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It’s Christmas eve and the band house is in high spirits, Dougie and Danny are running around the house whilst Harry and Tom focus on preparations for Christmas day.
They decided to give Dougie the task of distracting Danny whilst they wrapped the last few of his presents (they immediately regretted that decision after hearing the amount of noise the two of them created).
So whilst Danny and Dougie are upstairs doing whatever, Harry and Tom move to the living room to wrap.
“Tom, we’ve seriously spoiled this boy. His stuff almost takes up the whole tree, and it’s not even including the stuff we got him for when he’s big!” Harry exclaims, gesturing to the growing pile.
He wasn’t wrong, they’d all decided that they would buy gifts for little Danny and big Danny after realising it’d be quite unfair he hadn’t got anything for when he’s out of his headspace.
“I know, but just imagine his little face when he walks through the door and sees all of this stuff” Tom responds, that’s enough for Harry to stop complaining.
“Yeah maybe you’re right.. it is his first christmas with us as his ‘parents’ i suppose. So are we going with the whole santa thing or do you think he’ll know it’s from us?” Before Tom can even answer his phone buzzes with a message from Dougie.
Doug: Kids asking if he needs to leave something out for santa… what am i going with here?
“Okay looks like we’re going with santa, do we actually have any mince pies?” Tom asks the drummer who’s grumbling to the wrapping paper.
“Yeah i grabbed some yesterday, so we can leave one out. Suppose we’ll need a carrot for the reindeer as well huh?” Harry says, adding the wrapped present to the pile.
“Yeah, we have plenty. You still got your big boots? We can just go the whole way and put the flour on the floor to make snow footsteps” Tom questions, Harry just nods and groans again when he realises he didn’t get enough paper off the roll.
“I hate this stuff!!” Harry grumbles.
Tom: Tell him we have mince pies and a carrot for Rudolph, Harry’s gonna make snow footsteps for him.
Dougie: Okay i’ll let him know, how much more you got to wrap? He’s getting suspicious here..
Tom: If Harry doesn't have a breakdown, about 15 minutes.
Dougie: Be quick please, he’s giving me those judgy eyes…
“Okay, i’m gonna help you wrap this stuff because Danny’s giving Dougie those judgmental eyes so we don’t have long before he realises we’re up to something” Tom explains, he gets a nod and Harry shoves over half of the presents to his band mate.
“Where are we gonna put his big stuff?” Harry questions, gesturing to the smaller pile next to them.
“Uhhh, i’ll put them in my room somewhere. Wait no i won’t because he’ll most likely come to my room, put them in your room maybe?” Harry nods in agreement and adds the present to the pile.
They’d just about finished wrapping when Toms phone buzzes again.
Dougie: BRO HURRY UP PLEASE HES SCARING ME
Tom: How u scared of a mentally 2 year old Doug? But we’re done now, give us a minute to hide them then you can come down.
“Here i got the big bags to put them in” Harry comes back into the room, placing the bags on the floor next to Tom.
“Okay be quick, Danny’s scaring Dougie somehow so we need to bring him down here” Tom explains, Harry just laughs and picks up the presents.
They get the toys into the bags and hidden in the kitchen just in time for Danny to come rushing in to them.
“Daddy! Bubba no let me down for food” Danny pouts, throwing himself into Toms arms.
“Aw sorry kiddo, are you hungry? To make it up to you how about we order a pizza hm?” Tom lifts Danny up into his arms.
“Yeah! But i need dada help me pwease?” Danny makes grabby hands towards Harry, who raises his eyebrows but nods.
“Okay buddy, you two order the pizzas and i’ll go help him with whatever he needs” Harry grabs the boy out of Toms arms and makes his way back to the living room.
“When i big i buy you, daddy and bubba pwesents as sup’ise, i wrap ‘em already but you put under twee?” Danny questions, smiling up at his band mate.
