9333/Christmas Day!

Christmas Day!
Date of Scene:	28 December 2021
Location:	April and Harley's Apartment.
Synopsis:	Christmas chez April means gift exchanges. Harley gets a flamethrower while April gets dressed up to become a true roller derby queen! Many socks were harmed in the making of this episode.
Cast of Characters:	April O'Neil, Harley Quinn

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April O'Neil has posed:
It is Christmas morning and it's even flurrying outside the windows of the apartment.April snuck out extra early to put some more presents down outside and around the tree too. But now she's in the kitchen sipping some coffee and wearing a Santa jacket over her sleeping clothes. She has Christmas music playing on the television, and a Netflix fireplace showing flickering flames for ambience.

Bud and Lou are wearing their Christmas sweaters, with little hats on, and Gerti is on her Turkey bed on the sofa, looking around and gobbling quietly.

On the floor in front of the tree is a huuuuuge wrapped present with Harley's name on it too.

Harley Quinn has posed:
Christmas day! It means Harley is up reaaaalllly early, which is still a lot later than April does because she is a sneaky one like that who gets more presents around the tree! But soon enough there's commotion coming from her room, then excited footsteps making their way to the kitchen.

"Ooooh, Apppriiillll..." is the clownette's voice as her head first appears in the doorway that leads to the kitchen. "You know what day it is today, dontcha?" an eager grin on her expression.

"Time to get those presents open!" She steps fully into the kitchen, arms up in the air. She is dressed in her PJs too as it's all the rage right now apparently, a scarf around her neck and the pigtails already tied up.

"And that big gift by the tree wasn't there last night!" She exclaims. "I wonder what it is... A back scratcher? Maybe a BDSM set? A tea set?" ah yes, Harley trying to cover all the bases on what it might be.

April O'Neil has posed:
April looks away from her phone when Harley comes cheerily striding in. She grins at her roomie happily as she hears the words from her. "Oh yes, its definitely a BDSM set." She jests in good fun. Her phone is turned off and slipped in to the pocket of the Santa jacket that hangs open on her form. She's wearing a tanktop underneath it of bright yellow with a cartoon turtle on the chest, a pair of pink sleeping pants and bright sky blue socks on her feet. She sips her coffee and then grins to Harley again.

"I thought Christmas wasn't for like six months..." She teases. A hand motions to the counter. "I got the food all going and it will be ready in a few hours too. Turkey AND ham." She says, then whispers. "Don't tell Gerti!" Round two of eating Turkey this year...

April then turns to the living room and starts to pad her way toward it on socked feet. "You ready to open your gifts then, Miss Quin?" She asks in a saucy tone of voice as she heads for the sofa to sit down beside Gerti..

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Ahah! I knew it.." Harley says, clearly proud of having guessed it right. "The things you do for our OnlyFans viewers..." she then adds. There's a pause when she spots April wearing socks. She eyes them briefly. It's a bit odd, but then she continues as if it hadn't been doing anything. "Turkey and ham? Oooh, we will have to make suwah ta not feed Gerti under the table.." unlike she did last time they had turkey... Bad Harley. Bad..

"But no more teasin'!" She then clapping her hands together, which makes the two hyenas stand up at attention, looking at her. Waiting for some command. "It is time for those gifts!" and the two hyenas scuffle towards the tree, starting to sniff around. Perhaps looking for their own presents! Which there will be... But all in due time!

"I got a few gifts foh ya too, April!" she sauntering along next to April and then to the tree to get a few boxes out. Two medium-sized ones and a larger one. Oh my! She slides them towards April. "Go crazy!"

And then she starts opening her own gift! Harley-way. Which means there's a lot of tearing paper apart.

April O'Neil has posed:
On the sofa now, April sets her cup of coffee off to the side as she grins at Harley and the Hyenas all circling the tree for gifts. "It's like present sharks." She says softly before Harley is offering her some presents too. "Oh.... gimmie!" She says, pulling them in and setting them beside her on the sofa. Gerti pecks at them. "And yeah, no feeding her her own people...." April grimaces briefly.

With one present on her lap, April watches Harley start to tearing open her gift. What she finds beneath it is maybe unexpected...

It starts with a big box being uncovered slowly. The letters B.... o.... r.... i... n... g...." showing up first along the top, and then 'Company' and the image of a...

Is that a gun? A giant rifle?

Sorta!

IT's a flame thrower! Oh god, April got Harley a flame thrower?!

