This is a work of fiction; all characters' names are randomly
generated, and the places in this story are complete works of fiction. If
you disagree with two men loving each other, leave now. Yes, this is a
Christmas story, so you are free to move on if you don't want to read
it. However, if you're going to read it, I hope you'll enjoy it.
Copyright © 2021, 2022, 2023
From the
North Pole to Indiana
Chapter 7,
Part 2
"At Shea's"
Mick knows
he's found what he's been looking for all these years. He's found love. Shea is everything, and he is everything that
Shea has ever wanted. There is one
person in his life who wants to tell about what they decided today. He grabs his special cell phone and heads for
the bathroom. After the phone call, Mick
is planning on going home.
"Mick, what is going
on?"
Her motherly
instincts tell her that something is up with her son.
"Mom, I'm at
Shea's, and we've decided that we both want to be boyfriends, but we didn't use
the word "boyfriend. Anyway, I just wanted
to let you know before heading home."
She is
bubbling with excitement for her son.
She knows there won't be kids unless they adopt, but the important thing
is that Mick Claus has found love. Now,
she needs to speak with Nick.
"I'm so
happy for you! Dad needs me, sweetie. I'll talk to you later."
Mick ends
the call and returns to the guy that he loves.
As he rejoins his guy, something is brewing up north, way up north.
***
Mrs. Claus
and Mr. Claus are gathered behind shut doors in Nick's office. Mrs. Claus and Mr. Claus discussed what they
could do to give Shea and Mick more time together. The only thing that Nick knows to do is whip
up a massive storm. Nick summons a storm
using some ancient skills taught to him by the elves. A storm that will trap
their son and his boyfriend in the apartment.
They intend to trap them inside the apartment, forcing them to spend
time together. Mrs. Claus wanted a storm
bigger than the one Mr. Claus sent down upon the city where his son lived. This blizzard will be the largest winter
storm to hit in 100 years. They are
getting 7 feet of snow with whiteout conditions. There is no way that Shea would risk taking
Mick out in that weather. It should be
hitting in about an hour, which is the same time that another storm was to hit
them. A storm that would have produced 5
inches of snow will now dump 7 feet of snow.
It's also coming with winds and whiteouts.
***.
The storm is
starting outside, and the winds are picking up.
Shea looks out the window.
"Mick, I think
someone got their wires crossed on this storm.
I think we are going to get slapped."
Mick comes
over and looks out the window, too. He
frowns, and his heart sinks. He knows
what's up.
"Mom!"
He realizes
that the word came out of his mouth. He
hoped that his boyfriend didn't hear him; however, Shea did, in fact, hear him.
"What about
your mom?"
Mick's
boyfriend asks him. If Mick told him
why, he said, "Mom!" Shea would doubtless think that Mick had lost his
mind. Mick couldn't tell him this storm
could only come from his mother or father.
"She wanted
me to buy her something from the store, but I don't want to go out in this
weather."
Shea doesn't
want his boyfriend to go out on the roads.
The roads have not yet been closed, but Shea knows enough to keep off
the streets.
"I'm with
you on that one."
Shea tells
his boyfriend, and as he does, the weather gets worse. Shea walks away from the window. As he was looking outside, he thought about
how much he wanted to watch the meteor storm tonight. With the storm raging outside, he gives up the
idea of watching the storm. Can he talk
Mick into making hot chocolate?
***
Shea knows
the storm outside ruined his plans. He
thought the meteor storm might give him a chance for romance. Now, he has another idea. They can enjoy hot chocolate and some time on
the couch watching a movie.
"Mick, could
you make some hot chocolate?"
Mick agrees
quickly to his boyfriend's request. He enters
the kitchen and goes to work, making his recipe as best as possible. When the hot chocolate is ready, Mick
carefully pours it into coffee mugs.
While Mick made the hot chocolate, Shea fixed the living room. He turned off the lights, picked just the
right Christmas music to set the tone, and then picked his favorite Christmas
movie to watch with Mick. He's hoping to
spend a couple hours on the couch with him.
"Mick, bring
the hot chocolate and watch a movie with me."
Mick joins
Shea on the couch. They sit together, and
the guys enjoy the food and the movie.
The guys enjoy the film, the hot chocolate, and each other's
company. When the movie finished, Shea felt
tired and readied for bed.
