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Noelle POV
The sleigh lands in the middle of nowhere with ice and snow covering everything. I pull Charlie closer to me and wrap the blanket around us. Scott stands up with an angry face and looks around. "Is this okay dad?" Charlie asks. I kiss his head and he moves into my lap. Scott curses under his breath and shivers. "No it's not okay!" He shouts. I slap him on the head and he mumbles 'sorry'. Then he turns to the reindeer and shouts "hey does this look like home to you guys?" The reindeer just nod their heads and look at each other, like they know something's about to happen. Then they take off, the reins slip from Scott's hands and he almost tumbles over.
I help steady him and he stands back up "hey, hey! Where are you guys going? Come back here!" The reindeer just ignore him and disappear in the snow. Scott looks around a bit as the snow piles up around us. Charlie starts to shiver and Scott notices. So he sits down beside us, pulling the two of us close and wraps his arms around me. "Are you both okay?" He whispers. I shake my head yes before the crunching of snow catches my attention. A small child, no more than Charlie's age, walks out with a smile on his face. He has thick clothes on and a huge hat that barely covers his bright orange hair.
Scoot stands up with a slight smile "hey! Hey buddy! You sir! Hey!" He keeps shouting at the child but he ignores him. The kid takes his gloves off and rubs his hands together to warm them up. Then he looks up to Charlie and I, smiling, before he presses something on the ground with his hand. "Can you freaking hear me?!" Scott yells. I stifle a giggle at his anger, I mean what does he expect? "I don't think you're getting an answer so you might just want to chill out" I mumble but as soon as the words left my mouth, a blue puff of smoke appears. In its wake is a large cloud, hovering over Scott, that pours more snow on him.
Charlie and I let out a giggle "I'm sorry honey. I'm not sure what's going on." He just grumbles something under his breath and I try to focus on the cloud going away. And with another puff of blue, the cloud is gone. "Cool" Charlie whispers, his eyes wide with joy. Just then a large pole starts to come from the ground. The small child just smirks at our awe struck faces. The pole is silver on the top with colorful lights while the bottom part looks like a giant candy cane. Scott leans over and whispers "what's that?" I just shrug my shoulders but Charlie smiles. "I think it's the North Pole momma" he whispers. Scott rolls his eyes "that's the North Pole?!" I smack his head again, glaring at him. He throws his hands up and mumbles "sorry" to Charlie.
Once the pole is completely up, the child places his hand on it, making a keypad pop out and then types something in it. The keypad retracts after he's done and he pulls his gloves on. The kid smirks at us before the sleigh starts moving. Charlie curls into me as Scott holds on to both of us. We begin to descend slowly downward and I wave at the child before he disappears out of sight. My jaw drops as we finally land, surrounding us is a large group of children but upon closer inspection, they have pointed ears. Elves? The reindeer that ran off earlier, are each in a stable with more people taking care of them. There is light Christmas music playing in the background and whispers while pointing in our direction. "Where are all the grown ups?" Scott whispers.
