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'Twas the night before Christmas.
The lights in Kate's apartment were dim. Only few candles scattered here and there, fairy lights on Christmas tree and colorful flicks from TV screen.
Yelena and Kate were cuddled up under a fluffy green blanket watching Home Alone. Perhaps watching was a bit of a stretch. Yelena's hand was on Kate's right tit while Kate's left hand was inside Yelena's sweatpants. The room was filled with heavy breathing and lips smacking, occasional moan leaving one or the other girl.
Kate and Yelena were having the wonderful honeymoon period of their relationship and these kind of evenings were almost a daily occurence. And as it was Christmas time, very special time filled with memories of them meeting, they couldn't keep long off each other.
As Kate was about to start fucking Yelena in earnest there was a loud phonecall. Kate jumped, Yelena sweared under her breathe and actually whimpered when her girlfriend withdrew her fingers.
It was Yelena's phone. She groaned loudly and went to retrieve it. With Yelena running the Widows organisation unfortunately she had to be present and alert 24/7.
"Hello?" Came Yelena's serious voice as she frowned and put the phone to her ear while adjusting her panties at the same time.
"Hiiiiii sestra!!!" It was so loud Yelena winced and almost threw her mobile across the room.
"Yemen.." Yelena gritted out and held the phone away from herself.
"Merry Christmas!! What are you doing? How is Christmas and how is your girlfriend?" Yemen's cheery singsong voice reached the blonde at an acceptable level this time.
Yelena sighed. She still had a halfass leftover grudge against her twin but they were making progress and trying to make it work, "trying" was really hard sometimes. Let's say they managed.
"Merry Christmas, my stupid but lovable twin. We good, we good. Just watching a movie. Чего ты делаешь?"
"Sounds good, wish I could join... What movie you watching?" Yemen replied wistfully.
"Home Alone"
And that's when all hell broke lose. The loudest fire alarm either of the girls heard started blasting, it felt like it was coming from everywhere.
"Shit!" Both Kate and Yelena exclaimed. The blonde quickly hung up. She ran to the door and looked through the peephole, she saw neighbours openning doors and hurrying outside. The smoke seemed to have started to twirl around in the hallway.
"This is real!" Yelena shouted towards Kate who was covering her ears. They quickly grabbed their phones and coats and went outside.
Lots of people in all kinds of undress were milling by the entrance of the apartment building. Someone pointed out to the window at one of the floors where the fire seemed to be blasting and smoke coming in huge wafts.
Firefighter sirens were approaching, everyone's worried chatter around our girls.
Yelena and Kate were standing pressed into each other with their arms linked. They kept silent, mood sour.
***
It took firefighters about an hour to extinguish the flames.
The girls just sat cuddled up on the pavement waiting for the news when they could come back inside.
An old tired looking man came forward and loudly informed everyone that the investigation is on its way and it will take a while. Loud groans were heard coming from all directions.
Kate and Yelena stood up, quietly discussing where to go and what to do as they didn't feel like freezing their asses off any longer.
There was a low whistle behind them and a voice in heavy Russian accent.
"Did someone burn their turkey?"
Girls turned around to find grinning Yemen looking at them with her arms spread and flailing.
"Hiiiiii!!...Again!!"
At the surprised look on girls' faces without missing a bit Yemen continued
"I heard really loud sound and you hung up on me and then I googled what's going on and decided to stop for a visit."
Yelena grumpily replied "Yeah, it's gonna take хрен знает how long till they let us in."
Yemen nodded in acknowledgement and hmmed.
"You can come to my place? I got a guest room, I got Christmas snacks, I got Christmas movies, I got Christmas tree and presents."
Kate and Yelena looked at each other and had a long silent pingpong with their eyes.
Yemen hasn't stopped grinning since she appeared.
Once the girls saw what they needed to see on each other faces they turned to Yemen and Yelena said
"Okay."
***
Yemen drove them in her small suburban SUV and it took them over half an hour to get to her place.
Yemen was feeling giddy and maybe happy (?)
(Whoa, her feeling happy was a first for sure).
She parked near a pretty nonsuspectful little house. She unlocked the front door and the couple walked in after her.
"Welcome welcome!" Yemen exclaimed with the biggest smile.
She led them to the lounge with a big inviting green couch in the middle, right in front of a giant flatscreen TV on the wall.
Kate and Yelena sat down and exhaled.
"This is soooo good! Thank you so much, Yemen, you're a lifesaver!" Kate Bishop said.
"Make yourselves at home. I'm gonna bring food and Vodka."
Yemen's receding voice could be heard as she made her way to the kitchen.
