𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙠𝙖𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙆𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙨 is alive, after much relief and screaming from Ivory and him. Mostly Faith screaming at Klaus for allowing her to believe she had lost another parent. Rebekah had tried to calm them down and Elijah had watched with amusement. Will sat back and ignored them, Scarlett paid no attention along with Zach.

"The council is dead." Zach says walking inside Ivory's home.

"Well, at least our secret is safe away with the dead." Will jokes, "too soon?" He asks, Scarlett bites down her bottom lip, to prevent herself from laughing.

"Great. Jeremy just let me told me we have a hunter in town." Scarlett says reading her text message. "Tyler was attacked in his own home, dad they are asking why certain members weren't at the council meeting." She says.

"He'll come check on me." He says. "So you two better not come out while I deal with him."

"We have a service to go to, April's dad Pastor Young passed away, I use to babysit her." Scarlett says.

"Don't shake anyone's hand." Ivory says. The twins nod and they go off to prepare for the service.

           𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙞𝙛𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚, she had even gotten Dean and Sams sent. She had set the house up, with Christmas decorations with the help of Rebekah.

"You're used to doing Christmas big?" Rebekah asks Scarlett who nods.

"Yeah, my parents, they always made it magical for my siblings and I." Scarlett smiles fondly thinking of the last Christmas with her parents and family.

The Gilbert home was decorated beautifully for Christmas, Grayson was cooking alongside Scarlett. Elena and Miranda baked a cake, as Jeremy helped set up the last minute decorations for dinner.

"Can we open presents early this year?" Jeremy asks.

"NO!" Elena and Scarlett yelled making Jenna and Miranda laugh. Grayson shook his head at his kids,

"Is Tyler coming over?" Jenna asks Scarlett.

She shook her head, "Mason and the rest of the family are coming over."

"Yuke, Lockwood reunion." Jenna commented making Jeremy and Elena laugh. "More like asswood." Jeremy mumbled making Scarlett laugh. At the dinner table, the Gilberts all sat at the table and ate telling stories and all.

"Scarlett?"Rebekah brought her out of her thoughts, she smiled softly at the young girl.

"I uhm, can cook for dinner." Scarlett smiles.

"Yeah, I can help." Rebekah smiles.

"The council memorial is on the twenty-six." Faith said walking towards the girls.

"We're going before the hunter gets suspicious." Zach announced. "I can help with cooking, the dinner."

"Well, we have everything ready for tomorrow we just need to cook." Rebekah said.

𝙕𝙖𝙘𝙝, 𝙍𝙚𝙗𝙚𝙠𝙖𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 family as Will and Ivory did pastries. Klaus played music and Elijah read in the lounge.

"Dinners almost ready." Rebekah announced.

"Hey!" Kol greeted entering with feshly baked goods from Faith's favorite bakery.

"You brought Momma Moon?" Faith smiled smelling the delicious freshly baked good.

"It smells so good." Will smiled, as his stomach growled hungrily.

          𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙪𝙥𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢 𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 for bed when incoming call from a familiar number entered. 

"Hello?" Scarlett answered quickly, hoping that he liked his gift and Sam as well.

"You're never short on surprises, are you doll?" He asks making her smile and laugh.

"What would be the fun in that?" She asks making him laugh.

"Scarlett Salvatore," He breathes out. "Merry Christmas Eve." He says smiling over the other side of the phone.

"Did you get the gifts?" She asks, not being able to hide her excitement.

"We got them, thank you." he says taking a pause, "Sam's excited to open them and I we will follow instructions to wait till midnight."

She chuckles and nods smiling, "Thank you," The two talk for a few until Kol calls dinner is about to start. "Dean?" She says taking a pause, "Merry Christmas Eve."He smiles unaware to her.

She made her way downstairs after ending the call and the Mikaelson and Salvatore gathered around the table, dinner was ready. The twins were being civil. The family each made a toast and Ivory insisted on each of them making them say something they were great for.

Ivory began feeling blessed for her family yo be alive and well, then it was Zach's turn who was grateful for having the kids in his life. Kol was happy he wasn't in a box, Nik, Rebekah and Elijah were grateful for their family's well being and being together tonight on Christmas Eve for a family dinner.

"I'm grateful for family, for spending a wonderful Christmas and to many more. For my little sister and my parents." Will smiles.

Scarlett smiles and nods, "I uhm, I'm very happy we're all here today on Christmas Eve as a family and for us being alive. For my brother having my back even when I had no clue he was alive or my brother."

They toast and begin eating among talking, they share stories. Will brings up an embarrassing story of Nik, which ended in a many embarrassing stories of the family members.

After their dinner, the family moved to the living drinking hot chocolate, Have Yourself a Very Merry Little Christmas by Frank Sinatra playing on the record player. Ivory and Elijah are dancing and Klaus smiles at his daughter.

"She doesn't step on my toes anymore." Elijah comments making Rebekah and Klaus laugh. Scarlett leans on her dad seeing, as Klaus then dances with her mom, Elijah makes his way to her and they dance.

"Not bad." He comments making her chuckle a little.

"Not bad old man." She teases making him chuckle. They for a few and Zach joins Scarlett, Rebekah and Will danced.

"Thanks dad." She whispers, "For everything, thanks." She leans on him and he hugs her kissing her forehead.

'It's snowing!" Kol yells, catching everyones' attention, there was a small layer of snow. The family heads outside and Kol throws a snowball at Ivory and she makes one back trying to get him but accidentally hits her dad. Rebekah and Scarlett laugh loudly at this, Nik looks annoyed but begins making one and they begin having s snowball fight and the family laughs and have fun. Like an normal regular family.

"I'm sorry for hurting you." Scarlett tells Will as they take cover behind Elijah's car from their parents.

"Thank you for apologizing, help me get mom and dad and you're forgiven." Will speaks, she smiled and nods as they make many more snowballs and they use their magic to fly them hitting their parents and they both laugh before they begin running away.

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I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, it was a quiet one, and family oriented. Don't forget to vote, comment and share. Stay safe guys and check out my new books, Fairchild Woman, and Fairchild Doppelgänger. I am really enjoying writing these books. I have so many new ideas.
|| Updated September 17, 2020 ||