She grins as its revealed. "Elon Musk... he's on my podcast at the first of the year. I recorded it just before Christmas. I joked with him about the flame thrower his company sold, and he said he could get me one if I wanted. So... there it is." She says with a smile. "I hope you like it, and I hope you don't burn us all to the ground..."

Harley Quinn has posed:
Harley's head tilts to the side as she starts reading the logo. Upside down at first. But then she lets out a heh, "Boring company..?" she doesn't know about it! Then turning it around, brows furrowed all curiously as she goes through it all as if she was a kid, eyes wide and she sitting with legs crossed on the ground. It dawns on her after a moment what it is when she takes the full thing out and ....

"OMFG YOU GOT ME A FLAME THROWA?!?" Her eyes go ultra-wide and she takes in a breath. It seems she is close to fainting right there and then but she holds on. Because she can't get her eyes off it. "HOLY MACARONI!" another exclamation. "This is like the best thing evah!" she is already picking it up to test it out. Maybe she should read the instructions first... But Harley and instructions don'g go along well. She is great at figuring tech out though! Specially if it has the potential of harming others, or herself. Go figure! But what's true is that she clearly approves of such gifting.

"And come on...." She then complains, "What's the danger o' me burnin' us all down to the ground, eh?!" it's right when the flamethrower triggers and a WOOOSH is heard, along with a roaring flame that singes the big star atop the christmas tree. Nothing gets on fire though! Good.

"Ahem..., maybe I can try it out later.." She grins and goes to the sofa. "Now go ahead and open yours!" she says, "And I have a couple to Gertie and the boys too."

April O'Neil has posed:
April is watching the reaction from Harley, grinning at it all. She is about to talk when Harley figures out how to get the darn thing to work so quickly. It makes her yelp when it fires off! "I think I regret this already..." She says then as she comes down from it. "Outside. Yes. The alley. And away from the trash piles." She laughs nervously then before looking to Gerti who is now turned around with her head inside her little plush home on her bed, her turkey butt sticking out still though.

April looks back and smiles softly then. "They only made twenty thousand of those things, and they sold out within hours... they've kinda become collectors items... but yeah. I thought it'd be right up your kinda crazy." She says with a grin.

April strokes her hair back behind her ears and then looks down to the present on her lap.

"Okay, lets see..." Unlike Harley, April daintily starts to peal the tape back, and open the present with care and concern for the wrapping paper, like she wants to present the damn stuff!

Harley Quinn has posed:
"No no. No regrets." Is Harley's response to that, settling down next to April. Which means she catches Gerti with her butt up. "Gerti, be decent! It's mornin'! You ain't out with the otha turkettes at night showin' butt..." she runs her hand over Gerti's feathers in a soothing manner, "I am sorry, girl..." for all she is wild she does have quite the touch for animals. No wonder those two hyenas got so attached to her!

"And damn right that flame throwa is goin' right to my crime fightin' ensemble. They gonna pee on theah pants when I start breathin' fiwah at them with this baby heah.." the flame thrower, not Gerti.

With April now starting to open her presents it means Harley's attention is fully on her, she wiggling close and wrapping an arm around the other woman's shoulders, rubbing her chin affectionately with the reporter. "Mmmm, you awhe the best friend one could ask foh." she says softly. As the paper starts coming out of the gift it's revealed that it's .., socks. SOCKS?! They are multi-colored ones. In fact, it's a god damn rainbow out there. "So uh ..., I got you those because earlier today I sneaked into yoh room and I took out all yoh white socks." she tells her roomie. "I burned them on the back. On hindsight I could had used the flame throwa foh it if I knew. Ah well, missed opportunities... But anyway, that's only the first gift!" she pointing to another box. "Open that one, that's the big one!"

April O'Neil has posed:
April shoots a smile over at Harley as she sits beside her and strokes the side of her face. "You're the sweetest." She says quietly before she looks back to her work with the package.

Once it is opened, April laughs at what she sees within it. "God." She says with a light sigh. "You're lucky I don't really feel any attachment to white socks, other than just... ya know... they're easy to buy and you don't get attached to them at all." She says with a grin as she holds up a few pairs of the brightly colored ones. "Look it though!" She holds up her feet and wiggles her toes inside her sky blue socks. "At least I got some color on. I've been learnin' how much you're disturbed by them white ones... but, they're all gone now. Apparently...."

April puts the two pairs of wild colored socks away and sets the package aside, then reaches for the 'big one'.

