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Title: Home

Rating: K+

Genre: Family, friendship

Fandoms: Lab Rats, 2012 & Lab Rats: Elite Force

Characters: The Dooley-Davenport family, Taylor, Logan, and the Mighty Med trio

Pairing(s): None that aren't canon. There is a slight one-sided Skase mention

Summary: '"It never snows in the city," she tells him. "Never snows at the Academy," he replies. He notices that neither of them say "home". He wonders what that means.' // Or, the time when they all see each other again. (EF wiki final contest)

Warnings: None

Notes: This is for the final EF wiki contest. It's technically an EF fic, I guess, but the narrator is from Lab Rats exclusively. It's a pity you can't put one story in two categories. Oh, well.

Anyway, the prompt was "December Holidays", and I've been brewing about with this vague idea since last year (yeah, remember that? Lesson learned: don't promise what you can't deliver, Em! *smacks forehead*), so I figured I'd smash the idea and prompt together to make this. I hope you enjoy it. And yeah, I'm a little early for the actual holidays, but I have a deadline to follow and probably am going to be very busy next week.

Takes a place a few months after the events of "The Attack". Enjoy.

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They go home for Christmas.

Well, technically, none of them are actually in their house. The last seven months have brought the reassignments of the soldiers, and for some of them, a relocation to the New York branch of the Davenport Bionic Academy. And crime doesn't stop even for the holidays. Nevertheless, they're all together.

Finally.

"Adam!" an angry voice yells somewhere down the hall as his older brother runs in, cackling. Leo groans, shaking his head and sitting on the couch in his and Daniel's living room. Adam clutches a present under his arm as he furtively glances around before diving behind the counter.

Chase runs in, face flushed from both the running and what appears to be slight anger or frustration. "Adam!" he yells again. He glares at Leo, who shrugs and tips his chin at the counter. Not like Chase didn't already pick up the sound of their brother breathing. Like a broken record, Chase yells, "Adam!" again before storming behind the counter and yanking the box away.

"Hey!" Adam yelps, jumping to his feet.

"Hey!" Douglas echoes as he skids to a stop in the doorway. "Adam, I was going to..." he suddenly seems to notice the teenage genius and corrects himself, "totally not prank Chase with that!" Yeah. He's a horrible liar.

Leo takes that as his cue to leave.

(He knows he made the right choice when he hears their yelling echoing down the halls moments later.

Nevertheless, it's comfortingly familiar.)

XXX

"Hey, Leo!" Bree smiles as he walks into the main shared living room. She's sitting at the table across from Taylor and Logan, a plate with cookies between them. Skylar, Kaz, and Oliver are sitting across the room, absorbed in conversation, but Skylar catches his eye and waves. He gives her a small nod of greeting.

"Hey, guys," he grins back at his sister as he slides into the seat next to her and grabs a cookie. "What's up?"

"Well, Bree was explaining Christmas to us," Logan says.