Santa Claus Is Coming To Town [Christmas 1995]

[Eubha Fyfe]

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For Leith, and any other Fyfe that feels like hopping in

Christmas was Eubha Fyfe's favourite time of the year. They always went full-out on the decorations, the entire house would be covered in twinkling lights, tinsel and pretty sparkling colours by the time they were all finished with it. That is what the family had been doing for most of the first week of the holidays. The younger kids were all back from Hogwarts, the older ones popped round more than usual, and Leslie was always there, always being his happy self.

It was only a few more days until Christmas, and Eubha had woken up early. She still needed to sort some things out concerning the Christmas presents, but it was very hard to do when the house was so full all of the time. And Eubha knew that Leslie or Geovanny would never be able to keep a secret, if either of them found out something they'd blurt it out to the others without realizing.

She headed to the kitchen, and Eubha made herself a bowl of cereal for breakfast. Either the kids were already awake, or they would be soon. There was always something going on in the Fyfe household.

[Leith Fyfe]

Leith lazily made his way down the stairs, wandering quietly into the kitchen to get himself some breakfast. Yawning as he walked into the room, Leith waved lazily as he mumbled "Hi mummy." giving his mother a quick hug before continuing along his way towards the cabinets, puling them open and looking inside experimentally.

[Eubha Fyfe]

"Good morning, darling," Eubha hugged him back. It looked like he was the first one up, usually Leslie and Geovanny were the ones who bounded out of bed at six in the morning, waking up the whole house. As they got older, they began to sleep in longer and longer.

"Did you sleep well?" She asked.

[Leith Fyfe]

Leith nodded, blinking sleepily as he looked for something to eat, "Yeah, I slept quite well thanks." He wasn't quite sure how long he had slept, but he certainly felt well rested, even if he was a bit groggy at the moment. "Is anyone else up yet?" he asked curiously as he leaned against the counter and yawned once again, trying to shake the sleep from his eyes.

[Eubha Fyfe]

"I don't think so, unless they were up at dawn and headed outside, because I haven't seen anyone else," Eubha smiled. Getting up at dawn actually did seem like something quite a few of her kids, and even her husband, would do.

"Do you want some breakfast?"

[Leith Fyfe]

"Ahh."Leith said, now opening and closing the cabinet above his head idly as his mother asked him if he wanted any breakfast. "Yes please..." he mumbled, his head drooping down on the countertop. He was quite tired, and wasn't sure why he was even up at this hour.

[Eubha Fyfe]

"What would you like?" Eubha asked, chuckling a little when she saw Leith's head drooping around, still half-asleep. He really was becoming a teenager now, she observed. Unable to wake up properly in the mornings. Eubha was wishing that the day would finally come when Geovanny reached that phase, if he ever did.

[Leith Fyfe]

"Uhh..." Leith said, his head jerking upwards as the boy caught himself dozing off before beginning the cycle all over again. "I 'unno..." he slurred, not really caring what it was his mother got him so long as he had something to shove down his throat. Hopefully that would help him wake up - getting some food in his system.

[Eubha Fyfe]

Eubha stood up and waved her wand, making him a bowl of cereal as well. He didn't seem to be too bothered about what he ate, anyway. "Are you even properly awake yet, darling?" Eubha chuckled.

[Leith Fyfe]

Leith shook his head and replied "No...not at all." Leith was not even entirely certain why he was awake. It had just seemed like too nice of a day to waste lying around in bed, but now that he was up and about he was beginning to second-guess that decision. His bed was starting to seem pretty nice right about now.

[Eubha Fyfe]

"You could have just stayed in bed, you didn't have to wake up so early," Eubha chuckled. "It's holidays now, no lessons for you," she added. The kids could basically sleep in as long as they wanted to, now.

[Geovanny Fyfe]

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So it says any other Fyfe who wants to join so I'm gonna toss Geo in, but if you'd rather him go away just say so :D

Geovanny had gotten up around dawn and quickly dressed before slipping outside. He knew that most of his family would rather sleep in and would be annoyed if he tried to wake them up. Normally that wouldn't have stopped him, but it was close to Christmas and he felt like he was begin generous. The twelve year old ran along the shore of the Loch Ness lake and the open space surrounding the house. One would think that he would get bored playing by himself, but that was quiet the contrary. He was content to run about and play with just himself and his few imaginary friends.

He paid little attention to what time it was until his stomach started making his hunger known. The boy let out a sigh of defeat as he collapsed on the ground for a moment to get his breath back. When he finally got back to the house he was covered in dirt and his shoes and the bottom of his pants were wet from having stumbled into the lake a couple of times. He was grinning as he entered the kitchen and blinked at seeing his mother and one of his siblings already sitting there.

