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The cozy mood and his full stomach lure him to sleep. Hewakes up by a light shake and a warm hand on his shoulder. His eyelids flutteropen and he finds the soft look of his commander starring at him. It feels likea dream at first, especially when the aroma of warm apple pie fills the air. “Jess,”Reyes calls softly.

“Hm?”

“C’mon,” Gabriel smiles before he shoves something on Jesse’shead. He feels a fuzzy rim on his forehead and can guess it’s a Santa hat.

“Where’re we goin’?” Jesse mumbles as he sits up.

Gabriel straightens up and Jesse takes the full image ofhim. He’s wearing jeans, a dark red sweater and a long coat over it. His curlsare messy and his eyes twinkling. “We aren’t gonna let you spend Christmas evealone.”

“It’s fine,” Jesse tries to smile, but in reality heprobably was gonna pass the night, curled up in a ball on his cold bed, achingfor something he never had in the first place.

Gabriel raises an eyebrow, knowing better, “C’mon vaquero.Turkey’s getting cold and I bet you’re already hungry.”

He was in fact getting hungry. “How long was I asleep?”

Gabriel shrugs, “We better hurry before you sleep again.” Hiscommander smiles before he walks out and McCree hesitates to follow him, butdoes after Reyes disappears from his view. Jesse catches with him in the halland when Gabriel looks back, and Jesse’s heart flutters. It’s like a modelcaught on camera: one side of the coat soaring back with the steps he takes,his hair perfectly mess and a smile worth a thousand words. Jesse feels hischeeks burning and lowers his head with the excuse of fixing his hair and hat.

The hall McCreefollows Reyes into is unknown to him, until Reyes enters through a door andJesse realizes why. It’s a bedroom, big enough to almost be a studio apartment.There’s a kitchenette where Jack is wearing a Santa hat as well and a blueseater. He smiles at the cowboy fondly before Gabriel approaches him and kisshim on the lips. Jesse looks away from the intimate moment to the living roomwith a small dining table across from it. There’s also a short hall withanother door, Jesse guesses it’s the bedroom, but his attention is mainly onthe big tree in the living room with a few presents underneath. In fact, therest of the place is nicely decorated, and it’s cozy and warm.

The smell of turkey waters his mouth and he looks back atthe kitchen where Gabriel’s taking it out of the oven. Jack approaches him andpats him lightly on the back. “Merry Christmas eve, Jesse.”

“Thanks,” McCree smiles warmly.

“Make yourself at home,” Gabriel says, nodding towards thecouch in front of the tree. “Dinner will be ready soon.”

Jesse nods nervously before Jack asks, “What do you wannadrink? Beer, water, soda?”

“Beers fine,” Jesse beams to the offering and Jack nodsbefore he retrieves to finish up setting the table.

McCree’s makes his way to the tree to have a closer look.The main decorations are round ornaments, ones in green and other in green, buta few ornaments stand out like a toy soldier, a small gingerbread house, a jugof beer with fake foam spilling out of the rim, and a blue bird.

His curiosity makes him gaze down at the presents for a glimpseand reads the names, there are two from Gabriel to Jack, and other two viceversa. He looks at the door, hearing voices approaching, but makes a doubletake back at the gifts when he catches his name on the remaining two. Hecrunches down and grabs both on each hand, one’s from Gabe, and the other’sfrom Jack. He has never even spoken for five full minutes to the OverwatchStrike Commander, and there’s a present for him under his tree. And he’s havingdinner with both, as if they do this every year.

“Dinner’s ready,” Jack calls softly and Jesse bites his lipsfrom smiling to big, or crying. He places the presents down and joins the twomen at the four chair table.

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When the three of them are satisfy and full, they each takea piece of cherry pie to the couch to watch over the tree and talk for a bit.Jack tells stories about the farm and how both met. The whole time they talk,Jesse tries to ignore how close both bodies are to him, while he’s in themiddle. And the more time passes and they finish their desert, the more each loungeback to relax after a nice meal until they’re lazily watching a movie on the TVby the tree.

Jesse looks around at the unusual and unexpected scene. Bothmen make him feel safe as they sit by his sides, and warm when they laugh. Hisheart quakes with the vibration of their laugh and it causes a fever over hisskin.

Jack is the first to drift asleep and he notices whenGabriel elbows him lightly and scoffs at his partner. Jesse looks over andchuckles at the way Jack’s head is leaned back, his lips parted and a littledrool rolling down the corner of his mouth. He could easily snap a picture andshare it on the Blackwatch group chat. But then he thinks that might jeopardizespending next year like this and decides against it.

“He always falls first,” Gabriel murmurs close to Jesse’s ear andthe agent’s cheeks blush.

“I can leave, it’s late anyways,” Jesse offers.

“Nah, it’s not even midnight, he likes to open a gift aftermidnight and the other in the morning. “Bet you’d like that too?”

Jesse smirks, “I won’t say no to gifts. Sorry I didn’t getyou anything.”