T: Secret Santa Prank

A group of twenty five watchers was gathered in the same place, split up around it as all of them either stood on the side or sat on the chairs. C and R stood in front of them with an empty whitboard standing behind them, both of them looking utterly serious about something and seeing R looking this serious was a rarity. C was holding an opened black marker in her hand, keeping herself ready to write something down on the whiteboard as she knew she will most likely end up writing something down for it.

What was the reason for their gathering? The answer was quite simple. The third Christmas party of the watchers was nearing with big steps and was only one week away from them. Most of the planning for it had already been done, including all the new characters who will be joining them for it such as Molly and the three Eds. There was only one matter left for them to discuss, though. The matter of secret santa and T.

Back when they became the watchers a little over two years ago, the watchers mutually agreed to hoost a secret santa between them each Christmast. During their first Christmas together, they did this a way of getting to know each other better as it happened where they have been the watchers for only a bit over two months and were still getting to know each other. Afterwards all of them agreed to keep doing it for the fun of it.

Or rather it was fun for them for the most part. This is what brought all of them here today. One watcher in particular made sure to use their secret santa game for nefarious reasons and this watcher was T. The watcher from America always made sure to play a prank on whoever he would get for his secret santa. Not only this. This was not the only occasion when T played a prank on someone as the said watcher loved to play pranks on everyone in the HQ. The saying everyone were done with it was quite the understatement.

R shifted her gaze between everyone in the room and nodded to herself, satisfied all of them managed to find enough time to come here for this meeting, "Thank you all of you for coming here."

C nodded in agreement, following R's example and shifting her gaze between everyone around her, "Yeah. I know all of you are busy with your own Christmas preparations and finding a free moment must have not been easy, but this is something all of us need to discuss before the party next week."

"You bet we need to talk about this." K agreed with them, crossing her arms as she was sitting down on a chair between Q and P.

P nodded in agreement, "Yeah."

"I'm kind of suprised we didn't discuss this earlier." S stated, getting a nod of agreement out of Y as both of them were standing next to each other on the side, leaning against the wall.

M rubbed the back of his head, shrugging a bit, "To be honest we didn't really have an opportunity and a reason to discuss this until now."

"Exactly." C nodded in agreement, "With the Secret Santa lottery taking place tommorow, there's no better time for us to discuss it as we all know what happens during it."

"Ugh. Don't remind me..." K said, cringing at what was brought up as she pinched the bridge of he nose. She was a young Asian woman in her early 20's. In fact. She was one of the younger looking people among her fellow watchers. She had long black hair and blue eyes. She was on the shorter side as well. Standing at around 161 centimeters.

F shook his head, "I feel sorry for whoever will end up being T's secret santa..."

"Be gratetul you weren't his secret santa like I was last year." U told him, shivering a bit at the memory and how T gave her a carnivorous plants from some universe he visited just for the purpose of buying it. What made everything worse about this plant was the fact that it didn't look like a carnivorous plant at all and it ended up bitting her pretty badly.

F looked at her questioningly, "I never actually asked you. What did you do with this plant after this?"

U shook her head, providing him an explanation, "I kept it in my garden and take care of it..."

"You take care of it? You mostly ask me to take care of it as you are too afraid to approach it." L pointed out in his usual blank tone, sitting next to her.

U blushed slightly in embarassment, "I still have to take care of it when you can't help be there to help me!"

"Excuse me for interrupting, but can you talk about it later?" C interrupted their conversation.

"Yeah. You can talk about it later." R nodded in agreement, wanting to get to the point of this meeting as well, "For all we know. Every moment of this meeting we waste on a small talk can result in T walking in on us and finding out about this meeting."

"Speaking of which. What about T?" C asked, setting her eyes on A as she looked at him questioningly. With T being the main topic of this meeting, he was the only watched who was not told about it for all the obvious reasons, "Did you made sure he won't walk in on us having a meeting about him?"

A nodded in confirmation, "I already talked with the Eds, Popola and Devola. They will keep him busy during this meeting as best as they can. You know how T is like. He can always dismiss himself to get himself something while helping them."

"Alright. Good." C said in understanding, adjusting her glasses, "It doesn't change the fact that R is right. We should get this meeting done as quickly if possible if we don't want him to risk him finding out about our plan."

R clasped her hands together to make sure everyone had their attention to her, "Anyway. As C was saying before she got interrupted, the Secret Santa lottery is coming up tommorow and I and C mutually agreed with each other it's time we got back at T for all the pranks he played on us over the course of the last years."

C nodded and continued where R left off, "Me and R discussed it over the course of the last few days and we mutually agreed the Christmas Party the next week will be the best opportunity for us to get back at him for all of the times he played his annoying pranks on us. All of us can prepare him a gift which will have whatever we will prepare for our revenge prank."

"Alright. Sounds good to me." K wasted no time and immediately voiced her interest in the idea. Everyone was not suprised by her immediate interest in the idea. The saying she was T's main victim when it came to hsi pranks was quite the understatement.

"I'm in." E agreed for the idea as well.

"Same here.." H voiced her willingness to go along with it as well. It wasn't long until most of the watchers their interest in the idea. X was the only exception. Everyone, aside from Z, failed to notice it, though due to the fact how many of them were in the room right now.

R smiled after seeing how many of them were willing to participate in this idea, "Alright. Glad to see all of you are on board."

J rubbed the back of her head with a questioning look on her face, "How are we doing to do this, though?"

"It's simple. We rig the secret santa this year." R replied, "We all will know who will get who. Aside from T who will of course think it will be a normal secret santa."

C nodded and went further into the explanation, "To make sure he won't notice something is off about the so called 'lottery', we will rig them in a non suspicious manner to make the pairs look like it really happened by luck. Which means the pairs will be randomized. But we will know who will get who."

O looked at them questioningly, wondering what C and R had in mind, "How?"

"Me and C have already decided on who will get who. We went through it last night. We decided to write everything down in pairs. We know secret santa isn't exactly about two people getting paired up to buy each other a gift and is about everything being completely random, but we wanted to make everything less confusing for you." R explained as she stepped closer to towards them and pulled out an envelope. She opened it, pulling out a list and placed it on the whiteboard. Making sure she won't fall down from the whiteboard, she pinned it with a fridge magnet she took out from the kitchen earlier. 

After the list found itself there, everyone allowed themselves to take a good look at it. It said.

1st pair: U and E

2nd pair: I and H

3rd pair: Q and F

4th pair: B and J

5th pair: C and D

6th pair: R and O

7th pair: X and Y

8th pair: Z and M

9th pair: S and G

10th pair: N and L

11th pair: U and A

12th pair: P and V

13th pair: T and K

M let out a knowing hum to himself, "You weren't kidding when you said how random this list is."

"Yeah. If we would have rigged it, then we would have never choose pairs like this." P with said with an approving look on her face. If they keep up like this, then this plan may actually work out in their benefit.

"There's no way he'll notice we rigged it." W said in agreement, keeping his arm wrapped around N as his girlfriend sat next to him, offering a silent nod in agreement.

K felt her eyebrow twitch as soon as she saw herself paired up with T. The saying she was displeased with her pair was quite the understatement, "Oi! Why do I out of all people have to be paired up this idiot?"

"We expected such reaction from you." C told K, setting her eyes on the displeased watcher. She adjusted her glasses again and added, "Allow us to explain this to you."

