"This has been one hell of a day." Eddie says as they walk back into the lodge.

"You telling me? I was almost killed twice today." Tim chuckles as he heads to his office. "I believe that might be a record for me."

"Where are you going?" Adam asks.

"I'm fixing to get stoned out of my f*cking mind." Tim laughs.

"Care to share? I need to forget about today too." Avi chuckles.

"I think we all do." Chance adds.

Tim goes into his office, closing the door behind him. He walks up to a large wedding picture of him and Adam that was hanging on the wall. He takes down the picture, uncovering a safe in the wall. Punching in the code, he opens the door and pulls out a large zip-locked back full of marijuana and a pack of rolling paper.

Sitting down at his desk, he rolls several joints before returning his supplies back to the safe. After what everyone has been through today, they needed to unwind.

"I believe we are going to need some snacks." Tim announces with a chuckle as he lays a handful of joints on the coffee table.

"WE'RE WORKING ON IT!" Esther shouts from the kitchen.

"Dang, Timbo. You grow your own crop?" Avi laughs a reaches for a joint.

"Let's just say Rob is very.... how should I put this ... useful?" Tim laughs as he sits down next to his husband.

Eddie and Esther walk in from the kitchen with arms full of chips, dips, popcorn and several boxes of snack cakes.

"Is this enough?" Eddie laughs.

"It's a start." Tim chuckles.

"Am I the only one that has never smoked pot before?" Kirstie asks shyly, looking around the living room.

"If you don't want to, you don't have to." Tim tells her. "There's a whole bar full of alcohol if you'd rather do that."

"No, it's just...I don't know how." Kirstie says, lowering her head in embarrassment.

"That's nothing to be ashamed of." Adam says as he takes the joint that Tim passes him.

"If it makes you feel any better, Kirstie, this is only my second time." Austin confesses. 

"I've never known you to smoke it." Tim says after releasing the puff he had been holding.

"Olena had some and wanted me to smoke it with her." Austin says with a shrug of his shoulders. "I've just never been interested in it."

"Ugh, let's not even mention her." Avi laughs.

"Geez, I feel like a bad influence on you guys." Tim chuckles.

"You are. I was lily white until I met you." Adam giggles as he puts the end of a Twinkie in his mouth and leans toward Tim.

"That's bullsh*t." Tim laughs as he leans in and bites the other end of the Twinkie, meeting Adam's lips.

"I don't smoke it either, Kirstie." Esther says. "Why don't we share a bottle of wine?"

"Honey, no one is gonna force you to smoke it. If you fill uncomfortable, don't do it." Avi says as he softly kisses her cheek.

"Thanks, I think I would rather just have the wine." Kirstie says with a relieved smile.

"Great." Esther giggles as she goes to get a bottle of wine and a couple of glasses.

In no time at all, the guys were all stoned and the girls were feeling the wine. The guys were eating as if it had been days since any of them had food. Everyone was laughing at any little thing that happened. The floor was littered with snack cake wrappers and popcorn. 

They had a game of tossing popcorn at someone to see if they could catch it in their mouth. Eddie won. Tim said it was because he had the biggest mouth.

"Hey, guys?!" Esther calls from the kitchen as she goes to get another bottle of wine that she had chilling. "Did Y'all know it was snowing? It's really coming down."

Everyone jumps up and run to the window like excited children, pressing their noses against the windows.

"It's so beautiful." Kirstie smiles.

"Let's go play." Tim says as he grabs Adam by the hand.

"What about our coats?" Adam asks as he was being pulled toward the front door.

"We'll be fine. We won't stay out that long." Tim says as he opens the door.

"He must really be stoned as cold natured as he is." Chris chuckles as they all follow Adam and the hitman out into the snow.

Weather conditions on the mountain can change very quickly. It wasn't that cold when they returned from Avi and Kirstie's old house. They hadn't been partying very long. Or so they thought. But, in reality, they had been partying for several hours. There was already four to five inches of snow on the ground.

A snowball fight started immediately when Avi throws one and hits Tim in the back of the head. The battle was on. Snowballs were being thrown in every direction. No one was safe. Every man/woman for him/her self.

"I can't feel my f*cking fingers." Tim realizes just as he is hit in the face by a snowball from a giggling Adam. "Or my face."

"I don't think I have any toes." Chance adds.

"Do I still have a nose?" Avi asks, trying to feel his nose with his numb fingers.

"I don't think this is the smartest thing we've ever done." Chris says, blowing on his hands in an attempt to warm them up.

"I'm freezing my ass off. I'm done." Tim says as he begins to make his way back to the lodge. "What the hell were we thinking?"

"We weren't." Austin laughs as they walk through the now knee-deep snow.

"Hot chocolate sounds really good right now." Kirstie says as Avi helps the small girl through the deep snow.

"Heck yeah, it does." Esther replies.

"OH, SH*T!!" Tim yells as his snow-covered cowboy boots slip on the hardwood floors. Adam laughs as he catches his husband to keep him from falling on his ass. "Watch that first step."

They all go to their rooms to change out of their wet clothes and to grab some blankets to cover with. Esther and Kirstie go to the kitchen to start the hot chocolate as the guys try to pick up some of the trash in the living room.

"You know, Christmas is just around the corner. When are we gonna put up a Christmas tree?" Avi asks as they all cuddle with their significant other under the blankets. "Ooo, can we have a live one?"

"It's not even Thanksgiving yet." Tim says as he reaches for a Kleenex to wipe his runny nose.

"So." Avi replies.

"We definitely have a lot of trees to choose from." Chance says.

"ACHOOO!" Adam sneezes while he's cuddled up next to Tim.

"Bless you." Tim says before blowing his nose.

Nate watches as each person begins to cough, sneeze and wipe their nose.

"This doesn't look good." He says as he shakes his head.

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