(no subject)

[icarus]

Christmas Lilies
by Icarus



The Weasley family home sparkled with Christmas decorations. Harry, Ron, Fred and Percy sprawled out on the couch, too full (or in Fred's case, tone deaf) to join the rest of the family caroling. A couple last Christmas presents were brought out from under the tree.

"You open yours first, Percy." Harry nodded, handing him a rather heavy, paper-wrapped box.

Percy struggled with the Muggle wrapping paper for several minutes.

"I give up. How does it open?"

"It's taped. You just rip the paper," Harry explained.

"Ah." Percy meticulously tore the paper. "Though I don't see how they can reuse the paper if it's ripped."

"You don't." Harry shrugged, and watched Percy eye the box with a slight puzzled frown.

"Tsk-tsk," Percy shook his head, "wasteful."

Fred snickered. "And to think Dad's missing this..."

Ron craned his neck to see without actually getting up. "What is it?"

A slightly embarrassed smile lit Percy's face as he read: "'A desktop lily pond... soothing sounds for the busy office...' Thank you." His eyes met Harry's briefly, and the smile threatened to break into a grin. "Now open mine."

Harry already had Percy's gift in hand. He flicked the magical wrapping points and then tore the paper off the tiny box. It was the sort of velvet box you got from a jeweler. "Oh no..."

"Now, now, don't jump to conclusions," Percy admonished. But he looked smug.

Inside the box was a pair of silver cufflinks. Set with an embossed image of water lilies. Harry blushed and grinned, and then shook his head. "They're nice."

His eyebrows flicked up at Percy, and they both struggled not to laugh. Percy's ears turned pink with the effort, while Harry beamed.

Fred glanced suspiciously from one to the other. "Since when do you two exchange presents?"

Ron shook his head, though he still refused to move from his comfortable slouch. "All right. That's three years in a row now. What is up with all the water lilies?"

"It's an inside joke, Ron," Percy said smoothly. He set the miniature lily pond gently on the floor.

"Yeah. You, er, had to be there," Harry added. Though he looked rather sheepish as he slipped the box into his pocket.



Finis.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

And the guessing game goes on. ;)

I'll tell you someday. *grins*

~Icarus

[lilybbloom.livejournal.com]

oooooh a game! i love games. this should be good. btw, do any of your (lj) friends know or is it a universal enigma?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

See if you can guess without asking. ;)

My first girlfriend was Kelly (but we never even kissed).

My first boyfriend was Jeff (he scared the shit out of me).

My best friend was lesbian. My other best friend blew me off because they didn't like my answer on the 'gay' question.

I'm almost exclusively a top, because that's just the way I am.

Almost exclusively.

And the love of my life wears a dress (but not in public).

Enough clues for you?

~Icarus

[lilybbloom.livejournal.com]

hmmmm.... please don't tell me that this is ridiculously obvious. :(
i can't figure it out!!! not everyone is as smart as you :D (grovel, grovel)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ridiculously obvious? This is deliberately confusing! Tell you what. You guess, tell me why you think one or the other -- and then I'll tell you if you're right. The reason I don't say has more to do with kind of an interesting social experiment on people's assumptions than anything else.

Icarus