*Nikki*

Jasper babbled and cooed with awe as he stared up at the lights of the Christmas tree, my grandfather holding him and waving a gingerbread cookie in front of him. 

After Jasper's first month, Mal talked to me about maybe having a happy Christmas for him this year. She was a little nervous on asking, considering the day before Christmas it pretty much the day I "died", and add the fact that December is the month of that party.

In other words, its been a long time since anyone here's had a good holidays.

Even though I was scared, I actually agreed that maybe it was time to do something different this year for the holidays, and so we voted on a Christmas party with our family and closest friends.

So Mal and I decided to decorate the house, me and the guys going to the woods nearby for a tree to decorate (resulting in Vince currently sporting a cast and boot on his leg.... It was a liiiiittle funny....).

The tree looked really great, decorated in lots of stars, tinsel, lights, candy canes, bells and other stuff, smelling of pine and some rosemary leaves Mal stuck between the pine branches, saying it was something she remembered her grandmother doing once when she was a little girl, and right now was piled up reaching halfway up the tree with presents, most of them for Jasper. Its a definite upgrade from the shitty little Christmas tree decorated with needles and empty beer cans back in the old days.

The house was also decorated in tinsel, garland, sashes, ornaments lights and more, practically almost looking like Santa Claus's workshop or something.

Jack even wore an elf costume for dogs that Tommy found for him, even though he pretty much tore the hatto shreds.

We cooked some dishes, but everyone also bought food as well, my grandfather making meatballs and some other dishes that were Nona's recipes to bring.

We did allow some alcohol for those who did drink, but we have an enforced rule:

If you're hammered, you're spending the night here, and we're hiding your car keys until the next morning. 

I couldn't help but smile as I watched everyone enjoying themselves, and then I suddenly felt arms around me and looked, seeing Mallory smiled up at me.

She wore a sparkly red cocktail dress and I matched her with a red shirt, Jasper wearing a litter red plaid outfit Heather bought him along with 20 other outfits, (The boy only just turned 3 months a week ago and he's already got all the ladies falling for him... I'm so proud.....).

"Someone got caught," she sung with a playful smirk as she motioned up above us.

I looked at her weird before looked up and sighed with a laugh.

"Come here, you..." I smiled, pulling her close by her waist and then pressed my lips against her's.

She wrapped her arms around my neck as she deepened the kiss.

We then pulled back as she looked up at me, stroking my cheek. "Are you feeling okay?"

I took a deep breath and nodded. "Definitely. I was a little freaked out at first, but.... Shit, look how happy he is...."

She looked over and saw as Tommy and Rachel had come up and worked on trying to make him laugh uncontrollably with funny faces and a Christmas toy Mal got for him.

We had invited not only our families, but also friends like Skid Row, the Osbournes were also there along with the rest of Black Sabbath, and even the Corabi family was here with us. 

We were hesitant on inviting the guys from Hanoi out of respect, but Michael and Andy ended up surprising us with a visit and even bought gifts for Jasper.

Mal smiled before looking over at me, wrapping an arm around him. "We don't really have to have bad memories anymore...."

I gave her a sad smile and hugged her. "That's not as easy, but.... We can definitely be happy because of him," I said.

She smiled as she kissed the middle of my chest resting her head over it, hugging my waist.

I wrapped my arms around her while watching everyone enjoy themselves.

"By the way, I got you something," I said.

"Aww, Nikki, you didn't have to," she said. 

"Of course I did. Its our first Christmas as a family after all, everything had to be special," I said, pulling out the gift box. "For you, Mrs. Sixx."

She giggled and took the box, and gently pulled the gold ribbon lose and held onto it as she then opened the box.

 (Picture: Example of how the necklace kind of looked)

"Its got your birthstones, Jasper's and mine on sides," He smiled. "Your cousin helped me pick it out and have it made."

"Nikki, my god, I love it...." She smiled, looking up at me.

"Here, let me pull it on," I said, and she nodded as I took it and then turned her back to me, picking her hair up.

I loop the necklace carefully around her neck and then let her hair down.

She smiled before turning around and jumping into my arms and kissing me again.

"Kids in the room, mates!!" Michael joked, making us and everyone else laugh.

That's when we heard a knock at the door, and me and Mal turned towards it.

*Mallory*

"I thought that was everyone. We miss someone?" Nikki asked as I looked up at him.

"Not sure.... I'll go get it. Can you grab another bottle of apple cider from the frigde? I think we're running low," I said.

"Yeah, sure," he nodded as he walked off towards the kitchen.

I headed to the door and opened it, surprised at who was there.

"Hey... Mallory," he said.

"Paul....?" I asked, confused. "Ace?"

"Hey," Ace said. 

"Yeah, uhh... We didn't wanna stay too long, but... I need to talk to you," Paul said.

"I'm just here to accompany him," Ace said.

I frowned, then looked back, seeing Tommy was playing with Jasper near the tree as everyone was distracted and stuff.

I quietly stepped out and closed the door behind me, facing him.

Both he and Ace were dressed elegantly, meaning they must be on their way to some event or something. Paul also heald a small red gift bag in his hands.

"Might as well get it over with, then," I said, crossing my arms. "Why are you here?"