***
Shea gets
ready for bed. He gets up from the couch
and heads to his room.
"Mick, I am
going to take a shower. I don't expect you to join me, but..."
He
disappears into the room and gets his underwear and a towel. Shea enters the bathroom and strips down
before entering the shower. In the
meantime, Mick delivers a text to one of his siblings.
"Do you know
if Mom and Dad interfered in my relationship?"
The sibling was
slow to respond to his brother's text.
In the end, though, his sibling knew nothing. His parents were not going to share anything
with their children. Shea walks out of
the shower without his towel, giving his boyfriend a brief but exciting
view. A view that Mick has only dreamed
about. Mick has seen other naked guys
before, but only in pictures or videos.
He'd never seen a live naked guy before, and it caused his body to show
excitement. Seeing Shea's naked body wouldn't have happened had it not been for
the Claus' storm. Shea grabbed a shirt
from his room. He doesn't know that Mick
saw him naked. Mick tucked that image
away in his mind. With his shirt and
underwear on, Shea wrapped himself in a robe and walked out into the living
room.
***
Shea,
wrapped up in his robe, stood before his boyfriend. He wants to Mick's options of where to spend
the night.
"Mick, you
can either sleep in my bed with me or in the guest bedroom. Which one would you
like?"
As he
considers Shea's question, he finally decides that since he is Shea's boyfriend,
he should sleep in the bedroom.
"Shea, I'm
going to sleep with you."
Shea didn't
want to assume that his boyfriend wanted to sleep beside him. It should be noted this was precisely what
Mick's parents wanted for him.
"Let's get
to bed!"
Shea
suggests to his boyfriend. Mick enters
the bedroom and slowly strips down to his underwear. The guys climb into bed, and they fall asleep
pretty quickly. Around midnight, the weather caused the power to go out. Without power, the apartment lost its
heat. This heat loss caused the guys to
draw a bit closer to each other. They
kept each other plenty warm, and while in their embrace, both guys were erect
in their sleep.
***
As Mick
sleeps beside Shea, his phone goes off.
The first message is from his parents telling him to stay off the
roads. If Mick needed a reason to
suspect his parents, that message alone would be the biggest clue as to what
went down in the North Pole. The second
text was from one of his brothers.
"Mom and Dad
were locked up inside Dad's office for hours.
They were up to something, but I can't prove anything."
Maybe his
brother suspects something, too, but since they don't have x-ray vision, they
have no proof of what was said or done within the office. Nick's office holds some of the most powerful
magic on Earth. He is capable of sending
out blizzards or doing other things that are impossible in the modern age. I mean, he is Santa Claus, right? When Mick checks his messages in the morning,
he'll see the truth that played out over the night. His mother and father have some explaining to
do when he wakes. Perhaps when this is
all over, Mick won't be angry at his parents.
After all, he has his boyfriend in the bed with him. It has everything to do with the storm his
parents sent down upon them.
***
While they
sleep soundly in Shea's bed, in the office back in the North Pole within Nick's
office. Mrs. Claus is quite happy with
the results of her husband's magic. The
elves who raised them taught him well.
"I think you
outdid yourself, Nick. Do you see what I
see?"
Using her
own magic, they can peer into the Shea's bedroom. Shea has managed to cuddle up next to their
son. Their son is surrounded by Shea's
arms. Mick doesn't need protection, but
Shea could give it if he did. Nick knows
that there is something special within his son.
"I don't
know if I have ever told you this, but when Mick was born, I knew he would one
day be Santa Claus. I don't know if the
world is ready for a gay Santa. They had
better be. How do you feel about having
a son-in-law?"
Nick says as
he looks at his wife. She smiles and
kisses her husband.
"You are
putting a lot of faith in Shea, right?"
She is, of
course, joking with her husband. She has
seen the light in that young man's heart and knows he is a good person.
"Shea is the
perfect companion for our son. I think
we should stop spying on our son and let them be. It's time for us to go to sleep."
With one
word and movement of her wrist, the sphere of magical blue ice stops displaying
the bedroom. The couple turns off the
lights in the office, and the pair walk out of the office as if nothing has
happened. Time will tell what the future
holds for Mick and Shea.
***
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