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Mira was working out what she’d need for her next job. It was always annoying to be hired around the holidays. Usually someone hiring her now wasn’t worth the money they spent. This time was different, she’d actually follow through. She didn’t plan to take the money either.
“Mira, come here!” Corus called. She sighed, a small smile making its way on her face. She shook her head, but stepped away from the mirror to go find the small man. “Hurry up!”
“I’m coming,” she said.
She walked into the living room. All around were decorations Corus had asked to put around the house. He’d found the movies of someone who didn’t know the spirit of Christmas and fell in love with the bright lights. It felt weird, she never celebrated any part of the holiday season. Her family hadn’t been interested in the season when she was growing up either.
It had been getting steadily harder to find him. He was practicing for if she let him help on her jobs. She started with the tree, he’d been climbing it a lot. Despite moving the ornaments he’d spent most of the time hiding behind, she didn’t find him. She moved to the shelf that had different figures and just about anything that was sold for the holiday season. He wasn’t hiding behind anything there either. She narrowed her eyes as she looked up to the ceiling. He’d been using the decorations to explore higher up.
“There you are,” she sighed. He was standing on some of the exposed wood. She admittedly preferred having things to grab if someone attacked her for maneuverability. Of course Corus made use of them once it was easier for him to climb up. Mira walked over to stand below him, she could just see the smirk on his small face. “What are you doing?”
“This.”
Corus jumped off the wood and Mira felt her heart freeze. She jumped as she reached up to catch him. Clasping her hands around his small body she landed in a crouch holding him to her chest. She hadn’t been that scared since she fought Crimson, since he threatened Kaya and the others. Mira slowly opened her hands to stare at the small man who terrified her.
“What the hell were you thinking?!” she shouted. He didn’t even flinch at her voice. He just smiled up at her, as if he wanted this. He pointed up. As reluctant as she was, Mira stared up and found the bit of fishing line hanging down. She followed it up to the wood he’d jumped from and found a small bundle of mistletoe. “Mistletoe?”
“All those movies keep talking about being caught standing under the mistletoe, I figured that wouldn’t work for us so being caught under the mistletoe would work,” he laughed. Mira sighed and pressed her forehead against him.
“You nearly killed yourself to get a kiss under the mistletoe? How did you even get any?”
“I won’t reveal my collaborator.”
“It was Kaya then.” He did have access to her card to buy things online. It usually required her to get the packages though. Zeke had access too, she left one at Kaya’s once he started to stay there more often. Although Kaya and Zeke were annoyed that she did that.
“I will never reveal them!” She started laughing, he had to stop watching so many movies. “Besides, I didn’t almost die. I had the fishing line tied around my waist and released it once you grabbed me. I even tested it!”
“You’re absolutely insane. So many things could go wrong with that. You could have been hurt from the fishing line too. And all for mistletoe.”
“Does that mean I don’t get a kiss?”
Mira narrowed her eyes at him. She stood up straight and held him in front of her face. As much as she worried about him, it was too much effort not to be rewarded. She just wanted to be a little mean. Slowly she brought him closer, until he was right in front of her lips. Then she kissed him, pressing against his face rather than part of his torso like normal. She heard the muffled shock from him, but didn’t let up. She knew just how to kiss him where he couldn’t really kiss her back.
He relaxed after a few seconds and she smiled. She pulled back at that point, holding in a laugh once she saw his face. It had slipped her mind she’d put on lipstick when testing out disguises. He had bright pink all over his face. It didn’t help that his expression was dreamy alongside it. When he sent a grin up at her she finally lost it and started to laugh.
“What’s so funny?” he pouted. Mira brought a finger up to her lips and wiped off the lipstick on it. She showed him, laughing more when he realized what it meant. He wiped his face off on his shirt, but it didn’t help much.
“We should probably get you cleaned up,” she smiled. Corus made a face that promised a new idea was brewing in his little head.
“Or… we can see if there’s enough of that stuff to cover me completely?”
Mira just laughed before pulling him close, ready for her own kiss under the mistletoe.