“Kiddo you didn’t have to buy us anything, but if you want me to help you then i will” Harry is still a little unsure on Danny’s whole view of christmas, he seems to believe in santa but knows he’s the one buying presents? Yeah he has no clue.
“In my room dada” Danny tells him, so Harry makes his way upstairs and grabs the stuff from under Danny’s bed. It’s obvious what two of them are already.
“Do you want me to hide them and put them under the tree without daddy and bubba knowing?” He asks with a smile, he gets a small giggle and a nod in response.
He takes the bag into his bedroom and makes his way back downstairs, promising Danny he’ll sneak down and put them there later.
“Pizzas ordered, what movie are we watching?” Dougie jumps onto the sofa and sighs loudly, running after Danny for hours has really tired him out.
“Elf!” Danny pleads, Harry chuckles and ruffles the littles hair.
“Whilst it’s you i suppose we can” Danny shrieks and eagerly waits for them to turn the film on.
The pizza arrives around 20 minutes into the film, Tom grabs them and sets them out on the table in front of them.
“Dougie i swear.. how did you get pizza on the couch!” Tom suddenly shouts.
“Woah, hold on a minute you-“ Suddenly the two of them are fighting and Harry just rolls his eyes, looking at Danny who just giggles at the scene in front of him.
“Quiet or i’m gonna put you both in time out, Danny wants to watch this film” Harry interrupts them, getting a nod from Danny as back up.
“Alright alright..”
The film soon ends and Danny’s already half asleep, his eyes fluttering as he clings on to Harry.
“Do you want dada to carry you and you can watch us put everything out for santa, you can check we didn’t forget anything?” Tom asks softly, Danny nods tiredly so Harry lifts him up and they make their way to the kitchen.
“I’ll get the milk, you get the mince pie and carrot” Dougie says, making his way over to the fridge. Harry manages to grab a plate with his free arm and sets it on the counter.
Tom places the carrot and mince pie on to it and Dougie appears with the glass of milk.
“Have we got everything kiddo?” Danny silently sucks on his dummy and gives a small nod, they make their way into the living room and place the plate and glass next to the tree.
“Now let’s get you to bed mister” Tom says, grabbing the boy out of Harry’s arms.
“Night kiddo!” Dougie says, waving towards the half asleep boy.
“Nigh’ bubba, Nigh’ dada. No fowget” Danny mutters, he gets a nod and a wink off Harry and that’s enough to settle him.
“Right santa, go and get your boots on. I’ll grab the flour” Dougie smirks, Harry just huffs and goes to find his shoes.
“Alright the kids asleep, let’s get everything ready and go to bed because he’ll definitely wake up early” Tom appears after 10 minutes, the two already in the process of making footsteps.
“You sort out the presents and we’ll figure this out” Dougie says, sprinkling flour onto the floor. Tom chuckles and walks towards the tree.
“Okay, i’ll put Danny’s here so he sees them as soon as he walks in and put the rest over here” He gets two nods in response so starts to move everything over.
Harry and Dougie soon finish making footsteps and decide to go over to the plate, Dougie eats half of the mince pie and Harry drinks half of the milk and bites a chunk out of the carrot.
“Right i’ve started a section for you two with the presents i got so Harry yours is on the left and Doug yours is on the right” Tom explains.
“Alright, i’ll add the presents i bought later” Harry tells him, knowing he needs to wait to add the ones Danny got.
“Everything i bought is in my room so i’ll go get it” Dougie quietly makes his way upstairs, not wanting to wake Danny up.
Within five minutes he’s added everything he bought for Harry and Tom and has left to go to bed.
“Is this definitely everything we got Danny? Dougie said he gave me what he bought yesterday and we wrapped the rest of the stuff today so.. i can’t remember if i got anything else” Tom mutters, trying to rethink every present.
“It’ll all be there Tom it’s fine, he’s got enough toys. He’ll be made up regardless” Harry reassures his band mate.
