TMNT Secret Santa - Part 1

TMNT Secret Santa for DNLnamek01
Raphael x Mona Lisa
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Silent night



Initially, she wondered quietly to herself. How had he known? How did he guess? She hadn’t ever spoken of the matter, he had never asked. Yet, here she was, holding a snow globe between her dainty hands, her side covered in goose bumps at the touch of his skin. He was freezing cold. That idiot. That fool. Going out in a snow storm to find her present. That idiot. How did he find a way to make her love him each time more with each of these rash decisions of his?
Mona’s eyes, glimmering with the orange flame of the lair’s fireplace, intently watched as the snow drifted softly within the snow globe. The cloud like pieces laid themselves upon the small wooden house within the glass ornament, getting caught on the little branches of a delicately carved tree resting just beside the house. Her voice was silenced in order to hear the gentle and near to bell like sounds that the snow globe made in tune to old Christmas carols. With each little tink of the machine, she saw herself, years ago, chin rested on her dinner table as she once more stared into her mother’s snow globe, a family relic. She had spent hours a day in front of the snow globe when she was little. Her mother would always laugh whenever Mona had hurriedly taken the globe and given it wind to sing again. At the time, Mona had believed that there was nothing more beautiful than that little globe. Unfortunately, it was one of the many things she lost after her unwilling transformation.
However, here she was. As the song slowed down and came to stop, her eyes lifted to Raphael. How had he known? How had he guessed that she had missed this every holiday?
He brought a clumsy hand to the back of his neck, having not expected Mona to be so mesmerized by the present. Scratching sheepishly, he spoke with his usual New Yorker accent, voice deep and raspy. “Knew you’d like it… don’ know how, just kinda knew…”
Mona remained stunned, however soon her lips curled into a gentle smile. I guess that’s one of the things that happens to couples this close. They just start knowing things about each other without ever needing to hear it from the other. She rested the snow globe on her lap, bringing her hands to her scarf and carefully unwrapping it. “Well, next time, try not to freeze yourself to death just to get me a present, Raph.” She answered with a tinge of playfulness in her voice, bringing the scarf around his neck as well and tying it back so that the two of them would be closer together.
At first, Raphael frowned in response to her comment. Yet, he relaxed as Mona curled the scarf around his neck. His arms came up around her waist, hugging her closer as a satisfied grin stretched over his lips. Christmas indeed.
Mona laughed gently under her breath, leaning her head enough to give the red clad brother a kiss on the cheek, one hand rested on his knee and the other cradling the snow globe to her lap.
And, at the time, Mona knew that there was nothing more beautiful than spending Christmas night in front of a fireplace, beside Raph. She’d have it no other way.

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And then soon came the morrow,
In which you swept away my sorrow,
And tied me in your arms until the night.
Come whatever may,
For here is what I say,
I’ll know love so long as I have you in sight.