 K crossed her arms, "Come on, then. I'm waiting."

"T likes to prank you the most, right?" C began to explain.

K nodded in agreement, "Of course he does! He finds my annoyance with his stupid games amusing."

"Maybe it's because you're a tsundere..." R muttered under her breath.

K raised her brow at R's words, "What was that?"

"Nothing. Let's just focus on what we're discussing." C said before R could say anything, shooting R a dirty look for making jokes right now, "As I was saying. With T liking to play to play his pranks on you the most, me and R figured out you would be the best candidate to deliver your revenge gift on him."

"It will be poetic justice. Don't you think?" R added, beginning to grin as she would know how it will make K instantly change her mind about being the one to be paired up with T in their little revenge plan.

K nodded in understanding, her displeased expression slowly morphing into a pleased one, "I see. What about the gift he'll get me? Knowing him, it will be something to mess with me. Especially since it's me he'll be giving it to!"

C brushed her concerns off, "Don't worry about it. Me and R already came up with a solution for this."

R nodded in confirmation and explained, "He will be the first one to open his gift. This way we will prevent you from going through whatever he'll prepare for you with his gift."

"Alright." K nodded, visibly relieved by the fact that she won't have to open T's gift before he will open hers. 

C looked at K questioningly, "Do you have anything else you want us to ask you about your part of the plan?"

K shook her head,  feeling herself slowly forming a smile on her face as she thought about various ways she and the others will get their revenge on T. What made everything better was the fact that it will act as a gift from her, "No. For as long as everything will work out the way you said without me having to open his gift first, then I'm perfectly fine with it."

C nodded at her, "Okay." 

"What we will give him as our revenge gift, though?" R and C shifted their attention to the source of the voice and set their eyes on S who looked at them with questioning look on his face, "We did all this talking about planning everything out and the way we will rig the secret santa and yet we haven't talked about the most important part, yet."

V nodded in agreement, "Good point. Did you two came up with anything for it?"

C shook her head, "Not really."

"We wanted to discuss it with all of you. It's supposed to be a revenge from all of us for all the pranks he played on it.." R explained, "We wanted to get over all the explanations over with quickly and save it for last as we know this is will be the most time consuming part of our plan."

C nodded in agreement, "Exactly. It wouldn't be a revenge from all of us if only me and R came up with what we should give him. Right?"

"Alright." S said in understanding, looking and sounding understanding of it. R and C looked around everyone, seeing everyone voicing or showing their understanding of it in their own way. They exchanged glances with each other a second later and nodded, knowing it was time to discuss the next part of their plan.

C turned away from everyone for a second, writing down "Ideas' on the whiteboard and turned to face everyone again, "Alright. So. What are your ideas. We'll write everything down and decide what we should go with."

What followed was a long discussion of everyone voicing their ideas regarding their revenge prank on T and as most of the watchers had their own ideas on how their revenge prank should go. After gathering all of their ideas and writing all of them down on the whiteboard, everyone went through all of their suggestions and ultimately settled down on a plan which was a mixture of the best suggestions.

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J opened the fridge in the kitchen part of the HQ, browsing through it as she tried to find the best possible ingredients for the food part of her and everyone's else revenge gift on T. With her skills in cooking, she was oppointed in charge of this part of the plan and she was more than happy to be in charge of it. Even if she had trouble choosing with what she supposed to prepared because of all the ideas she was having in her mind right now.

"...Now. What should I make for him?" She asked herself, proceeding to look through the kitchen. She had a blonde hair, violet eyes and tannish skin. The other most notable features of her was her chest or rather lack of it and her lightly toned arms, showing she liked to workout every now and then.

"Do you even know what to make him for this gift?" I asked as she and V leaned against the kitchen counter, keeping best friend company when she would prepare her part of their revenge plan on T. She had a medium length brown hair, brown eyes and light skin. The other most notable features of her was her rather large chest.

J shook her head, keeping her eyes on the fridge as she went through more stuff, "Not, yet. But I have a few ideas. I just need to settle down with something. As much as I hate wasting good food, the food for this is a sacrifice I'm willing to make."

"Does it include something spicy?" V asked, keeping her arms crossed as she raised her brow, "You know she doesn't like it from the one time he tried out the sauce Eddy showed all of us when he and his friends moved here."

J nodded in confirmation, smilling slightly as she pulled out Eddy's armenian hot sauce out the fridge and placing it on the counter next it, "This is exactly what all of my ideas for it included. Now I just need to figure out what it will be. Perharps something from Asian related cuisine? With him being a weeb, it will be an extra kick in the butt for him."

"Just remember it will have to fit with the machine G is constructing for this gift." I reminded her, moving a bit closer to V as V noticed this and acted as if she grew thirsty all of a sudden. She moved away from the wall and pushed herself into walk towards one of the cabinets in the kitchen.

"I know. Don't worry. It will fit the plans he showed me for it yesterday." J assured her as V opened the cabinet and pulled out an empty glass, "It will be my chance to get back at T for all the times he messed with me and I'm intending to make the most of it."

"Especially for what happened last time?" I raised her brow at her as V turned on the sink, putting the glass underneath the running water.

"Especially for that." J nodded in confirmation, feeling herself growing embarassed by the memory of what happened the last time when she fell for T's schemes.

"What do you mean my hair will fall off if I'll work out too much?" J asked with him a horrified look beginning to form  on her face, grabbing her hair with her hands as if it was going to fall off at any second.

"What? You mean to tell me V never told you about it?" T asked, pretending to look genuinely suprised by this. He was a caucasian was who looked like he was about to enter his mid 20's. He had a short messy blonde hair and blue eyes.

J shook her head with a look of pure look on her face, "N-No."

T gasped in a fake shock, "Why would she do that? She doesn't want you to go bald as well. Right? Or maybe she wants to have fellow bald woman around. I oveheard something about her hair being a wig, you know."

V deadpanned at J slightly, looking away from the water she was pouring herself right now, "Yeah. I know. I still remember when you pulled on my hair to prove it was a wig when it's not."

"I already said I'm sorry for this!" J pointed out, finding herself growing more embarassed. She shook her head, cringing at her memory and how much she acted like a fool after going to confront V about it, "Not my fault he was so convicing when he told me about this!"

V raised her brow with an uncertain look on her face, pulling the glass away from the running away and getting a sip from it, "Was he really?"

"Yeah! You should have seen him and how convicing he was!" J nodded in confirmation. Even she kept cringing at this memory, she couldn't help but feel a wave of shame going through her body, "Even if he was super convincing, then I still can't believe I fell for something like this. Now that I look at it, I can see tell it was an obvious bait..."

"This isn't even the first time when you fell for an obvious bait. Don't you remember what happened when Z told you breasts grow when you work out and you immediately rushed into the gym and started working out until you collapsed from exhaustion?" V reminded as J blushed in embarassment, looking down at her flat nonexistent chest with a self concious look on her face. 

"I don't want to talk about it..." J muttered under her breath, finding herself cringing more at it as she shifted her gaze to I and tried to change the direction this conversation was taking by asking her, "What about you I? Did you got the thing for your part of our present."

I nodded in confirmation, smilling in confirmation, "Of course I did. I went into the forest last night and searched for the perfect ones. I even got a chance to admire how beautiful it is at night." 

