Right, this is a holiday/Christmas special, including a tree, snow and a lot of Christmas facts and a weird German story (no offense to any Germans).

Thank you to everyone who told me when Robin's birthday is. I am going with his original birthday in the comics which is in March, but thank you so much.

And I always imagine that Conner, M'gann and Kaldur wouldn't know much about Christmas as they wouldn't really celebrated it before, but just go with it. They are incredibly oblivious in this.

Set late season 1 (Zatanna and Rocket are around but Zatara hasn't put on the helmet yet).

Hope you enjoy.

Robyn 

"Robby, quick we're under attack! Alarm! Alarm! Alarm! Alarm! Al- umph." With that the panicking speedster was hit in the face with the most deadly projectile one can have at this time of year. A snowball. One thrown by the team's resident archer with brilliant accuracy as normal.

Wally moaned and sat up from on top of his demolished snow fort, which the snowball had unfortunately knocked him back into, destroying it.

"Ha ha ha, didn't know you liked snow so much Wally!" Artemis shouted her breath visible in the cold air, high on the victory and adrenaline of the fight.

"I still don't get this game." Conner announced from behind his and M'gann's weirdly shaped fort.

"It's simple, you make a ball of snow than throw it at someone. The forts are to protect you. We're in teams as this is new to you." Robin cackled from beside Zatanna in their fort.

"So are you supposed to hit your team members or not?" Kaldur asked looking at his team member, Raquel (who was shaking her head, not wanting to get hit by Kaldur).

"No. They are there to help you." Zatanna answers trying to roll up a snowball subtly.

"Why did Artemis hit Wally then?" M'gann questioned as she too attempted to make a snowball.

"Because Wally was being an idiot!" Artemis huffed as she glared at said boy.

"Well you should be used to that, he is always an idiot." Robin grinned, throwing a snowball at said idiot, hitting him in the chest and earning him a betrayed look from his friend.

"Dude!" Wally protested, his arms crossed while Artemis desperately tried to fix their failing fort behind him.

"Anyway, go!" Raquel shouted throwing a snowball at Conner before ducking back behind their own fort, trying to help Kaldur make a snowball.

With that the area descended into snow chaos. It was the first really snowy day that the team had free and the human members of the group had dragged the other outside to enjoy it. It was also Christmas eve, and the whole team were staying over for the day, before leaving mid-day Christmas day to spend the afternoon with their families. In the end, almost an hour later, the only fort to survive was Robin and Zatanna's for some reason and everyone was starting to get cold. Mutually declaring it a draw, they retreated back to the Mountain to warm up, laughing and chatting. Robin had great fun recounting a brilliant throw of his that managed to hit a branch, heavy with snow, causing it to dump its load on top of both Wally and Artemis.

They split up getting changed into warm, dry civilian clothes before meeting in the lounge where it was the warmest. M'gann, Robin and Zatanna had made hot chocolates for everyone, bringing them into the lunge and passing them out to the group. They settled on the sofas and armchairs, sipping their hot chocolate and trying to warm up still. It had been a fun fight but cold.

"Well, seeing as it is Christmas eve and about half of us have never celebrated before I think we should do something Christmas-y." Robin stood up and announced.

"What do you suggest Bird Brain?" Artemis questioned taking a sip of her hot chocolate.

"Decorate a tree!" Robin grinned.

"Where are we going to get a tree?" Raquel asked with a raised brow.

"We already have one, sheesh none of you are very observant are you?" Robin teased pointing at the large Christmas tree that sat in the corner undecorated. How they missed that they will never know. Robin left the room with a smile on his face, promising to be back in a minute.

"Emm, why do we need to decorate a tree?" Conner asked confused. The G-nomes hadn't exactly included holiday knowledge in their info downloads.

"It's something to do with a baby being born, thousands of years ago." Wally answered vaguely, hand waving the question away.

"What does a tree have to do with a baby?" M'gann asked looking just as confused as Conner.

"In the Christian religion, a the son of God, Jesus was born in a city called Bethlehem, we celebrate his birth. Hence Christ-mas. The tree thing? I have no idea." Artemis explained with a sigh, elbowing Wally for confusing the aliens further.

"Actually the trees are a German thing. King George III's wife was German and her family always decorated one, apparently it's a tradition based on an old superstition. Though it wasn't until the Victorian age that they became popular, Queen Victoria was also the first person to put presents under the tree. Cards started being made in the Victorian era. Not everywhere celebrates Christmas though and if they do than most often it's slightly different. Some of the Christmas traditions in other countries are really cool. Almost most of the traditions we have are from other countries or pagan gods." Robin expanded as he came back into the room with two large boxes balanced carefully in his arms.

"Wow, didn't know you were such a nerd." Raquel stated. "How did you know all that?"

"I travelled a lot when I was little." Robin shrugged putting the boxes down next to the tree.

"Come on, let's decorate that tree!" Zatanna bounced to her feet encouraging the others to follow her lead and move over to Robin by the tree.

No other words were needed and they attacked the tree with lights and tinsel. Baubles were hung all over it and a shining star was placed on top by M'gann. The useful thing about aliens, mostly flying one's, is that you never need a ladder. The ones that didn't know what they were doing followed the lead of the others, often with their own spin once they got the hang of it.

They had very few accidents. Okay that may be a lie, they had quite a few. Some of these included a Kryptonian trapped in lights, an Atlantian similarly entangled in tinsel, an archer attempting to shoot a bauble on the tree missing and breaking a light causing them all to go out, and finally a speedster falling into the tree and knocking it down.