"I hope she gonna play nice." Yelena whispered.
"Yelena, she IS being very nice, let's just enjoy whatever we can salvage of Christmas. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather be three fingers knuckle deep inside you but this is better than having my ass turn into icicle and my nipples falling off my tits" Kate whispered back.
"Who knows you might still be able to get those three fingers inside me" Yelena smirked.
"Yelena!" Kate whispered in a scandalised voice. "Not in Yemen's place! Knowing her, she will record it and send it to my coworkers. And yours!"
"You got a point" Yelena conceded with a head nod.
Yemen came back, spread the good looking food on a cute coffee table and finished the setup by putting a huge bottle of vodka and three shot glasses in the middle.
She started Home Alone on the telly, turned towards the girls, grinned and without any warning jumped in between them. Kate and Yelena groaned while Yemen wiggled her bum to make space for herself. Yelena shoved her halfheartedly but accepted the new addition to their sitting arrangement. "It's your only real family, Yelena, let it be." She thought.
The rest of the night only got better. The girls watched movies, laughed at them, laughed at Yemen's ridiculous commentary and got drunk on good quality Ukranian vodka.
Everyone was about to pass out at 3am on the couch when Yelena managed to scrap together her last two braincells to kick Yemen to bed and drag tipsy Kate with her to the guest room.
Kate was being giggly and trying to cope a feel, however her own idea that Yemen might record them stuck with the blonde and she dodged Kate's advances long enough till she was naturally knocked off by the amount of vodka she consumed.
Yelena followed soon after.
***
Christmas Day.
The girls managed to cure their hangover by 2pm. They just had more vodka and that seemed to help. Yelena was actually surprised how well they got along with Yemen and decided to let go of all bullshit grudges she had.
Yemen didn't even feel hangover because she was on cloud nine. Maybe being alone sucked and being not alone was actually not bad.
"Presents time!!!" Yemen yelled.
"We'll get you presents sometime soon, sorry we didn't really take anything with us as you know" Kate Bishop replied.
"Oh! I got your presents here" Yemen pointed under her Christmas tree.
And, аккурат, all the presents they arranged under their tree were now right in front of them.
Kate gaped and Yelena frowned.
"How did you get them? Did you drunk drive in the morning?" Yelena enquired.
"Oh no, no no no. I got them yesterday" Yemen smiled.
Both girls blinked multiple times at her.
"Also Chris was a dipshit. Did you know the stuff he got up to? I should have made it more painful, should have cut off his balls! Had to make do with barbequing him tied up to the table." Yemen went on a tangent.
That's when it downed on the other girls.
"You fucking WHAT??" "Сука!! Ебать!!" Kate and Yelena shouted at the same time.
"It's okay, your apartment is four floors down, no damage" Yemen happily supplied.
Yelena was 2 seconds away from throttling Yemen and so was Kate.
I guess if Yemen still wanted company she had to go for the jugular, which was emotional honesty in her case. She never done it before but maybe she should try.
"Okay okay, relax, I just didn't want to be alone for Christmas." She sniffled for good measure.
That gave the other girls pause and they were back to blinking at Yemen.
"You...you have each other, and friends, and you are all happy. And I don't even have a dog to spend Christmas with" Yemen was frowning and how the fuck was she crying. She never cried! Like ever in her life!
"And maybe I should have just came over uninvited and crashed your sex party but you would have kicked me out, so here we are. At least one less asshole in your building!" She cried out.
"And...and you never come over! Remember I invited you five times?"
Yelena lowered her gaze at that, Kate wouldn't meet her eyes either.
"That's right!" Yemen continued.
"You don't even like me!"
Yelena and Kate went to protest but Yemen went on.
"You don't!"
Yelena interrupted her with her mouth downturned and clear sincerity.
"Извини, сестра. Я постараюсь быть лучше."
Yemen brightened up at that. It's like the switch been flipped and instead of dark and murky clouds there was a sunny blue sky.
"I forgive you." She replied quickly.
"If both of you give me a group hug and stay till tomorrow." She added.
"I think we owe you this much" Kate said sincerely.
And Yelena nodded in consent.
It was a messy group hug full of flailing and bumping limbs but it was a heartfelt one.
Yelena shed couple of tears of her own.
***
Kate giggled at her present which was a purple wand with smiley faces.
Now it was turn for the last present, Yelena ripped the paper and opened the box.
"Сууука" she groaned. It was a Rudolf colored dildo with a harness and a card that read
"Merry Fucking and a Happy Strap on"
Yemen never heard herself laugh this loud.
Yes, she got a black eye out of it when Rudolf hit her face but who cares when you got family over for Christmas.