J chuckled a bit, "You say it everytime when you go into the forest at night."

 "Not my fault. It's always beautiful. No matter how many times and when I visit it. It's especially beautiful right now with all the snow covering it." I smiled more at this and looked at V questioningly. She blushed slightly, becoming nervous all of a sudden as she asked her, "Y-You know. My offer of taking you there for a walk is still up in the air. I-I could take you there tommorow at night and I would show you all tbe beautiful places..."

V looked at her with a small forced smile on her face, "Maybe some other time. I'm sure it would be fun, but we have to focus on the Christmas preparations for now."

"A-Alright." I nodded, looking slightly disappointed in her offer for a walk getting rejected once again as her blush remained on her face. Her and V's conversation got cut short as J snapped her fingers.

V looked at her questioningly, "What's wrong?"

J suddenly started to pull out various ingredients from the fridge, "I just got a great idea on what to prepare for him!"

V's questioning stare turned into more of a interested one, "Really?"

"What is it? From all the stuff you just pulled out, I see it will be something big." I asked, pointing towards all the stuff J just pulled out of the fridge. It was way too much for just one meal.

"It won't just one meal. I'm planning to make two." J explained. Before either V or I could ask her about it, she explained to them, "One will be for G's machine and one will be for me. Just thinking about it made me hungry!"

I nodded in understanding, "I see."

"What is it, then? Can you fill us in?" V asked, looking interested in the idea J just got as J smiled at them, beginning to explain what she had in mind. Needless to say. V and I smiled upon hearing her explanation, knowing it will be something good.

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G wiped the sweat from his forehead, working tirelessly on the device he was intending to use on T once the Christmas Party will roll around. The male watcher was in his work room, sitting by his main working spot by the workbench as he was putting he had in himself into the device he was working on right now. His work room was filled with many stuff you'd normally see in a work room of someone who was interested in the mechanical stuff.

It was filled with many parts that were either new and waiting to be used, or were already used in some failed project of his and were waiting either to be given a new life and used in something else or be thrown away after finding no other uses for it. He wasn't the only person in his work room, though. He was accompanied by W and M. Having nothing to do right now, his best decided to hang out around him for a bit and spend some time with him.

W walked over to main workbench in G's work room and stopped next to him, setting his eyes on the machine his friend was working on right now, "Dude. You really are putting everything you have in yourself for this."

"I know." G nodded at him, keeping his eyes on his work as he continued to work at it as if his friend wasn't just standing next to him. He looked like a man in his mid 20's. He had a short black hair, blue eyes and was caucasian. He let out a small tired sigh and rubbed his eyes with his sleeve, having been sitting by his work for quite some time at this point and didn't have any breaks since then. He didn't rub his eyes with his hands as they were 

"Maybe you should take a break from it? We still have a few days left until the Christmas party." M said, having taken notice of G's tired behavior as he walked over to his friend as well and stopped on his other side. M, just like W and G, was a man in his mid 20's. He had a short blonde hair, blue eyes and lighter skin color.

W nodded in agreement, "Yeah, man. You didn't a single break since both of us arrived here to check on you. You didn't even go to the bathroom."

G shook his head, "I'll take a break once I'll be done with this machine."

"Dude. The Christmas party is a few days away. You don't need to work on as if you have only a few hours left until." M pointed out, raising his brow.

"He's right, you know." W nodded in agreement, "If N would see how you are tiring yourself with your work schedule, then she would literally drag you away from here and force to take a break."

G ignored the comment W made about N and nodded in confirmation to M's words, "Yeah. I need to keep working on it until I'll be done. I can't waste time because I have another project that I need to prepare for the party."

W raised his brow in interest, "Some other project?"

"Yeah. It will be added to our gift to T." G nodded in confirmation.

M rubbed the back of his head with a questioning look on his face, "Didn't we plan the machine for J's food suprise to be the only machine in the present?"

"Yeah." G once again nodded in confirmation and provided an explanation, "I got some idea last night and went to C to discuss it with her. She agreed with my suggestion and told me I'm allowed to add it to our little revenge gift."

M nodded in understanding, "I see."

"What is it?" W asked out of curiosity.

"Something I'll give him straight from heart." G gave him an honest answer.

W huffed in amusement, crossing his arms, "I see."

"Even if it's something straight from heart, do you think it's worth tiring yourself out like this?" M asked as G shifted his gaze away from his work, recalling a certain memory of his with T.

G and T were standing in the kitchen together, both of them getting themselves whatever they came from. G was getting himself something to drink by pouring some water into a glass, having grown thirsty after working on something in his work room and T was getting himself something from the fridge. 

T turned away from the fridge, holding an egg in his hand as he looked at G questioningly, "Hey, G."

"Yeah?" G asked in return, showing T he had his attention.

T pointed towards an empty glass on the counter, "How about a small bet? I'll manage to throw this egg into the glass without it breaking and you'll do something from me."

G shrugged, finding the chance of the egg not breathing impossible and certain he will win this bet, "Yeah. Sure."

"Alright. Here goes nothing." T replied, throwing the egg towards G instead of the glass and hitting him in the nuts. G clenched his nethers, landing on the floor painfully as T chuckled, "Looks like you've won."

G nodded to himself, feeling way more determined and certain about it after recalling this moment, "Yeah. It will be all worth it."

"Alright." M said in understanding, trusting his friends judgement.

W kept his arms crossed, letting out an amused chuckle, "If you only you put this much effort into finding a girlfriend. If that was the case, then maybe you wouldn't be forever alone~."

"Yeah. Perharps if you put this much effort into your 'friendship' with Huntress, then you would manage to make her interested in you like this~." M added, beginning to smirk a bit as he wasted no time after seeing the opening to tease G whiich was left for him by W. Words couldn't describe how entertaining it was to both of them to tease G about it due to him being the only one from their trio without a girlfriend.

G deadpanned at them, "How many times do I have to tell you this? It stopped behinf funny a long time ago! Find yourself something new to joke about!"

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X and Z looked around themselves, walking around the around the store they had been recommended by C and R after they or rather Z volunteered them for this job and X went along with it. X remained uncertain about this plan even if she didn't voice her feelings on it as she knew talking everyone out of it would be to no avail with how R serious was about it and how even L was into the idea. Whenever those two conditions were met, she knew talking the others out of something was pointless.

"Hmm. Paint bombs. Paint bombs. Where are they...?" Z asked herself, looking around all of the shells as she and X walked along one of the aisles of the shop. She shifted her gaze to X a second later and asked her, "What about you, Sel? Can you see them?"

"No." X shook her head. She wasn't confused by Z calling her 'Sel'. Her friend liked to call her this due to her old name being Selina. The same reason why she liked to call Z 'Kat' as Katharina was Z's old name back when she was a regular human.

Z looked away from her and shook her head, "Dammit. Where are they, then? I'm starting to think we went to the wrong store."

"No, Kat. We're not in the wrong place." X shook her head, quickly dismissing Z's worries, "I checked it two times and we're in the right place."

"Alright." Z nodded in understanding, beginning to look around all the shelves around her in hopes of spotting what she and X were looking for, "If that's the case, then where are they? We searched the entire store. Are we going blind with age or something?"

"If we're having a hard time finding those, then maybe we should go ask whoever stands by the cash register?" X suggested. If she was honest with herself, she was unfamiliar with the concept of the paint bombs in the first place. She was probably too old to be familiar with it.

