or vampires love goodbyes and the opportunity to mess with humans.

Thanks to @sazmags for the idea!

Matthias de Clermont died on Spetember 18th 1848.

Well, he didn't. But he was needed on another assignment, and they had already been in London for a few decades. So, a funeral was needed.

Miyako took the opportunity to don her best funeral outfit - a well fitted black gown and veil. She had always enjoyed a good funeral.

"My brother was a good man," Baldwin began solemnly, "Such a good man. I'm just sad that syphilis got him. But at least it wasn't another venereal disease."

Some gasped in the pews. Even the priest was perturbed.

Freyja was next, "I was Matthais' mistress. I loved him more than his witch of a wife!" She was 'escorted' away by Marcus.

Meanwhile, in the open coffin, Matthew was trying not to laugh, as humans in the crowd, who thought he was married to Miriam.

Miriam was sat in the front, trying not to laugh in the front - she wore a veil, so everyone else thought she was crying into Philippe's shoulder.

Gallowglass was next, "I just want you all to know, Matt owed me £200 betting on the horses. Who do I collect from?"

Afterwards, when all the humans had left the wake and said their condolences, Miriam knocked on the coffin, letting Matthew know it was safe to come out.

"Well, that was fun." Matthew said, sitting up, "Did you have to jump in the grave?"

Marcus shrugged, "Why not?" He dramatically threatened to go with him.

"I do like those flowers." Ysabeau said, looking over a bouquet, "Can we take them?"

"You want my funeral flowers, mother?"

Requested by @patrickian the AdoW folks rent a car and return it only to get hit with stupid charges. How does the gang deal with it? Bonus points for Em & Sarah, Knox, Fernando, and Godfrey.

Note - I have a fear of rental car companies

I do adore this chaotic trio!

"Come on!" Marcus begged.

"No, I am not-"

"Think of how happy the twins will be!" Miyako said.

"Take them in the city where there is a Santa!" Gallowglass said.

Marcus and Miyako looked at each other and nodded, and Miyako spoke first, "So you would rather we put them on the lap of a strange man?"

"What? No-"

"You never know who is under that Santa suit," Marcus said in the same tone.

Gallowglass glared at his cousins before taking the suit, "I hate you both."

So on December 24th, when everyone was gathered to open Christmas Eve presents, 'Santa' entered the room with a large sack.

"Santa!" The twins chanted excitedly, running over to their cousin. Ysabeau held back a laugh, whilst Freyja didn't. They all knew it was the Scottish warrior of the family in full Santa gear.

"This is a wondrous sight," Baldwin held up his phone and took photographs, as did Matthew. Both would say it was for the twin's memories

"I believe this is a Christmas we will look back at and laugh at for years," Diana said as the twins came back, showing what Santa had brought for Christmas Eve.

"I believe a slideshow will be needed," Marcus said

Its Baldwin in his hippie faze that no one knows about.

Until she shows them all the evidence that he, is in fact, a flower child.

Haha, the chaos of this!

All the vampires can live without electricity, they have various ways to entertain themselves.

But the problem is how they entertain themselves - what they see as objects to do with what they please, Phoebe and Diana see as precious artefacts.

Matthew's reading one of his many tomes and Diana is trying not to cringe at how he is just cracking the spine like it's a magazine in a doctor's office.

Then this man gives his teething twins books and Diana almost has a panic attack. Pip likes the taste of Victor Hugo, Rebecca prefers Dumas.

Marcus and Gallowglass have seemed to make it their mission to give Phoebe a heart attack because they play hot potato with a Frabrige egg.

Lowkey makes Phoebe re-think the whole forever thing because as much as she loves Marcus if he continues throwing around a musket.

Why do they still have these? Philippe used to welcome Marcus home by shooting at him. So Gallowglass and Marcus decide to try and shoot at each other from different towers to see who has better aim.

Baldwin is almost hoping one of them kills the other. Reduces the stress.

Diana had been absolutely insistant when Baldwin rang the previous fortnight to ask what it was the twins wanted for Christmas.

‘Pip’s got his heart set on having a go of that Jouef train set you’ve got in the attic, and Becca wants nail polish’

‘Lipstick too, or-’

‘No, no, just nail polish’

He had felt very hurt then to discover, on Christmas Day, that Diana had said the exact same thing to every other member of the family. The end result being that his fairly modest box (a sensible size for a six year old) was lost among enough deluxe makeup bags to sink an armada.

But Becca had been ecstatic and hugged him anyway, so that made him feel a bit better.

He had gifted Pip the train set, his nephew’s eyes lighting up like hot coals. Marcus had given Pip a conductor’s hat, and he and Baldwin had helped Pip set everything up in the living room once the piles of torn wrapping paper were cleared away.

Now it was Boxing Day and Pip, hat perched on his head and one of his father’s business jackets swamping his small frame, was sitting stoically on the carpet, providing running commentary as the trains whirred round the track.

His sister was off on the other side of the room, carefully tying an enormous red bow to her familiar’s head. The monstrosity had been wrapped around Phoebe’s new car, a present from Marcus, and Becca had gleefully announced that it would make a wonderful hat for Luna.

‘Hands out like this on the carpet, please’ Becca held her hands up, spreading her fingers wide, and then placing them both palms-down onto the floor. Luna copied her, thin bony claws digging ever so slightly into the shagpile.

Baldwin watched with fond amusement as Becca carefully selected several pots of nail polish from one of her new makeup bags, and began to delicately paint the pterodactyl’s nails.

Do you think they keep score?