Matthew Gray Gubler Short Stories - Christmas Edition

Christmas Wrapping #One

This is the first scenario of three under this title! Tune in next week for a different story under a different title. I've also published another MGG one shot/scenario book for the stories that don't fit under Christmas/winter. 

This is also, as the title suggests, inspired by the lyrics  of the song "Christmas Wrapping". I picked the Glee version but I also enjoy the Spice Girls' version.

Cast: 

Y/N = Your name

Brother/Sister = whichever you have/choose

Matthew = a fictional version of himself.

One.

"'Give me a break, this year's been crazy'

I said, "Me too but why are you... You mean you forgot cranberries too?'"

Trudging out in the snow, you pulled your thick winter jacket tighter around you, hugging yourself as you tried to shield your body from the elements. It was 11.37 on a particularly blizzard-y Christmas Eve which, under any other circumstances you would have been thrilled at as it meant having a white Christmas, but you were in a bit of a bleak mood. Thanks to your brother/sister having forgotten to do their one and only job of the season, you were currently heading out to the 24 hour convenience store (that inconveniently had decided to close at midnight that night) just around the corner from your house in order to hopefully find an untapped resource of cranberries. Bracing yourself to take a glance at your watch, you inwardly congratulated yourself when you realised that you still had just over twenty minutes to find what you needed and return home to wish those who were still up a "Merry Christmas" before heading to bed to rest up for the day ahead. No doubt you would be awoken at 4am by your nieces and nephews. Despite taking your car in what felt like sub-zero conditions it had still been quite the trek to the small store once you had parked up. There was only one other person in the shop when you finally entered through its bell-chiming door and you silently prayed that they weren't looking for the only thing you needed. This store was the only one still open that might fulfil your mission after having come up empty-handed at several others. Normally you wouldn't have been bothered at missing the gooey pie filling, having never had much of a taste for them, but apparently it was imperative that you have an endless supply of them for the elderly relatives that were visiting your parents' house in the morning.

As you hunted around the almost-barren shelves for even just one tin of cranberries, a name called out to you.

"Y/N?"

You stopped combing through the items and stood up to your full height, a smile planted on our face. You hadn't heard that voice in years.

"Matthew?"

He walked up to and you embraced.

"What are you up to at this hour?"

You gestured towards the shelves. "Thanks to brother/sister I have to try and find cranberries but they're all out of fresh ones and I'm hoping in vain that they have some in a tin somewhere seeing as everywhere else is either closed or out of them."

Matthew laughed, sheepishly brandishing a can at you. "I think I may have just got the last one..."

"Damn you, Gubler!" You laughed. At least you could sleep easy knowing that you had tried everything in order to find what was apparently the most important part of Christmas, as though it were the sweet baby Jesus himself.

He handed it over to you with a grin, "Have it."

"I couldn't possibly, Matt." You tried to hand them back over but he wouldn't accept your gesture. "Thank you. Can I offer you..." You scoured the shelves. "A tin of clam chowder as a form of repayment for owing you one?"

He scrunched his nose, pulling a sickly face to make you laugh.

He shook his head; "Just promise me that you'll stop by mom and dad's on the 26th."

You nodded your head, "It's a deal."