"Good idea." Z agreed with her idea as she and X wasted no time and made their way to the cashier who was standing behind the counter. The cashier was a young man in his early 20's. He had his elbows on the counter, checking something on his phone.

The cashier shifted his attention away from the phone when he saw X and Z walking towards him. He turned off his phone, placing it aside as and looked at them questioningly as Z and X stopped in front of him, "How can you help you two?"

"Why hello there young man~." Z greeted them with a bit of playfulness in her tone, placing her hands on the counter with a smile beginning to grow on her face.

X elbowed her, "Not the time, Kat."

Z shifted her gaze to her for a second, "Come on, Sel~! Why do you have to ruin the fun for me so often?"

The cashier grew more awkward by this as he asked them, "As I was saying, how can I help you?"

X provided him an explanation, making sure to say something before Z to stop her from making things more awkward, "Me and my friends are looking for some paint bombs. Do you have those here?"

"We do." The cashier nodded in confirnation, "What type of a paint bomb do you want?"

X raised her brow, "Type?"

The cashier once again nodded, "Yeah. They are various of those. Which one are you interested in?"

"Hmm. Could you explain the types to us? Me and my friend aren't exactly familar with them." Z replied, getting a nod out of the cashier as she looked at X, "Right, Sel?" X stayed silent, looking suddenly lost in her thoughts, "Sel. You okay?"

X pushed herself out of her thoughts and nodded, "...Y-Yeah. I'm fine."

Z shook her head, "No. You're not. I can see whenever something is bothering you. You know you can tell me this."

X sighed, voicing her thoughts on this to her, "I don't think we should be doing this."

Z deadpanned at her, "Are you serious, Sel?"

X once again sighed and went further into her explanation of her thoughts, "I know he sometimes goes a bit too far with his pranks but there's no reason for us to be doing something this cruel to him. Especially during our Christmas Party. This isn't what Christmas is about." 

"What are you talking about, Sel? There's a reason for us to be doing this to him? Especially during Christmas! Even if we're celebrating this! Don't you remember what happened with S two years ago and what happened with U last year?" Z pointed out as X stayed silent, recalling what happened with S and U who were T's former victims during their Christmas parties, "Think about yourself as well. Don't you remember what he did the last time when he pranked you?"

The knock on the door to her room caused a heavily slleeX to get up from her bed and walk over to it. Upon opening it, she was immediately greeted by the sight of a Grim Reaper standing in front of her. Because of X's tired state, she failed to notice it was a costume and failed to notice T was dressed in it.

"I've come for you, Selina..." T said in a deep dark menacing, using X's real name for the better effect as he pointed at her.

X's eyes rolled upwards, feeling the shock and fear of everything getting the best of her as she passed out. Her body landed on the floor with a loud thud.

X's expression instantly darkened when this memory flew through her mind as her behavior did a complete 180 at it, "...From the all paint the bombs in your shop, what is the bomb which makes the biggest explosion?"

-----

The Christmas day finally came and everyone living at the HQ was gathered in the main living room of watchers home, celebrating the said holiday with each other. Everyone were split up around the living area, spending time with each other by either talking or sharing drinks or doing something else with each other. Needless to say. Everyone were happy to spend time with each other and were happy to spend this day with each other. The watchers were particular happy this day and they knew today would be the day they get their revenge on T.

The main living room of the HQ was beautifully decorated for the occasion as all of the residents of of the HQ decorated it to the best of their abilities in the last few days in preparation for this day and this party. Various Christmas decorations were hanging on the walls and a large and beautifully decorated christmas tree was standing in the middle of the living room. All of the presents from the secret santa were underneath it, waiting to be opened when the time for the secret santa will come up.

"...This is so exciting! I couldn't wait for this day so much?!' Ed shouted, throwing his arms up in the air with excitement evident in his voice as he looked around the living room and saw how everyone were spending time together with all the Christmas decorations around them. He shifted his gaze to Double D, Eddy, Devola, Y and S, hanging out with them right now.

Y smiled at him, crossing his arms with a slightly amused look on his face from how excited Ed seemed about everything, "Someone really likes Christmas, huh?"

Ed shifted his gaze to him and nodded in confirmation, "You know it! I love Christmas so much! I always couldn't wait for it! Especially since I'll be celebrating it with so many new friends!"

Double D smiled a bit, "You should have seen how excited he was this tone time when he found Christmas decorations in my house. He put on Christmas atmosphere in all of out neighbourhood. Even if it was summer."

S smiled a bit, "Sounds like fun."

"It was fun." Ed nodded in confirmation.

"For the most time at least." Eddy said, letting out a sigh as he added, "It was fun until he gave away all of the jawbreakers that I bought for us!"

Ed looked weirded out by Eddy's comment and how displeased he was, "Eddy! I wanted to be a good elf and give gifts for everyone."

Eddy rolled his eyes, "It would have been better if you, you know, gave some for us if he wanted to give them away?"

Devola chuckled, "Sounds  like a rough way of ending the day."

Eddy crossed his arms, "You're telling me."

Devola smirked a bit, "What's wrong? Is the small baby still salty about this?"

"Shut up! I'm not small!' Eddy pointed out to her, looking annoyed by getting called like that.

Devola smiled teasingly a bit, poking the top of Eddy's red Santa hat, "If you say so, shortie."

Eddy adjusted his hat a bit, not a fan of having to wear this for this party, "Why do I have to wear this in the first place?"

"It our Christmas tradition, kid."S replied, pointing towards his own red Santa hat. It was true. All of the watchers agreed to wear red Santa hats during every Christmas party they will have together. The same went for the characters who were living with them.

Y nodded in confirmation, "Yeah. You'll have to get used to it if you want to keep living with us."

"Fine. If you say so." Eddy replied, crossing his arms with a displeased look on his face as Y, S and Devola chuckled at him, "What?"

Y chuckled, "Nothing. You just remind us of L and A2 during our first Christmas party together."

"Yeah. The saying they weren't a fan of the idea is quite an understatement." S nodded in confirmation, letting a chuckle as he shifted his attention to L and A2 who were occupied with their own business right now. Both of them were wearing Santa hats right now, just like the rest of them.

Devola couldn't help and let out a chuckle herself, "Q, R, T and Z even made a bet between each other over who will be the first one to put a hat on them."

Eddy nodded in understanding with an amused look on his face, "I see."

"Sounds like Mister. L and Miss. A2 would behave." Double D stated, smilling a bit at the story.

"Sounds like it was fun. I wish I was there for this bet!" Ed stated, now wishing he was around the HQ for their first Christmas Party. He set her eyes on the Christmas tree with all the presents a second later, "Wow. Santa really left a lot of presents for you guys! Which I can see. All of you have been so good this year when you fought off Kaltan for our world!"

"Santa?" S raised his brow at the mention of Santa Claus by Ed as Y and Devola silently looked at him questioningly.

Ed nodded in confirmation, "Yes! A cool big fat guy in red who brings good children presents! You know about him. Right?"

"Of course we do." Y nodded in confirmation, taken aback by Ed genuinely thinking Santa brought all of those gifts and still believing Santa was real, despite being a teen. S and Devola seemed to be on the same boat.

