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Christmas Party! Millitimed Vaguely to "Sometime Around Christmas"

Anne and Amy have been very very busy over the last week or so, transforming their usually simple white room into the perfect place for a Christmas party.

There are garlands of holly and balsam strung around the room, leading away from the wreath between the windows (and there's a grumpy looking crow, perched in the middle of the wreath, trying to figure out how to get the red ribbon from around his neck). A Christmas tree, candles ablaze, stands in one corner, with presents tucked under its branches.

Welcome, dear friend, to Anne and Amy's Christmas party.

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There's a nice young man at the refreshments table, who has chased Simon Perryvall over this way, and is now attempting to keep him from seeing the nuts.

It's really quite hard.

Gilbert looks at him.

"What are doing?"

"It's Simon Perryvall," Perry says, rather helplessly.

"Give a fellow a hand, will you, and distract him with something?"

Gilbert reaches out, selects a sugar cookie, and hands it to Simon Perryvall, who chatters and then settles down to happily reduce it to a pile of crumbs.

Distracting Simon Perryvall is not difficult, really.

He looks at the other man, clearly amused.

"Thanks," Perry says, and sticks out his hand.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Peregrine. Perry, really. Nice party, isn't it?"

Even if there isn't any strawberry ice cream.

"Gilbert Blythe, of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1881," says Gil, taking the other man's hand. "You must be a friend of Amy's. Anne hasn't mentioned you."

Peregrine had better be a friend of Amy's.

"Oh, yes," Perry says, easily, shaking Gilbert's hand cheerfully. "We're from the same place, you know. We even work in the same castle. Isn't that a funny coincidence?"

"A little," says Gil. "Did you know each other before you got here?"

"Not in the least. I was never in the kitchens very often, you see. Are you a friend of Amy's, then?"

"Mostly of Anne's, but I've met Amy a handful of times," he says. "When I was Bound I lived across the hall, so we ran into each fairly frequently. And I know her brother."

Perry's face falls.

"Her brother. I hear he may be after me with a sword, soon."

He looks around, before continuing.

"I kissed her under the mistletoe, you see."

Gil, with a perfectly straight face, says, "Yes, I think he might be. After all, I almost got on his bad side just by knocking on the door to this room. Have you got a good place to hide?"

Perry looks rather worried.

"No, and I think he rather knows the place better than me, anyway."

He sighs.

"Suppose I'll just have to submit to being roundly scolded. And perhaps fatally wounded. You never know."

"Well, the medical care here is quite good. Well ahead of my time, at any rate, and some of the doctors are magical. So perhaps he'll let you live. Seeing as it's Christmas and all."

"Do you think so?"

He looks absurdly hopeful.

"Perhaps," says Gil. "But I would advise you speak to Caspian before you pay any more attentions to his sister, serious or otherwise. Much less painful in the long run. To say nothing of less likely to involve your being slain in a duel."

Perry's teasing grin fades, and he looks intently at Gilbert for a long moment.

"Thank you," he says, finally. "I believe I will."

A pause.

"Perhaps I should have thought the mistletoe through a bit further."

"Well," says Gilbert, "I guess the real question is, how did Amy take it?"

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Phil comes over, punch in hand. "Hello, Peregrine. Merry Christmas! I haven't seen you for a while now."

He waves to her, picking up a sugar cookie and munching happily.

"Hullo, Phil! Lovely to see you again. Merry Christmas!"

She raises her punch glass in greeting. "And a merry Christmas to you too! I'm pleasantly surprised to see you here. I didn't know you were friends with Anne and Amy."

"With Amy," he corrects. "I've never met Anne, I'm afraid, though she sounds charming, and Amy is certainly fond of her."

"Oh, Amy's a dear, sweet, and lovable girl. I simply adore her. You know, she was the very first person I met here when I first arrived."

She smiles at the memory.

"And Anne is charming. That's her right over there," she says pointing, "She's become one of my dearest friends."

"Ah," he says, brightening. "The redhead. Yes, she seems very nice indeed. And Amy said she'd appreciate my bringing the mistletoe, for some reason."

Phil laughs aloud at this.

"Oh, I'm sure she does, although she'd blush furiously if you said that to her face. You see," she says conspiratorially, "that is Anne, and that is Gilbert," she says, pointing, "and he is why she will appreciate your gift. And vice versa I'm quite certain."

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