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Thank you for all the asks. Looking forward to all the Sam shenanigans.

Here's the first of many to come. Hope you enjoy it!

For the kisses asks

Sam Wilson + Morning kiss

The alarm silently buzzes under your pillow. You paw at your phone, half blind and turn it off. Sam is thankfully still asleep next to you, arm carelessly slung around your middle. He returned late last night from a week long mission and you want to let him get his rest.

Thank you for the ask!

The Yates family definitely love watching Christmas movies together. Although, Molly and Emily detest the Rankin/Bass holiday specials except for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. For Molly's first Christmas, David bought The Snowman on VHS and it has been a regular part of the Yates family Christmas viewing list ever since. Mike bought a copy for when they visited him for Christmas. David replaced the well-loved videotape with a DVD when they moved to the UK. Other staples are at least one adaptation of A Christmas Carol, the first two Home Alone films, and Miracle on 34th Street. After the girls got a little older and arguments ensued over what is considered a Christmas movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Die Hard, and Love Actually would join the lineup.

As for food, it's going to be a traditional British Christmas meal, or as close as David can get to it when living in the US. That's not to say that the girls love every dish. They get tired of turkey and hate both Brussels sprouts and fruitcake. Mike always makes Yorkshire pudding. David loves to bake, as he used to do so with his mother when he was young. But as the girls were born and raised in the United States for their formative years, he did have to adapt to some American traditions. Baking Christmas cookies and decorating gingerbread houses are mandatory but fun family activities. They'll even get a bit competitive about it. The girls definitely left out milk and cookies for Santa.

When they were little, David and Mike would take turns reading classic Christmas stories to the girls.

Molly and Emily didn't get to enjoy Christmas crackers until visiting Mike in England for the first time.

Tagging anyone who might be interested in my Doctor Who OC Molly Yates: @curiousdamage @witchofthemidlands @cecexwrites @tempests-of-hope @bardic-tales

For whoever currently has your attention most:

If your character could have one object, what would it be? Why would they choose this object? What would they do with it?

Hiiii thanks for asking! I am very very behind on all of this lol.

You’re my seamstress but I’m in love with you so I routinely fuck up my outfits to have an excuse to see you AU

hahahaa ironically im pretty sure i already wrote this au for SPN! maybe I can write another with another fandom! thanks for choosing!

Jake:

Sexuality Headcanon: Heterosexual

Gender Headcanon: Cishet.

A ship I have with said character: Annie. But for Jake in canon, I wish they had paired him with the teacher in One Lullaby, not forever, but for that episode. I do wish they had given him a good love interest in the show that wasn't as forced as his eventual love interest was.

A BROTP I have with said character: Hank obviously.

A NOTP I have with said character: Both Teresa and Dorothy. I like the idea for both of them, but the writing for them was horrible. With Dorothy, it seemed like they were both just doing it to spite Loren and it went on too long. 

For Teresa, it was just like ‘it’s the last season. Better shove this in somewhere.’

They could have done the story arc with Teresa so much better if they had just developed it a little more. 

A random headcanon: I have two. 

One: He had a soft spot for Loren because Loren treated him more like a son than his real father ever had. 

Two: He’s never spent the night with any of the women at the saloon because he doesn’t want to take advantage of their desperation. Having grown up on the streets, he knows how that desperation feels. However, he doesn’t object to Hank employing them because they are going to do it regardless and at least working for Hank offers them some protection and safety that they wouldn’t have on their own. He also tries to talk Hank into letting Myra out of her contract when she wants to marry Horace. 

General Opinion over said character: I think he had a lot of potential for character arc and growth if the show hadn’t been written in a way that made it so that Dr. Mike and her family could only be the only right or progressive characters. I’ve talked about this before, but there are lots of scenes where he acted in ways that showed he was changing his bigoted ideas only to have the writers reverse that in the next episode so that there was someone for Dr. Mike to argue with, like calling for Dr. Mike to treat Cloud Dancing to keep the soldiers from being able to imprison him in another territory when he would have been more than capable to treat him on his own.

Annie:

Sexuality Headcanon: Heterosexual

Gender Headcanon: Cishet.

A ship I have with said character: Jake, but also, under different circumstances, she and Roger could have been a good match for each other. 

A BROTP I have with said character: Abigail before her death, and Clarice to a lesser degree, also before the death, but I hope she’ll take over Olive’s place as the friend willing to call Dr. Mike out on occasion. 

A NOTP I have with said character: Slight spoilers, but Martin and even though I said above that she and Roger could be good for each other, I’m going to put Roger on this list because they just aren’t right. 

A random headcanon: Annie had internalized so many of Maude’s comments about her looks and relationship prospects, that had she not met Jake in the way she did, a way that forced her to have a real, meaningful interaction with him, she would have never had a relationship with him or anyone else. She subconsciously protected herself from being hurt by projecting an air of disinterest and detachment that few could get past. 

General Opinion over said character: I created her, so I like her a lot. LOL. So I’ll just talk some more about her. She’s smart, loving, and kind, but also can be cold and distant. I would say more, but it might be spoilers.  

My Fictional Valentines pt 10

Also, just to throw something else in there that's more specific, what's his favourite colour?

David Yates was raised primarily by a single mother, Kathleen. He met his father, Mike, when he was in secondary school. But he and Mike didn't have much of a relationship as Kathleen's parents took David in after she passed from cancer and they held a grudge for Mike getting her pregnant in the first place. David had a great relationship with his mother, who instilled a love of cooking and baking in him. She also encouraged David's interest in art and drawing. His grandparents believed in "tough love" and weren't big on showing affection. With some help and encouragement from Mike, David chose to go to the United States for further studies and to work, partly to get away from his domineering grandparents.

David is a very hands-on father, taking after his mother, but knew from the start that he wanted to include his father in his daughters' lives. David is kinda unlucky in love. He definitely fell hard and fast for Zara. It was more "lust at first sight", but he was very close to saying the L-word when Zara disappeared on him. After she dumped two children on him and had no further contact, David is determined to keep his romantic and family lives separate until he meets the right woman because he doesn't want Molly and Emily to get attached if things don't work out. It doesn't always work out for him, though. Molly, who was supposed to be at a sleepover, walked in when a girlfriend was undressing him on the living room sofa. That was not something he enjoyed explaining to his five-and-a-half-year-old. They really liked a few women he went on dates with in London, including a fiery redheaded temp from Chiswick.

David's hobbies include drawing, reading, baking, cooking, watching films, motorcycles, football, rugby, and running. His favorite team is the Tottenham Hotspurs.