Double D chuckled sheepishly, seeing the way S, Y and Devola were staring at Ed right now and told his friend, "Ed. How about we'll go try some baked goods?

"Alright!" Ed nodded eagerly at the idea, grabbing Double D's hand and dragging him towards the table with baked goods.

Devola watched them walk away for a second before setting her eyes on Eddy, "Hey, shortie. Are up for starting our little operation regarding my sister and her boyfriend?"

"Yeah. Let's get to it." Eddy returned her gaze and nodded. He and Devola excused themselves from Y and S, pushing themselves into walk towards A and Popola who were having a pleasant conversation with each other. Devola pulled out a mistletoe, beginning to smirk as Y and S were left alone by her and Eddy.

"...He really believes Santa is real? Isn't he in his teens?" S asked with a suprised look on his face. He knew Ed could be childish, but not this childish.

Y nodded in agreement, having an amused smile on his face,"Looks like it."

S looked at him questioningly, "Should we tell him? He's a teen. He's too old to believe in him." 

"Nah. Let's leave him be. It's Christmas. Let him keep his innocence as well. He'll find out once he's a big boy." Y replied as S nodded in understanding. He smiled at him a second later, gesturing towards a table with various liquor, "Want a drink with me?"

"With you always." S smiled at him, instantly accepting his offer as he and Y pushed themselves into walk towards the liquor table.

R looked around the main living area and smiled to herself, seeing how everyone were having fun and enjoying themselves, "Everyone seems to have having fun."

C nodded in agrement, smilling a bit as she saw everyone spending time with each other, "It's a nice break from everything what happened this year."

"You're telling me." R agreed with her, "You did a great job planning all of it."

C glanced away from her, "I'm not the only one. Everyone helped me out. Including you."

"You're acknowledging my help? Aw~. Thanks. You can consider me flattered." R smiled, feeling slightly amused by C refusing to admit this, "You still took charge for the planning. Even if you are refusing to admit it."

"If you say so. How long do you think we should keep this up before calling everyone for secret santa gift opening ? Personally I think about an hour or so. Afterwards we can get to opening presents..." C explained as G walked over to them.

"Good evening, ladies." The male watcher greeted them, blushing slightly as he leaned closer to C and planted a kiss on her cheek before walking away.

C blushed heavily at what just happened, "W-What just happened?"

"Who knows~." R shrugged with a smirk on her face as Z walked over to C and kissed her on the cheek as well.

"W-What? You too Z...?" C asked, finding her blush growing as Z winked at her and walked away to take care of her own business.

Just as C was about to ask R what was happening right now, she felt her words dying in her throat as a grinning T walking over to them and wasted no time when it came to planting a kiss on C's cheek. He wasn't the last one to approach her as K approached her right later kissed her on the cheek, repeating action of everyone who came before her. She turned away from a flustered C a second later, walking away from her with T as both of them exchanged smirks with each other.

"...W-What's going on?" C stuttered out in confusion, blushing heavily from all the times she was kissed on the cheek in the past several seconds.

"C?" R called out for her with a massive smirk on her face, enjoying how embarassed she was right now.

"P-Present!" C stuttered out in embarassment.

"You're standing right under the mistletoe." R explained, pointing upwards.

"W-What?" C's eyes snapped open as she looked up and saw she was indeed standing under a mistletoe, "W-Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

"I wanted you to find out yourself." R replied, licking her lips a bit as she stepped closer to R, "Now if you allow me~."

C pointed at R, stopping her friend in her tracks as she cried out in embarassment, "Don't even think about it!"

R pretended to be hurt and disappointed by it, "Really? But it's a Christmas tradition to kiss whenever you find yourself under a mistletoe with someone~."

"Not when it's a woman!" C pointed out, having lost the count of many times she told R she wasn't interested in women.

"Why? You had no problem with Z and K kissing you~." R pointed out with a playful smirk on her face.

"It was because I was too confused by what was happening to react!" C pointed out like it was the obvious most thing in the world, looking like she wanted to delete herself from existance because of the embarassment she was going through right now.

"Yeah. Yeah~." R nodded, keeping her playful smirk on her face as she turned away from C a second later and reached into something, "Oh. I almost forgot!"

C raised her brow, "What do you mean?"

"I got you a little something! What kind of friend would I be if I didn't got my best friend anything! Even if  I didn't have her in our secret santa." R replied, turning to face C and held out her present to her. 

C raised her brow at the gift R was holding out to her. From the looks of it, she could instantly tell it was some sort of article of clothing, "What can I expect from it?"

"No telling. You'll have to open it and see it yourself~." R told her.

C narrowed her eyes at her, "Can I at least get a warning?"

R let out a fake hurt gasp, "A warning? What? You don't trust me with a gift for you?"

C deadpanned at her like it was the most obvious question she's heard in a long time, "R. Did you forgot what you have me last year?"

R smirked at her, "Don't be such a stick in the mud. I'm sure you used it at least once~."

C blushed, continuing to deadpan at her, "I'm not opening it!"

"Come! Please! Do it for your bestie! I promise it's something normal!" R insisted, shoving her present into C's hands as she wanted her to open it in front of her right now.

C looked down at the present in her hands, letting out a sigh as she knew she had to open it. Whether she had worries about it or not. Not opening it would be rude as well. She opened it a second later and much to her relief saw it was indeed something normal. It was a dress. A beautiful red dress. The glasses wearing woman allowed herself to eye it up and down, finding herself in awe of it.

"I thought your wardrobe could use clothes like this. I got red for you as I always thought it was your color. What do you think?" R asked in a hopeful tone, looking at C with a smile on her face.

"I-It's really beautiful..." C voiced her thoughts on the dress, eyeing it with a small smile on her face as R smiled at her best friend, glad to see she was liking her gift. C's smile was short lived, though as she looked at the dress with a slightly saddened look on her face, "But would it look good on someone like me...?"

R smile's grew, "I'm glad you like it. Now when can I expect to see you wear this? The New Year Party next week perharps?"

C nodded at her, "M-Maybe."

"R..." A familiar female voice rang through their ears and they turned in the direction of an angry J who was being held back by a nervous I.

C raised her brow at the angered glare on J's face, "J?"

"What's up?" R asked, holding back a smirk as she knew the reason for J's glare.

J held up two chest pads for her to see with an unamused look on her face, "...What the hell is this?"

R couldn't help herself and smirked at her, "What? I thought you may appreciate a way of getting rid of your flat chest from me~. Now you won't feel insecure around I. Am I right?"

J's eyebrow twitched, "I swear. If it wasn't Christmas day, then I would hurt you..."

C pinched the bridge of her nose, "Goddammit R..."

"Rrrrr~." A voice more than familiar to R called out for her in a playful singing tone. R smiled instantly at the sound of this voice. She turned to the source of it and saw Esdeath, 6O, Kurumi and Lexa all standing in front of her. All four of her girlfriends wore santa outfits and held mistletoes above their heads, "Your Santa's are waiting for you. You don't want to disappoint them, right?"

"No. I don't~." R shook her head as C, J and I followed her example and looked in the same direction. J and I blushed at the view of Esdeath, 6O, Kurumi and Lexa like this as C shook her head. R turned away from her girlfriends for a second and shot her fellow watcher a quick glance, 'Now if you'll excuse me for a moment. I need to go hang out with my santa's for a second~."

