Three Dates of Christmas by KC Burn

Author:KC Burn
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

TONY PULLED into the visitor parking at Dean's apartment complex a couple minutes before four. He plugged his phone into the stereo system and called up the playlist he'd made especially with this date in mind. A minute later, Dean burst out of the building, blond hair shining in the fading sunlight. Tony had called ahead to let Dean know he was on his way, but he hadn't expected Dean to be waiting downstairs.

Dean yanked open the door and sat, accompanied by a gust of cold air. "Fuck. I didn't think I was ever going to be able to leave work."

"Bad day at the office, hon?" Tony blinked and bit his tongue. Kind of early to start with those pet names, as much as Tony wanted to lock down Dean's available status. At least, given the context of his words, they could be taken as a joke.

"Ugh. Barely got out of there in time to shower and change. I had to stay an extra three hours. It was a total shit show. I was afraid I was going to have to call and cancel. But... um... I didn't want to screw up any plans. I mean, I know dinner last Saturday would have been hard to reschedule."

Oooh, yeah. That would have been a bitch. Those dinner tickets were rather more than he normally spent trying to impress a guy on a first date, but as soon as he'd gotten the idea in his head, he hadn't been able to shake it. And it had turned out better than he'd hoped. In fact, the tickets he’d gotten had been the result of a cancellation.

"Well, today is a little more flexible. Don't get me wrong, I'd have been disappointed if we'd had to reschedule, but I understand that sometimes things come up." Tony was reluctant to give Dean that out, but he wasn't a dick, and Dean wasn't his fucking slave or anything. Dean had to want to go out with him, and the three-date dare was just a nudge in the right direction, not an unbreakable contract. "Are you sure you want to go?"

"Yes. Please. I'd probably spend the night pacing my apartment, just stewing about everything that went wrong, and likely still going wrong right now."

Tony was pretty sure he could jolly Dean into a good mood, giving him a better reason to enjoy himself than to avoid thinking about work.

"Then let's get going."

"Oh, I... it's not much, but I brought you a candy cane," Dean said somewhat shyly. “If you wanted one.”

Dean stared pointedly out the passenger window, even as he held out a full-sized candy cane delicately striped with green and red. The Christmas thaw of Dean's heart had to be underway. It just had to.

Hell yeah. That tiny thoughtfulness, that tiny concession to Tony’s near-obsessive love of Christmas was the second crack in the dam. The first—of course—was accepting Tony’s offer of three themed dates.

“That’s great. Thank you, Dean.”

“Did you, uh, want it now?”

“Eh. Probably not too practical to eat it while I’m driving.

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