December 24th, 2015

Cassidy got out of bed and smiled. She ran down the hall and peeked into Blaine and Kurt's room. They were both sleeping, but Cassidy saw that it was already past eight in the morning.

Cassidy snuck into the room and walked over to Blaine's side knowing that waking up Kurt would be a bad idea. She saw that Blaine was snuggled in Kurt's embrace. Reaching over, she poked at him through the covers.

"Blaine," she whispered.

There was a groan from behind Blaine. Blaine smiled, but kept his eyes closed.

Cassidy poked him again, "Blaine."

"Yes?" Blaine whispered back.

"It's Christmas eve," Cassidy said still whispering, "And it's Cookie day."

Blaine giggled and opened one eye, "It is. Did you hear that Kurt, it's cookie day."

"Yeah, I heard," Kurt groaned.

Cassidy let out a giggle of her own, "Are you awake now Kurt?"

"No," Kurt said pulling Blaine closer to him and nuzzling his face into his neck. "Still sleeping."

Blaine laughed and opened both of his eyes, "I have a feeling it will take more than just talking to him," he winked at his sister.

Cassidy was about to laugh but covered her mouth quickly. She tiptoed to the other side of the bed.

"Now it's quiet, too quiet" Kurt said still half under the blankets.

Cassidy then jumped and Kurt let out a squeaking noise. Blaine turned around and they both started to tickle him.

"Fine," Kurt laughed, "I'm awake."

Cassidy fell in between them, "I knew you were awake."

"Can't trick this one," Blaine said reaching over to pat her on the head, but Cassidy dodged his hand. "So who's ready to make some cookies?"

"I am!" Cassidy bounced on the bed, "I should wake Santana too!" She climbed off the bed and ran into the living room.

Cassidy crept over to Santana who was sleeping on the couch. She had the sheets covering her head. Reaching over to poke at Santana's stomach, she heard another groan.

"So grumpy this morning," Cassidy put a hand on her hip.

"What time is it?" Santana said sleepily.

Cassidy looked over at the clock, "Almost eight thirty."

"To early," Santana said as she turned over.

Blaine walked out, "Sorry Santana, today is Christmas eve and it is a special day."

Santana sat up and saw him still in his pajamas, "And what makes Christmas eve so special?"

"It's cookie day," Cassidy said excitedly, "We spend all day making cookies and then we get ready for Santa to come."

"Oh," Santana said pulling the blankets off herself, "I take it Hummel is up as well."

"Of course," Cassidy said, "But first we must eat a healthy breakfast and I will make sure you are all fed and ready to go!" She ran into the kitchen.

Santana looked over at Blaine. "You two act so much alike."

"Thank you," Blaine smiled at her and walked into the kitchen. "So Sissy, what kind of cookies should we make today?"

"I want to make chocolate chip, chocolate crinkle ones which we mixed the dough last night, and sugar cookies," Cassidy said.

"Really, I think Kurt also got some Hershey Kisses, so we make the Peanut butter blossom ones," Blaine said as he opened a cupboard, he pulled out two bags, "Yep."

Cassidy smiled, "Yay!"

Kurt walked into the kitchen, "Ran into Santana, she looks absolutely wonderful in the morning."

"Just like you," Cassidy said with a smile.

Kurt looked over at her, "Are you saying I'm grumpy in the morning."

"Maybe," Cassidy rocked on her feet, "Are you still going to help us make cookies?"

"Of course I am," Kurt said to her, "Now I need coffee."

"Already started," Blaine kissed him.

Kurt leaned into his arms, "My hero."

Cassidy looked at them and rolled her eyes, "Boys." She walked over to the pantry to get her cereal out.

Santana walked back out, "Who is coming today?"

"My parents and Finn are coming after lunch," Kurt said getting down three mugs.

"And Rachel is coming over sometime in the afternoon," Blaine finished for him, "Along with Ashley before dinner."

"Busy day then?" Santana asked.

Blaine shrugged, "Fun day."

"So this cookie day?" Santana asked, "You do this every year?"

"Yep," Cassidy nodded as she walked over to the refrigerator to get out the milk, "Blainey used to do it with Mommy when he was little and now we all do it."

"Oh," Santana said going quiet.

Blaine looked over at her, "What does your family do on Christmas eve?"

Santana was shaken from her thoughts, "Sorry?"

"Yeah, what do you do on Christmas eve?" Cassidy asked her again.

Santana thought for a moment, "We would sometimes sit around watching Christmas movies and I would play cards with my grandma."

"Card games?" Cassidy asked scrunching her face.

Santana nodded, "Sometimes I think she would let me win."

"That was awfully nice of her," Cassidy said as she began to dig into her cereal.

"Maybe we can add that to our tradition," Blaine said, "We have to wait sometimes for the cookies and singing along with the radio to the same songs over and over again gets a bit repetitive."

Cassidy smiled with her spoon in front of her mouth, "And will you let me win?"