"Fine. Just be here when the time for our secret santa opening will come." C sighed as J and I remained silent, keeping their stares on Esdeath, 6O, Kurumi and Lexa.

"You know I will. I wouldn't miss this for the world." R nodded, winking at C as she pushed herself into walk towards her girlfriend, "Now? Which Santa should I kiss first...~?"

Molly walked over to B with a present in her hand, smilling as she just like everyone else had a santa claus hat on her head, "Look over there sweetie!"

B turned away from Q and A2, having been in the middle of a conversation with all of them when Molly walked over to them and looked at her with a questioning look hidden underneath his mask, "What is it, Molls?"

Molly showed him the gift she was holding in her hands, "Tony gave me this gift when I paid a visit to the hotel yesterday. He told me it's a gift to both us fro him. He wanted us to wait with opening it until today."

"Really?" B asked, finding himself growing interested in it as he walked over to Molly with his gaze set on the gift form Angel Dust, "Alright. I'm now interested in what this is. Let's open it."

"Just wait a second." Molly told him as she looked behind him and set her eyes on Q and A2, "Can either of you record it and send it to Tony? He wanted to see our reactions to it."

Q nodded at her, pulling out her phone from her pocket, "Alright. I'm on it."

"Thanks." Molly shot her a grateful look and shifted her attention back to B as Q pointed her phone towards them, ready to start recording it at any moment. She looked down at the gift in her grasp with an interested look on her face, "Alright, sweetie. Let's see what's in there."

"Yup." B nodded in agreement, looking interested in it himself as Molly opened the gift, making Q click the recording on her phone. She raised her brow in confusion a second later as B looked confused by her reaction to it, "What's wrong?"

He got the answer to Molly's confusion a second later as his girlfriend pulled out a collar from the box, "I don't understand. A collar?"

"W-What?" B asked, beginning to blush underneath his mask as Q and A2 reacted in their own ways as they watched everything from where they stood. Q's eyes widened and looked like she was seconds away from laughing the moment she saw Molly pull out a collar from the box as A2 looked confused by the gift.

"I don't understand. Why would he give you this? We aren't planning to get a pet anytime soon." Molly said, confusion evident on her face and in her voice as she looked at B for a second, "Do you have any ideas why would he give us this?"

"U-Um..." B found himself too flustered to answer this.

"Man. This is golden." Q said, trying not to laugh as she kept recording this. She really wished Pyro was with them right now and was not spending Christmas at 2Fort with the rest of the RED, "Pyro is going to feel so sorry he missed this."

"Look! It even has your name on it. Why would he..." Molly's felt her words die in her throat as soon as the realization of what this collar was meant for hit her like a ton of bricks. She blushed and shifted her gaze to B a second later. Even though he was wearing his mask, Molly could tell just how flustered her boyfriend was right now, "Oh..."

X watched the scene between B and Molly with a confused look on her face, "I don't get it. Why would Molly's brother give them this if they don't have a dog?"

Z smirked at her, "Sel. They ain't gonna use it on a dog."

"What do you mean?" X asked, staying confused by it as Z's smirk grew as she leaned closer to X's ear, explaining it to her as X blushed heavily the moment she heard her explanation, "Oh..."

Z chuckled at her reaction, "What? Don't tell me you didn't know it. Such an adult woman as you who had a husband~."

"My husband and I weren't interested in that sort of thing!" X pointed out, blushing slightly as she shifted her gaze away from Z and saw D hanging out with E and H. Seeing this as a perfect way of changing the topic of the conversation, she pushed herself into walk towards him, "D! Dearie! Are you enjoying yourself today?"

D shifted his gaze away from H and E for a second and nodded at her with a smile slowly forming on his face, "Yeah. I'm having fun. This is the most fun I had on Christmas since we became the watchers."

"I'm glad to hear it." X smiled at him, both happy and relieved for him

E smiled a bit, "You're having fun now? Just wait until later. It will be fun especially with what will happen once the secret santa gifts will came up."

D chuckled a bit, "Yeah."

"I can't wait to see how T will react to our little suprise." H added, looking like she was really excited for it.

'You're not the only ones." Z added with her own eagerness towards it, having just made her way to them and looked at them with a questioning look on her face, "What about you guys? Do you have any plans for the next year? Any new year resolutions?"

E raised his brow at her, "The new year resolutions?"

"Isn't it a bit too early for those? We still have one week left in 2022." H asked, equally as confused.

"It's never too early for them. They count as plans for the next year as well." Z pointed out. She looked around all of them questioningly a second later, "So? Do you have any?"

"I actually have something." D replied, getting interested stares out of everyone.

Z looked at him with an interested look on her face, "Really?"

"What is it, dearie?" X asked, both eager and curious to know his plans as H and E looked equally as interested.

"You know. There's this one game I like to play a lot and I thought I should finally pay it a visit the next year. I could show you a bit of it in a few days as right now I don't think it's time and place for this..." D began his explanation, smilling at bit as he saw how interested E, H, Z and X were in his plans and how happy they made them. 

His smile faded a second later, though as he glanced behind X and Z and saw Devola standing in the distance, letting out a sigh upon laying her eyes on her. The red haired android was standing next to a flustered pair of A and Popola who were kissing, holding a mistletoe above both of them as she had a playful smirk on her face. She looked away from her sister and her boyfriend a second later, exchanging glances with Eddy who just like her had a smirk on her face. They exchanged a high five, having apparently planned this together.

"...D?" H's voice pushed him out of the trance he found himself in.

D shook his head a bit, looking between all of them, "W-What?" 

"Welcome back to us." E said in a slightly playful tone, getting an elbow from H.

X looked at him with a slightly concern, "You alright there, dearie? You dozed off for a moment there."

"Yeah. I'm fine. Just lost myself in a my thought for a second. Sorry about that." D replied, sounding both apologetic and sheepush as X nodded in understanding. Wanting to put this situation behind him, he went back to the explanation he was giving them before setting his eyes on Devola.

Molly looked at the collar in her hands with a intrigued look on her face, "So Tony gave us something to use when we're having fun?"

"Y-Yeah. The worst part about it is the fact that I'm not suprised by him giving us this..." B nodded, having becoming slightly less flustered by it as Q and A2 were standing on the side. Q was sending the video to Angel Dust, grinning heavily as she was doing so as A2 was deadpanning with, having been told what this collar was meant for by Q.

Molly looked over her shoulder, seeing Q and A2 were not paying attention to them and voiced her question to him, "But can we try it sometime?"

B's eyes snapped open at this, once again becoming a flustered mess, "U-Um..."

U smiled to herself, walking over to L who was hanging out by himself by the table as she carried a box with a few holes in it her grasp. She looked down at it, wondering what was inside as she made her way to L and smiled at him, "Hey."

L looked up at her, his eyes softening slightly at the view of her,"Hey. You're back."

U nodded, smilling at him and looked slightly apologetic about it, "Yeah. Sorry if it took me a bit longer than I expected. Crazy Dave and all the plants wanted to wish me Merry Christmas in person when they gave me this gift over here."

L shrugged it off, "It's alright. I went through the same thing yesterday at Griffin remember?"

"Yeah." U nodded, keeping the smile on her face as she took her seat next to him, "Mind if I sit next to you?"

"You know you don't need to ask me that." L pointed out, watching U sit down next to him as he pointed towards her gift, "So. What did they gave you?"

