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noffy96 · 15 days ago

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Christmas Story time! Yes i got it finished in time. It might not be as polished as some of my other work. But i don't really care, i loved writing this, hope you all like it too

Happy Hollidays everyone!

Plans, Gifts, and Surprises

Chapter 1

Word count: 4,726

Status: complete

Summary:

“Everything alright, you seem a little lost Cygni”

The two brothers fell silent and turned to face Cygni as well who curled into himself subtly under all the attention.

“Oh…just um….What is Christmas?”

Eclipse and Cygni spend their first Christmas together

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It started with a question a few months back. He was picking up Cygni after he was done hanging out with Sun. Earth had spotted him waiting and was talking to him just outside the daycare doors when the two solar bots showed up. They were a little out of breath, both having run over and apologising for being late. They had lost track of time as they had been to one of the arcades and had gotten into quite a competitive match by the sounds of it.

When Earth was asking for details, the daycare doors opened and a tired-looking Moon had stepped out.

“Ah Sun, sorry to interrupt but Frankie's mother had a question today, and you are a bit more up-to-date with the schedule. Is the daycare open for full days between Christmas and New Year's?”

“As far as I am aware yes, that reminds me, we might need to start ordering Christmas decorations now, before the peak season hits and it is too expensive”

“On it,”

He had rolled his eyes at it, turning to Cygni, asking if he was ready to go. Only to see him looking confused. Earth noticed it too as she asked.

“Everything alright, you seem a little lost Cygni”

The two brothers fell silent and turned to face Cygni as well who curled into himself subtly under all the attention.

“Oh…just um….What is Christmas?”

Everyone was quiet for a single moment before the explosion of questions happened.

Turns out that Cygni’s former Master had basically got rid of most holidays. He reset the world after all, why need holidays to celebrate something that wasn’t him? Even if that so-called Lord had made new holidays he highly doubted the egotistical maniac would have let his personal servant let in on the festivities.

It had turned into an evening of explaining most holidays there were in this dimension to Cygni, It had seemed to interest yet overwhelmed the slightly shorter bot.

When they walked through the forest towards the bunker, a precaution he was still taking in case Moon decided to follow his portals, Cygni had asked timidly.

“You think they might ask us over for some of those holidays?”

He looked back to his friend.

“I am sure they will invite you”

There was a pause.

“What about you?”

He was saved from having to answer that as a large ball of grey fur shot between his legs. Snatching at one of the bags of groceries he was carrying. Before the large cat turned around and tried again.

Cygni had stood there laughing as he attempted to avoid the claws of the stray, Only quitting when he threw a small piece of food into the grass, it was snatched. Before the cat scurried off.

Honestly, he wouldn’t know what he would have said to that question. HE might have taken a little comfort that Cygni hadn’t asked again and instead coaxed him towards the bunker's entrance. So he would stop insulting the little annoying cat. It seemed determined to go for his ankles any time he was walking through the forest.

It was a little after that, that he had started on this project. It started small. He just needed a new knitting project for his sessions with Earth, she had suggested trying something more complicated. Like Clothing.

He had naturally stumbled upon Christmas sweaters. The thought of doing something more practical with his gift was appealing. It would make his friend happy as well.

It took a while to find a pattern he liked, and even longer to find the colours but he did. Getting the measurements was an adventure and a half. But he was able to start, learning a new pattern, and doing it with quite an elaborate design was difficult. But he found it worth it. Hopefully, Cygni will like it when it is finished. He was about a third done with his gift when something simple, turned into something bigger.

The celestials had invited Cygni' over for Christmas. It was still more than a month away, but they wanted to know. His friend had looked nervous when he told him. At first, he thought it was because he hadn't been invited along.

But as he took in Cygni's nervous glances away. The way he held onto his sleeves, the same way as he was close to getting overwhelmed. He thought it might be something different

“Do you not want to go?” He had asked softly.

Cygni' looked alarmed, hands raised, stuttering out how it wasn't like that and that he was grateful.

He gently took the jittering bots wrist whose mouth clicked shut.

“Not what I asked Cygni, do you WANT to go?”

Cygni’s mouth opened a couple of times before hanging his head. There was a soft

“No…”

He gently squeezed his friend's hands.

“That’s okay “

Cygni stares him in the eyes. Likely expecting him to ask, or say something more

“...it is?”

He gave a slow nod.

“You are not asking me why? “

“Do I need to know?”

Cygni seemed to mull that statement over in his head.