Kurt snorted, "Yeah right small fry." Cassidy just gave him a look.

After they had all eaten breakfast they had gotten the ingredients out to make sugar cookies.

"We make the sugar cookie dough first, because it needs to be cold," Cassidy explained to Santana.

"Some day you won't need me in here," Blaine said to her.

Cassidy shook her head, "No, I will always need you Blainey."

Blaine gave his sister a hug with one of his arms, "You are too sweet. I don't think these cookies need any sugar at all."

"Oh yes," Kurt walked up behind them, "But I think you both have enough sweetness for everyone."

Santana looked at them from sitting across the counter. She was about to say something, but stopped herself. "So how can I help?"

Kurt smiled at her, "We are going to start rolling these cookies into balls and roll them into powder sugar."

"Okay," Santana hopped off the stool and stood next to Kurt. They started to make small balls as Blaine and Cassidy made the sugar cookie dough.

Cassidy froze, "Wait, we need music. Maestro," she looked over at Blaine.

"Yes ma'am," Blaine said as he walked over and turned on the radio. Rocking Around The Christmas Tree was playing at the moment.

They continued on with their tasks until the siblings finished the dough and set in the fridge to get cold. Blaine and Cassidy started to roll the balls into the sugar.

"We need to get out our baking sheets," Kurt said.

Santana looked at her hands, she was about to volunteer, but realized her hands were covered with chocolate cookie dough. "I'll get them," Blaine said brushing his hands off of powered sugar.

"So what kind of movies do you watch at Christmas time?" Cassidy asked Santana.

"Oh, not sure," Santana shrugged, "Whatever is on TV usually."

"Kurt's family watches A Christmas Story and he can recite the entire thing," Cassidy smiled, "Him and Burt always act silly."

Kurt laughed, "It's always been my dad's favorite Christmas movie," he explained. "It drove my mom nuts and now it drives Carole nuts."

"I guess you never got one of those guns then?" Santana asked him.

Kurt smirked, "Nope, never got an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle."

Cassidy and Blaine let a giggle as Santana just stared at him.

"Never really wanted a bb gun or the bunny suit," Kurt shrugged, "Although you know I was the one who got that one kid to stick his tongue to the flag pole when I was eight."

"My little rebel," Blaine said setting down two baking sheets.

"I told him it would stick," Kurt said with a laugh, "The kid didn't believe me and he tried to prove it to me."

"I like the cartoons," Blaine said, "The Year Without a Santa Claus is my all time favorite, with Santa Claus Is Coming To Town right after it."

Cassidy nodded her head, "Those are my favorites too. And I really like Olive, The Other Reindeer and the Home Alone movies. I always wanted to do that."

"You want to be left alone at Christmas?" Blaine asked playfully pretending to be shocked, "My own sister! Oh my heart!"

Cassidy started at her brother and then reached into the sugar flicking some at him.

Blaine's mouth formed into an 'o'. "Is that how it's going to be?"

"Oh no," Kurt said, "Please don't have your sugar fight near me."

Santana reached over and grabbed some sugar. She flicked some at Kurt. She grinned at him, "Oops,"

"Santana Lopez!" Kurt said to her.

Cassidy was laughing along with Blaine. Kurt leaned over and flicked sugar at all of them, "I just can't..." he couldn't finish because Cassidy had tossed flour on him now.

"This is war!" Blaine said grabbing a handful of flour and tossing it in Santana and Kurt's direction.

"Wait!" Kurt called out and everyone froze, "First we need to get these cookies in the oven." He picked up the first tray of them and set them in the oven. "Alright, I think that's..." when he turned around he was blasted with flour. "This war is so on!"

A few hours later, after the flour war was cleaned up, and swept into the trash. They were now working on making some chocolate chip cookies.

The door opened with Burt, Carole, and Finn filling in, "Wow, it's really cold out there," Burt said with a shiver.

Blaine smiled, "Yeah, here let me take your coats," he walked over to help.

"Blaine, what is in your hair?" Finn asked.

The four started to laugh, "A flour war broke out," Cassidy said with a smile.

"And they all ganged up on me," Kurt groaned, "It was awful."

Blaine walked down the hallway carrying the coats in his arms, calling out, "And who won!"

Kurt shook his head with a laugh, "I won."

"You did not," Santana said as she scooped a ball of cookie dough on the cookie sheet, "I think Cassidy and I did." She reached her hand up and Cassidy gave her a high five.

"You were in on this flour war?" Finn asked her.

Santana shrugged, "If you can't beat them, join them," she winked over at him.

Carole walked over, "Wow, you've been busy this morning."

Cassidy nodded her head, "We made five and half batches of chocolate crinkle cookies," she pointed to the cooling cookies on the counter, "We are making chocolate chip cookies now and will make the sugar cookies next."

"Good plan," Burt said, "Those are my favorite."

"I will make an extra special one for you," Cassidy said with smile.

Kurt put his hand on her shoulder, "But he can't have too many. We always got to keep a look out for the cookie snatcher."

