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Christmas Tree

A/N  Not me coming up with this idea super last minute and missing Christmas in most places.

Anyway, Merry Christmas/ happy holidays to those who celebrate! I hope whatever your situation is that you had a great day/ week/ season! Enjoy a Christmas themed one shot!

"Paul" she exclaimed, "pass it over here"

"Oh, okay" Paul sighs with a nod, passing around the silver coloured tinsel holding on to one of the ends to keep it in place.

Once she has a hold of it Emma weaves it around her end of the tree, passing it back round to Paul slightly lower than he passed it to her.

Gently Paul takes it back from her preparing to do another loop, but just as he is beginning to pull it, the end he had just been holding snakes away from him.

"Ahhh no!" he exclaims as he realises what is happening.

Giggles fill the air at his flimsy attempt at dressing the tree, and for a moment he dismisses it thinking it Emma who was laughing at him, just as she normally would in these situations. But as the giggles continue he realises the noise is coming from behind him.

"Do you find this funny?" He asks the smaller girl sitting on her bottom looking up at him with a cheeky grin.

At his question Eloise giggles harder.

The noise making his heart glow with joy, something inside of him wanting to swoop down and pick her up, and of course that part wins.

As his arms wrap around her tiny frame, her small hands come up to wrap around his neck, "dada!" She exclaims with a grin.

"Eloise!" He replies back in the same tone.

At his voice she giggles brightly again. "Dada silly" she states, burying her head into his chest.

Paul gasps dramatically "Oh I'm so silly huh? You decorate the tree then"

"She'll probably be better than you at it" Emma counters with a smile.

Paul turns to her, a dramatically shocked expression on his face, though Emma can see the joy in his eyes.

"Let's do it all together then"

And so they do, same as before Paul passes the bundle of tinsel around the tree, this time the end being held by Eloise.

She giggles brightly as Paul passes the bundle around the tree, Emma taking it from him and passing it back round to Eloise, who promptly returns it to Paul.

They repeat this process all the way until the last of the tinsel has been wrapped around the tree, leaving the green tree covered in the silver shiny stuff.

"We'll that was much harder" Paul sighs as he places Eloise back down on her spot on the floor.

Eloise crawling over to the box of ornaments she had been playing with before, holding and inspecting all of the different colours and shapes.

Emma just laughs in response to Paul's statement, patting him on the back jokingly on her way to grab another handful of baubles.

Smiling Paul joins her, taking a few baubles with him also.

Together they place the colourful baubles high and low all around the tree, spreading them all out until most of the branches were decorated.

He's just finished laughing at a joke Emma's said when he turns around to the box of decorations, planning on getting more of the personal and more delicate decorations out of it, when he spots Eloise.