“I…guess not?”

“That’s that then”

He said firmly, squeezing his friend's hands once more before letting go, seeing a small pleased smile on his face. He was naturally curious why Cygni didn’t wanna go, but he found it important that his friend told him these kinds of things on his own terms. That meant showing it was okay to not tell stuff.

The small smile did disappear as quickly as it had appeared.

“Moon would want to know a reason though, otherwise he is gonna think you are keeping me here against my will again”

He scoffed

“Fuck what he thinks, he is gonna think that no matter what you say to him”

Cygni warped his arms back around himself and didn’t say anything, and that was the end of that conversation.

He spent the rest of the week being glowered and questioned by Moon when he sat as much as a foot near the Pizzaplex. Every single time it was more aggravating than the last. He had a feeling his friend was also being asked the same questions, even if he had never said a thing about it.

He blew off the lunar animatronic as best he could. He hated that it made him curious. Because he had no idea what Cygni’s plans were. He had not thought further than the fact that he didn’t want to spend it with the others. It did cross his mind that it might mean it could mean that it would just be the two of them. But surely Cygni had other plans? What things he wanted to see or do?

The nagging feeling he would have mentioned them to him was at the back of his mind but he tried to silence it as best he could.

When he had shaken off Moon again at the end of the week, was when he got his answers. Seems like Moon wasn’t the only one who had been badgering for an answer, As he walked into Cygni and Lunar having an argument in the theatre.

“ Why would you want to spend Christmas with Eclipse anyway? He hates anything fun”

“Lunar please..”

“That asshole wouldn’t even give you a gift, you should see how a real family celebrates it”

He tried to ignore the way the words hurt. Like hitting a healing bruise, forgotten about, till you pressed against it again.

“Don’t call my friend that”

Both he and Lunar froze up at the shift in tone. Lunar recovered way quicker than him though crossing his arm with a huff

“I am not wrong. He doesn’t care about anybody, don’t fall for his lies”

“Shut up, he does. Or are you that butthurt that I intent to spend my holidays with my best friend over your family, leave me alone “

Cyni started walking past Lunar, when he looked up and saw him.

“Sir!”

Before he could respond, the theatre shutter behind him opened

“What’s going on here?”

Solar appeared beside him and took a quick look at the scene. There was a beat of Silence.

“I’m telling Sun”

“What!?”

Shouted Lunar while he and Cygni let out a loud

“Huh?”

Solar walked past him as he glared down at the short Lunar bot. While Cygni subtly moved more towards him.

“Sun made it pretty clear that you should stop pestering him about coming, he said No and that’s that.”

Solar turned to Cygni with an apologetic look

“Sorry about all this, you two go, I got this“

He started for a few seconds before gently grabbing his friend's arm,

“Sure…let’s go”

But Cygni didn’t move, instead, he stuttered out.

“W-wait! S-solar?”

The eclipse animatronic turned back to him.

“Yes..”

“Um….could you tell Moon to stop as well, he has asked about it every single time I saw him this week, I think Eclipse even twice that much”

Solar gave them a thumbs up.

“I got it, Now Lunar…”

With that Cygni had grabbed his hand and almost dragged him out of the theatre. He was kinda too stunned by the whole interaction to say much of anything. Until they were even out of the daycare area, into the airlock. Where they had stopped moving. He squeezed the hand that was holding his.

“Has Lunar been talking to you like that all week?”

Cygni shrugged a little

“It’s Lunar, do you two ever have something nice to say about each other”

For a second he wanted to protest but he had a point.

“I’m sorry”

His friend turned around so fast that his rays rattled.

“What the hell should you be sorry for”

Crossing his arms and avoiding Cygni’s gaze he mumbled

“Those two wouldn’t be giving you such a hard time if it wasn’t for their past with me”

There was a surprised chuckle coming from his friend making him look back up.

“I don’t care about that, it ain't fun, and yes I rather they just leave me alone, it bothers me way more that they are insulting you while doing it. Lunar in particular. “

“Well, I did kill him”

“As far as I understand, that wasn’t ‘you’ but the guys whose memories you own. You have been nothing but good to me and he is not even willing to hear me out on that front, convinced you are somehow brainwashing me. Also like he is one to talk, He has killed you as well!”

He gave a shrug, it is what it is. He had accepted the cards he was dealt with, even if it stung sometimes. It’s not like he wanted to join their family, he was content with what he had.

Cygni dropped his hands and sighed.