Let's just say it took them three hours to decorate the tree and another two hours to decorate the mountain and put up their stockings (which they had found in one of Robin's boxes, all personalised with their names. It was more for the chance of team bonding and culture sharing than actual religion (none of them were really religious). They even added some mistletoe around the Mountain which caused a certain Martian and Kryptonian to have wide smiles on their faces for a while after they entered the room together (once the tradition was explained).

With a sigh everyone collapsed back in the lounge room, completely exhausted from all the decorating.

"I love Christmas, it's a magical time of the year!" Wally announced suddenly.

"How is a day magic?" Conner asked still very confused about Christmas, the group weren't exactly good at explaining everything at times.

"The day itself isn't magic, it just brings out the best in most people." Artemis tried to explain.

"Yeah, like in 1914, during World War 1. They called a truce for the day and stopped shooting at each other. Both trenches, Britain and Germany, got out and played a game of football. They all made friends and the next day they refused to fight as they didn't want to have to try and kill their new friends. I don't know about you, but in my mind that's a kind of magic." Robin joined into the conversation.

"Wow Rob, you're filled with Christmas facts." Wally laughed.

"We're learning about Christmas and different traditions in school. It's pretty asterous." Robin shrugged with a grin towards Artemis, who thankfully wasn't paying much attention. He knew she had definitely done something similar recently in a few of her classes, but clearly she hadn't been paying as much attention.

"Come on guys, it's late. We better go to bed so that Santa Claus can come." Zatanna joked before moving to get up.

"Who is Santa Claus?" Conner asked, every time he thought he was starting to understand what was going on they would mention something new, it was getting more than a little bit frustrating.

"Oh right, aliens, a clone and an Atlantian. Santa is a guy in a red suit that gives presents to good children and lumps of coal to bad children. He rides a sleigh drawn by eight reindeer, at least in our version of Christmas." Artemis explained.

"Prancer, Dancer, Dasher, Donner, Comet, Cupid, Vixen, Blitzen traditionally. Sometimes Rudolph is a included as a ninth due to pop culture. Typically you leave carrots for them and cookies and milk for Santa." Wally continued, listing the reindeer with impressive skill (he wouldn't admit he had been practising trying to remember them all, usually he forgot at least one).

"Why does he give children coal if they misbehave?" M'gann questioned after a second of taking in that information (to be fair it does sound very weird when you aren't used to it).

"I don't know?" Wally shrugged. "Hey Robin. You know all the facts, why does he?"

"Not sure, but it's better than what Krampus does to you." Robin shrugged.

"Who's Krampus?" Raquel asked unsure.

"A German tale. Supposedly he is the opposite of Santa, he comes and beats any children who have been bad." Robin answered.

"What is it with you and Germany today, dude?" Wally joked.

"Wait, why are we letting a stranger into the cave?"

It took a bit longer to fully explain everything to the non-human's satisfaction. Eventually though they did make their way to their beds (as it was getting late) Soon everyone slowly made their way to bed and fell asleep, exhausted from the busy day. They were all excited for the following morning including the Martian, Kryptonian and Atlantian who had never really celebrated before and even those that were old enough to know better (it was more exciting when there were new people to share the excitement with).

"Wake Up! Wake up! Wake Up! It's Christmas morning!" A hyper speedster was never really what you wanted to wake you up any day of the week, but on Christmas morning it was even worse than normal. He went into everyone's rooms, promptly at 7am (not able to wait any longer) to try and wake them up with varying successes. Artemis had attempted to shoot him but in her sleepy state missed and shot the wall, Rocket had thrown a pillow at him which hit him in the face, and Robin had thrown a bat-a-rang at him when Wally stole his covers (it just missed).

After being rudely awoken, they got dressed and gathered in the lounge near the tree, in varying stages of awareness. Conner was still yawning and Zatanna was blinking rapidly trying to keep her eyes open. They were greeted with the sight of presents stacked under the tree wrapped in multi-coloured paper and full stockings lined the wall.

Wolf padded into the room with a special dog biscuit in his mouth (bow still attached), quite content with life but interested in all the noise so early in the morning.

"Merry Christmas everyone! Come on, I want to open presents!" Wally announced before speeding over to the tree and searching through all the presents. The rest of the team just rolled their eyes at his behaviour before following him at a slower, more relaxed pace.

Leaguers trickled in as the group unwrapped presents and started snacking on treats they found. They chattered away happily the whole time, faint Christmas music on in the background. They had extra sugary pancakes and just generally had a great time together before having to say goodbye. They were all planning to spend the rest of the day with their mentors and any other family they had.

Kaldur was going back to Atlantis with Aquaman, M'gann was spending the day with Martian Manhunter, Conner and Wolf were going to try it with Superman and Supergirl (his cousin-ish apparently), Artemis was going to see her mother than have some time with Green Arrow, Black Canary and even Red Arrow. Wally was going to have fun with his Aunt and Uncle, Zatanna would be with her father, Raquel would be with her family and Robin was going back to Gotham with Batman.

All in all it had been a brilliant two days and they had at least given everyone some happy memories together, not just as a team or friends, but as a family.

Now it they could just figure out Robin's Identity.

And finished.

Hope you enjoyed.

So hope that where ever you are you are having a brilliant day, no matter if you celebrate Christmas or not.

I recommend going and looking up Christmas traditions from other countries, some are really cool.

Once again hope you enjoyed.

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

Robyn out.