"Morning," he greeted as he took a seat next to Leith.

[Leith Fyfe]

Leith was about to mumble that this seemed like a good idea when Geovanny stumbled into the kitchen as well. Now Leith loved all of his siblings, but he had an especially close relationship with Geovanny, and so it was with some enthusiasm that he straightened up and said "Hey Geo!" his earlier sleepiness - at least for the moment - forgotten.

[Eubha Fyfe]

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Nooo, Geovanny can stay ♥

"Hey sweetie," Eubha looked up when one of her other sons came stumbling into the kitchen. She could have guessed that he was already awake and running about. He never seemed to sit still for long. "Wow, what have you been doing?" She noticed how dirty he was, and that his trousers were already wet at the bottom. That, again, was exactly like him.

[Geovanny Fyfe]

"Hey Leith!" the boy greeted his brother again, smiling even bigger than when he first entered the room. His attention quickly turned to his mother when she asked him about what he'd been doing. The blonde looked down at his dirty clothes, not really noticing, before looking up at her and shrugging. "Playing," he answered, "I woke up and figured I'd be nice and let the rest of you sleep in." It was a known fact that he tended to try and wake up everyone in the house when he was home and the fact that he had let them sleep in really was saying something.

[Leith Fyfe]

Leith frowned when Geovanny said that he had been outside all morning and whined "Why didn't you wake me Geo? I would have gone outside with you." Leith always liked to spend time outside, and even if he had to wake up early in order to do it he would be more than willing to get out of bed early for the fun.

[Eubha Fyfe]

"That was nice of you," Eubha smiled at Geovanny. At least he was beginning to think a bit, before he did something. When he was a younger child he'd be running around the house and waking everybody up, before even thinking that the rest of the family may want to sleep in. She poured him a bowl of cereal as well.

"Here's your food, boys," Eubha handed it to them, before sitting down again. "Are you going out to play later again? Because if you aren't, you should maybe change your clothes," she suggested.

[Geovanny Fyfe]

He was glad to hear that his mom thought what he did was a nice thing, but he knew that she shouldn't get used to it. Next time he decided to get up that early he'd probably try to wake up the whole house first just to see if they wanted to go outside. He blinked when his brother asked why he had hadn't woken him and the curly haired boy shrugged a little. "Like I said I just figured you would all like to sleep in," he replied, "but don't worry," a grin at this, "next time I'll wake you up before I head outside."

When food was set in front of him the boy's attention quickly moved away from the conversation and with a quick "thanks mum" he was digging into the bowl of cereal. He'd been outside for a while and he was starving.

[Leith Fyfe]

Leith smiled when Geovanny promised to wake him up next time and replied "Good!" glad that his brother agreed to wake him up next time. The boy's grin widened when his mother arrived moments later with their breakfast, smiling widely and saying "Thanks mum." chirping an identical response to the one that his brother had given just seconds before.

[Eubha Fyfe]

Geovanny hadn't seemed to notice that she had said anything about changing clothes, which wasn't unlike him. He often just wasn't listening, which could be frustrating even if it wasn't his fault.

"So what are you planning on doing, today?" Eubha asked them. "I'll probably continue decorating the house, if any of you want to help me out."

[Geovanny Fyfe]

Geo looked up with a mouthful of cereal when his mom asked about plans for the day. He hadn't really thought of anything outside of going back outside after he'd had something to eat. The thought of helping decorate had the boy making a face. He quickly swallowed his food before shaking his head. "I think I'll just go back outside," he told her, "remember last time I tried to help decorate?" It had been a disaster. He'd been a little to hyper and had wound up breaking a number of objects because he'd dropped them.

[Leith Fyfe]

Leith shook his head and replied "Eugh, decorating is boring! I'm gonna go outside too mum." Leith was not one to be cooped up inside for any stretch of time, and doing a task as mind-numbingly boring as decorating was only sure to accelerate the process by which Leith lost his mind to madness if he was forced to do so.

[Eubha Fyfe]

"Alright," Eubha smiled at them. She hadn't expected them to want to join in, they were both so very energetic. And they would most likely make a mess.

"Yeah, I remember that time really well, Geovanny, it probably isn't a good idea to repeat that," she chuckled. At least outside, he managed to cause much less chaos.

[Geovanny Fyfe]

The youngest Fyfe in the room grinned at his mother's words, though there was a slight blush at the memory. He hadn't really meant to break the stuff. It just kinda happened. Though his brother had mentioned going outside which meant he'd have someone else to play with other than just himself.

[Leith Fyfe]

"Wait, why?" Leith asked, looking at his mother and brother in confusion - not having been home on that most bizarre of days. "What happened?" It sounded like the kind of story that he wanted to know about, and he felt quite put out that he did not know what they were talking about.