“Avoiding those kinds of comments, is partly why I said no in the first place”

“Partly?” He questioned and Cygni sighed

“While I would love to spend it with Sun…he is my friend and I bet we would have a great time…honestly I barely know the others. Solar I am just starting to get to know because he is hanging out with Sun more. Earth is nice, Moon and Lunar…well, you know my feelings there. And the kids are….”

Cygni trailed off

“ A handful?”

Cygni groaned in his hands

“Yeah….I do love them, Dazzle is kind, and Jack is a good kid. I just…It's gonna get busy and hectic over there. I just don’t wanna deal with that…I rather want something more quiet. Also, it feels like I am intruding on a family thing…I don’t think I would like that at all. “

He nodded in understanding, Cygni met his gaze and suddenly looked away as if he remembered something.

“But even then… I think you heard the main reason I didn’t want to go”

“...I did”

He saw no reason to lie or keep it hidden, but he couldn’t help the amused little grin that grew on his face as he saw the glow on Cygni’s face flicker on.

“....right…”

He purposefully stayed quiet for a second

“Best friend…huh”

The glow got brighter, and he resisted the urge to rile him up further to see if he got even more cute reactions. Besides…..he didn’t want Cygni to take it back.

Despite the glow, Cygni rolled his eyes and looked him in the eye with surprising defiance

“Yeah…got a problem with that”

It caught him so off guard that he barked out a laugh.

“Not at all…dusty”

Cygni’s Rays shot out so far that he was able to see the springs before they retracted at the still fairly new nickname. A shy happy smile on his face.

“Come on, let’s go home,”

He said as he opened the portal close to their home.

“Just to be clear…that meant I am your best friend too…right?”

The way his voice quivered at the end of his question made him grab Cygni’s hand again as they stepped into the forest.

“Of course it does you idiot”

Cygni’s eyes had sparkled brightly for the rest of the day, and when they finally parted for the night, he set up to make sure that this Christmas party, would be something his friend would enjoy.

That of course took some time away from making his present. But he still managed, also he wanted to keep part of it a surprise. Not all of it, They went out together to buy some decorations and a tree that they set up in their living space. He had watched amused as Cygni insisted on decorating the tree himself.

He still wasn’t sure how he had tangled himself in the Christmas lights, and he saw it happen. He wasn’t a cook, so trying to make a big Christmas dinner seemed like a recipe for disaster. But he did want to make something, so if he spent any time he was with Earth learning to make a Christmas cake, he could do it perfectly on Christmas…well…no one else needed to know.

He was surprised he had managed to keep it all so well hidden. So When Sun messaged him to pick something up from the daycare that Cygni had left, he thought nothing of it.

Cygni had come home the night before so tired that he had collapsed right into sleep mode. So he wasn’t too surprised that he had gotten the message instead of Cygni. His friend had gone ice skating with the Celestial family. On account of the two lunar models being there, he declined to go.

It is now just two days before Christmas the PizzaPlex was packed, even so early in the morning. He heard the noise of parents waiting with their children outside the doors of the daycare area as he teleported in. Sun signalled him over to the security desk. He was surprised when he got a large plastic bag trust to into his hands

“What is thi….”

His question trailed off as he noticed the colourful wrapping paper inside.

Christmas presents

“These are from all of us,”

Sun explained,

“Cygni told me why he said No…but I thought it would still be nice for him to get gifts from everyone, it being his first Christmas and all.”

His eyes went from the presents to Suns and back again

“And you are giving them to me now because?”

The Sun model huffed and for a second it reminded him of his friend.

“I think both of us can agree, that it would be nice if he got some nice surprises and this way I hope he doesn’t feel pressured to give something back?”

He snorted because that was a good point and he closed the back, looking Sun in the eye and said something he never thought he would ever mean

“Thanks,”

Sun’s white eyes widened,

“Was that all”

Sun nodded dumbfounded, So he turned to leave

“Eclipse!”

He turned around annoyed

“What!?”

“...have a nice Christmas”

He turned to face away again.

“Same to you”

Cygni was still asleep by the time he returned, so he hid the presents in a drawer in his room. Letting the interaction with Sun replay in his head before shoving it aside to deal with later. Right now he was gonna make sure some hot coffee would be ready by the time Cygni woke up. He would need it.

Then it was finally, finally Christmas morning. He set an internal alarm even earlier than usual and got up and set to work. The first thing he did was set the presents under the tree and put the lights on, Then he went around the room and put some more smaller decorations. Once he was satisfied he turned off the overhead lights and he was a little proud of himself.

