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Antonio stood back to admire the last hour that was his work. It had been a long time since he'd made a snowman. The kids had come to stay for the weekend and of course, hadn't wanted to stay inside and instead wanted to come out and enjoy the newly fallen snow.
For the first little while he had just stood and observed, snapping some pictures on his phone as the two siblings built a snow igloo, but eventually feeling creative he decided he'd join in on the fun and make a snowman. The snowman he was now admiring.
"I think you're missing something," came an amused gruff voice from behind.
He turned around to find a bundled Hank holding out a carrot. He laughed, taking it and placing it below the two pebbles being used as eyes.
The two men then stood back to get a good look at the finished product.
Hank nodded, "not bad," he chuckled.
Antonio grinned, "it's all in the hands. They're magic."
Not hearing a response, he turned to his side to find the older man gone.
"Hank?"
Frowning, he went to ask the kids if they'd seen where the other had gone, when he suddenly felt something small and wet hit his shoulder.
"What the -"
*thwack*
*thwack*
*thwack*
Antonio ducked and rolled behind the low bushes for cover. When he felt it was safe, he slowly peeked from behind the bush, glaring at the source which he was pretty sure was the half igloo.
"Really guys? Not cool! You just cost yourself a pizza for dinner!" He yelled, grabbing a handful of snow beside him and creating a ball.
"It was Hank's idea!" His daughter called back, ducking and narrowly missing the snowball her dad had retaliated with.
"Really Hank!"
"Don't get upset with me cause you're getting rusty babe!"
Silence.
"Antonio?"
More silence.
The two teens and Hank stared at each other, nervous about the sudden quiet.
"Okay, so one of us is going to have to take one for the team."
The daughter and Hank looked to Diego at the same time.
"Wow."
"You're the fastest of us." The daughter supplied.
"You guys still suck."
"I'll give you one of my pizza slices."
"And your coke"
She rolled her eyes. "Fine. Whatever, just go and draw dad out already."
Fist pumping and with a whispered "yess!"
Diego edged out slowly from the half igloo and ran towards the bushes by the front door.
All three were confused when there didn't come a single snowball or peep. Hank's senses heightened to extra sensitive mode. This was one of the things he had always admired about his partner, was his patience. Today however, this quiet patience was putting him on edge.
"Okay Antonio! We're willing to make a truce! Both sides will slowly come up, and everyone will be armed with one snowball! See, here's my hand!"
Hank slowly reached his hand up, showing the one snowball.
"On the count of three! 1!...2!.."
"3!" Antonio finished, dumping a small pile of snow on his boyfriend and daughter.
The two sputtered, staring up in shock at the now cackling man above them.
"How?"
"What?"
"That's for underestimating your dad, boom!"
Then he turned to Hank, "and that's for calling me rusty!" He crowed.
The sister turned to her brother, who had now joined them at the igloo. " Why didn't you say anything??" She glared, putting her hand on her hips.
"Once you kicked me out, it was every man for himself dude." He shrugged
"Unbelievable. I'm keeping my coke."
****
Antonio did end up getting pizza that night, despite having threatened that there wouldn't be.
Everyone sat squished together on the sofa, minus Diego who had called dibs on the single couch closer to the TV. With their pizza, popcorn and drinks, they all snuggled content and enjoying a movie* one of the kids had picked. The two men weren't surprised to find that it was that of a horror movie.
"I never thought a movie about a porcelain doll could be so creepy." Antonio whispered to Hank, "I had a dislike for them before, but now I don't even know what to feel."
Hank shot him an amused glance, he gave the other a small kiss on the head and soft squeeze. "Don't worry, with me around you don't have to worry about any creepy dolls messing with you, because I'd probably just shoot it."
Antonio smirked, patting Hank's chest, "Thus probably releasing whatever it had contained, and allowing it to possess something probably even worse than a doll. My hero."
Diego threw a popcorn at the two, interrupting the cute moment. "Hey lovebirds, some of us are actually trying to watch the movie if you're not."
Instead of responding, the two gave each other a grin and exchanged another kiss, which gathered more groans and was followed by a handful of popcorn showered at them.