That Modern AU: Secret Santa
orĀ āThat one time everyne got Extra(tm) for the Secret Santa thing for no reason at allā, from this post and all this series of edits and headcanons:
- It all started with the gang doing Secret Santa and Kitty finding out about it. She thought it was a fun idea and lowkey dropped hints that she wanted in and was ready to guilt trip them into accepting, until Jackie suggested she, Red and Bob should participate, since they are using the house as the place for the exchange and they need someone else since Buddy was in.
- Laurie came home that time, seeing how everyone was getting ready for the event, she made Fez into getting her in and they were back to square one where they needed someone else. Kitty invited Pastor Dave at the same time Hyde invited Leo, and they were back at it.
- So Hyde told his dad and Angie, making sure this time that no one else had invited anyone else so the number wonāt be wanky again. They almost suceed, but then Brooke hear them talk about it and they felt awkward for not including her, so Donna invited her.
- They spend the long of the last week of November thinking who they could add, and then Fez went official with Caroline for the second time, and in a desperate move, Eric invited her.
- Red did the papers to sort everyone out and changed his for, like, three times until Kitty called him out. The first round, most people werenāt ok with their picks, so there was a second one and a third, by the fourth Red made them all into accepting their partner and shut the fuck up.
- It began lowkey, people getting notes and candies, nothing out the normal, and then one day Brooke gets a book, Donna gets a vynil, and so on until people are getting jewerly and watches and straight up money.
- No one knows why suddenly every gifted got so extra, but everyone also knows they are not doing this ever again unless thereās a money limit for everyone because, wow, the rich people in the group are ruining other peopleās life.
- A phone appears in Ericās locker. Itās one of those cheap ones you can get on every Seven Eleven, but still. Itās from his gifter. He gets texts from them every day. Whoever the gifter is, they have won the Extra(tm award.
- Everyone starts doing bets on who is Ericās gifter and what he will be getting the big day, Red puts down every bet on a board in the basement with a count down until the big day.
- It turns out to be Jackie and everyone has lost their money because they thought it was Buddy. Buddy was Brookeās gifter, so he was the one who started everything.
- Thereās a money limit for next yearās Secret Santa.
- Everyone remembers the experience with fondness, though.