#oswink

Summary: Danny is ambushed but this is a fight he really doesn’t mind losing.

Pairing: Danny x Clara || Rating: All ages

Note: For Day Thirteen of 31 Days of Ficmas: prompt “snowball fight.”

AO3

The snowball landed on the back of Danny’s jacket with a wet thunk as he walked away from the school. He sighed and turned, expecting to see a student fleeing the scene but instead found Clara, cheeks and nose pink with the cold and eyes sparkling as she grinned at him.

“Oh, you’re in for it now,” he said, smile stealing over his face.

“You’re on.”

Clara dipped quickly and scooped up a handful of snow. She was still compacting it when Danny threw his first projectile. It burst against Clara’s shoulder, sending snow into her face and she laughed, retaliating immediately with a throw that went wide.

They traded snowballs, circling closer to each other in the school courtyard. Danny was trying to scoop another handful of snow when Clara barreled into him, knocking him onto his back with her on top of him, both of them breathless from laughter.

“I win,” she said, smiling down at him.

“If you insist,” he said. “To the victor go the spoils, so what can I do for you?”

I mean, partially I think you’re picking up on aspects that are part of what they were going for. From “Because I love him!” to “Those words from me are yours now...”, Clara gets caught up in the idea of a grand romantic love story, maybe more than she actually makes an effort to really make this relationship work. And she knows it, too, by the end. “I wasn’t very good at it, but I did love you.” Not that Danny is really all that better at love.

Do you know why people get together at Christmas? Because every time they do, it might be the last time. Every Christmas is last Christmas, and this is ours. This was a bonus. This is extra. But now it’s time to wake up.