Title: Caught
Author/pseudonym: Sentarla
Rating: G
Status: Finished
Date: 22/12/98
Archive: Yes ohhhhh PLEASE
do!!!!!!
Series/Sequel: Non
My Website: http://www.oocities.org/sentarla
E-mail: Sentarla
(Please be nice)
Note: This is NON BETAED. I
would like to thank my Brother Michael though, for his help on the story and
the massage while I thought and typed it. Hmmm I am like sooo relaxed now.
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The loft was quite as one
would have expected at 2am. The light fall of snow outside reminded the
sleeping people of Cascade why they were in bed. There was a feeling of
anticipation in the air as would be expected in the dark hours between
Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. The deep steady breathing of the two
sleeping men was broken when one started to awake. Leaving his warm cacoon of
blankets on tippy toes, he quietly made his way to the lounge room where the
large green, present laden tree was standing. Even the chill in the air was not
able to persuade the eager man from his goal. The goal was a small parcel near
the back of the tree. The shinny paper covering the small Christmas Gift had
caught the man's attention when it had been placed there two days ago. Since
then, it had been all he could see when he looked at the brightly coloured
tree, and heavily decorated loft.
Being as quite as he could,
he reached under the tree and lifted the present off the pile. The silent loft
was filled briefly with the sound of wrapping paper brushing up against each
other. The other man stirred at the noise and the one near the tree stopped dead
in fear of being caught, his breath trapped within his burning lungs. After a
few moments, he let out a sigh of relief, and went back to his parcel.
It was small and
rectangular in size. There was very little to give it away, and although it was
solid it did not weight much. The urge to rip it open, was so intense, that he
put it back on the ground and bit his fist to stop him self from completely
loosing it and opening the mysterious box.
The cold floor was slowly
seeping into his bones, and he knew he would have to do something soon. What he
had failed to see was that when he took out the parcel, he had taken away
support for some nearby presents. Just as he was going to undo a small corner
of the paper, two presents under the tree fell and started a chain reaction. An
avalanche which sent presents left and right, until there were non left
undisturbed. The noise was so loud in the dark quite loft, that he knew he had
been sprung. There was no way his friend could have slept through that.
Looking like a naughty
child caught doing something wrong, he watched as his roommate came out of his
room and glared at him.
"What are you
doing!"
Caught red-handed, he could
only reply. "Umm."
Shaking his head the other
man crossed his arms and shook his head.
"It's 2.20am, You only
had to wait another 6 hours. Wait till I tell all the guys at the station about
how you were so impatient that you were found under the Christmas tree in your
pyjamas, raiding the presents." Seeing the other one about to comment, he held
up his hand for silence.
"FOREETE.IT, don't
bother to explain. Soon the world will know how big strong James Ellison, was
caught in the act of peeking at the presents under the Christmas tree. Who
would have thought."
Giving another chuckle,
Blair sat down next to his now subdued Sentinel and picked the parcel back up.
Giving a smile he watched as Jim gave him a bright smile, which warmed the loft
more then summer could and ripped into his present.
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Well I hope everyone is
having a Merry Christmas, and I won't ask how many of you have peeked under
your Christmas tree. If you are wondering what the present was, then I guess I
won't keep you in suspense. It was a cassette tape of Blair's heartbeat. Please
e-mail, and tell me, if you had figured out the snooper before I said their
names. I really want to know.
Merry Christmas, Keep Safe J
