The new king had declared that the kingdom try out a Lightner holiday in their honor. People were pretty chill with the idea of snow, cookies, and gift-giving.

Soon after Jevil had been released, Lancer pretty much ordered him and Seam back into the castle since he deemed them worthy there after their time as entertainers. Perhaps he was secretly hoping they'd go back to shows once and a while. So Seam, Jevil, new-king Lancer, and Rouxls all lived in one big semi-happy home.

Lancer had idly mentioned a mistletoe once, much to Rouxls' horror and Jevil's unbridled glee the moment he learned about it. At least it distracted Jevil for a while because he went to actually buy one.

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"Higher!"

"I'm trying, dearest water beetle-" Rouxls hissed. He lifted Lancer higher, the young boy having  star in his hands. The two had been trying to get the star on the much too big of a tree for a good five minutes now. The tree was definitely too big if even Rouxls couldn't reach the top.

"Jevil!" Rouxls glanced back. Jevil had returned and was waiting for Seam to show up with his heavenly cooking. He swiveled around on his tail questioningly.

"Yes, yes?"

"Help thine prince get thy star-"

Jevil took approximately .2 seconds to look at the tree before launching himself at it. Thankfully it stayed up, even as Rouxls pulled him off of it rather forcefully and set Lancer down. "Thoust is not the cat in thine household!"

Jevil snickered. Lancer giggled and cheered him on as Rouxles begrudgingly let Jevil balance his tail on his hands and get high enough to put the star on securely. "Yay!" Lancer clapped happily, overjoyed at the sight of his Greater Dad and uncle 'bonding'.

"And thus, thy tree is almost complete." Rouxls set Jevil down and let him scurry off to do whatever. "Now, does thine water beetle want to help me decorate?"

"Yes!" Lancer and Jevil said at the same time. Lancer looked at Jevil, and Jevil looked at Lancer.

Rouxls face-palmed and sighed deeply, fully aware that now he was babysitting not one but two children while Seam was gone. "....fine, both can help thine decorating."

"Yay, yay!" Jevil clapped happily, bouncing up on his tail in excitement. Rouxls noticed the mistletoe tied to it, but didn't ask about it.

"Thoust must take utmost care in thy more fragile décor, thus I bought only plastic, and not glass. ...go wild." Rouxls slid the box towards the two and turned to hunt Seam down.

As if on cue, Seam peeked his head in through the doorway. "Dinner's ready. Just let it cool." much to Rouxls' un-surprise, he was wearing an apron that read 'PET THE COOK' that Jevil probably got for him in the first place.

Jevil bolted over, interrupting anything else anyone had to say. He bounced on his tail once, twice, and used the momentum to grapple himself onto a now rather surprised Seam, letting his tail hang between them. With the mistletoe. "Uee hee hee!" and thus without warning, Jevil smashed their faces together ungracefully.

"Ewww..." Lancer whined. Rouxls covered his eyes, or at least roughly where the kid's eyes would be- he didn't know- and steered him back to the task of decorating the tree.

Thankfully Lancer was distracted by that fairly quickly, letting Rouxls collapse onto the couch and sink into it. Finally, a break...

About a minute later, just when the man was ready to fall asleep, he felt something round being shoved into his mouth. He choked on it for a moment before realizing it was one of Seam's homemade cookies. A Lancer-sized weight settled itself on his stomach.

Rouxls sighed and ate the cookie, letting Lancer curl up atop him. He rubbed the child's head lightly, opening his eyes just enough to see Lancer holding another cookie and nibbling on a third. "Do you want another one? Seam made a lot."

"Perhaps later, water beetle." Rouxls sighed. "Let us at least eat thine cat's dinner first before dessert."

"Aww...!" Lancer pouted, obviously feeling teased by the smell of cake and every other treat in the house. Even Jevil seemed to have a hard time restraining himself, fidgeting. At least he's calmed down about the mistletoe thing and poor Seam looked frazzled and breathless.

Seam lifted Jevil up like a football as if he weighed nothing. "The food should be cooled off now. Come on."

Lancer hopped off of Rouxls, who soon joined him. This wasn't so bad, he thought. Lancer was happy, Seam could supply food that wasn't just worms and salsa, and Jevil was under control. Today was pretty peaceful considering who was living in here.

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I don't know how to end(or make) holiday chapters-
And I think Lancer would totally get all of them to live together in the castle as a big happy family tho Rouxls hates Jevil being there. But not in this version because CHRISTMAS-