U shook her head, "I don't know. I wanted to wait with opening it until I'll make it back to the HQ. All of them seemed excited about me getting it, though."

"I see." L said in understanding.

U nodded at him as she reached out towards the gift, "Alright. Let's see what's inside."

"Yeah." L nodded back at her.

U opened the gift and took a look inside it. Her eyes widened slightly, "Oh..."

"What is it?" L asked, seeing the way she reacted to it.

U reached into the box and pulled out a small peashooter in a pot from the box, keeping her eyes widened, "It's a peashooter."

"I can see now see why the box had holes in it." L pointed towards the holes in the box, his face showing not a hint of suprise and remaining as blank as ever as the small peashooter eyed both of them in a curious manner as it was placed on the table. U nodded in agreement, now finding it obvious why the gift had holes in it as she smiled a bit at the peashooter after seeing the curious way he was eyeing her.

"Hi there, little fella. You're really adorable. You know that?" U asked, getting a pleasured kazoo noise from the peashooter as she set it down on the table. As it continued to eye both of them in a curious manner, she took a look into the box and saw there was something else, "Oh. There's something else there."

"There is?" L asked as U reached into a box and pulled out a letter.

The female watcher took a look at it a second later, reading it out loud for L to hear, "Hi there U. As you already know, Christmas is coming up and me and my plants figured out we should give our deity friend a present for helping us fight off those nasty zombies! We thought for a while what we should give you before we ultimately settled down with this little fella. You love plants. Am I right? Take care of him well. Your friend Crazy Dave and his plants."

L nodded in understanding at the letter, "I see. Looks like someone got a new plant to her collection."

"Yup." U smiled, placing the letter aside as she looked the peashooter with a smile on her face, feeling happy of the gift as she always loved to add a new plant to her collection of plants in her garden. Only she would have to take care of this plant a bit differently than the others, "So little fella. Looks like you'll be in my care from now on. You're a boy, right?"

The peashooter made a kazoo noise, nodding his small head in confirmation.

U's smile grew a bit, finding it adorable as she asked him, "Now about about I'll give you a name. It wouldn't be fair of me to referr to you as a peashooter or a plant. Don't you think?"

The peashooter nodded in agreement.

"Do you have an idea on how to name?" L asked, keeping his eyes on the small plant.

"Give me a sec and I'll come up with something." U replied, looking at the peashooter with a thoughtful look on her face before feeling an idea hit her, "...Hmm. How about Peter?"

"Peter?" L asked.

U nodded in confirmation and provided L an explanation, "Yeah. Peter sounds similiar to pea and this boy here is a peashooter."

"Alright." L nodded back at her.

U looked at him questioningly, "What do you think? It's perfect. Don't you think?"

L once again nodded at her, "Yeah."

U smiled at him and shifted her gaze back to Peter, "Alright. From now on, you will be named Peter."

The peashooter now named Peter nodded his small head, making a pleased noise by the choice of his name.

U chuckled at his reaction, "Glad you like it, little fella. I'm certain you already know my name from Dave and the others, but allow me to introduce myself to you. I'm U. From now on you will be in my care. My friend over there is L."

Peter nodded in understanding, shifting his gaze between his new caretaker and her friend. He set his eyes on L and tensed up a bit, seeing the cold blank look on his face and finding it creepy and getting scary vibes from him. His fear grew into curiosity a second later when he saw L pull out a bottle with some strange liquor into his and his new caretaker's view.

"...Alright. If we took care of the presents your friends gave you, then how about we'll take care of the present my friends gave me." The blank faced watcher said, putting the bottle on the table for U and now Peter to see.

U looked slightly amused by the gift, "I still can't believe M16 gave you Jack Daniels as her Christmas Gift."

"Yeah. Well, what else were you expecting from her? It's not like I mind it." L pointed out, "To be honest I'm kind of suprised she managed to stop herself from drinking it with AK47."

"If you say so." U chuckled, having been told about the said T-Doll having love for Jack Daniels even if she was yet to met her in person.

L unscrewed the bottle and began pouring himself some of the liquor into the glass, "Want me to pour you some? We could celebrate you getting a new plant with this."

"Sure." U smiled, liking the idea as L grabbed her glass once he was done with his glass and began pouring Jack Daniels into it as well. Peter watched everything with a raised brow, wondering what was the drink both of them were planning to drink.

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The party continued for the next hour and everyone were eventually called over to the Christmas tree by R and C, informing them the time for their secret santa gift opening had come. Needless to say. Everyone quickly gathered themselves in front of the Christmas tree, eager to open the gifts and see what they bought each other. What made most of the watchers more excited was the fact that they knew what they meant and knew how close they were to something.

R clasped her hands in front of everyone, "Alright. Everyone. Thank you for gathering here so quickly after we called you."

C nodded and added a second later, beginning her explanation. It was mostly directed to the characters who gathered around the christmas tree alongside the watchers, "As you know. We like to play secret santa for Christmas each year and see what can we buy a random person from all of us..."

"Secret santa? Wait a second. Santa didn't brought those gifts here...?" Ed asked in confusion and suprise.

Double D elbowed him, "Not now, Ed."

C paid no attention to Ed's question and went further into what she was saying, "...and I and R decided it's time to finally get to what most of us had been waiting for. Time for us to open the gifts we have prepared for ourselves."

"I will take a look at the gifts and take a look at which gift is for who. Once I'll call out for you, you can approach me and C and get your gift." R added the last part to C's explanation as she turned away from the rest and turned towards the gifts underneath the Christmas tree. Knowing which gift was for T, she walked over it and pretended to read for who it was, "T!"

"Yeah?" T instantly replied to her calling as R turned away from his present to look at him. What he failed to notice was how all of his fellow watchers reacted to him getting called out.

R stepped aside, pointing towards the large present to show him which one was his, "This one here is for you!"

"Wow? This large gift is mine?" T actually looked flattered by the size of his gift as he stepped forward from the rest and pushed himself into walk towards it. R and C stepped out of his way, allowing him to reach his present as he looked over his shoulder at everyone, "Now I wonder who was so generous to give it to me?"

K raised her hand, "It was me."

T turned around to look at her and smiled, "It was you, Yumi?

"Yeah." K nodded in confirmation, feeling her eye twitch a bit. T liked to call her 'Yumi' because of her old name being Yumiko. Even if she told him countless times not to call him that. She didn't voice her irritation with it like she usually did right now, though as she knew 

T smiled at her, "You're so sweet. You know that?"

"If you say so." K replied.

"Do you know the best part about it?" T asked her.

K looked at him questioningly, crossing her arms, "No. Enlightenment me."

"I had to buy you your secret santa gift as well." T explained.

K pretended to act suprised by it, "Really?"

T nodded in confirmation, "Yup. Pretty crazy, huh?"

"Yeah." K nodded in agreement, playing along with her part of the plan.

T slowly began to smirk when he uttered his next words to her, "How about I'll show where my gift for you is and we'll open them at the same time.?"

"No. I'll have to pass on that." K shook her head. She began to smile when she added, "I prefer to see your reaction to my gift to you before I'll see yours."

"Alright." T nodded, slightly disappointed in it as he turned away from her and set his eyes back on the present from her. As he turned away from K, the said female watcher felt a memory of one of his pranks playing through her head.

