Some Things Never Sleep

Chapter Fifty Seven

Author's Note: Merry Christmas, you guys! Happy Holidays too. This is the last Christmas chapter and it took me forever to re-edit. I hope you guys have a happy and amazing Christmas.

I just want to say that I don't own 'I Feel it Coming' or 'Tomorrow Never Came' which are songs that belong to the Weeknd and Lana Del Rey feat. Sean Lennon.

The compound hadn't been very decorated for Christmas initially but Pepper and Darcy wanted to do something special for Emma and Peter so they went all out with the leftover Christmas decorations from when Steve used to decorate. Pepper and Darcy had never bothered decorating for Christmas, after all. Steve and Sam were always the ones who tried to make the compound more festive for the holidays. 

Sometimes it was hard for Emma to believe that it had just been a year ago that everyone was at the compound together...a year since Steve had forced her to watch a bunch of crappy Hallmark Christmas movies. It felt so much longer than a year to Emma. To Emma it felt like it had been years upon years since she had seen him. She supposed that's what it felt like when you went from spending every day with someone to spending several months apart.

"Didn't you like the movie?" Peter asked Emma, snapping her out of her thoughts. She immediately glanced over at him while trying to forget the memory of last Christmas. It was no use in dwelling on things that would only make her miserable. Besides...she was there with Peter. Peter always had a way of lifting her spirits.

"I guess." Emma replied as she stared at the TV screen as the credits rolled for Home Alone. "Personally if it was me I wouldn't waste my time setting up booby traps for a couple of low level thugs. The second they'd come through that door they'd be dead." Peter laughed at her.

"I don't think Kevin would've killed them. That's not what Christmas is all about." Peter told her jokingly and he completely understood that she was also just kidding. There used to be a time that Peter took her death threats more seriously but now he knew she was all talk. Emma was different than before and though her humor was the darkest sort of humor he ever heard, he still adored it.

"Anyways, so how many more of these ridiculous movies are we going to see?" Emma asked him. "If I have to see one more movie that has some kind of heartfelt ending then I'm going to drown myself in the pool. It would probably take me three hours to drown myself but I think it can be done." Peter rolled his eyes at her.

"Very funny." Peter commented before giving her a serious look. "So we've already seen Elf, A Christmas Story, The Polar Express, The Santa Clause, and the Holiday. It only makes sense if we see Home Alone 2 now." Emma gave Peter a look of disbelief.

"There's a sequel to this movie?" Emma questioned as she felt slightly overwhelmed from all the holiday themed movies. "When is this ever going to end?"

"Well, we still have the Grinch, Christmas Vacation, and Love Actually to watch. I've marked It's a Wonderful Life and White Christmas off the list since you said you've already seen them." Peter told Emma and she glared at him.

"You're lucky I love you, Parker." Emma grumbled and Peter gave her that goofy smile that always seemed to melt her heart.

"I love you too, Emma." Peter told her softly as he took her hands into his. Emma curiously watched the smile on his face fade and his eyebrows furrow, making him seem like he was incredibly troubled by something. She frowned, immediately wanting to know what was wrong with him.

"What's wrong?" She asked him and he shook his head seeming almost sad as he did so. He looked back up at her, his brown eyes filled with so many emotions that Emma felt at a loss as to what he was feeling. Peter was always such an emotional human being that Emma sometimes was unsure of how to approach him.