If Atem Lived in my Head

A Christmas Special **Fluff**

**Note**

not in the proper order with the story. just a little snippet for the day. 

Happy Holidays

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     I do not celebrate Christmas. The whole idea of Christmas and everything it stands for from consumerism to poorly masked greed. It is a disgusting holiday but Atem's eyes light up at everything. He would not have celebrated Christmas back in his time.

"the lights are beautiful, are they not, Nuni?" he looks at everything and I have never seen the pharaoh look so young.

"the lights are great." I let him take over to taste the peppermint sticks, the peppermint bark, the peppermint hot cocoa and basically the winter equivalent of pumpkin spice.

The winter is bitterly cold and my body is shivering but Atem doesn't seem to mind. He walks all over the winter fest, his smile attracting girls eyes left and right.

Flirt I accuse jokingly when he smiles at the girl.

"I would never." He plays along with my joke, feigning outrage.

"they think you're flirting with them" I tell him because these girls think that they can, they think he is no already claimed.

"and why is that?" Atem asks

"you smile at them." I nudge him with my shoulder and he offers me a smile and he is warm and inviting and I lean into him while I am the invisible one this time and he gets to live again.

"The time in the puzzle must have been lonely." I wrap my arms around his and pull him close. He wraps his other arm around me and pulls me close.

"I never understood what the big deal was about having someone." I tell him.

"It is everything." He responds kissing the top of my head.

"I think it's only everything when it's like this." I tell him "when you find someone that is your match, not someone just to have someone, not someone because you're afraid of being alone."

"I see." Atem's smile widens and his eyes soften. "someone because you are perfect for each other."

"I think had I never met you, I still would never have chosen anyone." I tell him honestly "because no one would match me like you do."

Atem got another peppermint hot chocolate and we walked through all the lights and trees and decorations that were way too over the top but they didn't seem so bad right now because Atem was not worried about the shopping or trying to figure out what to get me or waiting to see what I got him. He was just enjoying all of this and maybe if people focused on that part of Christmas it wouldn't annoy me so much. If it was really just about friends and family.

"You know the amount spent on Christmas alone is enough to solve world hunger." I tell him.

"Why do they not do this then?" Atem is confused, probably as confused as I am angry about it. I sigh and shake my head.

"People are too busy with themselves to see passed their nose." I hug him closer and rest my head on his shoulder.

"this seems like the kind of holiday you would like." Atem says "now it makes sense why you do not."

"Why is this the kind of holiday I like?" I demand.

"you are a very giving person, the gifts you leave for your brothers and sister even the older siblings that treat you poorly and your mother. You are always giving them things to make them happy. And you shower them with affection only to be brushed off. I believe your sister calls you cheesy, which I do not understand but you agree to."

"Cheesy is food but it's also an expression for someone who loves gushy fluffy cliché things. Like matching, overly heartfelt gifts things like that. "

"I see." Atem wrapped his arm around me and pulled me to a stop. "that sounds very much like you." He points up "I've gathered this plant here means something special as well."

Mistletoe hung over our head and my face felt like it combusted into flames. My body felt like it was being cooked in an over. I had to be red from head to toe.

"Yes." I swallow my nerves. I don't think I would ever get used to him. He set my world on fire even in the midst of snow and ice.

"May I?" He asks

"you still ask?" I try to joke. He cups my chin in his hand and tilts my face toward his.

"while I may still express that you are mine to another man you are first and foremost yours and I will not make assumptions about what you will allow me to do."

Yes." I tiptoe and he leans the rest of the way and his lips are soft and they welcome me and I feel like everything is okay, even if it's just for right now. Everything is okay.

The Next Morning

Atem is still inside the Puzzle and while I do not celebrate Christmas with gifts I have plenty of bows available. I stick on to myself, set the puzzle at the top of the bed and wait for Atem to get up. He seems to sense exactly when I'm ready for him because he appears a few minutes later and a smile explodes across his face.

"Merry Christmas." I smile, my cheeks red.

"Nuni." He crawls towards the end of the bed and pulls me into his arm. "I could not ask for a better gift." He kisses my neck after waiting half a beat for me to decline and my cheeks and my nose and showers me with kisses and his affection, his complete acceptance of me is the best gift I could have received. 

**Author's Note**

So this story is coming to an end. not entirely sure how many more chapters but it seems to me there will be a second book to this which as already begun being written and has 6 parts completed already.

If you would like to receive the first portion of this second book before the first is complete please do comment and let me know. 

I will likely have this story finished by the end of this year and would like the first day of 2020 to be book two of this. 

**hint

Possibly crossover.

I'd love you hear your guesses as to what the crossover will be and if you think Nuni will find a new love interest or if she will stick with Atem. 

IDK guys they're looking pretty solid to me. haha

I favor older Animes in the DBZ, yugioh, sailormoon era (these are not the only ones I watche dbut I don't want to give too much away. <3)

I hope you enjoy this Holiday Special

Thanks for reading guys,

XOXO