She starts to open it slowly too, before she just TEARS in to it instead! Rar!

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Oh, they are gone alright..." There's finality in Harley's tone. FINALITY! It's clear she was thorough with her destruction. Which may also explain why she was oggling April's socks earlier. Maybe checking out if they were white or not. Some things you just don't wear in Harley's presence! But she seems glad that April appreciates the gifts, "I am out heah lookin' out foh yoh style, April."

And then April is tearing through the last one! "So wild!" she exclaims, letting April go through the paper before it finally starts to be revealed what it is. And on the outside? There's a conspicuous symbol of a bumblebee. Uh-oh...

"So, I know you weah just brimmin' with excitement to join the team..." and as the outer box is open what April will find there will be both a pair of roller blades and an helmet. Not normal ones of course! They are painted in black and yellow with the symbol of a bumblebee on the sides, both the helmet and the roller blades. Clearly someone did a custom work on those.

"I -think- I got your feet measurements right. What with how yoh awhe always wigglin' those toes I have seen them often!" she says, grinning widely.

April O'Neil has posed:
As April gets the present pulled open and revealed it makes her lips curve up in to a big and wide smile! She quickly lifts up one of the roller blades to feel it in her hands, then sets it down and reaches for the helmet that gets an affectionate stroke of her fingertips across its surface, lingering on the bumblebee logo.

"Aww...." She quietly says to it too. "It's so pretty..." She adds with a teary tone to her voice. She quickly pulls the chin strap aside, then takes a second to just open it up before she puts the helmet on over her head, then the straps around her ears. She looks over at Harley next with a big big smile and leans over to hug her.

"The ones they had me wearin' at the derby place were so hard on my feet. It was like an aligator was chewing on them." She says as she leans back and kisses Harley's cheek. "Thanks, Harls. You're the best." She notes as she looks back to the roller blades next. "We'll have to go down there soon. I met a new friend, maybe, at the coffee shop that I wanna recruit to the team too. You're gonna have to meet her, I think you'll dig her. She's an astrophysicist... or something."

"New Socks, new Skates.... Look out Derby Queens and that stupid team we played last. I'm gonna bust their asses." She says with a grin now.

Bud and Lou are here now too, nosing at all the new stuff... nose nose nose.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"I measured yoh head while you weah sleepin'.." Harley explains. Perhaps a little bit creepily too! And she grins wide as April gets the helmet in place and it fits! "Ahah, I knew I had it right." she says proudly, reaching up to help with the strap before adjusting it a bit. There's an whole science to it! "Perfect." Harley then says, holding April's cheeks between her hands.

"And these ones will be gooood." She then says of the roller blades themselves, "I had them custom made with a friend sooo, it will be like havin'g a second pair o' feet.." she assures her roomie. "And you will fllyyy out theah on the track too!" uh-oh...

"And oh, a new friend?!" She then grinning, "And suwah thing. How tall is she? 6' feet tall? I hope so... Astrophysicist? Mmmmm..." she purses her lips together, "Well, we will make it work!"

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Bud and Lou are nosing around though. And that means Harley suddenly remembers them! "I got you gifts too!" She tells her boys, going over to the tree to bring it out. "It's a big ol' bone from the butcher shop.." she grins and throws the gift-wrapped thing at them. Which they tear through before starting to gnaw at a really large bone.

"And Gertie..." She takes out a smaller box. "I found this gourmet place that had these berries to die for. This one will be all yours, Gerti!" then she side-whispering to April. "Don't worry, I got us a box too..."

April O'Neil has posed:
April laughs at the bit about measuring her head at night. "I don't know what to say to that." She quietly mutters as her helmet is happily atop her head. Her eyes are on the roller blades, as she takes the paper out of the interior of them, then starts to open them up so she can try them on. "Mmm, they smell nice. That's not gonna last..." She mutters the last part before setting them on the ground, then leans down to pull some of the plastic off the sides of them. Her feet go inside the plastic boots and she wiggles her toes inside them!

Her eyes go up then to see the Hyenas yipping and yapping over their bone. "Gonna hear those two gnawing on that all night now. That'll give me weird dreams." She notes with a grin as she looks to Gerti. "Awww. She's gonna have lots of berry poos now." The reporter says before reaching for another present for Harley.

"Here." She notes...

And inside it is every Blu-Ray for the entire 'Paulie Shore Collection'! Who wouldn't want that?!