K pushed the door to the room T called her in for open, wearing her martial arts attire as she had just finished her daily training and had left the gym. After finishing her training, she received a message from T who asked her for help with something and this is how she found herself in this room.

What T failed to mention to her however, was the fact that he had prepared a little suprise for her in the room. Upon entering the room, she was greeted by the sight of a large can with a white paint and lit up firacker in it. She didn't got a chance to react to it as the fireracker exploded as soon as she entered the room, causing a massive explosion.

The paint can exploded along with the firecracker, spreading the paint all across the room and all of it unfortunely landed on a poor K. The female watcher found herself utterly covered in a white paint. She didn't do anything for the next few moments, remaining where she stood as she allowed her brain to process what just happened. When her brain finally processed it, however, words couldn't describe how angry she felt

"I swear. I'm gonna kill him..." She muttered under her breath angrily as she turned away and walked out of his room, leaving footprints of white paint behind her.

K pushed herself out of her thoughts a second later and called out to T, "T! Wait!"

T stopped and turned around to look at her with a questioning look on his face, "Yeah?"

K smiled at him with a very, very pleased look on her face, "Just enjoy opening that gift."

"Don't worry, Yumi. I know I will." T nodded, smilling back at her as he turned away from her and reached out towards the gift, intending to open it as soon as possible.

He got his hands on the wrapping paper a second later and as soon as he ripped a tiny bit of it open, the paint bomb inside exploded. T's eyes widened in suprise, having not been expecting this to happen as he found himself covered in a black paint in an instant. The male watcher closed his eyes, feeling his face getting covered in paint as he stumbled a bit in his tracks, sliding a bit on the fresh paint which landed on the floor underneath him.

All of the watchers immediately reacted to what was happening in front of them. Most of them smiled widely, enjoying what they were seeing and knew they will enjoy what will happen in the upcoming next moments. The satisfaction of finally getting their revenge on T for all of his pranks filled their bodies and knew this feeling would only increase as the other parts of their mutual gift would reach T.

T rubbed his face a bit, trying to make his vision a bit better as his front was completely in paint. He set his eyes on his present again and a mechanical arm from G's machine reached out of it, holding a poon some kind of food in it. It forced the food into his mouth, forcing him to swallow it a second later and T felt the heat of the food immediately hit him. Hating this kind of food, he immediately began crying out for water.

The water never came, though. His gift wasn't over as well. The next machine came out of it and it was loaded with something. It fired a second later, revealing itself to be loaded with the rocks I had found in the forest a second later. The rock T in the stomach, making him grab it in pain and causing him to forget about the heat in his mouth. His body got hit by the second rock a second later and it was followed by the third machine with a boot attached to it making itself known.

The machine launched the boot towards him and the boot hit him right in his balls, the pain caused by it making him lose footing in his legs. He landed on the ground  cluching his nethers in pain as the third rock hit body. He didn't nothing after this. He allowed himself to lay on the ground with an utterly defeated manner, knowing exactly why he received a gift like this and tried to ignore the pain in his stomach and the heat in his mouth. Even it was impossible as both of those feelings were still going strong in him.

Everyone continued to watch the scene in front of them and all of the characters could tell just how pleased the watchers were by what they were seeing right now. D, H, E, P, C, J, A, F, I and V and R had massive smiles on their faces and R even pulled out a camera to record all of it. B and Q were both laughing together, the latter keeping her arm wrapped around her best friend  as she pointed towards the scene in front of them.

X was laughing as well, eating a bunch of cookies from the plate she was holding as Z couldn't help and laughed as well, reaching out to grab a cookie from the plate as well. S and U, the two victims of T from the last two Christmas parties, couldn't hide how much they were enjoying it as well and kept laughing loudly. Their friends Y and L enjoyed it as well. Everyone could have sworn L was holding back a pleased smile.

The characters weren't afraid to show they were enjoying what they were seeing as well. All of the characters who lived here long enough to get to know T and his pranks quite were well. A2, Devola, Popola, 6O, Esdeath and Kurumi were all either smilling in a pleased manner or were laughing. The newer people in the HQ like Molly, Ed, Double D, Eddy and Lexa reacted to it in their own ways and by their own ways it was either smilling or laughing. In fact. Ed and Eddy's loud laughter could be heard throughout the room.

However, no one was more pleased than K. Words couldn't describe how satisfied she was right now and how much she found herself grinning and laughing at the sight. All the times she got pranked by T in one way or another flew through her mind and she just so happy she could finally get a payback at him for everything. The fact that this gift was directly from her made everything way better and satisfying to her.

She pulled out the nearest bottle of champagne and poured herself some of it as she looked towards her fellow watchers with a pleased smile on her face, "I don't know about you guys, but I love Christmas."

Her words got many nods and words of agreement from everyone as all of them happily chatted with each other after witnessing the show in front of them, paying no attention to T who was literally dying because of everything.

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It was the day after the Christmas Party and a few watchers in the form of K, X, U, J, C, A and G and a few characters in the form of Double D, A2, Devola and Popola were gathered in the dining room, eating breakfast with each other and discussing what happened yesterday and their plan for the rest of the with each other. The atmosphere between them was nice and all of them had a pleasant breakfast with each other.

The atmosphere between them was killed a moment later as T walked into the kitchen. Everyone looked at him and saw him walking into the kitchen. The male didn't say anything to them, lazily grabbing all the leftover food from yesterday and placing it on the first empty plate he got his hands on. Upon getting himself something to eat, he grabbed a nearby glass and poured himself some water.

"...So." K began to say, keeping her eyes on him.

T looked over his shoulder at her, "So?"

"Ain't you gonna say anything about what happened last night?" K asked. From the tone of her voice, T could tell she was holding back a smile.

T sighed, turning around to face them as he leaned against the counter behind him, "Alright. Let's just say I might have...."

K raised her brow, "Might?"

T once again sighed and corrected him, "...I definitely had this coming for the last two years and I have to say it was a really good prank. I really didn't expect all of you would team up against me the way you did for all the pranks I put you through, but good on you I guess. It was pretty cool as well. It left me with a lot of stuff I need to think about regarding next year and all the future of us living here together."

K smiled slightly, seeing the serious tone he put on when he was uttering those words. She knew what she and the others did must have really touched T and left him with a lot to think about. She wasn't the only one who reached this conclusion. A lot of them exchanged glances and smiles with each other, showing each other just how pleased they were by what was happening right now.

Had T really gotten smarter?

All of their hopes were slashed when he added with a smile beginning to form on his face, "And I once again have to say that your prank was so awesome that I honestly I'm getting excited just thinking about all the stuff I will do to top it!"

"...What?" K asked him after a moment from silence from her and everyone as they processed what he just said. Everyone looked at him like he had grown a second head.

"I can already tell this will be an exciting next year! I already have so many ideas on how I can top your little prank." T said, rubbing his hands in excitement as K couldn't take it anymore and got up from her seat before making her way to him.

The female watcher wasted no time and grabbed him by his collar, looking at him like she really wanted to punch him in his grinning face, "Haven't you learned anything?"

T shook his head, smirking proudly, "Nope. It just showed me what you are willing to do for a revenge and shows me how far I need to go with my pranks if I want to reach your level. You're in for a good game with me, Yumi~."

Everyone deadpanned at him, looking at him like he was a lost cause.

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