Assassin's Creed Christmas & New Years OneShots

Someone Shit Christmas In My Cornflakes - Malik Modern AU

The internet needs more Malik fluff, so he gets the first go at this! Please enjoy :)

        The holiday season was in no way, shape or form something that Malik took any sort of joy in. It brought no warm, fuzzy feelings of happiness, but instead an unending sense of dread. He absolutely loathed the season and silently wished for it to just abruptly end before his sanity did. Truth be told, the man almost preferred Black Friday to the chaos that was Christmas… at least that was over and done with within a couple days, a week at most.

            Perhaps it was the mobs of frantic, stressed, angry, sleep-deprived shoppers running about like chickens with their heads cut off; how they flocked and filled every corner of their public gathering places, well surpassing the maximum capacity of every roadside, parking lot and shopping center and all for what? To find that so-called all time ‘perfect’ gift – a thing any anyone in their right mind would know didn’t really exist – then to duke it out with whom ever might have found themselves in possession of said item first. You couldn’t avoid it, it was everywhere! Hell, Malik couldn’t even buy his groceries without leaving the store with a Christmas induced migraine

        If it wasn’t the shopping madness, then the obnoxious cacophony of sounds burning their way into his eardrums surely caused this detest. From the screaming and hollering, to car horns, to carolers, to bells and bells and bells and more effing bells. The radio was plagued with an endless flood of Christmas songs played in every variety possible: Rock, Pop, Classic, Country, Reggae, it didn’t matter what station he’d tune into, he could never get away from it. He couldn’t catch a break in between songs, as with every commercial break came the barrage of advertisements rambling on about the deals, sales and discounts leading up to, and following the day itself.

        As if these things weren’t enough, he also had to face the gaudiness of everything. Horrid shades of green and red scattered here and there, a combination he never cared for. Rolls upon rolls of tacky wrapping paper and piles of equally tacky bags, both generally paired with a rather unnecessary bow or pile of ribbon. The decorations were no better, and Malik really couldn’t understand the current obsession people had with ugly Christmas sweaters, he really couldn’t.

        So why? Why did he put up with a holiday that did nothing but cause him misery? Because of you. You loved the damn holiday so much, that he’d force himself to grin and bear it all for your sake. You loved Christmas and he loved you, so trying to tolerate it was the least he could do. He tried, he really did, but he still couldn’t deny that he’d much rather get away from it all whenever he could.

        You knew how he felt about the holidays, knew it drove him completely bat shit crazy and just how hard he tried to put up with it for you. In turn, you tried your best to tone it down for him, tried to make it a little more pleasant. The two of you had come to a mutual compromise and as a result made way for a new holiday tradition for yourselves.

        December 24th – Christmas Eve – had become your night to yourselves. This year you’d agreed to spend the night together at your apartment. Together you had gone and quickly gathered up the ingredients needed to make dinner before making your way back to your building. After battling your way through the store aisles and check out lines, then through traffic and your incredibly cheerful neighbors you were finally granted a moment’s peace.

        From the doorway, Malik watched as you kicked off your shoes and happily hummed your way through your carefully decorated living space, bags in hand. He paid no mind to the décor, he was too distracted by… other tings. The sweet smell he’d come to know and love had calmed his nerves. The faint hum coming from your being in the kitchen had, without him even realizing it, cause the tension infecting his being to suddenly lift.