He could do nothing against the concrete grey walls of the bunker, but the orange glow of the lights, and fake candles made it more cozy than it was before. Then getting everything ready to start baking the Christmas cake later. He got Cygni’s favourite blanket and pillow from the dryer so they were nice and toasty as he heard some movement coming from down in Cygni's room.

He likely had about five minutes left before the sun model would walk into the living room. So he quickly threw on a pot to warm some hot cocoa. As he stirred the pot, he glanced around the room. Wondering if he was doing the right thing. He hadn’t really thought about it while setting up, but now…

It felt incredibly silly and sentimental to do all this when not even asked. If it were anyone else, he wouldn’t have done this…any of this. Yet something in his chest tightened. He just wanted to see Cygni happy.

He heard the door of Cygni’s room open, his fans started blasting as he poured the drinks. He quickly shut them off so as to not give anything away. Trying to ignore the increased pounding feeling in his chest, as the soft footsteps came closer.

“Morning Ecl…”

He got a perfect look at Cygni’s face as he came into the room. He had been sleepily rubbing at an optic but it was quickly dropped as he took in the surroundings. The rings of his eyes widened, his mouth falling open in surprise.

He was so enraptured by the extra decorations that he was mindlessly stepping forward bracing himself against the couch. Gasping in delight when he felt the warm blankets. But then he noticed the gifts beneath the tree,

Socked feet quickly thudded around the couch and he grinned as he took the mugs with him. Cygni had fallen to his knees, hands hovering over the presents clearly checking the labels, and he sat down placing his own cup on the coffee table nearby.

“Merry Christmas Cygni”

He held out the cup, while Cygni whipped his head around to look at him then the cup and took it with shaky hands.

“M-merry…Christmas. I…I Eclipse? How…Why? When? “

He just smiled at his friend as he grabbed his own drink to take a sip from it, but otherwise stayed quiet, then Cygni chuckled

“You are not gonna tell me…are you?”

“Nope”

There was a soft disbelieving laugh, and Cygni looked around the room again.

“Thank you Eclipse…truly... It looks wonderful”

He gave a nod and gestured with his cup, and Cygni took it as the invitation that it was to start drinking. The room filled with a peaceful quiet hum, about halfway through sipping their drinks he stood up to drag the warm blankets off the couch and wrap it around them both.

Try as he might, an underground concrete bunker in winter was still quite cold. The pounding that had been in his chest before had melted away. Right now he just felt warm despite the chill that still hangs in the air. It was moments like this that he enjoyed with his friend.

Just quietly existing together, Moments where he could slow down and just be. Be it reading, or working on their many projects. Or like now, beneath a blanket, shoulders touching as they shared a drink.

Once the cocoa was finished and put aside, He saw Cygni look at him from the corner of his eye, For once not able to hide the very subtle bounce in his body. Like a child on Christmas morning. He didn’t think his smile would be able to go down today either. He indicated his head forward and Cygni eagerly went to the pile of presents

He froze when somehow, someway, Cygni managed to pull his gift out first. The green and red paper was lumpy and wrinkly. The golden bow he put on was about askew as he could get. It was stuck with tape from here to sunday. The paper had ripped, torn and shredded beneath his claws when had tried to pack it. So much so that he had to do with the scraps he had left.

Yet Cygni still stared at it like it was the best thing he had ever seen in his life. Cygni’s own hidden claw came out to delicately slide between all the pieces of tape he could find. The pounding in his chest was back and getting quicker with each piece cut.

The paper wrapping was gently pushed away, and Cygni held the hand-knit sweater up as it unfolded. When he had wrapped it, it had seemed perfect. But now he was able to tell all the imperfections. One sleeve was slightly longer than the other. The white rim at the bottom of the sweater was way wider than the rims at the sleeves and collar. The stars were all different sizes. He couldn’t see the text he knit from how Cygni was holding it But he was sure that would be off-centre as well.

He crossed his arms ready to defend himself if need be.

But then the fiery red sweater was lowered,

“D-did…Did you make this?”

Something felt stuck in his neck pipe and all he could do was nod.

“You did?! You actually did?! You made me this?!”

Cygni got louder with each question, actually reaching Sun’s excited screaming levels high. With every word Cygni was leaning closer and closer to him as the piece of clothing was clutched tightly against his best friend's chest.

