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    “What are we – you – doing?” asks Fiyero, because so far it’s not at all evident why it needs to be dark.

    “We read a section on lighting lamps today for seminar,” Elphaba explains. “And we attempted it in class, but neither of us was able to achieve it.”

    “Yet,” Galinda insists. “Neither of us was able to achieve it yet. I don’t know about you, Elphie, but I am going to make it work right now.”

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    Gamora wants to be comfortable around Mantis, finds herself wishing for the generosity of heart that comes so naturally to Peter. But it’s still difficult enough for her to trust anyone new, let alone someone with even the theoretical ability to control her mind.

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    "You haven't talked about your grandfather much," says Gamora.

    "Well, I don't remember much about him from before my mom got sick, except that he used to fight with her a lot. I think he was angry with her, for having me."

    She frowns. "Why would he be angry?"

    "Because she was so young,” he says sadly. So young; she died much younger than he is right now. "And she wasn't married, was probably mostly it. Earth was weird about that, or at least Missouri was."

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    "What is it?" asks Gamora, standing on tiptoe to look over his shoulder.

    "A yo-yo," says Peter, pressing the side to see if it still works. It does, and he laughs in delight when the disk drops down, hanging by a thread of light, then flies back up when he flicks his wrist. It's a lot more high-tech than the ones on Earth, but the same principle. "I saw it in a junker shop, the first time Yondu took me along."

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    “Quill!” says Drax, as Peter comes into the galley with the last set of dirty dishes from dinner. “Tell us more of your Chris Muss traditions!”

    “Um.” Peter thinks for a moment. “Well...There were special songs that we would sing for it. They were called Christmas carols.”

    Drax nods. “You sang the ballad of the sacred birth of Santa?”

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    “You wear it all the time, exactly the same…” He pauses as she finishes the tiny braid and ties it off with a small, stretchy band. Then she selects a thin yellow ribbon from her growing collection of accessories on the vanity, and expertly weaves it through. That detail strikes Peter, and he shakes his head. “Except for that. The--I dunno, decorations you put in it?”

    “Ornaments,” she corrects, tying the ribbon into a small bow at the base of the braid.

    “Ornaments,” he repeats, feeling the shape of the word on his tongue and smiling. “Do they mean anything?”

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    “The White Berry,” says Drax, “is native to my homeworld. My people use it when they wish to conceive, to enhance fertility. Typically it grows around the winter solstice, but I have found some here!"

    “Okay…” Peter has a feeling that he’s missing something here. Like, probably a pretty big something. Probably something that he’s going to regret. “Is there...something about your love life that you wanna tell me?”

    “No!” Drax says immediately. “No, it is for you. And Gamora. It is only natural, now that you have consummated your relationship.”

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    Peter teaches Groot how to have a snowball fight. He'll probably regret it for the rest of his life.

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    Peter just about dies when he sees her in the dress.

    Which, okay -- To be completely fair, Gamora regularly takes his breath away and makes his heart skip beats. Like probably there ought to be some kind of medical condition named after the things she does to him, and the fact that she never fails to do those things to him with her mere presence, even after four whole years of spending nearly all their time together.

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    “I am Groot,” says Groot, and then repeats it several times in what’s clearly a rambling rapid-fire answer.

    Right, right!” says Peter, grinning. “We were at the beginning of Return of the Jedi. Which, by the way, is my favorite part of the entire trilogy!”

    Gamora knows Peter’s started a routine of bedtime stories since they all agreed that it was time for Groot to begin spending the night independently. But she's never seen him in the act, until now.

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    Here he is, back in his childhood bedroom, in his grandfather’s home, for no reason other than a visit. No Infinity Stones, no imminent danger. Just catching up on a long-overdue family Christmas.

    Here he is, lying awake next to Gamora, staring at the ceiling and feeling undeniably homesick.

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    Gamora is well aware that Peter’s made it his mission to introduce her to every variety of candy he can find.

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    When Peter gets cold -- which is always -- he likes to steal body heat from Gamora.

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    “Okay,” says Peter, glancing down at the stew in front of him. He doesn’t know why he’s so weirdly anxious tonight -- normally he relishes his turn to tell stories while they all eat. But he’s run out of television and movie plots to share, so tonight he's going to do something different. “So, back on Earth when I was a kid, my favorite holiday was this one called Christmas.”

    “Chris Muss?” Gamora echoes, eager to learn these things as ever, and also always just...a little bit wrong.

    “Christmas,” he says again, trying to articulate the syllables more clearly, though he knows the actual problem is the translator-on-translator interaction losing some of the nuance.

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    There’s a strange sense of something wrong, something terrible about to happen, or maybe something that already has. Before the words were drifting by her, like waves with her mind submerged below the quiet of the surface. Now they’re pinging around like tiny grenades -- Stark, helicopter, explosion, twelve dead.

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    Clint knows it’s bad when he wakes to the familiar yellow ceiling tiles and antiseptic scent of Medical and no recollection of getting here.

    “You have a head injury,” says the doctor, who looks like the kind of medical cookie-cutter clone he’s started to suspect S.H.I.E.L.D. grows in tanks somewhere down in the basement. “You were unconscious for nearly twelve hours. You also have three broken ribs and a broken collarbone. I think it’s safe to say that you’ll be in this room for a while.”

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    The first note appears on a Friday that just happens to also be Valentine’s.

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    Clint's puppy dog eyes are ridiculously effective. Thankfully he doesn't know that.

    (Or does he?)

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    Natasha is there after every failed mission, the sense of responsibility weighing more heavily on her shoulders with each casualty. She understands now, if only because Clint’s morals have become her own, his debt to the innocent and the unprotected shared just as much as their partnership.

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    That’s the problem with people, Clint decides. Just when you’re starting to get attached, they turn out to be disappointments.

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