Standing Together

Chapter 130

A/N Lowkey just posting this now bc i wanna read comments and pretend my life doesnt suck mkay

"Santa! Santa here!"

Everyone laughs, watching as Alex runs over to the pile of presents under the tree. She picks one up and looks at her dad.

"Mine?"

"Yeah, that is yours," Lucifer says. "All of those are yours. You can open one now if you want."

"But only one," Claire says. "Then you have to wait for Uncle Gabe and Uncle Sam."

"Okee!" Alex puts her present down and looks at the pile, then picks up the biggest one. She carelessly rips the wrapping paper off, tossing it away. She holds up her gift, confused.

"It's a train set," Lucifer tells her. "Look." He opens the box and dumps out the trains and their tracks, connecting a few pieces into a circle. "And then you put a train on it." He picks up one of the little trains, fitting perfectly along the tracks, and pushes it along. "And you can attach carts to it, too!" He adds another train, connecting it with a magnet on the base. "Isn't that cool?"

Alex puts a new train on the tracks and pushes it around. "Zoom!"

"Woah, what a fast train!" Lucifer says, feigning surprise. "You're so good at driving trains!"

"I like train," she says.

"I'm glad you like your train," Lucifer says. "Mommy and I hoped you would."

"Train fun."

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Once Sam and Gabriel arrive, everyone sits in a circle, the secret santa gifts in the middle. Alex sits between her parents, with her gifts behind them. The deal they worked out with her was that she gets a present every time someone else opens a present. Hopefully, that will keep her patient.

"So, first." Lucifer looks at all the presents, picking a small bag from the top of the pile. He reads the tag and hands it to Anna. "M'lady."

Anna shakes the bag, and they hear the sound of clinking glass. "Okay, I'm interested." She pulls the tissue paper out, and, bottle by bottle, removes ten different colors of nail polish, and some hair chalk. "I really do have to repair my nails, don't I?" She looks down at her fingers, which are almost perfectly painted, with the exception of a very small part near the cuticles from them growing.

"No, not really," Lucifer says. "Pick a present, any present."

Anna pick up the gift Castiel got for Adam, handing it to the younger boy. Adam feels around it, trying to figure out what it is. "It's a book. I can guess that much. Maybe a DVD, but I'm thinking book." He pulls the wrapper off. "YIAY, fuck yeah!"

"Children are present," Samandriel whispers loudly.

"Children are too busy using children's train," Adam replies.

"That's fair," Samandriel says.

"But, for future reference," Lucifer says, "This is a swear-free home."

"Ah, dang it."

"Now, pick a present."

Adam eyes the pile, then picks up all the gifts and puts them on the floor, choosing the biggest gift.

"Wonder whose that is," Dean whispers to his fiancé. "That's huge. I could sit in that thing."

"I know, right?" Castiel says.

"It's your lucky day, Dean," Adam says, pushing it to him. "Have a box."

"Oh shit, really?" Dean asks.