He took a deep breath. "Back then, I... I said some fucked up shit to you.... Not knowing that you were going through your own problems..... Well, at least, not acknowledging it....."

I frowned quietly.

"I kept thinking back on it, and kept feeling guilty, since things happened the way they did...." He said. "Point it.... I'm sorry...."

My eyes widen.  "You... Are apologizing?"

He nodded. "Yeah..."

I pursed my lips as I listened.

"I'm sorry for saying you were the reason things were bad in your home front, that Nikki left because of you, stuff like that, making you feel like shit," He said. "I shouldn't have ever disrescpected you like that... It wasn't  fair..."

"Why... Are you suddenly telling me all of this?" I asked.

"Like I said, I kept thinking about that incident," he said. "Then I'd hear about what your mom did, and losing your kids like that and everything you'd been through, and I realized that I judged you too quickly, made you look bad, and all mostly because  of our bands being petty with one another.... It just wasn't right...."

I gave him a sad look as he continued.

"If anything, you're one hell of a strong ass woman, and I have nothing but respect for you," he said.

I sighed, looking down, before speaking.

"You weren't the only one who fucked up, too," I said. "I shouldn't have taken out my problems and anger on you like that, just to piss off Nikki after having some stupid drunk argument that I barely even remember much to this day, honestly....."

He pursed his lips and looked down.

"It wasn't fair to you, dragging you into that... And I'm so sorry for doing that...." I said.

He nodded. "You were hurting, and I'm not mad about that anymore," He said. "Nonetheless, apology accepted."

I nodded as he then looked like he remembered something.

"Also, this may be way overdue, but I'm also sorry about Hannah," he said.

I chuckled with a scoff. "Oh, please. Barely even felt that blow compared to Tommy's exes," I said. "Bullwinkle practically shook my back molars when I fought her."

Paul and Ace laughed. "Jesus, she was that crazy?" Paul asked.

"Hand the size of a tiger paw, it was crazy," I said, and they laughed a bit.

"Damn," Ace snickered.

I then remembered something I should probably apologize about.

"Oh, uhh.... I'm also sorry since, well.... I kinda told Nikki you finished early," I said awkwardly.

Ace burst out laughing as Paul pursed his lips.

"..... Wait, really, I did?" he asked.

"Little bit," I said with an awkward laugh as Ace calmed down.

He breathed out awkwardly as he shrugged. "Shit..... Well, I kinda deserve that," he said with a laugh. "Its okay, though."

I laughed a little, too when I saw him hold up the little gift bag he had.

"Before I forget, this is for your baby," he said. "It may be a little big for him now, but he can grow into it."

I smiled as I took the gift, and curiously looked in and laughed softly as I pulled out the leather jacket, the name SIXX embroidered in the back with a skull and crossbones.

(Picture: Example of jacket)

"How cute," I said. "A baby biker jacket."

"Never too young to start them with leather and studs," Paul smirked.

I laughed as I admired it. "Thank you, Paul... This is actually very sweet.... I know Jasper will love it."

"You're welcome," he said as we then shared a hug.

"By the way, Mallory, you... You look great," Ace said. "Definitely can't even tell you just had a baby."

I couldn't help but laugh a little as Paul rolled his eyes and smacked his arm.

"Ow, what!? Its a compliment," Ace shrugged. "I can't compliment people now?"

"Its okay," I said to Paul. "Thank you, Ace..... Would you guys like to come in? We've got cider and eggnog, Nikki's grandfather made some meatballs that taste really good."

"Thanks, but, we got to get to our own families right now," Paul said. "We only wanted to stop by for a moment."

I nodded in understanding. "Then I hope you two have a merry Christmas."

"Likewise," Ace smiled.

I put the jacket back in the bag before looking back at them.

"Take care, Crüe Queen," Paul said, giving me a friendly smile.

I smiled back with a small laugh. a "You too, Starchild," I said.

He chuckled as he walked off, Ace giving me a wave as he followed Paul.

I then hear the door opened and Nikki stepped out, seeing Paul and Ace leaving.

"W-Was that...?" he asked as we watched them climb into their car.

"Yeah.... Paul came so that me and him can finally make amends," I explained.

"Oh... That's good," he nodded in understanding. "So, you uys are good now?"

I looked back at the car and smiled. "Yeah... We're good..."

He smiled at me as he wrapped his arm around me and hugged me close.

"Merry Christmas, baby...." he smiled down at me as I hugged him close.

I smiled as I leaned against his chest and hugged him close. "Merry Christmas..."

We stayed like that for a while before heading back inside.

~~~~~

This is mostly a filler since sadgrrlfriend was being salty af with me for making Mallory and Paul have a hatefuck a billion chapters ago, so this cute redemption chapter is mostly for her. 😂😅👍🏻

Bright side, this helps me a little with being able to fill out a bit more in the timeline for the rest of the story! 🙌🏻

Also, I saw Enola Holmes the other day and it is just so adorable and amazing! Highly recommend it to everyone if you haven't seen it yet, its on Netflix right now! 😁❤🌻

🎹 Currently in Sapph's playlist:

Lindsey Sterling "Artemis"

♡~ sapphire.