came in. "Surprise," he said earnestly, looking to his boyfriend for approval. "What do you think?"