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grizz wakes up first, far too excited to sleep through the morning, he takes special care not to wake sam up (who sleeps almost until midday – being a dad is tiring stuff guys)

whilst sam is asleep, grizz starts preparing for the christmas lunch (pretty simple stuff but grizz enjoys cooking and would never let sam go near the oven considering all he can make is burnt toast)

grizz would usually help his mom christmas day (his dad being far too occupied to do anything for the family)

after a while, sam, very sleepily, manages to force himself out of bed to join grizz in his plaid pjs (how cute would he look?)

grizz is already wearing a ridiculously ugly christmas jumper which sam loves even though he wouldn’t be seen dead in it (it’s seriously ugly but grizz rocks it ofc)

whilst grizz cooks their dinner, sam sets the table and brings down the few presents each have got for each other, carefully placing them around their small tree

the tree is grizz’s parents; quite small but good enough, both sam and grizz spent one afternoon decorating it together but spent most of the time bickering over who had the nicest decorations

it’s a mishmash of old decorations from the eliot’s and some handmade ones grizz’s mother made

christmas dinner is simple but sweet, grizz didn’t want to make too much fuss and sam enjoyed that

before becca and eden join them for opening presents, the two sit down to give each other their presents

sam made grizz promise to only give something small; he always thought smaller presents were more meaningful. grizz didn’t listen ofc but neither did sam – the two were very competitive over getting the best present

sam had scoured almost every single house and building in new ham until he found the perfect present for grizz

a few days before christmas day he’d finally found an original copy of Frankenstein, grizz’s favourite book

grizz was definitely the most excited to give sam his present and pretty proud of himself; he was never one for buying grand presents, but he was happy with the present

when he left for the expedition, grizz started writing again, only little pieces of how he was feeling, what he was thinking. Most of these started out about being in the open air, being one with nature but they all turned back to the one thing that grizz couldn’t escape from: sam

he’d started writing just about sam and only him, sometimes just little things he’d remember to keep him going – the way he smelt, the way his eyes glistened, that damn smile

he wrote about him every day during the expedition; and even afterward, when they reconciled, he carried on, it just became second nature to him, and it was only a week or so ago when he realised, he could show sam or give it to sam

grizz insists that sam gives the present first; he can see how excited sam is but is also still pretty wary about giving his present (he’d never shown anyone his writing before, but it made sense for sam to be the first)

grizz hoped sam would give him a book and is honoured he’d remembered his favourite book (even though of course sam would)

opening the gift, sam eyes flicker from slight confusion to absolute awe that grizz would put so much work and effort into a present for him

he spends the next 10 minutes carefully and intently reading every page and piece, at least twice until he’s soaked it all up and realises how much he’s in love with it and the boy sitting beside him who gave it to him

becca comes along with eden mid-afternoon; grizz found an old version of a very hungry caterpillar for eden and one of his mom’s pendant for becca (it’s a midnight blue which he thought would go well with her skin tone)

for becca, sam had made her a pair of gloves and a scarf; eden some booties and mittens (he loves to knit whenever he gets the chance)

becca and eden gave sam a photo album becca had started making a few weeks after arriving in new ham, full of photos of their friends, special occasions, and grizz an embroidered notebook

in the evening the house becomes full of their friends – allie, will, gordie, bean, mickey, gwen, kelly, helena, luke etc and they all watch a muppets christmas carol bc it’s sam’s and luke’s favourite christmas film and they both insist on watching it and nothing else (these two are brilliant sulkers as grizz and helena know only too well)

everyone finally agrees and eat cookies that helena baked with the help of luke (he badly decorated them, but he tried)

sam forces grizz to wear one of the many santa hats gordie brings round to get everyone in the mood (and sam is actually surprised how cute he looks)

grizz spends the whole time watching sam enjoy the film, barely paying attention to the weird puppets or michael caine (even though he loved the muppets when he was younger)

grizz did this a lot, whenever the two would sit down to watch a film on netflix he’d last about five minutes before he stopped watching the film and watched sam instead; sam was far more interesting

sam knew he did this, sometimes he’d try to get grizz’s attention back to the film but other times he’d leave him be, quietly and secretly loving every minute of grizz’s longing and loving stares

allie and will bring some of the pressman’s old board games (monopoly, kerplunk, cluedo, twister etc) and carry on the family tradition of playing at least 2 board games on Christmas Day

during a game of battleships; elle arrives (mostly bc of helena’s nagging) and brings some homemade mince pies (dw, she didn’t use any poison this time)

luke gets drunk on eggnog and no one actually knows how he did it but helena decides a luke drunk on eggnog is too much to handle and takes his home before he gets too much