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"What was your favorite Christmas?" "This one." Hutch smiled and leaned down to kiss his partner. "You're alive." "Love you too, Blintz. But I meant as a kid." Starsky shifted to his side. "Let me guess. You got a book on how to find mushrooms in the woods, and it was the best ever!" Hutch chuckled, complying with Starsky's tugs and put his book aside. "Actually, it was the year I was sixteen." "You got a car?" "No. I got a trip from my grandfather." "To where?" "Norway. Just the two of us. And when we went in the summer, we talked about so much. He told me, 'love with all your heart. Don't be afraid.' It's how he loved my grandmother. He showed me where he grew up, met my grandmother. I wanted that." Starsky's arms tightened around his partner. "Sounds like a real special time." Hutch just nodded. "But this is still my new favorite Christmas, though." "Yeah?" "Yeah. Because I've got you, right here, beside me. Alive, and breathing, and loving me, and I'm not afraid of loving you. At sixteen, I could only imagine the kind of love my grandparents had. But now I really know." Prompts: Christmas, family, love |