(Late) Christmas Chapter. I'm going to post the full chapter here and, of course, as always, the fanfic's link. Why? Because why not. ________ Chapter 15: Christmas December 23 She heard something fall to the floor in the room next door. "Erin!" she screamed immediately. She stood up from the couch and walked as quickly as she could to check on her daughter. "I'm okay" the little ginger said. "It was just a box with old shoes, nothing broke. Can you help me get these to the living room?" she said pointing at the boxes she had piled next to her. "Of course" her mother answered, carrying 4 boxes, one on top of the other one. When the boxes that contained Christmas ornaments and fairly lights inside were all in the living room, mother and daughter sat down on two different couches. "Is David coming to help us set the tree mummy?" Erin asked. Catherine smiled and nodded. "He's bringing the tree" As if he had heard -before Erin could answer- David Tennant rang the bell, knocked the door and called Catherine's name. "David I gave you a key for a reason, so you can let yourself in" the woman said loudly. "You didn't take into account I could be holding a heavy Christmas tree that would prive me from my abilty of letting myself in with a key" the scot answered from the other side of the door. "What!? You're carrying it yourself, you crazy man?" she asked, standing up to open the door. As soon as she opened it she saw the man, hidden behind the enormous tree. "Oh my God, come inside, now" she said and let him go inside. David walked carefully through the house and left the tree to stand by itself on the floor at a corner in the living room, he smiled. He backed two step, to proudly admire his work and then turned around to see the two gingers. "Hello" he said and walked to Catherine. "Hello" she said. He grabbed her chin between his thumb and index, pushed her head up and placed a short kiss on her lips. "Shall we set the tree?" he asked. The girl, that had been observing the whole scene open mouthed, nodded enthusiastically. She ran to the kitchen and returned with a pair of scissors, with which she cut the ropes that were holding the three closed to let it's branches fall open. The living room was filled with the fresh scent of the pine tree and the three people in the house inhaled it deeply. "Ahh, Christmas" David said. "Do you remember our first Christmas together Cath?" "Yes! We were locked inside the BBC studios, forced to watch a Doctor Who episode of me in a wedding dress with Rusell and the crew" David nodded. "Love the wedding dress" The girl and the couple set the tree with many small white lights and blue, green, red, purple, orange, pink, silver and white crystal spheres. They were very proud of themselves for not breaking a single sphere and spent the rest of the day laughing, eating and talking. Catherine had all her presents wrapped and hid inside her closet, so did David. December 24 Alex Kingston danced around Catherine Tate's kitchen, finishing what needed to be finished for the Christmas dinner, the ginger woman had gone out to buy some last minute things and so she had been left in charge of the kitchen, she had been appointed to make sure David didn't go anywhere near food or heat and her boyfriend, Matt Smith, had been appointed to entertain the two young girls so they didn't urge to open the presents. Suddenly the house's front door opened. "Oh my God" Alex heard Catherine say. "It's freezing cold out there, you don't even want to know what frozen hell I had to go through" Alex laughed lightly from her spot and waited patiently for the other woman to get in the kitchen. She then received the things that had been bought and proceeded to finally finish the big dinner with the ginger woman by her side. When they were finished and the house smelt marvelously of roasted turkey and Christmas goods they asked the men and the children in the house to set the table, they took the delicious food out and sat with everyone to eat. "I say we toast" Alex said. "Sounds good to me!" her boyfriend replied. "I'll serve the wine" Catherine smiled at them. "I'll go for water, for me and the girls" she stood up and went to the kitchen. "Catherine! One time in the year does no wrong" David complained. "I don't like it, I'm good with water thank you" she replied when she went back to the table and filled her glass and the girls' with the transparent liquid. "Okay" Alex said raising her glass. "For all of us" "And for us to have the chance to be back on Who sometime together!" David added, making everyone laugh. They all hit their glasses together in the middle of the table, with a big smile on their lips and then proceeded to eat their dinner. They talked and enjoyed everything until they were done and after taking the dirty plates to the kitchen were demanded by the two girls to open the presents. "I have a desl for you two" Matt told the impatient girls. "We can open the presents if and only if you are the ones to read names and deliver" "Deal!" both girls shouted in unison and ran to sit on the floor next to the tree. Alex and Matt sat on a couch, while Catherine and David sat on the other. "Can I go first?" Erin asked Salome, who nodded. She grabbed a big box between her tiny arms and read the label on it. "From: The Doctor, for: The Doctor?" she said confused. Alex and Catherine closed their eyes and sighed in desperation at the exact same time but their boyfriends ignored them and looked at eachother with a huse grin on their faces. "Judging by the wrapping, that's for me" Matt said. The little girl stood up and gave the big box to him. "Hope you like it mate" David