Cassidy giggled, "I forgot about that."

Burt looked over at his son, "Thanks kid."

"No problem Dad," Kurt smiled at him.

"Ready for the oven," Santana called out as she finished placing the last cookie on the baking sheet.

The group had made cookies well into the afternoon and Rachel came over while they were in the middle of the baking the sugar cookies.

Ashley came over as they finished frosting the last of the cookies and were starting on the peanut butter blossoms. "I haven't missed my favorites?"

"Waited for a reason Ash," Blaine smiled at her.

"Thank you B," Ashley smiled.

Kurt was putting some of the cookies away and Santana was helping him. "You doing alright?" he asked her.

"Yeah," Santana nodded, "This is just...wow."

"Trust me, I thought that too," Kurt said with a laugh, "During my initiation a couple of years ago they had to push me out the kitchen because I was getting annoyed with their schedule."

"Really?"

"Yep," Kurt smiled, "They finally let me back in when I promised I would just keep it light and airy. I loved that Christmas together it was our first."

"Weren't you always in Lima for Christmas until this year?" Santana asked him.

Kurt nodded, "Yeah, that was in my parent's kitchen if you could imagine. My parents were visiting Carole's sister that day. Finn was having dinner with his then girlfriend, so we were alone and it was fun."

"You loosened up a lot," Santana said to him, "And I definitely mean in more than one way." She winked at him and walked away.

Kurt blushed as she realized what she said.

"Who is getting hungry for dinner?" Burt called out.

"I am," Finn said with a smile.

"Me too!" Cassidy raised her hand up.

Burt laughed, "Should have known. Order a few pizzas?"

"Good plan," Kurt said pulling his phone from his pocket, "Pepperoni, two cheese, and one with everything but the kitchen sink?"

"Sounds good," Blaine said with a nod. Kurt disappeared to their room to order the pizzas in the quiet.

"Everything but the kitchen sink?" Santana asked him.

"That's how you order it," Blaine shrugged, "We only order it when Finn and Burt are around though."

"Why are there cards on the table?" Finn asked picking up the box.

"Santana was teaching us games," Cassidy said, "I only knew Go Fish. Now I know 21, Bullcrap, I can't say the real name of that one, and War."

"Wow," Finn said, "Want to play a game now?"

Blaine laughed, "We talked about playing poker later with the cookies."

"That's an awesome idea," Finn said, "I would totally learn the real rules to win those cookies."

"You don't know the real rules?" Santana asked him.

Finn shrugged, "Eh, when we played for fun it wasn't like real money was involved."

"I always cheat at the game of Life," Blaine said with a shrug.

"How do you cheat at Life?" Santana asked him.

Blaine smiled, "I try to land on all the baby spaces, and when I don't I just pick up a few kids along the way."

Kurt chose that moment to walk in, "Either you are talking about how you play Life or I should be very concerned as your future husband."

"Definitely the first," Blaine laughed, "But it's nice to know that you think I'm a baby stealing guy."

Kurt wrapped his arms around his waist, "That's my man. And the pizzas should be here in about forty five minutes." He heard Finn groan, "Eat a cookie Finn," he leaned his head down on Blaine's shoulder.

"What game are you playing now?" Burt asked them.

"War," Cassidy said as she slapped down a card, "Ha! I got a king!"

"No fair," Finn said, "I don't think these were shuffled correctly."

"They were," Santana said, "Because I did it."

Finn looked over at her, "And you must not shuffle them well."

"She is good at it," Cassidy commented, "You know on the TV how they have those guys who shuffle the cards, Santana is that good."

Santana just grinned as she took a bite of cookie, "If you ever need a buddy in Vegas, I am your woman."

They all laughed and played a few more card games. Kurt and Blaine worked on the rest of the cookies finished the peanut butter blossoms by placing the Hershey kisses in them when they were fresh out of the oven.

The door was knocked on, "I'll get it for you," Burt stood up fast.

Kurt groaned, "Now he is going to pay."

Blaine smiled at him, "Merry Christmas," he leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.

Kurt felt a small blush over his cheeks, "Merry Christmas to you too."

"Pizza!" Burt said as he set it down on the table.

Everyone helped themselves to pizza and met in the living room. They put A Christmas Story in the DVD player. Kurt, Blaine, Cassidy and Finn were sitting on the floor. Carole, Burt, and Rachel were sharing the couch, while Ashley and Santana squeezed onto the chair which fit two quite comfortably. Kurt and Burt started to recite the movie word for word as if they just watched the movie yesterday.

They ate cookies into the night and watched more movies all together. Cassidy fell asleep in Blaine's lap as they were watching It's A Wonderful Life. He picked her up and put her to bed on the air mattress they had set up for her that night.

When Kurt and Blaine went to bed, they held each other tight, "Merry Christmas darling," Kurt smiled at him and tapped his nose.

"Merry Christmas baby," Blaine smiled back.