“You’re right, he’ll be so happy. I’m gonna go to bed, see you in the morning” Tom says.
“See you in the morning, mate” Harry answers, watching his friend make his way upstairs.
He waits 15 minutes until he’s sure they’re both in bed to grab what he needs from his room, his bag of presents and Danny’s stuff. He adds them to the groups, smiling as he sees ‘dada’ written on his presents.
Danny is the cutest.
Soon enough he’s finished and makes his way up to bed knowing he’ll be up in a few hours.
He wasn’t wrong. Because at 6:30am, Tom’s knocking on his door trying to control an excited little.
“Haz you up mate? This one has decided it’s time to wake up” Tom explains, despite being knackered Harry chuckles.
“On my way” Tom sees that as good enough and goes to wake Dougie up, he knows that’ll take longer.
Harry goes into the kitchen and makes him, Tom and Dougie a cup of tea whilst he waits for them all to come downstairs. He’d just placed them down onto the table when he hears footsteps on the stairs.
“I wonder if santas been kiddo!” Dougie mutters, trying to be excited but he’s still half asleep.
Harry never thought he’d find Danny more adorable than he already did, but seeing his shocked face when he opens the door was the cutest thing he’d seen in his life. Tom was so right. He deserves to be spoiled.
“Wow! Look at all of this what Santa has brought you Dan” Tom gasps, the little stares at the presents with wide eyes. He glances between the three of them in disbelief.
“I’ve never seen him so shocked” Dougie laughs, ruffling the littles hair and taking a seat on the sofa.
“I can open?” Danny seems a little hesitant to make a move, but his band mates encourage him to start opening his things.
They watch Danny open every single present with a wide smile and a shriek, he seemed to love every single toy they’d bought him and wanted to play.
Of course he ended up kicking a football around tho, and none of them had the heart to tell him not to play inside.
“You open now?” Danny asks after a few minutes of playing, looking in between all of them.
“I think you two should take a look at your presents and read the writing on the paper” Harry says, Dougie and Tom frown but do it anyway.
“It says bubba..”
“Yeah i’ve got some that say daddy?” Tom turns to look at Danny who’s sat watching them smiling.
“Buddy did you.. buy us things?” Dougie asks, getting a happy nod in response.
“Mhm! Open now” Danny giggles, he always gets his own way so they do as he requests.
Tom opens his first, Danny had gotten him custom guitar pics, a new guitar case with his name on, a hoodie he’d wanted for a while and a new pair of jeans.
“Kiddo these are amazing thank you” Tom pulls the boy into his arms and squeezes him tight.
“You welcome daddy, bubba open now” Dougie smiles and grabs the presents.
Danny had gotten him a new strap for his bass, some jewellery, a matching case for his bass like Tom had and a new jacket.
“Buddy i love these thank you!” Dougie ruffles the littles hair who smiles brightly at him.
“It okay, dada you now” Danny turns his attention to Harry, the drummer nods and does as he’s asked.
He finds a new pair of sunglasses with his initials on the side, the shoes he’d been wanting for ages, noise cancelling headphones as he’d been recently complaining when he’s in recording his head hurts and finally a custom pair of drumsticks.
He needed a second glance, but he noticed one had a H on it and the other had a D on it. He knew what that meant straight away.
“Kiddo i love them, thank you so much” Harry smiles softly, the little jumps off Toms lap and throws himself into Harry’s arms.
“Welcome dada, i glad you like them” Danny clings on to him tightly.
As Harry holds on to him he realises two things: one, he definitely needs to listen to Tom more, and two, he loves this kid more than anything.
“Soo.. can we get some breakfast?” Dougie interrupts them.
Way to ruin the moment, Doug.
And when Danny’s out of his headspace two days later he opens the rest of his presents. They all chipped together for them like his toys and he seemed made up. He’d managed to stay calm, until he opened his main gift.
“NO WAY A NEW GUITAR!!”
Yeah, he’s definitely spoiled.