told him. Matt opened his eyes widely and rubbed his hands together. "Oooh this is heavy! I wonder what it is" he said and started ripping the wrapping paper eagerly, beneath it a box with a big remote control helicopter unveiled. Matt squeaked. "I love it!" he exclaimed, putting the box aside and running to David to hug him and place many kisses on his cheeks. "Oh my God" the two women said at the same time, the rest of the people in the house laughed at them. "Matthew you can keep your bloody plane if you promise to not fly it in the house" Alex told him, he was smiling like a kid, looking at the box that was now next to his feet. "All right!" he answered full of joy. Salome picked out the next gift from another part of the tree. "From: The Doctor, for: The Doctor" she said. "Jesus Christ" Catherine exclaimed looking at Alex. "That would be for me!" David said, grabbing the holiday themed bag from the girl's hands. He sat back on the couch and opened the bag, the expression on his face was completely priceless. He looked at Matt with his mouth wide open. "No you didn't!" he said. "Yes I did" the other man answered smiling. David laughed and took a big brown leather covered box from inside the bag. "I always wanted one of these!" he said. "This one is brand new and it has them all from William to me, well Peter, but it's the same as mine so it doesn't count" Matt told him. "What the hell are you two talking about?" Catherine asked. "You don't know Cath?" David asked her perplex, when she shook her head with an annoyed expression on her face he opened the box. "It is all the sonic screwdrivers and not in plastic but in actual metal like the ones on set!" he said excitedly. Catherine rolled her eyes. "Matthew, you're spoiling this man more than he already is. David, you already had them all! And like twenty copies of yourse and Tom Baker's!" David shook his head. "I had them all in plastic, and I had Toms's thrice and mine five copies, plus the one I stole from set" he corrected. Catherine shook her head dissaprovingly. "Never mind, shall we continue?" she asked. The gift giving went on as follows: From Erin to mummy; a perfume. From David to Alex; a jewlery box. From Alex to Erin; a dress. From Erin to David; a notebook. From Matt to Salome; a Taylor Swift CD. From Catherine to Matt; many pairs of socks, which made everyone laugh and the man happy. From Matt to Alex; a perfume, a pair of earrings, a ring, a necklace and a bracelet. From David to Salome; a Doctor Who shirt because he wanted the girl to look awesome. From David to Erin; a Doctor Who shirt for the same reason. From Salome to Alex; a hand bag. From Catherine to Erin; clothes. From Alex to David; a book. From Catherine to Alex; a book and a pair of earrings. From Matt to Catherine; red sunglasses because she'd rock them. From Alex to Salome; clothes. From Alex to Matt; tickets for some play at the Globe. From Alex to Catherine; the same perfume that Erin had given her, with an apology that turned into laughs for Catherine's comment of double the good and "Am I that obvious?" From Matt to Erin; Doctor Who action figures because she was the only one who appreciated the goods of life apart from David. From Catherine to Salome; a skirt. From Salome to Matt; a bowtie, which made everyone smile fondly. After many hugs and almost an hour of gift giving there was only two more boxes under the tree, one small and one big, both wrapped in TARDIS blue wrapping paper. Erin grabbed the small one and read from it. "From Benedick to Beatrice, have a very merry Christmas" Catherine reached for the small box and looked at David smiling. "I hope it's not the perfume again" she said making her friends and daughter laugh. "No, I took your daughter to the shop to buy it so not the perfume" he said. She carefully ripped the paper off and then opened the box that was inside, she gasped. "Oh my God David, they're beautiful!" she said, taking out the two golden earrings and the thin golden necklace. Both earrings and the necklace had a small transparent diamond-like stone on the end and sparkled with the tree's fairy lights. "Do you like them?" he asked smiling. "I love them" she said, reaching to place a tender kiss on his lips. She then took off the earrings she had on and put the new ones instead, she asked her boyfriend to help her put the necklace on and then turned to her daughter. "That's for David" she said. The little girl nodded and gave the box to the man, who laughed lightly. "Nice color" he said with a strong scottish accent. "Shut up, I didn't know you'd use the same" Catherine answered. David opened the box and then looked at Catherine. "Really? For me?" he asked excitedly. "If Matthew has the right to spoil you then your girlfriend has it too" she said. Matt returned to the earth after staring for a good 5 minutes at his own girlfriend upon the mention of his name. "What is it?" he asked. David got out a miniature TARDIS made out of wood, with glass windows and a real light on top of it. "Niiiiiiiiiiice" Matt said. After finishing the gift giving the living room was a huge wrapping paper mess but they didn't care, the two couples and the two girls spent a good and long night talking, playing games and mainly enjoying their quality time together. Alex, Matt and Salome left the Tate household at 3:00 am and promised the two gingers and the former Doctor Who star that they would see eachother again the next night to watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special. Catherine, David and Erin went to sleep with the living room and kitchen made a mess, but with the happiest heart in the whole world.