||A Christmas Carol Scrooge x Marley||

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|| Scrooge's pov ||

I woke up with a shudder. It was cold. I stumbled out of bed and got dressed quickly. I needed to go to work it was already 11:30am. Already late. Marley was going to kill me. I almost ran down the road, people stared at me as I ran to work. I'm never late. Why am I late? God dammit.

I arived at work at 12:00 hoping that Marley wouldn't notice I'm late. I walked in. He was there asleep? I walked up to him trying to wake him up. He's freezing. I speedily ran to the backroom and grabbed a blanket and then wrapped it around him. I then slowly brought him in front of the fire place and got some coal and got ready to light the fire. I lit the fire and lay Marley closer to it. I decided to get another blanket and get a pillow. I lifted his head and put a pillow under him then put the other blanket over him. He looked cute. I wanted to lay down next to him and he could cuddle me. I slowly set down in front of him and put his arm around my waist. I slowly drifted asleep.

||Marley's pov||
I woke up. I was warmer than I was when I had fell asleep. It was nice. I noticed i was holding something I wasn't really sure what. I opened my eyes, Scrooge was lay in front of me, and I was cuddling him? His sweater was warm. I pulled him closer to my body and cuddled into his neck. I felt him move closer to me and we stayed cuddling.

||Scrooge's pov||
I woke up, I was warm, I was closer to Marley it felt nice. I felt him move. "Hey." I stated simply.
"Hey." He said back, his voice was raspy, like when people get up in the morning, it was nice.
"We should get up." I said "We can't stay here forever."
"I want to though." He replied nudging my neck.
"We can't, we have work." I said getting up scrambling away from his tight hold.
"Fine." Marley said getting up and trailing to his desk. I walked over to mine.

It was 5:00pm and it was already going dark. Marley was looking at me. "Hey I think I'm going to go home." I stated. Marley looked into my eyes.
"Okay I'll see you tomorrow if you come on time," he said "if not you'll be punished." My cheeks glowed red as cherries when he said that. I felt hot.

||Marley's pov||

I didn't realise what I had said. Fuck. Scrooge was going to hate me, or so I thought. His cheeks were glowing a crimson red. He was cute. I smiled. He got up and grabbed his brown coat ready to leave. "Do you want my gloves?" I offered "It's cold outside."
"No it's okay." He said smiling. I felt bad. It was cold outside and I didn't want him to get sick, but if i nagged him he would be angry at me. He waved bye to me before he left and closed the door behind him. He already looked cold.

I decided I would go home tonight although i didn't really want to. I got up and snatched my coat from the back of my chair and put the fires out. I left the building and locked the doors behind me. I slowly started walking home. I rumaged in my coat pockets for my gloves and put them on. It was freezing outside.

I eventually arrived at my house. I unlocked my front door and entered. I was to tired to make something to eat, so i just went to bed. I heard the church bell strike twelve as I lay in bed. The warmth of my blankets suffocated me as I drifted to sleep.

||Next day||
||no ones pov||

Scrooge and Marley sat at their desks. It was a Sunday, not much happened on a Sunday, the only work they had to do was count up that weeks money. "I have 50 pence." Scrooge stated.
"I have 40." Marley replied blankly. The two sat in silence for about a minute until Marley broke the silence.
"What should we do now? Its only one o'clock we still have afew hours." He said simply.
"We could just stay here,"Scrooge said "I was hoping we could cuddle maybe? In the backroom with the spare mattress?" Scrooge added half embarrassed that he had just asked Marley to cuddle with him again.
"I am tired anyways," Marley said also embarrassed to admit he liked cuddling woth Scrooge, his business partner. "Yeah sure lets go." Said Marley getting up to walk to the backroom. Scrooge stood up and followed him happy that Marley wanted to cuddle.

Scrooge brought out the spare blankets again and laid them onto the mattress. Scrooge then climbed onto the mattress and Marley then climbed omto it with him. Marley wrapped his arms around Scrooge's waist and pulled him closer to his body. Scrooge turned to face Marley and wrapped his arms around Marley's waist. Marley wrapped his arms around Scrooge and slpwly fell asleep with Scrooge wrapped around him.

Marley had woke up a few hours later. He felt Scrooge's warm breath travel down his cold neck. He wanted to stay there forever. He didn't want to wake Scrooge up so he lay there, pulling him tighter, and waited until he woke up. Knowing Scrooge was a heavy sleeper, he knew Scrooge would be asleep for a while, but that was fine.

Scrooge nudged his head closer into Marley's neck, his hair brushing on Marley's face. Marley gave Scrooge a small kiss on the cheek, knowing he wanted attention. Scrooge gave a small grunt and tighted his grip around Marley. Marley let out a small chuckle, he felt Scrooge move until he was more comfortable and then fell back asleep with light snores coming from his body. Marley lay another gentle kiss onto Scrooge's cheek before falling asleep himself.

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Honestly I cringed writing this :D