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merry christmas baby

"john b!" sarah whisper yelled as she noticed he was falling asleep on the couch. 

it was christmas eve and they had just put valerie asleep up in her room. they had built a house on the chateau's property once they got back from morocco, before sarah had given birth to val. building a house and living on their own, away from their friends was hard for john b and sarah, but they had been loving their little family of three, and their privacy away from the others. 

now, they were in their living room, waiting up to make sure val was asleep before putting out her presents from santa. they still had to get out the gifts from their bedroom closet, eat the cookies, and drink the milk before they could retire for the night. 

"mhm" john b mumbled from his place on the couch.

"you can't fall asleep, we need to go get the presents out and get this show on the road!" she whisper yelled back at him, pulling his hand to force him up off of the couch.

rubbing his eyes, he obliged, following sarah up the stairs to grab their daughter's gifts from santa.

"here!" sarah was still whisper yelling at him as she started throwing smaller gifts at him from inside their closet. 

"shit!" he yelled a little too loud as he dropped the present.

everything had already been wrapped, courtesy of sarah. but they needed to hurry up if they wanted to get any sleep tonight, because they knew val would be in their room bright and early to go and open presents in the morning and it was already past midnight. 

"john b, I am not going to tell you again, you need to be quiet! and get your reflexes in check!"

"now shush!" she said as she grabbed the rest of the gifts and their bag of stocking stuffers for their daughter. 

since this was going to be a christmas val would likely remember, john b and sarah wanted it to be memorable for their daughter. they had grabbed wrapping paper to tape to her door frame so she would have to run through it in the morning to come and wake them. 

as they tiptoed downstairs with their hands full of presents, john b and sarah worked quickly as john b arranged the presents under and around the tree, and sarah was filling each of their stockings with gifts. 

"how did I do, sar?" john b asked sarah as he stood back and admired his work.

"you did great, now go eat the cookies and drink some of the milk, please" she said as she patted his belly. 

"thanks for the encouragement" john b said as he walked into their kitchen.

they had an open floorpan, so she could still see him from where she was standing by the fireplace. he had started dancing as he hummed "I'll be home for christmas" grabbing the milk to take a few sips. 

once sarah was satisfied with her work on their stockings, she went to meet john b in the kitchen. 

"save any cookies for me?" she asked.

"nope. I was planning on eating all ten," he said as he looked over into her eyes. 

she walked over to face him as he put an entire chocolate chip cookie into his mouth. half of the cookie stuck out of his mouth, so sarah leaned up to his mouth to bite the other half off. 

"mmm val, feeling frisky?" john b asked her. 

"no, I just wanted a cookie" she said with her doe eyes. 

"plus it's christmas eve, and we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow. none of that tonight, it's christmas!" sarah told him off as she walked back into the living room and sat back on the couch.