“I…yeah”

Then for what was only the second time in his life, he saw Cygni’s rays spin around his head. But not the slow happy spin it had done the first time he called him Dustly. It was rapid and continuous along with a joyous laugh. The force of the spinning was making a gust that had its own rays rattling.

“I..this is…Eclipse it’s so perfect…I - wait here!”

Suddenly Cygni was up on his feet and running out of the room, and he looked after him in bafflement as his friends ran seemingly to his room. He leaned against the table in full wonder, even more confused when it sounded like Cygni was opening and closing several drawers, or all around stumbling around.

“Y-you okay there?”

“Y-yes! Yes! Stay there!”

He shook his head, trying to wrap his head around what the hell was happening when louder than he was used to footsteps came thundering back. When Cygni was at the door he just popped his head through the neck of the sweater with the biggest grin he had ever seen.

Seeing him in the bright red that so nearly matched his own casing, the white letters proudly reading. “My very first Christmas Sweater!” The yellow stars that were a perfect match for the colour of Cygni’s eyes scattered over the rest of the piece. The white of his button-up shirt was sticking out from beneath it, clearly not having waited to take it off in his haste to wear the sweater.

In his hands he was holding a brown package, To his surprise Cygni vaulted over the couch in excitement, panting and face aglow as the package was shoved towards him so excitedly that he almost tumbled backwards.

“I..this…for you..sorry..it’s not wrapped…I didn’t think…I thought…it’s …Just…here!”

As he gingerly took the bag from his friend's Excited hands he was warned

“B-be careful though…it is..slightly breakable”

He very carefully placed the package on his crossed legs, Slowly lowering the opening of the brown bag, tossing away some wads of tissue paper that slipped out. Only to find two pieces of glass shaped like his optics connected with a thin metal strip between them…IT almost looked like.

“Glasses?”

He questioned, looking up Cygni was still glowing, smile still bright and nodded

“Safety glasses….they are magnetic too…so they won’t get in your way.”

He pressed his finger against the metal strip and sure enough, they stuck to them. He lifted them towards his face, the metal strip falling perfectly over the bumps of his crescent as it clicked into place.

He looked around and his sight didn’t seem to be hindered by them at all. He checked if zooming his eye still worked and it seemed to be working just fine. He tapped his claw against the glass and it felt very very sturdy.

Still taking in everything for his glasses as he tried different settings for his eyes. He mumbled

“Where did you get these?”

“Oh…uh”

His head snapped back towards his friend. Who now seemed to be glowing for a whole different reason, his arms even started to glow along. He took the glasses off and carefully put them on the table.

“Cygni…Cygni did you…make…this?”

His friend didn’t meet his gaze, but he was pretty sure the answer was yes. Cygni was going through different little hobbies and crafts every month. He had never been allowed to experiment with anything. So now he wanted to try EVERYTHING at least once. And two months ago he had gotten into some glassworking.

Had he been making it then? Before they even decided to celebrate Christmas together?!

“Dusty?”

He asked carefully and he got a nod. If someone would have asked how he had felt at that moment, he wouldn’t have been able to answer. There were no words. No one usually did things for him. Not like this, they wouldn’t think to include him. He was an afterthought at most. Not the guy people wanted to do stuff for

Before he even completed the thought he moved closer and drew the sun animatronic into a hug.

“E-eclipse?”

He wanted to thank him, yet the words didn’t seem able to escape his voicebox. So he just held a little tighter. His friend's arms came up to wrap around him in return after a couple of seconds then there was a quiet huff.

“G-glad you like it”

He pulled away, a slight glow on his own face. Cygni went back to the tree to pick another present without a word about it.

“How did you get everyone’s else presents, can you at least tell me that”

He coughed a couple of times as he settled back

“Sun, and that’s all your getting”

He was about to just enjoy Cygni unwrapping the rest of his gifts when a box landed in his own lap, he stared at it in confusion. He thought that he would have maybe gotten something small from Earth. But…as he checked the tag seeing ‘To Eclipse, from Sun’ He…just kinda stared at it…not sure how to feel

“Eclipse…you okay?”

His head shot up, seeing that Cygni had already undone the bow of his own gift. Then looking at the pile again, seeing his name a couple more times. He doubted Moon, and Lunar had given him stuff. But..the kids..maybe?

“Yeah…just…it’s fine”

He will examine what this all meant later. For now, he let himself get distracted by another scream of joy let out by his best friend next to him. As his claw curled gently over his own gift

This might have been the first Christmas he actually gets to enjoy.

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